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.
Artist Talk & Aloha Potluck
~With Holly Roberts
Event Type: Presentation
Cost: Free!
Holly Roberts' first national exposure came in 1989 with the publication of the monograph, Holly Roberts, from the Untitled Series published by the Friends of Photography. Although her work has always been based on the photograph, it was the inclusion of paint that made it so distinct. As David Featherstone says in his introduction, "Roberts is a painter, yet it is the photograph underlying the paint, even when it can scarcely be seen, that gives the work its intriguing, mysterious power. Drawing from the iconography of primitive art, particularly that of the Native American, Mexican and Hispanic cultures of the Southwest, where she lives, she creates paintings that address a broad range of human emotions…. While it is Roberts' evolving interaction with the photograph that takes her to her finished work, it is the existence of the underlying photographic image—even when it is obscured by paint—that gives the work its powerful qualities and sets up the emotional challenge for the viewer."
Her work has continued to evolve, but she has reversed her original process of heavily over painting the black and white silver print. She now works on top of a painted surface, developing a narrative scene with collaged photographic elements. Where earlier pieces reflected psychological or emotional undercurrents, newer works make use of familiar or iconic stories to address tougher questions about man’s effect on the land and the animals that inhabit it.
In 1990, Nazraeli Press published Holly Roberts: Works 1989-1999, and in 2009 Holly Roberts: Works 2000-2009. A dedicated teacher as well as a prolific artist, she has had a profound effect on a community of artists around the country. She continues to live in the Southwest.
Fearless Calligraphy
~With Jenny Hainsworth
Event Type: Workshop
Tuition: $55
Level: Beginners
Have you ever wanted to learn real calligraphy, but you were overwhelmed about where to start? Or you have tried it and all you got was a frustrating mess?
Join artist and calligrapher, Jenny Hainsworth, for a friendly introduction to the amazing world of European calligraphy and lettering art.
Students will receive the following:
-an intro to the tools needed for most lettering styles;
-exercises to help you learn quickly and well;
-familiarity with calligraphy terminology;
-trouble-shooting for those with some experience;
-confidence to practice, learn and improve at home
Note: The hand (letter style) taught in this workshop will be Roman majuscules (capitals), as they are the foundation of all lettering in the western world. If time permits we will try some italic miniscules (lower case).
Materials for each student to bring:
-drawing board (larger is better)
-2 bulldog clips
-long ruler (more than 12")
-pencil
-eraser
-any calligraphy materials you already have (optional)
*all other materials will be provided
Jenny Hainsworth is a recent Big Island transplant from Victoria, BC. She has a degree in linguistics from the University of British Columbia, studied calligraphy in Edinburgh, Scotland, and learned egg tempera and traditional gilding and gesso techniques in the Lower East Side of Manhattan. Jenny brings a lively sense of humor, encouragement and adventure to classes!
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.