Portraiture is the art of creating portraits, whether of others or yourself, capturing the essence of a person through an artistic lens. At May’s Artist Commune, we’ll be focusing on photography portraiture and finding unique ways to approach this art form. Bring any camera you'd like, whether that's your smartphone, DSLR camera, or a film camera—no photography experience required! Artist Commune is always free and open to all.
We’ll start the event at Urban Arts Space, where each participant will choose a piece from the two exhibitions on view—Freequency and A Love Letter to This Bridge Called My Back—to inspire new ways of considering how we portray people and personal expression. How can portraits liberate us and others? What is gained and lost from what is shown or not shown in a photograph?
After we choose our sources of inspiration, we’ll take a guided walk down High Street, finding interesting backdrops for portraits in downtown Columbus. We encourage attendees to collaborate with each other in taking photos and sharing ideas. Community is the essence of Artist Commune.
In the event of inclement weather, we will still host this program, but the photo portion will happen inside the gallery and the covered Lazarus building galleria and surrounding walkways. We can also get creative with props and lighting if we are limited to the indoors!
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Inspirational Quotes:
“You know, the camera is not meant just to show misery. You can show things that you like about the universe, things that you hate about the universe. It’s capable of doing both.” — Gordon Parks
“When we view liberation as a scarce resource, something only a precious few of us can have, we stifle our potential, our creativity, our genius for living, learning and growing.” — Andrea Canaan
“You have to act as if it were possible to radically transform the world. And you have to do it all the time.” ― Angela Davis
“If rightly viewed, the whole soul of man is a sort of picture gallery, grand panorama, in which the great facts of the universe in tracing things of time and things of eternity are painted.” — Frederick Douglass
Artist Commune is a recurring event hosted by Urban Arts Space that allows artists and the community to come together to create art, discuss art, and network.
