Photographing Your Artwork (one-session workshop)

Dive into documenting your artwork. Discover a variety of methods and strategies to document your work for social media, your online portfolio, and for print. Whether you are photographing works on paper behind glass or three-dimensional sculpture, the main goal is to make your work presentable in the best possible manner. This is not a class on using photo editing software but some basic photography principles (and photography editing software will be used in the class).

Special Notes

This is an in-person class which will take place onsite at Fleisher. Please review our COVID-19 community safety policies for current guidelines.

Tuition Assistance is Available

To make our classes and workshops accessible to everyone, Fleisher offers tuition assistance every term so that everyone can join our creative community. Tuition assistance applications can be completed once registration is open by clicking here. The deadline to apply for spring term assistance is Friday, March 10; Notifications will be sent by Monday, March 13.

What you will learn:

  • Lighting for works on paper and three-dimensional works

  • Different tactics for photographing works with lots of reflections or varnishes

  • Editing images, color correcting, and exporting the files for a variety uses

Required supplies:

  • Notebook and pen to take notes