CLASSES

Featured Classes

Upcoming Classes

Portrait Studio Lighting: A One-Day Workshop with F. Scott Schafer (In-Person Learning – One Session)

Saturday
March 13, 2027
9:00 am – 5:00 pm

This one-day studio lighting course is designed as a basic introduction to lighting portraits in a controlled studio environment.

Photo by Paul Kessel, 2022 Exhibiting Artist

Basic Photography with Rebecca Truszkowski (In-Person Learning – Six Sessions)

Monday
March 15, 2027
7:00 pm – 10:00 pm
Monday
March 22, 2027
7:00 pm – 10:00 pm
Monday
April 5, 2027
7:00 pm – 10:00 pm
Monday
April 12, 2027
7:00 pm – 10:00 pm
Monday
April 19, 2027
7:00 pm – 10:00 pm
Monday
April 26, 2027
7:00 pm – 10:00 pm

In this beginning workshop, students will learn all the controls and functions on their digital Single Lens Reflex (SLR) cameras, basic camera operation (including f-stop, shutter speed and ISO), fundamental concepts of photography, and how to control the photograph’s final look.

Sunscape – Words & Frames: Writing the High Desert with Montserrat Andrée Carty (In-Person Learning)

Wednesday (orientation)
March 17, 2027
10:00 am – 12:00 pm
Thursday (workshop)
March 18, 2027
9:00 am – 4:00 pm
Friday (workshop)
March 19, 2027
9:00 am – 4:00 pm
Saturday (workshop)
March 20, 2027
9:00 am – 4:00 pm
Sunday (workshop)
March 21, 2027
9:00 am – 4:00 pm
Monday (Workshop)
March 22, 2027
9:00 am – 12:00 pm

Establish a creative dialogue between photography and writing through generative prompts, image-making, and experimentation in the High Desert. Discover how language can expand, complicate, and deepen the stories your photographs have to tell.