The Art of Raku Firing
~With Candon Wharton
Event Type: Workshop
Tuition: $225
Level: Beginners - Advanced
The workshop will open with a video and slide presentation of the history and techniques of Raku, from the 16th century tea ceremony to contemporary use of the technique today. Demos will include hand building and texturing techniques for both beginners and advanced students, as well as instruction on her reduction firing techniques. An emphasis on surface design will be explored through the use of different tools. Participants will be creating several pieces of their own using both throwing and hand building methods. The workshop will end with a critique and question and answer session.
Candone Wharton has been working as a Raku artist for over 30 years. She opened her first Raku studio on the island of Ibiza, Spain where she also owned a small gallery. For the past 13 years she has been a fulltime studio artist living in Daytona Beach, Fl. USA. She is best known for her intricate basket weave textured vessels and her luster Raku glazes.
Candone's work can be seen throughout the USA and Europe. Candone is currently working on several projects which include heading a ceramic workshop for a group of disabled adults, traveling in Europe and Indonesia (Bali) to give Raku workshops and working on commissions of her own work.
Painting Intuitively
~With Timothy Ojile
Event Type: Workshop
Tuition: $150
Level: Beginners
An intuitive approach to art is always best when creating new work. The workshop will emphasize individual breakthroughs and accomplishment with special regard to form, style, and content of participants' work.
Each day a series of exercises will be given culminating in a set of complete paintings on paper. Collage will also be introduced, as will partnering and
art discussion/review/critique.
My workshops are designed to inspire anyone interested in painting and working with paper.
Mixed mediums, including modeling paste, or other textured mediums, can enhance any kind of work on paper; but my emphasis on color and composition coordination with an intuitive approach is a highlight of these workshops.
Timothy P. Ojile, originally from Minneapolis, is an artist who lives and works in Honolulu. He teaches classes called "Intuitive Painting" and "Beyond Boundaries" at the Academy Art Center, and he has exhibited his artwork extensively in Hawaii and on the mainland, including in New York City. In addition, his work has been shown in Europe and Japan and gallery affiliations include venues in Provincetown, San Jose, Houston, Honolulu, New York City, Tokyo and Osaka. He is represented in art collections in Germany, Paris, Montreal, New York City, Houston, Dallas, Washington, D.C., Minneapolis, San Francisco and Los Angeles, among numerous other private and corporate collections. His artwork may be seen in the collections of the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco (DeYoung/Legion of Honor) and Continental Airlines (now United Airlines); and in Hawaii, the Honolulu Academy of Arts, The Contemporary Museum, the Hawaii State Foundation on Culture and the Arts and the Hawaii State Art Museum. Among the extensive list of catalogues and periodicals in which his work has been included and his exhibitions have been reviewed, is a review of his exhibition, "Terra Incognita," at the Honolulu Academy of Arts, in the April 2005 issue of Art in America. Ojile has recently been included in exhibitions in Brighton, U.K. and in Los Angeles.
List of Art Supplies for Students to bring:
12 pieces of good quality paper, at least 22X30, preferably larger;
Acrylics in a wide variety of colors, including black and white;
Wax crayons in a wide variety of colors (China markers are best but not always available- regular class crayons acceptable), and, in addition, if participants wish, oil sticks, oil crayons (Cray-pas acceptable);
Lead pencils, but color pencils are discouraged;
If participants wish, they will be encouraged to use any acrylic textures that they wish to bring, such as: "glass beads", "flakes", "sand", "modeling paste" etc;
Brushes, small medium, large: Small = half inch; Medium = two inches; large = up to or larger than five inches. Brushes should be pointed if participants only bring three. It would be preferred if participants bring both points and square (flat-edged) in all three sizes.
Indigo & Shibori
~With Darius Homayounpour
Event Type: Workshop
Tuition: $150
Level: Beginners - Advanced
This workshop combines the magical qualities of the indigo vat with shibori, the Japanese approach to tie-dye. The basics of binding, stitching, and clamping cloth along with an introduction to essential techniques for dyeing in the indigo vat will be covered, though students of all levels are welcome. Fabrics and fibers for quilting, weaving, clothing, as well as the home can be designed and produced.
As a textile artist, Homayounpour maintains an active exhibition schedule while running a production and teaching dye studio focusing on indigo as well as other natural and synthetic dyes. He worked for many years at the Honolulu Academy of Arts as assistant to the curator in the Textile Dept. focusing on exhibition design and installation as well as textile conservation. He has also taught courses in textiles and Asian costume history in the Fashion Program at the University of Hawai'i at Manoa.
Studio Painting Workshop
~With Rod Cameron
Event Type: Workshop
Tuition: $195
Level: Beginners - Advanced
Two day oil painting class -
"From the study to the finished piece."
Turn your plein air painting, study or photograph into a finished, larger-sized, detailed work of art. Mr. Cameron will guide artists through all of the steps of creating a fine art painting in oils or pastel, using your own favorite reference material. If you've had a smaller study or a photograph that you've always wanted to "complete" into a frame worthy art piece, this is the class for you! These inspiring, fun and highly informative two days of painting in the studio with Rod will give you the knowledge to carry on with your work and to continue to grow as an artist with a solid foundation.
Focus on
- Completing a finished work in two days
- Deciding on which study or photo to choose for a fine art painting
- Deciding on the color harmony of the piece to keep the feel of the original
- Sketching directly on the canvas with paint for quicker, cleaner work
- Understanding and using values
- Utilizing Golden Geometry and standard compositional techniques
- Creating interesting shapes and unifying them
- How to decide early in the work where to put the focal point and how to develop this area for maximum effect
- Working the painting from thin to thick, dark to light
- Mixing rich, clean colors and avoiding 'mud'
- Questions to ask yourself in making or matching colors
- Balancing cool and warm color families
- Paint application, edges
- Different ways of looking at your work and deciding when it's "finished"
- Learning how to critique your own work so you can continue to progress and create better and better paintings
Rod Cameron has ten years of expertise teaching art with over thirty years as an honored, professional artist. He has received over fifty awards in illustrative art, painting & design and with his lively, in-depth workshops and successful one man shows; he has become one of Hawaii's most popular artists' and at the least- a master painter.
Students will receive a supplies list prior to class.
* Image from Rod Cameron's "Prague" series.
Artist Talk - Presentation & Aloha Pot-Luck
~With Evelyn Rydz
Event Type: Presentation
Cost: Free!
Evelyn Rydz's draws coastlines strewn with lost and discarded objects washed ashore. In her detailed, visual narratives, she explores the history and possible interconnection between displaced objects and their journeys. Drawing, installation, and sound are all elements she incorporates into her work.
Rydz is a recipient of a Massachusetts Cultural Council Drawing Fellowship, a 2012 SMFA Traveling Fellowship, and a MassArt Faculty Foundation Fellowship. She has was lead artist for the "Artist Project," a community arts initiative program at the Museum of Fine Arts, in collaboration with numerous after-school community organizations in the Boston area. Rydz received an MFA from SMFA in affiliation with Tufts University and a BFA from Florida State University. She is currently an Assistant Professor at MassArt.
Artist Talk - Presentation & Aloha Pot-Luck
~With Ken Little and Cathy Cunningham
Event Type: Presentation
Cost: Free!
Cathy Cunningham-Little is a mixed media sculptor utilizing glass, neon, light, wire, string, and other materials in a variety of ways to explore the phenomena of perception, both the visual interaction of color and light and the mental aspects of perception. Her earlier works were based in mixed media installations and drawings made of light. These were both representational and narrative.
KenLittle is a modernist San Antonio-based sculptor born in Canyon, Texas in 1947. After graduating from Texas Tech University in 1970 with a BFA in painting, he received an MFA from the University of Utah in 1972. He has maintained an active national profile as an exhibiting and reviewed sculptor for over twenty five years. His work has been featured in over 35 one person exhibitions at prestigious venues such as: The Washington Project for the Arts, Wash. DC; The Nelson Gallery of the Univ. of California at Davis; The Forum for Contemporary Art, St. Louis; Diverse Works in Houston; The Honolulu Academy of the Arts; and many others.
Sculpting Dogs Ceramic Workshop
~With Jeff Downing
Event Type: Workshop
Tuition: $225
Level: Beginners
Action Hand Building: Narrative Sculpture with Dogs
Jeff Downing will demonstrate various approaches to making narrative sculpture using leather hard slabs and sections of moist clay. The focus will be on working at a quick pace to create exciting forms with personality and character. Students will be encouraged to create their own stories using a variety of hand-building techniques. Students can make dogs or any other animals or imagery of their choice using memory, drawings, or photos to work from. Composition, form, and technical solutions will be discussed throughout the workshop.
JEFF DOWNING exhibits his ceramic pieces throughout the United States and has received several awards for his work. He is currently an Associate Professor of Ceramics at San Francisco State University.
Concrete Sculpture Workshop with Randy Shiroma
~With Randall Shiroma
Event Type: Workshop
Tuition: $300
Level: Open to All Levels
Randall Shiroma has both pioneered and mastered the use of terrazzo as a sculptural material. With the advent of modern technology, synthetic fibers and matts have been developed to augment concrete compressive strength. User friendly, it allows a more fluid development of organic forms. With the addition of admixtures concrete can be applied paint thin, in multiple layers, left rough or ground to a high polish.
This workshop will present ways of approaching cement as an art media. Taking the physical strength and durability, its ability to be worked by hand and set up into a rock like substance that can be carved like stone, modeled like clay, left with a rough rock like texture or polished to a high finish. Reinforced concrete is a combination of compressive strength with materials of tensile strength. The advances in technology that allow bonding multi- layers as well as the development of synthetic tensile fabrics opens up the possibilities and exploration of a material that can be mixed up thin as paint and thick as paste, that can be heavy and strong or light and easily carved, that can be cast, modeled or layered, that will accept colorants, stains and polish. It is a different way of looking at cement. It has been my belief that the world is formed by our conception of it, similarly I feel the material of cement is only limited by our conception. What you do not need is a preconditioned idea of this material. What you do need is that visionary artistic perspective or maybe just curiosity.
"Art is transformation, the ability to take a base material and through inspiration and physical manipulation change it to something beyond what it was. I have always been intrigued by taking the most mundane material and transform it to something of beauty. I have been working with concrete for the past 25 years. I like its ability to change from a wet slurry to a incredibly hard mass in a relatively short time frame. I like its strength, its ability to withstand the outside environment and its simplicity. From here I like to transform it into sculptures grounded to the earth and refined to a high polish that somehow mirrors our development; ideals grounded in the earth".
Precious Metal Clay
~With Victoria Serrao
Event Type: Workshop
Tuition: $95
Level: Beginners
This is a fun and fast-paced one-day workshop where you will learn basic tools and techniques in working with silver precious metal clay.
Precious metal clay is a product developed in Japan from recycling the silver from exposed photography, medical and veterinary film. The silver is extracted and recycled with a clay-like medium to produce a pliable material and slip. The silver clay can be used employing any of a variety of hand building techniques much in the same way as using conventional clay, just on a smaller scale. After firing to a temperature of 1500 - 1565 degrees, the clay medium burns away, shrinking the fired piece by 12-15% and leaving a piece of art which is 99.9% pure silver
The class will go over techniques for working with precious metal clay (including paste, syringe and paper) with demonstrations in slab, coil, textures, mold making, joints and bales. Books will be available for inspiration and students will be encouraged to explore their own unique approach to this new and innovative medium.
Any additional jewelry making supplies will be available for purchase at a small additional fee. For example- leather cord, sterling silver wire, decorative beads (these will be available for purchase at a modest fee).
Sculpting Cherub Busts
~With Esther Shimazu
Event Type: Workshop
Tuition: $150
Level: Intermediate - Advance
In this workshop we will be making small hand built cherub busts including the head and shoulders/upper body. This class will cover sculpture techniques from the basic form through the feathers and dimples. We will focus in on fine detail, and students will learn to construct and attach wings, halos, head lei, even details such as individual teeth. The goal is to create a finely made, totally unique piece.