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Sarah Malakoff

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Professor

Media Arts

Contact

508-999-8559

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College of Visual & Performing Arts 311

Education

1997School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston and Tufts UniversityMFA
1994Smith College, Northampton, MABA

Teaching

  • Photography

Programs

Courses

Fundamental digital media concepts and techniques in studio art and design practice. Emphasis is placed on the use of digital tools in all creative areas. Hands-on projects demonstrate and reinforce integration of computers in the creation of two, three, and four-dimensional work. Students will develop a visual and verbal language for developing, analyzing, and presenting work. Course is designed for first-year art students. Laptop required.

Black and white film photography. An introduction to black and white film photography for art and design. Manual camera controls and darkroom techniques including the development of film, contact, and enlargement printing are mastered. This course is open to any student of the university. Students must provide their own 35mm film camera with manual controls.

Digital Photography. Development of digital photographic skills for art and design, professional printing and presentation skills, and an overview of contemporary photographic practice. This course is open to any student of the university. Students must provide their own camera.

Digital Photography. Development of digital photographic skills for art and design, professional printing and presentation skills, and an overview of contemporary photographic practice. This course is open to any student of the university. Students must provide their own camera.

The development of a personal approach to photography and video. Aesthetic and technical competence is developed in a series of projects that explore narratives in still and moving images culminating in a final project. This course is open to any student of the university.

Exploration of photo and video using different camera formats, including pinhole, medium and large format, and experimental video techniques. 

The art and design of lighting. Professional methods of lighting utilizing daylight, hot lights and electronic flash/strobe are studied. Still-life, portraiture, and lighting design are explored using digital capture for photo and video.

Creation of self-published Photo Book.  Students gain skill sets within the fields of Photography and Design using industry standard software.

Select publications

Sarah Malakoff’s large-scale color photographs are examinations of the home as both a refuge from and a re-creation of the outside world.  She has had solo exhibitions at Blue Sky Gallery, Portland, Oregon, Anderson Yezerski Gallery, Boston, Massachusetts, The Vermont Center for Photography, Brattleboro, Vermont, Sol Mednick Gallery, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Camerawork Gallery, Portland, Oregon, Griffin Museum of Photography in Winchester, Massachusetts, and Plane Space, New York, NY.  

Her photographs will be exhibited at the upcoming Photometria International Photography Festival, Ioannina, Greece and have also been shown at The Luminic Photography Festival in Sant Cugat del Vallès, Spain, The Photopolis Agrinio Photo Festival at the Kapralos Museum, Agrinio, Greece, The Addison Gallery of American Art in Andover, MA, The NRW Forum in Dusseldorf, Germany, The Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, PA, Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH, The Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., The DeCordova Museum and Sculpture Park, Lincoln, MA, The Portland Museum of Art, Portland, ME, and The Smith College Museum of Art, Northampton, MA.  She received a 2001 and 2011 Artist’s Fellowship in Photography from the Massachusetts Cultural Council and a 2011 Traveling Fellowship from the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.   Sarah Malakoff: Second Nature was published by Charta Art Books in 2013 and Personal History was published by Kehrer Verlag in 2022.

Heads and Globes, 2020
Statue of Liberty, 2019
Hawaii Room, 2018
Bear Rug, 2022, C print, 20

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