Touching Earth EcoArt Collaborative Short Course: Landscape Photography, Day 4

This spring, Touching Earth EcoArt Collaborative (TEEAC) and the Wells Reserve offer workshops in environmental sensory awareness, nature writing, and landscape photography, taught by accomplished practitioners. Each Touching Earth EcoArt workshop provides you with the opportunity to engage in this personal creative/artistic process through experiential and interdisciplinary art work.

Advance registration and payment are required. A one-year Wells Reserve membership is included in the regular workshop fee. To register for this workshop, please email ecoartcollaborative1@gmail.com or call 207-251-0619.

Four-day Short Course: Landscape Photography

While engaged in this workshop, participants will explore and reflect upon their connection with the natural world through digital landscape photography. As we visually explore the surrounding environment, we will find our places for making images. Guidance in image making will be given as we share our work with peers and the instructor.

This is a four-day short course in landscape photography. The other sessions, included in the fee, are on 6/3, 6/10, and 6/17.

Agenda

Morning Gathering

Coffee, Morning Treats, Registration, Personal Introductions

Introduction to the Touching Earth EcoArt Collaborative

Introduction to the Touching Earth Introductory EcoArt Workshops

Introduction to landscape photography

Group Reflection

WORKSHOP INSTRUCTORS:

Mark Emerson

Landscape Photographer, EcoArt Educator, Founder/Director of Northeastern EcoArt Center, Founder/President of Touching Earth EcoArt Collaborative

Mark Emerson comes to the Touching Earth EcoArt Collaborative with a breadth of knowledge and experience that encompass the fine arts, the natural environment, and experiential and interdisciplinaryeducation. Mark graduated from the Maine College of Art and received his MFA from the Massachusetts College of Art. While attending art school, he immersed himself in the fine art of landscape photography and the questions surrounding the human relationship with the natural world. Upon completion of his fine arts education, he attended the Extended Teachers Educational Program through the University of Southern Maine. In this program, he probed the experiential and interdisciplinary aspects of the Foxfire educational philosophy. Upon completion he founded the Northeastern EcoArt Center, a nonprofit environmental arts education organization. Mark taught for several years at the University of New England where he was an adjunct professor of photography and is the founder and president of the nonprofit environmental arts education organization Touching Earth EcoArt Collaborative. Prior to his post-secondary education, Mark worked for many years with Salt Magazine as an instructor of photography.

Along with his artistic and educational pursuits, Mark attended Buddhist seminary and has been a practicing Buddhist and student of Chogyam Trungpa Rinpoche and Sakyong, Jamgon Mipham Rinpoche for more than thirty years.