Perspectives: A Neighborhood Photography Workshop with Paige DeVries (Off-Site)
Sat, May 4th at 1:00 PM - 2:30 PM
Explore the ways that photography with your phone can be used as an easily accessible, generative art-making tool.
In this off-site workshop with 2023–24 Creative Assembly Cohort artist Paige DeVries, participants will view the artist’s solo show on view at UNO St. Claude Gallery (2429 St. Claude Avenue) and discuss how the artist uses photography from her phone to inform her work as a painter. After the gallery tour and conversation, DeVries leads a photography exercise in the neighborhood surrounding the gallery. Participants will share images they take during the workshop at the end of the program.
Free with advanced registration. Please note that this workshop takes place off-site at UNO St. Claude Gallery (2429 St. Claude Avenue). Participants are asked to bring a phone they can use to take photographs.
About Paige DeVries
Paige DeVries is a New Orleans–based painter whose work examines the interface between people, plants, and the suburban environment of her neighborhood and city. DeVries grew up in Anchorage, Alaska, where she developed an appreciation and reverence for nature that continues to impact her artistic sensibilities and interests. DeVries’s paintings have been shown locally and nationally, most notably at Art Basel in Miami Beach. Her work is published in the 2023 issue of New American Paintings 2023. She is a recipient of the Florence Leif Grant, RISD Trustees’ Scholarship, and the Anderson Ranch Arts Center Brooks Fellowship. DeVries received her BFA from the Rhode Island School of Design in 2013 and is currently pursuing her MFA at the University of New Orleans, graduating in Spring 2024, where she also teaches undergraduate drawing courses.