Eyewurks Photography's Shan'ta Monroe is featured in Liberated Muse book and art exhibit

(in photo: "I am Art" by Shan'ta Monroe. This piece is featured in the book Liberated Muse Volume I: How I Freed My Soul)

Shanta Monroe is a photographer, painter and sculptor who likes to transform the everyday…the obvious, into images that border on the surreal. She is owner of Eyewurks Photography. Her play on rich earthy tones and composition heighten the overall mystery of her often abstract images, and give her work a unique esthetic effect and individual style.

Ms. Monroe’s artwork has been exhibited in galleries and periodicals throughout the United States. She is also a poet featured in print and online publications. Currently she freelances for several different publications and is preparing to showcase her paintings and digital photography in galleries and art shows along the east coast. She is based in Prince George’s County, MD.

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Visit Shan'ta on http://www.liberatedmuse.com/ to view more photos and read more about her by clicking HERE.

Visit her work in the current Liberated Muse art exhibit at the Potter's House in Washington, DC @
The Potter's House
1658 Columbia Rd NW
Washington, DC
The art exhibit is curated by Sharon Burton of Authentic Contemporary Art. The artwork is from artists from the book Liberated Muse Volume I: How I Freed My Soul and the network www.LiberatedMuse.com.

International Photography Contest Celebrates Obama: SUBMIT UR WORK TODAY!

Got some good pics? Um, excuse me. For the artists who considers themselves a photographer (myself included), they are not pics, but PHOTOS.

Here's a great opp found on the cool new site started by DC-based photographer Kuroji Ntu (who is also a frequent Lib Muse member).

International Photography Contest and Exhibition Celebrates the Inauguration of Barack Obama

FotoWeek DC and The Newseum proudly announce fotobamaweek, an international photography contest celebrating the Presidential campaign and the Inauguration of Barack Obama.

Take that amazing image during Inauguration week, or find one you have already shot that captures the spirit of the Presidential Campaign, and the Election.

Amateur and professional photographers anywhere in the world are invited to enter the fotobamaweekcontest.

You may not have a front row seat to the Swearing-In Ceremony, but what about that impromptu moment captured at a campaign rally, or election night at your own private party?

Iconic impressions are yours for the taking, wherever you are, here in Washington or abroad.

Enter photos taken with digital, film or even cell phone cameras, but please submit them electronically.•

The top 100 winning images, selected by The Newseum's panel of judges, will be exhibited at The Newseum• All 100 winning images will be published in a limited edition book sponsored by FotoWeek DC• Grand prize winners will be announced at a reception at The Newseum.• Cash prizes totaling $5,000• All images submitted will be on display at FotoWeek DC's on-line gallery, along with People's Choice winnersThe fotobamaweek contest opens January 15, 2009 and closes March 15, 2009.

Enter for the contest here: http://fotoweekdccontest.org/bin/Register

(graphic above created by MYST Studios for the Capital Hip Hop Soul Fest)