Wand Scanners and Pinhole Cameras w/ Melinda Hurst Frye

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Images courtesy of artist/Melinda Hurst Frye. Wand Scanners and Pinhole Cameras w/ Melinda Hurst Frye (Dec 19) $70.00 Want to experiment with alternative image-making? Explore making photographs in this hands-on workshop with wand scanners and pinhole cameras. Participants will be introduced to a selection of artists and approaches, learn to use wand scanners as cameras on a variety of surfaces, and then build simple pinhole cameras to couple with the wand scanners. No prior photography experience required, just a playful and curious state of mind! A Friends of the Anacortes Community Forest Lands Educator will be joining us to share forest specimens to inspire our image-making! Class Date: Saturday, September 19 from 1:00-4:00pm Cost: $70 (Members get 10% classes and workshops at checkout!) Ages: 12 and up - no experience needed! Children under 16 must be accompanied by an adult collaborator. In person class in the MoNA Art Studio. Supplies included! Participants should bring a USB storage drive if you would like to save your work. Add to cart By RSVPing for this event, you will be added to the MoNA Newsletter - you may opt out at any time. About the Teaching Artist Melinda Hurst Frye photographically celebrates the ecology of the Pacific Northwest region, with the goals of providing visual evidence of the cycles of the forest floor, bearing witness to the understory, and bridging the poetry of art with biological sciences. To intentionally slow down her own seeing, Hurst Frye often works with a flatbed scanner as a camera which also allows for space and time to connect with the ecology of her surroundings. Similar to an amateur biologist, Hurst Frye shares her discoveries through observation and image-making. Hurst Frye’s work has been featured in publications for both art and science, exhibitions, Microsoft Art Collection, King County Portable Works Collection, and other institutional collections. Hurst Frye holds an MFA from the Savannah College…

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