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SUMMARY:Into the Heartland: Mississippi Delta with Aline Smithson and Lisa McCord (Travel Workshop)
DESCRIPTION:Led by Aline Smithson and coordinated by Mississippi-born and raised photographer Lisa McCord\, Into the Heartland offers a week-long immersive opportunity to connect with landscapes and communities in the Deep South\, going outside major cities.\n\nThe series offers on-site encounters across the country\, capturing of rural landscapes\, small-town life\, and places that might get excluded from the national limelight. These hands-on workshops will challenge your creativity\, deepen your technical skills\, and give you a fresh perspective on the American landscape\, all while fostering meaningful connections with fellow photographers and local communities. Step away from the crowds and discover the stories waiting to be told across the country.\n\nInto the Heartland takes participants on a captivating journey through the Mississippi Delta\, a region steeped in history\, culture\, raw beauty\, and painful histories. The workshop begins in Memphis\, where you’ll immerse yourself in the stories of Graceland\, the National Civil Rights Museum\, and the Lorraine Motel\, photographing iconic sites that have shaped American cultural memory.\n\nFrom there\, the group ventures into the heart of Arkansas and Mississippi\, capturing the soul of small southern towns. In Arkansas\, we’ll spend time in Wilson\, Osceola and Blytheville\, exploring the daily rhythms of rural life. Oxford\, Mississippi\, offers an intimate portrait of a literary and sports town\, where a visit to William Faulkner’s Rowan Oak will deepen your connection to the region’s complicated legacy and dark past. Throughout the journey\, Aline’s expert guidance and Lisa’s local insight will help you frame both the grand and the subtle narratives of the Mississippi Delta.\n\nABOUT ALINE SMITHSON (Lead instructor)\n\nAline Smithson is a visual artist\, educator\, and editor based in Los Angeles\, California. Best known for her conceptual portraiture and a practice that uses humor and pathos to explore the performative potential of photography. Growing up in the shadow of Hollywood\, her work is influenced by the elevated unreal. She received a BA in art from the University of California at Santa Barbara and was accepted into the College of Creative Studies\, studying under artists such as William Wegman\, Allen Ruppersburg\, and Charles Garabian. After a decade-long career as a New York Fashion Editor\, Aline returned to Los Angeles and to her own artistic practice.\n\nShe has exhibited widely including over 40 solo shows at institutions such as the Griffin Museum of Photography\, the Santa Barbara Museum of Art\, the Fort Collins Museum of Contemporary Art\, the San Jose Art Museum\, the Shanghai\, Lishui\, and Pingyqo Festivals in China\, The Rayko Photo Center in San Francisco\, the Center of Fine Art Photography in Colorado\, the Tagomago Gallery in Barcelona and Paris\, and the Verve Gallery in Santa Fe. In addition\, her work is held in a number of public collections and her photographs have been featured in publications including The New York Times\, The New Yorker\, PDN\, and Communication Arts\, among others.\n\nAline's Instructor Profile Page\n\n&nbsp\;\n\nABOUT LISA MCCORD (Mississippi Liaison)\nLisa McCord is a fine art and documentary photographer from the Arkansas Delta\, who lives and works in Los Angeles and Arkansas. Focusing on her experiences on her family’s cotton farm\, her creative practice explores concepts of storytelling\, memory\, and the passage of time.\nMcCord received her BFA from San Francisco Art Institute and earned an MFA from California Institute of the Arts. She also attended New York University\, Le Contrejour\, Paris\, and The Visual Studies Workshop\, Rochester\, NY. She taught photography at Pepperdine University.\n\nShe has exhibited her work in galleries and museums\, including Annenberg Space for Photography\, Building Bridges Art Exchange\, Bruce Lurie Gallery\, and Leica Gallery LA. McCord’s work has been featured in solo exhibitions at the Fabrik Projects\, Gallery 825\, Leica Gallery\, Memphis Cotton Museum and Slow Exposures. Internationally\, she has exhibited at the Museum of Nature of Cantabria in Spain\, MIA Photo Fair in Milan\, and Alta Vista in Paris. McCord’s work is in the permanent collections of the Arkansas Museum of Fine Arts and the Memphis Brooks Museum of Art.\n\nHer first monograph\, Rotan Switch\, was published in 2024\, by Kehrer Verlag. Book signings include Coston Arts Center\, in Osceola\, Arkansas\, and Photo London.\n\nHer work has been featured in numerous publications including AAP Magazine\, Arkansas Democratic Gazette\, Black &amp\; White Photography (UK edition)\, Float Magazine\, and The Guardian. She was a Critical Mass Top 200 Finalist in 2015\, 2016\, 2021 and 2024.
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