OUR MISSION

To foster the arts and crafts by providing a wide range of instruction for adults and children. Castle Hill holds exhibitions, lectures, forums, concerts and other similar activities in order to promote social interaction among artists, craftsmen, laymen, and the community at large.

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SUMMER 2010 WORKSHOPS - PHOTOGRAPHY

Martin R. Anderson

Summer 2010

Painting

Drawing

Clay

Printmaking/
Book Arts

Peter Madden, Valentine

Christine Breslin

Regula Franz

Photography 2010

Digital Darkroom Jennifer Moller

July 5 - 9
Mon - Fri
9am - noon
5 sessions $375
P amet Crossing
For academic
credit $450

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This course is for those with previous experience with digital imaging and/or computers, who are interested in getting to know some of the creative features of Photoshop CS3. We will create photographs on the computer using fine art techniques associated with analog darkroom; split-tone, duo-tone, cross process, montage, digital illustration, and image enhancement. I will also make animations from our photographs to be used for the web application. We will work with adjustment layers, color correction, blending and collage, merging with multiple image layers, mastering layers, filters, and work flow profile calibration. We will primarily use the most current software; Adobe Bridge, Photoshop CS3.

Jennifer Moller is an accomplished photographer and video artist. She has worked as a freelance editorial and advertising photographer. Her education includes an MFA from Maine College of Art in 2003. She divides her time between Cape Cod and Boston, MA, where she teaches digital video and sequential image making at the Art Institute of Boston. She has conducted photography workshops at the Santa Fe Photographic Workshops, Cape Cod Photographic Workshops, and the Provincetown Art Association. She also creates video installations and manages a yearly video festival at the Provincetown Art Association and Museum. Moller has been selected for several awards and grants. For more about Jennifer and her work visit www.jennmoller.com

Introduction to Basic Photography Dana Dunham
July 12 – 16
Monday – Friday, 1 – 4 pm
$380

This workshop will explain camera basics and usage. Students will learn how the camera works and discuss exposure, focusing, and composition. The class will learn how to develop film, print contact sheets, and make 8x10-inch prints. Instruction will be given individually on different levels to guide each student in terms of his or her own photographic vision. A 35mm manual camera with normal lens is required. Students are expected to supply their own film.

Dana Dunham aspires to make a difference through the use of the photographic image. Presently enrolled in the MFA program at the Fine Art Work Center in Provincetown, Dana is seeking a graduate degree from Mass College of Art and Design in Photography. He is committed to the traditional process of black-and-white film photography and the darkroom print.

Polaroid Photo Imaging: Image Transfer and Emulsion Lifts
Peter Madden

June 21 – 25
Monday – Friday
1 – 4 pm
$380

In this workshop students will learn to transfer their 35 mm slides (color or black-and-white), without harming the originals, onto a variety of surfaces including handmade papers, fabric, wood, glass, or even stone. The final effects can range from sensual to eerie, contemporary to vintage. A supply list will be provided prior to class. No previous printmaking or photography experience is necessary.

Peter Madden has taught alternative photographic processes and book arts for over 15 years. He is on the faculty of Boston's School of the Museum of Fine Arts and Massachusetts College of Art. He also conducts workshops throughout the United States for The Guild of Bookworkers, San Francisco Center for the Book, New York City's Center for Book Arts, and the De Cordova Museum. His work and technique have been featured in over a dozen books including Keith Smith's revised editions of Structure of the Visual Book and Non-Adhesive Binding, and the cover of Teachers and Writers magazine. He has exhibited his work for two decades and has been awarded an Artist's Foundation Fellowship, a Saint Botolph Club Grant, and a Massachusetts Cultural Council award.

The Alternative Image: “Poladroid” Workshop David Ellis

Alternative low-tech image capture meets computer based processing and printing

July 26 - 30
Mon - Fri
1 - 4 pm
5 sessions $380 + 90 materials fee
castle hill
For academic
credit $450 + materials fee

Poladroids or droids, for short, are what I call these curiously original and unique hand constructed cameras created by combining obsolete vintage box cameras with 60’s era
Polaroid cameras to produce a working hybrid camera. With so much focus on digital capture,
it is fun and refreshing to allow simplicity and chance back into our photographic lives, build our own cameras and use our brains instead of those of the cameras to capture moments-in-time while allowing us to reclaim our personal connection with the experience and discover the poetry in our pictures. It is fitting that we rescue these sweet cameras from obscurity and let their simple, single lens, glass eyes show us how they see the world with wonderful soft focus. When constructed as pinhole cameras, images take on a dreamy, mysterious quality, evoking the feel of memories.

Whether you are a beginner, seasoned photographer, mixed media artist, educator, adult or teen, this is a fun hands-on opportunity to personally construct your own camera, experience photography from a new perspective and to welcome chance and experimentation into your work. Add high-tech “spin” to low-tech capture and the creative possibilities become limitless!
Each day includes demonstrations, shoots and plenty of one-on-one instructor time. Some previous photographic experience is helpful but not necessary. Students must be familiar with computers and bring their own laptop, mouse and pad and flashdrive to class.

David Ellis’ education includes the Art Institute of Boston, the University of Mexico National Academy of Fine Arts and the Art Students League of New York (Sound of Shape and Design Project). He currently works out of Cape Cod and Providence RI exploring alternative image capture techniques, pinhole photography and experimental video. He has taught photography at Rhode Island School of Design as well as lectures and workshops at Castle Hill, UMass Dartmouth, As220 Providence ,RI, Cambridge Art Association and works as a freelance photographer. He has been the recipient of various grants and awards including the National Endowment for the Arts, the University of Texas Hogg Foundation and the State of New Mexico. He has exhibited widely and his work is held in many public, private, corporate and notable museum collections, including the Getty Collection, Los Angeles, the City of Austin, Texas, the State of New Mexico, the National Museum of Fine Arts, Mexico City, the Museum of Contemporary Art, Patzcuaro, Mexico and he was selected for the Smithsonian Institution Archives of American Artists, Washington DC.

Shooting with Your Digital Camera Judy Rolfe
Aug 2 – 5
8 – 12 pm
Mon – Thurs
$380

A fun, digitally-energizing, photography workshop for those with previous experience with digital cameras, and computers, who are interested in creating dynamic and beautiful images of the Lower Cape Area. Photography locations include Truro Pamet Harbor, Highland Light, Provincetown and Mass Audubon Wellfleet Bay Wildlife Sanctuary, weather and time permitting. In day one the workshop begins with a presentation that covers digital basics like, mode, white balance, image quality and why we use them plus touches on composition. Day two and three we shoot (with the pro leaders help) til we get nice early sun lit images. Day four we come back to our classroom, participants must have a flash drive or CD of their ten best images ready for uploading for class and instructor critique. Note: downloading will be done by participants outside of class. If you don't have Photoshop CS3 Castle Hill has several Mac laptops available for use.

A former USA Today photo editor, Judy G. Rolfe has established herself as a well-known freelance photographer and digital photography instructor in the Washington, D.C. and Delmarva areas. In 1992, she decided to leave her steady career as a photo editor and attempt to make a living looking through a camera lens rather than a photo loupe. Judy received her first camera from her parents at age 14 and has been shooting pictures ever since. Her leap into freelance photography was the realization of a life-long dream. Her photography career is now a way of life, taking her on jobs all over the United States and, to Canada, China, Indonesia, Central and South America, the Balkans, and West Africa.

Impossible to imagine her life without a camera in it Judy is excited by the many doors the digital age is opening for her, for example digital photography workshops. She has lead workshops for Shutterbug Magazine, CastleHill and currently leads local and regional workshops where she is based in Coastal Delaware. Her photos reflect her peripatetic lifestyle and home on the East Coast, but also the early influences of growing up on a farm, surrounded by animals, and later moving to the Delaware Coast where she developed a love for the ocean and its environs.

Translucent Photography: Fawn Potash
August 16 – 20,
Mon – Friday
9 – 12 pm

Made of purified bees wax and resin, encaustics are a favorite of photographers who want to create artworks using photographic elements in translucent layers. This medium can be used alone or as a way to integrate painting, drawing, photography and three-dimensional media. Five sessions offer hands-on demos and work time, emphasizing experimentation and discovery. Classes cover historical and contemporary uses, application basics, transfers, collage, dipping, pouring, combining oil and wax, photography with encaustics, assemblage, molds and specialized presentation ideas.

Fawn Potash is a studio artist based in the Hudson Valley Region of New York. Her work is exhibited widely and featured in many collections including McGraw Hill and Sony’s corporate collections, Sol Lewitt’s private collection, and the Centre Sheraton in Montreal, Canada. She has received three New York State Council on the Arts grants, and fellowships from International Residencies for Artists and the Catskill Center for Conservation. She has been teaching workshops in encaustic technique the past 5 years, through the Center for Photography at Woodstock, R&F Handmade Paints, Penland Crafts Center, Peters Valley Workshops and the Berkshire Art School. www.fawnpotash.com

Pinhole for All Martin R. Anderson

August 23 – 27
Mon– Friday
9 am – 12 noon

$380

In this class cameras will be created from everyday objects like tin cans and then loaded with photographic paper on which to record images, which will come to life using basic darkroom techniques. This is a simple, hands-on way to understand photography that can produce surprisingly dynamic and beautiful images. Experimentation will be nurtured and encouraged. No previous photographic experience is necessary. This is an ideal class for parents and kids to take together: a fun photography class for all ages!

Martin R. Anderson has worked extensively with alternative photography over the past seven years, with over 40 pinhole cameras of his own making. In July 2005 he received a fellowship for three-weeks to become an Artist-In-Residence at C-Scape dune shack in Provincetown, where he created a portfolio of pinhole landscapes and self-portraits. In 2006 his pinhole photograph, "Paris, Tuilleries: Alexandre combatant" won First Place in Art & Antiques magazine's annual photography contest. www.martinranderson.com

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