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2d film and digital photography
CORE
class

SKILL LEVEL: Open to All – Any skill/knowledge level.

July 6 - 10

Today’s Camera: the digital SLR

Bill Ellzey   
Tuition: $1145  ARAC Actual Cost: $1345  Studio Fee: $100
Code: P0614  Enrollment Limit 10

Bill Ellzey, Torres del Paine, Patagonia (detail)

CONCEPT:  In this workshop, students will learn to control
all the buttons, knobs, levers and menu items without fear
or intimidation. Hundred-page manuals and multiple menu
items are daunting to every new owner of today’s SLR. Students will leave this course with a thorough knowledge of
what the camera’s controls do and which ones are best for
your personal style of shooting. Students will learn how to
make ordinary pictures extraordinary. This class is for anyone
new to digital SLRs, or for those who have one but haven’t
fully explored all its functions, as well as those who love taking pictures of nature and the landscape.
MEDIA & TECHNIQUES: Digital SLR cameras; memory cards
(compact flash, SD, etc.); lenses; tripod and remote cord; favorite gadgets; Adobe Photoshop and/or Lightroom software.
ACTIVITIES: There will be instruction in digital camera and lens
functions, shooting, downloading and editing. We will take
field trips to take advantage of Anderson Ranch’s proximity to
some of Colorado’s most beautiful areas of the Rocky Mountains with reflective lakes, ghost towns, cascading streams
and wildflowers.
SKILL LEVEL: Level I – See page 10 for skill level descriptions.
FACULTY: Bill Ellzey started shooting in 1965 and began making a living with his camera in 1972. He made the transition
from darkroom work and slide shooting to digital photography
eight years ago. The camera has taken him on assignment or
for teaching to Egypt, Alaska, India, China, Japan, Mexico,
Patagonia, and Bhutan. His work is published nationally and
internationally in books, textbooks, magazines and newspapers, and has been exhibited in numerous galleries and collections. www.billellzey.com

July 6 - 10

Aerial Sculpture: putting images into


the winds

FACULTY: Melanie Walker has been a practicing artist for over
30 years working in the area of alternative photographic
processes, digital and mixed media as well as large-scale
photographic installations and public art. She has received a
number of awards including an NEA Visual Arts Fellowship,
a Colorado Council on the Arts Fellow ship and an Aaron Siskind Award. She has taught at a number of universities and
currently teaches in the media arts area at the University of
Colorado, Boulder.

George Peters has gained international renown as a kite artist
and studio artist working in drawing, painting, graphic design,
installation sculpture, environmental works, puppetry, theater
set, costume design and public art. Early influences came from
Japanese kites and learning bamboo and paper craft. The lightweight kite works directly influenced his larger aerial sculpture
works that led to over 60 public art projects across the country
and internationally. www.airworks-studio.com

July 13 - 17

Intro to the Digital Darkroom:

processing RAW files 
Bill Ellzey   
Tuition: $1145  ARAC Actual Cost: $1345  Studio Fee: $125
Code: P0717  Enrollment Limit 10

Bill Ellzey, Marble Caves, Patagonia (detail)

ACTIVITIES:  Strong emphasis will be placed on the craft of
fine-art digital printmaking, as well as digital workflow. The
faculty will work individually with each participant to design a
workflow that functions best for their working style and final
printmaking goals. Students shoot for digital capture, learn
about color adjustments, editing, printing and take part in
group critiques. Each student will be encouraged to write an
artist statement that directly addresses intentions, practices
and technical choices. In the second week, each participant
will generate a cohesive body of work that speaks to his/her
own personal vision. A group exhibition will be curated along
with a limited edition portfolio of members’ work.
SKILL LEVEL: Level III – See page 10 for skill level descriptions.
FACULTY: David Hilliard is an assistant professor at the Massachusetts College of Art in Boston. He exhibits his photographs
both nationally and internationally and has won numerous
awards such as the Fulbright and Guggenheim. His work is represented by the Bernard Toale Gallery in Boston and the Yancey
Richardson Gallery in New York City. www.davidhilliard.com

Jonathan Singer is a photographer, printmaker and founder of
Singer Editions, a fine-art digital printmaking atelier specializing in the production of limited edition photography. Working with national and international artists, including Jerome
Liebling, Carl Chirenza, Tom Baril, Vik Muniz, Rosamond Purcell, Abe Morell, David Hilliard, David Levinthal, Holly Roberts
and Roberto Juarez, prints produced at Singer Editions have
been exhibited at major museums and photography galleries
throughout the United States.

CONCEPT: This course is for beginning to intermediate digital
photographers who want to capitalize on the rich benefits
of RAW image files. Shooting RAW implies a seriousness
about one’s photography and requires more of a time commitment to perfecting individual photographs. RAW capture
and RAW processing give the photographer the potential
to create the highest quality digital images possible with
today’s technology.

and publishing a photo book

MEDIA & TECHNIQUES: Camera RAW and Lightroom.

Douglas Holleley   

ACTIVITIES: Students will photograph in the magnificent natural surroundings of Aspen, creating RAW files to be processed
at the Anderson Ranch digital lab. There will be sunrise and
sunset shoots with most mid-days spent downloading, editing, color-correcting, organizing and processing images.

WORKSHOP SPONSORED BY: Karen and Jim Frank

July 20 - 24

The Creation of Meaning: designing

Tuition: $1145  ARAC Actual Cost: $1345  Studio Fee: $150
Code: P0818  Enrollment Limit 10

FACULTY: See Bill Ellzey’s bio on this page.

Tuition: $1145  ARAC Actual Cost: $1345  Studio Fee: $150
Code: P0615  Enrollment Limit 10

July 13 - 24

Sight, Site, Insight 
David Hilliard & Jonathan Singer   
Tuition: $1500  ARAC Actual Cost: $1900  Studio Fee: $150
Code: P0716  Enrollment Limit 10

Melanie Walker, Flying Rabbit 

CONCEPT: Imagine having an exhibition of your artwork floating
on the winds against the blue of the sky. Now picture an audience looking up at your flying work and smiling with delight.
Welcome to the art gallery of the sky. During the first part of
the workshop we will teach a set of skills that allow you to
create surface designs using a variety of historical alternative
processes, as well as contemporary digital media. The second
phase will center on the craft of working with bamboo and
other light weight framing techniques to create aerial kinetic
sculptures using aerodynamic principles to balance, bridle and
frame your images so that you can see your ideas fly.
MEDIA & TECHNIQUES: Cyanotype, digital scanning, digital negatives, and output possibilities onto Kozo paper, fabric, and other
lightweight surfaces. Kite-making and mobile-making. Students
should bring existing photographic material to work with.
ACTIVITIES: Participants will generate images for their project
and then construct the armature and final object.

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MEDIA & TECHNIQUES: Students will use Photoshop CS4 on
Macintosh computers; Epson printers; digital cameras. In addition, state-of-the-art medium-format cameras and digital capture
backs will be provided through the generosity of Leaf America
Corporation. Students will have the opportunity for hands-on
understanding of the flexibility and richness of very high-resolution digital capture available with 30+ megapixel sensors.

SKILL LEVEL: Level II – See page 10 for skill level descriptions.

Melanie Walker & George Peters   

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be asked to consider the photograph, not only as an image,
but also as a fine-art object.

Douglas Holleley, Let X=X, book cover (detail)

CONCEPT: Photographs for the most part are an instantaneous
and impossibly brief sample out of the continuum of time, space
and life that surrounds us constantly. It is only when images
begin to accumulate and are contextualized within a narrative,
series or sequence that their message becomes accessible and
intelligible. The most effective way to address this is to design
and publish a book. This course is for pho tographers, digital artists and other visual artists who have a collection of existing
images and would like to publish them.
MEDIA & TECHNIQUES: Photoshop and Adobe InDesign; hand
bookbinding skills

David Hilliard, Boys Tethered (detail)

CONCEPT:  What happens when we really begin to find ourselves, in every sense of the word, within what we create?
This workshop will explore the many connections between
ourselves, others and our environment. We will examine how
we visually define the sense of a person, a particular environment, and how we are defined by what we see, experience
and photograph. Objectivity, subjectivity, success, failure,
memory and identity will play a roll in much of our conversation and studio practice. Each student will be encouraged to
make photographs that speak to their vision of the world and
their place within it. Throughout the workshop, students will

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ACTIVITIES:  The workshop will include brainstorming book
concepts, demonstration on scanning, and software, as
well as studio work sessions for students to conceptualize,
design, and construct their book.
SKILL LEVEL: Level III – See page 10 for skill level descriptions.
Although basic Macintosh skills are assumed, participants
need no prior knowledge of Photoshop and/or InDesign.
FACULTY: Douglas Holleley, author of Digital Book Design and
Publishing (Clarellen and Cary Graphic Arts Press, 2001),
received his MFA in photography at the Visual Studies Workshop in Rochester, New York. His artist’s books and photographs are represented in many collections including the
National Gallery of Art in Washington, DC, the George East-