Workshops

alternative process photography

Workshop Overview

For those interested in learning about my practice or adopting a practice of your own in alt photography, I offer workshops and lectures scattered throughout the year.  Subscribe to my newsletter by emailing me at bgv8@uchicago.edu for more information on upcoming exhibitions, lectures, and workshops.

Upcoming Lectures

Artist's Talk - IDLE FRONTIER

Lodi Whittier Public Library

8484 S Main St Lodi, NY 14860

12:00pm - 2:00pm | Saturday, November 22nd, 2025

  • Join us at the Lodi Whitter Library for a talk on the process of creating IDLE FRONTIER.  IDLE FRONTIER will be on view between November 1st, 2025 and December 31st, 2025.  

Upcoming Workshops

There are no upcoming workshops for the remainder of 2025.  You can keep an eye out here for upcoming workshops or shoot me an email if you'd like to be added to my seasonal newsletter which includes updates on upcoming exhibitions, lectures, and workshops

PAST Lectures

Recordings of Past Lectures to be uploaded as they are given/recorded.

PAST Workshops

GUM PRINTING AT CORNELL UNIVERSITY

Olive Tjaden Hall
810-815 University Ave, Ithaca, NY 14850

8:30am - 11:00am | Thursday & Tuesday September 4th & 9th, 2025

  • In September of 2025, I tought at private workshop on Gum Printing for Cornell Universitiy's Department of Art.  Interested students from Julianne Hunter's advanced printmaking course, Exposed and Impressed, learned the steps to produce duotone prints during this short, two-class workshop.  

 

GUM PRINTING AT THE SOIL FACTORY

The Soil Factory

142 Ithaca Beer Dr, Ithaca, NY 14850

7:00pm - 9:00pm | June 9th - June 13th, 2025

  • As part of the exhibition of IDLE FRONTIER, it was a pleasure and privelige to teach a week-long intensive workshop on sustainable printing using Gum Dichromate process.  The workshop was held at The Soil Factory, Ithaca's eco-arts center and community darkroom.  By the end of the workshop, each student learned the following:
    • Producing and editing separations from a color image
    • Printing transparency material for contact-printing
    • Choosing, shrinking, and sizing paper
    • Safely printing a layer using the gum dichromate process
    • Clearing and finishing the gum print