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Photography: Photographing Artwork
~With Alvis Upitis
Event Type: Workshop
Tuition: $35
Level: Beginners - Intermediate
This three-hour workshop will cover basic to intermediate techniques for archiving your drawings, paintings, fiber art, ceramics or sculptures. The workshop goal is to teach people with basic cameras and no special lights how they can document their work and also to give people with more advanced equipment methods for improving their photos. Format will include an illustrated lecture covering simple to intermediate techniques. Advanced points will also be mentioned however emphasis will be on methods using equipment available to the amateur photographer. There will be demonstrations, but no setup for photographing individual pieces at this
event.
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.
Photography: Advance Your Personal Eye
~With Jonathan Rawle
Event Type: Workshop
Tuition: $35
Level: Beginners - Intermediate
How does your personal eye see and tell about the world around you?
Bring 3-6 of your own favorite photo images on a USB thumb drive or recordable CD/DVD or in print form. We will share these with each other and learn to appreciate what you do with a camera. Bring, too, your digital camera, because after sharing and discussion of each other's visual strengths we will go outside and shoot new images. We'll stay near the Donkey Mill area but wear clothes and shoes appropriate to exploring outside. We'll then share these to see growth, new visual expression. There will be plenty of opportunity to ask questions about photography that are important to you. Our goal is for you to appreciate and advance your personal eye.
Workshop Leader: Jonathan Rawle. Mr. Rawle is a Big Island commercial photographer. An annual report, corporate, and adverting photographer in Boston for twenty years some time ago, he has returned to the photography business after careers in business and teaching elementary school in Massachusetts and Waimea.
Photography: Simple Post Production Techniques
~With Alvis Upitis
Event Type: Workshop
Tuition: $35
Level: Beginners - Intermediate
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 tools such
as Picasa, GIMP, Lightroom and Photoshop. Format will include an illustrated
lecture covering simple techniques to manage, edit and improve your images.
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.
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.
Poetry Workshop
~With Sharon Marie Olson
Event Type: Workshop
Tuition: $25
Level: Beginners
Don't miss the opportunity to receive one on one coaching from Spoken Word Poet, Sharon Marie Olson. Learn the history of poetry slam, review footage and discuss award winning poets and learn fundamentals of constructing a performance piece that suits your comfort level.
Attendees are asked to bring two original poems of their own construction, writing materials, and an item or photo of special meaning.
Making and Decorating Ceramic Tiles
~With Jan Edwards
Event Type: Workshop
Tuition: $225
Level: Beginners - Advanced
"I think every person has beautiful pictures, wild patterns, engaging visions, numerous songs, stories, and images running around inside themselves. We humans are able to bring some of this intriguing material up and out and make Art of it." Jan Edwards
This three day hands-on workshop will focus on exploring some ways to achieve that task by making tiles. We can mine some of our inner richness and be inspired by our natural surroundings, using these ideas to compose a series of ceramic tiles. In this class we will form good tiles to give ourselves a surface to play with. Using earthenware clay, slips, and colored stains, we will explore a variety of ways to embellish the clay surface with color, line, pattern, and texture. Participants will spend time painting, drawing, carving, scratching, stamping and otherwise making marks to make our tiles beautiful and personal. This workshop will provide the basics of what you need to do to make individual "art tiles". We will also take time to look at the issues surrounding planning, creating and installing a tile project for your home.
Ohana Style Potluck and Slide Presentation
~With Jan Edwards
Event Type: Presentation
Cost: Free!
Jan Edwards had a Fine Arts background before she learned to make pots at Anderson Ranch Art Center while living in Colorado. She has been working as a Studio Potter for the last 30 years. After returning to "the Ranch" as an Artist - in - Residence and then on Staff for a few years, she moved her home and studio to Portland, Oregon. There she makes useful pots and special pots, Architectural Tile, and lately some "Drawings in Clay".
Jan teaches regularly at Mount Hood Community College and Multnomah Art Center. She loves to travel, teaching Workshops, "wherever they'll let me". Jan has taught workshops all over the US, in Mexico, Canada & most recently in Tuscany.
Her work is in collections around the US, in Canada and in Italy. It is also shown in several books on Claywork and Tilework.
In 2002 Jan won the Prestigious "Bennet Welch Award" for Surface Decoration, a peer award from the Oregon Potter's Association.
Photography: Artful Seeing - Introduction to Composition
~With Kathleen Carr
Event Type: Workshop
Tuition: $35
Level: Beginners
If you'd like to learn how to take better photographs, come to this 3 hour workshop. After a slide presentation reviewing the key elements of good composition and artful seeing, each participant can show up to three images and Kathleen will demonstrate how to improve the composition for each photograph. Please bring three jpeg images for viewing on a thumb drive or CD. If you have any questions about the course, you may contact Kathleen at 808-328-2162.
Kathleen T. Carr, BFA Photography, is a fine art photographer, author, and teacher whose work has been exhibited widely and published in numerous books and periodicals. She has been teaching photography workshops and courses since 1991. Her books include To Honor the Earth, Polaroid Transfers, and Polaroid Manipulations. Visit her websites at www.kathleencarr.com and www.kathleentcarr.com
Introduction to Digital Photography
~With Alvis Upitis & Eric Edwards
Event Type: Workshop
Tuition: $35
Level: Beginners
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 of digital cameras, managing images, printing images and an brief introduction on basic editing tools. Format will include an illustrated lecture covering simple techniques to understand and operate your camera and manage your images.
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.
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.
BOOKMAKING: Creative Bookmaking CANCELLED!
~With Janet Ballantyne
Event Type: Workshop
Tuition: $75
Level: Beginners - Intermediate
Come and join in creativity whether you are novice or an experienced bookbinder. Basic bookbinding skills will be taught and participants will be introduced to new and innovative book structures that can be filled with creative expressions of many kinds.
Wednesday, February 29th.
Tuition is $75 per class
All materials will be provided.
Projects will have handouts with instructions. All materials will be provided. A list of supplies and tools to bring will be sent out with registration confirmation. Extra tools will be available for use.
Janet Ballantyne has been making and studying handmade paper and books for more than ten years. She is co-founder of the Book Arts Guild of Vermont, a four year old organization with 250 members who meet monthly to share their passion for paper arts.
Useful Pots: Design Decisions
~With Ellen Shankin
Event Type: Workshop
Tuition: $225
Level: Intermediate
Useful pots made on a wheel serve a specific purpose.Their form,
however, contains a world of possibilities. It has been my particular
passion to take the thrown pot beyond the wheel, out of round,
while holding fast to the restrictions that usefulness imposes. In this
workshop I will encourage the exploration of those techniques and
ideas: from simple immediate manipulation of the wet pot as it leaves
the wheel, to the more forced imposition of form on leather hard
clay.... a variety of approaches will be demonstrated .
Information will be shared and progress made through slide
presentation, one on one attention, a lot of throwing and group
discussion. While throwing we make choices about our work, often
unaware.....the rim thick or thin....throwing lines visible or removed ....
These decisions, whether made consciously or not, radically affect
the overall presence and resolution of the piece.
Conversations about design decisions will encircle every
demonstration and effort in the studio.
I want students to come away from this experience jazzed up about
the altered pot, with the skills to continue that investigation when they
leave. And to have developed a richer vocabulary of self-expression
as it manifests itself in the simple pot.
This 3-day workshop will be also include open studio time with Ellen as mentor the following week, Tuesday-Friday 2/28- 3/2.