Patti Russotti

Artist, explorer, maker, and educator Patricia Russotti is passionate about examinations of the creative process, design, and education. Russotti’s current work is focused on entropy, negentropy, nature, and the small things she stumbles upon within the existing world as well as the edges of time and space.

Russotti, an early digital adaptor, has been training and presenting on Adobe Photoshop and Lightroom since the first versions of the applications and employs these tools in the creation of her work. Her work has been consistently showcased through solo, group, and juried exhibitions. Her practice reflects a breadth and depth of experience and skill in image-making (including analog, digital, alternative, and historic processes), workflow, as well as digital output to a variety of substrates, such as fabric and washi.

She is the co-author of Digital Photography Best Practices and Workflow Handbook, A Guide to Staying Ahead of the Workflow Curve © 2010, published by Elsevier Inc, Focal Press. Her evolving methodology is continually featured at national and international conferences, and she has been a regular presenter at national and international imaging and education conferences since the 1980s. She also holds M.S. and Ed.S. Degrees from Indiana University, and spent 4 four decades as a Professor at Rochester Institute of Technology – most recently in the School of Photographic Arts and Sciences.

Currently, she is focused on assisting emerging and established artists acquire practical tools and concepts to clarify their intent.

Website: www.pattirussotti.com

Instagram: @pattirussotti

Classes with Patti Russotti

Artists Using Cameras, Photos, Transfer Film and Wax

Topics I will cover:

• Substrates to image and wax on

• Suminagashi, mono-prints, fabric, wall paper, handmade paper, photo paper, botanical prints, eco-dying

• inkAID Transfer Inkjet Film

Print an entire photo image or just a part of an image, or photographic elements, drawings etc … to a surface. Plays well with wax, before, or after making a transfer. Can make multiple transfers to a substrate.

Integrating digital imagery into your existing art practice.

Using your phone as a primary camera.