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!...
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....
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,...
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....
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
