Evergreen has a world-class photo facility because of its analog components. Fine art photography means film photography now. Just ask the loyal students and assistants and a strong community willing to pay the dues to keep the place open.
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Daniel Gregory
7 years ago
Having continued access to analog film practices is an important part of the history of photography and how current students and community members stay connected to making their photographic art. As one of the only places publicly available for analog color work, it would be a sad day when access to this form of photography was taken away from Evergreen students and the PNW at large.
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Anonymous
7 years ago
Color film processes are vital interdisciplinary artistic practices and Evergreen has world-class facilities for them. Budget cuts often have a way of eroding commitments to public and long-term goods. Please reconsider the decision to scrap color film toward supporting the the core themes of Evergreen's mission: to support interdisciplinary learning, community building, environmental stewardship (digital technologies are not clean, particularly at offshore sites of extraction and because of their accelerated rates of obsolescence), and service to the public interest.
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Blake Andrews
7 years ago
Please keep the color darkroom open!
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Teresa Evanson
7 years ago
This helped my daughter (an Alumni who now has a Masters) in so many ways, and I want other students to have the same opportunities she was awarded.
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James Judd
7 years ago
The color darkroom is like a second home to me. I dropped everything to work with it again. It’s an important tool that the art world cannot afford to miss.
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Anonymous
7 years ago
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The color processor enables not just the Evergreen State students but also the film community of the greater NW access to the color processor. There is no other place alike this! Film photography is not dead and it is a niche that you can leverage.
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Meghann Riepenhoff
7 years ago
The color processor is a unique resource that enables the art community in the Seattle area to produce work unlike what is found elsewhere.
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Anonymous
7 years ago
It would be such a pity to lose it
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Sara modglin
7 years ago
keep it open!! this is a travesty!
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Marc Covert
7 years ago
Please save it!
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Chris Beckman
7 years ago
Please keep this running! It is important to the community and region.
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Ellen Erikson
7 years ago
Please save it!!
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Carter Murdoch
7 years ago
The color darkroom is the reason I decided to transfer to evergreen. The facility is incredible and would be an extreme shame to lose it, not to mention that it’s a resource available to community members. This process of printing color photography is so rare these days, this is the only facility anywhere in the country other then private art schools that provide this. The thought of getting rid of this recourse is obsurd, I seriously hope it can be reconsidered.
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Harini K
7 years ago
Please keep this valuable resource in the community. A number of artists in the community have projects that make use of a color darkroom. We would be very sad to see this close.
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Pat Bognar
7 years ago
We come from Portland every month. This is a process that needs to continue! It develops skills that cannot be done in digital!
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Anonymous
7 years ago
When the Photo Center removed their color lab, I was heartbroken. Then came UW, then Pratt. Color film deserves to remain as an art form. Stop cutting funding for art programs--there are too many programmers and mindless robots out there already.
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Alyssa
7 years ago
This darkroom changed how I saw photography and helped create the artist o am today. We need more facilities like this, not less!
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Kristina Moravec
7 years ago
The use of communal facilities is essential to our photography community and this location has been a beacon. Shared facilities bring printers of varying skill levels together and strengthens the community which adds to the sustainability of future operations. Please keep this running or risk losing a pillar of the west coast photography community.
We need this lab?
Evergreen has a world-class photo facility because of its analog components. Fine art photography means film photography now. Just ask the loyal students and assistants and a strong community willing to pay the dues to keep the place open.
Having continued access to analog film practices is an important part of the history of photography and how current students and community members stay connected to making their photographic art. As one of the only places publicly available for analog color work, it would be a sad day when access to this form of photography was taken away from Evergreen students and the PNW at large.
Color film processes are vital interdisciplinary artistic practices and Evergreen has world-class facilities for them. Budget cuts often have a way of eroding commitments to public and long-term goods. Please reconsider the decision to scrap color film toward supporting the the core themes of Evergreen's mission: to support interdisciplinary learning, community building, environmental stewardship (digital technologies are not clean, particularly at offshore sites of extraction and because of their accelerated rates of obsolescence), and service to the public interest.
Please keep the color darkroom open!
This helped my daughter (an Alumni who now has a Masters) in so many ways, and I want other students to have the same opportunities she was awarded.
The color darkroom is like a second home to me. I dropped everything to work with it again. It’s an important tool that the art world cannot afford to miss.
The color processor enables not just the Evergreen State students but also the film community of the greater NW access to the color processor. There is no other place alike this! Film photography is not dead and it is a niche that you can leverage.
The color processor is a unique resource that enables the art community in the Seattle area to produce work unlike what is found elsewhere.
It would be such a pity to lose it
keep it open!! this is a travesty!
Please save it!
Please keep this running! It is important to the community and region.
Please save it!!
The color darkroom is the reason I decided to transfer to evergreen. The facility is incredible and would be an extreme shame to lose it, not to mention that it’s a resource available to community members. This process of printing color photography is so rare these days, this is the only facility anywhere in the country other then private art schools that provide this. The thought of getting rid of this recourse is obsurd, I seriously hope it can be reconsidered.
Please keep this valuable resource in the community. A number of artists in the community have projects that make use of a color darkroom. We would be very sad to see this close.
We come from Portland every month. This is a process that needs to continue! It develops skills that cannot be done in digital!
When the Photo Center removed their color lab, I was heartbroken. Then came UW, then Pratt. Color film deserves to remain as an art form. Stop cutting funding for art programs--there are too many programmers and mindless robots out there already.
This darkroom changed how I saw photography and helped create the artist o am today. We need more facilities like this, not less!
The use of communal facilities is essential to our photography community and this location has been a beacon. Shared facilities bring printers of varying skill levels together and strengthens the community which adds to the sustainability of future operations. Please keep this running or risk losing a pillar of the west coast photography community.