Liberal Arts & Sciences - Art

Advanced Photography - Service Learning Project

Each semester the advanced photography class at Saint Paul College participates in a service learning project.  This project is an opportunity for photographic artists to partner with community oriented organizations.  The photographers document and artistically interpret these organizations through their photographs and portray them in a way that might appear unique and/or different from the ordinary.  Each student makes several images and then chooses 1 photograph to print and donate to the community organization.  Saint Paul College also receives a copy of the photographs to initiate a permanent collection of artwork at Saint Paul College and also to promote student artwork on the walls of our College.  The service learning project began during the Fall 2006 semester and we have completed the following projects:

• Photographs at the Rondo Community Outreach Library
• Photographs at the Minnesota Valley National Wildlife Refuge
• Photographs - Wilder Foundation Service Learning Project (Summer 2008)

Check back frequently. The list of partnerships and images produced will grow as we offer the course in the future.

-Aaron Bommarito, Instructor