(Workshops in french only)
October 2nd, 2011
Digital Pinhole Photography(open to the public)
Instructors: André Paquin and Alex Leblanc
Starting at 1:30 p.m., participants to a 30 minutes training session will be able to create pinhole images using their digital camera. They will walk through Vanier to capture images using long exposure times, while benefiting from the support of two professional regional photographers, Alex Leblanc and André Paquin.
June 30, 2011, 7 to 9 p.m.
Le sort de l’œuvre mutilée
Instructor: Me Isabelle Regout
Centre d’artistes Voix Visuelle is proud to present Le sort de l’œuvre mutilée, a training workshop by Maître Isabelle Regout, a member of the Quebec Bar for 14 years and a professional artist. With this workshop, Maître Regout wants to share her knowledge on intellectual property with the arts community professionals.
Participants will learn more about intellectual property (copyrights, commercial secrets, trademarks) and about the impacts of copyrights violation which, in turn, should help them better manage their artistic career.
April 11 and 12, 2010 at 9:30 a.m.
Art framing for auction selling (artists’ workshop)
Instructor: Francine Baron
End of the activity: 4:30 p.m.
June 30, 2010 at 7 p.m.
Do you know how to protect your art? (artists’ workshop in French only)
Instructor: Isabelle Regout
The artist has many legitimate reasons to protect their work: the recognition of its paternity, the desire to not be copied, to be remunerated, even to reserve the manufacturing process.
November 20, 2010
at the Collège catholique Franco-Ouest
Entre l’artiste et l’apprenti / Between artist and apprentice
Instructor: Alex Leblanc
This workshop was an exchange between 4 professional artists and 4 high school students. The students taught the basics of the program Photoshop to the artists, and the artists helped the students to improve their compositional skills and to enrich the message contained in their work. See our blog for some of the resulting images.
March 1 and 3, 2011, 7 to 9 p.m.
at the Collège catholique Franco-Ouest
Workshop in studio lighting (artists’ workshop)
Instructor: Alex Leblanc
Good lighting being the key to all good images, the Centre d’artistes Voix Visuelle offers a workshop in studio lighting. This workshop of two sessions of two hours each permits the participants to become acquainted with the different pieces of equipment, to learn to calculate exposures, and to create portraits, still-life, and photo set-ups of a professional quality. No prerequisites are necessary; however a basic knowledge of photography is helpful.