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Dana Ollestad Summer Online Class
ART 397H from 7/10/19 - 08/18/19 Dana Ollestad is teaching Beginning Photo and Image culture this summer at WWU. This class has been recurring in the summers, and culminates in a collaborative print book of student work created over the course of the class. Learn the...
Art Drop Mini Scholarship Winner!
Lindsey Hammerle received the art drop Mini. Lindsey received an award sum of $400. To help contribute to the art drops scholarship fund, create art for the pod yourself. You can also purchase a piece of art. for $1 a pod.
Cyanotype/Screen Print Collaboration
For the final project of Photo 373- Alternative Process, the students collaborated with Lisa Turner's screen printing class to create an artwork combining cyan and screen print! Pictured below are images of the getting-to-know-each-other experiment in which bed sheets...
Art Drop Mini!
Art drop mini is calling for art donations. Donate your plastic, capsule sized art to fuel the art drop scholarship and to help the project go on. Buttons, small stickers, etc are great examples of excellent art drop donations. Including a name as well as contact info...
Art 373 Hybrid Pinhole
In this projects, students converted already existing objects into pinhole cameras, or constructed unconventional "sculptural" pinhole cameras. They utilized the cameras appropriated and decontextualized form or content as a starting point for producing...
High Tech-Low Tech
In their second exhibition, Art 371 students used the high tech scanning capabilities of the Scanning Electron Microscope (SEM) and combined their results with the low tech qualities of the plastic Holga camera. The students used the diptych layout to...
Big Heads
Art 371, Black and White Photo II, students just installed their exhibition, Big Heads. It will be on display from February 6th through 27th in the WWU Photo Concentration Exhibition Space. The students explored portraiture using a variety of effects to create a...
Big Heads: Sports
Students in the Introductory Black and White Photography class just debuted their project titled Big Heads: Sports on the second floor of Carver Gymnasium! The pieces will be on display until December 11th so make sure to stop by and check out the full...
Seattle Art Museums
One of the great things about going to school in Bellingham is its proximity to great cities like Seattle and Vancouver. Both cities are less than a two hour drive from campus and both offer great connections to the international art scene. To get to...
Syre Center/Whatcom Museum Field Trip
The Introductory Black and White Photography class took a field trip to the Syre Center and the Whatcom Museum in downtown Bellingham yesterday. At the Syre Center they met with Jeff Jewell who is the Archivist and Historian for the Whatcom Museum. Jewell...
Vancouver Art Galleries
One of the great things about going to school in Bellingham is its proximity to great cities like Seattle and Vancouver. Both cities are less than a two hour drive from campus and both offer great connections to the international art scene. When...
Introduction to the Holga 120n
It’s been a little while since I have gone out to do some shooting with my Holga. Just the other day though, encouraged by an assignment for my photography class, I took the lightweight little camera out to the local tulip Festival to shoot a roll of color...
Nina Bilger: Tulip Wars
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Kerry Butowicz Featured in Bellingham Alive!
“Beltane is celebrated with a maypole dance. This shot was achieved by standing in the middle of the dancers underneath the interwoven ribbons. Feeling the joy of the community surrounding me brought this festival to life in its purest form.” -Kerry Butowicz
Jackie
Names: Molly Ferguson, Eleanor Heberlein, Angela Hope, Samantha Greystoke Title: Jackie Medium: B&W Silver Print, Digital Pigment Print Dimensions/Size: 40''x 60'' Date: 2018
Brendan Morrison: Perch
Brendan Morrison, Perch 1, 2017 Brendan Morrison, Perch 2, 2017 Brendan Morrison, Perch 3, 2017
Photo Students Present at Scholars Week 2018
Six current WWU Photography students gave a presentation for Scholars Week 2018 under the theme of "Explorations and Definitions of Contemporary Photography." With the convention of digital technologies and the idea that everyone is a photographer, the...
Nina Bilger: Birds and Other Things
Nina Bilger, Untitled, 2017 Nina Bilger, Untitled, 2017 Nina Bilger, Untitled, 2017 Nina Bilger, Untitled, 2017
BFAs Display Work in “Corporeal” Exhibition
What does a body know? What constitutes a body, and how does it operate? These questions, which concern social structures, gender performativity, affect, and the post-human condition, continue to be relevant to a new generation of artists challenged with the task of...
SPE Call for Art
The Society for Photographic Education (SPE Northwest) will hold its annual conference, "Illuminate and Provoke," from October 21 to 22, 2017, on the Oregon State University campus in Corvallis, Oregon. The conference will last a duration of two days. Hosting...
FLASH: Tristin Berge
Landscape shots by Schehl
Landscape shots, from Schehl
New Exhibition: HIGH TECH/ LOW TECH Opens November 7
Presenting High-Tech Low-Tech, an exhibition of images produced with Western Washington University’s Scanning Electron Microscope and Holga toy cameras. Garth Amundson’s Art 371 B&W Photography II class at WWU’s Department of Art created diptychs comparing the two...
SPE Presentations
Three WWU BFA candidates; Beaudry Allen, Jessica Bloom and Dylan Vogel will be presenting at regional SPE conference. Every year the BFA students produce artwork varied in both medium and content. As a group they reflect the spirit of the Art Department and the...