Youth Summer Art Programs
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All Things Photography – Summer 2024
$225.00A Week-long Summer Class
July 8–12 @ 9:00am–12:00pm
Ages 8 to 12This class is jam-packed with all sorts of fun photo activities, including darkroom, digital, and experimental photography. There’s something for everyone, with many opportunities for students to get hands-on with photography.
Cameras are available for use, or students are welcome to use their own.
For ages 8-12
Workshop Location
CEPA Gallery Learning Center
Limited Availability
This workshop is limited to 8 participants.
Dates & Times
July 8-12, 9:00am-12:00pm
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Creating a Photo Journal – Summer 2024
$225.00A Week-long Summer Class
July 15 – 19 @ 9:00am–12:00pm
Ages 13 to 17This class is centered around photography’s ability to document and preserve. It will provide an outlet for students to explore the personal narratives of their present experiences while creating objects of great personal significance. Students will have the opportunity to use a wide variety of photographic materials – including different kinds of instant photography, film photography, and other alternative/experimental processes to create their own photo journals.
Students will be given prompts and assignments that encourage them to constructively write and create photographs. Classes will introduce photographic artists and techniques that explore photography’s role in making memory and sharing narrative.
All materials included. For ages 13-17.
Workshop Location
CEPA Gallery Learning Center
Limited Availability
This workshop is limited to 8 participants.
Dates & Times
July 15 – 19 @ 10:00am–12:00pm
Ages 13-17 -
New Vision Photography – Summer 2024
$225.00A Week-long Summer Class
July 15-19, 1:00pm-4:00pm
Ages 13 to 17In this class, inspired by the New Vision photography movement, students will practice a number of different analog hands-on techniques while learning a little art history. New Vision was a photography movement that briefly existed between WWI and WWII. Despite being short-lived, this moment greatly shaped our modern sense of photography, producing many of the pictorial conventions familiar to us today.
Techniques students will experiment with include 35mm Photography, Double Exposure, Photograms, Collage/Typography, Cliché Verre, and Collage.
All materials included. Students are welcome to bring their own film cameras if they have one or will be provided with CEPA film cameras to borrow.
For ages 13-17
Workshop Location
CEPA Gallery Education Center
Limited Availability
This workshop is limited to 8 participants.
Dates & Times
July 15-19, 1:00pm-4:00pm
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The Nature and Science of Photography – Summer 2024
$225.00A Week-long Summer Class
July 8 – 12 @ 1:00pm–4:00pm
Ages 8 to 12Learn about the nature and science that underlies photography in this STEAM class. Students will spend the week experimenting with some of the earliest traditional photographic processes while they get hands on with the science of light and photochemistry.
Offered in partnership with the Coalesce Bio Art Lab at the University at Buffalo. Students will take a field trip to UB to collect plants and natural material, which they will process in the Biolab at Coalesce and use to make photographs – Art made of Nature and from Nature!
Techniques explored include Pinhole Photography, Macrophotography, Anthotypes, and Cyanotype.
All materials included. For ages 8-12.
Workshop Location
CEPA Gallery Learning Center
Limited Availability
This workshop is limited to 8 participants.
Dates & Times
July 8 – 12 @ 1:00pm–4:00pm
Ages 8-12