It's our turn to help the Center for Photographic Art! The Big Idea: Last year, with help from Gives! donations, CPA launched its first PIE (Photography + Ideas + Experience) Labs. This year the PIE Labs take on technology—and that doesn’t necessarily mean digital. Technology is any application of science for practical purposes, so paper is a technology, the pinhole camera is a technology, as are a paintbrush or a sculpting knife. Technology is comprised of the tools, techniques and media available to artists to assist them in expressing their authentic voice for their audience to see, hear and experience. The 2016 PIE Tech Labs is a new educational program that will examine technology from an unconventional point of view. It will unpack and convey an array of immutable technologies, tools and techniques, that transcend the common, ever-changing technologies found in most photography programs today, empowering the artist to drive technology, not the reverse. https://www.montereycountygives.com/nonprofit/center-for-photographic-art/

PIE impacted me deeply. What a profound experience…I am a different person…or a little more of the person I was meant to be! —Silke Laetz, Corral De Tierra