Centering Intuition in Your Practice
Instructor: Johnna Arnold | Tuition: $327 (Members) $385 (Non-Members)
Dates: Saturdays, May 18 - June 15 | Time: 10 AM - 12 PM | Class Size Max: 8
Images © Johnna Arnold
Course Overview
This 5-week online class focuses on clarifying and deepening individual intentions within an artist's work while experimenting with the many ways photo-based media can be incorporated into a project. Through guided meditations, journal prompts, conversations, presentations, and readings, students will consider how they can refine their voices as artists and recenter their practices. Non-traditional ways to disseminate work will be explored, taking inspiration from artists who use photography in unique ways, including social practice, video installation, combining photography with writing, curating archives, documenting ephemeral sculptures, and as a means of community-building. This class is best suited for artists who are at the beginning stages of a project, are between projects, or are experiencing a creative block and need to reformulate their creative intentions.
If your desired tuition option is unavailable, please email info@penumbrafoundation.org and we will do our best to accommodate you. If the entire class is sold out, we can add you to the waitlist.
Johnna Arnold has exhibited at venues including the Headlands Center for the Arts, San Francisco Camerawork, the Oakland International Airport, and the San Francisco Arts Commission Gallery. She recently created public projects sponsored by the Tulsa Artist Fellowship and by the Oakland Museum of California. Johnna has worked as an Artist-in-Residence at Banff Center for the Arts, Kala Art Institute, the Vermont Studio Center, and RayKo Photography. Her work is a part of multiple public collections including Pier 24 in San Francisco and UNESCO in Paris, France. She received her BA in Photography from Bard College in 1996, and her MFA from Mills College in 2005. She currently teaches photography classes at the San Francisco Art Institute and at the University of San Francisco. She is a board member of Photo Alliance, a studio member at Real Time & Space, and is the co-director of the Peralta native garden in Oakland, CA.