My curriculum, Concept Aware™, on creativity and concept development explores the dynamic elements within the creative process used by artists of all mediums to develop an idea into a concept and an image into a style, a project, a book or a body of work. This paradigm can be employed by individual photographers and as a teaching tool in assisting students to identify essential elements of artistic decision-making and to develop a strong visual language.
SELECTED EDUCATIONAL AFFILIATES
- School of Visual Arts — New York, NY
- School of Museum of Fine Arts — Boston, MA
- Massachusetts College of Art and Design — Boston, MA
- Harvard University — Cambridge, MA
- Lesley University College of Art and Design — Cambridge, MA
- Wellesley College — Wellesley, MA
- Emmanuel College — Boston, MA
- Hofstra University — Hempstead, NY
- Bay State College — Boston, MA
LECTURES & GALLERY TALKS
Upcoming Lectures
November 8-10 2017, Paris Photo http://griffinmuseum.org/event/paris-photo-2017-with-j-sybylla-smith/
Past Workshops and Lectures
- June 10-11 2017, Concept and Creativity Workshop http://griffinmuseum.org/event/concept-creativity-workshop/
- View of Paris Photo 2016 with Karen Haas, @ The Griffin Museum of Photography, February 2, 2017
- Art Talks: Creative, Curate, and Consult @ Snow College, Ephraim, Utah, December 2, 2016 https://griffinmuseum.org/event/views-of-paris-photo-2016
- Concept Aware Elements of Creativity Practice Workshop @ Chicago Filter Festival, September 25, 2016
- Workshop @ Chicago Filter Festival September 25, 2016
- Irving Penn: Vogue Years @ Liquid Art House, July 14 & 21, 2016
- New England Portfolio Review, @ the Griffin Museum of Photography, July 23-24, 2016
- EDU Seminar: Moderator "Artist Meet Your Market" @ Look 3 Charlottesville Festival of the Photograph, June 2016
- Concept Aware™ Lecture, University of Georgia at BRIC, Brookline, NY, May 2016
- Creativity Panel with Lindsay Beal, Michael Donnor and Jaclyn Kain, @ the Griffin Museum, April 24, 2016
- Concept Aware™ and Creativity Weekend Workshop @ the Griffin Museum of Photography, April 23 - 24, 2016
- Concept Aware™: Elements of the Creative Process @ Society of Photographic Educators National Conference: Constructed Realities, March 2016
- Paris Photo Review with Boston MFA Curator Karen Haas @ The Griffin Museum of Photography, February 2016
- Paris Photo Review @ N.Y. Photo Salon hosted @ SVA NYC, February 2016
- Vision Blurred: The Boundaries of Art & Commerce @ the Center for Digital Arts, June 2015
- Concept Aware™ and Creativity weekend workshop @ The Griffin Museum of Photography, October 2014
- Moderator Creativity Panel with Stephen Sheffield, Nancy Grace Horton, Edie Bresler and Asia Kepka @ The Griffin Museum of Photography, October 2014
- Three Views of Paris Photo with Robert Klein and Arno Minkinnen @ The Griffin Museum of Photography Feb 2014
- Paris Photo Review, Griffin/DSI gallery, March 2013
- Moderator Fall Fashion Panel @ the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, June 2013
- Gallery Talk with Venetia Dearden, October 2012
- A History of Fashion Photography @ the Photographic Resource Center at Boston University, October 2012
- Fashion Styling and Creative Art Direction, Bay State College, October 2012
- Painting with Words, Harvard University, November, 2010
- PechaKucha : Boston Fashion Week, September 2010
- Gallery Talk Off the Wall: Fashion Photography in Black & White, October 2009
- Two Dimensional Design, Wellesley College, October 2007, 2009, 2010