Upcoming Classes & Events

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....

Free Event: Open Portfolio Night

Next Gathering: Sunday, August 23rd, 5 – 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!...

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: Professional Development for Working Artists

Thursdays, September 24th, October 1st, & October 8th, 6 – 8pm

Most artists have written a hundred half-finished bios, aren't sure if their CV is helping or hurting them, and have a drawer full of rejected applications with no idea why. This three-part seminar series is built to fix all three problems. Led by Ace Lehner, working artist and Assistant Professor of Art and Art History at the University of Vermont, these sessions sit somewhere between a seminar and a workshop: expect real instruction, group discussion, live...

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...

ARTIST TALK: Scott Offen

Friday, October 16th, 2026 at 5:30pm

Join us at VCP for a talk with photographer Scott Offen on his recent book Grace, a seven-year collaborative project made with his partner. Offen will walk us through how the work came together: photographing Grace not as a subject but as a co-creator, developing a staged and often dreamlike visual language, and building a method where disagreements over a photograph were resolved through sequencing rather than exclusion....

WORKSHOP: Gelli Plate Printing

Sunday, October 18th, 12pm – 3pm, 2026

Tap into the playful fun of creating photo transfers through non-toxic gel plate printing. Over three hours, participants will explore the expressive potential of combining photographic images with color and texture, exploring composition, surfaces, and layering techniques to create original works of art. No previous printmaking experience is required. This class is designed for photographers and creative people working in any medium. This is a beginner class that requires no previous experience. We’ll begin with a...

MEMBER EVENT: Private Tour of SVAC with Dona Ann McAdams

Sunday, November 8th, 2026 at 12:00 pm

Join us for a private, guided walkthrough of Dona Ann McAdams' exhibition Troubleshooting at the Southern Vermont Arts Center, led by Dona herself. Limited to just 12 guests, this small-group tour offers a rare chance to hear directly from the artist about her photographic process, the decisions behind selecting and sequencing the work, and what it took to bring this exhibition together...

ARTIST TALK: Peter Moriarty, Warm Room

Friday, November 20th, 2026 at 5:30pm

Join us for an artist talk with photographer Peter Moriarty, exploring the work behind his book Warm Room: Photographs from Historic Greenhouses. Moriarty will share images from historic greenhouses across the US, UK, Belgium, and France, alongside architectural drawings and the proper Latin names for the plants captured within. He'll also bring silver prints from his personal archive to enrich the conversation. Copies of Warm Room will be available for purchase and signing at the reception...



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