Opening Presentation 7:30 p.m. Friday, January 30
It’s a year of new beginnings for Peter Schreyer, Executive Director of Crealdé School of Art.
Last week Schreyer opened a solo documentary photography exhibition at Cornell Fine Arts Museum titled Peter Schreyer: Returning Home.The black-and-white images and personal text capture the Swiss native’s recent visit to his hometown of Pieterlen, Switzerland. The show continues through April 5.
This Friday, the story behind Schreyer’s Pieterlen exhibition will be the opening presentation for the new Crealdé Photography Guild. The 7:30 p.m. to 9 p.m. program will be held in the school’s Showalter Hughes Community Gallery on the main Winter Park campus. Schreyer’s hope is to attract, engage and retain film and digital photography students of all levels. “Come share time with people that have a passion for photography,” invites Schreyer, who also serves as the Interim Director of the Photography Department.
The new Crealdé Photography Guild will meet on the last Friday of eachmonth for presentations by established photographers, as well as offering reviews, image sharing, technical demonstrations and field trips.
Also new to the campus is the just-completed digital printing area andrevamped darkroom – the final projects in an extensive multiyear, multiphase renovation to the Photography Department that equips students to practice both film and digital photography processes.
The stellar reputation for Crealdé School of Art Documentary Projects dates back to 1998 and The Last Harvest: A Tribute to the Life and Work of the Lake Apopka Farmworkers, a major photography and oral history project funded by a grant from the Florida Humanities Council. This exhibit has traveled the state of Florida since 1998, and was lastexhibited in 2014 by the City of Winter Garden.