March 2–7, 2026
A contemporary printmaking workflow most often begins with a digital file sent to an inkjet printer that’s been calibrated to produce an image on a coated sheet capable of achieving predictable results. And though the prints made in this workflow might feel satisfying, they often fall short of generating a distinguishing presence or expressing the object qualities of a silver gelatin print that’s benefited from the sustained attention of an analog process. Happenstance and accident intervene to inform a transformative rendering of the print.
In this six day workshop, RAYMOND MEEKS will work with students to mix chance with choice to allow for surprising interventions and discoveries in the process of making. The focus will be the crafting of objects, including silver gelatin and silver halide prints made from digital negatives; Carbon inkjet prints made on repurposed paper; Books that will be disassembled while making new use of the contents and materials to inform a newly constructed book. Students will experiment with applying finishes to inkjet prints, as well as mounting prints to numerous substrates using adhesive films. The emphasis, throughout, will be on immediacy and an urgency of making. Throughout the process of making, we’ll allow for the conditions where interventions (accidents) can invite the use of recovery in order to rescue the object. For Ray, this period of finding a solution to salvage the work can be the transformative place where a work of art begins to assume its own autonomy, separate from the artist’s intent and taking on layered meaning.
Thursday will be used as an independent work day, where students are encouraged to reflect on what they have been working on so far, and continue that work in the digital media lab, large studio, digital book press, and darkroom. CPW’s press operator and digital media lab assistant will be available during this day of open studio.
WHAT TO BRING: Attendees will provide their own silver gelatin paper and a small selection of books they’d like to consider for repurposing. We will provide film for digital negatives, 11×14 silver halide film, and bookmaking supplies.
WHEN: March 2–7, 2026, 10-5pm
WHERE: 25 Dederick Street, Kingston, NY.
MAXIMUM ENROLLMENT: 5
TUITION: $1,850
CPW MEMBERS: $1,750
MATERIALS: $150 (added to tuition during registration)
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ABOUT THE INSTRUCTOR:
RAYMOND MEEKS lives and works in the Hudson Valley (New York). His work is represented in numerous private and public collections. He is the sixth laureate of Immersion, a French-American photography commission sponsored by Fondation d’entreprise Hermès. Exhibitions from this commission were shown at ICP in New York and Fondation Henri Cartier-Bresson in Paris. The Inhabitants, a book made in collaboration with writer George Weld, was published in August 2023 by MACK. Raymond Meeks is a 2020 recipient of a Guggenheim Foundation Fellowship in Photography and was awarded a Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant in 2022.