Come play and experiment in the darkroom during our OPEN STUDIO days. Chemicals (Sprint Systems) are pre-mixed and arranged in 11X14 trays for you. All you need to bring are your negatives and paper (max size 11X14). Enlargers can accommodate 35mm, medium and large format (4X5) negatives. The rest is up to you!

Are you looking to expand your darkroom toolkit? Join this workshop and learn how to dodge, burn and employ split toning. Many of you may already be familiar with these concepts from Photoshop or Lightroom, but don’t know how to translate that understanding into a wet darkroom practice. These three tools will grant you greater control and precision to create gelatin silver prints that live up to your own vision for your negatives. Following 2 hours of instruction, the remainder of the workshop is an Open Studio Day so that you have the time and space to practice these new strategies.

Let your foraged findings inspire and guide you in the art of linocut to create a unique set of prints! Students begin by walking the grounds of PHOTO FARM with local forager, Cary J. Brief, to learn about and gather the surrounding woodland flora and fauna. Students then transition to relief printing with artist, Dominick Rapone, and learn how to carve, ink and print their linoleum blocks onto paper. This workshop blends your curiosity and appreciation of the natural world with hands-on methods for expressing that wonder. PARENT-CHILD FRIENDLY.

Come play and experiment in the darkroom during our OPEN STUDIO days. Chemicals (Sprint Systems) are pre-mixed and arranged in 11X14 trays for you. All you need to bring are your negatives and paper (max size 11X14). Enlargers can accommodate 35mm, medium and large format (4X5) negatives. The rest is up to you!

In this workshop, students will collaborate in the creation of a phytogram while engaging with the natural world; this programming also features foraging, learning about local flora—including herbs and plants that provide calming support to the nervous system—and a sensory herbal tea tasting. PARENT-CHILD FRIENDLY.

Come play and experiment in the darkroom during our OPEN STUDIO days. Chemicals (Sprint Systems) are pre-mixed and arranged in 11X14 trays for you. All you need to bring are your negatives and paper (max size 11X14). Enlargers can accommodate 35mm, medium and large format (4X5) negatives. The rest is up to you!

Available in 30-minute slots, this is your high-speed pop-up version of headshots. Get a new headshot made in the studio with photographer, Phyllis B. Dooney. We’ll give you the option between our quirky-cloudy-sky backdrop (think “The Simpsons”) or a classic black + white. After the session, you’ll get to choose your two favorite photos that we will tone and e-deliver in both hi-res and lo-res files.

You know your way around a camera and feel confident taking portraits in natural light, but have been nervous to try studio lighting. Flashes or strobes can be intimidating. Continuous lighting, on the other hand, allows you to see how the light is behaving on your portrait subject before taking a single photograph. It’s a forgiving process that will elevate your photos without the technical stress.

Our INSIDER TRADING series are designed for in-person skill and knowledge sharing. Each meetup narrows in on a specific area of expertise along with an accomplished ambassador(s). Our guests begin by introducing themselves and answering common questions around the topic at hand. The second half is open to the natural evolution of good conversation. In the end, we hope to leave with a little more insight and courage. In this INSIDER TRADING Meetup, “Double-Sided: A Look at the (Photo)Book,” we have the pleasure of welcoming two experts: local independent curator, editor, and writer Alexa Dilworth, and photographic essayist Matt Eich (joining us via Zoom from Charlottesville, Va.).

Come play and experiment in the darkroom during our OPEN STUDIO days. Chemicals (Sprint Systems) are pre-mixed and arranged in 11X14 trays for you. All you need to bring are your negatives and paper (max size 11X14). Enlargers can accommodate 35mm, medium and large format (4X5) negatives. The rest is up to you!

In this 1-day workshop, students learn the basic operating principles and functions for making photographs and developing black and white film with their analog cameras. In the morning, you learn the fundamentals of light and composition, how to create a properly exposed image, camera mechanics (including how to load a roll of film), and more. We move on to exposing your rolls of film in-camera (making photographs!) and learn the basics for developing it. How do I load a film reel? What chemicals do I use and in what order? How does time and temperature affect the film? These questions, among others, will be answered in a hands-on darkroom experience.

In this 1/2-day workshop, students learn how to develop their color film. Prepare by purchasing and shooting 2 rolls of 35mm or 1 roll of 120/medium format color negative (C-41 process) film. Bring your exposed film to the workshop and go through the process of developing it.

Our INSIDER TRADING series are designed for in-person skill and knowledge sharing. Each meetup narrows in on a specific area of expertise along with an accomplished ambassador. Our guest begins the first 30 minutes by introducing themselves and answering common questions around the topic at hand. The second half is open to the natural evolution of particular questions and conversation. In the end, we hope to leave with a little more insight and courage. In this INSIDER TRADING Meetup, “Print Club,” we welcome local photographer and master printer, Holden Richards. Most recently, Holden was commissioned to make prints for the celebrated Vivian Maier exhibition that came through town. We begin the evening with a demonstration on Holden’s darkroom methods for these prints, followed by a period of show and tell from all of you.

Come play and experiment in the darkroom during our OPEN STUDIO days. Chemicals (Sprint Systems) are pre-mixed and arranged in 11X14 trays for you. All you need to bring are your negatives and paper (max size 11X14). Enlargers can accommodate 35mm, medium and large format (4X5) negatives. The rest is up to you!

In this half day workshop, students learn how to contact print using the oft-underappreciated Van Dyke Brown (VDB). Van Dyke Brown is a 3-part process similar to a cyanotype workflow but one that results in rich sepia tones with superior archival integrity. In this class, students arrive with their negatives and contact print from them, using VDB chemistry and technique — a process that translates seamlessly to other historic processes, such as Platinum Palladium.

BE MY VALENTINE! Come sit for esteemed local photographer, Harlan Campbell, and get your one-of-a-kind tintype portrait made. Invented in the 1850’s, tintypes are photographs that are exposed directly onto a metal plate, resulting in that authentically vintage—milky and ephemeral—photographic image.

Our INSIDER TRADING series are designed for in-person skill and knowledge sharing. Each meetup narrows in on a specific area of expertise along with an accomplished ambassador. Our guest begins the first 30 minutes by introducing themselves and answering common questions around the topic at hand. The second half is open to the natural evolution of particular questions and conversation. In the end, we hope to leave with a little more insight and courage. In our first-ever INSIDER TRADING Meetup, “Photography on the Walls,” we welcome New York City’s Anna Van Lenten, The Center for Photography at Woodstock’s Communications Coordinator, to help deconstruct the gallery, festival and exhibition circuit.

Come play and experiment in the darkroom during our OPEN STUDIO days. Chemicals (Sprint Systems) are pre-mixed and arranged in 11X14 trays for you. All you need to bring are your negatives and paper (max size 11X14). Enlargers can accommodate 35mm, medium and large format (4X5) negatives. The rest is up to you!

Photograms, simply put, are photographic images made in the darkroom without the use of cameras or film. By obstructing the light between an enlarger bulb and the photographic paper (with any object, made or found) an image will be created and then preserved (fixed) through a traditional darkroom process. This stand-alone, 4-hour course will give people with no prior experience the chance to produce one-of-a-kind works of art through a fascinating process that brings together physics, chemistry and creativity.

Come play and experiment in the darkroom during our OPEN STUDIO days. Chemicals (Sprint Systems) are pre-mixed and arranged in 11X14 trays for you. All you need to bring are your negatives and paper (max size 11X14). Enlargers can accommodate 35mm, medium and large format (4X5) negatives. The rest is up to you!

Just in time for the holidays! Come sit for esteemed local photographer, Harlan Campbell, and get your one-of-a-kind tintype portrait made. Invented in the 1850’s, tintypes are photographs that are exposed directly onto a metal plate, resulting in that authentically vintage—milky and ephemeral—photographic image.

Come play and experiment in the darkroom during our OPEN STUDIO days. Chemicals (Sprint Systems) are pre-mixed and arranged in 11X14 trays for you. All you need to bring are your negatives and paper (max size 11X14). Enlargers can accommodate 35mm, medium and large format (4X5) negatives. The rest is up to you!

In this workshop, students learn how to create varied book forms such as accordion, pamphlet, and perfect bound. Special attention is paid in this 4-hour session to bookbinding techniques and examples of each style will be shown so that the student has a broader knowledge of what can be accomplished. The techniques learned in class can be recreated at home using materials that are readily accessible. Attend with a specific project in mind or with a more general curiosity to acquire bookmaking skills and knowledge.

In this 1-day workshop, students learn how make black and white darkroom prints from their negatives. You will bring already developed film strips and be introduced to the fundamentals for exposing, developing, fixing, washing, and drying your prints. Darkroom discoveries will include how to manually operate an enlarger to expose a sheet of light-sensitive paper, how to make contact sheets to calculate exposure times, how to control contrast along with “burning and dodging” techniques, and more.

Photobook Dummies is a monthly gathering where collectors, creators, and enthusiasts of photobooks come together to survey this unique art form. We explore a different theme each month, with attendees bringing books from their collections to share and discuss.

Come play and experiment in the darkroom during our OPEN STUDIO days. Chemicals (Sprint Systems) are pre-mixed and arranged in 11X14 trays for you. All you need to bring are your negatives and paper (max size 11X14). Enlargers can accommodate 35mm, medium and large format (4X5) negatives. The rest is up to you!

Photograms, simply put, are photographic images made in the darkroom without the use of cameras or film. By obstructing the light between an enlarger bulb and the photographic paper (with any object, made or found) an image will be created and then preserved (fixed) through a traditional darkroom process. This stand-alone, 4-hour course will give people with no prior experience the chance to produce one-of-a-kind works of art through a fascinating process that brings together physics, chemistry and creativity.