Workshops & Events | Vermont Center for Photography

C-41 Night @ VCP

Saturday, July 11th, 2026, 5pm - 7pm

Once a month, VCP hosts C-41 Night — a hands-on evening dedicated to photographers who love the look and process of shooting color negative (C-41) film. Whether you’re brand new to color developing or simply looking for a supportive place to process your film alongside others, this monthly gathering is a chance to learn, connect, and get hands-on in the lab. Our inaugural session in September was a great success, with participants developing film together,...

ARTIST TALK: Barbara Bosworth

Friday, July 17th, 2026 at 5:30pm

Barbara Bosworth is a large-format photographer whose work explores the relationship between people and the rest of the natural world. In this lecture, Bosworth will speak about her decades-long photographic practice, highlighting series including The Meadow, Natural Histories, and One Star and a Dark Voyage. Bosworth, who describes photography as a “long look,” suggests that quiet attention to the world is a way of caring for our shared natural environment....

Free Event: Open Portfolio Night

Next Gathering: Sunday, July 26th, 5 to 7pm

Free to all! Open Portfolio Night is one of the best opportunities VCP offers to connect with other local photo-talent and share some of your work!...

FREE EVENT: Open Collage Workshop

Friday, August 7th, 5–8pm

Join Alejandra Spruill during Downtown Brattleboro's August Gallery Walk (August 7th, 5:00–8:00 pm) for a night of community and collaboration. Alejandra's work explores the intersection of photography and collage and how institutional memory shapes our collective futures and archival histories. For this August's Gallery Walk, Alejandra and VCP invite the Windham County creative community to become part of that archive. Together, we'll build a one-of-a-kind collaborative book that will live in our library....

WORKSHOP: Studio & Environmental Portraiture

Saturday, August 22nd, 10am – 5pm

Portraiture is a discipline that transcends the depiction of just the human face. A great portrait has the ability to transcend our world and communicate with powerful energy. This course explores the art and psychology of photographing people, guiding students from the concepts of traditional in-studio portraiture with controlled lighting to contemporary, conceptual approaches in an available light practice....

ARTIST PANEL: Memory Is A Verb

Sunday, August 30th, 2026 at 5:30pm

Join us for a closing conversation with artists from Memory Is A Verb: Exploring Time and Transience, moderated by Karen Haas. Rather than a formal presentation, this will be an open, wide-ranging discussion rooted in genuine dialogue. Karen will pose questions to the group, and artists will respond as the conversation moves them — following threads, circling back, and letting the discussion find its own shape. Audience questions will be encouraged and central to the...

ARTIST TALK: Ace Lehner on Portraiture, Identity, & Representation

Saturday, September 5th, at 5:30pm

Join us for an artist talk with Ace Lehner, a photographer and professor at the University of Vermont, for a conversation centered on portraiture, identity, and representation. Lehner will discuss their creative practice and share insights into the ways photographic images can shape, question, and expand how we understand the self and others. This talk offers an opportunity to consider portraiture not only as a way of depicting a person, but as a space for dialogue...

WORKSHOP: Salt Printing & Creating Digital Negatives

Saturday, October 3rd, 12pm – 5pm & Sunday, October 4th, 10am – 5pm

Salt printing, invented in the 1830s by Englishman Henry Fox Talbot, is the original method for making photographs on paper. The process is deceptively simple but yields wonderful prints. One begins by soaking paper in a solution of salt. The dried salted paper is then coated with a solution of silver nitrate, thereby forming silver chloride in situ. The paper is dried a second time and then exposed to ultraviolet light through a negative. Salt...