2025 Workshops!

My 2025 workshops with Maine Media through the summer are now posted - you can read about all four of my workshops here. I’m teaching Photography and Environmental Advocacy (online), The Craft and Art of the Fine Digital Print (two incarnations), and Mastering the Fine Digital Print. Please let me know if you have any questions!

Energy in Flux Exhibition

Pyrocene I #14, from A Field Guide to the Pyrocene

I’m delighted to be included in the exhibition at the Maine Museum of Photographic Arts opening today, October 4th! The opening reception is tonight from 5-8 pm, but I unfortunately cannot be there since I am teaching up in Rockport. But it looks to be a wonderful exhibition given the artist list. I have three pieces included, all from my project entitled A Field Guide to the Pyrocene. The exhibition will be up until November 30th, 2024.

Nocturne 2024 - Opening Reception Tomorrow Sept. 14th

Pyrotechnic #53, Copyright Jim Nickelson

I’m pleased to have three pieces included in the new Nocturne 2024 exhibition at the Maine Art Gallery in Wiscasset. I’ll be there for the opening 5-7 pm tomorrow, September 14th. The exhibition continues through October 20th, 2024.

Cygnet Gallery Photography Exhibition

Buddha Moon II, Copyright Jim Nickelson

I’m excited to be included in a big photography exhibition at Cygnet Gallery in lovely Southwest Harbor, ME. The exhibition opens today and runs through June 16th. I’ll be at the opening tonight, May 2nd, 5-7 pm. I have work in the show from two separate projects — Adventures in Celestial Mechanics and The Anthropocene Surveys. I encourage you to check it out if you are in the area!

Andromeda Glacier #1, Copyright Jim Nickelson

2024 Workshops are now live!

I am teaching two printing workshops in 2024 with Maine Media Workshops, including one brand new one! In July I’m teaching my traditional printing course, The Craft and Art of the Fine Digital Print, and at the end of September/beginning of October, I’m teaching a brand new course called Mastering the Fine Digital Print. This new course is more advanced, covering many topics we do not have time to cover in the first workshop, and the first workshop (or equivalent experience) is thus required to take the advanced course.

And coming up even sooner, I have the next iteration of my Photography and Environmental Advocacy online course starting in just a few weeks on February 6th, 2024!

Artist Talk Tomorrow at Blue Raven Gallery!

I’m giving an artist talk tomorrow, December 15th, at 4-5 pm at the Blue Raven Gallery in Rockland. I’ll be talking about the work in the current exhibition and all of my environmental advocacy photography…hope to see you there!

Aether: The Fifth Element Exhibition

The Memory of Nature III

I’m excited to be included in the Aether: The Fifth Element exhibition at the new Blue Raven Gallery in Rockland, ME. You can see five large pieces from my Memory of Nature project in this group exhibition. The opening is tomorrow, November 17th from 4-6 pm, and the exhibition extends until 2024. Hope to see you there!

New Printing Workshop

Because of a waitlist on my workshop that completed last week, we’ve decided to add a new session of my fine art printing workshop at Maine Media from October 30th-November 3rd, 2023. Please follow the link for more information and to register.

Creative Destruction

I’m excited to announce that I’m part of a paired solo exhibition at Garage Gallery in Beacon, NY, with an opening reception this coming Saturday from 4-7 pm. The exhibition, entitled Creative Destruction, pairs destroyed (and non-destroyed) work from my series The Anthropocene Surveys with the wonderful work of Caroline Burton. The exhibition runs from June 10th-25th on weekends. I look forward to seeing the exhibition on the walls this weekend at the opening reception!

New session of Photography and Environmental Advocacy Workshop!

We’ve scheduled a new session of my new Photography & Environmental Advocacy workshop this summer…it will happen over five Tuesday afternoons, August 1st, 8th, 15th, 29th and September 19th. Find out more and sign up at the link, and please let me know if you have any questions! We did tweak the timing to allow for my time between the last classes to allow people to work more on their projects between classes.

2023 Workshops Updated! New Digital Printing for Digital Books Workshop

We are launching a new workshop that will run April 3rd-7th of this year entitled Digital Printing for Digital Books. This is a modified version of my inkjet printing workshop that focused on concerns for using inkjet prints for handmade books. I’m very excited about this new workshop, and let me know if you have any questions! More information and registration is here.

2023 Workshops

I have three workshops scheduled with Maine Media in 2023 that have been announced (plus one more in the works!). I’m particularly excited about my brand new workshop, Photography and Environmental Advocacy, which launches February 28th. The online workshop runs Wednesday afternoons (1-4 pm Eastern) for five weeks (March 1st-March 29th). You can find out more and register here.

I’m also teaching my long-time workshops in-person, with The Craft and Art of the Fine Digital Print happening in July and The Sense of Wonder in September.

Please let me know if you have any questions!

Annals of the Former World Exhibition Update

I’ve been so grateful for the reaction to my current exhibition at Cove Street Arts, and I wanted to share a few links about it here. First, the gallery has a great new page that includes everything in the show. They also created a video showing the exhibition, too.

The always-useful resource What Will You Remember? features this exhibition in this month’s recommended exhibitions in the New England area.

And I love the review of the exhibition by Edgar Allen Beem in the Portland Phoenix recently, too.

The exhibition will be up through September 24th, 2022, so there is still time to see it if you haven’t yet!

Annals of the Former World at Cove Street Arts

My Annals of the Former World project is on exhibition at Cove Street Arts in Portland, Maine through September 24th, 2022. There is an opening reception this coming Thursday, August 11th, from 5-7 pm, and I will of course be making the journey down.

The exhibition is based on my handmade artist book and basically includes all of the photographs from the book (with the exhibition curated by Bruce Brown). You can view and purchase a copy of the book at the exhibition as well.

I haven’t seen this exhibition on the walls yet myself so I greatly look forward to seeing it on Thursday. I hope to see many of you there!

(btw, this exhibition plus many others in New England are included on the essential What Will You Remember? blog).

Griffin Museum 28th Annual Members Juried Show

The Memory of Nature III, Copyright Jim Nickelson. All Rights Reserved.

One of my new photographs has been included in the Griffin Museum of Photography’s 28th Annual Members Juried Show that just opened. There is an opening this coming Sunday, July 10th, from 4-6 pm at the main gallery in Winchester, MA. I’ll be there and hope to see some of you there! The exhibition runs until September 4th as well.

This is the first public exhibition of work from my new Memory of Nature project and I can’t wait to see it on the wall.

Summer Workshops (Updated!)

In-person workshops are back! I’m teaching two workshops this summer and early fall with Maine Media Workshops + College: A Sense of Wonder is on September 12th-16th, 2022 (please note new dates!), and The Craft and Art of the Fine Digital Print is on August 1st-5th. Hope to see you there!

The Memory of Nature

“The Memory of Nature XVI”, 2022. Copyright Jim Nickelson. All Rights Reserved.

I’ve excited to announce my newest project, entitled The Memory of Nature. This project is the next iteration of my broader Annals of the Former World project focused on combating climate change. Here is a short description:

In the newest part of this project, entitled The Memory of Nature, I photograph landscapes threatened by climate change and then burn prints of these photographs, creating an entirely new work scarred by the effects of fire, the funeral pyre of the the Anthropocene. Fire was the critical tool in the creation of our current civilization, and its unfettered use will perhaps be its downfall.

Please take a look if you are interested and let me know what you think!

The Anthropocene Surveys Update

I’ve just made a major update to my project page for The Anthropocene Surveys, including adding four different geographical surveys. This project is part of my broader Annals of the Former World project focused on combating the destructive aspects of climate change. Please check it out if you’d like and let me know what you think!

Maine Media Book Artist-in-Residence 2022 Open for Applications

As the most recent recipient of the Book Artist-in-Residence award from Maine Media, I can highly recommend this to those interested in the book arts. Applications are due June 1st.

The award was very important to me as it started me on what I hope is a long journey of practicing the book arts. My time in the studio, and the guidance of Richard Reitz Smith, essentially taught me how to make a book. You can find out more about the book I created during the residency here (and if you’d like to see it in person, please contact me).

Exhibition at Thos. Moser Gallery

Summer Moon I

Work from my Adventures in Celestial Mechanics project is included in a new exhibition at the Thos. Moser Gallery in Freeport, Maine. The exhibition, entitled “Celebrating 50 Years of Fine Art and Craft”, is up now and will continue through the end of January 2023. Check it out if you are passing through Freeport this year - the show included some wonderful photography, painting, and more.