Photographic Critique & Study Group W/Sadie Cook
Weekly Saturdays 11-1:30 CT
(4/10, 4/17, 4/24, 5/1, 5/8, 5/15, 5/22, 5/29, 6/5)
Platform: Zoom
Pricing: Sliding Scale
Participant Limit: 12
Program Host: Sadie Cook
This program is a nine-session critique-focused group for artists that use cameras and want to support the creative growth of other artists and themselves. Come with a project, or with a pile of mismatched pictures, or with something that might become a project soon.
From Sadie: It’s such an odd thing to be making work right now. In a world where printed pictures are suddenly inaccessible, when arts communities are struggling and isolated, and contexts of politics and representation are shifting and exploding.
This is a critical space. It’s a space to struggle about the critique structure, with photography as a medium and history, and with small questions like which pictures work, and what does working mean anyway.
In large part, this critique group will be shaped by the work you make and the things you want to talk about. That said, I will bring a particular set of interests: Beauty/anger, Vernacular photography, Context, Sex/Sexuality, Langauge, Identity.
I hope to have a community of articulate, passionate and talented people who are willing to share and work through mistakes with each other. I also hope for a group that can hit these art structures enough to make cracks.
In a more concrete outcome, this critique group will culminate in a group exhibition on Drawstring Magazine’s online platform and an optional low-cost show of work across billboards in the US.
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If anyone is facing financial instability that makes this program inaccessible please complete this google form to request a reduced fee, waiver, or payment plan. This space is here for you.
* We encourage BIPOC community members to pay the lowest sliding scale option regardless of economic status. *
Questions? Contact us!
About Sadie Cook:
Sadie is in Reykjavik. They are an artist. Sadie currently acts as a critic at Iceland University of the Arts. They are white, and fairly tall at 5 ft 7 inches tall, although they seem smaller. Right now, their work exists right at the center of traditional photography and at the edges of interdisciplinary. Their work is personal and a little navel gaze-y. They graduated from Yale with a BA in photography, and have shown nationally and internationally.
Her work deals a lot with sequencing, with language, with the ways that photographs can be shifted around and suddenly have a whole new meaning. She sees her pictures as a pool of emotionally charged language that she pulls from to make works--billboards, tiny books, packets of mailed pictures. She likes her images to be touched. This is why its weird that she will be hosting a zoom critique group.
You can read more about Sadie’s practice in “Unknown and Knowable,” an interview with Efrem Zelony-Mindell from 2020.