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NoMAA Labs: CYANOTYPE printing

(Re)turning Home: Portraits of Childhood led by FLOR KHAN is a hands-on, reflective workshop that invites participants to look to the past as a way of understanding the present. Rooted in self-reflection, this workshop asks participants to send a portrait of themselves in childhood to the facilitator one week before the workshop date.

Using cyanotype, one of the earliest photographic printing processes, and plants, participants will create botanical prints that function as both image and offering: a way to connect personal memory and the natural world. The process emphasizes slowing down, observing, and allowing meaning to emerge through making.

Reflection Questions:

What stories live in our lineages and landscapes?
How do cycles of nature mirror cycles of personal change?
What does your childhood portrait say to your current ways of being in the world
How does art-making help communicate what cannot otherwise be said through words?
(Re)turning Home: Portraits of Childhood offers an accessible entry point into cyanotype while holding space for reflection, conversation, and intuitive learning.

Please note: This workshop is on the SECOND FLOOR in NoMAA’s STUDIOS

**Ticket sales end Friday, October 9. **

 

NoMAA Labs: Photography Business with SAM POPP

From Camera to Client: A Photography Business Workshop with SAM POPP

Taking great photos is only one part of building a sustainable photography career. In this workshop, Uptown-based photographer Sam Popp pulls back the curtain on the business behind the work, sharing the systems, decisions, and client experience strategies that have helped her build a thriving photography business.

Designed for photographers, videographers, or media-makers who want to strengthen the business side of their creative practice, this workshop will explore what happens beyond the camera: how you position yourself, communicate with clients, set expectations, build trust, and create an experience that makes people want to hire you again.

What we’ll cover: How Sam approaches business development, visibility, and building long-term client relationships over time.Contracts, communication, and managing client expectations Creating a client experience that builds trust and repeat business. Open Q&A with space to talk through real questions and scenarios. Whether you’re building your first client base or refining an established practice, you’ll leave with practical ideas for running your photo, video, or media business with more clarity and confidence.

About Sam Popp @sampoppshoots
Sam Popp is a New York City-based corporate event and portrait photographer, workshop leader, and community builder. After being laid off from her corporate marketing career in 2022, she turned her freelance photography side-hustle into a full-time business, specializing in conferences, corporate events, executive portraits, and brand storytelling.  Today, Sam photographs hundreds of events and professionals each year across the US for startups, nonprofits, media organizations, and global companies, regularly documenting CEOs, public figures, speakers, entertainers, and industry leaders. Her client work has been featured in Axios, The New York Times, Bloomberg, Forbes, and more. Learn more about her at www.sampoppshoots.com

NoMAA: Contracts and Copyright for Artists (Zoom)

Contracts and Copyright for Artists (Zoom)

Date & Time: Wednesday, July 22  •  6 PM – 7:30 PM EDT
Location: Online
For: Artists
Free

This free virtual workshop introduces artists to the essentials of gallery contracts, copyright, rights of publicity, and photographing in public spaces. Led by attorneys Jo Backer Laird and Stephanie Bunting Glaser, the session includes time for questions. Registration is required.

Speakers: Jo Backer Laird and Stephanie Bunting Glaser

PRESENTED BY CHILDREN’S ART CARNIVAL

NoMAA at United Palace: “Uptown Boys”

A new one act play “Uptown Boys”

Andy Price (Bernie), Vincent Saia (Anthony), Jonathan Ellers (Ralph), and Tuto Taveras (Chico) star in Adrian Miranda’s Uptown Boys, a raw, fiercely funny, and deeply moving drama directed by Adrian Miranda. Set around a four-top table in Washington Heights, this bilingual one-act play captures the sharp wit, buried trauma, and unbreakable bonds of lifelong brotherhood.

Set during a routine neighborhood card game cluttered with dominos, chips, and beer, Uptown Boys centers on four aging friends whose lives are upended when Bernie (Price) drops a bombshell announcement: he is leaving the Heights for a new life in a different city. The revelation ignites forty years of unhealed turf wars and personal grief, hitting Ralph (Ellers) hardest as he drowns in the unaddressed loss of his family. But when a sudden, chaotic dual medical emergency strikes the table, the masks of machismo must come down, forcing these men to work as a team to save each other’s lives. Uptown Boys is a powerful exploration of aging, survival, and the ultimate strength it takes to finally ask for help.

NoMAA Studios 4140 Broadway (Inside the United Palace on 176 Street) 

NoMAA at United Palace: “Uptown Boys”

A new one act play “Uptown Boys”

Andy Price (Bernie), Vincent Saia (Anthony), Jonathan Ellers (Ralph), and Tuto Taveras (Chico) star in Adrian Miranda’s Uptown Boys, a raw, fiercely funny, and deeply moving drama directed by Adrian Miranda. Set around a four-top table in Washington Heights, this bilingual one-act play captures the sharp wit, buried trauma, and unbreakable bonds of lifelong brotherhood.

Set during a routine neighborhood card game cluttered with dominos, chips, and beer, Uptown Boys centers on four aging friends whose lives are upended when Bernie (Price) drops a bombshell announcement: he is leaving the Heights for a new life in a different city. The revelation ignites forty years of unhealed turf wars and personal grief, hitting Ralph (Ellers) hardest as he drowns in the unaddressed loss of his family. But when a sudden, chaotic dual medical emergency strikes the table, the masks of machismo must come down, forcing these men to work as a team to save each other’s lives. Uptown Boys is a powerful exploration of aging, survival, and the ultimate strength it takes to finally ask for help.