Vision Shift: Exploring Nature & Environment Through Mobile Photography and Creative Writing
A Four-Session Workshop in Seeing, Sensing, and Storytelling, Facilitated by Heather Geoffrey
Cost: $150-$250 sliding scale*
What happens when we slow down and shift the way we see the world around us? How can photography and writing help us connect more deeply with nature and our immediate environment? Vision Shift is a four-session workshop designed to cultivate presence, observation, and creative engagement with the natural world through mobile photography and creative journaling. Using the camera on your phone, along with guided writing exercises, participants will explore ways to notice, interpret, and document their surroundings in a more mindful, imaginative, and personal way. Previous digital photography experience is not necessary.
Each session will blend discussion, hands-on exercises, reflective journaling, and photography assignments to complete between sessions. The focus is on cultivating attention, experimenting with composition and storytelling, and developing a practice of of visual and written reflection that deepens our relationship with the world around us.
To register, please email programs@nohoarts.org with your name, address, phone number, and which session you are registering for. Payment can be made via PayPal here, or by mailing a check made out to NCFA to PO Box 366, Northampton, MA 01061.
*Payments on the upper end of the sliding scale help support our continued commitment to accessibility, including sliding scale models and the NCFA Community Fund.
Heather Geoffrey is an interdisciplinary artist whose work spans acrylic painting, digital photography, analog collage, mixed media, written word, and performance. She has dedicated her artistic practice to exploring the interplay between the physical, imaginary, emotional, and spiritual worlds. She views art as an ongoing dialogue—an exchange between the seen and unseen realms—that serves as both a source of magic and a wellspring of curiosity. Her creations act as portals, inviting viewers to step into new realms and discover the wonder within their own. Heather earned an MFA in Interdisciplinary Arts from Goddard College where she explored The Medicine of Art, Artist as Keeper of Ancestry and Lineage, Artist as Vessel, and Borderland Theory and Expression in Artistic Process. Through her work, she seeks to deepen the conversation between art and the unseen forces that shape our lives, encouraging others to embrace the magic inherent in creativity. Heather is also the Co-Director of the Northampton Center for the Arts.