FotoFest schedules professional development workshops for artists and art professionals during its Biennial festivals, coordinated with the Meeting Place Portfolio Reviews; as well as during Inter-Biennial years.

Media and Marketing Experts, Artists, Curators and Editors bring their expertise and experience of art, the internet, social media networks, multi-media platforms, and curating in the contemporary art world, to the FotoFest Workshops, many of which are orginal workshop presented especially for FotoFest.

Past presenters and co-organizers have included:

Mary Virginia Swanson, Art Marketing Consultant
Brian Storm, MediaStorm online publishing platform
American Society of Media Photographers (ASMP)
Santa Fe Workshops
Maine Media Workshops