Brooke Shaden

Brooke will guide the audience gently through exercises that enhance connectivity, vulnerability, and creativity. Diving into a variety of topics like the historical mental health of artists, innovation, what it means to release your work into the world, and how inspiration is a living entity that needs food to survive, Brook will cover ten reasons why artists are more prolific in community.

Art comes to life in this once-in-a-lifetime dream sequence where the viewers have a chance to photograph a creation from Brooke’s imagination. Join her as dynamic lighting reveals a magical performance where viewers can capture images of an enchanting set piece through a progressive act.

Art comes to life in this once-in-a-lifetime dream sequence where the viewers have a chance to photograph a creation from Brooke’s imagination. Join her as dynamic lighting reveals a magical performance where viewers can capture images of an enchanting set piece through a progressive act.

Art comes to life in this once-in-a-lifetime dream sequence where the viewers have a chance to photograph a creation from Brooke’s imagination. Join her as dynamic lighting reveals a magical performance where viewers can capture images of an enchanting set piece through a progressive act.

Origami comes to life with your work at the center. Utilizing an onsite work station and folding template, every visitor can print a piece of their work, create an origami bird with the unique photo paper, and add it to invisible wires hung from the ceiling revealing a murmuration of our shared contributions to the photography art space.

Origami comes to life with your work at the center. Utilizing an onsite work station and folding template, every visitor can print a piece of their work, create an origami bird with the unique photo paper, and add it to invisible wires hung from the ceiling revealing a murmuration of our shared contributions to the photography art space.

Origami comes to life with your work at the center. Utilizing an onsite work station and folding template, every visitor can print a piece of their work, create an origami bird with the unique photo paper, and add it to invisible wires hung from the ceiling revealing a murmuration of our shared contributions to the photography art space.

As the center piece of her residency at MODE, and with you as her subject, Brooke will capture MODE attendees artfully composed, posed, and clothes before editing the images real time over a massive projection. Adding to the other images she’s created that day a massive composite of thousands of visitors will slowly take shape into a murmuration of the community, suspended in our shared creative space.

As the center piece of her residency at MODE, and with you as her subject, Brooke will capture MODE attendees artfully composed, posed, and clothes before editing the images real time over a massive projection. Adding to the other images she’s created that day a massive composite of thousands of visitors will slowly take shape into a murmuration of the community, suspended in our shared creative space.

Step into the creative process with Brooke Shaden and become part of a one-of-a-kind artwork created as a gift to the city of Minneapolis. Here Brooke will be photographing participants and composite their images into a striking, large-scale photograph that will be gifted to the city. Participants will slip into a jumpsuit over their clothes and pose. Brooke will share her creative process as she demonstrates her live compositing and editing workflow in Adobe Photoshop, showing how individual portraits come together to create the larger work.Brooke will be working on the piece for several hours each day throughout the event. Everyone who participates and has their image added to the artwork will also be entered into a daily raffle for a complimentary one-year Adobe Creative Cloud Photo Plan membership. Brooke will select a winner at the end of each day.In collaboration with Adobe.

A conversation with artists on what happens when photography moves beyond the still image, becoming experiences, installations, and objects that invite, and sometimes demand, participation. A discussion about where the medium is going and what it means to make work that exists in space rather than on a wall.