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Circular Sees with Tammy McNary Photography

Brightness Box Photography Experience (SYNCHRONOUS) online virtual LIVE
Time Frames
During School Day, After School, Summer
Formats
Online - Scheduled Live Instruction (synchronous)
Grades
3rd, 4th, 5th, Talented/Gifted
Standards

Description
Brightness Box is a live and enlivening online photographic art project that emphasizes students photographing objects in unexpected ways around their familiar school surroundings. Young artists use writing exercises, props, and two styles of instant cameras to make original photographic artworks and to redirect the way they see themselves and the world around them. The program culminates with an informal gallery exhibit where students can express and observe in the presence of their artworks and others. Appropriate for grades 3-5 as a daytime, after-school, and/or summer visual arts project. Based on ten (10) students total. Teaching artist to deliver cameras and film kit to Dallas ISD elementary school instructor no later than three (3) days prior to the beginning of class. Teaching artist will collect the cameras no later than three (3) days after the class has ended. *** INSTRUCTOR / STUDENT KITS INCLUDE *** Use of ten (10) instant cameras (each students will have their own camera!) Package of ten sheets of film per student Props for photographing (bundle of silk flowers, such as the ones pictured here that students can keep afterwards) Cameras are sanitized in between uses by teaching artist.

Students Will
  • Explore new ways of seeing by using instant cameras in combination with photographing props arranged in surprising places!
  • Learn basic camera technique and etiquette.
  • Explain how light enters the camera to form an image on film and how light helps to define a photograph.
  • Use prompts to write about the SELF as queues for creative expression in making photographs.

Details
Dates: Available Monday through Friday
Times: 10 AM - 5 PM
Duration: One (1) sixty-minute session.
School Fee: Flat Rate: $250.00
Minimum Attendance: 5
Maximum Attendance: 10
Bilingual: No
Technical Needs: Tablets/computers and internet connection. A Zoom link will be provided prior to class time. Instant cameras provided for in-school use and delivered by teaching artist. Props and film included. Class session begins indoors online and weather permitting, the students can make photographs outdoors.
Other Information: For more information contact Tammy McNary at [email protected]

Scheduling / Booking
Instructions: For more information or to schedule classes, please contact Tammy McNary at 214-543-2836 or [email protected]
Deadline: Please schedule at least two weeks in advance.
Cancellation Policy: Programs cancelled 14 days or less prior to program start date are liable for full payment. In the event of an official Dallas ISD closing, classes may be rescheduled subject to availability. For cancellations or for rescheduling requests, please contact Tammy McNary at 214-543-2836 with a text or phone call.
After School Policy: A school staff member must be present and available for participation and classroom supervision at all times during the program, including SYNCHRONOUS online programs. Artists (students) retain their own images (ARTWORKS). For privacy reasons, students are not permitted to take home images showing their faces or the faces of any class participants under the age of 18. In order to use loaned cameras, students need to be on campus and not learning from home. Dallas ISD Instructor and Teaching Artist will work together to ensure proper handling of loaned cameras, however, Tammy McNary Photography, DBA "Circular Sees" assumes ultimate responsibility. Student attendance and sign-out release to parents or guardians is the sole responsibility of the school staff. Please provide a representative's name, phone number, and email at the time of program confirmation. This representative will collect and sign for the cameras for borrowing purposes and will also be the person to release them back to the teaching artist. A text and/or email reminder of the upcoming program will be sent to the booking contact person one week prior to the scheduled class time.

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