Dianne Kittle, Fine Art Photography, MFA, has taught photography workshops at the Chicago Botanic Garden for the last 12 years and offers private bookings for your group or one–on–one mentoring.

Current Offerings for 2025:

Current Offerings on Zoom

Abstraction, History of Photography II, A Project Orientated Workshop (Part 2) Chicago Botanic Garden Registration is posted.

Dates : 6 Wednesdays, October 8 – November 12, 2025, 1 – 3:30 p.m. CST, Online, Registration with Chicago Botanic Garden (New!) Intermediate - advanced level

Continued with new artists, techniques, and projects of your imagination. Take a journey into the history of abstract photography and explore possibilities for new projects. Synthesize your own point of view with historical perspectives in abstract photography.  Each week you will be given a project to do based on the artists in the presentation. You will present 6 images the following week and be given the opportunity to comment on images from other participants in DropBox.

Abstraction Techniques to See Within

Dates : 2 Fridays, October 17 and 24th, 10 - 12:30 pm, Online, Registration with Colorado Photographic Arts Center (New!) Beginner to Intermediate

By the end of this workshop, participants will abstract reality using camera, computer, and “by the hand” techniques to transform reality into an experience of emotional expression. Abstract photography removes immediate associations with objects and transforms the banal world to images that provoke the unexpected and unrecognizable. This online class of two weeks will require a camera to abstract with aperture, shutter speed, and exposure compensation. We will meet 2 hours each week for a presentation of abstract techniques and image critique. We will explore the extremes of your camera to express emotion. We will explore possibilities of abstraction using by the hand techniques –– burning, freezing, mark making, print sewing, and collage

Mentoring One-to-One (contact me directly)

Designed and individually structured for those desiring one-to-one mentoring to create a themed portfolio. Participants will be given feedback and direction on content and assistance with tools like Lightroom and Photoshop for developing a project. The goal will be strengthening your artistic voice by developing independence and clarity in image-making. Journaling, creativity exercises, source research, and writing will be encouraged to enhance the final portfolio.  Contact directly for information diannekittlephotography@gmail.com

Existing Workshops with Curriculum:

Abstraction in Photography, The Inner Soul, Beginning and Intermediate

Abstract Expressionism, The Inner Landscape, Finding Real Truth, INVISIBLE Women Artists

Candid Photography, History of Photography, Modernism (Intermediate to advanced)

Creative Digital Photography For those who want to paint with the camera and feel (beginning level)

Fine Art Portfolio, Modernism (Components of a “submission” portfolio)

Fine Art Portfolio, Conceptual Beginnings, Creating a Portfolio with a Theme

Japanese Aesthetics I, What is Wabi-Sabi, Beauty is Transient, a portfolio workshop

Japanese Aesthetics II, Cultural and Historical Influences on Japanese Photo Art

Pictorialism, The Beginnings of Concept, Clouds that Feel

Postmodernism: Appropriation to PROVOKE, Conceptualism in the Present

Storytelling, a portfolio with your theme of honest passion, dipping into the history of photography

Surrealism, Eyes Wide Open, Scream the Truth

Textures in Nature, See the Forest, See the Garden, Feel the Surface

Water Gifts, Canvas of Life, Abstraction versus Realistic, Power of the Invisible