EDUCATION (Tech App, STEM/STEAM, Knowledge Visualization, Fine Arts, Digital/New Media, Photography)

Tom R. Chambers taught an all-day street photography and documentary portraiture workshop at Precision Camera (Education Center) , Austin, Texas, June 5, 2021. He covered the  history of street photography, discussed Masters' photographs and his photographs , and discussed the street environment and documentation concepts/strategies . The participants made photographs on the streets of Austin based on classroom discussion, and then returned to Precision Camera to critique and select their images for an exhibition titled, "On the Streets of Austin" held at Artworks Gallery in the city, July 3 - August 7, 2021.  Chambers states, "For a first-time approach on the streets of Austin, the participants did very well. Street photography is not an easy genre, if you take into account that it requires the introduction of the human element as it relates to: environment, evaluation/assessment, activity (movement), timing (“decisive moment”), juxtapositions, foreground/backgrou

New Media Art (NMA) at the   National Institute of Design (NID)   exhibition is a culmination of a three-week workshop for New Media Design graduate students at NID in   Ahmedabad ,   India , July 10-28, 2006. The workshop was conducted by Tom R. Chambers. The no-constraints workshop encouraged self-expression through computer technology within a Fine Arts context. According to Chambers, art created via  New Media  should follow traditional conventions in the sense of appreciation for existing foundations and their various Art Movements. He has tried to instill this within the workshop process, and an overview of the exhibition sees an emotional component and search for truth that permeate the Fine Arts. The above view shows Devyani Arya's "The Unsung Heroes" (ode to the software developer) far left, Pallavi Kulkarni's "Plastic: India's boon or scourge" foreground center, Eva's "Kaleidoscope" far center [beyond post], Shweta Grampurohit'

Tom R.  Chambers initiated and implemented this photographic studio for the   National Gallery of Zimbabwe   ( Harare ,   Zimbabwe ,   Africa ), and its namesake is a tribute to   Frank McEwen , the Gallery's first Director, and in recognition of his Workshop School activities for African artists during the 1950s and 1960s. His (McEwen's) insight to nurture (then) exceptional talent through a rediscovered medium - sculpting in stone - is now reflected through international recognition of this contemporary art form. The introduction of the medium of photography into the Gallery's Art School (sponsored by  BAT Ltd. ) nurtured - over a three-year period (1993-1995) - the exceptional talent by African artists (school leavers) to grasp the medium and possibly, again, have a significant impact for the visual arts of Zimbabwe at the international level. The students' photographs were exhibited as "Moments In Time" (1993), "Moments In Time II" (1994) and &qu