Off Track Art Gallery 

Susan Ruddick Bloom, has been an artist her entire life, starting classes at Maryland Institute College of Art at age 5. She went on to get her BFA and MFA degrees there. Her art career has taken her from courtroom illustration for newspaper and tv….to commissions…..to teaching photo workshops in the US and abroad ….to 34 years of being a professor and department chair at McDaniel College.

 

Now retired from McDaniel, Sue keeps up a busy schedule making and exhibiting her art and sharing her techniques with others through workshops at several institutions including Common Ground, Glen Echo National Park for the Arts, and Maine Media Workshops.

 

Traveling is high on Sue’s to-do list and she often heads up trips abroad for friends and alumni. She also teaches photo workshops to various sites throughout the US. Watch her web site  (www.suebloom.com) for upcoming trips and classes.

 

She is the author of three books for Focal Press, and is considered a pioneer in the field of digital fine art photography. She is especially known, throughout the world, for her creative approaches and techniques in the areas of Digital Collage and Digital Painting. Sue also writes for photo magazines in the US, Canada and Australia, and lectures throughout the mid-Atlantic.

 

This show features the creative work that can be done using your mobile phone. The cameras on phones have democratized photography for everyone. In today’s modern era everyone is a photographer. You don’t need a big, expensive camera and lenses to make beautiful images, ….just the phone in your pocket, with a bit of understanding of its’ inherent capabilities. Sue, a long-time advocate of iPhone photography, teaches classes on how to use this new tool to make more meaningful images. Again, consult her website for upcoming classes.