In 2020, the pandemic impacted graduating students in a profound way. Thesis shows were cancelled, graduations were unique to say the least, and many students felt shorted by the last days of in person learning. But with difficult situations comes new ways of celebrating the next generation of photographers….and so The FotoFika 2020 All Stars Project was born.

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John, Betsy, Anne

Online, Hybrid and Traditional all have their challenges and advantages and I am hopeful that once Covid no longer dictates our teaching we will emerge with more ways to teach than ever before. And while FotoFika began as a place s is help us develop coping strategies, we are hopeful that it can become a place where we all continue to grow as educators, students and artists.

So all are invited to come and share your experiences from the last year, to talk about different strategies and resources and ways of approaching darkroom in the age of Covid or if you wish just come and listen. We will share resources and assignments, we will build on ideas and talk about ways to approach this coming semester and beyond.

Here is a short list of possible launch points for the 2 hour session.

• What is essential in a darkroom class?
• How do you cover what you deem to be essential in a darkroom class?
• The challenges of teaching darkroom without a common meeting area.
• Different strategies for remote teaching? For socially distanced teaching? For hybrid?
• Alt processes? At home processes?
• Approaches to using PhotoShop for black and white post-production.
• Specific tools?
• Discussion about object-ness and engaging physically and over distance.

Any other ideas or strategies are welcome. See you on Wednesday January 6.

Confirmed All Star Reviewers:

Russell Lord, New Orleans Museum of Art
Deborah Willis, New York University
Shoair Mavlian, Director, Photoworks, London
Todd Tubutis, Art Museum of West Virginia University
David Chickey, Radius Books
Ashlyn Davis, Houston Center for Photography
Ann Jastrab, Center for Photographic Arts
Kate Albers, Wittier College
Susan Bright, Independent Curator, Paris, France
Michelle Dunn Marsh, Minor Matters Books
Mitra Abbaspour, Princeton University Art Museum
Kate Bussard, Princeton University Art Museum
April Watson, Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art
Kristen Gresh, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
Drew Sawyer, Brooklyn Museum
Julia Dolan, Portland Art Museum, Oregon
Elizabeth Cronin, New York Public Library
Sarah Eckhardt, Virginia Museum of Fine Arts
Alison Nordstrom, Curator
Amber Esseiva, ICA at VCU – Richmond VA
Melanie Walker,  Arisit from the original 1975 Project
Alex Sweetman, Arisit from the original 1975 Project