Please join us at South x Southeast Gallery May 11-14.
This workshop will include 3 separate, yet interwoven, activities.
- Capturing a Sense of Place
Photographing the area around The South x Southeast Gallery, the McCrary Farm, and Molena, GA. Using a digital camera or camera on your phone, we will explore and capture a sense of place in West Central Georgia. We will talk about the importance of light, vantage point, depth of field and time; composition, framing and cropping, color vs/ black & white, editing in camera and with software. Students will bring a digital camera with SD card, or iPhone, with working knowledge of either or both, Also, a laptop or iPad
- Hand-coloring Black & White Photographs
We will explore the creative and expressive possibilities of hand-applied color on black & white photographs using Pan Pastels, oil pastels, and colored pencils. (In addition to bringing 2 B&W photos printed on required paper, students will bring Prisma Colored pencils.)
- Cyanotype Photograms
Cyanotype is a 19th century photographic process that produces a cyan-blue print on paper, fabric or just about any surface. Weather permitting (it’s essential to have direct sun as our UV light source) we will make cyanotype photograms on pre-coated paper and silk using plants, leaves, flowers, etc. collected from the area while out photographing with cameras. We will explore toning our cyanotypes in assorted teas and coffee.
*We might also integrate these 3 aspects of the workshop by toning AND adding hand-applied color to our cyanotype photograms.
Pilkenton Road ©Susan Bryant
Wednesday, May 11th
5p Meet and Greet Social Hour. Susan will give a presentation of her work and we will all get acquainted. A great time to talk about the next three days, ask your questions, and coordinate plans.
6:30p a catered dinner will be served at the gallery
South x Southeast Gallery ©NancyMcCrary
Please Note: The following itinerary may change due to the need for sunlight for cyanotypes. However, barring 3 days of rain, we’ll get everything in!
Thursday, May 12th: Cyanotype and Field Trip
1/2 of us will do a field trip in the morning while the other 1/2 do cyanotypes with Susan. After lunch, we’ll switch.
8:30-11:00 Cyanotypes at the Gallery with Susan, or a field Trip to Andrea Noel’s house (subject of Dale Niles’ book What Lies Within).
11:00 – 12:30 Lunch and break
After lunch we’ll switch out 1/2 stay and 1/2 go.
12:30 – 3:00 Cyanotypes at the Gallery with Susan, or a field Trip to Andrea’s house (subject of Dale Niles’ book What Lies Within).
If you have a preference of which you’d like to do first you’ll be given that choice – first come, first serve – when signing up.
3:30 – 5:30: Field trip for everyone to Sprewell Bluff, a historic bluff on the Flint River @ 10 miles away
Overlook, Sprewell Bluff ©Susan Bryant
5:30 – 7:00 social hour at the gallery
7:00 a catered dinner will be served at the gallery
Friday, May 13th: Hand-coloring and Group Critique
8 – 9:30 Shooting around the farm. Arrive early at the gallery and shoot around Nancy’s farm. Coffee/juice/biscuits will be available in the gallery.
9:30 – 11:00 Classroom. Susan will take us through hand-coloring – the history of, the processes, modern-day applications, with a demonstration of her own work.
11:00 – 12:30: Break for lunch and Q&A with Susan at the gallery.
12:30 – 3:30: Hand-coloring your prints with Susan’s guidance
4:00 – 5:30 Field Trip to Lake Meriwether, @7 miles away
7:00 Dinner served at Gallery.
Saturday: Group Critique and the Artist’s Reception for Small Works | Big Show
9:00 Group critique at the gallery. Choose four of your images from the workshop and send to Susan before 7 am Saturday morning. We will gather at 9am to view and critique the images.
11 – 12:30 Lunch served at the Gallery.
12:30 – 2:00 Open time – field trip, work on your hand-coloring, Q&A with Susan.
2:00 Workshop ends.
5 – 8:00 Artist’s Reception at the Gallery.
SUSAN BRYANT BIO:
Susan is a professor emerita from Austin Peay State University in Clarksville, Tennessee where she taught analog photography for 37 years. In addition to all camera and film formats, she taught alternative and historical photographic processes; to include polaroid transfers, platinum/palladium, cyanotypes, dry tintypes and hand-coloring B&W photographs.
Her work has been included in over 100 national & international juried and invitational group exhibits and 28 solo exhibits across the United States. She is the recipient of a Tennessee Arts Commission Fellowship in photography. She is the recipient of two fellowship at the Hambidge Center Artist Residency, one fellowship at the Penland School of Craft and two residencies at A.I.R. Studio Paducah.
Since retiring from full-time teaching in 2019, Susan continues to have an active studio practice and exhibition record of juried, invitational and solo exhibitions. For the past 12 years, her personal work has included the wet plate collodion process, producing tintypes, ambrotypes, darkroom enlargements from glass negatives and she continues to experiment with a variety of ways of integrating the 19th century collodion process with 21st century digital technology.
Susan currently teaches both on-lime photography classes (Light Catchers 1 & 2) and in-person workshops in cyanotypes on paper and fabric and hand-coloring both gelatin silver and digital black & white photographs. Susan is scheduled to teach a workshop, “Hand-Coloring Black & White Photographs” at the Penland School of Craft in August 2022.
EDUCATION
M.F.A. Photography, Indiana State University
B.A. Painting, Indiana University
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
1982 – 2019, Professor of Art: Photography; Austin Peay State University, Clarksville, TN
Present – Professor Emerita
SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2023 Appalacian Center for Craft, TN Tech University, Smithville, TN
2021 7 Chapters In A Book About Light, Customs House Museum, Clarksville, TN
2020 The Land and the Light, 2 person exhibit, ASmith Gallery, Johnson City, TX
2019 Happenstance, McKendree University, Lebanon, IL
2019 humanature, The New Gallery, Austin Peay State University, Clarksville, TN
2017 Borrowed Light, Vanderbilt University, Nashville
2016 Photo Alchemy, Central Washington University, Ellensburg, WA
2014 Then and Now, McKendree University Gallery of Art, Lebanon, IL
2012 Presence and Absence, University of Evansville, Evansville, IN
SELECTED JURIED AND GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2022 Beauty Where You Find It, Light Art Space, Silver City, NC
Big Show/Small Works, SxSeast Gallery, Molena, Ga.
All About the Light, SE Center for Photography, Greenville, SC
Choice 2022, Atlanta Photography Group, Atlanta, GA
Light, PhotoPlace Gallery
2021 Natural Light, Union Street Gallery, Chicago
The Southern Landscape, SxSE Photo Gallery, Molena, GA
2020 The Still Life, Praxis Photo Arts Center, Minneapolis
Vistas, ASmith, Johnson City, TX
American Landscape, Maryland Federation of Art, Annapolis, MD
The Peer Show, Cleveland Print Room
Waterloo Arts 2020, Cleveland, OH
Portraits, A Smith Gallery, Johnson City, TX
Midwest Center for Photography, Wichita, KS
The Southern Landscape, South X Southeast Photo Gallery, Molena, GA
SE Center Open, The SE Center for Photography, Greenville, SC
2019 Alternative Processes, SoHo Photo Gallery, NYC
Irene Rosenzweig Biennial, The Arts & Science Center, Pine Bluff, AR
Dark, Manifest Gallery, Cincinnati
Art Through the Lens, Yeiser Art Center, Paducah, KY
The Handmade Photograph, El Mudeo Cultural, Santa Fe, NM
Trees, PhotoPlace Gallery, Middlebury, VT
A 39 Year Retrospective, Cumberland Gallery, Nashville, TN
15th Annual Magnitue 7 , Manifest Gallery, Cincinnati
2018 Small Wonders, Maryland Federation of Art, Annapolis, MD
Still Life, A Smith Gallery, Johnson City, TX
Still Life, SE Center for Photography, Greenville, SC
Capturing the Light, PhotoPlace Gallery, Middlebury, VT
2017 Shades of Black & White, SE Center for Photography, Greenville, SC
Alternative Processes: Handmade, PhotoPlace Gallery, Middlebury, VT
SE Center Open, SE Center for Photography, Greenville, SC
13th Annual Magnitude 7, Manifest Gallery, Cincinnati
2016 Roman Holiday, Southside Gallery, Oxford, MS
Art through the Lens, Yeiser Art Center, Paducah, KY
Wet Plate, A Smith Gallery, Johnson City, TX
2015 Revela-T Festival of Photography, Barcelona, Spain
Alternative Processes, Soho Photo Gallery, NYC
Small Works 4, Jeffrey Leder Gallery, NYC
Mystery & Dream, Photo Synthesis Gallery, Manchester, CT
2014 Small Works 3, Jeffrey Leder Gallery, NYC
Alternative Processes, Center for Fine Art Photography, Fort Collins, CO
Forgotten, A Smith Gallery, Johnson City, TX
2013 Art of Photography Show, San Diego Art Institute
2012 Deus Ex Machine, Manifest Gallery, Cincinnati
Simply, Center for Fine Art Photography, Fort Collins, CO
Alterations, A Smith Gallery, Johnson City, TX
SELECTED PUBLISHED WORKS
MANIFEST: INPHA 1- 8 The Annual International Publication of Contemporary Photography, juried international publication
2017 & 2020 Creative Quarterly 49, International Journal of Art & Design
SELECTED GRANTS, RESIDENCIES, AWARDS & WORKSHOPS
1991 Tennessee Arts Commission Individual Artist Fellowship in Photography
2015 Ovation Award for Individual Artist, The Center for Excellence in Creative Arts, APSU, Clarksville,
2020 Winter Artist in Residency, Penland School of Craft
2015 & 2016 Artist in residency – A.I.R., Paducah, KY
2016 & 2017 Artist in Residency – Hambidge Center for Art, GA
2020 & 2021 Orchard Keepers Writers & Artists Residency, Cumberland Gap, TN
2021 Light: It’s That Simple – Cyanotypes at Woodsmoor, TN (workshop)
2022 Light Catchers: Molena – Cyanotypes & Hand-coloring B&W photographs (workshop)
Penland School of Craft, Penland, NC. – Hand-Coloring Black and White Photographs
GALLERY REPRESENTATION
Cumberland Gallery, Nashville, TN (1989 – 2019)
What the Fee Includes:
Instruction and Direction by Susan Bryant.
General supplies for both hand-coloring and cyanotypes. *NOTE: A list of additional personal supplies and items you will need to bring will be provided once you’ve signed up.
Wednesday Social Hour; Wednesday Dinner
Thursday biscuit breakfast; Thursday Lunch; Thursday Social Hour; Thursday Dinner
Friday Lunch; Friday Social Hour; Friday Dinner
Saturday Group Critique; Saturday Lunch; Saturday Artist’s Reception Beverages and Nosh
What the Fee Does Not Include:
Travel expense to and from the workshop in Molena, Georgia
Accommodations while at the workshop *Note: SxSE Farmhouse will be available to rent. It has one bedroom but two single beds in the great room. You may view it on AirBnB under South x Southeast Farmhouse, Molena, Ga.
Breakfast Friday and Saturday
Dinner Saturday
FEE:
$780 if paying by credit or debit card.
$750 if paying by check. (PayPal handles processing for a 4% fee)
Click here to register and pay if paying by credit or debit card.
e nancy@sxsemagazine.com if you’d like to register and pay by check.
EXTRA INFO:
Accommodations: Please look on AirBnB and VRBO for houses around Molena, Concord, Woodbury and Gay, Georgia. Towns a bit further are Thomaston and Zebulon. There are hotels in Thomaston, and one in Manchester/Warm Springs that are safe and okay.
If you’d like someone to share an airbnb or VRBO with you please let me know when you sign up so I can try to put people together.
You will need to have a car or carpool to field trip locations. We cannot offer transportation at this time. Please let me know if this is an issue when you sign up so I can hopefully work with you on this.
We strongly advise you to purchase travel insurance in case of an unforeseen emergency or cancellation. Allianz has always been good to me when I had to file a claim (this is not a paid promotion, merely a suggestion).
If you have food allergies please let me know asap. We will offer vegetarian and omnivore options for the meals provided at the gallery. We cannot accommodate vegans at this time.
Questions? e nancy@sxsemagazine.com
Hope to see you soon!
