DRAWING CENTER STUDIO

ENVISION PROJECT 9
A SPECIAL FREE COURSE FOR HIGH SCHOOL TEENS!

Instructor: Peiter Griga

Support Instructors: Michael Wilson & Adam Mysock

Lab Technicians: Manifest Drawing Center’s Darkroom Moderators

Application Deadline: Friday, May 9, 2025
Find link to application below.

Schedule

June 16–27, 2025
Mondays–Fridays, 9am to 2pm daily

Work alongside professional photographers as you visually document the issues that affect your life!

Manifest Drawing Center is proud to announce the 9th annual Envision Project, supported in part by the Joseph A Stoner Memorial Fund and the Manifest Annual Fund. This unique program seeks applications from high school students interested in learning traditional film photography, developing critical thinking and visual literacy skills, and making a significant impact through visual storytelling.

photos: Anushka Mukherjee, Grade 9 William Mason High School (Envision 1) and Rafaela Schomburgk, Grade 12 Roger Bacon High School (Envision 4)

We are looking for 14 high school students to participate in this free 2-week, black-and-white photography program at Manifest Drawing Center’s Community Darkroom in Clifton. Students will learn the fundamentals of analog film photography while exploring how the photograph can expose and frame the world around them. Our goal for the Envision Project is to have it culminate with a showcase exhibition of students’ photographs at the Drawing Center later in 2025.

Project Dates:
Ten Class Meetings, June 16–27, 2025
(Monday through Friday, 9am - 2pm)

Tuition: FREE !
Admission is competitive. Applications must be filled out online and require a letter of recommendation from one academic reference to be considered. Participants will be awarded spots based on application review.

Level of Study: No prior film-based photographic experience is required. All materials will be provided, but students are welcome to use their own film camera.




—[ APPLY HERE ]—


The above link will open a fillable PDF that can be downloaded, filled, saved, and then emailed to us.

Application Deadline: Friday, May 9, 2025

Notification of Acceptance: Friday, May 23, 2025

Questions? Email Adam Mysock at mysock@manifestdrawingcenter.org

photo: Ryleigh Sanborn, Grade 11 Walnut Hills High School (from Envision Project 4)

LOCATION: Unless otherwise specified, all courses are hosted at Manifest's new facility at 'M1' in Clifton at 3464 Central Parkway (see map and directions below). Manifest's new facility provides multiple studio classrooms, private lesson space, a darkroom, a film processing room, and a multi-purpose lecture and class meeting space as well as on-site parking, grounds, and exterior spaces in which to relax, discuss, and make art. The studios are outfitted with professional equipment, furniture, and study aids.

Map to Manifest's M1 Studios   |   Studio Calendar   |   Darkroom Calendar

photo: Maggie Harkins (from Envision Project 6)

photo: Jessica Lasita (from Envision Project 6)

About the instructor:

Peiter Griga is a Cincinnati-based artist and a National Board Certified Teacher who teaches high school photography. Griga earned his BFA from The University of Cincinnati College of DAAP in 2003 and since then he has worked for The Associated Press and freelance clients ranging from small design/branding firms to extreme sports companies to larger contemporary indie fashion clients. 

Griga completed a Master of Art Education from DAAP in 2007 and since has written numerous articles regarding Visual Culture, Semiotics, Photographic Instruction, and image-based media. It was during this time Griga began working on a series titled, ICANNOTREMEMBERALLTHATIHAVEFORGOTTEN, a complex body of work that explores how we remember and how we forget. ICRATIHF is comprised of photographs created with honey emulsion, performance, sculpture, installation, and video pieces.

Outside of Ohio, Griga has exhibited in Seattle, Santa Fe, Green Bay, Detroit as well as San Francisco. He has traveled to Syria, Lebanon, and Cyprus photographing archeological excavations for The Kourion Museum.

In 2009, Griga displayed a video installation within the atrium of The Contemporary Art Center and received national attention for his 2013 commission of 8bit QR Code Portraits made from honey emulsion for the DISRUPT-R exhibition at the Artisan Center of Kentucky.

Griga earned his MFA from the San Francisco Art Institute and became an Adobe Certified Instructor in 2016. Most recently, Griga exhibited at Root Division in San Francisco shortly before releasing a monograph in 2017 for his series, LIMINALLYYOURS. Highlighted images from LIMINALLYYOURS are currently on exhibit at 21c Cincinnati until October 2019.

Griga resides on an eastern hillside of Cincinnati overlooking the Ohio River with his partner in crime, Meredith, as well as their two dogs, Diego & Bowie.