Santa Fe Workshops
The Language of Polaroid: Exploring Your Creative Potential
Online Course with Jari Poulin
November 12 – December 17, 2024
Tuesdays; 12:30 – 2:30 pm (Mountain Time)
Register Here
Course Description
Creative freedom, analog film, instant results!
Polaroid cameras and instant film offer a unique allure and magic that sets them apart from any other medium. From Polaroid’s remarkable history, characterized by Edwin Land’s invention of a camera and film capable of instant development without a darkroom, to the latest Polaroid models featuring Bluetooth connectivity with a smartphone app, you now have unprecedented options for creating one-of-a-kind images on Polaroid’s distinctive signature film.
Join artist Jari Poulin for an online workshop for those excited to learn the language of Polaroid from a long-time lover of Polaroid’s delightful allure. Over six weeks, combine your photographic vision with the magic and immediacy of a film that develops itself and the myriad possibilities it has as an art form. No two people are the same like no two Polaroids are the same. In life, just like in our photography, it’s our imperfections that make us unique.
Meeting once a week for two-hour sessions, Jari’s gatherings are dedicated to igniting inspiration and learning the art of capturing images with Polaroid NOW+ or i2 cameras. Explore multiple techniques for manipulating images to convey your personal vision. Discover how to utilize Polaroid as a medium for artistic expression, from installations to creating larger versions of your Polaroids through scanning. Weekly assignments span still life, portrait, landscape, multiple exposure, and abstract photography. Jari shares insights into Polaroid’s history to provide context, then immerse yourself in the inspiring works of other artists using Polaroid materials, learn techniques for getting the best results from your camera and film, become proficient in using the Polaroid app for hands-off photographing, explore emulsion lifts, and learn techniques for enhancing images through hand coloring. Additionally, we examine various exhibition formats to effectively showcase your work.
A thriving Polaroid community is expanding daily, with users worldwide sharing their work and inspiring each other through creative Polaroid approaches. You have the opportunity during this workshop to join this flourishing community and put your own mark on the photographic art being created with instant film and experimental approaches. Step into the world of Polaroid photography with Jari and unlock endless possibilities for artistic exploration and expression.
Additional Information
All are welcome
What You Should Know:
A Polaroid Now+ Generation 2 Instant Camera with filter set ($149.99) or a top-of-the-line Polaroid I-2 Instant Camera ($599.00) is required for this workshop. You will also need to use at least one or more packs of film each week. A pack has 8 frames. You can use Polaroid i-Type Film ($16.99) or 600 film ($19.99). It’s recommended to try both B&W and Color film, and a tripod is highly recommended.
Special Notes:
Class will meet 12:30 – 2:30 pm (Mountain Time) on Tuesdays starting November 12 and ending December 17 (six online group sessions). Enrollment is limited to 12 participants.
Zoom Video Conferencing software (available for no charge from Zoom.com) will be used to facilitate the class sessions. Further details will be emailed to registrants.
Santa Fe Workshops always aims to produce a high-quality experience for our online attendees. That said, variables including regional and local internet provider speeds, traffic on Zoom's servers, and your own computing hardware can contribute to a less than ideal streaming event. While we do our best to minimize the impact of these variables, they are outside the control of Santa Fe Workshops.
Workshop Schedule 2024
FotoFusion Festival at Palm Beach Photographic Center, January 30 - February 4
FotoFusion Master Class: Mastering Multiple Exposure Photography (in camera) with Jari Poulin
Additional Fee: $20.00
©Jari Poulin
Expand your visual vocabulary with an in-depth look at the possibilities of multiple exposure photography.
You will learn techniques for making mind-bending and visually interesting double and triple exposure images while working with a live model.
You must own a DSLR with multiple exposure mode which is available in most Canon, Nikon, Sony, Fuji, Minolta and many more. Most DSLR’s have multiple exposure mode needed for this course. Check your camera menu or manual to see if you have it.
Includes lecture, shoot and critique
Critique Wednesday 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
FotoFusionMaster Class: Capturing the Ephemeral: Motion and Blur with your DSLR & Tripod with Jari Poulin
Additional Fee: $30.00
©Jari Poulin
You will work with a model and learn to capture the evocative and poetic imagery that is possible with long exposures and camera motion techniques. You are required to bring a tripod and DSLR camera and have a firm grasp on using your shutter speed and aperture settings.
FotoFusion Seminar:
Write Your Ultimate Artist Statement, with Jari Poulin
FotoFusion Panel Discussion:
The Moment: Pivotal Points in The Creative Path with Jill Enfield, Erika Larsen, Jari Poulin, Joyce Tenneson; Moderator Susan Currie
Inflection points are situations or life experiences which spark monumental trajectory shifts. These are the moments you look back on and realize as the instant when everything changed. In this panel discussion, moderated by author and artist Susan Currie, meet these acclaimed photographers as they share their origin stories and highlight that pivotal moment which defined for them their creative path.
Palm Beach Photographic Center
Photo Transfers and Handcoloring with Jari Poulin
March 11 @ 10:00 am - March 15 @ 5:00 pm
This intensive five day workshop is designed for those who would like to use their images for a creative journey that includes putting their hand and imagination to work with all manner of photo transfers and hand coloring.
The workshop will explore various methods of photo transfers onto a variety of surfaces including fine art papers, wood, and metal. You will learn to engage your creativity while layering your images with hand applied color. During this exciting week in the realm of photography, art and mixed media, you will learn techniques that set your work apart and help you to achieve a unique expression that transcends the ordinary.
A photo transfer often gives a beautiful and unusual edge when the emulsion is lifted and other marks within the image that speak to the handmade and unique. Each piece is a true original. In this workshop you will explore the subtleties and possibilities of the photo transfer and how to add your own creative voice though hand coloring and mark making on the images in various ways
Griffin Museum of Photography
One Week Intensive Project Oriented Workshop!
Going Polaroid! Create with the Magic of Polaroid and the Polaroid Now+ Camera with Jari Poulin.
May 20 @ 10:00 am – 4:00 pm
We invite creators to come and explore with Polaroid Now+ and the new Polaroid Lab to see how your experiments can unlock new realms of color, vision and creativity in your work.
No two people are the same, like no two Polaroid shots are the same. In life, just like in our photography, it’s our imperfections that make us unique.
Inspired by The Polaroid Project: At the Intersection of Art and Technology, which began with a retrospective exhibit at MIT, and is currently touring the world, we want you to be motivated by the moment.
Artist and instructor, Jari Poulin, has put together an in-person workshop for those wishing to combine their photographic vision with the magic and immediacy of a film that develops itself and the myriad of possibilities it has as an art form. This class invites spontaneity with an eye towards creating a Polaroid Project of your own during this one week, in-person workshop.
Workshop participants will:
- Get a creative reboot with a medium known for immediacy.
- Get acquainted with a bit of Polaroid History.
- Learn operation and new creative features of the Polaroid Now+ Camera and the Polaroid Lab.
- Learn app operation interfaces that are now available to augment the Polaroid Now+ and Lab.
- Use writing and creativity exercises to open new creative avenues.
- Envision, discuss and choose an idea for a project.
- Make images and explore exhibit options for their work including grids, diptychs and triptychs, text, 3D and more.
Level: All
Dates: May 20-24, 2024, in person at the Griffin Museum.
Times: Five days, in person, 10am-4pm, daily.
Course Fee: $980 members / $1035 non-members (non-members will receive a one year membership to the Griffin Museum, a $75 value).
Maine Media Workshops + College
Creating Beyond the Frame: Photo Based Printmaking in Layers
August 19-23, 2024 One-Week Intensive!
A photographic image can be altered, enhanced, disrupted, augmented, and expanded with printmaking in such a way that can add meaning, message, and an enhanced visual experience for the viewer. If you have ever wanted to put your hand to your images with ink, paint, or other materials, this is the course for you. You will learn to visualize layers, get down and dirty creatively, and deploy a printmaking skill set to execute your vision of revealing, concealing, and augmenting your imagery in new and exciting ways.
This course explores the potential of images to take on a new life in the inky world of printmaking where photographic images and transfers are combined with inks in the forms of monoprints, stencils, collagraphs, and other techniques. In the span of a week, you will explore a variety of these techniques to expand the potential of your imagery within the framework of printmaking and photo transfers.
In our workshop, we will begin with photographic images as the basic building block on which layers of monoprints, stencils, and other techniques are combined to augment and build interesting intersections of ideas, chance, and expressive mark making.
Printmaking is a traditional artistic process in which one transfers images from one or more matrices onto another surface, most often paper.
Maine Media Workshops + College
Image, Ink and Alchemy: Solarplate Etching with Monoprints and Handcoloring!
August 25-30 One Week Intensive!
For photographers and artists wishing to take their photographic images into new creative realms, this weeklong course will open doors into the inky world of printmaking and polymer photogravure etching plates.
For photographers and artists wishing to take their photographic images into new creative realms, this weeklong course will open doors into the inky world of printmaking and polymer photogravure etching plates.
This course is meant for artists, photographers, and printmakers who want to learn a photo-based approach to printmaking that will produce unique, one-of-a-kind images, standard editions, and varied editions of their images that each have a unique appearance. In printmaking and monoprinting, each image is handmade with great care, and attention to detail with evidence of the hand at work. Images from the intaglio plates can be printed alone or on top of monoprints which give a painterly feel to the photographic images and allow the artist to work creatively with an assortment of ink colors as well as stencils to block or apply color to specific areas.
Recent 2023 Workshops:
Griffin Museum of Photography
Two Day ONLINE Course 10-4pm, Nov 4th and 5th, 2023 (Saturday and Sunday)
Thinking Outside the Lines – Creative Printmaking with Gelli Plates & Photography with Jari Poulin
Maine Media Workshops + College: Five Day Intensive Workshop
Image, Ink and Alchemy: Creative Photogravure
September 18-23, 2023
For photographers and artists wishing to take their photographic images into new creative realms, this course will open doors into the inky world of printmaking and polymer photogravure etching plates. Over the course of a week, you will take a journey into intaglio and monoprint printmaking. You will learn to turn your images into photopolymer plates and artfully layer them with monoprinting, tonings and stencils to build a portfolio of prints that combine your imagery with the art of printmaking. Artists with or without printmaking experience will enjoy making work at their own level. I teach the double exposure technique of plate making. This alternative to the DTP (direct to plate) method allows for exposing plates in the sun or under a portable exposure unit.
Griffin Museum of Photography: Intensive 5 Day Workshop
Photo Transfer Techniques and Hand Coloring with Jari Poulin
Aug 21–Aug 25, 2023
This intensive five day workshop is designed for those who would like to use their images for a creative journey that includes putting their hand and imagination to work with all manner of photo transfers and hand coloring.
The class will explore various methods of photo transfers onto a variety of surfaces including fine art papers, wood, and metal. You will learn to engage your creativity while layering your images with hand applied color. During this exciting week in the realm of photography, art and mixed media, you will learn techniques that set your work apart and help you to achieve a unique expression that transcends the ordinary.
A photo transfer often gives a beautiful and unusual edge when the emulsion is lifted and other marks within the image that speak to the handmade and unique. Each piece is a true original. In this workshop you will explore the subtleties and possibilities of the photo transfer and how to add your own creative voice though hand coloring and mark making on the images in various ways.
Maine Media Workshops + College
Creating Beyond the Frame
July 3-7 ON CAMPUS ONE-WEEK, 2023
This course explores the potential of image to take on a new life in the inky world of printmaking where photographic images and transfers are combined with inks in the forms of monoprints, stencils, collographs, and other techniques. This course will expand your vision and allow you to explore the potential of your imagery within the framework of printmaking.
In our workshop we will begin with photographic images as the basic building block on which layers of monoprints, stencils, and other techniques are combined to augment and build interesting intersections of ideas, chance and expressive mark making.
A photographic image can be altered, enhanced, disrupted, augmented and expanded with printmaking in such a way that can add meaning, message, and an enhanced visual experience for the viewer. If you have ever wanted to put your hand to your images with ink, paint, or other materials, this is the course for you. You will learn to visualize layers, get down and dirty creative, and deploy a printmaking skill set to execute your vision of revealing, concealing and augmenting your imagery in new and exciting ways.
FOTOfusion, Palm Beach Center for Photography 2023, January 22-28
Women in Photography, Panel
Jill Enfield, Sal Taylor Kidd, Daile Kaplan, Jari Poulin, Joyce Tenneson
Seminars:
- iPhoneography Editing in a Snap
- Stunning iPhone Portraits in Minutes
- Writing Your Ultimate Artist Statement
Baldessin Studio, Australia (online Zoom course)
Creating Beyond the Frame: Photo-based Printmaking in Layers
2022, MASTERCLASS at BALDESSIN PRESS, Australia.
If taken in Australia the dates are August 4, 11, 18, 24, Sept 1, from 9am-noon, but if taken in the US, the dates/times are August 3,10,17,23, 31 from 7-10pm (because time zone difference)ONLINE 5 WEEK WORKSHOP Register Here. (the curriculum is condensed for the online course).
This course will expand your vision and allow you to explore the potential of your imagery within the context of printmaking. We will begin with photographic images as the basic building block on which several layers are combined to augment and build interesting intersections of ideas, chance and expressive mark making.
Artists with or without printmaking experience will enjoy making work at their own level.
This course is ideal for artists, photographers and printmakers who want to learn a photo-based approach to printmaking. Produce one-of-a-kind images and varied editions of your images that each have a unique appearance.
August 3 - Intro class, videos, Powerpoint on processes and layering options. Discussions of physicality in 2D and envisioning layers.
August 11 - Photocopy transfers with Eucalyptus Oil with specific assignments for augmentation
August 18- MONOPRINTING, stencilling, and coordinating monoprints with your images.
August 25 - Transparency transfers on monoprints with hand sanitizer gel, Wetleaf Transfer
Sept 1- Sharing, augmenting your work with hand colouring and/or collage
Maine Media Workshops + College
Creating Beyond the Frame: Photo-based Printmaking in Layers
2022, Sept 19-23 ON CAMPUS ONE-WEEK: MAINE MEDIA WORKSHOPS + COLLEGE Register Here
This course explores the potential of image to take on a new life in the inky world of printmaking where photographic images and transfers are combined with inks in the forms of monoprints, stencils, collagraphs, and other techniques. This course will expand your vision and allow you to explore the potential of your imagery within the framework of printmaking.
In our workshop we will begin with photographic images as the basic building block on which layers of monoprints, stencils, and other techniques are combined to augment and build interesting intersections of ideas, chance and expressive mark making.
A photographic image can be altered, enhanced, disrupted, augmented and expanded with printmaking in such a way that can add meaning, message, and an enhanced visual experience for the viewer. If you have ever wanted to put your hand to your images with ink, paint, or other materials, this is the course for you. You will learn to visualize layers, get down and dirty creative, and deploy a printmaking skill set to execute your vision of revealing, concealing and augmenting your imagery in new and exciting ways.
2021, Feb 3 - Mar 24, (SOLD OUT) ONLINE WORKSHOP Register Here
2021, May 12, - Jun 30, (SOLD OUT: WAITING LIST AVAILABLE) ONLINE WORKSHOP Register Here
2021, September 27 - October 1 ON CAMPUS: MAINE MEDIA WORKSHOPS + COLLEGE, CAMDEN MAINE Register Here
Image, Ink and Alchemy: Creative Photogravure
2022, June 20-24 ON CAMPUS ONE-WEEK, MAINE MEDIA WORKSHOPS, CAMDEN, MAINE Register Here
For photographers and artists wishing to take their photographic images into new creative realms, this course will open doors into the inky world of printmaking and polymer photogravure etching plates. Over the course of a week, you will take a journey into intaglio and monoprint printmaking. You will learn to turn your images into photopolymer plates and artfully layer them with monoprinting, tonings and stencils to build a portfolio of prints that combine your imagery with the art of printmaking. Artists with or without printmaking experience will enjoy making work at their own level. I teach the double exposure technique of plate making. This alternative to the DTP (direct to plate) method allows for exposing plates in the sun or under a portable exposure unit.
University of Southern Maine, Kate Cheney Chappel '83 Center for Book Arts, Portland Maine (ON CAMPUS)
Image Transfer Techniques
Dates:
2022, March 26 & 27, 9:30-12:30 each day
Levels: All
Class Size: 12 (max)
This workshop is for artists who want to learn a variety of ways to transfer and enhance their images onto unique surfaces and substrates such as fine art papers, Japanese papers, metal, wood, books, blocks, fabric, collage, found objects, glass, and so much more.
The weekend course will explore the techniques and uses of several different kinds of transfers including emulsion transfers, solvent transfers, alcohol transfers, gelli plate transfers, and the enhancement of your transfers with traditional artist mediums such as watercolor, acrylic and colored pencils.
You will learn to transfer images from both photo copies and from ink jet printed transparency film. Transfers can be used alone, or can be layered to create a montage effect or used with collage for a more complex layering effect.
Maine Media Workshops + College
A Journey into Photo Printmaking with Intaglio & Monoprint (ON CAMPUS)
Dates:
Sep 20, 2021 - Sep 24, 2021
Levels: Intermediate, Advanced
Workshop Fee: $1295
Class Size: 8 (max)
For photographers and artists wishing to take their photographic images into new realms, this course will open doors into the inky world of printmaking. Over the course of a week, you will learn to turn your images into photopolymer plates and artfully layer them with monoprinting and stencils to build a portfolio of prints that combine your imagery with the art of printmaking. Artists with or without printmaking experience will enjoy making work at their own level.
This course is meant for artists, photographers and printmakers who want to learn a photo-based approach to printmaking that will produce one-of-a-kind images and varied editions of their images that each have a unique appearance. In printmaking and monoprinting, each image is handmade with great care, attention to detail with evidence of the hand at work. Images from the intaglio plates are printed on top of monoprints which give a painterly feel to the photographic images and allow the artist to work creatively with an assortment of ink colors as well as stencils to block or apply color to specific areas.
Processes to be learned include:
- Envisioning layers
- Digital preparation and printing of positive transparencies of their images
- Preparing and testing exposures for double exposure plate making with aquatint screen
- Exposing and developing intaglio photopolymer gravure plates
- Inking and printing plates
- Envisioning, inking and printing monoprints
- Pairing intaglio plates with monoprinting approaches
- Making and uses of stenciling as an accompaniment to monoprinting
Students will be asked to bring a variety of images in high resolution digital form that can be used for these processes. A thumb drive, a laptop and Photoshop. Non photoshop users can take the workshop and we will help you prepare your images.
WORKSHOP SCHEDULE
Baldessin Studio, Australia (online Zoom course)
Creating Beyond the Frame: Photo-based Printmaking in Layers
2022, MASTERCLASS at BALDESSIN PRESS, Australia.
If taken in Australia the dates are August 4, 11, 18, 24, Sept 1, from 9am-noon, but if taken in the US, the dates/times are August 3,10,17,23, 31 from 7-10pm (because time zone difference)ONLINE 5 WEEK WORKSHOP Register Here. (the curriculum is condensed for the online course).
This course will expand your vision and allow you to explore the potential of your imagery within the context of printmaking. We will begin with photographic images as the basic building block on which several layers are combined to augment and build interesting intersections of ideas, chance and expressive mark making.
Artists with or without printmaking experience will enjoy making work at their own level.
This course is ideal for artists, photographers and printmakers who want to learn a photo-based approach to printmaking. Produce one-of-a-kind images and varied editions of your images that each have a unique appearance.
August 3 - Intro class, videos, Powerpoint on processes and layering options. Discussions of physicality in 2D and envisioning layers.
August 11 - Photocopy transfers with Eucalyptus Oil with specific assignments for augmentation
August 18- MONOPRINTING, stencilling, and coordinating monoprints with your images.
August 25 - Transparency transfers on monoprints with hand sanitizer gel, Wetleaf Transfer
Sept 1- Sharing, augmenting your work with hand colouring and/or collage
Maine Media Workshops + College
Creating Beyond the Frame: Photo-based Printmaking in Layers
2022, Sept 19-23 ON CAMPUS ONE-WEEK: MAINE MEDIA WORKSHOPS + COLLEGE Register Here
This course explores the potential of image to take on a new life in the inky world of printmaking where photographic images and transfers are combined with inks in the forms of monoprints, stencils, collagraphs, and other techniques. This course will expand your vision and allow you to explore the potential of your imagery within the framework of printmaking.
In our workshop we will begin with photographic images as the basic building block on which layers of monoprints, stencils, and other techniques are combined to augment and build interesting intersections of ideas, chance and expressive mark making.
A photographic image can be altered, enhanced, disrupted, augmented and expanded with printmaking in such a way that can add meaning, message, and an enhanced visual experience for the viewer. If you have ever wanted to put your hand to your images with ink, paint, or other materials, this is the course for you. You will learn to visualize layers, get down and dirty creative, and deploy a printmaking skill set to execute your vision of revealing, concealing and augmenting your imagery in new and exciting ways.
Recent Workshops:
2021, Feb 3 - Mar 24, (SOLD OUT) ONLINE WORKSHOP Register Here
2021, May 12, - Jun 30, (SOLD OUT: WAITING LIST AVAILABLE) ONLINE WORKSHOP Register Here
2021, September 27 - October 1 ON CAMPUS: MAINE MEDIA WORKSHOPS + COLLEGE, CAMDEN MAINE Register Here
Image, Ink and Alchemy: Creative Photogravure
2022, June 20-24 ON CAMPUS ONE-WEEK, MAINE MEDIA WORKSHOPS, CAMDEN, MAINE Register Here
For photographers and artists wishing to take their photographic images into new creative realms, this course will open doors into the inky world of printmaking and polymer photogravure etching plates. Over the course of a week, you will take a journey into intaglio and monoprint printmaking. You will learn to turn your images into photopolymer plates and artfully layer them with monoprinting, tonings and stencils to build a portfolio of prints that combine your imagery with the art of printmaking. Artists with or without printmaking experience will enjoy making work at their own level. I teach the double exposure technique of plate making. This alternative to the DTP (direct to plate) method allows for exposing plates in the sun or under a portable exposure unit.
University of Southern Maine, Kate Cheney Chappel '83 Center for Book Arts, Portland Maine (ON CAMPUS)
Image Transfer Techniques
Dates:
2022, March 26 & 27, 9:30-12:30 each day
Levels: All
Class Size: 12 (max)
This workshop is for artists who want to learn a variety of ways to transfer and enhance their images onto unique surfaces and substrates such as fine art papers, Japanese papers, metal, wood, books, blocks, fabric, collage, found objects, glass, and so much more.
The weekend course will explore the techniques and uses of several different kinds of transfers including emulsion transfers, solvent transfers, alcohol transfers, gelli plate transfers, and the enhancement of your transfers with traditional artist mediums such as watercolor, acrylic and colored pencils.
You will learn to transfer images from both photo copies and from ink jet printed transparency film. Transfers can be used alone, or can be layered to create a montage effect or used with collage for a more complex layering effect.
Maine Media Workshops + College
A Journey into Photo Printmaking with Intaglio & Monoprint (ON CAMPUS)
Dates:
Sep 20, 2021 - Sep 24, 2021
Levels: Intermediate, Advanced
Workshop Fee: $1295
Class Size: 8 (max)
For photographers and artists wishing to take their photographic images into new realms, this course will open doors into the inky world of printmaking. Over the course of a week, you will learn to turn your images into photopolymer plates and artfully layer them with monoprinting and stencils to build a portfolio of prints that combine your imagery with the art of printmaking. Artists with or without printmaking experience will enjoy making work at their own level.
This course is meant for artists, photographers and printmakers who want to learn a photo-based approach to printmaking that will produce one-of-a-kind images and varied editions of their images that each have a unique appearance. In printmaking and monoprinting, each image is handmade with great care, attention to detail with evidence of the hand at work. Images from the intaglio plates are printed on top of monoprints which give a painterly feel to the photographic images and allow the artist to work creatively with an assortment of ink colors as well as stencils to block or apply color to specific areas.
Processes to be learned include:
- Envisioning layers
- Digital preparation and printing of positive transparencies of their images
- Preparing and testing exposures for double exposure plate making with aquatint screen
- Exposing and developing intaglio photopolymer gravure plates
- Inking and printing plates
- Envisioning, inking and printing monoprints
- Pairing intaglio plates with monoprinting approaches
- Making and uses of stenciling as an accompaniment to monoprinting
Students will be asked to bring a variety of images in high resolution digital form that can be used for these processes. A thumb drive, a laptop and Photoshop. Non photoshop users can take the workshop and we will help you prepare your images.