Thursdays

March 12 - April 16

6 - 8:30 PM

Class Size Max: 8

This course highlights the contributions of underrepresented photographers from marginalized communities, specifically LGBTQ+ artists, by examining how their perspectives have, and currently, shape the evolution of picture making. By learning how these artists have used their experiences to redefine and challenge the portrayal of the body beyond labels, students will take their own experiences as inspiration to create photographs that challenge a traditional understanding of photography. The class considers why marginalized voices have been and continue to be silenced and how that influences LGBTQ+ artists, and contemporary photography today. Weekly prompts will guide creative exploration, with opportunities for peer and instructor feedback to refine and deepen each student’s work. 

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.

Jeanette Spicer makes photographs, creates performative videos, works with mixed media and is curious about photography’s limitations. As a lesbian, and as a woman, her work is about the experience of what it means to occupy a sexualized, objectified, and underrepresented personhood.

She received her MFA from Parsons The New School in 2013. She attended Vermont Studio Center, The Wassaic Project, and Benaco Arte in Italy, among other residencies. She was a 2024 Penumbra Foundation Workspace Artist in Residence. Her first monograph, Sea(see) was published in 2018 by Kris Graves Projects, and her second, To the Ends of the Earth was published by GOST Books in Fall 2024. She has shown my work in various exhibitions, and has had her photographs shown in publications such as New York Times, New York Magazine, New Yorker, and Vogue. She is co-editor of a dyke publication (2019-current), WMN, showcasing art and poetry by marginalized communities of lesbians.

Images © Jeanette Spicer