Cig Harvey, MFA, is a passionate working fine-art photographer and educator. She is represented by The Robin Rice Gallery in New York, Joel Soroka in Aspen and Watermark Gallery in Houston. Her images are held in numerous collections worldwide, including The International Museum of Photography, George Eastman House, Rochester, NY. In addition to her fine art career, Cig is represented commercially by Marilyn Cadenbach and Associates in New York and LA. She is a full time professor at The Art Institute of Boston at Lesley University. This will be Cig's seventh summer teaching at the workshops.
The Personal Story
Develop a coherent, visually sophisticated, and meaningful body of work with content that resonates deep within.
Personal photographic stories draw on the imagemaker's past and present life, hopes, fears, and dreams. This workshop is intended for those who are interested in developing a body of work that explores these dimensions of personal experience.
The mysterious and intimate language of symbols, surrogates, iconography, and metaphors are discussed as a means by which students may pursue a heightened visual language. The class explores the personal versus the universal, the constructed versus the found, and how to avoid the pitfalls of cliché and stereotype.
The goal of the workshop is to learn the skills necessary to develop a coherent, visually sophisticated, and meaningful body of work with a content that resonates deep within. There are daily discussions, written exercises, and reviews of work in progress, as well as individual assignments designed to help participants hone their abilities to recognize and capture emotional content and create memorable images.
Students should bring ideas, a strong sense of humor, and an intention to take risks.
