BEYOND THE SELFIE: MULTIMEDIA SELF-PORTRAITS Anthology Available
Ages 16-29
Fall 2022, Online
In this online workshop student fellows will explore and experiment with self-portraiture, creating photographs, video, audio, poetry, prose, collage, and other craft and art forms that reflect or reflect on their images and on their deeper selves. They’ll consider the face and body in the mirror, and also what forms the self, from genes to experience to family and social environment to choices in personal presentation. They’ll consider how the self is expressed, directly and indirectly; how they might wish to be seen—or not seen; what select details might reveal them: a song lyric, a tattoo or a scar, a moving image of a bird, a drawing of a jacket on a chair. They’ll experiment with mirror meditation, attempting to see themselves objectively and also compassionately. And they’ll consider how their ideas of themselves have evolved over time. They’ll respond to prompts, participate in in-class exercises, and also examine accomplished portraits and self-portraits in a variety of mediums. Each fellow will create a portfolio of self-portraits, and their work will be shared on the program website and at a public exhibition. Limited to 8 student fellows.
Lucy Bucknell teaches film studies and screenwriting in the Film and Media Studies Program at Johns Hopkins University. She is the founding director of Writing Outside the Fence, a writing program for the formerly incarcerated and their extended community.
Chrissy Fitchett, a graduate of MICA, is a practicing photographer and Associate Director for Baltimore Youth Film Arts. Her work examines family structure, generational knowledge, and issues of political and social marginalization, such as forced migration and gender inequity.
Somer Greer is a writer and photographer who lived in Baltimore for close to a decade, working as a writing instructor at Johns Hopkins University and other schools in the Mid-Atlantic. He now lives on Bayou Vermilion in Lafayette, Louisiana. Currently, he is working on a series of candid photos of Cajun musicians.
