Modern Montage: A Creative Retreat

with Maggie Taylor

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Course Description

Calling all Photoshop-savvy collage enthusiasts! Go on location in San Miguel de Allende with Maggie Taylor to explore new realms in digital collage. With Maggie’s guidance, participants spend five days finessing carefully crafted digital collages. It is a process that takes time and patience but also provides plenty of room for creativity and experimentation.

In addition to time crafting images and learning from Maggie’s follow-along demos in our classroom, there are numerous field trips on this adventure. Each trip offers a visually rich opportunity to collect more elements to weave into a collage. Maggie also offers one-on-one guidance for work in progress.

Bring along your laptop with your Creative Cloud Photoshop app to use in class. You arrive with a cache of images you’ve already begun to work with, and from there we push the boundaries of photographic shape-shifting.

If you are comfortable working with layer masks in complex Photoshop files, you’re a perfect candidate to travel through the magical and multifaceted world of digital montage with Maggie as your guide, mentor, and conspirator. At the end of our week together, you have gained new skills and techniques to stimulate your creativity, made giant strides on your digital collages, and joined a creative community of like-minded artists.

Additional Information

COVID-19 Update: For all in-person workshops and trips in 2023, Santa Fe Workshops highly recommends that all participants, staff, and instructors attending be up to date with Covid vaccinations (per definition of the CDC). For international trips, local laws will apply, so it is important that you confirm you will be fully vaccinated according to the countries on your trip.

WHO SHOULD ATTEND:

Amateurs, Advanced Amateurs, Professionals

What You Should Know:

This workshop is open to participants with a working knowledge of digital workflow and solid Photoshop skills. Those who have never studied with Maggie before as well as alums from previous classes will benefit from this workshop. The demos will be brand new, and the in-person work time on your images with Maggie’s help is invaluable.

Activity Level:

To get the most from your workshop experience, participants should be in good physical (mobility, stamina) and mental health. Come prepared for the high elevation of San Miguel de Allende, long days, and seasonal weather. You must be able to carry your own photographic and personal gear at all times, both on campus and on location. You are responsible for being open and honest about your physical fitness, and we reserve the right to remove you from the workshop if we find your fitness to be less than that which you have described.

Participants should be able to engage in moderate outdoor exercise for up to an hour or more at a time including walking on uneven terrain such as cobblestone walkways and roads, dirt, and loose rock.

Policies:

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about

Maggie Taylor

Maggie Taylor spent ten years making color still-life photographs before transitioning to digital imaging in 1997. Her label-defying, whimsical, and poetic images have been collected by numerous museums. Her books include Internal Logic, No Ordinary Days, Adobe Photoshop Master Class: Maggie Taylor’s Landscape of Dreams, Solutions Beginning with A, Through The Looking Glass, and Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, by Lewis Carroll.