Upcoming Photography Classes & Workshops
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Photography on a Budget
$60.00 – $80.00A 2-Day Class
January 19 & 26
6:00pm-8:00pm
Ages 16+A 2-Day Photography Class for Ages 16+
There is a common misconception that you need an amazing camera to take amazing photographs. Or that getting a better camera is all you will need to make your photography better. Photography is all about being in the right place at the right time, knowing how to use, and the limitations of the equipment you have available to you.
This class will teach how to use whatever camera you have or can afford, whether that be a cell phone, compact camera or even a disposable film camera and make fine art prints you can be proud of. You’ll be surprised what you are capable of with very little cost.
Location
Online
Date & Time
Tuesdays January 19 & 26
6:00 p.m.–8:00 p.m.Join CEPA Today and Save!
Membership starts as low as $40/year for individuals—and even lower for students at only $25/year!
Learn about CEPA Membership »Check out the description below to learn more about the teaching artist for this workshop.
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DSLR & Mirrorless Photography
$60.00 – $80.00A 2-Day Class
January 21 & 28
6:00pm-8:00pm
Ages 16+A 2-Day Photography Class for Ages 16+
Do you have a camera that you wish you knew how to take better photos with? This technical class will teach you important settings, and techniques. It will also discuss what shutter speed, aperture, and ISO are and how they relate to a good image. By the end of this class you will know how to get the most out of your camera and get excellent photos in practically any lighting situation.
Location
Online
Date & Time
Thursdays, January 21 & 28
6:00 p.m.–8:00 p.m.Join CEPA Today and Save!
Membership starts as low as $40/year for individuals—and even lower for students at only $25/year!
Learn about CEPA Membership »Check out the description below to learn more about the teaching artist for this workshop.
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Conceptual Photography: Process-Based Art
$120.00 – $150.00A 3-Day Workshop
January 27, February 3 & 10, 2020
6:300pm–8:30pm
Ages 16+A 3-Day Photography Class for Ages 16+
Rather than simply focusing on our technical abilities, photographers should spend time focusing on context and process in order to create more interesting and valuable images. This class offers a conceptual way to consider how one produces something, and what elements are important in artistic practice.
The curriculum is heavily influenced by artists who follow a certain set of actions and rules, in order to produce photographs. Citing artists such as John Baldessarri, Douglas Hubler, Richard Serra, and Brian Eno, this class will study how artists create a set of guidelines in pursuance of creating art. Under this influence, we will focus on our own personal methodologies for breaking through creative blocks and the personal process of artistic creation. This means things will be different for every participant in the class, but together we will focus on analyzing and structuring our own personal methods and processes we use to create photographs.
Take this class along with Natalie’s Art of Retouching classand receive $75.00 off. The $75.00 off will show up as a refund when you register for both classes.
Photo by Mackenzie Ellingson
Workshop Location
Online
Limited Availability
This workshop is limited to 10 participants.
Date & Time
Wednesdays, January 27, February 3 & 10
6:30 p.m.–8:30 p.m.Join CEPA Today and Save!
Membership starts as low as $40/year for individuals—and even lower for students at only $25/year!
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Features from the CEPA Shop
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Odyssey | Warriors Come Home: Combat Veterans Photograph Life After War (2020)
$35.00 – $45.00Through photography, combat veterans explore their journey back from war. Thirty-seven veterans participated in The Odyssey Workshops, a year long collaborative photography project led by artist Brendan Bannon and Marine Scout/Sniper Julian Chinana. This book explores the endless journey home from war in images that reveal the veterans’ challenges and victories over circumstances.
Preview“There is anguish here, and joy, resilience, pain and courage, and experimentation of all sorts with form in the pursuit of discoveries that might make lives better, or at least more vividly real. Here we witness an odyssey of self-introspection, of battles fought and those still being fought. And they resonate.”
~Fred Ritchin, Dean Emeritus, International Center of Photography
“This is one of the great photo books about the experience of war, one like no other. Every contributor to Odyssey|Warriors Come Home has been there, on the ground. They all came back, bearing memories and deep feelings. These photographs tell us what words could not. They tell us what it was like to have been the warrior, the care-giver, and the person back home when there are no words to express what happened.”
~Bruce Jackson
SUNY Distinguished Professor & James Agee Professor of American Culture
Co-director, SUNY Buffalo Creative Arts Initiative● Soft bound : 176 pages full color
● ISBN 978-0-939784-35-6
● Product Dimensions : 10 x 9/16 x 8 inches
● Publisher : CEPA Gallery (December 2020)
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Wild Things Catalog (2020)
$25.00Exhibition publication from Wild Things: Disrupting the Photographic Archive in the Time of a Pandemic (2020) explores the polarity between the mechanical realism of the camera and chance expressionism of time, nature, and the maker’s hand that liberates photo-based images from their formal literalness and launches them into surprising territory.
By dispensing with the classic notion of a frozen photographic moment, wild things happen.
● Spiral bound : 75 pages full color
● ISBN 978-0-939784-34-9
● Product Dimensions : 11 x 8.5 inches
● Publisher : CEPA Gallery (2020)
● Language : English
Support CEPA
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Donate to CEPA
From: $1.00Forty-five years ago on February 1, 1974, the Center for Exploratory and Perceptual Arts, Inc. (CEPA Gallery) opened in Buffalo NY during the alternative art spaces movement. As we prepare to close this fiscal year and begin our next forty-five years, we urge you to renew your support. Our work is not done; we have so much yet to accomplish. We want to grow our audience, expand services for artists, continue to produce free and groundbreaking exhibitions and build a welcoming and creative home for youth. We cannot do it without your help.
Our nationally recognized programs in Visual Art and Arts Education, our commitment to proactive, collaboration-oriented management, our dedication to artists and the artistic practice, and our partnerships with patrons like you allow us to excel in our mission. Our students and artists best illustrate what can be accomplished when a passionate and committed organization and an energized, supportive community join together.
Your tax-deductible gift of any amount is deeply appreciated. Unrestricted donations allow us to use the funds where they are most needed, but if you prefer, you may designate your gift towards Arts Education or the Contemporary Photography and Visual Arts program.
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Gift Certificates
From: $1.00Not sure what birthday or holiday gift to get for the photographer in your life? How about a gift certificate for CEPA Gallery? Good toward classes, workshops, digital lab and darkroom rentals, or limited edition prints.
Select an amount below, or name the amount you want. The gift certificate will be mailed to you within days and is good for one year.
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Membership
$25.00 – $250.00Join CEPA Gallery and Big Orbit today and become a member of one of the most dynamic and important arts organizations in Western New York.
Membership is the best way to stay informed about upcoming exhibits, special events, classes, and other activities at CEPA Gallery and Big Orbit. Join today and enjoy a number of member benefits, including:
- Invitations to all exhibits and events
- Inclusion in mailing list (email newsletter and mailings)
- Opportunity to participate in the Annual Members’ Exhibits
- Opportunity to win one of three annual solo Exhibition Awards
- Access to the CEPA photography archive and reference library
- Discounted rates for darkroom & digital lab
- Discounted rates for workshops
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About CEPA
Located in Buffalo’s historic Market Arcade Complex, CEPA Gallery is a contemporary photography and visual arts center with impact in both local and national communities.
Originally incorporated as the Center for Exploratory and Perceptual Arts to serve as a community darkroom and exhibition space, CEPA Gallery was founded during the Alternative Space Movement in May 1974 by recent graduates of the University of Buffalo.
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Our funders are just one way CEPA is able to continue on this trajectory, meeting the needs of artists and our community with artistic and arts education programming of the highest international caliber and repute.
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