Camera Obscura Virtual Workshop
Virtually join the DSA over Zoom for an camera obscura workshop lead by Elena Dahl. Elena will walk registrants through how to create their own camera obscura using a room in their house!
Event details
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Camera Obscura Virtual Workshop
Sunday, October 25, 1:30pm
Virtually join the DSA over Zoom for an camera obscura workshop lead by Elena Dahl. Elena will walk registrants through how to create their own camera obscura using a room in their house! Workshop includes demo and talk by the artist. Registration includes limited supplies to create your own camera obsura.
Registrants will pick up their supplies from the High Street Gallery (48 High Street, Dayton) from 12-5 Friday October 23rd or 12-5 Saturday, October 24th.
Registration is limited. Registration is only $5 thanks to an MCACD Special Projects Grant! (If the $5 is cost prohibitive, e-mail director@daytondsa.org or call 937-228-4532 for free registration!)
Camera Obscura Kit Includes
- 2 6mil thick contractor garbage bags
- Gaffers Tape
- X-acto knife
Potential Additional Materials Needed
- Additional cardboard or blackout plastic to cover windows or areas where light will enter your room
- A room in your home with at least one window to the outside. One with a scene of something else would be beneficial.
Elena Dahl, Assistant Professor of Art at Wittenberg University
Elena Dahl received her BA in Studio Art from the College of Wooster and her MFA in Photography from the University of Florida. Before joining the faculty at Wittenberg in 2017, she taught courses in Photography and New Media at Earlham College, Montserrat College of Art, and the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. Dahl’s creative projects explore themes related to gender, power, and indexical imagery in a digital era through photography, text, and site-specific installations.
Dahl has worked for The Village Voice in New York City as a freelance photographer, covering various events ranging from Barack Obama’s campaign rally in Washington Square to the unionizing of carpenters in Harlem. She has participated in artist residencies such as ACRE in Chicago and HomeBase Projects in Berlin, and her projects have been exhibited in regional, national, and international exhibitions, including:
A Voice Is Heard Echoing, solo show, Live(In) Gallery, Cincinnati, Ohio, 2016; The 2nd Lowennial, group show, The Low Museum, Atlanta, Ga., 2015; Radiance, juried show, Woman Made Gallery, Chicago, Ill., 2015; Fumbling Toward Ecstasy, two-person show with Georgia Wall, ACRE Projects, Expo Chicago, Chicago, Ill., 2014; ACUD Open Platform, Serendipity Gallery, group show, Month of Performance Art, Berlin, Germany, 2013.
Her work is in the permanent collection of the Robert and Francis Fullerton Art Museum, San Bernardino, Calif.
Introducing...
The purpose of the workshop series, Introducing..., is to acquaint DSA members and the community to different mediums and methods in the visual arts. In conjunction, the attendees will get to know the instructing artist, their background, and tips and tricks of their trade.
MCACD and Culture Works
This project was supported in part by a Special Projects Grant funded by the Montgomery County Arts & Cultural District and administered by Culture Works.
Dayton Society of Artists
