This summer at Art Intersection we focused on bringing the spectrum of photography and art to Arizona kids and teens with our summer art program! We were pleasantly surprised at the greater Phoenix area youth turning out for our camps, especially with many of our teens coming from Tucson, North Phoenix, Tempe, Chandler, Mesa, and beyond!
Kids from ages 9-14 came out every Tuesday afternoon for mixed media, drawing, photography, and bookmaking. Art Intersection staff members taught students many new techniques to implement into their art-making and each week kids went home with finished pieces of work.
Our teens did an amazing job learning a lot about all forms of photography in our Introduction to Photography camp. More 14-17 year-olds further developed either their digital or darkroom skills in the Advanced Digital Photography and Advanced Darkroom Photography camps.
The quality of work and the amount each student accomplished during the one-week sessions was amazing! In the intro camp, students focused on the basics of photography and learned digital, darkroom, and alternative processes. In advanced digital, we moved on to outputting our images and making large prints, in addition to handmade books, and stop-motion animations. Teens in Advanced Darkroom heightened their darkroom printing skills, while also learning 4×5 view camera, toning, hand-coloring, and Van Dyke alternative processing. To look at an online gallery of work made by our teens this summer, please visit:
Thanks to our awesome students and replica Watch parents for making our 2013 summer programming a huge success and we can’t wait to make art with you again next year!
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Over five days in June this class explored photography from 19th century cyanotype, to 20th century black and white film, to 21st century digital imaging. They covered three centuries of photographic technology in only five days with each student taking home a collection of their work consisting of cyanotype, gelatin-silver, and digital prints. Below, the class group poses for a fun portrait. During the week long camp, each student demonstrated their passion for photography. Here are some examples and there will be additional work in an online gallery coming at the end of the summer youth classes – stay tuned!
Each student was given a 35mm film camera, a roll of 35mm black and white film, and an assignment. They developed the exposed film in the darkroom using traditional black and white chemistry, and then printed in the darkroom using an enlarger and traditional darkroom processes. Film is very much alive and well, and still capable of making wonderful images as seen by these students’ work.
All the week’s work goes on display for review using the magnetic critique wall in the photo arts lab.
Now we are in the 21st century with this digital image.
Cyanotype printing requires the paper to be coated and dried before exposure in the sun.
Contact printing frames hold the coated paper and objects during sun exposure to create cyanotype pictograms. This easy and simple process can be done at home too; the fun doesn’t need to end.
Like the cyanotype printing, a piece of black and white printing paper can be used to make a pictogram in the darkroom, instead of the sun, under an enlarger light.
This is what happens when nine artists receive flashlights in a dark room with cameras to record their movements. This is Painting with Light at Art Intersection.
Today, everyone created 5 to 6 images and took home an 8×10 print of their favorite image. It was a fun day in a dark room with nine young artists!
It is not difficult to paint with light at home. All you need is a digital camera, tripod, and a flashlight in a dark room or on the garage door at night.
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This past weekend, photography graduate students from the University of Arizona and University of Nebraska-Lincoln made a special trip to Art Intersection to learn wet plate collodion techniques from our resident artist, David Emitt Adams.
Grants furnished by both universities funded the workshop to assist students in learning techniques that are not part of their normal curriculum.
The workshop was a success with several of the students going back to school with a solid foundation of the process so that they can continue to experiment with wet plate collodion at their respective campuses.
If you are interested in learning more about Art Intersection’s unique services of creating customized workshop experiences for your institution or workplace contact us at info@artintersection.com.
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This past Saturday and Sunday were filled with mixing, coating, exposing, clearing, and toning.
Amazing results and sometimes surprises along the way of creating images with Colloide-Chloride Printing out Paper, PoP, in a workshop led by Siegfried Rempel. Once a popular commercial method to create images, today we hand coat paper to bring this process back to life and make beautiful, crisp, warm toned images.
We broke into a verse of Love Potion Number 9; “mix it up right here in sink, smells like turpentine, and looks like india ink.”
The use of Collodion in photography for the production of photographic prints an be found as early as the 1850s. The concept of an “emulsion” of silver salts in a collodion binder was introduced by Gaudin in 1853 and by 1861 he was actively producing the “Photogene” collodion emulsion. The collodio-chloride print-out-process represents one of the last PoP processes popular in North America and Europe with commercial photographers from the 1880s until WW II.
The Collodio-Chloride emulsion is coated on paper and the resulting image, contact printed under bright daylight, remains in the collodion layer. The process requires exposure under bright daylight and the image darkens or “prints out” during exposure.
Chris made a 4″ x 5″ glass plate negative using the PoP coating.
The over-exposed image is then processed to stabilize the image and provide the final print image, hence the term print-out-paper.
The collodion held together under processing to allow photo transfer.
A little dichromate for bleaching.
Final toning bath for a PoP image with a “platinum” look.
This workshop is another in the series of alternative process photography learn and create workshops at Art Intersection. In the past one-and-a-half years we have offered these alt-process workshops and demonstrations.
Cyanotype
VanDyke
Gum over Platinum
Albumen
Daguerreotype
Salt Prints
Stay tuned on our website and emails for more learn and create in the darkroom workshops.
Last night, Friday March 8, Siegfried gave us a brilliant introduction to the history Printing out Paper and related historical photo printing processes. Following the lecture he coated a piece of baryta paper and in the UV light box, along with a negative, he created an image without any additional chemistry.
Stay tuned for images from the workshop this weekend.
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Yesterday the Photoflex Power of Light Lighting Workshop was a big hit. There was a full lighting studio setup in the basement of the Heritage Court Building where Art Intersection is located. Eight students were led by John Beckett of J2 Photography through the steps of properly lighting a model.
For everyone that missed Saturday’s workshop we will do this again in the near future. Thank you to Photoflex and John!
The Jace Graf book and box making workshop was a huge success with all 10 students going home with an elegant hand-bound book and drop-spine box.
In this 2-day workshop participants learned how to construct a multi-signature sewn-board binding originally designed by renowned bookbinder, Gary Frost. The accompanying box is a versatile and useful compartment that is designed to protect and house a variety of book structures, portfolios and/or prints.
The participants also learned several valuable “tricks of the trade” that Jace graciously offered throughout the weekend.
No doubt, we will be seeing some awesome new book related projects from our community using the techniques learned during this special workshop. We hope to have Jace back soon to teach us more exciting book and box making skills.
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