Jeremy Swanson, Grotto’s Ghosts
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Yana Payusova, String Theater
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July 15 — 19 II July 20 | 8AM — 4PM Copperplate
Photogravure III The Exquisite
Landscape Mastering Mixed Media
Lothar Osterburg IV Jeremy Swanson Basic Photoshop skills required.
Basic Photoshop skills required.
CONCEPT
Photogravure is a continuous
tone photographic intaglio (etching) process.
A photographic image is etched at various
depths into an aquatinted copper plate. This
workshop offers a hands-on history lesson in
this beautiful, fully archival process. Invented
by Fox Talbot in the mid-19th century and used
by art photographers until the mid-1930s, it
has had a renaissance among photographers,
artists and collectors for the past 30 years. The
workshop allows ambitious students to make
several good photogravure plates, providing a
solid foundation for this complex process.
MEDIA & TECHNIQUES
The workshop
covers all steps to make a copperplate
photogravure using contemporary materials
and methods with focus on continuous tone
digital files and positives. Comprehensive
demos and handouts set students up to make
their own plates with close supervision. *Some
plates provided.
ACTIVITIES
Days
are
filled
with
demonstrations, presentations, studio practice,
one-on-one instruction and group discussions.
The first two days are spent with the entire class
working through the complex process. Each
student spends the remaining workshop time
on repeating the process, troubleshooting
and the production of plates with increasing
independence.
FACULTY Lothar Osterburg operates his own
photogravure workshop in New York, where
he has collaborated with artists such as David
Lynch, Lee Friedlander and Adam Fuss. His work
has been shown nationally and internationally.
Lothar is a 2010 Guggenheim Fellow and has
received two New York Foundation for the Arts
awards.
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CONCEPT
Learn how to create beautiful
landscape photographs with your iPhone
and iPad. Spend a fun and engaging day
photographing some of the most scenic locales
in the Rocky Mountains. Students visit locations
near Aspen and Snowmass with mountain
views, sparkling streams, a multitude of
wildflowers and 100-year-old artifacts from the
area’s storied bygone mining days. The focus
is on the fine iPhone landscape, exploring the
shooting, editing and stylizing techniques that
will take casual captures to serious artwork. This
photographer’s dream tour reveals a variety of
eye-catching possibilities that can be revisited
later with in-depth visual exploration.
MEDIA & TECHNIQUES Digital cameras,
including iPhones, are reviewed and students
discuss camera techniques for aesthetic and
technical application in the field.
ACTIVITIES
Students learn about the
historic and scenic significance of each
location. Students also work one-on-one with
faculty throughout the day to improve their
photography. At least one hour is spent at each
site, with driving times kept to a minimum.
July 22 — 26
II
Yana Payusova
III
CONCEPT
Explore combining images
and words into hybrid works of art that
engage the viewer on multiple levels. In this
workshop, students further their work by
expanding concept and voice through various
photographic collage techniques. These
could include direct overlays, such as affixing
photographic imagery to canvas and painting
over it, or inscribing words and images across
the surface of paintings, drawings or sculpture.
The goal is to make large works whose individual
parts are the foundation for painted or drawn
embellishment.
MEDIA & TECHNIQUES Students cut and
paste photographic collage, digital collage,
large-format digital output, and draw and
paint with ink, oil or acrylic paints directly on
photographic imagery.
ACTIVITIES
Students get ample studio time
and engage in in-process critiques as well as
image presentations.
from the University of Illinois. He photographs
for the Aspen Skiing Company to capture
images that tell the story of Aspen and
Snowmass. His work has been published in
National Geographic, Outside, Travel & Leisure,
and Ski Magazine. FACULTY Yana Payusova was born in
Leningrad. Classically trained as a painter at
the St. Petersburg Fine Art Lycee, she later
immigrated to the United States. She received
an MFA from the University of Colorado,
Boulder. Her work is exhibited nationally and
internationally, including recent venues at
the DeCordova Museum and Sculpture Park,
Howard Yezerski Gallery, Boston, Mimi Fertz
Gallery, New York, and Galerie Caprice Horn,
Berlin.
www.jeremyswansonphoto.com www.payusova.com
FACULTY Jeremy Swanson received his MFA
www.lotharosterburgphotogravure.com
TUITION $985 TUITION $250 TUITION + STUDIO SUPPORT DONATION $1,185 TUITION + STUDIO SUPPORT DONATION $350 TUITION + STUDIO SUPPORT DONATION $1,355
REGISTRATION FEE $45 | STUDIO FEE $150 REGISTRATION FEE NA | STUDIO FEE NA REGISTRATION FEE $45 | STUDIO FEE $150
CODE R0707-19 ENROLLMENT LIMIT 10 CODE P0717-19 | ENROLLMENT LIMIT 10 CODE P0818-19 ENROLLMENT LIMIT 10
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TUITION $1,155
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photography & new media
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Lothar Osterburg, Return to the Tower (detail)