We invite creators to come and explore with Polaroid Now+ and the new Polaroid Lab to see how your experiments can unlock new realms of color, vision and creativity in your work.
No two people are the same, like no two Polaroid shots are the same. In life, just like in our photography, it's our imperfections that make us unique.
Inspired by The Polaroid Project: At the Intersection of Art and Technology, which began with a retrospective exhibit at MIT, and is currently touring the world, we want you to be motivated by the moment.
Artist and instructor, Jari Poulin, has put together an in-person workshop for those wishing to combine their photographic vision with the magic and immediacy of a film that develops itself and the myriad of possibilities it has as an art form. This class invites spontaneity with an eye towards creating a Polaroid Project of your own during this one week, in-person workshop.
Workshop participants will:
-Get a creative reboot with a medium known for immediacy and creative possibilities.
-Get acquainted with a bit of Polaroid history.
-Learn operation and new creative features of the Polaroid Now+ Camera and the Polaroid Lab.
-Learn app operation interfaces that are now available to augment the Polaroid Now+ and Lab.
-Use writing and creativity exercises to open new creative avenues.
-Envision, discuss and choose an idea for a project.
-Make images and explore exhibit options for their work including grids, diptychs and triptychs, text, 3D and more.
-Work live with the Polaroid camera as well as the Polaroid Lab which allows you to print directly from your smartphone pictures.
-Work with both straight out of the camera images as well as alternative techniques.
-Learn how to do emulsion lifts onto art paper.
-Experiment with souping and the magic of chemically altering the look of your polaroids.
Level: All
Dates: May 20-24, 2024, in person at the Griffin Museum.
Times: Five days, in person, 10am-4pm, daily.
Course Fee: $980 members / $1035 non-members (non-members will receive a one year membership to the Griffin Museum, a $75 value).
Materials: We recommend that you bring your own camera. Students will need to purchase film prior to the class, and you will be provided a recommendation on where to purchase film and other materials / equipment (with a link) by the instructor.
About the Instructor:
Jari Poulin is an artist and printmaker using photography as the main expression of her practice. She lives in both Manhattan's Upper West Side and Ithaca, NY. She holds her MFA from Lesley University College of Art and Design (formerly the Art Institute of Boston). Her work is portrait based and explores ideas of the ephemeral, memory, and identity. As a former dancer/choreographer her work often features movement and dance or the implied sense of physicality and kinetic energy.
Throughout her various bodies of work, Jari often pushes settled visual boundaries to reveal or conceal information in the images. She is interested in how the brain chooses to see, fill in the blanks, and discard visual information as is common in selective memory. As an artist and fine art photographer, Jari's images are photographically based, but at times she seeks to challenge traditional notions of the photograph by using various combinations of digital and analog processes, as well as mixed media, installation and printmaking techniques such as polymer photogravure, monotypes, and stenciling within her practice.
Ms. Poulin is the recipient of many national and international awards including the International Photo Awards (IPA), 15th Annual Julia Margaret Cameron Awards, 7th Worldwide Pollux Awards, Moscow International Foto Awards (MIFA), Prix de la Photographie, Paris (PX3), International Color Awards, ND Magazine Awards, Black and White Magazine Portfolio Award Winner, Color Magazine Portfolio Prize, the Ink Shop International Mini Print Juried Exhibit and has been published those affiliated magazines and online galleries.
Her work has been exhibited widely including the Barcelona Foto Bienniale, ClampArt Gallery NYC, Praxis Gallery, Gallery 1202, the Bower's Museum, C4FAP, Galerie de la Ferme du Mousseau, Elancourt, France as well as in Limerick, Ireland with the Ink Shop Printmaking Center, Griffin Museum of Photography, John Wayne International Airport, Atlanta International Airport, Atlanta Photography Group, PhotoPlace Gallery Vermont, the Lunder Gallery in Boston, SE Center for Photography, Cape Cod Center for Photography, and various galleries in Taos, NM, NYC for the Story of the Creative Exhibition, See Me Year in Review Exhibition on Long Island, The Ink Shop Printmaking Center, State of the Art Gallery in Ithaca, NY, and in many venues throughout the Finger Lakes region.