Summer Seminar Workshops /23

This summer I continued teaching my own workshops with SCADs Summer Seminar program. I got to completely design the class and work with some amazing students! It was an incredible time and I’m so thankful for the opportunity to teach.

We had three main subjects throughout the course, Pinhole Photography, Photograms, and Lumen Printing. I started by having each student design and bild there own pinhole cameras from card board boxes. We worked with photo paper negatives where I taught the students to work and develop imegery in a dark room. After the students felt comfortable making contact prints and learning the diffences between RC paper and Fiber paper we continued to Photo grams. I would strongly encurreged expirimentation, teaching them to isolate areas with fixer or even create fogged abstratc patters through reflected light. Lastly I had the students creating Lumen Prints. Here I emphasized two main methods, one dry method of using contact printers to create crisp impreshions of the diffrent object and plants the students gathered. The second method emphasized using bins where the students would poor diffrent liquids on top of the paper to bring out diffrent colored tonalities as the sunlight would print through there objects or plants they gathers and arranged around there paper. I had a lot of success with everything last year, so I tried to present a few new artists and explored with ways I could push the students to expand outside there creative bounds. Some brought illustration into the medum where as others experimented with multi lens self bult cameras, no matter wich direction the students grew I was amazed at the results and the creativity that would ensue.