Thanks... actually Richard Koolish and I are already talking with the director at the Cambridge Center for Adult Education (where we both took Alan Greene's pinhole course in previous years). We're putting together a description right now and it should be in their spring catalog!
Rob > From: "Kosinski Family" <zin...@telenet.net> > Reply-To: pinhole-discussion@p at ??????? > Date: Tue, 8 Jan 2002 08:46:39 -0500 > To: <pinhole-discussion@p at ???????> > Subject: Re: [pinhole-discussion] WWPD in Boston > > check with Christopher James at Lesley College... he will know just the > right person for you > > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "ragowaring" <ragowar...@btinternet.com> > To: <pinhole-discussion@p at ???????> > Sent: Monday, January 07, 2002 3:33 PM > Subject: Re: [pinhole-discussion] WWPD in Boston > > >> on 7/1/02 5:04 pm, R Duarte at ra...@rahji.com wrote: >> >>> hey, i'd like to get something going in boston for wwpd 2002. i think i >>> might possibly have enough pinhole/darkroom experience to conduct a > one-day >>> or two-day thing at one of the adult ed centers here, but generally i > think >>> i know just enough to be dangerous. i've proposed classes and teach at > the >>> cambridge and brookline adult ed centers so i would know who to contact >>> about getting something going for the spring term (if it's not too > late - >>> i'm not sure). anyway, i like to be a real expert on a topic before i > play >>> an instructor role - like i said, i could probably do okay, but i think > it >>> would be better if someone else wanted to get involved too - either as >>> co-facilitators or with me as their assistant or something. i'd like to > do >>> something targeted toward kids but maybe the whole process of making > prints >>> in the darkroom is just too much (read: boring) for little kids.. maybe >>> teens or something. if anyone's interested or has any other ideas, let > me >>> know. >>> thanks.. >>> rob >>> >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Pinhole-Discussion mailing list >>> Pinhole-Discussion@p at ??????? >>> unsubscribe or change your account at >>> http://www.???????/discussion/ >> Rob >> >> My experience is that it is not boring at all for any age group. I have >> given a number of workshops and courses and am at the moment in a > residency >> with 17 and 18 year old. I have just finished preparing and curating an >> exhibition at the Usher Gallery in Lincoln (museum). I was in charge of > 30 >> students for several weeks. >> My experience is that at first it is difficult to gauge enthusiasm simply >> because you are probably overbriming with excitment. But that is just it, >> this is contagious and soon you find that most are converts. >> Remember to not get too technical and that attention span is short. >> Everything seems to be going along just find and then, when the first >> photographs magically appear, then even the most hard bitten cynic becomes >> enthralled. >> The secret is to not overplan but to keep it simple. And remember that you >> are learning with them. It is rewarding and well worth doing. >> >> One of the outcomes of the residency is my building a giant walk-un > pinhole >> camera on wheels that can be moved about? >> >> I shall soon be posting an exhibition of the students' work and the giant >> pinhole in a website I am constructing. >> >> Go for it Rob, it will also inform your own work. >> >> Alexis >> >> >> >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Pinhole-Discussion mailing list >> Pinhole-Discussion@p at ??????? >> unsubscribe or change your account at >> http://www.???????/discussion/ >> > > > _______________________________________________ > Pinhole-Discussion mailing list > Pinhole-Discussion@p at ??????? > unsubscribe or change your account at > http://www.???????/discussion/ >
