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.
Artist Talk & Aloha Style Potluck
~With Hiroki Morinoue
Event Type: Presentation
Cost: Free!
"I set my life goal to create art and embarked on a journey of studying ways of expressing myself. I have worked successfully in a variety of media including mixed media paintings, prints, ceramics, photography and sculpture. In all of my works, there is a compelling sense of place---of the shoreline, rocks, lava flows and skies of the Big Island. I have long been a patient observer of nature, in particular, of its rhythms, cycles, and patterns. My creativity is two-fold, one to express myself and the other to explore and study different media most suited for the message I want to convey to the viewer."
Hiroki Morinoue is a native of Holualoa and holds a BFA from the California College of Arts and Crafts. His major public murals are: Honolulu State Library, Hawaii Convention Center, Pahoa School & Community Library, First Hawaiian Bank in Kailua-Kona & Kapiolani Branches; public collections include Hawaii State Foundation for Culture & Arts &Ueno no Mori Art Museum (Tokyo, Japan).
Making Waves: Art as Social Change
~With Virginia King
Event Type: Workshop
Tuition: $225
Level: All Levels
In this workshop participants will collaborate with guest artist Virginia King to compose an ephemeral lightweight veil of interconnected cells that can be floated on water or suspended to move in the wind. The process will reference and draw from the infinite complexity of Coral formations.
The sculpture assemblages will be created from multiple, lightweight and interconnected plywood components, reminiscent of floating cloaks, or survival rafts; protective ‘sea-blankets’ that reflects the linking of people and ideas.
Workshop participants will work on individual components of the artworks to develop a series of personal motifs and individual iconography. The artworks will be assembled to create a collaborative installation. It is anticipated the completed forms will be taken to the coast and floated, and this installation process documented.
This artist's residency is made possible by a generous donation from the Laila Twigg-Smith Art Fund.
Making Waves: Art as Social Change
~With Virginia King
Event Type: Workshop
Tuition: $225
Level: All Levels
Environmental sculptor, Virginia King from New Zealand will kick-off the 2011-2012 season with a presentation of her art. Ms. King's work is inspired by the ocean, the geographic isolation of New Zealand and informed by mythology, history and literature. This Artist Talk precedes two weekend workshops where participants will collaborate on creating a large-scale sculpture to be floated in the sea as a temporary installation. The intention of the sculpture is to bring awareness to the unique and fragile beauty of coral reefs.
Dynamic Figure Workshop
~With Amber Aguirre
Event Type: Workshop
Tuition: $225
Level: Intermediate - Advanced
Amber Aguirre has been deeply involved in ceramics and teaching for more than 35 years. In her dynamic figurative workshop she will share her techniques for creating figures via the relationships between anatomy, mass and form. Rather than students using symbolic preconceived ideas of the human body, Aguirre will help students correctly visualize the relationships in the planes and forms of the figure. In this way, students will create dynamic figures where stylization is a choice rather than a result of faulty ideas about the body.
Amber is a nationally exhibited artist living on Hawaii Island. She is well known for her provocative imagery confronting issues of power and victimization. "Throughout history, artists have functioned as social commentators. I see this as a sacred calling in my work. The human condition is vulnerable and I question the amount of control we have over our own destiny. I attempt to explore these issues with a sometimes humorous, edgy and confrontational attitude."
Artist Talk & Aloha Potluck with AMBER AGUIRRE
~With AMBER AGUIRRE
Event Type: Presentation
Cost: Free!
Artist Talk & Aloha Potluck with AMBER AGUIRRE
Thursday, September 8, 2011, 6pm -8pm
Amber is a nationally exhibited artist well known for her provocative imagery confronting issues of power and control.
"Throughout history, artists have functioned as social commentators. I see this as a sacred calling in my work. The human condition is vulnerable and I question the amount of control we have over our own destiny. I attempt to explore these issues with a sometimes humorous, edgy and confrontational attitude."
Amber received her Bachelor of Fine Arts degree at the University of Southern California, and then continued her education with a Masters Degree in Art Education at San Francisco State University. At that time she also received her California teaching credential and went on to teach art in the public school system. Amber taught ceramics, jewelry and drawing for many years.
When Amber and her husband moved to Hawaii she left teaching and was determined to allow her creativity to flourish. She began to work on her own art in earnest with an eye towards making it in the mainland world of galleries. Amber has exhibited her work in many states, won numerous awards and continues to pursue her career from her home-studio in paradise.
REDUCTIVE WOODCUT PRINTING
~With Jeera Ratanangkoon
Event Type: Presentation
Cost: $175
Reductive Woodcut Printing
with Jeera Ratanangkoon
Saturday & Sunday, May 28 & 29
10am - 3pm
Tuition $175
Supply $20
In this workshop participants will learn how to make multicolor woodcut prints from a single block of wood. "Reduction" printing involves cutting and printing the woodblock in stages. As successive areas of the block are cut away, inked and printed, the image builds in subtle complexity.
This workshop will cover cutting techniques, print registration methods, and the mixing of opaque and transparent oil based inks.