Workshops & Classes

Learn how to conceptualize, create, and plan from start to finish a photography project from the perspective of a creative director/photographer.

Learn how to manage your own shoot and explore everything from props, camera angles, outfit styling, to establishing your own unique look, to better grasp the art of posing

Leave this workshop with guidance on process, more confidence for future endeavors, and an expanded portfolio that will showcase your work in the realm of editorial/portrait/branding photography.

This course will explore the use of documentary and candid photography as a tool for communication. Open to photographers of all experience levels who have something to say.

A photograph reveals layers of truth that can only be constructed when light, shadow, subject, and artist come together. Even a photo that attempts to merely document will always be an interpretation of how the photographer sees themselves and their surrounding world. The making of pictures with this in mind allows us to see the craft of photography as a language we can look use to capture, make sense of, and share what it means to exist in a specific time and place. Students will learn to combine composition, subject, and their artistic eye to create images as a means of expression and connection.

So you’re a “creative.” You have a “good eye.” Know when something “feels right.” Well, that’s a great start, but to advance as an artist you will have to make that creative genius tangible and objective. You will need to be able to discuss the “why” and “how” of what makes your work unique. Important. Essential.

After working in a variety of creative industries for the past 30 years, Tom has discovered that taking the time to understand and verbalize one’s creative process is critical the advancement of any artist.

Through examination of art history, application of modern design thinking, and personal exercises with heavy class participation Tom will lead students through an exploration of The Anatomy of Instinct, creative principles and gateways for getting into a creative flow.

What does it look like to dream up a concept and then ask the finished product “What are you really?”

This class is for artists of all kinds explores the idea of “character first” context in any medium.

Students will examine character development, context clues, conceptual evolution, and consequential narrative to understand the process of creating and then listening to what your work REALLY says.

Primarily classroom style / imaginative writing & brainstorming focused.

What kills creativity is our inner critic, that thing inside that says we don't know what we're doing, we're not good enough, no one cares.

This class is a reclamation of the self AS artist. Designed to help students discover what makes them and their work unique and important. Lizz wants to give artists tools that will help them get past that to discover their heart and their genius, and begin where they are.

This class will be exercise heavy focused on topics of inner critic, stream-of-consciousness writing, thoughts from The Artist's Way, establishing routine, and making art everyday life.

Lizz is a writer, teacher, and artist from York, PA currently living in NYC to pursue an MFA in Creative Writing at The New School. Lizz has held positions at Creative Nonfiction Magazine, Story Magazine, and Teachers & Writers Collaborative, as well as various local publications. She currently works at The Center for Fiction in Brooklyn and teaches high school students creative writing in NY. Her work has been published online at Story, Peatsmoke Journal, Teachers & Writers Magazine, Bending Genres, and Hayden’s Ferry Review, and has been nominated for Best of The Net 2023. You can find her newsletter, Hangry Ghost, on Substack.

Elements in your DNA affect not only who you are physically, but who you are creatively. Everybody has a history behind them influencing their passions, and, In the crowded age of digital media, the story you decide to tell isn't the only way to frame who you are.

This class is designed to inspire you to recontextualize the way you present your personal story to the world.

classroom setting— Be prepared with a pen or pencil and some courage to share your story!

Gregory Timmons is a videographer and filmmaker who, through items found during the sudden loss of a family member, realized in his mid-thirties that he was a 4th generation documentarian. The camera equipment and footage that emerged from the past helped Gregory to tell a deeper story about who he is and where he comes from.