Film Club Screening: The Secret Roan Inish
~With group
Event Type: Presentation
Cost: Free!
Join us Thursday, March 14th at 6 p.m. as we celebrate St. Paddy's Day by showing The Secret Roan Inish, written and directed by John Sayles. Set in a small fishing village in Ireland, 10 year-old Fiona is sent to live with her grandparents. She learns that she has an relative that married a selkie, a seal that can turn into a human. The New York Times called the film "a cinematic poem in which man and nature, myth and reality, flow together in a way that makes them ultimately indivisible."
The film will be hosted by Loren Lindburg. Popcorn is free. Donations gratefully accepted.
The Passion of Light, oil painting workshop
~With Rose Adare
Event Type: Workshop
Tuition: $250
Level: Open to All Levels
Work with the concept of "illumination" in painting, understand the passion of your model and completion of a full painting within the time frame.
First Day: beginning with line of action drawing to a descriptive solid drawing then translating this into a workable value scale incorporating gold leaf (optional) into the painting.
Second Day: using oil washes to understand midrange color, and color harmony, Learning how color can manipulate the viewer, How colors read and what is their power.
Third Day: finishing with accents of darks/lights re-establishing focal point, illumination and passion. Incorporating gold leaf so it is seamless.
Art Supplies for Students to bring:
Pencils or charcoal
Oils paints
Turps and other mediums
Brushes
Paints
an image of a person to work from
canvas either 8x10 thru 16x20
any other paint materials you use
Family Pottery Workshop
~With Toni Murray
Event Type: Workshop
Tuition: $40
Level: Open to All Levels
Sunday
Tuition: $40 for 1 adult and child, or $20
per person includes supply
Bring a lunch and spend a day playing in clay with your child! This one day class is an opportunity for parents and children to get a taste of ceramics together, with guidance from an experienced ceramicist. This is a hand building class, without use of the wheel. Bring a lunch and spend a day playing in clay with your child! Come prepared to get dirty and have some fun trying something new with your child.
Please call to register: 322-3362
Introduction to Digital Photography
~With Eric Edwards & Alvis Upitis
Event Type: Workshop
Tuition: $30
Level: Beginners
Saturday Morning
What camera is right for me? How can I get the best out of my digital camera? What can I do with
the images once I have them? The goal of this workshop is to teach people a basic understanding,
functions and use of digital cameras. Format will include an illustrated lecture covering simple
techniques to understand and operate your camera. Students are asked to bring their cameras so they
can practice the different functions and techniques.
Eric Edwards developed digital imaging products, technology and intellectual property at Sony, and
led development of international standards in digital photography, digital cinema, JPEG and MPEG.
Alvis Upitis is a working commercial photographer with 40 years experience shooting for Fortune 500
Companies and top advertising agencies worldwide. He has a BS and MFA in photography and taught
photo art and technique at the college level for 10 years.
Simple Post Production Techniques
~With Eric Edwards & Alvis Upitis
Event Type: Workshop
Tuition: $30
Level: Beginners
Saturday Afternoon
One of the most exciting aspects of digital photography is the many ways images can be edited, communicated, manipulated and enhanced once they are acquired. The goal of this workshop is to
introduce several of the post production options available to digital photographers including readily
available tools such as Picassa, GIMP, and Photoshop Elements. Format will include an illustrated
lecture covering simple techniques to manage, edit and improve your images.
Collage
~With Visiting Artist Holly Roberts
Event Type: Workshop
Tuition: $225
Level: Beginners
Holly Roberts is one of the Donkey Mill's recipients of the Laila Twigg-Smith Artist-In-Residence Grant.
The direct nature of collage allows for rapid immersion in the process of image making and leads to almost immediate results. By layering paint with constructed images to build works out of a variety of materials the student learns to paint both supportively and expressively. Students will learn transfer techniques, different ways of adhering material from wet to dry, how to make and use different surfaces, supports, and compatibility and layering of different materials. Materials include paint, photographic imagery, prints, found objects, organic material, and three dimensional objects-anything that will adhere to a surface and hold paint.
Supplies for Students to Bring:
COLLAGE MATERIAL
Note: We will be adhering your photographic images to surfaces, so paper that makes a good photograph may not necessarily be good for gluing. Regular 20lb copy paper works well for gluing but may not make the best print.
Any photographic information of any kind that you want to bring in. Best to bring your photos on a drive to print out in class.
Photographs, color or black and white. Older fiber based photos are fine, as are RC prints.
color copies(copies from your home copier can be problematic-Epson and laser printers tend to work better than other printers. Copies from Kinko’s type places work well)
Xerox copies
Images from magazines or newspapers
Anything that you would like to work with that you think you can adhere to a surface and that will (probably) hold paint. If you have an inkling of wanting to use something, then bring it.
Anything that you would like to scan and then print out as photographic information.
OPTIONAL NON TRADITIONAL MATERIALS:
Scrapers
Putty knives
Sponges
Plastering trowels
Crackle medium(best bet is Valspar at Lowes weathered)
Joint compound or drywall mud
Film Club presents: The King of Hearts
~With group
Event Type: Presentation
Cost: Free!
Thursday, February 14, 2013
During the latter part of World War I, Private Charles Plumpick is chosen to go into theFrench town of Marville and disconnect a bomb that the German army has planted. However, Charles is chased by some Germans and finds himself holed up at the local insane asylum, where the inmates are convinced that he is the "King of Hearts." Feeling obligated to help the inmates, Charles attempts to lead them out of town, but they are afraid to leave and frolic about the streets in gay costumes. Will Charles be able to deactivate the bomb in time and save his newfound friends? Hosts for the evening will be John Holliday and Eric Edwards.
Admission and popcorn are free.
Experimental Watercolor
~With Hiroki Moirnoue
Event Type: Workshop
Tuition: $250
Level: Open to All Levels
In this workshop, students will explore the illustrative qualities of watercolor painting by learning how to interpret what might be understood as a "flaw". Rather than covering it up, take advantage of watermarks drips and stains. Learn to read into an ink blob and discover an image through mystery and chance. Students will be working in a narrative format using watercolor paper 16" X 30".
Please bring the following tools and supplies to your workshop:
-3" flat watercolor brush
-Optional - 2" flat watercolor brush
-#10 round watercolor brush
-Plastic palette
-Grumbacher student grade watercolor paints (available at Utrecht 1-800-223-9132):Thalo blue, Thalo crimson, Medium yellow, White
Supply Fee covers the cost of watercolor paper.
Instructor's Note: Feel free to bring scraping tools, mark-making tools, extra watercolors, and brushes you may have.
The Intimate Object/Hand of the Maker
~With Stephen Mickey
Event Type: Workshop
Tuition: $225
Level: Intermediate
In this three day workshop, Stephen Mickey will explore with students the physical evolution of an idea through making, bringing a deeper understanding of how we express ourselves through our work. This class is appropriate for someone who is familiar with working on the wheel, able to consistently center and bring up the walls of a form.
In this hands-on throwing workshop, he will use different exercises to improve skills and to further our understanding of what makes each artist's work personal, also examining the question of why we make the shapes we make. What makes a form feel alive and full of joy? What pots make us feel good when we use them, and why?
These are questions we will explore together in order to make work that is more personal, helping each participant in this workshop begin to develop a sensitivity to touch and sensual form that beckons to the user and makes the pieces close to the heart. Students must be familiar with the potter's wheel (able to consistently center clay and bring up the walls of a pot). We will be using a porcelain clay body and focusing on the process more than product.
Artist Talk
~With Stephen Mickey
Event Type: Presentation
Cost: Free!
Stephen Mickey moved to Washington State in 1992 following 10 years directing the Ceramic program at the Evanston Art center. Mickey taught at Mt. Hood Community College in Gresham, Oregon for 20 years and now is a studio potter, master gardener, husband, Dad and granddad . He studied with Warren MacKenzie , David Stannard and John Reeve for undergraduate work at the University of Minnesota. All of these exceptional potters were trained at the Leach Pottery in England. He received his MA from the University of Wisconsin and his MFA from the University of Notre Dame.
Mickey works primarily on a Leach treadle wheel making pots that are intended to be used and experienced each day in our daily rituals of life be it sharing a bowl of soup or partaking in afternoon tea in a generous shape that gives pleasure to the hand and soul.
Artist Statement- Stephen Mickey
The pieces I make are intended for the human hand and the desire in our souls for intimate touch and for meaning. If one of my pieces, in daily use brings a sense of wellbeing and joy to the user, it is a success to me. My fondest hope is that through the use of my pots a person will be touched, slow down a bit and experience the joy of the maker and find intrinsic beauty in that work.