As a preview to the exhibition CUBA VA featuring the images of Roberto Fumagalli as well as current shows focused on stereo imaging, the ARTSblock education department is sponsoring a day of activities focused on Cuba and early photographic processes.

Participants review a CUBA-IN-3D website featuring a selection of stereo images taken in Cuba during the 1900s from the CMP’s Keystone-Mast Collection (www.cmp.ucr.edu > Collections > Search: Cuba). Also, museum intern Aldo Mercado has researched and added a number of important events and facts about Cuba, giving us additional insight to the pictures. These historical images have been turned into 3-D anaglyphs for viewing over the computer using special glasses. (see anaglyph: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stereoscopy#3D_glasses)

Next, visitors have two portraits taken by CMP staffers. The first portrait is taken using a digital camera allowing us to create anaglyphs using Adobe Photoshop. The second picture is taken using a 1950s Kodak stereo film camera in order to create old style stereographs. To view the portraits, check the CMP website under EDUCATION in a couple weeks.