Beginner Course
Introduction to Photography
Ages 8-10
- Guided students in learning the fundamentals of their cameras, the history of photography, contemporary photography and the broad range of the different styles of photography.
- Encouraged students each day to break into their creative sides. Students not only learned the basic fundamentals of photography, but their own voice and vision.
Advanced Beginner Course
Photography Intensive at the 92nd St Y
Ages 11-13
- Taught both as a two week summer intensive workshop, and an after school class at entry level Photography to Middle School students.
- Facilitated students in learning the basics of their cameras through lectures/demos, class activities and field trips.
Beginner to advanced Course
Visual Arts
Ages 14-18
- Taught the basics of color, painting, drawing, photography, performance art and the core history behind all said mediums to Highschool students.
- Educated students on the most impacting art movements from prehistoric to post modernism.
- Presented students with slides on each art movement, and then a hands on activity relevant to the art movement to activate their creativity.
Selected Higher Education Courses taught
School of Visual Arts
Art and The Everyday
Beginner/Intermediate, adults
Co-taught with artist Magali Duzant
- Unpacked how artists have engaged with the ebb and flow of daily life as fodder and inspiration for their art practices, specifically in photography, from the 1960’s to now.
- Researched galleries for class visits, guided weekly observation exercises via journals.
- Created photographic assignments which culminated in the development of student’s final projects.
The International Center of Photography
Underneath My Skin: Exploring Concept, Place and Metaphor in Photography
Intermediate/Advanced, adults
- Assist students in the development of a unique, cohesive body of work.
- Explore the importance of place, the necessary presence of gesture, and the subtle use of metaphors to add layers to images.
- Guide students in understanding that portraits are not always of people and how to advance their Portrait making skills by utilizing a conceptual framework.
The College of New Jersey & The College
of Staten Island
Photography 101
Beginner, ages 17-21
- Taught the basics of seeing and the visual grammar of photography.
- Combined fundamental understanding and vocabulary, with exploration of the design and formal qualities of the medium, and the history and development of photography as an art form.
- Taught students the basic principles and techniques of camera, photographic processes and techniques for image processing, as well as print production.
The International Center of Photography
Deconstructing the Portrait
Intermediate, adults
- Introduce students to various mediums working with portraiture and the figure such as sculpture, painting and photography.
- Utilize the book Glitch Feminism by Legacy Russell as a main source of inspiration and reference as a lead to understanding identity, feminism, the “glitch,” and the future.
- Guide students in learning how that can inform how we look at and make images – specifically portraits.
- Encourage students to engage their understanding of portraits by using other mediums such as collage, and painting to expand the malleability of photography and the influence of texts.