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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 Sonia Goydenko
November 15 and 22, 2025
In this two-week immersive online workshop, Sonia initially reviews the opportunities in the three arenas most photographers choose to get their work seen—competitions, festivals, and galleries.
with Roxanne Bouché Overton
November 18 and November 20, 2025
In this live webinar, Roxanne Bouché Overton invites us into a space of creative awakening, reflection, and inspiration, guiding us through ways to shift our perspective, recognize and soften creative blocks to let meaning rise from motion, light, and abstraction.
with Lindsay Silverman
December 1 – 11, 2025
Join Lindsay Silverman in this four-session online workshop as you learn how to optimize settings, program buttons and dials, as well as navigate the camera’s powerful features to harness the full potential of the Nikon Z8/Z9.
with Rick Berk
December 2 – 12, 2025
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 Richard Martin
December 2 – 12, 2025
Join photographic artist Richard Martin in this four-session online workshop aimed at challenging the celebrated ideas of perfection and beauty, introducing new possibilities and providing both aesthetic exploration of individual creativity and technical experimentation.
with Nathan Bett
December 3 – 12, 2025
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 Andy Gray, Barbara Kreutter, Nick Fancher, and moderator Stephanie Johnson
December 6, 2025
Focus on seeing differently with three contemporary approaches to ICM photography with featured presenters, Andy Gray, Barbara Kreutter, Nick Fancher, and moderator Stephanie Johnson, each using techniques in distinct and compelling ways.
with Tina Mullen
December 8 – 18, 2025
Using birds and nature as a visual metaphor to combine observation with mindful attention as a strategy for enhancing attention, cultivating balance, and compassion, visual artist Tina Mullen blends photography, drawing, and writing.
with Maggie Taylor
December 10 and December 13, 2025
The next installment of Maggie Taylor’s always intriguing online series of Photoshop compositing adventure, work alongside Maggie as she shares her favorite techniques for generating shadows and enhancing both existing and non-existing light in a composite.
with Ella Morton
December 13, 2025
This three-hour online seminar, led by photographer Ella Morton, explores the wide range of artist residencies available to photographers and photo-based artists as well as how to evaluate if a residency aligns with your creative goals.
with Carlan Tapp
January 3 – 21, 2026
Take the time to learn, see, and fully express the spirit of the black-and-white landscape as you blend traditional, new, and emerging techniques and technologies to discover the extraordinary possibilities.
with Ryn Clarke
January 5 – 22, 2026
In this three-week workshop, Ryn shows participants how to create composites that give the illusion of a new reality using Photoshop and images created from their iPhone or digital camera.
with Renee Lynn
January 5 – 26, 2026
Explore artistic inspiration in this online workshop with Renee Lynn that spans four weeks and focuses on the key factors that contribute to impactful image making; connecting with your inner artist, utilizing expressive techniques, creating color harmonies, building a solid compositional foundation, and exploring tools to nurture skills.
with M. H. Rubin
January 6 – 23, 2026
Reimagine how you think about composition and storytelling using haiku as a framework and drawing on examples from photographic masters, with M.H. Rubin as your guide, move beyond still-life or street photography into a new way of understanding visual form.
with Cotton Miller
January 7 – 28, 2026
Led by designer and educator Cotton Miller, explore how to use InDesign not just as software, but as a creative canvas, crafting layouts that feel clean, intentional, and visually striking.
with Shelley Vandegrift
January 10, 2026
Shelley Vandegrift guides students through the unique features of Adobe Lightroom Mobile to adjust lighting, contrast, and color as well as exploring Superimpose, Distressed FX+, and other apps that offer simple, effective tools to modify and combine content into unique artistic images.
with Don Werthmann
January 10 – February 14, 2026
Guided by Don Werthmann, venture into a realm to understand visual art better and learn how to talk about photographs in this compelling and collaborative space called the critique room, a safe learning environment that stimulates your mind.
with Sarah Hadley
January 13 – February 3, 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 Molly Wizenberg
January 13 – 30, 2026
Tap into your memories, rebuild scenes from the past, and write vividly from within them.
with Daura Campos
January 14 – February 18, 2026
Visual artist and photographer Daura Campos leads you through Film Soup, a process that physically alters undeveloped photographic film using common household ingredients, along with learning how to prepare and shoot film specifically for this process.
with Leanne Trivett S.
January 14 – February 11, 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 Shaina Fishman
January 24, 2026
Learn how to photograph your pets with emotion, depth, and clarity with photographer Shaina Fishman as she shares her approach to working with animals, offering tools, techniques, and insights to help you photograph pets.
with Gabriel Isak
January 31 and February 7, 2026
In this two-session online webinar, Gabriel Isak reveals the essential tools and techniques used across the industry to achieve natural, professional-level skin retouching.
with Jane Waggoner Deschner
February 3 – 24, 2026
Everyday photographs of weddings, birthdays, family gatherings, and countless other moments carry the universality of human experience and in this new online workshop Jane Waggoner Deschner shares her practice of embroidering onto found photographs.
with Dan Milnor
February 3 – 24, 2026
Dan Milnor guides participants through the Blurb platform, offering insights on producing high-quality books and magazines, from single copies to larger runs, as well as exploring strategies for designing, curating, and promoting publications.
with Marco Serventi
February 4 – March 11, 2026
Over the course of six online sessions, Marco Serventi introduces participants to the core techniques of video production. Together you and Marco explore important technical aspects of filming, including in-camera settings, framing, camera movements, and capturing sound.
with David Julian
February 4 – March 4, 2026
Learn the art of Photoshop compositing to create collages that reflect memory, imagination, family history, or dreams in this new online workshop with photographic artist David Julian.
with Jari Poulin
February 5 – March 12, 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 Marie Monteleone
February 7, 2026
Explore practical strategies for building a strong online presence, forming meaningful industry connections, and communicating effectively with editors and publications with Bloomberg News senior photo editor, Marie A. Monteleone.
with Alex Armitage
February 10 – 20, 2026
This new online workshop with Alex Armitage guides you through all things Fujifilm Recipes, picture presets, creating your own recipes, where to discover new recipes, and best practices for using recipes in the field.
with Tsar Fedorsky
February 10 – March 10, 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 Cotton Miller
February 11 – March 11, 2026
Explore the technical concepts of digital printing and the processing choices that transform your ideas into lovely prints.
with Alex Armitage
February 12 – 23, 2026
This new online workshop with Alex Armitage guides you through all things Nikon Recipes, presets and picture profiles that allow Nikon Zf, Z6 III, Z5 II, Z50 II, and Z8 users to edit while photographing raw images.
with Andrew Southam
February 12 – March 12, 2026
With Andrew Southam as your guide, explore how to grow artistically and cultivate the ability to make portraits that resonate with empathy by becoming deeply present and connected, learning to create images that reach into emotion and expression.
with Will Van Beckum
February 28 – April 4, 2026
This online workshop with photographer and educator Will Van Beckum, is designed for beginners and provides a well-rounded introduction to both the technical and creative foundations of digital photography.
with Charles Sammann
March 7 – 28, 2026
Explore and experiment with the fundamentals of light, composition, and form to uncover the unexpected connections between objects and transform them into striking visual compositions.
with Pedro Correa
March 11 – 30, 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 Shelley Vandegrift
April 1 – 29, 2026
Shelley Vandegrift guides students through making precise selections, blending and layering images, enhancing mood through color and toning, and adding depth with textures and overlays using Adobe Photoshop.
with Marcy Palmer
April 7 – 28, 2026
Open-up a world of creative possibilities by exploring the beautiful processes of applying silver and gold leaf to photo-based artworks, which allows photographers to incorporate unusual materials with distinct properties into their images.