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Are you looking to appease the mad scientist within?  Do you enjoy the transformation of silver into photographic image?   There is no better way to experience this alchemy first hand than to make your very own ambrotype, a unique image on glass.  This two-day workshop is geared towards innovation and adapting one of the earliest forms of photography into today’s working studio.

The class will begin with the history of wet-plate photography, ending with a look at how the process is employed by contemporary photographers.  We will examine the necessary equipment and chemistry, including chemical safety used to make an ambrotype, as well as review where such materials can be acquired.  Over the course of our time together you will learn how to make an ambrotype step-by-step and from start to finish. This workshop will have a strong “DIY” element, showcasing ways to continue this process once you return home. 

TOM DeLOOZA has led several tutorials and workshops, and is the Master Printer at the John Dugdale School of 19th Century Photography and Aesthetics in Stone Ridge, NY.  Tom received his BFA from the New York State College of Ceramics at Alfred University, and served two years as the apprentice and assistant to John Coffer.  Tom has exhibited his work in a wide variety of galleries including SoHo Photo in NYC.

www.tomdelooza.com

Class limit: 10  
Tuition: $295 / CPW members $265
Lab Fee: $50   

Public Lecture: Saturday July 2, 8 PM

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This three day multimedia workshop for teenagers will combine video, photography, social media, graphic novels, vlogs and blogs in the quest for local hero(ine)s.  Who are these masked crusaders for the greater good? Where do they live? What makes them tick? And how do they overcome the odds? 

These and other questions will be explored as we take to the streets with cameras in hand.  Participants will work in teams, collaborating on producing video and photographic portraits of everyday hero(ine)s, illuminating a previously hidden story of can-do inspiration, breakthrough and, in some cases, downright against-the-odds courage. In the process, students will learn effective video interview techniques, photo portraiture, storytelling, and how to post their work online, tapping social media for expanded broadcast and publication.

KATHLEEN SWEENEY'S work lies at the transmedia intersection of video, writing, education and activism. Kathleen currently teaches Media Studies at The New School in New York City, and is a frequent contributor to print and online media journals including Afterimage and Women and Hollywood. As a video artist, her work has been exhibited and won awards internationally, with exhibitions at Centro Cultural de Sevilla; Walker Art Center; Philadelphia Institute of the Arts; and many other galleries, museums, film festivals and media art centers. She is the author of Maiden USA: Girl Icons Come of Age, and now serves on the Advisory Board for GirlsWriteNow, a New York City-based initiative that pairs promising inner city girls with published women writers in year-long mentorships. 

This workshop is open to teenagers age 13-17.

www.video-text.com

Class limit: 12
Tuition: $250 / CPW members $220 

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In this two-day hands-on workshop you will learn to make your own pinhole cameras, departing from the world of hi-tech equipment to one of simplicity and liberation. We will explore the pinhole’s unique abilities to redefine the world, such as its infinite depth of field and slight soft focus. Pinhole is also the perfect match for those interested in alternative processes, as you begin with an enlarged negative from the start!

We will begin our weekend with a historical and contemporary overview of pinhole photography that includes a variety of formats. Each participant will construct a personal camera. Practical demonstrations and working time will be included to learn how to see with your new camera. You will learn about the usage of single and multiple pinhole cameras, using paper negatives, as well as the conversion of existing cameras and/or “found” containers into pinhole cameras. This will be a fun and creatively inspiring workshop with emphasis on experimentation, for both beginner and experienced pinhole photographers.

CRAIG J. BARBER is a photographer who uses antiquarian processes and focuses of the cultural landscape.  During the past 15 years he has photographed Viet Nam, Havana, and the Catskill region of New York State, documenting cultures in rapid transition and fading from memory.  His work has been exhibited throughout the United States, Europe and Latin America and is represented in several prominent museum and private collections including the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston; the Victoria and Albert Museum, London; and the George Eastman House, Rochester, NY, among others.  He has received several grants for his projects.  His book, Ghosts in the Landscape: Vietnam Revisited, was published in 2006.

www.craigbarber.com

Please bring:  a portfolio of 10 prints, small notebook and pencil, watch with second hand or a stop watch.  additional materials provided by CPW via your lab fee.
Class limit: 12
Tuition: $295 / CPW members: $265
Lab fee: $60

Public Lecture: Saturday July 9, 8 PM

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Just getting started? Ready to go beyond snapshots? In this two-day hands-on individualized workshop – limited to just seven participants – you will learn the basic foundations of digital photography and how to make a successful picture within a supportive environment. Joan will begin with helping you understand and feel comfortable with your digital camera.

You will see inspiring examples of successful photographs and learn about the elements that help make a good picture including subject matter, light, texture, pattern, and mood.  Joan will also conduct lessons on aperture, shutter speed, film types, exposure, depth of field, lighting, white balance, and composition. Lenses and their characteristics, uploading files, image size, resolution, and image adjustments will also be included.  We will explore the technical and aesthetic possibilities of picture taking while on a photographic field trip.

No previous experience necessary. For those with film background this class will allow you to better understand the photographic principals relative to both film & digital.

Students will have Canon digital SLR cameras available for use. You may also bring your own camera and camera manual.

JOAN BARKER pushes limits and employs both traditional and experimental methods in her photography. She has taught at SUNY New Paltz for over ten years. Joan is the recipient of a NYFA Fellowship, The Village Voice Photography Grant and two CPW Fellowships. Her photographs have been featured nationally in one-person shows, including OK Harris in NYC, and group exhibits at the Photographers’ Gallery in London and Carrie Haddad Gallery, Hudson, NY, amongst others.

www.jbarkerimages.com

Please bring:  A Digital SLR camera is required for this workshop- please no point & shoots! (If you don't have one, CPW has Canon digital SLRs available for loan), photos you have taken that you would like to share with class or that you have questions about are welcome, as are images by other photographers that you admire – from books or magazines.
Class limit: 7 
Tuition: $255 / CPW members: $225

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Carla Shapiro: Tuning Into The Creative Process

Sat-Sun, July 16-17

Tuning into the Creative Process is a workshop designed to help students gain a deeper connection to the creation of their art.  Drawing upon photography, film, poetry, music, meditation, as well as Eastern and scientific thought, students will heighten their awareness of themselves and their surroundings.  Students will learn to intensify their visual abilities through individual and group exercises, leading to an enhanced ability to produce work that is unique, meaningful, and clear in its intent post-workshop.  Time will be set aside to share everyone’s work, so bring your portfolio of up to ten images.

CARLA SHAPIRO has been a photographer for over 25 years and has created bodies of work about women, aging, 9/11, and beauty.  She has been an educator for 20 years and has shown her work throughout the country.  Carla currently teaches graduate students at Pratt Institute. She has received many grants and fellowships including two NYFA Artist Fellowships, a Fellowship Fund award from the CPW, and a NJ Council on the Arts Photography Fellowship. Her portraits have been published in The Sun and Architectural Technology among others.  

www.carlashapiro.com

Please bring: a portfolio of 10-20 prints.
Class limit: 15
Tuition: $295 / CPW members $265  

Public Lecture: Saturday July 16, 8 PM

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Phil Mansfield: Teen Photo Camp

10 AM - 3 PM, Mon-Thurs, July 18-21

Are you excited about making photographs? Do you want to explore your talents while engaging with other young artists? CPW’s Teen Photography Camp provides a unique, creative and supportive learning environment for young adults ages 13 through 17. Over the course of four inspiring and motivating days, you will learn about the aesthetics and technical capabilities of digital photography.  

Based in CPW’s state-of-the art digital lab, the Camp is made up of two components - the exploration of the art of photography and the development of technical skills used within a digital darkroom. By getting behind the lens and photographing in Woodstock, you will develop a thorough understanding of photographic techniques including the qualities of light and shadow, a sense of motion, and an examination of the relationship of subject to the camera. Students will learn about more advanced lighting techniques using hot shoe flashes and light modifiers creating studio like images. In the digital lab you will gain an understanding of the digital workflow, file organization, inkjet printing, and Adobe Photoshop.  You will be introduced to Photoshop as a creative tool as well as for its abilities for image editing, enhancement, and manipulation.

Camp will culminate with an exhibition/critique of students’ work in CPW’s Gallery on the final evening.

PHIL MANSFIELD joined the CPW staff as the Digital Lab Manager in the Spring 2008.  His photography has appeared in such publications as The New York Times, Psychology Today and Scholastic Magazine.  His photographs were recently featured in Eat Fresh Foods: Awesome Recipes for Teen Chefs, a children’s cookbook published by Bloomsbury.  www.philmansfield.com or www.cpwdigitalkitchen.blogspot.com  

Class limit: 7
Tuition: $250 / CPW members $220

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Matthew Palin: Adobe InDesign for Artists

Sat-Sun, July 23-24

If you would like to promote your art through custom printed pieces, or combine images and type in unexpected and exciting ways, then this hands-on computer workshop is for you. The premier layout program on the market today, Adobe InDesign CS5 allows users to create layered compositions with ease and sophistication. Through step-by-step demonstrations, participants will learn the fundamentals of the latest version of the software, including use of the tools palette, object effects, and how to export files for press.

On Day one, we will walk through the basics by creating a promotional card/business card. Images, fonts and colors will be discussed as means of emphasizing your artwork, and message you want to send. On Day two, we will push InDesign’s capacities as a tool for visual collage. Examples of contemporary work will be shown as a jumping off point and source of inspiration, and experimentation and play will be encouraged.

MATTHEW PALIN is a fine art printmaker, teacher, and graphic designer with over twelve years of professional design experience. Matthew holds a BFA from the Rhode Island School of Design and a MFA from State University of New York at New Paltz. His drawings and prints have been exhibited throughout New York, and have appeared in such publications as Chronogram and Roll Magazine. Alongside freelance design jobs, Matthew works as a full-time package designer for Alex Toys, international toy company.

Please bring an external hard drive or thumb drive, as well 5-10 high-quality digital representations of your work and a willingness to engage in class critiques together.
Class limit: 7
Tuition: $295 / CPW members: $265

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Dan Estabrook: Photographic Memory

Sat-Sun, July 23-24

Part theory, part practice, this class will look back through the history of photography to discover how it helps to shape memory and experience. We will discuss the first technical experiments, photographic permanence, autobiography, memorial photographs, digital amnesia and more. Students will have an opportunity to work hands-on with early photographic processes like the salt print, as well as to discuss their own work in a group critique. Whether to find a new understanding of the past or as the inspiration to create new work, this is a unique opportunity for students to find the links between how we use photography today and how it all began.

DAN ESTABROOK For almost twenty years Dan Estabrook has been making contemporary art using a variety of 19th-century photographic techniques. Lately he has focused on the earliest processes on paper – calotype negatives and salted paper prints – as sources for hand manipulation with paint and pencil.  Dan has exhibited widely and has received several awards, including an Artist's Fellowship from the National Endowment of the Arts in 1994. He is also the subject of a recent documentary by Anthropy Arts. Dan is represented by the Catherine Edelman Gallery in Chicago, Daniel Cooney Fine Art in New York, and Jackson Fine Art in Atlanta.

http://danestabrook.com

Class limit:12
Tuition: $295 / CPW members: $265
Lab Fee: $60

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Lindsay Gleason: Photographic Artist Books

Mon-Thurs, July 25-28

In this class two great storytelling media collide: the photograph and the book. We will explore how photographs interact with the page in book form to further communicate narrative.  We will split our days between learning binding techniques at the Women's Studio Workshop, laying out our books using Photoshop and InDesign at the Center for Photography at Woodstock, and binding our printed pages into a finished book back at the Women's Studio Workshop again. We will be learning two non-sewn structures, the accordion book and the drum leaf binding, with the option of using either structure for your finished book. Plan to have prepared your digital images and much of your content before arriving for class.  Photoshop experience is required. No need to know InDesign or bookbinding.

LINDSAY GLEASON has a BFA in Printmaking and Bookarts from the University of the Arts in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. A lifelong lover of books, it was a natural progression from being an avid reader to an enthralled maker. She found the functional nature of the book to be an inspiration and an irreplaceable influence to her art making. Lindsay came to the Women's Studio Workshop in 2009 as a studio intern; since then she has become a resident of the Hudson Valley where she maintains a private studio practice and a small letterpress business. 

Class limit: 7
Tuition: $600 / CPW members: $550
Lab Fee: $35

Learn more about Women’s Studio Workshop at www.wsworkshop.org

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Henry Horenstein: Secret Worlds in Plain Sight

Sat-Sun, July 30-31

This workshop will guide students to explore their artistic potential while documenting the unseen and unusual landscape. Students will learn to transcend the stereotypical and explore the nature of a place on a new level. Traveling in small groups, participants will embark on field trips throughout Woodstock and its surrounding communities. Henry will accompany participants on daily excursions, working with you to reveal the essence of a place through frame, light, metaphors, and lyricism. Participants will learn to use these techniques to insert their personal responses to the environments. Exploring the beautiful as well as the seemingly mundane, participants will reveal the well-hidden worlds of upstate New York and its inhabitants.

HENRY HORENSTEIN studied history at the University of Chicago, before turning to photography. He earned his BFA and MFA from Rhode Island School of Design (RISD), studying with Harry Callahan and Aaron Siskind. His over 30 books include monographs ) and some of the most widely used instructional texts in the field. Henry’s most recent photographs, Show (2010), about the worlds of burlesque, fetish, drag, and sideshow, and Digital Photography: A Basic Manual (coming fall 2011). A professor at Rhode Island School of Design, Henry lives and works in Boston, MA.

www.horenstein.com

Please bring: favorite camera, film or digital memory card, and a portfolio of 10-20 images.
Class limit: 15
Tuition: $295 / CPW members: $265

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Christopher Jordan: Digital Retouching and Restoration

Sat-Sun, July 30-31

Whether restoring old family photos to their former glory or removing blemishes from a formal portrait, the digital toolbox can really save the day.  In this workshop, we will build an essential skill-set to tackle many common retouching challenges, such as restoring tone and color, dust busting, fixing tears and damage, image reconstruction, portrait enhancement and more. We will cover all pertinent workflow considerations from optimized scanning through printing. The core skills are extremely versatile and have surprisingly wide application. Participants will have ample opportunity to apply these new skills to their own projects under the guidance of the instructor. We will also cover some of the ethical considerations with regard to digital restoration; for example, how much is too much?

CHRISTOPHER JORDAN is a photographic artist and teacher. He earned his MFA from Rochester Institute of Technology. He currently holds a full-time faculty position at the University of Alabama, in Tuscaloosa, Alabama. Projects find him creating imagery of both real and imaginary places, working with traditional, digital and experimental approaches as required. He is most interested in how depictions of place serve as vehicles for reflection, memory and meditation. He maintains an active artistic practice, his work appearing in numerous national and international exhibitions.  

www.jordanphoto.com

Please bring: old prints, film sources, and whatever else might benefit from the digital graces.
Class limit: 7
Tuition: $295 / CPW members: $265

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