Workshop Leader BioRegistration required\, enrollment
limited to 20.
Lunch reception included.
Particip
ant fee: $195
Wonder why some Adams prints are more high ly prized than others? We are thrilled to bring you this exclusive opport unity to learn how to look at an Ansel Adams print like a pro with leadin g Adams scholar Dr. Rebecca Senf. We’ll divide our day between the Discovering Ansel Adams exhibit ion gallery\, where we’ll learn to see the nuanced differences in Adams’s printing over his career\, and the museum’s brand-new Carl M. Jacobs Stu dy Center\, where we’ll look closely at works from the museum’s collectio n—and from your collection—with Senf’s expert guidance. Top off this once -in-a-lifetime experience with an intimate reception.
\nWorkshop Leader BioDr. Rebecca Senf has
been Chief Curator at the Center for Creative Photography since January o
f 2016. She is the originating curator of Discovering Ansel Adams\, which draws on her greater than decade-long research work on the arti
st. Between 2007 and 2015 Senf curated thirty two exhibitions as the Nort
on Family Curator of Photography at the Phoenix Art Museum\, including
S enf grew up in Tucson and went to undergraduate school at the University of Arizona\, studying the History of Photography. She spent ten years in Boston\, Massachusetts where she earned an M.A. and a Ph.D. in Art Histor y at Boston University. In Boston she worked on the Museum of Fine Arts\, Boston’s major exhibition Ansel Adams from The Lane Collect ion\, for which she also co-authored the exhibition catalogue. In Oc tober of 2012 her book Reconstructing the View: The Grand Canyon Phot ographs of Mark Klett and Byron Wolfe was released by University of California Press. She contributed an interview with Frank Gohlke to a vol ume from Bloomsbury Press entitled Before-and-After Photography: Hist ories and Contexts edited by Jordan Bear and Kate Palmer Albers. In 2018 her work with Betsy Schneider was co-published by Phoenix Art Museum and Radius Books as To Be Thirteen. In 2020\, she contributed t o the Mark Klett retrospective Seeing Time: Forty Years of Photograph s from University of Texas Press and released Making a Photograp her: The Early Work of Ansel Adams\, a co-publication of the Center for Creative Photography and Yale University Press.
\nSenf has an a ctive role in the photographic community\, frequently participating in po rtfolio reviews\; convening panels and presenting papers at conferences a nd professional meetings\; jurying exhibitions\; and speaking at museums (most recently\, the Cincinnati Art Museum).
\nSenf has been profil ed on the LENSCRATCH blog\, in Photograph Magazine\, and as part of the Mixtape Series\; was named “Best Curator” by the Arizona Republic \, in March 2012 and was awarded the “Rising Star” award by the Griffin M useum of Photography\, in Winchester\, Massachusetts. Most recently\, Sen f was named a 2024 “Woman of Impact” by the University of Arizona.
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