Photographing the Male Nude
This will be an all-day seminar on photographing the male nude in the studio. We will start the day discussing the male nude in the history of photography, looking at examples from Muybridge to Mapplethorpe. We will discuss the unique challenges and opportunities of working with a male model. Lighting, posing, and working with props will be discussed, as well as solo and multiple model shoots. Please bring ideas and questions to share, a sketchbook to record poses, and images that inspire (does not have to be photographs). Plans are to have two models available. All camera formats are welcome. For those interested/able, a follow-up session will be scheduled to have a chance to share work created during the workshop. Tuition is $200 plus a $100 fee for the models.
There will be a break for lunch (there is a very good little sandwich shop at the end of the block, or Franklyn’s Restaurant/Cafe is a few blocks down the street).
Instructor bio:
Scott Davis is an internationally recognized platinum printer and published author on the subject of platinum/palladium printing. He has been practicing the craft of fine art photography for over 16 years, with extensive experience in silver based and alternative photographic processes. He received formal training at Maryland Institute College of Art. His influences run from F. Holland Day to John Dugdale, Stephen John Phillips to Robert Mapplethorpe. His work has been exhibited nationally and locally, and published in magazines including Metropolitan Home and the online journal Creative Image Maker (www.creativeimagemaker.co.uk).
UPDATE – due to a scheduling conflict, this event has been rescheduled to Saturday August 7.
Wet Plate Collodion Portrait Session and Demo – -Sat. March 20
We’ve been working hard to get Art Reactor ready to open and although we’ve been a bit delayed by the storms and terrible weather–we’ll be offering out first workshops in April. We’ll also be having our grand opening in April, but before then we’ll be having some special events.
This Saturday, March 20 from 1-4pm, I’ll be demonstrating the wet plate collodion process by making tintype portraits. Another wet plate artist will be joining me for this free and informal demonstration. All are welcome and you may have your portrait done if you wish and receive a digital file of the tintype for your own use.
The Largest Camera in Washington!
Great things to come.
Keep checking back to artreactor.org. We have a great deal of plans in the works, and we’re moving forward with our plans for scheduled workshops. Check back in the next few weeks to see the google calendar which we’ve posted above. Pardon our growing pains, anything posted is not yet on the books, we’re still working out the details of what goes where and when. We’ve also added a contact form linked above. If you’re interested in what we do, and you would like to learn more, please do drop us an email!
Opening Weekend
Hi Everyone, I’m Ric Garcia, resident artist and co-space manager.
This weekend our doors will be open on Saturday 12 noon to 4 p.m. Come see the space as we continue to paint and prep for our workshops.
Sunday the space will open between 10:30 A.M. to 1:30 P.M.
We will have coffee and doughnuts for early birds and a free sample drawing workshop starting at 11:30. The workshop is one hour long, participants should bring their own drawing materials and drawing board.
Looking forward to seeing everyone this weekend.
Sneak Peek
I’m Barry Schmetter, one of the Art Reactor resident artists, and the co-space manager along with painter Ric Garcia. We have some great plans for Art Reactor and like most great plans–it begins with cleaning and spackling. 
We’re going to be turning the space into a cool workshop/studio/gallery space over the next few weeks and we’ll be having our kickoff in January. In the meantime, this Saturday (December 12), we’ll be hanging out, handing out flyers and introducing the space for those of you that would like a sneak peak. Who knows–we may creating some art and ask you to help–or just scrubbing the bathroom. Hope to see a few of you on Saturday and in the meantime, here are a few “before” photos to give you a sense of the space.
It begins!
The art reactor has begun! Yes. That’s right. We now have a space, and over the next month or so we’ll be in set up and organizational mode, moving like mad men, artists, or what ever you’d like to call us.
We now have a space just 2 miles out of Washington, DC in the Hyattsville Arts District by EYA, which is right inside the Gateway Arts District. We’ll be located at 5614 Baltimore Ave, Hyattsville, MD 20781 .
We see a future of amazing art workshops from photorealistic painting to large format alternative process photographic portraiture! Ideas for our syllabus are overflowing from the brim of our creative cup. It’s almost painful delaying a post of the things to come, and the great future that will come from this space, something unknown, and new to Prince George’s County, and the DC area for that matter.
Pics of the space to come soon!
The world to come
We have a great deal of exciting things to write about. The future of the reactor. Events, news, projects, workshops, and the love of art are all going to come this way with fantastic force.