Artist Lecture with Jennifer Schlesinger

Join us to hear from Santa Fe-based artist Jennifer Schlesinger on her artistic practice and choice of the albumen medium on Friday, January 20. Albumen was perfected in 1850, and for the first time in photographic history there was a means of inexpensively producing multiple paper-based images from a single negative. It became the dominant form of photographic positives from 1855 to the turn of the 20th century when it was eventually replaced with gelatin silver. Albumen prints possess a wonderful tonal range and a unique pearl sheen that no other medium can achieve.

To try your hand at this beautiful 19th Century process, click here to register for our albumen workshop with Schlesinger on Saturday, January 21 and Sunday, January 22.

Utopia 1, 2013, Jennifer Shlesinger

About Jennifer Schesinger
 Jennifer Schlesinger is an artist, curator, and educator based out of Santa Fe, New Mexico. For the past 5 years her artistic medium of choice has been the 19th Century Albumen process and her work mostly focuses on the landscape and how humans philosophically interact with the natural world around them. Schlesinger graduated from the College of Santa Fe in 1998 with a B.A. in Photography and Journalism. Schlesinger has exhibited widely at Southwest regional institutions such as the Marion Center for Photographic Arts (SFUAD), Santa Fe Art Institute and the New Mexico Museum of Art, as well as national institutions such as the Southeast Museum of Photography and the Chelsea Art Museum. Her work has been published online and in print with international publications such as Black and White Magazine (U.S. and UK), the cover article for Diffusion Magazine Volume III, and Fotoritim in Turkey. Schlesinger is represented in many public collections, including the Southeast Museum of Photography, FL; The New Mexico Museum of Art, and the New Mexico History Museum / Palace of the Governors Photo Archives. She has received several honors in recognition of her work including a Golden Light Award in Landscape Photography from the Maine Photographic Workshops and the Center for Contemporary Arts Photography Award in Santa Fe, New Mexico, both in 2005. She has been awarded many distinctive nominations such as the Santa Fe Prize for Photography by the Center and the Eliot Porter Fellowship by the New Mexico Council for Photography. In addition to her artistic career she was also the Assistant Director of Santa Fe Art Institute from 2003-2005 and has been the Director of VERVE Gallery of Photography since 2005. Schlesinger has taught Adjunct at the College of Santa Fe and continues to teach via workshops through the Santa Fe Photographic Workshops and other venues. In addition, Schlesinger has served on many photographic panels, as a Reviewer for portfolio reviews, and as a juror for worldwide photographic competitions.

Schlesinger is represented locally by Tilt Gallery in Scottsdale.