Upcoming live classes to spark your creativity.
In-person & Virtual
Join me for live classes and webinars designed to spark inspiration, deepen your creative process, and guide you toward more expressive, intentional photography. Whether we're exploring painterly techniques, creative editing, or the art of personal, meaningful image-making, these sessions offer both practical tools and artistic insight.
I also speak and teach at photography events, creative conferences, and private workshops. If you're interested in booking me to speak or lead a customized session for your group or organization, I’d love to connect.
Check below for upcoming sessions.
UPCOMING EVENTS
UPCOMING EVENTS
Santa Fe Workshops
Limited to 12 participants
Live Webinar - Zoom
The Meaning Behind the Making: A Creative Journey
Before the shutter clicks, something deeper stirs—a feeling, a memory, a truth. Some images are taken, others are felt. This new online workshop invites you to slow down and create from within, allowing personal meaning to guide what you see and how you share it. In this six-session workshop, photographer and art therapist Carly Sullens guides a transformative creative journey—one that moves past technical perfection and into image-making rooted in authenticity, emotion, and intention.
Over six weeks, you explore your creative core, uncover a personal repertoire of personal visual symbols, and develop a creative intention that guides both your image-making and editing. Intention-setting exercises, expressive journaling, guided assignments, image reviews, and live demonstrations help shape a visual arc—a thread of meaning that runs through your work. Along the way, Carly shares her painterly and composite editing techniques to support your unique visual voice and deepen the connection between intent and final image.
You begin to see how every creative choice—from what you photograph to how you shape it in post—can reflect something deeper. As you move away from automatic habits, your process becomes more intentional, more expressive, and more connected to who you are and what you want to say.
This isn’t about getting it “right.” It’s about getting it real. Work is created that doesn’t just look good, but feels purposeful and undeniably yours. What is innately yours can never be stolen; it’s about uncovering the visual language already within.
September 19 – October 24
Fridays, 9:30 – 11:30 am
(Mountain Time)
PPNEO
Limited to 12 participants
Live - North East, Ohio
Expressive Photography: from Vision to Artistic Masterpiece
This program is designed for photographers looking to explore the full range of their creative potential, both behind the lens and in post-processing. Whether you’re looking to deepen your connection with your work or further develop your own unique visual voice, this class offers an inspiring space to push your creative limits.
Led by a registered art therapist, participants will experiment with techniques to uncover and express their personal vision, transforming everyday scenes into visuals that reflect their emotions and ideas. The focus is on creativity, curiosity, and crafting images that resonate deeply with both you and your audience.
This experimental exploration will continue on with leaning into artistic editing processes. This portion of the class will teach you how powerful post-processing methods, including how to achieve painterly effects, create composites, will help transform your images further into your true artistic expression. By the end of the course, you will have developed both technical skills and an enhanced creative vision, empowering you to make original, impactful art through photography.
Suitable for photographers of all levels, this class invites you to discover how expressionism and creativity in both shooting and editing can elevate your photography beyond the ordinary.
October 18
Saturday, 10:00 AM - 6:00 PM
(Eastern Time)
CONTACT
Contact me to inquire about booking and request my speaker packet.
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