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General News
Other Worlds/Future Worlds a one-man show at HACC in Lancaster, PA
Bentley has a one-man show at the Harrisburg Area Community College campus in Lancaster, PA from January 9, 2012 through February 24th. There is a reception and talk scheduled for Tuesday, January 31, from 5:00 to &:00 PM in the gallery in the East Building. The show is titled "Other Worlds/Future Worlds and features some of Bentley's largest works spanning the last decade of digital compositions. Works from his Master's Thesis show and current Illustration projects are represented.
Bentley named Art Director for Sky Warrior Books
A new publishing house imprint is being created by Author M.H. (Maggie) Bonham, named Sky Warrior Book Publishing. Bentley was contacted by Bonham because of several covers done for her book, previously published by Yard Dog Press. Those covers have now been licensed for e-published editions by Bonham. This led to successful negotiations to continue work with her new publishing company. After several covers and layouts for Sky Warrior, Bentley was officially named Art Director.
Bentley chosen to do the first print cover for Diminished Media Group
Diminished Media Group is a small press that up to this point has published only e-books and e-magazines. They specialize in family-friendly fair of the (primarily) Christian variety, inthe Sci-Fi and Fantasy genre. Bentley was quite honored to be selected as the artist for their first print book titled The Worker Prince by Bryan Thomas Schmidt, which is the first in a series. Stay tuned for the next release!
Bentley selected to do the first cover for Just Cause,
the new imprint from Yard Dog Press
Bentley was selected to create a cover for Selina Rosen's newest title, Black Rage. An honor just to be asked to do a cover for Selina, it also turns out to be doubly so since the title is also Yard Dog Press's first title for their newest imprint: Just Cause.
The 2011 season was the last round of video work for SKS
Bentley has given official notice to SKS Video Productions that 2011 is the last year he can work as cameraman for them. Due to upcoming projects, we need to devote our time and resources to AFS and publishing instead. We will still be doing DVD cover work for SKS and wish them continued success in the R/C video industry.
Bentley was recently interviewed by Military Science Fiction dot com
MB was recently interviewed by the cool folks at MILSCIFI.com and he passed the written exam! Catch the entire in-depth interview here. Secrets revealed, processes explained, too much info babbled on about - don't miss it!
Ninja Mountain Interviewed Bentley as ASFA President - Episode #70
Ninja Mountain Scrolls (the blog and pod cast area of the Ninja Mountain Freelance Artists Collective) interviewed MB on June 25th, 2010, in his role as ASFA President. Here is a link to catch the interview and download the MP3 - Episode 70
Bentley is still President of the Association of Science Fiction and Fantasy Artists
In January of 2010, MB became the President of ASFA. One of the first things Bentley did was to create an ASFA Facebook Fan Page. Membership info and links to join can be found on the ASFA website, which is still under construction. His term runs through January 2012, but he is up for re-election and is willing to serve another term.
Updated Projects
New Projects
The 2012 calendar of Bentley Cover Art is out - please see our store for details!
Bentley is booked for a show at Harrisburg Area Community College, Lancaster Campus from mid-January through February, 2012. Stay tuned for more details...
A few Recent Shows
NASFiC (The North American Science Fiction Convention)
Bentley won 3 awards this year at NASFiC. Best Science Fiction for the unpublished piece Cold Trail, Second Place Fantasy for the piece Death Metal and Third place Science Fiction for Windwatchers. This is a fantastic honor and we would like to thank all of those who voted in the contest!
Photography show at Capital Chiropractic Center
AFS now has a showing of our Photos of Nicaragua at the Capital Chiropractic Center offices. This is the same show we had of Mitchell Bentley & Catherine McCormick photos at Penn State in the Gallery Lounge. The show is titled Nicaraguan Contrasts and will be up for the next year.
The Capital Chiropractic Center are located at 4079 Derry Street in Harrisburg, PA. You may find directions here. Atomic Fly Studios also develops and maintains the Capital Chiropractic Website, as well as creating their current logo.
Additional shows are listed on the Conventions Page.
Atomic Fly Studios is now on Facebook
Bentley on Twitter
Other past events of interest
2007 Nicaragua Trip for IAAA Conference & Show
The International Association of Astronomical Artists held their annual conference and workshop in Granada, Nicaragua. The conference and art show ran from Feb. 15-22, 2007, and was held at the Casa de los Tres Mundos.
The Casa is host to conferences from around the world and is a cultural foundation that houses a Theater School, Art Studio and Music Academy and manages a library and research center.
IAAA held several presentations, an art workshop and made several day trips to various locations around the country. A primary reason for their workshops is to participate in the practice of plien air painting in locations that resemble geological topographies found on other solar system bodies. To this end, Nicaragua proved perfect with its multiple volcanos, bubbling geyser pits and grand canyon or gorge. Other cultural sights were also pursued, from museums to churches, markets, and of course a wide variety of cuisine.
Bentley also sold a piece, Home and Hearth (#3 of 10 - the only sale of the show) to Carlos Lola, who came by the show on Sunday. They are pictured here in front of Bettina Forget's work.
Bentley is no longer a member of IAAA as of April, 2009.
2006 Bradley Academy for the Visual Arts Show
In December of 2006 Bentley had a one man show entitled "Digital Space" at the Bradley Academy for the Visual Arts, in York, PA. The show ran through the month of December and consisted of 28 pieces, several of them newer works created since his thesis show.
The show was a result of their coordinator, Sandra Roberts, visiting Bentley's Masters Thesis Show at Penn State. The facility is a gallery style atmosphere situated in their central waiting area, with gallery lighting and hanging. A centrally located wide screen Plasma display ran an ongoing slide show of Bentley's work and his music accompaniment. The photo is outside looking in. Click on the picture to see A slide show of the installation.
Bentley Masters Production & Presentation
Bentley's Masters Production show for his final thesis project began November 15th, 2005 and ran through February 3rd, 2006. The PSH listing is no longer available.
The show opening and Gallery Talk was held December 7th at 5:00 p.m. in the Gallery Lounge (Olmsted Building) at Penn State Harrisburg, 777 West Harrisburg Pike, Middletown, PA., and a second lecture was held January 19th, 2006. This overlapped two semesters, which was not only unusual but it also enabled the professors at Penn State to include the show as a part of their curriculum.
Additionally, Bentley sold two large pieces as a result of the show.
Bentley received his MA in Humanities from Pennsylvania State University in May of 2006.