Failed It! Why Failure in Photography is Essential with Odette England 6/20 & 27

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Failed It! Why Failure in Photography is Essential

A generative seminar with Odette England

Failure is everywhere in our lives, especially in creativity. In this two-part course, we will discover and debate the complexities, challenges, and benefits of failure as photographic artists. We will encourage positive and unexpected thinking about failure. Students will be challenged to explore and assemble new works using unsuccessful or previously unfinished projects or ideas.

In the first session, students will examine and learn from flaws, rejects, and mistakes. Together, we will look at the work of photographers who break the rules. After, students will be given bespoke assignments to support their creation of at least one new work, which they will bring to the second session to share with the class if they would like to. An approachable, friendly, and productive workshop structure is central. Students of all experience levels are welcome.

Dates: Thursdays, June 20 and 27

Times: 5 - 7 pm MT (4 - 6 PT and 7-9 ET)

Members: $170.00 (promo code here)

Non-Members: $180.00

Maximum Number of Students: 11

Instructor Bio

Odette England is a visual artist, writer, and scholar whose work has been exhibited in more than 115 museums and galleries. She is a 2022 Guggenheim Foundation Fellow and has received grants and awards from the Robert Rauschenberg Foundation, Puffin Foundation, and Anonymous Was a Woman, among many others. England has published five award-winning books and will publish her sixth in Fall 2024. She graduated from the Rhode Island School of Design and received her Ph.D. in 2018.