Students in grades 7 and 8 attended a photography workshop over a two week period this summer at the Memorial Middle School in Burlington, with instructors Laura Phillips (art) and Sue Rogers (BEAM).  

While the camp emphasized the genre of Street Photography, students were also given the opportunity to “shoot” landscapes and portraiture.  The format of the camp allowed students to visit nearby cities--Boston’s Rowe’s Wharf and Copley areas, Pickering Wharf, Salem and Bearskin Neck, Rockport.   These trips provided the venue for students to work on their composition with both street photography and land/seascapes; during one session, students were treated to a surprise visit by Nashville singer/songwriter, Erik DiNardo, who offered to pose for students and encouraged their involvement in the graphic design of album covers and social media sites.  


The gallery will be open for a reception on Thursday, September 17, 2015 from 6:30-8pm

Anne Zhang is a senior at Burlington High School. She has taken art courses, such as Design, Drawing and Painting, Portfolio and now AP Art. She widened on her skills by working in various mediums. Her art is influenced heavily on realism and mark-making. She will most likely continue her art career in college with art minors.

Randy Garber has exhibited prints, paintings and mixed media installations nationally and internationally and is included in numerous public and private collections including The Boston Museum of Fine Arts; the Decordova Museum, Boston Athenaum, the Boston Public Library; the Karp Cancer Research Building, and the Governor Baxter School for the Deaf in Portland, ME.

She is a 2011 recipient of the Traveling Fellowship from the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, and has received grants and awards from the Puffin Foundation, the St. Botolph Foundation, the Capelli di Angeli Foundation, Somerville Arts Council and several other sources. She is a published author of articles in Arts Media, the Journal of Communication Arts and Contemporary Impressions, the Journal of the American Print Alliance.

Her most recent solo exhibition, Made in Translation, was at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor. In 2010 she had two solo exhibitions, which were reviewed in Art New England among other publications. She has been a guest artist at Princeton University and currently teaches Printmaking at the Massachusetts College of Art.
http://www.randygarber.com/

Randy will complete a five day artist residency with students in Design and Drawing and Painting classes. During her residency students will learn how to create a wide range of prints using the intaglio press. 

The Cambridge Street Gallery is currently displaying seven of Randy's works. She will be at BHS on Friday, April 4, April 11, May 2, May 9 and May 18. 

Randy's residency and exhibit were funded by a generous grant from the Burlington Education Foundation.

LAURA PHILLIPS is an art educator at Marshall Simonds Middle School

In 2010 I traveled to Kolkata, India with photojournalist Peter Turnley and six other photographers from around the Globe for a workshop on street photography. This workshop introduced us to one of the world's most visually magnificent and stimulating cities.


Kolkata is one of India's largest cities, a former capital of colonial India, full of history and streets filled with constant motion. Kolkata is a photographer’s dream for capturing street and travel photography. This workshop was beneficial in developing the social skills necessary when shooting street photography.


As part of the workshop, photographers agreed only to use wide- angle lenses, so my images were captured with the Nikon 17-55mm F/2.8 or 24mm F/1.4. Composing these wide-angle scenes presented visual challenges as well as an abundance of creative possibilities. Wide-angle lenses view the world very differently from normal-range or telephoto lenses. Positioning in close proximity to your subject can often be intimidating. It is clear to see that the images displayed in the gallery were captured within two feet from the subject. Hopefully, this experience will allow me to return to the wonder of India and participate in all it has to offer.