Adventures in Animation

Discover the exquisite beauty and timeless allure of hand-crafted platinum/palladium printing in this immersive workshop. The combination of platinum and palladium yields prints with remarkable tonal depth, subtlety, and unmatched permanence. Participants will learn to create digital negatives from their own images, brush-coat light-sensitive emulsions onto watercolor paper, and expose their prints to UV light. No prior experience is necessary.

This workshop is designed for photographers interested in reimagining the politics of image-making through the lens of lived experience — particularly those shaped by gender, feminism, marginalization, and underrepresented perspectives. Drawing on both historical strategies and speculative approaches, participants will engage in collaborative and experimental exercises such as multiple exposures, camera-passing, and surrealist "exquisite corpse" techniques. Together, we'll challenge traditional roles of photographer and subject, questioning photography's roots in authorship, control, and visual dominance. Through image-making, critique, discussion, and selected readings, we'll explore how even the smallest choices — editing, framing, language — can reinforce or resist dominant structures of seeing. This workshop invites play, experimentation, and critical reflection as we ask not just what an image shaped by marginalized experience looks like, but what it can do.

For curious kids, a camera is a magical tool to explore and capture the world! In this fun, hands-on workshop, students dive into the art of storytelling through photography, learning to see their surroundings in exciting new ways. They’ll explore the history of image-making, experiment with cool techniques like cyanotypes, and work with today’s digital photography. Inspired by the beautiful Anderson Ranch campus, participants create unique photographs and prints, sparking creativity and a potential lifelong love of photography.