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Friday, May 31-Sunday, June 9 |
By joining the Visual Studies Workshop community, your membership helps to keep our programs and events free and open to the public. As a member you receive Afterimage, VSW's bi-monthly journal of the media arts and cultural criticism, opportunities to participate in member activities like Pecha Kucha nights and Member Share Fairs, as well as announcements to all of VSW's free community programs like exhibitions, screenings, Visual Book Club, and other events. Become a Member $20 Student Membership, $35 Individual Membership, $50 Dual Membership, Become a Supporter $75 Supporter, includes one Afterimage subscription plus a 10% discount on all VSW Press titles and a free 8x10 print Thank You for Your Support! Sign up today and receive our next issue of Afterimage! Paying with a check? Please print, fill out, and mail us the Membership Form [PDF] along with your check.
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Monday-Friday, June 17-21, 9:30am-5pm
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Monday-Friday, June 17-21, 9:30am-5pm Bookbinding Studio Basic Bookbinding with Ingrid Hess $550 | Register The goal of this class is to teach basic bookbinding and to inspire students to create more books as they continue their artistic careers. Each participant will leave the class with at least 8 books that they have completed. The types of binding that will be taught include: Japanese Stab, Simple Spray, Cootie Catcher, Do-Si-Do, Accordion, Woven, and Simple Pop-Ups. |
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Saturday-Sunday, June 22-23, 9:30am-5pm Seminar Room The Emotional Narrative with Brenda Ann Kenneally $250 | Register If the work of a novelist is construction, then a journalist’s work may be seen as “deconstruction,” though the goals are largely the same: authors in both genres are driven to create works which introduce their audiences to new information processed through characters that ultimately become barometer’s for the audience’s own humanity. The journalist is often drawn to a fully formed character because they seem to embody the world they already inhabit. The job of a journalist is to unravel that character detail by detail in order to insert the audience inside a complex and sometimes fraught, emotional life already in progress. It is the function of thorough reporting to coax interest in a hypothetical future over which even the journalist as author has no control. This discussion based workshop will encompass emotional storytelling in a variety of genres and examine the role of the photojournalist. |
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Saturday-Sunday, June 22-23, 9:30am-5pm Print Loft Drawing for Photographers with Rick Hock $150 | Register You’ve heard it said before, “anyone can draw.” It is simply how you think about what drawing is. Photography, in fact, is nothing more than a mark making system, another pencil in the pencil box. This workshop will examine various systems of mark making and their application through practical exercises. Requirements: No experience necessary. Materials required: large smooth newsprint drawing pad (19”x24” or larger—the larger the better); soft pencil 4B or softer; good size eraser; charcoal sticks; small bottle of India ink; container for water; anything else you want to make marks with. |
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Monday-Friday, June 24-28, 9:30am-5pm Computer Lab Fundamentals of Digital Photography with Doug Manchee $550 | Register This course is an introduction to the fundamentals of digital photography. Students will learn to process and modify their files using Adobe Photoshop CS. Demonstrations will be given in image capture, image processing and output. At the end of the course students will have a thorough understanding of the tools and techniques necessary to create high-quality digital files and prints. They will be able to employ a variety of techniques using Adobe Photoshop CS to optimize their files for both hard copy (prints) and soft display (web). Adobe Camera RAW will be introduced allowing students to capture the highest-quality image files possible using digital SLR cameras. A fundamental knowledge of the basics of photography is desirable. |
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Monday-Friday, June 24-28, 9:30am-5pm Darkrooms Wet Plate Collodion Photography with Jenn Libby $550 | Register Frederick Scott Archer introduced the wet-plate collodion photographic process in 1851. Its relative simplicity, cost, reproducibility, and versatility led it to supplant the popular daguerreotype. Collodion was used to produce fine-grain, archival glass negatives, lantern slides, ambrotypes, and tintypes. The ambrotype, like the daguerreotype, is a unique, direct positive photograph. It is a thin negative on glass that appears as a positive when backed with something dark. This class will cover the basics of the wet-plate collodion process and how to create ambrotypes and aluminotypes. You will use a large format camera to make ambrotypes and aluminotypes, a contemporary version of the ferrotype or tintype made using anodized aluminum. Instruction will cover how to cut and clean glass, pour collodion, sensitize and process plates, burnish and hand-color final images, apply a protective varnish, and house your photographs to complete the process. Wear old clothing as silver stains are likely. Participants should bring their own large format camera and tripod if available. |
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Saturday-Sunday, June 29-30, 9:30am-5pm Seminar Room Gallery Management and Design with Elizabeth McDade $150 | Register Visit local galleries. Meet curators and gallery professionals. Learn how to frame and install artwork. Hone your grant writing and PR skills. Learn the “dos” and “don’ts” of submitting your own work to galleries for exhibition consideration. This class provides a unique chance to develop gallery management skills working with the former director of a non-profit, community-based arts organization. See the struggles, the thrills, and the “glamour” of the art world up-close and personal. |
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Saturday-Sunday, June 29-30, 9:30am-5pm Computer Lab Stylin' the Page: an Intro to CSS with Tracy Rudzitis $150 | Register Do you have a website on Wordpress, Tumblr or Blogger, or a Wiki, but want to learn how to change the appearance of it? Do you use content management systems such as Drupal or Joomla and want to modify your templates and customize your site’s layout and appearance? Learn the basics of CSS and restyle your existing HTML based web pages using CSS style sheets. The class will cover all the basics of CSS, properties, selectors, font styles, positioning elements on the page, and discussion of the terminology used. You should have a basic knowledge of HTML and want to take your web page design to the next level. We will be using Dreamweaver. |
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Monday-Friday, July 01-05, 9:30am-5pm Computer Lab Web Design for Artists with Tracy Rudzitis $550 | Register Understanding how to design and publish for the web is an important tool for the visual artist. Web sites can serve as a place to promote or display a portfolio, can function as a part of a larger community in which one shares thoughts, writings, and ideas, or is the medium in which an artist works, producing pieces that are web specific. The web presents unique constraints to the presentation of information and ideas. Principals and elements of design must adhere to specific modes of production but understanding these technical constraints allows one to ‘break’ with the rules and move beyond the average site. This class will cover multiple approaches to design and various ways in which to present work. We will look at incorporating animation, interactivity, and multiple forms of media into a web site. The class is a hands– on workshop. Participants should be prepared to design and develop a web site as well as take part in discussions surrounding aesthetics and strategies used in web design. |
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Monday-Friday, July 01-05, 9:30am-5pm Seminar Room The Extended Image with Keith Johnson $550 | Register This workshop is intended to investigate what a photograph is supposed to look like. Typically a body of work has been exhibite in a linear presentation with equal spacing between pictures. While this method is effective, it may not serve the work to reveal more layers of information, emotion, intellect, etc. During the week we will look at a variety of artists’ work, field work, critiques daily and final presentation. The expectation is to make a ton of pictures, delve into new ideas, and have a good deal of photo fun. For advanced level of ability, working digitally, traditionally, time-based, color or B&W. |
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Monday-Friday, July 01-05, 9:30am-5pm Bookbinding Studio Bookbinding for Photographers with Scott McCarney $550 | Register The desire to make books with photographic content is as old as photography itself. The accessibility of digital printing, from the inkjet in your studio to the Indigo of online publishers, is fulfilling this desire for contemporary photographers. But how to make a unique product tailored to the physical and conceptual needs of your images? This workshop employs the basic tools and techniques of hand bookbinding to answer that question. We will make a series of unique book structures that accommodate single sheets, folded folios and gathered sections, while exploring the materials of traditional book making. Strategies for repurposing pre-bound print-on-demand projects will be introduced. We will also construct a two-tray drop-spine Solander style box which can be used for storing prints, protecting a fine binding or packaging samples made in the workshop. The class will focus primarily on physical considerations of the book, but participants are welcome to bring work in progress or ideas for books. Some time will be devoted to discussing how binding structures and layout strategies literally as well as figuratively support image display. |
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Saturday-Sunday, July 06-07, 9:30am-5pm Research Center Twenty Photobooks I Love and Why with Adam Bell $150 | Register Dissect the intricacies, pleasures, and mysteries of photobooks by looking at twenty of photographer and critic Adam Bell’s favorite examples of the form. Then discuss and receive feedback on your own work and/or writing to add degrees of complexity and precision to your own photobook and/or written work. |
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Saturday-Sunday, July 06-07, 9:30am-5pm Seminar Room Performing Books with Tate Shaw $150 | Register Create multi-media events for experiencing a book by audiences of more than one person at a time. Borrow strategies from poetry readings, film screenings, live music, theatrical performance, slideshows, installations, websites, and interactive games. Day one of the workshop we will look at a myriad of interesting book performances and discuss your own books and how they might be presented publicly. Day two create your own multi-media book presentation and hear group feedback on how it was received. |
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Monday-Friday, July 08-12, 9:30am-5pm Seminar Room Professional Practice for the MFA with Christine Shank $550 | Register Professional Practice for the MFA prepares students with or obtaining a Master of Fine Arts degree for their professional lives beyond graduate school. Students will gain practical knowledge and experience to enter the professional environment of being an artist and arts professional. Through presentations, guest lectures, readings, and a variety of exercises, participants will engage in the process of learning and practicing professionalism, promotion, and contributing to the field on a professional level. The workshop will cover developing a CV, teaching packets for applying for universitylevel positions, writing artist statements, personal promotional materials, and other aspects of post-MFA life. |
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Monday-Friday, July 08-12, 9:30am-5pm Darkrooms Fairweather Photography with Joan Lyons $550 | Register Going back to the basics of hands-on photography, and using sunlight as our primary light source, we will work with two 19th Century processes—Cyanotype and VanDyke brown printing— both contact printing processes. We will use pinhole cameras to make large negatives and also explore Cliché Verre and found materials to make light-blocking stencils. Printing on rag paper or fabric provides opportunity to work back into the print. |
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Monday-Friday, July 08-12, 9:30am-5pm Seminar Room The Personal Photo Story with Larry Towell $550 | Register Students will show their own work and evaluate the personal photo story as well as the making of pictures that reflect their own fascinations and interests in the social documentary tradition. We will discuss how to work independently on projects that are important to us as well as the mechanics of individual image making, what makes one image work better than another, and the importance of sequence and flow in exhibitions and book making. There will be morning reviews and afternoon shooting sessions where students will explore themes of their own choice. Bring your personal projects as slide shows, individual pictures and book dummies. |
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Monday-Friday, July 08-12, 9:30am-5pm Computer Lab Producing an Oral History with W. Keith McManus $550 | Register This one week workshop presents an opportunity to explore the rich history of several key photographer/educators in Rochester, NY that have had a role in defining the medium of photography. In an intimate environment, workshop participants will discuss and record these photographer/educators as they share thoughts on their contributions to the field. The class will then organize the material for a multi-media presentation at the end of the week. A final product will be presented to the Visual Studies Workshop community and become part of the collection of the organization. Workshop participants will use digital audio, digital photography and video to create this history document. There will be hands on instruction and experience with the media and materials used in creating and presenting the final document. |
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