Upcoming Workshops

An Insider’s Guide To Collecting Photography (Online)

Dates: November 18 - December 16, 2025
(5 weekly Tuesday sessions - virtual)

Time: 1 - 3 PM CST / 2 - 4 PM EST

Workshop Fee: $340 Tuition

Host: Houston Center for Photography (HCP)

Back by popular demand ! Overwhelmed by the photography market and don’t know where to begin? Thinking of buying your first photograph with the idea to build a collection? This 5-part virtual course, led by pioneer collector Alice Sachs Zimet, guides participants through everything they need to know to start (or expand!) their collection. Whether you are a beginner, a more seasoned collector, or a photographer curious to learn about the market, this course is for you!

Take advantage of this rare opportunity to peek into the collector’s mind offering abundant insider tips gathered across 40 years of collecting. Each session focuses on a different subject — the questions to ask before you spend a penny (signature indications, negative vs print date, condition reports, etc), how to buy at an auction, a virtual visit with a prominent dealer, and more. For the final session, students will research an image they would consider buying and present it to the class. Abundant handouts provided.

Limited to 12 students.

Gallery Visit

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A Peek Behind the Curtain: Female Gallery Owners and the Female Photographers they Represent (Online)

Dates:

December 3, 2025: Arnika Dawkins Gallery (Atlanta) and Tokie Rome Taylor

Time: 12 - 1:30 pm EST (virtual)

Workshop Fee: $195 per session

Host: Maine Media

Our last session! Have you ever wanted to go inside a gallery owner's mind to better understand the relationship they have with the artists they represent? This special 4-part series focuses on leading female photography dealers and the female photographers they represent. Join us to learn how they became a gallery owner, how they find the artists they represent, and the relationship between artist and dealer.

Our fourth and final session takes place on December 3 featuring Atlanta dealer Arnika Dawkins of Arnika Dawkins Gallery and photographer Tokie Rome Taylor, who explores Black identity, memory, and agency through her work.

Don’t miss this opportunity to go behind the curtain and meet with a leading photography dealer along with a major photographic creator.

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Alice leading a talk with Flor Garduño at Throckmorton Fine Arts

Maine Media Guest Speakers

Gallerist (Atlanta)

Arnika Dawkins

December 3rd

Arnika Dawkins, is the owner of her eponymous fine art photography gallery established in Atlanta in 2011. The gallery exhibits work by talented emerging and mid-career artists with a specialization in showing fine art photography by and of people from the African Diaspora. Her passion is connecting collectors to photography that is significant, inspiring, and provocative. As a fine art photographer and avid collector, she is a valuable resource to collectors and artists alike. She is passionate about the medium, having obtained a Master of Arts in Digital Photography from the Savannah College of Art and Design. Dawkins is the recipient of the inaugural Community Contribution Award for the Association of International Photography Art Dealers (AIPAD) where she serves on its Board as First Vice Chair.

Artist (Atlanta)

Tokie Rome-Taylor

December 3rd

Atlanta, Ga. based artist, Tokie Rome-Taylor, explores themes of time, spirituality, visibility and identity through the medium of photography. Portraiture, set design, and objects all are a part of Tokie’s photographic practice. She uses digital photography as her foundational medium, while also exploring cyanotype, and embroidery as a means to explore the layered complex relationship African Americans in the diaspora have with the western world.

Rome-Taylor’s series, “Reclamation”, was selected for PhotoLucida Critical Mass top 50. Her work has been featured in What Will You Remember and Feature Shoot Magazine. Additionally, Tokie is a Funds for Teachers Fellowship recipient, studying photography in Santa Fe, New Mexico and in San Francisco, California. Rome-Taylor’s work has been exhibited nationally and internationally. Her work has been a part of exhibitions at The Griffin Museum of Photography, Marietta Cobb Museum of Art, Stella Jones Gallery, SP-Foto SP-Arte Fair, São Paulo, Brazil, Gallery 1202, the Masur Museum, Zuckerman Museum of Art Lyndon House Art Center and the Dalton Gallery, Agnes Scott College, among others. She is a recipient of the Virginia Twinam Smith Purchase Award, adding her work to the permanent collection of the Museum of Contemporary Art of Georgia as well as the Legacy Award, bestowed by the Griffin Museum of Photography. Her work is held in multiple public and private collections and was recently acquired by the Petrucci Family Foundation Collection of African American Art.

Rome-Taylor is a 20+ year veteran educator and working artist. She is open to opportunities that relate to artist talks, visiting institutions, residencies and workshops.