Challenges for Elementary School Students (CHESS)

Iowa City Session 2 - July 21-August 1, 2008

Photography - 1 pm-4 pm

Take photographs, learn camera controls, photography history and experience visualization and conceptualization opportunities…

Mat individual exhibit prints, create a photo essay triptych, design and create publications (such as a calendar and poster) which incorporate image and writing. Create a personal theme for your images and include writing to accompany your work. A group critique and presentation will happen. Experience on-location photo outings, printmaking days, and keep your negatives (both black/white and color). Participants must provide (bring) their own 35mm camera to this class.

Instructor

Bob Campagna of Mt. Vernon, Iowa is a free lance photographer, writer and educator. He enters his third year of teaching at the Belin Blank Center. Since 1980 he has created and taught over 250 photography based workshops in throughout Iowa as well as in New Mexico, Colorado, Wisconsin, Illinois, Minnesota, California, New York, Nicaragua, and Scotland. He publishes calendars, posters, postcards and note cards of his work, as well as selling images for fine art. Since 1982 he has been on the Iowa Arts Council’s roster for Artists in the Schools and Communities projects. He uses small (35mm), medium (120), and large (4x5) format cameras. In August, 2004 he lived for 34 days in a tent while volunteering in Yosemite National Park. His most recent exhibit “Eye Dance: In Vested Moments” opened at the Quad City Art Center in 2003. Presently he is working on a project with the Thompson school system in Loveland, CO to commemorate the 30th anniversary of the disastrous Big Thompson canyon flood of 1976.