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Past Talks & Workshops

•   Destination workshop in Seattle - Aug 7-11 @ PCNW Come to Seattle for a weekend intro to the Holga, and stay for three evenings, with days to explore Seattle

•   Portland, OR - Advanced Toy Camera at Newspace Photo May 22-23, 2010 - for students who've taken my intro class or have played with Holgas and the darkroom before.

•   Society for Photographic Education national conference, Philadelphia, March 2010 I'll be giving a presentation sponsored by Freestyle Photographic Supply on March 4th

•   Moisture Festival Book Signing at Books by the Way on Vashon Island, Friday, Feb 5th, 2010. Gearing up for Moisture Fest's upcoming shows at O Space!

•   Seattle workshop at Photographic Center Northwest: Training your Toy Camera: A Project Class January 26- Feb 16, 2010 (4 Tuesdays evenings)

•   Newspace Photo, Portland, OR - intro plastic camera workshop January 23 & 24, 2010. Advanced Holga workshop coming in the spring too!

•   2-Week Workshop at Penland School of Crafts Blue Ridge Mountains of North Carolina, August 9-21, 2009 - an amazing opportunity to shoot and work in the darkroom extensively with Michelle as your guide.

•   Events at B&H Photo, New York, January 2009 Panel discussion with f295 on 1/18, solo talk 1/21, from 10-12, and workshop continuing 1-5pm. More info & registration.

•   Seattle Workshop - Feb 28th & Mar 7th, 2009 at Photographic Center NW

•   Portland, OR Workshop May 3 & 5, 2009 at Newspace Photo

•   f295 Symposium: May 29-31, 2009 in Pittburgh I'll be giving a talk, participating in a panel, and teaching a workshop

•   Workshop in Portland, OR at Newspace, August 17 & 19, 2008

•   Maine Media Workshops week-long class June 29-July 5, 2008 - "Toying with Creativity" at photo heaven!

•   New Orleans talk & workshop sponsored by the New Orleans Photo Alliance & ASMP: May 17 & 18, 2008

•   St Louis/St Charles, MO Workshop Foundry Art Center, March 29-30, 2008

•   Workshop at RayKo Photo in San Francisco February 9 & 12, 2008

•   Talk at Foto-Grafix books in San Francisco February 7, 2008

•   Whatcom Museum Bellingham, WA, April 26th, 2008

•   Seattle Talk University Bookstore, Seattle, April 17th, 2008

•   Toy camera workshop at International Center of Photography, New York A two weekend workshop as part of the General Studies Program, Oct. 13-21, 2007

•   Portland, OR: Talk about "Plastic Cameras: Toying with Creativity" at Powell's Friday, November 30th, 2007, 7:30pm

•   Plastic Camera Lecture in San Francisco September 27th, 2007 at SF Camerawork

•   "Toying with Creativity" workshop in Los Angeles at the Julia Dean workshops, September 8 & 9, 2007

•   Plastic Cameras: Toying with Creativity workshop Photographic Center NW, April 21 & 28, 2007

•   "Toying with Creativity" talk at Creative Center for Photography in LA Saturday, February 24th, 2007, 1-3:30 pm, free

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Past Exhibitions & Other Events

•  "Holga Inspire" exhibition at Hallmark Institute Gallery  in Turners Falls, Massachusetts, May7 - June 6th, 2010

•  Rayko Photo's International Juried Plastic Camera Show  Feb 26-April 18, 2010 in San Francisco

•  Krappy Kamera Competition show  at Soho Photo in New York; opens Tuesday, March 2nd, 2010

•  "Carnival" show at Newspace, Portland  I have a piece in this group show, Feb 5th - 28th 2010, opening Feb 5th

•  "Holga Inspire" exhibition at Umbrella Arts, New York  December 9th-January 16th, 2010 - The third stop of this international exhibition.

•  Solo exhibition at Benham Gallery, Seattle  Seattle premier of my new series: Beautiful Decay. Nov 5th-Dec 13th, 2009. Opening December 3rd, 6-10 pm.

•  Camerawork Gallery, Portland, OR  Solo show, September-October, 2009. Opening reception, Sat, September 26th, 4-7pm

•  "Holga Inspire" group show at TCC Photo Gallery  September 3-October 30, Longview, TX

•  "Curious Cameras"  ArtsEye Gallery in Tucson, AZ, April-July 2009

•  Range of Possibilities: Penland Gallery, NC  Penland School of Crafts 2009 Faculty Exhibition, March 17-May 10

•  Holgagrafie Exhibition in Berlin  at Atelier Freier Fotographen, April, 2009 - 8 photographers

•  "Only in Washington" exhibition at WA State Convention Center:  I have one image in this show, October 2008-May 2009

•  Group exhibition at Camera Club of New York  January 16-20, Reception Jan 17th, 7-9

•  "After the Fire" exhibition  At Office Nomads, on Capitol Hill in Seattle, through the end of 2008

•  "From the Playa to City Parks…BRAF Paves the Way" Reno, NV:  McKinley Art Gallery, West from October 23 – December 11, 2008

•  Holga Meet-up at Benham Gallery  Join Michelle, Rosanna Salonia & Matthew Yates to talk Holgas. Sunday, Nov 23rd, 2008, 2-4pm

•  Holga demos at Photo Plus Expo:  in New York, October 23-25, 2008 at the FS Wholesale/Freestyle booth

•  "21 Days of Black Rock City" Exhibition in Petaluma, CA: June-July 2008  One of 9 photographers showing a large group of large-format digital prints from Burning Man

•  "Unrefined Light: Image-Making with Plastic Cameras & Their Friends" in St Charles, MO  I juried this show, which opens March 28th, 2008 and I'm teaching a workshop the 29th & 30th

•  Krappy Kamera Competition opening & talk  Soho Photo Gallery, NYC, opening Tuesday, March 4th, 2008 6-8pm, Michelle's talk Thursday, March 6th, 7pm

•  Bellingham, WA: Exhibition through April 27th, 2008  Whatcom Museum: Photo Biennial opening, Sat 12/1, 7:30pm, talk Sunday, 12/2,el discussion March 1st, workshop April 27th 1-3pm, pan

•  "Cheap Shot: Plastic Cameras: The Low Tech of High Art" at PCNW, Seattle  6 photographers show their plastic stuff, November 2-28, 2007

•  "Toying with Creativity" exhibition in LA  Feb 22nd-April 22nd, 2007 at the Creative Center for Photography in Hollywood

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