February 4–May 13, 2026
Art of the Photobook is a photography course combining CPW’s Photobook I: Photobook Dummy and Photobook II: Project to Press classes taught by ADRIANNA AULT into one 15-week course. Whether you are advancing an ongoing project, drawing from a forgotten archive, or initiating a new art-making practice, this class offers a rigorous approach to book-making that will significantly expand both understanding and application.
- Learn the history of the photobook and its current place in the photographic arts
- Participate in critiques of your work within a small cohort of photographers
- Learn how to pair and sequence your work
- Discover your unique language of photography through narrative
- Create a photobook dummy
- Learn about photobook materials: papers, binding, printing, stitching
- Photobook layout and design
- Creating PDF’s and preparing files for press
- Special guests, including photobook published artists and a publisher
- Three finalized books printed on CPW’s Digital Press. You keep 2, and 1 will be placed in CPW’s Book Press Archive!
- This course will culminate in a presentation of books in CPW’s Community Gallery during the summer of 2026.
WHAT TO BRING:
Prints, digital images, hard drives, or wherever your ideas and images are stored. Participants will eventually be tasked with identifying their preferred text and cover papers and will supply their own paper for printing.
DURATION: February 4 – May 13, 2026.
WHEN: Wednesdays, 6-9pm
WHERE: 25 Dederick Street, Kingston, NY.
MAXIMUM ENROLLMENT: 8
TUITION: $2,000
CPW MEMBERS: $1,900
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ABOUT THE INSTRUCTOR:
ADRIANNA AULT (b.1972) is an American photographer raised in New Orleans, LA. Adrianna graduated with a BA in photography from Warren Wilson College and holds an MFA degree in photography from Hartford University’s International Photography Program. In 2017, she collaborated with Tim Carpenter, Raymond Meeks, and Brad Zellar on Township (published by TIS), a photobook centered around the auction of her family farm in the rural Midwest. In 2018, Township was nominated for the distinguished Kassel Fotobook Award. In 2021, Adrianna was awarded the New York Foundation for the Arts JGS Fellowship for Photography. Adrianna’s first monograph, Levee, was published by VOID, in November 2023. This photographic work is a personal project that encompasses the process of grief while raising her young daughters. In addition to making work for publication, she has taught internationally and in the United States. Adrianna’s work has been exhibited in the United States at Casemore Gallery (San Francisco, CA), NYCSPC Gallery (Brooklyn, NY), Prairie Gallery (Charlotte, NC) and exhibited internationally at Paris Photo. In 2024, a solo exhibition of her photographs from Levee was held at the Center for Photography Woodstock in Kingston, NY. Adrianna lives and works in the Hudson Valley, New York with her two teenage daughters and beloved dog.