Courses for Adults
Digital Photography
Your camera is lying on the kitchen counter, sad and neglected. Pick it up and use it! This course will introduce you to some to the basics of digital photography, allowing you to actually make the pictures you see in your mind’s eye. We will learn how to make the technical choices that support the desired artistic results. Later, we’ll learn the secrets of the modern digital workflow, which is all about dealing with your jillions of pictures after you take them. We’ll learn how to organize, enhance, edit, and output to web, print, book, blog and iPhone.
Instructor: Chris Carroll
Wednesdays, 7–9 pm 6 sessions, beginning Feb. 24 $360
Writing from Life:
Fiction and Memoir for Adults
You have a life. Now make it into fiction. Or memoir. Both forms use similar storytelling techniques, incorporating scenes, dialogue, and story arc. In this 6-week course we will look at the sources of inspiration in our own life stories, from the grand events—the sublime and terrible—to the everyday. A closer look inward will yield stories that embody the joy, anxiety, humor, sadness, and truth that are the backbone of both fiction and memoir. We will read and comment on each other’s work in a safe and supportive environment. Regular exercises will help generate ideas, and allow us to play with styles and techniques. For all levels.
Instructor: Liz Mechem Carroll
Thursdays, 7–9 pm 6 sessions, beginning Feb. 25 $360
Courses for Teens
The Story in Pictures:
Intentional Photography for Teens
There are many ways to tell a story. We will learn to tell stories with images. This six-week course will teach the basics of photography, with an emphasis on mindfully visualizing and then creating pictures. Today’s modern digital cameras make it easy to push the button and get an acceptable image. We will go beyond that, learning fundamentals of photography to enable us to acquire the images we envision. Developing an “eye” for the right picture, creating intentional and powerful images, and telling the story visually will be our goals.
Beginners: Tuesdays 4-6 pm 6 sessions, beginning Feb. 23 $290
Instructor: Alexsandra Bowie-West
Advanced: Thursdays, 4-6 pm 6 sessions, beginning Feb. 25
Instructor: Chris Carroll
Your Story Goes Here:
Creative Writing Workshop for Teens
Yes—great idea for a story. Yes—post that to your blog. Yes—great lyrics! This workshop is for beginners and those who have already been writing for a while. Here is where you capture your ideas, hold on to them, and make them real and yours. The class is structured with regular fun exercises along with sharing and guided commentary on each other’s work. Finishing work is encouraged, so you have something to show for your efforts. Students are welcome to bring in sources of inspiration, homemade treats, and questions no one can really answer.
Instructor: Liz Mechem Carroll
Wednesdays, 4-6 pm 6 sessions, beginning Feb. 24 $290
The Dreaded Essay:
How to Write (Nearly) Painless and Authentic College Application Essays
For high school Juniors and Seniors who want to write their best personal essays for their college applications. The key to writing an authentic essay is to tell the truth, and to tell it in a way that engages the reader. These essays will naturally stand out because they are not hackneyed regurgitations of age-old themes but are instead authentic, colorful, memorable expressions of the writer. Students all have compelling essays in them; the key is in getting them out. We will write several essays in class and focus on the developing the best one into a polished finished product.
Instructor: Gail Greiner
Mondays, 6-8 pm 4 sessions, beginning Feb. 24 $225
Winter Classes
for Teens and Adults
Lightbox Nyack offers classes and workshops in digital media, filmmaking, post production, writing, and crafts.
We work with state-of-the-art Apple Macintosh computers, H-P printers, and Canon photographic and video equipment.
