Free pictures workshop alternative for native teenagers

Free pictures workshop alternative for native teenagers

Published 12:34 pm Thursday, February 5, 2026

TRYON—Teen residents in Polk County and Landrum are inspired to enroll in an opportunity to win a spot in a free 3-week Teen Smartphone Photography Workshop with Monica Stevenson starting February 14 and operating by February 28. The workshops, provided by Tryon Arts and Crafts School and sponsored by the Polk County Community Foundation’s Mary F. Kessler grant, will happen on Saturdays from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. on the Monica Stevenson Photography Studio situated at 112 N. Trade Street, Suite 4A.

Participants can have the chance to study skilled methods to reinforce their smartphone pictures expertise below the steering of native photographer Monica Stevenson. Stevenson, who has labored with famend manufacturers like Chanel and Ritz Carlton, is knowledgeable business, still-life, and fine-art equine photographer based mostly in Tryon and New York City. Through this workshop, she goals to mix technical experience with inventive imaginative and prescient to raise younger photographers’ skills.

The Mary F. Kessler grants assist tasks that contribute to bodily enhancements, growth, and beautification in Tryon and Landrum, in addition to these providing cultural, mental, and academic advantages.

The Tryon Arts and Crafts School is a non-profit academic heart devoted to selling the humanities and crafts by hands-on studying alternatives. TACS offers a platform for neighborhood members to interact in quite a lot of inventive disciplines, together with blacksmithing, ceramics, woodworking, and lately pictures. 

Students for every program shall be chosen by a lottery drawing. To enter a lottery, click on this system that pursuits you and comply with the hyperlinks to enroll on the Tryon Arts and Crafts School web site at tryonartsandcrafts.org.