Virtual Workshops
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Students of any skill and knowledge level.
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Virtual Workshop
Virtual Workshop, learn from the comfort of your own home.
Oct 6 - 8, 2025
Monday and Wednesday, 3-5PM (Mountain Time)
VIRTUAL WORKSHOP
The iPhone as Your Creative Camera
Rob Comeau
Tuition $275
Code VFP4101-25
The iPhone has revolutionized photography—offering an incredibly powerful camera that fits in your pocket. While most of us carry one daily, few tap into its full photographic potential. This two-part online workshop is designed to help you unlock the creative power of your iPhone, combining technical skills with artistic insight. You’ll leave with a deeper understanding of your device and a sharper eye for image-making—ready to capture the world around you with clarity, intention, and style. Mastering the Camera in Your Pocket In our first session, we’ll take a deep dive into the iPhone’s native camera functions. You’ll learn what the device excels at, where it has limits, and how to work creatively within those bounds. We’ll cover everything from lens selection and image file types (HEIC, JPEG, and RAW) to capturing RAW images using third-party apps when your phone doesn’t support it directly. We’ll also explore specialized shooting modes like Portrait, Time Lapse, Live, Panorama, and Night Mode. Finally, we’ll look at how to customize camera settings to fit your personal shooting workflow. Mobile Editing for Maximum Impact The second session focuses on transforming your shots through powerful mobile editing tools. We’ll walk through Apple’s built-in editing features and introduce you to versatile apps like Snapseed and ProCamera that provide professional-level control. Whether you’re refining exposure, enhancing color, or applying creative filters, you’ll learn how to bring out the best in your images—all from your phone. By the end of this course, you’ll have a stronger grasp of both the technical and creative tools your iPhone offers—and your photographs will reflect that growth. This workshop meets via Zoom Video Conferencing software (download free from Zoom.com). An Anderson Ranch staff member co-teaches the class and coordinates the online platform. Further details will be emailed to registrants.
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Open to All
Students of any skill and knowledge level.
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Virtual Workshop
Virtual Workshop, learn from the comfort of your own home.
Oct 6 - 9, 2025
Monday and Thursday, 12:00-2:00PM MST
VIRTUAL WORKSHOP
New Approaches to Image-Making Through Painting, Printmaking, and Collage with Karen Lederer
Karen Lederer
Tuition $275
Code VFD4101-25
Rediscover your approach to image-making through this virtual, mixed-media painting class. Taking inspiration from artists throughout history and their diverse approaches to combining media, we then set up our own compositions, filling our paintings with meaning, wonder, pattern, form and color. The class focuses on experimenting with abstract mark-making as well as representational imagery.We discover different ways to use acrylic and delve into collage and printmaking techniques such as pochoir, stencils, and trace monotype to create new and surprising marks.
Virtual Workshop Faculty
Julieta Bilbao
Martín Gastón Merlos and Julieta Bilbao, Argentine ceramic artists, have been exploring sound ceramics inspired by pre-Hispanic cultures for 15 years. Their project, Nómada Cerámica, fuses ancestral techniques with a contemporary approach. They are dedicated to the research, dissemination, and teaching of this unique technique. They have collaborated with prominent institutions and carried out more than 400 activities, including conferences, workshops, and concerts in Latin America and Europe since 2017. Through sound sculptural objects, they unite past and present, creating an aesthetic and sacred language that encompasses ceramics, sculpture, music, anthropology, and archaeology.
Rob Comeau
Rob Comeau earned his Bachelor’s degree in Photography from Fitchburg State University. He is a passionate, energetic, and resourceful commercial photographer whose work spans photography, video, directing, and advertising. In addition to his professional practice, he serves as a professor of photography at College of the Canyons in Santa Clarita, California.
Martín Gastón Merlos
Martín Gastón Merlos and Julieta Bilbao, Argentine ceramic artists, have been exploring sound ceramics inspired by pre-Hispanic cultures for 15 years. Their project, Nómada Cerámica, fuses ancestral techniques with a contemporary approach. They are dedicated to the research, dissemination, and teaching of this unique technique. They have collaborated with prominent institutions and carried out more than 400 activities, including conferences, workshops, and concerts in Latin America and Europe since 2017. Through sound sculptural objects, they unite past and present, creating an aesthetic and sacred language that encompasses ceramics, sculpture, music, anthropology, and archaeology.
En Iwamura
En Iwamura was born in Kyoto, Japan in 1988. The influence of both parents who are painter, he grew up in artistic environment. After graduate the BFA in craft at the Kanazawa collage of Art and Craft, he began to be interested in international Art world. he considers that the ceramic has the potential of being one of the international languages, which can cross the different cultures, people and countries.
Karen Lederer
Karen Lederer received her M.F.A. from the Rhode Island School of Design. She was an artist-in-residence at Robert Blackburn Printmaking Workshop Program, Lower East Side Printshop, and Sharpe-Walentas Studio Program. Her work has recently been featured in solo exhibitions at Guilford College Art Gallery, Tennis Elbow at The Journal Gallery, Grant Wahlquist Gallery, and Field Projects.
Seunghwa Lee
Lee Seunghwa is a ceramic artist who blurs the boundaries between tradition and modernity, material and sensibility, through formative explorations centered around white porcelain. Combining ceramics with stained glass, concave lenses, and convex lenses, he constructs sensory and philosophical spatial narratives based on the distortion and expansion of light, perspective, and perception. Through the formative language of repetition, structure, penetration, and refraction, he develops a unique artistic world that evokes not only visual but also tactile and immersive experiences. His representative works, “White Porcelain Openwork Glass Fountain,” “Lens Series,” and “Extensity D Series,” reinterpret the materiality and formative qualities of traditional ceramics through contemporary media and sensibilities, simultaneously conveying the expressive potential of ceramic art and its social message. He currently teaches at the Department of Ceramics at Seoul National University of Science and Technology and the Department of Ceramic Culture Convergence Design at Kongju National University, and serves as the Secretary General of the Korean Ceramic Society. By organically integrating education, creation, and research, we explore the expandability and public communication potential of contemporary ceramic art.
Ebony Russell
Ebony Russell is an Australian artist who uses an unorthodox approach to construct ceramic sculptures. Her unique technique was developed out of an interest in gendered aesthetics, labour and traditional craft practices where Russell methodically pipes porcelain in series of intricate layers to build gravity-defying forms. Challenging the traditional making processes of decorative vessels; in her works the decoration becomes the structure, and the boundaries between the two are erased. Exploring established perceptions of cultural and artistic practices that were once exclusively coded as feminine and thus insignificant, Russell’s work celebrates the decorative, promiscuous aesthetics and politics of purity; the superficial, excess and delight – with pleasure. Ebony Russell completed a Bachelor of Applied Arts (Honours) at Monash University in 2003 and in 2019 graduated from The National Art School, Sydney with a Masters of Fine Art. Russell has won many awards including the Franz International Rising Star Award in 2018 and the Meroogal Women’s Art Prize, 2022. More recently in 2023, Russell received the Highly Commended Award in the International Young Masters Maylis Grand Ceramics Art Prize, London. Major exhibitions include Homo Faber, Venice 2024, Teetering on the Brink, Claire Oliver Gallery, Harlem New York 2024, Young Masters Art Prize, London 2023, 1001 Remarkable Objects: The Powerhouse Museum, Sydney 2023, Think Pinker, Gavlak Gallery Los Angeles 2023, SABOTAJE ESTEìTICO, Yusto Giner Gallery Spain 2022, Halcyon Days, Modern Eden Gallery San Francisco 2022, Clay Dynasty: The Powerhouse Museum 2022.