Two-week Summer Session for 12-16 yr. olds, 10AM-1PM, (M-F).
In contrast to remote-learning, online simulations, digital, and virtual experiences, this will be a hands-on analog experience. This endeavor will engage a wide range of interests at the nexus of science and art.
The Georgetown Steam Plant is a location that can visually inspire students with its photogenic, industrial-age architecture and design which truly represent the original “Steam-Punk,” all in support of education, art, and science learning.
Participants build their own pinhole cameras, learn how to evaluate lighting and exposure time, explore ideas of visual composition, i.e., what makes a “good photo,” and learn how to use the chemistry in a black & white photographic darkroom on site to develop their own photographs.
Students will explore the Georgetown Steam Plant as a scientific, technologic, historic, and creative space.
Instructors: Eric Muhs & Dan Pickard, mostly-retired Seattle Public Schools science teachers with nearly 50 years of science teaching and pinhole photography teaching between them.