We are partnering with Portland Community College to bring you

Agency and the Image, a two-day photography symposium.

Agency and the Image brings together artists, scholars, and community members to explore photography’s histories, practices, and futures. The symposium honors Blue Sky’s 50 years of advancing contemporary photography.

The program includes:

• Workshops on artist statements, portfolio development, digital tools, and tintype making

• Panel discussions on photography’s role in community, identity, and experimental practices

• A keynote with Blue Sky co-founder Christopher Rauschenberg and Executive Director Kristin Solomon

• An interactive on-site Camera Obscura installation

Registration: $25/person | $75/person including the wet plate photography workshop

Free Blue Sky student membership for all student registrants.

Financial assistance available (contact: bluesky@blueskygallery.org).

The first event each day is free to the public.

Limited availability for wet plate workshop.

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Schedule

Day 1: Fri, Oct 10 – PCC Southeast Campus

10:30 – 11:10 AM | Welcome / Introduction / History (Free to the Public)

11:10 – 11:30 AM | Break

11:30 – 12:15 PM | Panel: Community & Identity

12:15 – 1 PM | Lunch Break

1 – 2:15 PM | Workshop: Artist Statement

2:15 – 5 PM | Workshop: Wet Plate Photography

Day 2: Sat, Oct 11 – PCC Cascade Campus

10:30 – 11:10 AM | Camera Obscura (Free to the Public)

11:10 – 11:30 AM | Break

11:30 – 12:15 PM | Panel: Materials & Experimentation

12:15 – 1 PM | Lunch Break

1 – 2:15 PM | Workshop: Portfolio Development

2:15 – 4 PM | Workshop: Digital Tools

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Featured Artist:
October 2022
Kim Manchester

Site Specific | Coastal Impressions

Cyanotype unique direct prints & Cyanotype contact prints, limited edition of 10

What drives my  most recent work is that while I love using a lens to capture light I am recently enjoying more of  the iterative, step-by-step  process of making.  I am discovering how building towards something that isn’t preconceived can welcome experimentation and adventure - how the process becomes an integration of each texture, color, pattern - like fabric. Something cumulative out of small parts, not always greater than, but a cooperative effort that creates a subtle hand-loomed effect in the end.  Nowhere have I been better able to explore this approach to my art than with the Cyanotype photographic process.

Cyanotype is the photographic process that came to mind when I was traveling abroad with students this Summer as a way to connect them to the land and cement their understanding of exposure, history and process through experience. We made blue impressions of coneflower, sage, clover and blackberry in the sun of the Czech Republic. Later on my own, as I searched for my own connections to the land traveling to the far West coast of Ireland, and made my own impressions in blue.

Come to First Friday at Bite Studio 6-10PM, Friday, September 6th 2019

I’ll be showing my work along with Tara Murino-Brault and Charlotte Flory for the month of September. It will be your chance to meet with the artists, view and purchase prints as well as yarn from Salty Dog Fibers!!!