Artist in Residence
 Motion Photo Air This spring, photographers Kathy Hoffman and Stacy Whiting were hard at work sharing their talents with Peninsula students. Through a grant from the Williamsburg Area Arts Council, Hoffman was an Artist-in-Residence at Jamestown High School and Whiting was at Lafayette High School.
The residency of Pfac Studio Art School instructor Hoffman called “Capturing Motion,” built on the subject of motion that was explored in Blink! Art at the Speed of Light, the recent exhibitions at Pfac that featured the pioneering strobe-related photographs by engineer Harold Edgerton and the kinetic sculptures of Gregory Barsamian. Her presentations concentrated on shutter speed and motion with both film and digital cameras.
Whiting’s efforts at Lafayette High School included instruction in specialized digital techniques. In addition, a main project focused on storytelling, using a limited number of photographs to tell a story selected from phrases in songs chosen by the students.
A grant from the York County Arts Commission allowed both photographers to lead students at Grafton High School and the York County School of the Arts in activities associated directly with the Edgerton exhibition. In a darkened studio they recreated the time-lapse imagery of motion within a single frame as well as the “milk-drop coronet” experiment shown in Edgerton’s famous photograph.
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