Author: Phillip Temples

I was interviewed this past week by Brooke, one of the members of the BC Arts Council, for inclusion in a “Visual Arts Podcast” to be aired in conjunction with the Boston College Arts Festival, April 27-29, 2023. 

About the Arts Festival:

“Annually on the last weekend in April, the Boston College Arts Festival brings the Boston College and surrounding communities together to celebrate the arts. From April 27-29, 2023, the 25th annual Arts Festival will once again invite the community to experience the variety of arts at Boston College!

“With over 16,000 visitors from Boston College and the surrounding community coming in attendance, the Arts Festival never fails to be one of the most vibrant and exciting events at Boston College. Students have the added bonus of relieving end-of-semester stress, while members of the surrounding communities are given the opportunity to delight in all forms of art, from the laugh-out-loud humor offered by comedy groups, to the transcendent beauty of the many dance ensembles, to the boldness of the studio art students’ work.

“Highlighted at the spring’s festival are the ‘BC’s Best’ competition, an Art Walk, and Dancing with bOp!. Other annual features include children’s activities, literary readings, alumni events, student art work for sale, multi-cultural dance performances, and expanded hours at the McMullen Museum. Special guests at the festival have included Tracey Wigfield ’05, Nick Scandalios ’89, Chris Doyle ’81, Anne Garefino ’81, Robert Polito ’73, Chuck Hogan ’89 and Amy Poehler ’93.”

I will have three of my black-and-white photographs on display at the event.

“Peek-a-Boo” appearing in the Spring 2023 edition of Third Wednesday Magazine.

Locust Candy (“an independent magazine . . . We love anything and everything from bizarre to abstract to absolute nonsense, as long as there is a story involved”) has accepted three of my photographs: “Watertown Abandoned Industry,” “Wealth Management,” and “Whiskers” for its Spring online issue. 

The Remington Review, an online publication [that] “strives to publish new, original work by rising poets, fiction and creative nonfiction writers, and visual artists,” has accepted my black and white photo entitled “Nature’s Art” for publication in its Spring 2023 issue.

To complement my existing gallery in the Computer Science lobby, more of my color and black & white photography was hung today (January 23, 2023) in one of the hallways on the third floor of 245 Beacon Street (also known as the Integrated Sciences Building).

Figwort Literary Journal Volume 1 features my black & white photograph, “Old versus New” on their front cover.

The Minison Project’s TMP Magazine has accepted four of my color photographs:  “Diversity”, “Life”, “Mushrooms” and “Shaman” for publication in its February 2023 issue.

I received this email today from the Chairman of the Theology Department at Boston College:

December 10, 2022

The Art Club Boston College student organization is hosting an art show during the month of November in Carney Hall. Artwork produced by faculty, staff and students will be on display. The club is hosting a reception on opening night (tonight, November 1) in Gallery 203 at 7:30 PM.

My color photograph “Filing System” was accepted for publication in an upcoming issue of Cheat River Review. 

UPDATE: the photos have just been published and can be viewed at: https://dsmag.in/2022/09/28/phil-temples-mini-album-abandoned-industry/.

The market Doublespeak Magazine has accepted several of my color photographs from my “Abandoned Industry” collection.

I took these photographs while trespassing on the property of an abandoned stone cutting company in March, 2005 near Bloomington, Indiana. They were shot using an inexpensive Canon PowerShot G2 camera. 

Doublespeak Magazine “[…] provides a space for images, photographs to be precise, where one can express the abstraction through a process of mere documentation.”