Family Pottery Workshop
~With Claire Seastone
Event Type: Workshop
Tuition: $40
Level: Open to All Levels
Tuition of $40 is for 1 adult and 1 child, ages
Bring a lunch and spend a day playing in clay with your child! This one day class is an opportunity for parents and children to get a taste of ceramics, exploring pinching and coiling techniques as well as other basic hand building methods. Come prepared to get dirty and have some fun trying something new with your child.
Film Night! Cinema Paradiso: Opera Jawa
~With Group
Event Type: Presentation
Cost: Free!
Thursday Night
The Donkey Mill Movie Club's next film will be Opera Jawa, directed by Garin Nugroho. Admission is free.
Opera Jawa is a rich adaptation of the "The Abduction of Sita," and combines Javanese song, puppet theatre, sacred court dance plus gamelan music and Mozart.
The story centers on two former dancers who are now making their living as pottery makers until a wealthy local merchant threatens to destroy their marriage.
Esta Feedora will host the event. Popcorn, of course, is free.
Moku Hanga: Woodblock Printing
~With Hiroki Morinoue
Event Type: Workshop
Tuition: $350
Level: Beginners
12 & 13 - 19 & 20 January
Includes two full weekends and open studio during the week (Tues/Thurs)
During this two weekend printmaking intensive, practice the ancient tradition of moku hanga woodcut printing in which the linear details of the key plate are created first, and color plates are produced later. In the early days of Japanese woodcut prints, it was simply easier to register color to line, than line to color. Contemporary printmakers find that the age-old method offers distinctive creative possibilities. Students explore traditional as well as contemporary printing techniques to further their artistic vision. Students will will have a week to carve their plates, learn how to hand print color plates in the traditional moku hanga style, add subtle surface detail and contrast. Hiroki Morinoue will be giving demonstrations on printing, carving and registration techniques as well as providing each participant in one-on-one discussions on image making, personal style and visual vocabulary. Open to all students of any skill and knowledge level.
Artist Short Bio:
Notes: Students need to bring a matte knife and a 1/2" U gauge. Supply fee covers cost for two 9X12" shino blocks and 10 sheets of Japanese paper
"The Artist's Way"
~With Anne Catlin
Event Type: Workshop
Tuition: $130
Level: Open to All Levels
TIME CHANGE: Saturday morning, casual group. Students are asked to bring a personal journal and pen to their first session, as well as a light snack for self or to share for our weekly meetings. Focused hour with social time before/after for those who wish.
Designed by Julia Cameron, this program it intended for those with any or no experience who would like to explore a more creative life. Writers, artists, cooks, car mechanics, carpenters, accountants, everyone welcome. With the basic principle that creative expression is the natural direction of life, the program aims to recover creativity from a variety of blocks, including self-limiting beliefs, fear, self-sabotage, jealousy, guilt, addictions, and other inhibiting forces.
Join us for 13 weeks of writing and self-discovery. The dynamic of the group is shaped by the openness of its participants and a willingness to try something new. Positivity is a must! Group participation includes weekly reading and creativity exercises as well as daily writing.
Required book: The Artists Way. Workbook and Morning Pages are optional but not required. Books are available at Kona Stories www.konastories.com, Kona Bay books (used) or Amazon.com. The group will be limited to 12 participants. Please call in advance to reserve your space: (808) 322-3362.
Special Kona Stories Promo Offer:
Regular prices per book -
Artist's Way 10th edition: $16.99
Artist's Way Workbook: $17.95
Artist's Way Morning Pages: $16.99
For any Way Workbook: (15% discount) $29.70 (vs. $34.94)
All three: (20% discount) $41.55 (vs. $51.93)
Call: 808-324-0350 for details
Old Island English Holiday Wreaths
~With Scott Seymour
Event Type: Workshop
Tuition: $65
Level: Beginners
The Year End Season is upon us...we are entering the "High Season" as the English would say. As the Kona Coast was Colinized by the English in the mid to latter 1800s it is only apropos that we address the "high season" with perhaps some old English Holiday Florals and Wreaths!
Join us to bring in the "English Coast High Season" and leave with a great period piece that you actually made!
Scott Seymour, floral designer will share his keen eye and talent with students as they learn how to make their own floral arrangements for any special occasion.
This class allows students to create their own arrangements with his direction and guidance.
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SUPPLIES TO BRING: 2-3 containers (with wide opening for oasis foam), clippers and scissors, additional flowers as accent fillers, spray bottle, old rags or towels and sketchbook or notebook.
Book Making
~With Lisa Louise Adams
Event Type: Workshop
Tuition: $75
Level: Beginners
Have fun making books! This class is designed for anyone interested in surface design, book structures and creating with paper. Enroll in one or both days of book making fun. $75 per day or $145 for both.
Day 1: Soft Cover
This class will focus on making multiples of simple, soft cover books that make great gifts!
Day 2: Hard Cover
This class will focus on covering book board and the mechanics of a single signature journal and water colored accordion book.
Supply fee covers the cost of colored and watercolor papers (day 1 and 2), book cloth & book boards (day 2), watercolors and brushes, glues, needles, linen, ribbons, bone folders, tools and more...
Students should bring: notebook, metal edged ruler, lunch! Optional items: collage materials, personal brushes, stickers, papers, magazine photos, etc.
Kona Camera Club Meeting
~With group
Event Type: Presentation
Cost: Free!
The Donkey Mill Art Center will be hosting the November meeting of the Kona Camera Club. The meeting is open to all. If you are interested in photography come meet, and discuss the work and techniques of many of the finest amateur and professional photographers working in Hawaii.
Sculptural Weaving
~With Visiting Artist Nathalie Meibach
Event Type: Workshop
Tuition: $225
Level: Open to All Levels
Nathalie Meibach is one of the Donkey Mill's recipients of the Laila Twigg-Smith Artist-In-Residence Grant.
This class is as much about weaving as it is about discovery and invention. By asking you to apply these techniques to your own interests, these traditional basket-weaving techniques quickly merge into other areas of interests from architecture, fashion design, painting, New Media to sculptural installation. Every adaptation requires slight adjustments and new discoveries, which in turn help you become more independent with the techniques. You will also learn about the relationship between material and technique, a critical component in understanding the structural possibilities of basket weaving. Finally, through analyzing images of woven structures throughout the course and touching lots and lots of baskets, you will also gain the ability to read a basket, an important skill of being able decode woven structures from the simple to the most complex.
Course Format:
Every class will be a combination of demos, slide shows, brief discussions, work time and critiques. This is a hands-on class, in which you will be weaving every class. Please wear comfortable clothes.
WHAT TO BRING:
Supply / Tool list: The Donkey Mill Art Center will provide some of these tools to share, but try to bring as much as you can from this list.
A bucket - the Home Depot kind are great!
Old Towel
Spray bottle for water
Scissor
Needle-nose pliers
Wire clipper (if you like working with wire)
One tapestry needle (these are needles that are large enough to thread yarn through)
Optional:
Extra weaving materials
Any small objects that you might want to weave into that can be drilled into
Any other tools you love to work with
If anyone has an extra cordless drill with some drill bits, it would be great to bring.
Images:
To get you jump started, please bring a series of print out images (these will be pinned to the wall). Think of these as source images to help you get started with a woven form. Here is a list of different kind of images you could consider:
Images that inform or are directly connected to your own artistic work
Images of forms or structures that remind you of weaving, but are not actually woven.
Images of systems, webs, matrix, nests, maps,
Images of textures or rhythms
Images of color patterns and combinations you like to work with
Artist Talk - Presentation & Aloha Pot-Luck
~With Nathalie Miebach
Event Type: Presentation
Cost: Free!
Nathalie Miebach explores the intersection of art and science by translating scientific data related to meteorology, ecology and oceanography into woven sculptures and musical scores/ performances. Her main method of data translation is that of basket weaving, which functions as a simple, tactile grid through which to interpret data into 3D space. Central to this work is her desire to explore the role visual and musical aesthetics play in the translation and understanding of complex scientific systems, such as weather. By utilizing artistic processes and everyday materials, she is questioning and expanding the traditional boundaries through which science data has been visually translated (ex: graphs, diagrams), while at the same time provoking expectations of what kind of visual vocabulary is considered to be in the domain of 'science' or 'art'. She lives and works in Boston (USA).
Nathalie's TED talk can be viewed at: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MbhNaj88uL4&feature=related
Miebach is the recipient of numerous awards and residencies, including a Pollock-Krasner Award, a TED Global Fellowship, the Massachusetts Cultural Council Fellowship, Blanche E. Colman Award, the International Sculpture Outstanding Student Award, a LEF grant, two year fellowship at the Fine Arts Work Center, a Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts Residency, and the Berwick Research Institute Residency. Her work has been shown in the United States and in Europe. Her sculptures have been reviewed by many national and international publications, spanning fine arts, design, technology and science audiences, including Art In America, Art News, Sculpture, New York Times, Form, Wired - UK and American Craft Magazine.
The Art of Raku Firing
~With Candon Wharton
Event Type: Workshop
Tuition: $225
Level: Beginners - Advanced
The workshop will open with a video and slide presentation of the history and techniques of Raku, from the 16th century tea ceremony to contemporary use of the technique today. Demos will include hand building and texturing techniques for both beginners and advanced students, as well as instruction on her reduction firing techniques. An emphasis on surface design will be explored through the use of different tools. Participants will be creating several pieces of their own using both throwing and hand building methods. The workshop will end with a critique and question and answer session.
Candone Wharton has been working as a Raku artist for over 30 years. She opened her first Raku studio on the island of Ibiza, Spain where she also owned a small gallery. For the past 13 years she has been a fulltime studio artist living in Daytona Beach, Fl. USA. She is best known for her intricate basket weave textured vessels and her luster Raku glazes.
Candone's work can be seen throughout the USA and Europe. Candone is currently working on several projects which include heading a ceramic workshop for a group of disabled adults, traveling in Europe and Indonesia (Bali) to give Raku workshops and working on commissions of her own work.