A 1-Day Class
Friday, April 26th
5:30pm–8:30pm
Ages 13+
For those interested in archiving their family history, our Archival Methods Workshop offers an opportunity to learn basic preservation techniques that can be used on your collection at home. Overall, this workshop promises to demystify archiving and provide you with the practical knowledge and skills to preserve your materials effectively. Whether you’re new to archiving or looking to enhance a pre-existing skillset, this workshop offers a comprehensive and hands-on learning experience. Don’t miss the chance to take your archiving expertise to the next level and contribute to the preservation of prized family photographs!
The workshop aligns with the exhibit by equipping participants with the tools to preserve the physical ephemera of their family history. This is a workshop about remembrance and preservation, which fits well with the themes of the exhibition.
CEPA Learning Center
This class is limited to 8 participants.
Friday, April 26th
5:30pm–8:30pm
Membership starts as low as $40/year for individuals—and even lower for students at only $25/year!
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A 2-Day Class
Saturday, March 16th and 23rd
10:30am–1:30pm
Ages 16+
This course serves as an introduction to the basics of digital photography. Over the two day workshop, students will learn how to set up and use their digital cameras, the basic methods for properly exposing photographs, and tips for creating compelling images with your camera. This class will also cover the workflow for uploading and editing images in Adobe Camera Raw. It is required that you have a digital camera to participate in this course.
Participants must have a digital camera with the capability to shoot in RAW. CEPA has limited cameras available to rent. Please call or email info@cepagallery.org to arrange a camera rental.
CEPA Learning Center
This class is limited to 8 participants.
Saturday, March 16th and 23rd
10:30am–1:30pm
Membership starts as low as $40/year for individuals—and even lower for students at only $25/year!
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A 1-Day Class
Saturday, March 30th
10:30am–3:30pm
Ages 16+
Get started with the basics of large-format photography and ponder the struggles of 19th-century photography.
Offered as part of The Power of Resilience and Hope – Photography and the Holocaust: Then & Now, this class explores photography’s role in myth and memory through the captivating world of Stephen Berkman’s fictional 19th-century studio in Predicting the Past: Zohar Studios alongside August Sander’s People of the 20th Century.
Using a 4×5 camera, film, and direct positive paper – which has the speed and appearance of 19th Cent. processes – participants will have the opportunity to practice natural light portraiture in much the same way it was done 100 years ago, creating their own myths or memories in the process.
The class will cover how to use a 4×5 camera, load and develop film, and use a spot meter. Students will get practice working with film as well as direct positive paper. All Materials Included.
CEPA Education Center
Saturday, March 30th
10:30 a.m.–3:30 p.m.
Membership starts as low as $40/year for individuals—and even lower for students at only $25/year!
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Check out the description below to learn more about the teaching artist for this workshop.
A 1-Day Workshop
Friday March 29nd, 2024
6:00 – 8:30 PM
All ages
Make your own eclipse viewer and connect with the history and science behind photography in this all ages workshop offered in anticipation of the total solar eclipse on April 8th.
This workshop will investigate how the camera obscura, the technology that preceded photography, was used for solar observation and the role it played in the discovery of photography. Students will learn how a camera obscura works, understand its role in photography through making pinhole photographs, then design and build their own camera obscura to use during the eclipse.
Students will leave class with a handful of pinhole photographs, a working camera obscura to view the eclipse with, an intro to basic wet darkroom work, and a bit more knowledge of photohistory.
The class will also look at Jason Lazarus, an artist working in the expanded field of photography. His upcoming project, “How to Watch a Solar Eclipse,” endeavors to become the world’s largest archive of used handmade solar eclipse viewers. The collection is designed to become a safety net for those who might otherwise toss their viewers in the trash, and a vehicle to consider “vision and visibility, poetry and poetics, art, history, science, intergenerational intimacy, and access.”
After the eclipse, participants are invited to return their viewers to CEPA. Each viewer will be titled with the name, age, and location then sent to Jason. All participants who donate a used solar eclipse viewer will get to be part of a public art project and receive a free signed artist thank-you print celebrating the eclipse!
More Information about Jason’s project can be found here: https://jasonlazarus.com/projects/how-to-watch-a-solar-eclipse/
All Materials and Supplies Included. Participants are encouraged to bring their own box.
CEPA Gallery Learning Center
This workshop is limited to 8 participants.
Friday, March 29, 2024
6:00 PM – 8:30 PM
Membership starts as low as $40/year for individuals—and even lower for students at only $25/year!
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A 1-Day Workshop
Saturday, April 13th, 2024
2:00 – 5:00 PM
All ages
The Tunnel Book Workshop is about the potential for expressing personal narratives and creative stories in a connected series of stacked and layered frames. Participants will be guided by a series of prompts to create a scene through several art pieces on translucent photo frames. These pieces will be joined together into a final art object that provides the illusions of depth and movement within a diorama. These works will be motivated by exploration of identity and will present interesting juxtapositions of images that illustrate the complexity of human stories. The frames will come together to form a final, cohesive image, reflecting the diverse aspects that make up the self.
All Materials and Supplies are Included.
CEPA Gallery Learning Center
This workshop is limited to 8 participants.
Saturday, April 13, 2024
2:00 PM – 5:00 PM
Membership starts as low as $40/year for individuals—and even lower for students at only $25/year!
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