2025 Summer Workshop Program

Joanne Dugan Seeing What’s Right in Front of You: Explorations in Text, Image and Beyond August 3 to August 8, 2025 Time 9 am - 12 pm Discipline: Multimedia Materials Fee: $25.00 Open To All On-site Housing NOT Available - Off-site Housing Options

This workshop explores the powerful synergy between photography, writing, and mindfulness. Daily quick, unconventional prompts will encourage students to make photographs and write words to tap into their inner lives, where the creative process itself becomes an active meditation and the combining of two (or more) forms becomes a new entity. We will explore the work of photographers, visual artists, and writers whose work is directly influenced by surprising juxtapositions of artistic forms. Risk taking is highly encouraged. Students will have the opportunity to discuss their ongoing creative practice with the instructor. Feedback is highly individualized; all levels are welcome.

Biography

Joanne Dugan is a 2024 Guggenheim Fellow in Photography and an interdisciplinary artist, photographer and author who explores the intersections between photography, writing and mindfulness. Her work has been exhibited in the US, UK, Europe and Asia and published in the New York Times T Magazine, The Harvard Review, Unseen and Photograph magazines, among others. Her work has been published in seven books combining image and text and is in the library collections of the J. Getty Museum, the LA County Museum of Art, the George Eastman House and the International Center of Photography. She is represented by Kopeikin Gallery in Los Angeles and Black Box Projects in London, UK.