This class will provide students with a safe space to try a series of wacky, strange, and otherwise unconventional exercises each week akin to a photographic obstacle course. We’ll test the power of repetition, boundaries, and to embrace absurdity so you can start to take your work further by taking yourself a little less seriously.

This class will provide students with a safe space to try a series of wacky, strange, and otherwise unconventional exercises each week akin to a photographic obstacle course. We’ll test the power of repetition, boundaries, and to embrace absurdity so you can start to take your work further by taking yourself a little less seriously.

This course will provide students with a safe space to unpack some of the mental roadblocks around making work such as fear, failure, permission, perfectionism, and overthinking while also providing tools for working with rather than against them. Creative photographic assignments will be provided each week along with short readings, A/V content, and various in-class and homework exercises.

This class will use the photographic medium as a tool for students to explore the creative process along with short readings, A/V content, and various in-class and homework exercises. Students will learn how to tap into their innate creative abilities and gain tools to combat fears and perfectionism and shake up their normal routine in healthy ways in order to create space for new ideas. Texts drawn from will include Art and Fear, The Artist’s Way, Big Magic, The Photographer’s Playbook and others.