Valhall Arts

12/04/2025

Last chance to see the two exhibitions, “A Tree’s Counsel” and “No Ordinary Object”, this Friday at my studio gallery, 916 Woodford Ave., The hours are 4-6pm. After that I’ll be doing a pop-up at the Masonic Lodge, 225 W Oak St., 6-9pm.
Fort Collins First Friday Art Walk. Stop by one or both locations. I do offer gift certificates - a wet plate collodion portrait is a unique gift, and can be an archival family heirloom!

10/02/2025

Valhall Arts gallery will be open this Friday 4-7pm, featuring exhibitions from two long term projects, “No Ordinary Object” and “A Tree’s Counsel”

Part of the Fort Collins First Friday Art Walk, the gallery will be open this Friday, as well as November 7 and December 5, 2025, 4-7pm.

The city’s studio tour is also coming up the last weekend of October. More details coming soon!

09/05/2025

"A Tree's Counsel", an exhibition of wet plate collodion photographs by Laura Cofrin. Open tonight, September 5, 4-7pm, part of the Fort Collins First Friday Gallery Walk. Stop by to see the newest pieces in this long term project.

09/05/2025

"No Ordinary Object", an exhibition featuring my still life wet plate collodion photographs. Gallery is open tonight, 9/5/25, 4-7pm, part of Fort Collins' First Friday Gallery Walk.

04/21/2025

“Trees are an invitation to think about time and to travel in it the way they do, by standing still, and reaching out and down.“
Rebecca Solnit - Orwell’s Roses

01/31/2025

I am very excited to announce the 16 photographers invited to participate in "Silver and Salt" - an historical analog photography exhibition. I am curating the show at my studio/gallery in Fort Collins. March is Denver's bi-annual Month of Photography Festival, and there are 100s of great exhibits, events, talks, reviews etc. all over the state. The exhibition opens March 7th, gallery hours Friday and Saturday, 12-5pm, through March 29th.

The "Silver and Salt" exhibition features a variety of historic methods for creating photographs - gum bichromate, platinum and palladium prints, salted paper prints, a variety of toned cyanotypes, as well as wet plate collodion "tintypes" and gelatin silver prints.

Included Artists:
Federica Armstrong
Ross Borgida
Angus Carter
Roland Hartley
Patricia Howard
Kaya & Blank
Andy Mattern
Catie Michel
Marni Myers
Kelsey Nolin
Eleanor Oakes
Heather Palecek
Emma Powell
Starr Tucker-Ortega
Joshua Yates

Photograph details:
Angus Carter
"Slow Dirty Tears"
Gum Bichromate

01/14/2025

Last week to apply!

CALL FOR ENTRY

Valhall Arts is an alternative arts space in Fort Collins, CO that functions as a working studio and gallery, primarily featuring the historic wet plate collodion photographic process. For the 2025 Month of Photography Denver Festival, Valhall Arts invites photographers also working with historic photographic processes to submit their work for the upcoming exhibition, “Silver and Salt”.

Emerging and established photographers are eligible to submit up to three works created using historic and/or handmade methods and which are up to 20 inches wide. Selected works will be featured in Valhall Arts’ unique space in Fort Collins, as well as online and via social media.

COST: $25 for up to three images
SUBMISSION DEADLINE: January 19, 2025
EXHIBITION DATES: March 7 - 31, 2025

Find additional exhibition details and submission guidelines: https://denvermop.org/silver-and-salt/

Image detail: ©Laura Cofrin

11/06/2024

Excited to get back into hosting exhibitions after a decade long hiatus. Apply now!

CALL FOR ENTRY

Valhall Arts is an alternative arts space in Fort Collins, CO that functions as a working studio and gallery, primarily featuring the historic wet plate collodion photographic process. For the 2025 Month of Photography Denver Festival, Valhall Arts invites photographers also working with historic photographic processes to submit their work for the upcoming exhibition, “Silver and Salt”.

Emerging and established photographers are eligible to submit up to three works created using historic and/or handmade methods and which are up to 20 inches wide. Selected works will be featured in Valhall Arts’ unique space in Fort Collins, as well as online and via social media.

COST: $25 for up to three images
SUBMISSION DEADLINE: January 19, 2025
EXHIBITION DATES: March 7 - 31, 2025

Find additional exhibition details and submission guidelines: https://denvermop.org/silver-and-salt/

Image detail: ©Laura Cofrin

08/26/2024

A while back I was lucky enough to be able to photograph the historic water works in Fort Collins. Unfortunately the weather was not cooperating and the heat and humidity created loads of technical issues. As well as my dog jumping into the tub containing the last tintype and smudging it 😭.
Posting the plates anyway, ;) "always an amateur" I say!
September 21 is the Poudre Landmarks Foundation historic home tour. The waterworks will be open too, 10am-3pm, so plan to visit and learn something about the history of Fort Collins.

10/28/2023

Contact me now for your holiday portraits! Fresh chemistry will yield beautiful tintypes, help me make the most of it while it lasts!

07/11/2023

It’s very disappointing when chemical issues crop up in the wet plate collodion process. For reasons yet to be determined, the images dissolved in the varnish. Some dissolved while being developed. All my trouble shooting points to the developer, as good plates were made after switching back to previously used chemistry; these plates varnished without complications. Two plates used with the bad solution will remain un-varnished. The photograph is too precious to me. It will be curious to see how the image degrades, as the reaction to create the pure silver was obviously flawed, and I suspect it’s current state will change. “Always an amateur” 😉 , and forever something new to learn working with this historic alchemy.

11/20/2022

I have an exhibition currently at FOMA in Santa Fe, “Holding the Edge”, with painter Jennie Kiessling. It was a “Top Five” pick from Southwest Contemporary 5x5. Exhibit runs through December 17.