SummER INSTITuTE - Visual Studies Workshop

Andrea StultiensPhoto Archive Stories$550 | This course is available for 3 Undergraduate or 2 Graduate creditsM - F | 9:30AM - 5:00PM | RESEARCH CENTER (A1)June17–21Photographs are fluid in meaning. Much of what the image saysdepends on context. In this workshop we will start from andappropriate photographs that are part of the VSW collections anduse them to create book dummies that reflect on the nature andhistory of photography while telling contemporary stories.with a publishing awardOne student’s book dummy from this workshop will be selected byjuror Ron Jude to be published and distributed by Visual StudiesWorkshop Press as an editioned artists’ book.Instructor Bio: Andrea Stultiens (Roermond, NL, 1974) studiedphotography at Utrecht School of the Arts (BFA) and Post St. JoostBreda (MFA). She received an MA from the Masters PhotographicStudies of Leiden University/Royal Academy of Art and is currentlystarting up an artistic research PhD as part of Leiden University’sPhDArts program. Not completely comfortable being called aphotographer or artist, she rather mentions doing things withphotographs. She collects and makes them, thinks about theirpossible uses in understanding the way we present ourselves andtry to represent others, and writes about them. Stultiens publishedseveral photobooks dealing with archival images in various waysand exhibits her work internationally.the publishing award jurorRon Jude is the co-founder of A-Jump Books and the authorof Alpine Star, Postcards, Other Nature and Emmett. His newbook, Lick Creek Line, was published by MACK in April of 2012.Libraryman (Stockholm) published a limited run book versionof his Executive Model project in January of 2013. An extensiveoverview of Jude’s three Idaho projects (Alpine Star, Emmett andLick Creek Line) will be exhibited at the Museum of ContemporaryPhotography in Chicago in a show entitled Backstory in late 2013.Details from the AndreaStultiens installation Reasonsto Smile in Transitions–Rochester at VSW, 2011