PHOTOGRAPHY SUMMER SESSION 7
AUGUST 13–18, 2023

Karen Navarro
Pushing the Boundaries of Collage

This workshop will introduce materials and techniques to push the boundaries of traditional collage. We’ll investigate the foundations of identity through portraiture collages. Students may work with their own archive or found images. The workshop will cover cut-and-paste techniques, digital manipulation and printing, painterly processes, and image appropriation. Materials will be provided, and students are also encouraged to bring their own collections of ephemera: photographs, magazines, wallpaper, cardboard, fabric scraps, etc. All levels. 

Studio artist; exhibitions: Contemporary Art Museum Houston (TX), Artpace San Antonio (TX), FAR Center for Contemporary Arts (IN), Big Medium (TX), Klompching Gallery (NY), Holocaust Museum Houston (TX), Houston Center for Photography (TX); representation: Foto Relevance (TX); publications: ARTnews, The Guardian, Observer, Rolling Stone Italia, Photo Vogue Festival Italia.

karennavarroph.com | @karennavarroph

PHOTOGRAPHY SUMMER SESSION 6
JULY 30–AUGUST 11, 2023

Monty McCutchen
Wet-Plate Collodion

Students in this workshop will learn to use a historic photographic process to interpret the modern world using a visual syntax unlike any other. We’ll work with large-format cameras of various sizes and explore the full gamut of wet-plate collodion positives: tintypes, alumitypes, and ambrotypes. We’ll cover view camera use, mixing chemistry, pouring successful plates, exposure, development, hand coloring, and varnishing. Working with still-life, portraiture, and landscape imagery will give students access to a full range of expression. All levels. 

Note: the studio fee for this workshop is estimated at $250 per student.

Studio artist; senior VP at the National Basketball Association, former NBA referee; exhibitions: Soho Photo (NYC), Raid Our Gallery (CT), University of North Carolina-Asheville (NC). 

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PHOTOGRAPHY SUMMER SESSION 5
JULY 16–28, 2023

Robin Dreyer and Jeff Goodman
Photography in the 4th Dimension

From motion to memory, time has been a central medium and subject of photography. This workshop will explore a wide range of photographic techniques that employ time directly, including light painting, motion studies, flip books, pinhole cameras, view cameras, cinemagraphs, and stop-motion animation. We’ll use analog cameras, digital cameras, digital printers, and the darkroom, experimenting with making both still and moving images that play with—and celebrate—the most mysterious of dimensions. Students will go home with new images, new photographic skills, and maybe some new thoughts about the universe. All levels, beginners encouraged.

Jeff: award-winning instructor in the media studies program at Appalachian State University (NC); extensive experience leading workshops in photography, documentary video, and the relationship between art, science, and the creative process.

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Robin: photographer, editor, communications manager at Penland; teaching: Penland; exhibitions: Asheville Art Museum (NC), North Carolina Museum of Art, Center for Alternative Photography (NYC); collection: Asheville Art Museum (NC), publications: American Craft, Our State, WNC, Garden & Gun, and numerous Penland publications. 

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Jeff and Robin’s workshop promo video (1 minute)

PHOTOGRAPHY SUMMER SESSION 4
JULY 2–14, 2023

Millee Tibbs
Large-Format Photography

This workshop will use large-format (4×5) cameras to explore the language and craft of analog photography. Through technical demonstrations, guided exercises, and lots of practice in the darkroom, students will gain complete compositional control of their images using the view camera’s tilt, swing, shift, and rise movements to adjust focus, perspective, and image shape. Students will process sheet film and make darkroom prints to produce a small portfolio of self-expressive photographs. No darkroom experience required. Cameras provided. All levels. 

Associate professor at Wayne State University; residencies: two MacDowell Colony fellowships, Jentel Foundation (WY), Marpha Foundation (Nepal), Virginia Center for the Creative Arts; exhibitions: SFO Museum (San Francisco), Aperture Gallery (NYC), Filter Space (Chicago); collections: George Eastman House (NY), Detroit Institute of Arts, Chrysler Museum (VA), Portland Art Museum (OR), Rhode Island School of Design Museum. 

milleetibbs.com | @sbbiteellim

PHOTOGRAPHY SUMMER SESSION 3
JUNE 18–30, 2023

Elizabeth Ellenwood
Cameraless Photography

Leave your cameras behind and create photographs using objects and light. Students will experiment with multiple wet-darkroom contact printing processes, scanner-made images, and digital printing techniques. Daily demonstrations will be balanced with presentations covering a range of historical and contemporary photography. This workshop will broaden the concept of what it means to “make” a photograph and will give students plenty of time for experimentation. All levels. 

Studio artist; teaching: University of Connecticut; awards: Fulbright Norway Scholarship, American Scandinavian Grant, Connecticut Sea Grant Arts Support Award, University of Connecticut Zachs Award, Denis Roussel Merit Award; exhibitions: For-Site Foundation (CA), Vermont Center for Photography (VT), Alexey Von Schlippe Gallery (CT), Panopticon Gallery (MA), Danforth Museum (MA); collections: Danforth Art Museum (MA), Rochester Museum of Fine Art (NY), New Hampshire Institute of Art; publications: Lenscratch, The Westerly Sun, Art New England, Boston Globe

elizabethellenwood.com | @among_the_tides

PHOTOGRAPHY SUMMER SESSION 2
JUNE 4–16, 2023

Pipo Nguyen-duy
Sense of Place

This workshop will focus on portraiture in the environment using 35mm cameras and black and white film. We’ll work to create portraits that highlight the significance of their locations. The workshop will cover camera functions, film processing, and black and white printing in the darkroom. This workshop will be an opportunity for students to engage with each other as they explore concepts and techniques. Cameras are available at Penland and students are also welcome to bring their own. Darkroom experience will be helpful, but this workshop is open to all levels.

Professor at Oberlin College; grants: Guggenheim, En Foco, National Endowment for the Arts, Oregon Arts Commission fellowship, multiple individual artist fellowships from Ohio Arts Council; residencies: Light Works (NY), Headlands Center for the Arts (CA), Lila Wallace-Reader’s Digest Artists at Giverny Fellowship (France); exhibitions: Sam Lee Gallery (Los Angeles), Elizabeth Leach Gallery (Portland, OR), Light Works (NY); representation: CLAMPART (NYC).

piponguyen-duy.com | @adustoflife

PHOTOGRAPHY SUMMER SESSION 1
MAY 28–JUNE 2, 2023

Tokie Rome-Taylor
Cyanotype: Alternative Process Image-Making

This fun, experimental cyanotype workshop will use two photosensitive chemicals and light to make distinctly blue images on various materials—from paper to fabrics. We’ll create imagery with organic materials and explore how to make and print from digital negatives. And we’ll combine these processes by collaging negatives and objects. Further creative possibilities will be explored through the use of wet cyanotype on both wet and dry substrates. Bring digital image files along with any ephemeral items, like feathers and flowers, that you may want to incorporate. If time permits, we’ll also explore print embellishments. All levels.

Studio artist: exhibitions: The Wren’s Nest (Atlanta), APG Gallery (Atlanta), Carnegie Hall (NYC), Museum of Science and Industry (Chicago), Griffin Museum of Photography (MA); collections: Southeastern Museum of Photography (FL), Fralin Museum (VA), Museum of Contemporary Art of Georgia; representation: Amika Dawkins Gallery (Atlanta), Spalding Nix Gallery (Atlanta). 

tokietaylorstudio.com | @tokietstudio