On Sunday, Oct. 18, I will be joined with my longtime collaborator, Cary Norton, in making wet-plate collodion tintypes during the 2025 Plein Air Invitational at William Faulkner’s old mule farm, Greenfield Farm, located just outside of Oxford, Miss. Cary and I are excited to debut a handbuilt 16x20 mammoth plate camera -- a camera that Cary has had in the works for nearly five years.
Participating artists include: Kaleena Stasiak, Catherine Jones, Jared Ragland, Rowan Haug, Joshua Brinlee, Stacy Rathert, Jingshuo Yang, Aubrey Pohl, Carlyle Wolfe; with a poetry reading by former Mississippi Poet Laureate Beth Ann Fennelly.
The Plein Air Invitational is a collaboration between the University of Mississippi and Mississippi State University, curated by Brooke P. Alexander & Caroline Hatfield, and is presented by Visit Oxford MS, the Yoknapatawpha Arts Council, and Greenfield Farm Writers Residency, a project of the Mississippi Lab at the University of Mississippi.
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