Benefit Auction for MMW Goes Online

Tomorrow, July 1, 2008 the Maine Media Workshops hosts an online Benefit Auction of Photographs, the school’s first public fundraiser since achieving non-profit status in 2007. Auction items include generous gifts of work from many Workshops photography faculty and friends. Artist’s contributing include Dan Burkholder,...

Kernan Creativity Workshop – Day 5

Today we experienced the class participants assignments. The assignment was “extend the photograph”. “What?” we all asked on Monday? Sean cited past examples. Polaroids were positioned throughout a space (the space we were holding class in – one of the Polaroids was still in position...

Kernan Creativity Workshop – Day 4

Flow was easier today. It could have been we had time to sleep on what we experienced yesterday. Often, I find that in a research and discovery phase you get fatigued from becoming supersaturated with new information. Then you have to put the problem down...

Kernan Creativity Workshop – Day 3

After meditation. After making marks with Japanese ink. More movement exercises. Free form modern dance improvisations. We did a lot of distributing weight between partners – leaning, pulling, propping, lifting. For me, the most interesting was an exercise where we paired up. One person was...

Kernan Creativity Workshop – Day 2

Sean (Kernan) used a great metaphor today. “For me, discovering photography was like finding a white horse in the woods. You get on and it runs away with you. I spent a long time learning to control it. Now I spend a lot of time...

Kernan Creativity Workshop – Day 1

(Kernan, Heisler, Maisel) Last week, I taught my workshop Illuminating Creativity. Now I’m taking a workshop on creativity! This week, my friend Sean Kernan is teaching a special workshop for instructors only at the Maine Media Workshops this week. Sean has a very different approach...

Epson 2880 Printers at The Fine Art of Digital Printing – Workshop

See it first and use it at Caponigro & Holbert’s The Fine Art of Digital Printing workshop series. Epson’s newest 13″ photo quality printer, the Epson R2880 (list $799)(“The world’s best 13″ printer.”) will be available for participant use at the Hallmark Institute of Photography...

Karen Daspit / Workshop Participant – Illuminating Creativity

Karen Daspit lives in Hawaii. This is Karen’s 3rd workshop with me. She’s been photographing, sketching, and writing all week. Like most participants she had serious doubts about how relevant free associating with words could be for her photography. But she trusted me and the...

Making The Visual Verbal – Creativity

It’s a privilege to be invited to guest post on Scott Kelby’s blog. Vincent Versace and Joe McNally contributed excellent first and second guest Wednesday installments. Mine’s the third. I’m hoping guest blogging becomes an industry trend. I’ve already got several invites out to select...

You Can Learn To Be More Creative – Creativity

Many people think you can’t learn to be more creative. “You’ve either got it or you don’t.” This attitude does a great disservice to everyone. Everyone is creative. So why are some people more creative than others? There are all kinds of reasons. Two reasons...