Advertisement
PPMT Presents: Jen Hargrove in "FINE ART CHARACTER PORTRAITS"Tuesday, October 13th, 2026
4:45pm – Dinner (optional) – Kebab Gyros Greek & Italian – 389 Murfreesboro Pike, Nashville TN 37210
6pm – Meeting – The Pixel Connection – 700 Rundle Ave, Nashville TN 37210
Guest Welcome
FINE ART CHARACTER PORTRAITS:
Fine art character portraits are a way of photographing a subject with their real and true essence by showcasing personal passions, hands on life work and a unique sense of self or allowing them to portray a character they have always wanted to be. Character photography creates a real and true representation of the people being photographed and once in a while allows them escape reality for a moment or two. This fine art portrait photography course is dedicated to teaching you how to add fine art sensibility to your studio while also creating a high profit revenue stream. You'll discover how to use your marketing money in the most efficient way, including strategically working with local businesses, shops, and spaces as well as how to create a strong marketing brand. You'll come away from this workshop with everything you need to identify and create inventive shooting spaces, a marketing plan, and a new look for your business whether it’s a storefront, home studio, on location or pop-up. In this behind the scenes look inside Jen’s fine art character portraits, all of the materials and processes she uses, including how she shops second hand and antique shops for clothing and props and sets up her award-winning images. Full and multiple day courses will also have the opportunity to learn Jen’s post processing on both client and competition images. So if you want to achieve that vintage and subtle painterly feel this is the course for you! You will also learn the most sold products in both fine art full sessions and Character Portrait Keepsake Events, as well as how Jen creates, markets and sells out these events. So, whether it’s creating fine art portraits for first responders, medical professionals, ranchers or just someone that wants to have a moment as someone else and play a little adult dress up, fine art character portraiture portraits can be a highly profitable addition to your business model.
BIO:
Jen specializes in fine art character, pet and child portraiture as well as fine art waterscapes and abstracts. She is a PPA Master of Photography, Photographic Craftsman, Master Artist and CPP as well as a MPI Master of Portraiture with accreditation in Character Portraits and Animal Portraits, and a WPPI Associate. She is also a member of the ASP (American Society of Photographers, IPPA (Intermountain), and TPPA (Texas). She serves as the Immediate Past President of the IPPA Board of Directors as well as the Degree and Awards Chairperson and Education Committee. Jen strongly believes in the importance of continuing education and the role image competition has along with education in growing and evolving as a photographer, as well as a business owner, she also believes that all photographers have a responsibility to help educate other photographers, as well as clients.
Jen and Tim, her husband (and part time assistant) reside in Big Piney, Wyoming with their dog, Owen. They have four children, as well as three granddaughters, and four grandsons. Jen and Tim love to travel and Jen is a lifelong Notre Dame Fighting Irish, Chicago Bears and Chicago Cubs fan.
We are excited to announce our upcoming
PPMT Workshop with Jen Hargrove:
THE FINE ART STUDIO
Tuesday, November 10
🕘 9:00 AM – 3:30 PM
📍 Angela’s Photography Studio
2197 Nonaville Rd., Mt. Juliet, TN 37122
Workshop Investment: $99
Jen is bringing us a packed day all about building a successful high-end fine art photography business — from character, pet and child portraits to seniors, landscapes, waterscapes, abstracts and more.
She’ll be covering things like:
• Client consultation and planning
• Posing and lighting
• Simple prop selection
• Creating fine art imagery
• Sales and favorite products
• Marketing
• Fundraisers and profitable mini sessions
• Pop-up and on-location studios
• Selling personal and landscape work through boutiques, shops, galleries and online
• And so much more!
BRING YOUR CAMERA!
Also bring any triggers you may have. We want to maximize our time together actually photographing and creating.
One really exciting bonus: instead of spending a large portion of our workshop day behind the computer, Jen will host a Zoom call for our class after she returns home to Wyoming and walk us through how she processes the images we create during the workshop. That gives us even MORE shooting time together!
LUNCH:
You may bring your own lunch, or add a boxed lunch for $15. Lunch choices will be offered closer to the workshop date.
We’ll continue answering questions and talking shop during lunch, so it’ll be a full day of learning and conversation.
ABOUT JEN
Jen is a fine art photographer specializing in character, pet and child portraiture, as well as waterscapes and abstracts. She is a PPA Master of Photography, Photographic Craftsman, Master Artist and CPP, along with being an MPI Grand Master of Portraiture with accreditation in Character Portraits and Animal Portraits, and a WPPI Associate.
And we’re not done when the workshop ends!
After class, we’ll head straight into our regular PPMT evening together:
🍽️ 4:45 PM — Dinner
Kebab Gyros Greek & Italian
389 Murfreesboro Pike
Nashville, TN 37210
📸 6:00 PM — PPMT Monthly Meeting
Pixel Connection
680 Rundle Ave.
Nashville, TN 37210
This is going to be SUCH a fun photography-filled day.
PPMT members have first access to register before I open the workshop to TNPPA and then to the public — so if you want in, grab your spot early!
There is a limited number of tickets available for this workshop.
https://square.link/u/zePID9qu
Advertisement
Event venue
The Pixel Connection, 680 Rundle Ave, Nashville, TN 37210-2872, United States
Tickets
Concerts, fests, parties, meetups — all the happenings, one place.
Discover more events by tag
Entrepreneurship in NashvilleMarketing in NashvilleBranding in NashvilleEducation in NashvillePhotography in NashvilleFine-arts in NashvilleWorkshops in NashvilleBusiness in Nashville