Re: hard hard hard at San Francisco Art Institute

Awesome!

I live in Oakland. I wish I could take your class but I work M-F!

The best place to look for housing is Craig's List.

Good Luck!

~Christine

---------- Original Message ----------------------------------
From: "Christina Z. Anderson" <zphoto@montana.net>
Reply-To: alt-photo-process-l@usask.ca
Date: Wed, 12 Apr 2006 07:05:05 -0600

>Hope the subject line didn't put this email in the spam porn category...
>
>News release!
>For those of you who want to learn how gum hardens in the first
>place--whether tops down or bottoms up, I will be teaching a month long
>intensive class in gum and other alternative processes, using the PDN
>digital negative system, mid July through mid August. I cut and pasted the
>class description below, or go to SFAI's website and download their summer
>class catalog at:
>
>http://www.sfai.edu/data/pubs/Summer%20Course%20Cat%202006.pdf
>
>If you live in the area, it'd be great to do a coffee of alt listers during
>that time so keep that in the back of your brain. I know Mark Andrews and I
>are gonna meet up for some swapping of expertise. I will also be looking
>for a place to live with my husband in the area of SFAI at that time, so
>anyone who knows of anything please email me offlist (we don't want to live
>with anyone, he's grouchy in the morning :)).
>
>Sometimes I just get amazed at how small the world of alt is and how
>connected we can be!
>Fun!!!
>Chris
>
>Digital Negatives
>INSTRUCTOR Christina Anderson
>DAYS M-F
>TIME 9:00am-1:30pm
>LOCATION Studios: 16A/C
>COURSE CODE PH 111-1
>3 Units
>This class has an extensive digital
>component and requires familiarity
>with Photoshop. Emphasis will be
>placed upon the historic 3-color
>gum bichromate print using state-of-
>the-art methods of digital separation
>negatives. Students will learn the
>techniques for creating custom
>digital negatives for any alternative or
>printmaking processes. Other historic
>processes that will be addressed
>during the course of the class:
>1. The Salt Print: photography's
>original positive/negative process
>2. The Cyanotype: also one of the
>earliest photo print processes
>3. The Van Dyke Brownprint
>If time and student progress allows,
>Argyrotype and Platinum/Palladium
>printing methods will be included.
>There is a $150 materials fee for this
>class.
>. Satisfies Photography Technical
>Distribution Requirement and
>Photography Elective.
>. Satisfies Elective Studio for non-
>photography majors
>
>
>. There is a $300 fee for this course.
>CHRISTINA ANDERSON received her
>first degree in French from the University of
>Minnesota, and her second and third degrees
>from Montana State University in painting
>and photography. Her MFA in photography
>was completed in 2005 at Clemson
>University, South Carolina where she studied
>under her mentor, Sam Wang. Anderson's
>specialties are experimental photography
>and alternative processes. She has published
>three books: The Experimental Photography
>Workbook, Tutti Nudi, Reflections on the
>Reemergence of the Nude during the Italian
>Renaissance, and Alternative Processes,
>Condensed: A Manual of Gum Dichromate
>and Other Contact Printing Processes.
>She is now at work on a book about gum
>printing. Currently she teaches experimental,
>alternative process, nonfiction, and advanced
>black and white photography at Montana
>State University.
>
>
>
 
             
Received on Wed Apr 12 11:40:47 2006