JUNE 04-08
Jenn Libby The Art of Wet-Plate Collodion
Abbey Hendrickson The Art of Social Media: Creating and Maintaining a Social Media Footprint
Jason Bernagozzi Video Installation: Navigating Space and Signal

JUNE 07-08
Douglas Holleley Intention and Effect: Choosing Your Words

JUNE 11-15
Bridget Elmer Free the Book: Self-Publishing with Open Source Software
Meredith Davenport Making a Magazine
Liz Ronk Fundamentals of Photo Editing for the Web

JUNE 14-16
Ahndraya Parlato Photographic Conversations

JUNE 15-16
Nate Larson & Marni Shindelman
Methods and Place

JUNE 18-22
Ingrid Hess Artists' Books: Basic Bookbinding
Wendy Smith Introduction to the Documentary Form
Tate Shaw Photographic Sequence

JUNE 21-22
Rick Hock Drawing for Photographers and Anyone Else Interested in Mark Making Systems

JUNE 21-23
Richard Kegler Font Design in FontLab

JUNE 25-26
Gregory Halpern Twenty Photobooks I Love and Why

JUNE 25-27
Scott McCarney Bookbinding in the Age of Digital Production

JUNE 27-28
John DeMerritt Photography and the Book Form

JULY 02-06
Tracy Rudzitis Web Design for Artists
Keith Johnson The Extended Image Judy Natal Image • Text • Context

Photographic Conversations
Ahndraya Parlato
Thursday through Saturday, June 14-16
9:30am-5:00pm; $375

Photographic Conversations will explore cross-medium influence on contemporary photographic practice. Dialogues between photography and fields as diverse as literature, ecology, the occult, personal biography, and cinema will be used as a groundwork to create photographic bodies of work. This workshop will allow students to employ a range of techniques, from analog to digital, and multiple camera formats.

Based on the literary device of ekphrasis, (where one medium describes another), Photographic Conversations does away with the idea of description, instead using other mediums as inspiration, or springboards for image-making. This workshop is divided into three chapters - we will spend a day on each. During this time, we will look at an array of fine art, film, and writing, which corresponds to the theme we’re exploring. You will then use this “source material” as fodder to create your own photographic responses.

Ahndraya Parlato was born in Kailua, Hawaii. In 2002 she received a B.A. from BardCollege, where she majored in photography; and in 2005 she received an M.F.A. from California College of the Arts. Her work consists of large-format, color photographs that explore the ambiguous nature of reality, often revealing the uncanny or magical in everyday life. Her work has been shown, among other places, in The Helsinki Biennale, the International Fashion and Photography Festival in Hyéres, France, and at 9W Gallery in New York City. Her work was also included in the Humble Arts Show 31 Under
31: Women in Art Photography, as well as in Never Been to Tehran, which showed consecutively in eight countries around the world.

Ahndraya was a 2011 Light Work grant recipient, she has also been nomineed for the Paul Huff Award from the FOAM Museum in Amsterdam, and the SECCA Award from the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. Her work has been published in a number of books, including New American Landscapes, Smoke Bath, and a Collector’s Guide to Photography. As well as the following magazines, Vidvinkel, Nylon, Wallpaper, and in Untitled Magazine.

In 2008, she created and curated ArtForObama.net, a show/fundraiser that included the work of over 60 photographers, including Richard Misrach, Katy Grannan, Philip-Lorca DiCorcia and Larry Sultan, and Wolfgang Tillmans. The show was the single biggest art- auction fundraiser that year for the Obama campaign.