Artisan in Residence: Photography Workshop

Artisan in Residence: Maria Scaglione

Supercharge your smartphone photography skills and find out all that you can do with that sophisticated camera in your pocket.

Learn the basic compositional techniques that inform most of the images that we see all around us—from postcards to billboards. Explore compositional balance and how to place chosen subjects just right for maximum impact. Practice and play with elements in the camera frame just like any professional image-maker. Then enhance images taken with the many apps available on cell phones.

Reservations are required.

About the Artisan

Maria Scaglione was raised in both southern Italy and Westerly, Rhode Island. During her time in college, she travelled to northern Italy and apprenticed at a marble-carving studio in a beautiful, historic town called Pietrasanta. While learning to carve stone, she began to seriously pursue photography and the making of photographs. Upon returning to the U.S. from her time abroad, she obtained her M.F.A. from the School of Visual Arts in New York City. Maria has been awarded an artist’s grant from the Rhode Island State Council of the Arts and is working on a photo-illustrated cookbook demonstrating the old-world traditions still used by her family.

Reservations are required. There is a $5.00 fee for valet parking for non-hotel guests.