The Center for Photography at Woodstock is proud to announce the opening of the Digital Kitchen, CPW’s brand-new digital educational and workspace facility. This multi-user lab, equipped with the latest digital imaging technologies will be made accessible to CPW’s surrounding  community through a wide range of offerings including multi-week evening and day classes, weekend intensives, and in the coming months, it will be accessible through communal lab hours – all at an affordable rate with special discounts to CPW members, students, and seniors.

Our inaugural offerings will include three six-week classes, running from mid-April through May. Two offerings of Introduction to Photoshop, one on Wednesday evenings led by Chad Kleitsch and one on Saturday mornings led by Sean Nixon and Introduction to Web Design with Dina Pearlman on Thursday evenings will provide participants the opportunity to brave exciting new frontiers in digital photography within a nurturing classroom environment. 

Future offerings will include seminars on using the scanner as a camera, digital workflow, multi-media presentations, digital video editing, large-format digital printing, and much more. The Digital Kitchen will also play an important role in serving CPW's artists-in-residence and in our summer/fall Woodstock Photography Workshop program. 

To learn about our inaugural spring offerings in the Digital Kitchen, click here.

The Digital Kitchen features:

• 24” 2.4 GHZ iMac with 320GB HD, 2GB sdRAM w/ DVD/CD-RW for image editing

• Canon i9900 printer (13” wide max)

• Canon Image PROGRAF W5000 (17” max width)

• Canon Image PROGRAF W6400 (24” max width)

• Silverfast LE Scanning software

• Nikon Coolscan 4000 35mm film scanner

• X-Rite Color management software

• Epson v700 Photo Scanner Dual flatbed (8x10" max) and Film (up to 8x10”)

• Adobe Creative Suite 2

• Macromedia Studio MX

Joining CPW's staff part time as the Digital Lab Manager will be Phil Mansfield. A professional photographer and educator whose client list includes the likes of The New York Times, Hudson Valley Magazine, The Daily News, City Limits Magazine, and others, Mansfield will provide technical assistance to visiting artists and instructors, lead classes, and oversee communal lab hours. 

CPW's Executive Director, Ariel Shanberg, says of the Digital Kitchen, "This facility offers a tremendous opportunity - to provide unique access in our community, in our region, to cutting-edge digital imaging and printing tools and educational opportunities that are normally only found in major urban areas or University settings. Digital technologies have permeated every aspect of contemporary photography - CPW's Digital Kitchen is going to play an exciting and important role in upstate New York's photography and art community and in all of CPW's programs in the months and years to come."

For more information, contact CPW's Education Coordinator, Liz Unterman, at liz@cpw.org.

We would like to thank the following corporate educational partners who helped make the Digital Kitchen possible: