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.
Precious Metal Clay
~With Victoria Serrao
Event Type: Workshop
Tuition: $55
Level: Beginners
This workshop will include basic techniques for working with precious metal clay with demonstrations in slab, coil, textures, mold making, joints and bales. Basic techniques for finishing the piece after it has dried (sanding), firing without a kiln (torch), burnishing, and applying patina, as well as techniques for making the fired form into a wearable piece of art by adding chains, leather, and clasps. There will also be some additional instruction for advanced forms which cannot be fired by torch, but may be fired in a small jewelry kiln. These would include hollow form pieces, pieces with gems and rings.
Concept of Workshop
Introduction of the basics tools and techniques in working with Silver precious metal clay in order to form one or more pieces of wearable art by the end of the session. Educate students in how to go about setting up their own precious metal clay studio. A guide on where to obtain precious metal clay and the other tools needed to get started on their own.
About "Precious Metal Clay"
"Precious Metal Clay" is a product developed in Japan from recycling the silver from exposed photography, medical and veterinary film. Gold metal clay is recycled from electronics and post mortem dental work. The silver and gold are extracted and then mixed with a clay like medium to produce a pliable clay material and slip. The silver and gold 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 or gold.
En Plein Air: Landscape Watercolor Painting
~With TERRY CISCO
Event Type: Presentation
Cost: $160
Join Terry Cisco at the beach to catch the early morning light!
Terry will provide guidance to aspiring watercolor artists based on his experience as
a painter of landscapes on the Kona Coast. He will discuss the process of producing
a watercolor from the initial sketch to the final details as the course unfolds.
Students will learn about perspective, composition and light direction. Based on
these concepts, they will produce small thumbnail sketches to investigate how their
end products will look and then select the warm or cool colors to use. Based on this
exercise students will begin their project on a larger paper and see where it takes
them!
During the two day workshop, beginners will produce a single finished watercolor
or multiple watercolor sketches depending on how they choose to explore their
ideas. The class includes lecture, critique and one on one instruction throughout the
two days.
A materials list, maps, meeting time and contact phone numbers will be provided in
April.
Bio: The artist is self-taught in his primary medium of watercolors. Most of his works are landscapes throughout Hawaii and specifically on the Island of Hawaii. His originals and prints are presently available at benefits, in galleries, at invitational shows or directly from the artist. Terry was born and raised in Honolulu. He has always drawn and sketched. Over the years he was exposed to art in friends homes and enjoyed the works of Hawaii artists Hitchcock, Sexton, Marek and Hayward. During college in New Mexico he often visited the Museum of Santa Fe to view the works of the Taos School artists Berninghaus, Dunton and Hennings. While earning his Masters in Architecture, he minored in drawing and painting. Local Albuquerque artist Betty Sabo introduced him to the life of a professional artist and her not so common views points of buildings and landscapes. After his registration as a professional architect in New Mexico and Hawaii he continued his interests in the arts but it wasn’t until he moved to Kailua Kona in 1980 that he started using watercolors as a medium. He felt that the brightness that can be achieved with watercolors was a good fit for the light and waterscapes of the Kona Coast. Spending time outside on location, mixed with time spent body surfing or snorkeling was a great way to envelope himself in the experience of each location. The artist always packs his watercolor gear on his yearly kayak trip into the inaccessible valleys of Waimanu Valley on the north west coast of the island of Hawaii.
Recently he has experimented with monotype and woodblock printmaking under the tutelage of Hiroki
Morinoue.
Abstracting Nature
~With with Katie Burk
Event Type: Presentation
Cost: $160
Katie Burk is a visual artist living and working in Kona, Hawaii. She is originally from Indianapolis, IN and received her BFA in Painting from Ball State University. Her preferred mediums include acrylic, mixed water media, and encaustic.
Burk has always been enamored with the natural world and often uses organic forms like fossils, plants, and shells as a visual vocabulary in her work. "The natural beauty of Hawai'i has strongly influenced my painting, including my color choices and subject matter. Having lived here only a couple years, the natural surroundings are still novel: the shape of leaves and the way plants grow so quickly and abundantly as well as the power of the ocean and the fascinating life forms found beneath its surface."
In this workshop students will use natural and organic forms as inspiration for their abstract painting experiments. By interpreting select elements of the subject matter, students will veer from literal representation into visual improvisation.
Burk states,"I would like to share some concrete ways to arrive at an abstract image. By demonstrating drawing and painting techniques I use in my own work, I hope to show that there are varying degrees of abstraction in art."
Experimental Watercolor
~With Hiroki Morinoue
Event Type: Presentation
Cost: $240
In this workshop, students will explore the illustrative qualities of water color 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.
Supply List: Masking tape, paper towels, pencil, sketchbook, water colors (including thalo blue, thalo crimson, lemon yellow) and an old towel.