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Each trimester (fall, winter, spring) we reserve a limited number of seats in select courses from our certificate programs or other classes designed specifically for members of our community. These courses meet weekly for a few hours in the morning, afternoon, or evening, and some are a full day long. Community classes are a great opportunity to learn something new, dedicate focused time to your art practice, and tap into a community of artistic peers. Local residents enjoy a special rate on these classes.
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Community Classes, 2023 & 2024:
Culminating Project III - 255 (Online)
Dates: Mar 18 - May 20, 2024 (Mondays for 10 Weeks, 1:30-5pm ET)
Tuition: $695
Capacity: 8
Faculty: Elizabeth Greenberg
This critique-based class is a continuation of Projects I and Projects II. During the weekly class meetings, emphasis is placed on creating resolved content for a completed project portfolio. Weekly critiques will include discussion of each of the students' work and will cover the content of the images, developing narrative ideas, and assessing how the images function together. In addition, each project will include discussion focused around potential and varied forms for presentation. By the end of the 10-weeks, students will have created a thoughtful sequence and presentation of the work, and will share this in the final class meeting.
Image copyright Christine Moriello.
Projects II - 252 (Online)
Dates: Jan 8-Mar 11, 2024 (Mondays for 10 Weeks, 1:30-5pm)
Tuition: $695
Capacity: 10
Faculty: Elizabeth Greenberg
Students in this course concentrate on producing a project, either fine art or documentary, during the term. Students may work in digital still and video (phones welcome). Emphasis is placed on content, story, and excellent printmaking and edit dynamics. This course includes group and individual critiques, creating new images and stories through significant fieldwork, and culminates in a final edited group of sequenced photographs or edited video pieces.
Image Credit: Brenton Hamilton.
Projects I - 244
Dates: Sep 4-Nov 6 (Mondays for 10 Weeks, 1:30-5pm)
Tuition: $750
Capacity: 10
Faculty: Elizabeth Greenberg
This course introduces the concepts and methods of developing a series of images that enhance and challenge students’ personal vision and visual vocabulary within the medium. There are weekly slide lectures for the first half of the term to illustrate various genres and movements within photography, including Light, The Photographer’s Eye, Landscape and Response to Place, Portraits and Self Portraits and Documentary work, and the Decisive Moment. Weekly shooting assignments are given with in-depth critiques of the work to follow. The course will help the student develop a familiarity with and appreciation for the major genres within photography as well as an understanding of photographic and camera vision. Each student will work on a small portfolio for the term based on the weekly shooting assignments and personal interests.
Image Credit: Elizabeth Greenberg.
Digital Techniques - 240
Dates: Sep 6–Nov 8 (Wednesdays for 10 Weeks, 9am-5pm)
Tuition: $1395
Capacity: 10
Faculty: Kari Wehrs
This community course will meet once weekly during the fall. Students learn to use their cameras to capture, organize and process monochrome digital images and video. The primary tools used in this course are Adobe’s Lightroom and Photoshop, and they, along with basic editing software, will be covered. Students explore techniques, materials and processes of digital output to paper and screen. Each student presents a final portfolio or video for evaluation.
Collaborations in Multimedia I - 262
Dates: Sep 7-Nov 9 (Thursdays for 10 Weeks, 9am-5pm)
Tuition: $950
Capacity: 10
Faculty: Tom Ryan
Students will gain a solid foundation in the basics of storytelling with video and multimedia. Lectures, demonstrations and assignments will cover key technical concepts of video capture, audio capture, editing, as well as storytelling technique and style. Composition of shot, audio acquisition, editing, story structure, and the interview process will all be covered.
19th Century History of Photography (Online)
Dates: Sep 8-Nov 10 (Fridays, 9-11am ET)
Tuition: $350 (General Public) or $750 (Maine Media College MFA Students)
Instructor: Brenton Hamilton
This is a lecture course introducing the discovery of photography and influences on visual culture in the 19th century up to approximately 1935. Lectures and discussions along with extensive readings guide the students to understanding the advent of technology and visual images related to photography. As we are inundated with images in the technological era – this course provides perspectives on origins and cultural influences.
Professional Development - 265
Dates: Mar 20 - May 22 (Mondays for 10 Weeks, 1:30-5pm)
Tuition: $750
Capacity: 8
Faculty: Elizabeth Greenberg
Added: A familiarity with relevant business and professional protocols is necessary to prepare media artists to fulfill their creative goals. This course provides an overview of professional, business, and ethical practices for media artists. Topics including copyright, licensing, project funding, business practices, and emerging methods for delivery and presentation of work will be covered through lectures, guest presentations and panel discussions. Each student will develop and launch a personal website, in addition to creating marketing and promotional materials appropriate to their career ambitions.
Image Credit: Alaric Beal
Collaborations in Multimedia III - M234
Dates: Mar 23 – May 25 (Thursdays for 10 Weeks, 9am-5pm)
Tuition: $950
Capacity: 8
Faculty: Tom Ryan
Collaboration in Multimedia III is designed for multimedia storytellers and documentarians who already have a firm grasp on the basic technical and aesthetic considerations of filmmaking; the camera, the edit process, and the fundamentals of visual storytelling.
Media in Society - 263 (Online)
Dates: Mar 24 – May 26 (Fridays for 10 Weeks, 9-11am)
Tuition: $475
Capacity: 40
Faculty: Brenton Hamilton
Media surrounds us and influences the times that we inhabit. This is a discussion course looking critically at media in society. The advances and pace of media are astounding. Here in this forum guided by Brenton Hamilton, we will look at social networks, self-publishing, magazines, and the influence of technology on image meaning and content.
Collaborations in Multimedia II - 233
Dates: Jan 5 – Mar 9 (Thursdays for 10 Weeks, 9am-5pm)
Tuition: $950
Capacity: 8
Faculty: Tom Ryan
Collaboration in Multimedia II is a follow-up to the basic unit, Collaborations in Multimedia I. In this class, students will be introduced to a series of new tools including studio lights, camera support systems, and wireless lavalier microphones. Students who wish to take this course should have a basic technical understanding of storytelling with video, and/or have taken Collaborations in Multimedia I.
20th Century History of Photography - 251
Dates: Jan 6 – Mar 10, 2023 (Fridays for 10 Weeks, 9-11am)
Tuition: $350 (General Public) or $625 (Maine Media MFA Students)
Instructor: Brenton Hamilton
This 10-week course explores the visual trends of the 20th century are detailed as major paradigms in visual culture. Extensive lectures on the major influences, movements, and personalities of photography post-1940 are covered.