Instructor: Joshua Caldwell
$45 Public / $40 Photographer and Patron Members
Thursday, 5 January, 6-9pm

Learn the inner workings of your digital camera to enhance your digital photographs. In this 3-hour class you will learn about your cameras settings and what they actually do. You will also learn how to organize and share your images on your computer and online on sites like Facebook or Flickr and options for outputting your digital images to print.

Joshua Caldwell was born in Colorado in 1975. He studied art and architecture at the University of Utah in Salt Lake City, Utah and graduated with a BFA in 2003. After the University of Utah, Joshua attended graduate school at Brooks Institute of Photography in Santa Barbara, California. Joshua completed his thesis for his MS in photography in 2008.

Joshua now lives in Phoenix, Arizona where he works as a freelance commercial architectural and fine art photographer. He also teaches as an adjunct faculty member in the art department at Chandler Gilbert Community College.

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How to Use your Digital Point and Shoot- $45

Instructor: James Hajicek
$95 Public / $85 Photographer and Patron Members
+ $45 materials fee
(includes pinhole camera kit, film and film holder)
October 15, 9am-1pm

Embrace the unexpected by exploring the beauty of pinhole photography when the technical controls are gone and one just points a simple black box at something of interest. This workshop will result in the building of a pinhole camera that produces a large format, 4x5 negative.

The required kit consists of all materials and supplies to build the camera including one 4x5 film holder and two sheets of Kodak T-Max 400 film. This workshop can be taken alone or in conjunction with the following workshops that will teach you to develop 4x5 film, make a contact print frame and print your large format negatives using the 19th century process known as cyanotype. Limited enrollment.

Instructor: James Hajicek
$40
October 22, 9-11am

Learn how to develop 4x5 sheet film. Various methods will be discussed along with different developers and a demonstration will be provided of the simple and effective method of tray developing. Participants will develop their own film with the assistance of AI technical lab staff.

Instructor: James Hajicek
$125 Public / $115 Photographer and Patron Members
+ $40 materials fee
(includes frame kit, chemistry and paper)
November 12, 9am-2pm

Build a 5x7 contact print frame to easily accommodate the printing of a 4x5 negative. The required kit contains all materials and supplies to build your own spring back contact print frame that ensures a tight contact between negative and paper. Following the construction of the contact print frame you will use the frame along with your own negative to make a beautiful cyanotype.

Seminar: Taking Your Work to the Next Level

Instructors: Carol Panaro-Smith & James Hajicek
Thursday evenings: 6-9pm October 13-December 8
$210.00 Public / $195 Photographer and Patron Members

Artists often feel isolated and can benefit from professional feedback when they are trying to make progress with or are in a transitional phase of their creative process. In this 8-week intensive critique/seminar, participants will have the opportunity to engage in focused critiques that will facilitate emerging artists in the creation of a cohesive body of work. Whether you need help bringing a project to completion, help in establishing your unique artistic voice, or getting a portfolio of finished work edited for admission into an academic program or a gallery, this opportunity provides you with informed direction by veteran educators that understand the creative process. Both instructors will facilitate a professional and supportive atmosphere, which will nurture and assist you as you take your work to the next level.

Participants will be expected to bring work in progress every other week that will be the focus of discussion. In addition to the critique of work, there will be readings and conversations about topics that relate to the art making process. Enrollment limited to 12 participants.

This seminar is open to artists who work in any photographic related process.

Instructor: Esther Lee
$35
By appointment

This class is designed for those who want to learn how to develop a roll of 35mm or medium format black and white film on their own, or those who need a quick refresher on how to develop film. Students will get practice on loading film on plastic reels, and the instructor will demonstrate each of the chemistry’s functions. Open studio is available after class with help from staff if you have a roll of film you would like to develop.

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Set up an appointment for Developing Black and White Roll Film in the Darkroom by emailing info@artintersection.com

Instructor: Esther Lee
$55
By appointment

This class is for students who are interested in learning how to make prints in the darkroom from a black and white negative. In this class, the instructor will demonstrate the process of making a black and white gelatin silver print in the darkroom. In addition, the students will learn how to use an enlarger and work in a traditional wet darkroom. Each step of printing, all the way to final wash and storage will be covered in class.

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Set up an appointment for Black & White Printing in the Darkroom by emailing info@artintersection.com

Developing Black and White 4x5 Sheet Film

Instructor: Esther Lee
$40
By Appointment

Learn how to develop 4x5 sheet film. Various methods will be discussed along and a demonstration will be provided of the simple and effective method of tray developing. Participants will develop their own film with the assistance of AI technical lab staff.

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Set up an appointment for Developing Black and White 4x5 Sheet film by emailing info@artintersection.com