New CDS Class for Photographers Interested in Stories of Social Significance, Taught by Misha Friedman
Photographer Misha Friedman—whose series Donbass Romanticism, documenting the health effects of coal mines and factories in the Ukraine, was recently featured on the New Yorker’s Photo Booth blog—will lead a new CDS continuing education class intended for photographers interested in working on stories of social significance. Participants in the class, Successful Collaboration with NGOs, will look into how the nonprofit [...]
Students in New Class Will Create Short Docs On Hayti, Durham’s Historic African American Community
CDS is pleased to offer Then and Now: A Hayti Civics Course, a unique new continuing education course led by a knowledgeable and committed group of instructors. Students will record oral histories and use archival material to produce a series of short documentaries about Durham’s Hayti community, a vibrant African-American section of Durham, North Carolina, that flourished for [...]
New Class Explores Documentaries for Social Change Focusing on Coal Appalachia
CDS is pleased to offer a new continuing education class taught by folklorist Joy Salyers and documentary photographer Roger May—Can Docs for Social Change Make a Difference? The effects of mining coal in Appalachia, especially in eastern Kentucky and western West Virginia, have been featured in documentaries for decades. The federal government’s War on Poverty [...]
Register Now for New Documentary Essay Class with Rosecrans Baldwin
CDS is pleased to offer this new continuing education class in our growing Documentary Writing curriculum, taught by novelist and essayist Rosecrans Baldwin, whose new memoir, Paris, I Love You but You’re Bringing Me Down, is forthcoming from Farrar, Straus and Giroux this coming May. Baldwin describes the Documentary Essay class: The personal essay blends journalism [...]
Barbara Tyroler: Work by Spring 2012 Continuing Education Instructor
Barbara Tyroler will be teaching the Photography Projects Seminar in the spring 2012 term for the Continuing Education program at the Center for Documentary Studies. To learn more about the course and to register, please visit the Continuing Education registration site. Barbara Tyroler produces site-specific portraiture for corporations, universities, and health-oriented nonprofits. Tyroler, who has an [...]
Claire Schoen: Work by Spring 2012 Continuing Education Instructor
Claire Schoen will be a workshop, From Soup to Nuts: Documentary Audio Production, in two locations in the spring 2012 term for the Continuing Education program at the Center for Documentary Studies. To learn more about the course and to register, please visit the Continuing Education registration site. Claire Schoen has worked as an independent [...]
Podcasts Available: Projects from the 2011 Summer Audio Institute
“Hearing Is Believing” is a one-week continuing-education course offered every summer at the Center for Documentary Studies. Each July, 24 people come from across the country to learn the basics of audio documentary-making and to collaborate with a fellow participant in producing a short piece. This year the stories emerged from a collaboration between CDS [...]
Register Now for “Photography Kickstarter” Workshop October 22 and 29 with Ava Johnson
Photography Kickstarter: Darkroom Basics is a two-day workshop (Saturdays, October 22 and 29, 10 a.m.-5 p.m., lunch break on your own) that will give beginning photographers as well as more advanced students a chance to practice and enhance their darkroom skills. This workshop provides an opportunity to develop that black-and-white film sitting around in the [...]
Register Now for “Performance Storytelling” Workshop November 12 with Jeff Polish
“Performance Storytelling” is a one-day CDS Continuing Education workshop (Saturday, November 12, 10 a.m.–5 p.m.; bring a bag lunch) that will explore the process of developing a short personal narrative to be told in front of an audience. Students, with instructor guidance, will begin by analyzing successful stories and performances at “The Monti StorySLAM,” a [...]
Katina Parker: Work by Fall 2011 Continuing Education Instructor
Katina Parker will be teaching four courses in the fall 2011 term for the Continuing Education program at the Center for Documentary Studies: Video Projects Seminar Experimental Eye Candy Exploits in New Media & Emerging Technologies Race, Class, Gender and Sexuality in Media To learn more about these courses, please click on the course title [...]
Judith Van Wyk: Work by Fall 2011 Continuing Education Instructor
Judith Van Wyk will be teaching “Mastering the Skills of a Good Producer” in the fall 2011 term for the Continuing Education program at the Center for Documentary Studies. To learn more about the course and to register, please visit the Continuing Education registration site. Judith Van Wyk is an independent writer/producer who chairs the [...]
Harlan Campbell: Work by Fall 2011 Continuing Education Instructor
Harlan Campbell will be teaching Digital Printing Tutorial in the fall 2011 term for the Continuing Education program at the Center for Documentary Studies. To learn more about the course and to register, please visit the Continuing Education registration site. Harlan Campbell is the photography and digital arts associate at the Center for Documentary Studies. [...]
Joanne Mulcahy: Work by Fall 2011 Continuing Education Instructor
Joanne Mulcahy will be teaching “Food, Family, and Community: A Nonfiction Workshop” in the fall 2011 term for the Continuing Education program at the Center for Documentary Studies. To learn more about the course and to register, please visit the Continuing Education registration site. Joanne B. Mulcahy teaches at the Northwest Writing Institute at Lewis [...]
Christopher Sims: Work by Fall 2011 Continuing Education Instructor
Christopher Sims will be teaching Publishing and Promoting Your Doc on the Web in the fall 2011 term for the Continuing Education program at the Center for Documentary Studies. To learn more about the course and to register, please visit the Continuing Education registration site. Christopher Sims has an undergraduate degree in history from Duke [...]
Leah Sobsey: Work by Fall 2011 Continuing Education Instructor
Leah Sobsey will be teaching the Alternative Process Workshop for photography in the fall 2011 term for the Continuing Education program at the Center for Documentary Studies. To learn more about the course and to register, please visit the Continuing Education registration site. Leah Sobsey is an artist and educator. She received her M.F.A. from the [...]
Meg Daniels: Work by Fall 2011 Continuing Education Instructor
Meg Daniels will be teaching Visual Storytelling in the fall 2011 term for the Continuing Education program at the Center for Documentary Studies. To learn more about the course and to register, please visit the Continuing Education registration site. Meg Daniels grew up in upstate New York, where she received her B.F.A. from the Rochester [...]
Continuing Education Certificate Projects Spring 2011
View the final projects of the graduates in the Certificate in Documentary Arts program in spring 2011: John Crane, Paul Deblinger, Eric Douglas, Chelsea Flowers, Conrad Fulkerson, Paige Greason, Jeremy Helton, Eileen Heyes, and Kurney Ramsey, Jr. Videos are available to watch here and on CDS Vimeo. Read more about the spring 2011 Certificate in [...]
Catherine Orr and Elena Rue: Work by Fall 2011 Continuing Education Instructors
Catherine Orr and Elena Rue will be teaching Beginning Multimedia Storytelling in the fall 2011 term for the Continuing Education program at the Center for Documentary Studies. To learn more about the course and to register, please visit the Continuing Education registration site. Catherine Orr is a multimedia storyteller who enjoys nearly all aspects of [...]
Free Continuing Education Information Session at CDS September 6
For continuing education students who would like more information about CDS courses and equipment. Come and ask questions about courses at CDS, meet instructors and learn about the Certificate in Documentary Arts. September 6, 5–7:30 p.m. A brief presentation of documentary tools will be held from 6:30–7:30 p.m. Audio, video, and photography equipment will be [...]
Kelvin De’Marcus Allen, W. Calvin Anderson, Jaisun McMillian, and Victor Stone: Work by Fall 2011 Continuing Education Instructors
Kelvin De’Marcus Allen, W. Calvin Anderson, Jaisun McMillian, and Victor Stone will be teaching Then and Now: A Hayti Civics Course in the fall 2011 term for the Continuing Education program at the Center for Documentary Studies. To learn more about the course and to register, please visit the Continuing Education registration site. Kelvin De’Marcus [...]
Jim Haverkamp: Work by Fall 2011 Continuing Education Instructor
Jim Haverkamp will be teaching Applied Documentary Editing with Final Cut Pro, and the Advanced Video Projects Seminar, in the fall 2011 term for the Continuing Education program at the Center for Documentary Studies. To learn more about the course and to register, please visit the Continuing Education registration site. Jim Haverkamp is an award-winning filmmaker [...]
Abigail Blosser: Work by Fall 2011 Continuing Education Instructor
Abigail Blosser will be teaching Documentary Portraiture: A View from Two Sides in the fall 2011 term for the Continuing Education program at the Center for Documentary Studies. To learn more about the course and to register, please visit the Continuing Education registration site. Abigail Blosser is a practicing artist and photographer. Her art has [...]
Registration Now Open for Fall 2011 CDS Continuing Education Courses
The Center for Documentary Studies offers a wide range of short courses, institutes, and workshops for adults who are interested in learning to do their own documentary work. These documentary arts courses, available through flexible admission with reasonable fees, involve instruction in photography, film and video, audio, and writing. Special topics and such subjects as [...]
“Southern Slices” CDS Audio Projects Being Aired on Radio Stations Nationwide
A collection of student pieces from the summer Audio Institute at CDS have been broadcast on radio stations nationwide. The collection, “Southern Slices,” features student work from 2003–2007, and is hosted by CDS audio program director John Biewen. “Southern Slices” was featured on a summer playlist on the Public Radio Exchange, and has recently aired [...]
