ONLINE COURSE
The Poetic Photograph
In this five-week class, students will expand their photographic practice by working with new or existing images that respond and react to poetry, and vice versa. Through guided exercises and readings, students will explore the interplay between poetic verse and image, asking: How can we compose visually, in both language and light? Can poetry itself be seen?
As we learn to read pictures and see poems, we will consider how both poetry and photography rely on expression and description to examine a life. In each session, students can expect to experiment with language and image in order to find deeper connections between poetry and photography. No prior experience with poetry is required.
Kat Shannon is a multidisciplinary artist, curator, and educator working in photography, text, and video, currently based between São Paulo, Brazil, and Orlando, Florida. Her work examines notions of intimacy, human connection, gender, community, and culture. She holds degrees in photography from Savannah College of Art and Design (BFA) as well as Bard College (MFA).
Kat has held teaching positions at Yeshiva University, Brookdale College, Stetson University, Middlesex College, and ICP, and previously worked for three years as the head curator at an art consultancy in New York. In 2017 Kat co-founded the collaborative artist collective Memory Foam through which she curates exhibitions, publishes and collects artists' books and zines, and produces an artist interview series called “Artists Eat Ice Cream.”
Kat teaches Ways of Seeing, Photography as Pilgrimage, and other personal vision classes for StrudelmediaLive.
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