2025 Summer Workshop Program

David Hilliard Motives, Modes & Motifs: How and Why We Make Photographs July 13 to July 18, 2025 Time 9 am - 12 pm Discipline: Photography Materials Fee: $25.00 Intermediate/Advanced On-site Housing NOT Available - Off-site Housing Options

In this workshop, participants will take a deep dive into their own personal history as it relates to photographic practice. You will explore the motivations and concepts behind the subjects you choose, the technical modes used to realize those choices and finally, the visual motifs utilized to shape and convey your ideas. All aspects of your photographic process will be touched upon, giving you a clearer and fuller understanding of WHAT exits and matters within your work and HOW to best interpret and shape those concepts. It’s amazing how looking back and unpacking and understanding our instincts makes moving forward so much clearer. Let’s slow down for a week. The workshop includes daily presentations of artists to contextual aspects of the workshop, writing prompts, readings, field trips, group critiques, discussions as well as a portfolio review for each participant. The end goal of the week will be to gain new insight and clarity into your artwork, working methodologies, materials of choice, and overall language for what you create.  Students are encouraged to make new work during the workshop as well as to examine their archive with fresh eyes.

Biography

David Hilliard creates large-scale multi-paneled color photographs, often based on his life or the lives of people around him. He is widely published and exhibits nationally and internationally. Hilliard received his MFA from Yale University and has won numerous awards including a Fulbright Grant and a Guggenheim Fellowship. His photographs can be found in the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York, the National Portrait Gallery in Washington, D.C., and the Museum of Fine Arts Boston, among many others. He is a regular visiting faculty at Harvard University, Massachusetts College of Art and Design, and Lesley University. Hilliard’s work appears in many publications and is represented by the Yancey Richardson Gallery in NYC, Jackson Fine Art in Atlanta, and in Provincetown by the Schoolhouse Gallery.