The Griffin Museum is pleased to offer this intermediate - advanced online project development program for photo-based artists who аre seeking to start a new project (series), or take their current project to the next level using Alternative or Historical Process.
Students will participate in monthly critiques and lectures, and this workshop will offer a comprehensive opportunity to experiment with or re-imagine your concepts and ideas. You will also discover tools and techniques that will help you problem-solve and keep you inspired to experiment. We are excited to bring you up to date on current uses of alternative processes like Cyanotype, Albumen, Platinum, Palladium, Kallitype or toning, mixing of processes and digital negatives. Lectures that will enhance yout creative toolbox, and add a new layer of creativity to your practice. This class can also broaden your understanding of Alternative Process within the photographic medium. Participants will work on multiple elements that enhance their image making: from experimenting with new processes, to articulation, presentation, and potential installation of the work.
Level: Intermediate to Advanced.
Sessions: Five sessions online ( Assigned Thursdays, March - June 2024).
Dates: Mar 14, Apr 11, May 2, May 9, and Jun 13.
Times: Assigned Thursdays, over five months, 1pm - 3:30pm ET, online.
Participants: Maximum: Eight (8).
Course Fee: $895 members /$945 non-members (non-members will receive a one year membership to the Griffin Museum, a $75 value).
About the Instructor:
Jill Enfield is a fine art photographer, author and educator who has accomplished international acclaim, in all three of these capacities, as a leading authority in Alternative Photographic Processes. In addition to expertise in current standard digital photo techniques for the last 10+ years, Enfield is also known for her instruction of hand coloring, wet plate collodion, and an array of other photo processes at Parsons The New School for Design, Fashion Institute of Photography, New York University, Long Island University, Brooklyn Campus, and the International Center of Photography in New York City as well as RISD. For years Jill has also appeared annually for workshops around the world including Cairo, Croatia, Edinburgh, Italy, Lisbon, London, Norway, and dozens of other cities around the globe as well as many cities in North America, including Anderson Ranch, Maine Media Workshops, Palm Beach Photo Workshops, Penland School of Crafts, and Santa Fe Photographic Photo Workshops.
As for her own photographs, Enfield's work is in the permanent collections of The Amon Carter Museum of Art, Bellagio Hotel, Bibliothque Nationale, The Boca Raton Museum of Art, Canyon Ranch Spa and Resort, The Crocker Art Museum, The Florida Senate, Hilton Hotels, Marriott Hotels, Southeastern Banks, The Toledo Museum of Art, and Museo de Arte Moderno de Medillin, Bogota and Cartagena, in Colombia, where her work was shown during a three month exhibition that traveled throughout the country including her personal engagements for lectures and openings. As for exhibitions, Enfield has been the subject of dozens of solo exhibits over the years, in galleries and museums around the world. Her work is also included in hundreds of group exhibitions.
Jill's first book on non-silver techniques titled Photo Imaging: A Complete Guide to Alternative Processes was published by Watson-Guptill, Amphoto in November 2002 and won the Golden Light Award for Best Technical Book of 2003 through the Maine Photographic Workshop. Her second book, Jill Enfield's Guide to Photographic Alternative Processes: Popular historical and Contemporary Techniques, was published by Focal Press in 2013, has already sold out and is currently being prepared for a third printing. Jill Enfield