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PHOTOGRAPHY

2025 Photography

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Kaitlin Santoro is an interdisciplinary artist who works across photography, sculpture, and printmaking to explore impermanence, loss, and memory. She is interested in who gets remembered, how we are remembered, how memory changes, and why certain things are forgotten, while also seeking to understand the brain's lucidity and memory triggers. Santoro has presented at the Glass Art Society annual conference, Pilchuck Glass School, the Tyler School of Art, and Queens College. She received her B.F.A. from the University of Connecticut and her M.F.A. from the Tyler School of Art and Architecture.

Kaitlin Santoro

2025 PHOTOGRAPHY INSTRUCTOR

Photography students are instructed in various photographic techniques and are encouraged to utilize the aesthetics of their surroundings. Students explore conventional and digital photography, along with darkroom and digital editing techniques. Student photography is displayed in public exhibitions. Up to 20 students are accepted.

Requirements for Applicants

To apply to the photography program, applicants must submit a portfolio of representative work including one portrait and up to six (6) other images. Evaluators will be looking for applicants who have a good understanding of photographic technique (e.g. composition, use of light, contrast) and whose images tell their artistic point of view.

Images may be conventional and/or digital photographs, but all photos will be submitted digitally in JPEG format. Images may be taken on any type of camera, including smartphones or tablets.

Application Deadline: Monday, February 17, 2025 at 11:59 p.m.

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OAI Quartz Preview Days

Interested in auditioning for the Oklahoma Summer Arts Institute but don’t know where to start? Each fall, OAI is offers free workshops as part of the OAI Quartz Preview Days! 

Fall 2024 Preview Days are listed below. 

Please note: All OAI Quartz Preview Day dates and locations are subject to change.

ARDMORE

Monday, December 2, 2024 | 1pm - 5pm
JEROME WESTHEIMER CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS
921 Veterans Blvd.

MOORE

Friday, December 13 | Morning TBA
MOORE HIGH SCHOOL
300 N Eastern Ave

TAHLEQUAH

Wednesday, January 22, 2025 | 12:30pm - 4:30pm
TAHLEQUAH HIGH SCHOOL
591 Pendleton St.

TULSA

Monday, January 13, 2025 | 8:15am - 12pm
BOSTON AVENUE UNITED METHODIST CHURCH
1301 S Boston Ave.

WEATHERFORD

Wednesday, December 11, 2024 | 8am - 12pm
WEATHERFORD HIGH SCHOOL
1500 N. Washington Ave

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