The Photographer’s Calendar
with Leanne Trivett S.
November 10 and 17, 2026
Course Description
What happens when your photographs leave the screen and become part of everyday life? In this new online workshop, photographer Leanne Trivett S. explores the calendar as a creative format for sharing photographic work. More than a practical object, a calendar offers an opportunity to edit, sequence, and present a collection of images in a way that invites repeated viewing throughout the year.
Many photographers have hundreds or even thousands of photographs stored on hard drives and phones that rarely get revisited. This workshop creates a space for you to return to those archives with fresh eyes. Through guided editing and image selection, you identify photographs that belong together and consider how they build visual connections across months, seasons, themes, or personal narratives.
Working in Canva, you learn how to design a custom wall calendar that showcases your photography while exploring principles of sequencing, pacing, layout, and presentation. Along the way, we discuss how the placement of images influences the viewing experience and how a simple calendar can become a meaningful expression of your photographic vision.
Over two sessions, you develop a completed calendar ready for printing and delivery directly to your home. Whether you create a calendar for yourself, share it with friends and family, or use it to present a personal project, you leave with a finished piece that brings your photographs off the hard drive and into the world.
Part editing workshop, part design exercise, and part creative project, this class offers a thoughtful and enjoyable way to revisit your images and transform them into something lasting, useful, and uniquely your own.
Additional Information
WHO SHOULD ATTEND:
What You Should Know:
Basic computer skills and the ability to edit, export, and download images using photo-editing software are required.
Leanne will guide you through the process of creating your calendar in Canva. Students should have a Canva account for the workshop; the free version is all that is needed: https://www.canva.com/create/calendars/
Special Notes:
Class will meet 9:30 – 11:30 am (Mountain Time) on Tuesday, November 10, and Tuesday, November 17 (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.
These live online sessions take place in the standard Zoom meeting format. Students can use their microphone and camera, see and hear the instructor and other students, and participate in live discussion and interaction throughout the sessions.
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:
View Withdrawal and Transfer Policies for online programs.
Recording class sessions using personal devices or third-party tools is not permitted. Session recordings are provided by Santa Fe Workshops and are available to enrolled students for two months after the class. This policy helps protect the intellectual property and privacy of both instructors and students.
about
Leanne Trivett S. is a photographer and visual artist whose work moves between performance and stillness, using florals and self-portraiture to explore identity, emotion, and inner narrative. Her images exist in a space where the theatrical meets the intimate—constructed worlds that invite the viewer to linger, feel, and reflect.
Holding a BFA in Theater from the Tisch School of the Arts at New York University, Leanne’s foundation in musical theatre and her career as a professional singer deeply inform her visual practice. This performative lineage surfaces through gesture, symbolism, and a heightened sensitivity to emotional tone, allowing her photographs to function as both portrait and performance.
Leanne is best known for her vivid self-portraits and expressive floral work, where color becomes language and the body becomes landscape. Her work has been exhibited nationally and internationally, including at the Los Angeles Center of Photography, the Griffin Museum of Photography in Boston, the Center for Photographic Art in Carmel, CA, FotoFest in Karuizawa, Japan, Barcelona, Spain, and PH21 Gallery in Budapest, among others. Her photographs have been published in Shots Magazine, Art Ascent, Black & White Magazine, Dodho Magazine, Artist Talk Magazine, and numerous exhibition catalogs and books.
As an educator and speaker, she shares her creative process in workshops with Santa Fe, while creating in her studio near Asheville, North Carolina. Recent solo exhibitions include The Dual Breath: Inhale Me, Exhale Me, The Woman Colour Built, Navigating in Traffic, and Pisces Dipped in Fantasy – bodies of work that continue her exploration of vulnerability, transformation, and the emotional resonance of color.
Website: leannetrivettsphotography.com
Instagram: @leannerockstar
