Upcoming Events
Artist Lecture @ COMO with Jarod Lew
COMO is pleased to host an artist lecture with Jarod Lew, who who draws on intergenerational encounters with diasporic loss, displacement Please join COMO for an artist lecture with Jarod Lew. Lew is an artist who draws on photography to explore intergenerational encounters with diasporic loss, displacement, and postmemory. Through this exploration, his work contends with the performativity of race and its instability as a locus of meaning. His project, Please Take Off Your Shoes was shortlisted for the Aperture Portfolio Prize in 2021, and was exhibited in a group exhibition at SFMOMA titled Kinship: Photography and Connection in 2023. His works are held in public and private collections including the Cantor Art Center, Detroit Institute of Arts, Kadist, San Francisco, Harvard Art Museum, University of Michigan Museum of Art and the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. Lew’s work has been written about in Aperture, Artforum, Elephant Magazine, and Aesthetica Magazine. Lew graduated with an MFA in photography at the Yale School of Art. This in-person event will take place at 1322 Grand Ave, Phoenix. Spaces are limited.
Lumen Print Workshop
Join Claire A. Warden and David Emitt Adams for this introductory one-day workshop exploring lumen printing. Lumens are cameraless photographs made using plant and other materials in direct contact with black and white silver gelatin photographic papers to create wildly colored and unpredictable prints. In this workshop, participants will learn about the contemporary use of lumen prints and create multiple prints to take home that day. All levels, no prior experience needed.
Chemigram Workshop
Join Claire A. Warden for this introductory one-day workshop exploring the Chemigram photographic process. Chemigrams are cameraless photographs made using resists and other materials with darkroom chemistry in direct contact with black and white silver gelatin photographic papers to create wildly colored and unpredictable prints. In this workshop, participants will learn about the contemporary use of chemigrams and create multiple prints to take home that day. All levels, no prior experience needed.
Intro to Wetplate Workshop
Join David Emitt Adams for this introductory three-day workshop on the collodion process with metal as a substrate. In this workshop participants will work with large-format 8x10 cameras using studio and natural light to create unique images in the traditions of portraiture, still life, and landscape. Participants will gain in-depth knowledge of the chemistry (mixing, replenishing, and caring for it), coating and sensitizing plates, exposure, and development. Participants may bring their own camera otherwise cameras and equipment will be supplied by COMO. All levels, no prior experience needed.
Artist Lecture with Sonja Thomsen
Please join COMO for an artist lecture with Sonja Thomsen. Thomsen’s photographic installations use light as both medium and method, developing over 10 years what she calls ‘gravitational lensing’ - a practice named after the cosmic phenomenon where massive objects bend and magnify light from distant sources, acting as a magnifying glass. In Thomsen’s work, this concept becomes a metaphor for making visible the orbiting figures (often women) who shaped the canonical art stars we think we know.