{"id":1090,"date":"2011-08-18T10:13:55","date_gmt":"2011-08-18T15:13:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/inside.augsburg.edu\/news\/?p=1090"},"modified":"2011-08-18T10:13:55","modified_gmt":"2011-08-18T15:13:55","slug":"photography-workshop-teaches-more-than-camera-skills","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/2011\/08\/18\/photography-workshop-teaches-more-than-camera-skills\/","title":{"rendered":"Photography workshop teaches more than camera skills"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"centro\"With her second grant from the Metropolitan Regional Arts Council, Susan Boecher [top], Art Department faculty member, taught a six-week photography workshop that partnered OverExposure, a media arts nonprofit, Augsburg College and Centro, an area social service organization.<\/p>\n

Four Augsburg photography students served as OverExposure mentors to help teach black and white photography to 11 teens from Raices\/Roots, a youth development program for high-risk Latino youth offered through Centro.<\/p>\n

Meeting at Augsburg twice weekly from July 5 to August 11, students learned the technical and artistic skills required to properly expose, develop, and print black and white film and the vocabulary needed to articulate and write a statement of their completed work. Using themes of identity, culture, and places as assignments, students created a portfolio of prints that was presented at Centro on August 12, 2011.<\/p>\n

Centro students expressed outcomes that included understanding patience, learning new skills, looking at the world through a different lens and appreciating the amount of work good photographs require. By serving as mentors, Augsburg students developed leadership skills and a broader understanding of the Centro community.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

With her second grant from the Metropolitan Regional Arts Council, Susan Boecher [top], Art Department faculty member, taught a six-week photography workshop that partnered OverExposure, a media arts nonprofit, Augsburg College and Centro, an area social service organization. Four Augsburg photography students served as OverExposure mentors to help teach black and white photography to 11 …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[551,1051,1890,2208,2287,2346,2773],"class_list":["post-1090","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","tag-centro","tag-film","tag-metropolitan-regional-arts-council","tag-overexposure","tag-photography","tag-prints","tag-susan-boecher"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1090","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1090"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1090\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1090"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1090"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1090"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}