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Through a facilitated experience in our Zoom classrooms, we offer a stimulating and creative learning environment. Our online writing and photography workshops offer a rich and rewarding immersive experience to advance your skills and inspire your creativity. Join us for SFW Online!
with Leanne Trivett S.
June 4 – July 2, 2026
Join Leanne for a deep dive into the ephemeral world of flowers, combining camera techniques, color, abstraction, writing, and collage can bring a unique, contemporary twist to your imagery.
with Ann Orman
June 4 – July 9, 2026
In this new online workshop with travel photographer Ann Orman, students are guided through the entire creative process of transforming travel photos into a polished book, from image selection to shaping a narrative and designing a print-ready layout.
with Al Brydon
June 5 – July 10, 2026
Fine-art photographer Al Brydon guides participants who want to create a cohesive body of work and bring greater focus and intention to their practice by clarifying their photographic philosophy and artistic aims.
with Cali M. Banks
June 6 – 27, 2026
This new online process-based workshop led by artist and educator Cali M. Banks, invites you to slow down and explore the tactile, transformative possibilities of emulsion lifts and transfers using Polaroid film.
with Lindsay Silverman
June 8 – 18, 2026
Join Lindsay Silverman in this four-session online workshop as you learn how to optimize Nikon’s full-frame Z8 and Z9 mirrorless camera settings, program buttons and dials, as well as navigate the camera’s powerful features to harness full creative potential.
with Manuela Thames
June 9 – 26, 2026
Led by fine-art photographer Manuela Thames, move beyond basic double exposures and explore advanced techniques for combining three or more images into a single photograph.
with Julie Wang
June 10 – July 15, 2026
Fine-art photographer Julie Wang centers this new online workshop on mindful observation, using flowers, leaves, and small natural elements as subjects in exploring how photographs move beyond simple description and begin to carry feeling and presence.
with Nathan Bett
June 17 – 26, 2026
This tech-centric online workshop covers a wide range of topics including a thorough review of all the basic user settings and menus for stills and video; customizing the camera to suit your personal needs; and getting creative with picture styles, multiple exposures, HDR mode, and focus bracketing.
with Aundre Larrow
June 17 and 24, 2026
Photographer and filmmaker Aundre Larrow guides participants through essential iPhone camera settings, features, and apps as well as demonstrates practical approaches to light, composition, color, and framing, along with techniques for directing subjects and capturing authentic moments.
with Morgan Ford Willingham
June 24 – July 29, 2026
Join Morgan Ford Willingham as she guides students through the required setup necessary to create cyanotype prints on fabric, using several different surfaces to push the boundaries, generating alluring handmade alternative images.
with Sarah Hadley
July 7 – 28, 2026
Fine-art photographer and collage artist Sarah Hadley guides participants through innovative techniques to blend imagery, textures, and materials in fresh and unexpected ways in this online workshop.
with Eric Stein
July 10 – August 7, 2026
In this new online course, photographer Eric Stein guides participants through a structured exploration of subtractive thinking, helping them refine images by removing distraction, shaping space with intention, and composing with greater control.
with Jake Benzinger
July 11 – August 1, 2026
Jake Benzinger guides lens-based artists through the process of sequencing, designing, and conceptualizing fine-art zines through the development and creation of your own zine over the course of the four-session workshop.
with Rick Berk
July 21 – 31, 2026
Rick Berk demystifies the exposure settings and understand the autofocus modes for mastering manual focus techniques for Fujifilm X Series cameras allowing you to capture beautifully balanced and dynamically exposed images in any lighting condition.
with Pedro Correa
July 27 – August 12, 2026
In this online workshop with Pedro Correa he shares with you a panoramic view of the different principles, techniques, implicit and explicit rules that are needed in order to create an impactful artistic project and open new dimensions to help you explore street photography like never before.
with Rick Berk
August 3 – 13, 2026
In this online workshop, participants explore the creative tools and customization options of the Sony A7 series, including picture profiles, creative styles, and dynamic range optimization.
with Anne Eder
August 5 – 26, 2026
Join interdisciplinary artist and educator Anne Eder as she introduces you to the magic of Ziatype, a variation of palladium printing that lets you watch your image appear right before your eyes, requiring no developer.
with Lev L. Spiro
August 13 – September 17, 2026
Fine-art photographer and filmmaker Lev L. Spiro guides participants in photographing those fleeting thresholds—moments when light, atmosphere, and emotion align to reveal something deeper than representation.
with Tom Gaukel
August 25 and 27, 2026
Explore the varying degrees to which AI can be incorporated into a photographic workflow and how these AI features work within the most common image editing software applications—Photoshop, Lightroom, and Capture One.
with Gina Costa
September 3 – October 1, 2026
Explores the pursuit of how objects or certain subject matter are tied to memory and how the choice to photograph these, consciously or subconsciously, is essentially an exercise in the search for meaning.
with Cathy Cone
September 8 – October 13, 2026
Explore both historical and contemporary possibilities of overpainting and hand-coloring photographs, the different types of materials, and ways of working directly on photographic prints.
with Tsar Fedorsky
September 15 – October 13, 2026
Fine-art photographer Tsar Fedorsky leads participants in discovering their own visual voice by developing the technical and creative skills needed to produce memorable personal landscape photographs.
with Tom Gaukel
October 1 – 12, 2026
Take advantage of the iPhone camera’s advanced technology with Tom Gaukel guiding participants through the camera’s physical controls, modes, 48 megapixel capture, ProRaw file format, file compression as well as editing tools using iPhone’s Photo app and Lightroom Mobile.
with Cali M. Banks
October 6 – 27, 2026
Participants move through a full cycle of photographic practice, conceptualizing, photographing, editing, and sequencing a small body of work while working alongside poetic prompts, texts, and your own writing, using both photography and poetry as active tools, letting each shape how you see and build the other.
with Jari Poulin
October 6 – November 10, 2026
Join artist Jari Poulin for an online workshop for those excited to learn the language of Polaroid from a long-time lover of Polaroid’s delightful allure. Meeting once a week, classes are dedicated to igniting inspiration and learning the art of capturing images with Polaroid NOW+ or i2 cameras.
with Tara Sellios
October 7 – November 18, 2026
Move beyond traditional interpretations of still life photography into a practice rooted in mood, symbolism, and visual storytelling as we explore how it can be built from personal history, collected materials, and layered symbolic references.
with Linda Plaisted
October 17 and 24, 2026
Explore creativity not only as a form of artistic practice but as a tool for healing, resilience, and transformation in this in this deeply personal and inspiring online workshop led by multidisciplinary artist Linda Plaisted.
with Shelley Vandegrift
November 9 – 19, 2026
Shelley Vandegrift provides participants step-by-step guidance in transforming photographs directly on the iPhone or iPad using Lightroom Mobile and Photoshop mobile—to create refined and expressive images without relying on a desktop workflow.