Hawaiian Basket Weaving
~With with Gary Eoff
Event Type: Presentation
Cost: $80
HINA'I POE POE
Learn to prepare fibers and weave around a gourd using traditional Hawaiian techniques. Class includes preparation and dying of fibers and weaving around gourds creating patterns.
Gary Eoff is a master craftsman with an emphasis on handmade things of old Hawai'i. He has studied gourd carving, cordage making, weaving, tools, weapons and fishing implements, with work is noted for detail, attention to authentic designs and use of traditional materials and dyes.
* Tuition includes the supply fee.
Film Club Screening: Princess Mononoke
~With group
Event Type: Presentation
Cost: Free!
Thursday, May 16 at 6pm
Free with popcorn served, donations appreciated
Rated PG-13
This month the cinema club will discuss and view one of Hayao Miyazaki's most beautiful and influential films - Princess Mononoke. Princess Mononoke is a period drama set specifically in the late Muromachi period of Japan but with numerous fantastical elements. The story concentrates on involvement of the outsider Ashitaka in the struggle between the supernatural guardians of a forest and the humans of the Iron Town who consume its resources. There can be no clear victory, and the hope is that the relationship between humans and nature can be cyclical. [Wikipedia] The cinema club meets monthly to discuss and promote the work of film artists who have inspired them.
The Daily Yomiuri's Aaron Gerow called the film a "powerful compilation of Hayao Miyazaki's world, a cumulative statement of his moral and filmic concerns."
Make a Multiple Signature Case Bound Book
~With Lisa Louise Adams
Event Type: Workshop
Tuition: $150
Level: Open to All Levels
RESCHEDULED AS OF 4/25: PLEASE CALL TO CONFIRM NEW DATES
Learn how to construct a beautiful, handmade book that's super sturdy and can be used as a long term journal or sketchbook, for yourself or as the perfect gift.
Using cloth, paper, and a variety of embellishments, you will learn to build a durable, hard cover book with multiple signatures (stacks of paper inserts), gathered and sewn together for strength. The books will be trimmed on three sides, glued into a spine and wrapped in cloth.
Students will be introduced to a variety of materials, including tapes, end bands, ribbon bookmarks, cloth spines and cotton fabrics to personalize their books.
Students should bring their favorite text papers, 100%cotton fabric for covers and a packed lunch. Lisa will provide all other necessary supplies, tools and materials.
Film Club Screening - Biophilic Design: The Architecture of Life
~With Shaun Roth
Event Type: Presentation
Cost: Free!
Starts at 6pm
Free screening and popcorn. Donations appreciated.
Dir: Stephen R. Kellert and Bill Finnegan.
USA 2011 60 min
Biophilic Design is an innovative way of designing the places where we live, work, and learn. We need nature in a deep and fundamental fashion, but we have often designed our cities and suburbs in ways that both degrade the environment and alienate us from nature. The recent trend in green architecture has decreased the environmental impact of the built environment, but it has accomplished little in the way of reconnecting us to the natural world, the missing piece in the puzzle of sustainable development. Come on a journey from our evolutionary past and the origins of architecture to the world's most celebrated buildings in a search for the architecture of life. Together, we will encounter buildings that connect people and nature - hospitals where patients heal faster, schools where children's test scores are higher, offices where workers are more productive, and communities where people know more of their neighbors and families thrive. Biophilic Design points the way toward creating healthy and productive habitats for modern humans.
Island architects hope the film will serve as a launching point for further public discussion about design in Hawaii.
Photographing Your Artwork
~With with Alvis Upitis
Event Type: Workshop
Tuition: $35
Level: 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.
Ceramics Sculpture Workshop
~With Visiting Artist Tip Toland
Event Type: Workshop
Tuition: $225
Level: Open to All Levels
Tip Toland is one of the Donkey Mill's recipients of the Laila Twigg-Smith Artist-In-Residence Grant. In this three day workshop students will learn how to build a basic life-size head using Rules of Thumb to cover proportion and mapping in the features. Participants will come away from this class with a step-by-step understanding of how to sculpt the head. We will learn about the basic musculature of the face as it relates to expression.
Tip will lead participants through topics such as asymmetry, layering expressions, aging, and how to turn up and down the degree of volume of expression. The goal is to give voice to inner psychological states, projecting aspects of humanity which create a felt response in the viewer.
Bring photos of facial expressions to work with.
The supply fee includes the hardware and materials for building an armature, which students will keep at the end of the workshop, as well as use of all the basic studio tools. It also includes 50 pounds of clay to work with; busts will not be fired.
Material list for students to bring:
A fork and a spoon
Fat Bamboo skewers (can be gotten at Safeway)
One piece of foam rubber about 2 feet square
A sketch pad and pencil
measuring tape
large banding wheel if you have it
Artist Talk & Aloha Potluck
~With Tip Toland
Event Type: Presentation
Cost: Free!
Tip Toland was born outside of Philadelphia and now lives in Vaughn, Washington. She received her MFA from Montana State University in 1981. In 1986 she received a visual arts Fellowship grant from the National Endowment for the Arts. She was awarded first-place in 2005 for the Virginia Groot Foundation grant. Tip is a full-time studio artist and a part-time instructor in the Seattle area. In addition, she conducts workshops
across the United States and in Europe. Her work has been shown nationally and internationally. She is currently represented through Barry Friedman Gallery LTD. Her work is represented in both private and public collections, including the Renwick Gallery of the Smithsonian, Kohler Art Center, The Museum of Art and Design and the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
ARTFUL SEEING: FOCUS ON COMPOSITION
~With Kathleen Carr
Event Type: Workshop
Tuition: $85
Level: Beginners
If you'd like to learn how to take better photographs, come to this all day workshop on composition. After a slide presentation reviewing the key elements of good composition and artful seeing, we will go to two locations to photograph. Kathleen will assist each participant with composing the elements while photographing. After lunch, we will meet at Donkey Mill to review a selection of everyone's images. Kathleen will lead a discussion on how to improve the composition for each photograph shown. Please bring your camera (it can be a point and shoot, a fancy DSLR or anything in between), and a laptop if you have one. 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.kathleentcarr.com and www.kathleencarr.com
Photographing Flora and Fauna
~With Doreen Wynja
Event Type: Workshop
Tuition: $85
Level: Beginners
Participants will meet at a field location TBA and spend 3 hours photographing with Doreen. After the field trip students will return to The Mill to review their images from the morning in a group session lead by Doreen. Please bring your laptop if you have one.
Doreen L Wynja has been a professional photographer since 1987, recently wanting to share her knowledge she has started doing presentations on garden imagery. Her most recent collection of work can be found in the New Sunset Western Garden Book, as well as in the pages of Fine Gardening, Horticulture, among other garden editorial. More information on Doreen's work can be found at - http://eyeofthelady.smugmug.com
Camera Sensor Cleaning with Dave, (Doreen's husband) owner of www.advancecamera.com will be available to do camera sensor cleaning, and talk with you about any camera problems you maybe having. $30 for regular sensors and $50 for full frame sensors, that's a 50% saving off regular prices.
* The sensor cleaning will be available from 12pm-4pm on Saturday and from 6-8:30pm Friday evening. Please call to set up a reservation.
Artists Talk: Photographing Flora & Fauna
~With Doreen Wynja
Event Type: Presentation
Cost: Free!
Friday Evening Artists Talk
Doreen will be sharing a presentation about how you might take better photos in the garden with the use of over 200 plant & garden images in a Power Point presentation filled with differing times of day and depth of field to name a couple. Doreen will inspire you and lend you new ideas on how to approach light, composition and taking just a moment to get the shot you're really after.