Donkey Mill Art Center - Holualoa Foundation for Arts and Culture

Large Scale Abstract Painting

~With Hiroki Morinoue

Event Type: Workshop

Tuition: $200

Level: Intermediate - Advance

This will definitely be a workshop to get students working larger in scale and experimenting with a medium heavy in surface textures. Each student will receive three sheets of 4' x 2' plywood. We will be working with a quick drying wall compound (Spackle) mixed with acrylic paints. By layering color over color, scraping and carving can create dramatic surface dimension. Further surface details are expanded by glazing, drybrush, rolling, etc. The truth is discovered in the experimentation and the willingness by each student to self-explore the freedom of the medium.

Material fee will cover the wood panels, drywall compound and acrylic medium.

Each Student to bring

Personal brushes
Acrylic paints: Red, Yellow, Blue & White (4 fl. oz.)
Palette
Paint Scrapers and any other tools to create surface textures
Rags
some plastic containers for mixing paints
notebook, pencils,
lunch

Material fee: $25 - (to cover 3 sht.s of 4'x2', Drywall Compound & Acrylic Medium)

Pochoir

~With Elizabeth Ferrill

Event Type: Workshop

Tuition: $225

Level: Open to All Levels

The pochoir printmaking method is a simple and beautiful way to layer forms, create pattern, and build a remarkable matte surface using water-soluble gouache. The tradition of pochoir will be explored as a way to create unique yet reproducible images and to hand color prints and drawings with saturated, velvety, flat blocks of color. Students will experiment with ways to apply gouache to make both transparent and opaque effects, practice fading and blending, and stenciling onto alternative surfaces.

A native of Seattle, WA, Elizabeth received her BFA in Painting and Printmaking from Cornish College of the Arts in Seattle. She received her MFA in Printmaking from the Rhode Island School of Design in Providence.

Elizabeth has had solo exhibitions at the Armory Gallery at Virginia Tech in Blacksburg, Virginia, at the Gideon Gartner Gallery at Anderson Ranch Arts Center in Snowmass Village, CO and at 5x6x9 Gallery in Berlin, Germany. Elizabeth currently lives and works at Anderson Ranch Arts Center in Snowmass Village, CO.

Supplies for pochoir workshop:

Cutting mats
Exacto knife with #11 blades
Dura-Lar pads
Bristol pads
Plastic palettes
Gouache (Holbein Designer Gouache)
Drawings, photographs, or any source imagery that students want to bring

Note: Additionally, students may bring in any prints on which they would like to add pochoir.

Artist Talk with Elizabeth Ferrill

~With Elizabeth Ferrill

Event Type: Presentation

Cost: Free!

Elizabeth Ferrill's work revolves around portraying spaces of transit and mobility. She represents the paradoxical moods of spaces such as airports, bus stops, waiting areas etc. These spaces often seem cold and emotionless yet they are filled with stories and personal experiences.

Elizabeth Ferrill is a Laila Twigg-Smith Artist-in-Residence

Alternative Firing Techniques

~With Kate & Will Jacobson

Event Type: Presentation

Cost: $300

Kate and Will Jacobson have been collaborative studio potters since 1978 and are widely recognized as the inventors of naked raku.

This workshop will be a thorough exploration of this and other alternative firing techniques. The first two mornings will be spent demonstrating sculptural and throwing methods. Students will have open access to the Donkey Mill ceramics studio in the afternoons and evenings. The third day student work will be bisque fired. An excursion on Hawaii island will be planned during the bisque. On the fourth and fifth days participants will experiment with glazing and various low-fire smoke and sagger techniques.

"Our approach to making art is much more intuitive than pragmatic. When working, we allow the fate of the clay to reveal itself and then we embrace the experience. It's almost an involuntary response where we are simultaneously the guide and the seeker."

Large Scale Abstract Painting

~With Hiroki Morinoue

Event Type: Workshop

Tuition: $200

Level: Intermediate - Advance

This will definitely be a workshop to get students working larger in scale and experimenting with a medium heavy in surface textures. Each student will receive three sheets of 4' x 2' plywood. We will be working with a quick drying wall compound (Spackle) mixed with acrylic paints. By layering color over color, scraping and carving can create dramatic surface dimension. Further surface details are expanded by glazing, drybrush, rolling, etc. The truth is discovered in the experimentation and the willingness by each student to self-explore the freedom of the medium.

Material fee will cover the wood panels, drywall compound and acrylic medium.

Each Student to bring

Personal brushes
Acrylic paints: Red, Yellow, Blue & White (4 fl. oz.)
Palette
Paint Scrapers and any other tools to create surface textures
Rags
some plastic containers for mixing paints
notebook, pencils,
lunch

Material fee: $25 - (to cover 3 sht.s of 4'x2', Drywall Compound & Acrylic Medium)

Zero Currency Open Mic Nite!

~With Community Participants

Event Type: Presentation

Cost: Free!

The Donkey Mill's OCCUPY ART: Beyond Wall Street exhibit opens with a 'Zero Currency Trade Event' from 6pm to 8pm.

Poets, singers, musicians, comics, sketch artists, improv acts, magicians may come and perform on this inaugural, OWS-inspired Open Mic Nite.

Acts up to 5 minutes may sign up upon arrival on a first-come, first-served basis.

As a 'Zero Currency Trade Event', there is no admission or entry fee and guests are invited to bring their own pupus, snacks, drinks and items to share or trade.

This is sure to be an eclectic and memorable evening.

Understanding Photography

~With Ryan Laudan

Event Type: Workshop

Tuition: $25

Level: Beginners

Interested in getting the maximum flexibility out of your camera you tend to put on 'auto'? Ryan Laudan's intro class will introduce some cool techniques using almost any camera.

From the lens to the sensor (or film), the path that light takes is what you control as a photographer. In this workshop students will learn the fundamentals of photography and how to use or bend light that allow creative freedom and expression in a single frame.

Ryan Laudan is a visual effects artist and photographer. A constant adventurer, Ryan always brings a camera, from the depths of our oceans to dark and crowded nightclubs he finds a way to capture essence of a situation. He has clicked a shutter more than a couple of hundred thousand times and is always eager to share what he has learned.

Students will need a camera and examples of photos you would like to capture.

This class is open to all ages!

Please RSVP to the Donkey Mill Art Center by Wednesday, November 2, 2011.

Renegade Silkscreen Workshop

~With Shez Arvedon

Event Type: Presentation

Cost: $95

Shez Arvedon takes traditional printing methods into her own hands! This workshop will introduce basic screen printing techniques and move into experimenting with a variety of mediums. Students will transform and combine methods, textures and images to create unique and spontaneous works of art on fabric. Bring new and used clothing, towels, pillow cases and any clean fabric items to use as your canvas. You can even print the T-shirt off your own back if you wish.

Please come with a sketchbook of images, patterns and ideas you want to work with.

Clay that Sings

~With Teri Sugg

Event Type: Workshop

Tuition: $140

Level: Beginners - Advanced

Artist/musician Teri Suggs love of ceramics and music have combined to create an obsession with coaxing sound from clay for the past 10 years. Her ocarinas, flutes and huacas (double and triple ocarinas) are in the collections of musicians, sound-healers, and every-day folks from Hawaii to North and South America. She has been working with clay for 22 years, specializing in hand building and figurative sculpture. She works with each student according to their individual goals and is a patient teacher, with experience in teaching both older adults and children.

Large Scale Painting Workshop

~With Hiroki Morinoue

Event Type: Workshop

Tuition: $200

Level: Beginners

This workshop is designed to get the students working larger in scale and experimenting with a medium heavy in surface textures. Each student will receive three sheets of 4'x2' plywood. We will be working with a quick drying wall compound (Spackle) mixed with acrylic paints. By layering color over color, scraping and carving can create dramatic surface dimension. Further surface details are expanded by glazing, drybrush, rolling, etc. The truth is discovered in the experimentation and the willingness by each student to self-explore the freedom of the medium.

Materials for students to bring: Personal brushes
Acrylic paints: Red, Yellow, Blue & White (4 fl. oz.)
Palette, Paint Scrapers and any other tools to create surface textures, Rags, some plastic containers for mixing paints, notebook, pencils and a good lunch

Material fee will cover the wood panels, drywall compound and acrylic medium.