With an Eternal Wing: Embodying Queer Histories in Photography
Instructor: Lee Rae Walsh | Tuition: $412 (Members) $485 (Non-Members)
Dates: Monday, July 8 - August 12 | Time: 6-8PM ET | Class Size Max: 8 | Requirements: N/A
“This was a great workshop, the instructor met each of us where we were at. We were pushed to move forward with our work, but given the space to breathe and reconsider things/bounce ideas with the group. It was a really great environment of creativity to be in.” -Kaitlyn Fudge, 2024
Images © Lee Rae Walsh
Course Overview
This 6-week online course is devoted to learning and sharing queer histories within photography, asking if it is not embodied, can it be shared? Tracing relationships between writing, performance and photography, students will gain a deeper understanding of queer narratives in photography while producing work in response to these histories. This course will consist of lecture, discussion, assignments focused on storytelling and personal narrative, optional readings and invitations to share work as a group and in one-on-one settings. Students will leave with a grasp on how their stories are situated within history, along with practical tools and rituals to bring forward into their practice. The course lifts its title from Claude Cahun's book, Disavowals, Cancelled Confessions, and draws inspiration from the instructor's ongoing body of work that responds to Cahun's legacy and honors a devotion to those who have come before us, and will come after us, in the queer bibliography.
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.
Lee Rae Walsh is an artist-poet-photographer-teacher–researcher-facilitator-and-friend. They received their mfa from Columbia College Chicago in 2016 & have spent the past eight years living and working between Chicago, New York, Richmond, VA, and the UK. They have recently been published in Worms Magazine (Issue 7: Artists That Write and Writers That Art), The Minutes of the Hildegard von Bingen Society for Gardening, Vol. 2, and Sissy Anarchy. They have exhibited work & delivered lectures, workshops & performances at venues such as: The Museum of Contemporary Photography, the Chicago Underground Film Festival, The Pen Theatre, London and have worked with BFA and MFA students at Northern Illinois and Virginia Commonwealth Universities. Lee writes pedagogy informed by care, attention, devotion & ritual within practice. They run edition-based-slow-publishing platform molto molto, hosting experimental exhibitions, events and performances.