Sheila Cunningham

Sheila Cunningham is an award winning fine art photographer whose Polaroid Transfers and Artist Books are exhibited in solo and national juried shows. Her artwork, project designs and articles have been widely published in books and national magazines. As a Creative Uses Consultant for Polaroid she teaches Polaroid Transfer and Book Structures workshops nationally through prestigious universities and fine art centers. In Dallas, she teaches workshops at the Creative Arts Center of Dallas. Cunningham's works are in many private collections.

Polaroid Transfers
The Polaroid Transfer technique produces an image similar in appearance to a watercolor painting. This infuses the photographs with a warm timelessness that evokes a dream-like quality.

The Polaroid Transfer images are produced by projecting a slide onto the Polaroid pull-apart film using a slide printer or camera, separating the underdeveloped Polaroid peel-apart print, pressing the negative onto a damp sheet of watercolor paper, or other absorbent surface, to transfer the print dyes into the surface, and then peeling away and discarding the negative.

Emulsion Lifts
The Emulsion Lift has a translucent and fluid quality that seems to move on the page. The ability to manipulate so freely produces an image that can be stretched and wrinkled even transferred to 3-D objects.

Emulsion lifts are created by lifting the image from a Polaroid print that has already been fully developed and dried, then transferring that emulsion onto another material. Lifts can be transferred to most any surface.

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Mission Statement
The North Dallas Artist Studio Tour is an educational art event that invites the public into working studios of North Dallas artists, allowing an intimate view of the creative process. The Tour seeks to raise public awareness of the quality and diversity of artwork being produced by local artists and to demonstrate that art adds meaning and richness to community life.