Join College of Western Idaho's (CWI) Visiting Artist Series in welcoming Boise-based photographer and digital collage artist Emma Hood to campus Nov. 12 – 13 for an artist lecture and hands-on workshop.
Hood creates photography and digital collages exploring how our inner and outer worlds change together. She began working with digital photo manipulation in high school and now photographs both standalone compositions and visual elements that become part of her layered collages.
Hood was named a 2026 Top 200 finalist in Photolucida's Critical Mass international portfolio review and was an inaugural Show and Tell resident at The Common Well Studios, supported by the Alexa Rose Foundation. She is represented by Idaho Art Gallery in Boise and Meridian, Idaho, and Pivot Gallery in Rosseau, Ontario. Her limited-edition fine art prints have been exhibited internationally and are held in private and public collections.
Join Hood for a lecture highlighting her artistic practice and experience as a professional photographer.
Artist Lecture
Thursday, Nov. 12
6:30 – 7:30 p.m.
Nampa Campus Academic Building (NCAB), Room 106
In addition to her lecture, Hood will lead Digital and Physical Collage Explorations, a hands-on workshop exploring the differences between creating collages digitally and with physical materials.
Participants will begin with a Photoshop demonstration and guided practice, experimenting with layers of texture, shape, and color before creating their own digital collages. Following a lunch break, participants will move to a studio space to cut, layer, and assemble physical collages based on their digital compositions.
By the end of the workshop, participants will have created both a digital and physical collage and learned techniques they can use in future projects. No Photoshop experience is required.
Digital & Physical Collage Explorations Workshop
Friday, Nov. 13
Part 1
10 a.m. – noon
Canyon County Center (CYNC), Room 172
Part 2
1 – 3 p.m.
Nampa Campus Academic Building (NCAB), Room 206
Participants should prepare one to five photographs, including at least one abstract image featuring texture, pattern, shadow, or color. Phone photos, screenshots, scans, and camera files are welcome. Images should be saved as JPEG, TIFF, HEIC, or PSD files and brought on a thumb drive or emailed to a school account for access during the workshop.
Workshop participation is limited to 24 people. Those interested in attending must RSVP to Shawna Donahue at shawnadonahue@cwi.edu by Wednesday, Nov. 11, to reserve a spot.
CWI's Visiting Artist Series is made possible through a grant from the Idaho Commission on the Arts, which is supported by the National Endowment for the Arts. Events are free and open to the public.
For those with questions or in need of more information, contact Shawna Donahue at shawnadonahue@cwi.edu.
