Spend your summer creating in Maine 🌿
At Maine Media, you’ll learn directly from working artists and storytellers in an immersive, hands-on environment.
From photography and filmmaking to writing and book arts, our summer workshops are designed to help you grow your craft and connect with a creative community.
✨ All experience levels welcome.
🔗 Explore upcoming workshops at the link in our bio.
I have been a practitioner of Mordançage for 35 years and always fascinated with the veils of emulsion and illusion…that moment when destruction ceases to be an end point and becomes a method of seeing. This image began as a simple exposed sheet of photographic paper. Is it roots dissolving into spirit trying to become a landscape through silver, chemistry, and ruin or a tree standing in a forest at dusk? In Mordançage you have so many possibilities. Horizontally, a river flowing. Join me for the workshop in the new darkroom @mainemedia this August to see your creativity and turn destruction into revelation. Links and a video about the process on my website or dm me if you have questions. #mordançage #mainemedia #alternativephotography #photography #darkroom
We’re excited to announce this year’s lineup for our FIFTH Pascal Hall Authors Series! Join us on 6/11 for @heathercmcghee , 7/9 for @susanchoi , 8/20 for Hernan Diaz, and 8/27 for Stephen Greenblatt. A reception and book signing will follow each talk. All events are free and open to the public, registration is required. RSVP via the link in our bio—see you there!
Stay turned for BSB’s Summer Authors Series at 166 Russell Ave.
Led by book artist Anneli Skaar and Emmy-winning documentary filmmaker Amanda Pisetzner “The Autobiographical Artist Book” is a hybrid workshop at Maine Media Workshops + College (on campus Aug 24–28, 2026, with prior online sessions with interviews) that combines documentary storytelling and book arts to help participants create a personal, handmade book. Go to mainemedia.edu or check out our link to workshops in the bio!
There is something about the word florilegium — a gathering of flowers — that feels like an invitation as much as a description. Come. Look closely. Make something that lasts, something that endures.
This June, I’m leading a week-long workshop with @mainemediabookarts built around exactly that theme. We’ll spend a day at the Coastal Maine Botanical Gardens photographing the summer blooms, take some local walks, and return to the studio to do what I love most: edit, sequence, print, and bind our images into a handmade book - your own photographic florilegium.
It’s a new workshop, and one that sits close to the heart of my own work. I’ve been making books and photographing plants and gardens for years. This week is a chance for us to do that together.
Follow the link in my bio to sign up for class, I hope to see you there!
If you’d like to sign up for my mailing list to learn about future workshops, comment “workshops” and I’ll send you a sign up link.
#photographyworkshop #botanicals #saltaylorkydd
Thank you to @cliftonmeador for being a most inspirational guest at the studio this spring! Deadline for submissions to become our Book Artist in Residence for April 2027 is June 14. Come make your book in Maine, we’ll provide housing and a generous stipend! More information in the link in our bio.
Maine Media Community Open House Saturday, May 30 | 10 AM–Noon
70 Camden Street in Rockport, Maine
Visit our analog facilities and explore our springtime campus! Join us for a morning celebrating the Altschul Book Arts Studio and our new Hamilton Darkrooms. Drop in to see live demos, meet our faculty, and get a sneak preview of what we’re offering in the 2026 season. A great opportunity for both those who have never been to Maine Media, and to those who know and love us who are excited to see our updated facilities and the fantastic opportunities they provide.
Coffee, donuts, and cheerful optimism guaranteed. All are welcome—bring a friend!
#MaineMedia #OpenHouse #BookArts #Darkroom #AnalogPhotography CreativeCommunity MidcoastMaine ArtWorkshop
What are your creative goals for this summer?
Are you planning to create something new, refine your craft, or try something completely different?
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