Silver Eye

This workshop with Ariel C. Wilson invites participants into a meditation on light, time, and perception. Light is a fundamental component of photography, but it can also be a subject and material to explore. Together, we will expand our awareness to light as a material to be worked with both within and beyond the dimensions of photography. We will explore cameraless light recordings and use our cameras to visualize light’s inextricable connection to time and space. We will learn about ancestral and contemporary Light & Space artists, make observations, discuss readings, and apply a broadened understanding of the importance of light to our own personal creative projects. Together, we will gain a better understanding of the importance of light and time in both our practices and our lives.

Image credit: Ariel C. Wilson and Matt Kowal, from where the sun is, to wherever you are. Courtesy of the artist.

Skill Level/Experience

Open to all levels of experience, particularly applicable to folks interested in alternative or expanded and alternative approaches to photography. Participants will use their own cameras (DSLR, film, and Phones are all fine). Some experimental/cameraless tools will be helpful but not required.

Schedule

Week 1: Wednesday, October 21, 6.30-8.30pm ET
Photography, Light, & Living Dimensions
Light Observation exercise #1
Readings: Berger, Warner

Week 2: Wednesday, October 28, 6.30-8.30pm ET
Light & Time
Exercise: Cameraless Light Recordings
Read: Excerpts from Rovelli, Bastian

Week 3: Wednesday, November 4, 6.30-8.30pm ET
Mid-Workshop Sharing/Critique

Week 4: Wednesday, November 11, 6.30-8.30pm ET
Light & Space
Exercise: Framing Light & Time
Listening: Podcast

Week 5: Wednesday, November 18, 6.30-8.30pm ET
Final Sharing/Critique

Register

The five week course registration fee is $300.00.

Register by 5pm on Wednesday, October 14!

If you would like to take this workshop and need financial assistance please contact sobia@silvereye.org. A limited number of bursary seats are available.

Participating Artist

1. Ariel’s work addresses the physicality, indexicality, and limitations of photography in the face of the cosmic and the sublime. She draws upon photographic tools and processes to make photographs, sculptures, and installations. She has exhibited work nationally and internationally including at the Utah Museum of Contemporary Art (UMOCA), Southern Utah Museum of Art, University of New Mexico Art Museum , Hallie Ford Museum of Art, 516 Arts, SRO Photo Gallery, Sanitary Tortilla Factory, and in the Pingyao International Photography Festival. She was awarded a 2025 Utah Artist Fellowship from Utah Division of Arts and Museums, named on Silver Eye Center for Photography’s national 2023 Silver List, and offered the Joan C. Edwards Distinguished Visiting Professor of the Arts Award from Marshall University. Her ongoing collaborative project, from where the sun is…, was recently exhibited at UMOCA, and has received a Project Grant from the Salt Lake City Arts Council and a Juror’s award within the 2025 Utah Statewide Annual Exhibition. Ariel holds an MFA in Studio Art from the University of New Mexico and a BA in Studio Arts from Willamette University. She is currently based in the Eastern Sierra Nevada Mountains in California.