Color and Memory: Defining a Powerful Narrative
with Heather Evans Smith
June 3 and 5, 2025
Course Description
In this two-part webinar, photographer Heather Evans Smith guides participants through her photographic storytelling methodology, providing insights into her artistic approach and the powerful theme of memory and use of color that define her personal narratives.
The first session focuses on memory, illustrating how Heather integrates this theme to create compelling storytelling imagery. There are a great many ways to explore memory in photography, so Heather covers a wide range of photographic techniques, including still-life and portraits. She also discusses the use of metaphor in her picture-making process. The second session focuses on Heather’s application of color and its critical role as a narrative element in photography. She shows and discusses her various series to illustrate the impact color has on her artistic pursuits.
At the end of each evening, there is a Q&A segment, allowing for an interactive discussion with Heather. Participants walk away gaining valuable insights and inspiration for crafting their own unique narratives that are enhanced by color and memory.
Additional Information
WHO SHOULD ATTEND:
What You Should Know:
No technical ability is required since this is not a program to make new images.
Special Notes:
Class will meet 5:00 – 7:00 pm (Mountain Time) on Tuesday, June 3, and Thursday, June 5 (two online group sessions).
Zoom Video Conferencing software (available for no charge from Zoom.com) will be used to facilitate the class sessions. Further details will be emailed to registrants.
Santa Fe Workshops always aims to produce a high-quality experience for our online attendees. That said, variables including regional and local internet provider speeds, traffic on Zoom's servers, and your own computing hardware can contribute to a less than ideal streaming event. While we do our best to minimize the impact of these variables, they are outside the control of Santa Fe Workshops.
Policies:
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For the convenience of participants, recordings of each class session are posted privately for one month after the end of each session. Santa Fe Workshops takes the recordings down after one month to protect the intellectual property of our instructors.
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Heather Evans Smith is a North Carolina photo-based artist whose work reflects her southern roots, motherhood, womanhood, and a whimsical imagination she relied on as an only child in a rural town. Her photographic imagery explores the ideas of memory, loss, and family in conceptual settings.
Heather’s work has been exhibited in both solo and group exhibitions at venues including the Fox Talbot Museum in Lacock, England, the Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University, NC, and Leica Galerie Milano in Milan, Italy. She is a Critical Mass 2014, 2018, 2021, and 2024 Top 50 recipient, 2022 Silver List artist and the CENTER 2022 Me&Eve grant recipient. Her first monograph, “Seen Not Heard,” was published by Flash Powder Projects in 2016 followed by two self-published monographs, “Alterations” and “Blue.”
Website: heatherevanssmith.com
Instagram: @heatherevanssmith
