Shutter Stories

Shutter Stories: a Student Photography Workshop
by Columbia Museum of Art
Wednesday, April 3rd @ 1pm
All Ages — FREE

Note: This is NOT a Cola City event.

The USC Center for Civil Rights History and Research and the Columbia Museum of Art partner on this hands-on photography workshop for middle-school aged students. Participants learn about the work of esteemed photographer Richard Samuel Roberts, whose work from the 1920s and ’30s is featured in the Our Story Matters Gallery exhibition Intersections on Main Street: African American Life in Columbia as well as the CMA-organized exhibition Interior Lives: Modern American Spaces, 1890–1945. Following a tour of the galleries, students learn more about the art of composition and practice portrait photography in a recreation of Roberts’ Washington Street studio, with instruction led by photographer and CMA Communications Assistant Victor Johnson. Participants provide their own digital camera; all other equipment provided. Free with registration courtesy of Columbia SC 63: Our Story Matters.

This event is open to all ages, though parent discretion of child’s ability to follow along is advised.

Register HERE