MoPA’s
Education Department offers a variety of public programs for adults
and children throughout the year. Exhibition lectures and gallery
talks provide visitors the opportunity to explore exhibitions
in depth with artists, curators, art historians, educators, and
other scholars. Educational workshops introduce adults to a variety
of aspects of photography including the history, new technology,
specific photographers, and much more. Credit is available for
select workshops.
LECTURES
AND ADDITIONAL PROGRAMS
The
Nuts and Bolts of Digital Photography
This
4-part workshop for adults will introduce the basics of digital
photography from using your digital camera, to manipulating images,
to printing your photographs.
The
workshop is intended for those possessing limited experience in
the following topics:
·
How
to set up your digital camera
·
The
features and functions of your camera
·
Downloading
and editing your images through your camera and through Photoshop
·
Photoshop
basics
·
Printing
digital images
You
must bring your own digital camera with memory card, download
cable, and owner's manual. Macintosh computers and other materials
will be provided.
Sundays,
1:00 - 5:00 p.m.
January 22 at MoPA
January 29,
February 5, and 12 at Grossmont College
Cost:
$200 MoPA members, $245 non-members
There
is an additional $40 Grossmont College credit, health, materials,
and parking fee to be paid at the first session
For
reservations and more information, please call 619-238-7559 x303
or register
online.
Lecture by Mike Smith
February 23, 2005 at 7:00pm
Photographer Mike
Smith will discuss his work and career and the photography in
MoPA's exhibition, Mike Smith: You're Not From Around
Here.
$8 MoPA Members; $9 Students, Seniors and Military; $10 General
Public
Purchase
tickets online or at the door. Limited seating; first
come, first served.
Summer
Photography Workshops
The Museum of Photographic Arts and Grossmont College combine
their resources to offer an annual Summer Photographic Workshop
Series. Since 1993, the Summer Photographic Workshop Series has
provided adults the opportunity to work with local as well as
nationally known photographers/educators with a wide range of
expertise in traditional photography, alternative processes, computer
and digital imagery, portfolio building, etc. The three-day workshops,
which are offered in the months of July and early August, include
an evening lecture at MoPA and two full-day workshops at Grossmont
College. Credit for these workshops are available through Grossmont
College. Past photographers who have taught the workshops include
Philipp Scholz Rittermann, Stephen Berkman, Elijah Gowin, Joyce
Neimanas, Masumi Hayashi, David Fokos, Martha Madigan, Andrea
Modica, and Don Bartletti.
**Please visit this page periodically for updated information
and schedules
