Renegade Printing
~With Shez Arvedon
Event Type: Workshop
Tuition: $130
Level: Beginners
Screen printing is appreciated for its clean and flat graphics. It first appeared in a recognizable form in China during the Song Dynasty (960-1279AD). Japan and other Asian countries adopted this method of printing and advanced the craft using it in conjunction with block printing and hand applied paints. Though credit is generally given to the artist Andy Warhol for popularizing screen printing in the U.S. during the 80's, Rob Ryan, Blexbolex, Arthur Okamura, Robert Rauschenberg, Harry Gottleib and many other artists have used screen printing as an expression of creativity and artistic vision.
In this class, students will learn various methods of creating a matrix, which is a surface that can be manipulated to hold ink. Students will learn photographic, handcut, direct and indirect methods of stencil making.The final process is spontaneously creating and combining techniques, images and medium onto paper, canvas, and clothing.
List of Art Supplies for Students to bring:
New and used clothing, towels, pillow cases, and any clean fabric items to be printed
One Thousand Cranes
~With Setsuko Watenabe and Friends
Event Type: Presentation
Cost: Free!
Please come to the Donkey Mill and join in fellowship as we make 1000 origami cranes. We will gather as a community and share our strength and hope for recovery efforts in response to the earthquake, tsunami and nuclear tragedies occurring in Japan.
An ancient Japanese legend promises that anyone who folds a thousand origami cranes will be granted a wish by a crane, such as long life or recovery from illness or injury. The crane in Japan is one of the mystical creatures and is said to live for a thousand years. In Japan, it is commonly said that folding 1000 paper origami cranes makes a person's wish come true. Our collective wish is for recovery and resilience.
Abstracting Nature
~With Katie Burk
Event Type: Workshop
Tuition: $200
Level: Beginners
Students will discover how to capture the essence of natural forms yet go beyond
a more literal representation of the subject.
Description for the workshop:
Students will use nature and organic forms to generate well-developed, "abstract"
paintings. By observing and recording some elements of a subject, students will
learn when to improvise and when to veer from the literal. We will experiment
with elements of design and composition and focus on the process of arriving at
an image.
Materials:
The workshop will be taught with mixed media so students should
bring a variety of their preferred materials. The instructor will be working with
water-based and drawing media including watercolor, ink, acrylic, colored pencil,
and collage materials. Students should also bring visual references such as old
drawings, photographs, collage material, and small organic objects.
Abstracting Nature
~With Katie Burk
Event Type: Presentation
Cost: Free!
Artist Talk with KATIE BURK
Ohana Style Potluck
Thursday, March 17, 2011
6:00 - 8:00pm
Katie Burk is a visual artist and musician currently residing 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.
Katie Burk explores the element of time and how it affects every physical object, living and non-living. She has always been enamored with the natural world and often use organic forms like fossils, plants, and shells as a visual vocabulary for her work. The presentation will be followed by a weekend of experimentation with water-based media, March 18-20th, 2011.
Exploration in Concrete Sculpture
~With Elena Garcia
Event Type: Workshop
Tuition: $225
Level: Beginners
Come prepared to get dirty in this hands on, high-energy class. You will refine
various techniques of your choice that were introduced in previous classes. Based on
your experience you may choose to work in 2D, 3D or both. Develop your concepts and
inspirations with any combination of layering and building up surfaces, hand forming,
building over armatures of various materials, textural effects and surface finishing.
Explore various substrates, armatures, colorants, aggregates, imbedding objects and
sanding and carving down through layers. Students will leave confident to continue their
work at home and further expand the possibilities of this medium in future workshops.
BOOKMAKING: Creative Bookmaking CLASS FULL
~With Janet Ballentyne
Event Type: Workshop
Tuition: $75
Level: Beginners - Intermediate
Come and join in creativity whether you are novice or 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.
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.
CERAMICS: East Meets West- Yixing Teapots
~With Ah Leon and Richard Notkin
Event Type: Workshop
Tuition: $350
Level: Beginners - Advanced
Old friends reunite once again to share their ceramic expertise 'over tea'. Experts in Yixing Teapots, the widely collected and accomplished contemporary ceramic artists Ah Leon and Richard Notkin will lead this 3-day ceramic experience. They will review several wheel throwing and handbuilding techniques that have allowed them to transform traditional Yixing teapots into an expressive representational and political art form. This synthesis of old and new, of East and West, as well as their acute attention to small detail, and a lifelong commitment to the advancement of ceramics, has gained both artists international recognition. In addition to innovating tea-ware, both artists share an affinity for Chinese Tea.
This workshop is a rare opportunity to participate in a complete tea experience, learning ceramic techniques of building functional representation wares, and appreciating the finer qualities of tea drinking during daily Chinese Tea Ceremonies.
Supplies to bring:
- Basic ceramic tools (most are available to share)
- sketchbook
- apron or smock
CERAMICS: East Meets West- Yixing Teapots
~With Ah Leon and Richard Notkin
Event Type: Presentation
Cost: Free!
Please welcome widely collected and accomplished contemporary ceramic artists Ah Leon and Richard Notkin to the Donkey Mill Art Center. As this year's Artists-In-Residence, they will share their approach to creating expressive representational and political art.
This is a potluck style reception followed by a slide presentation.
Over the course of the next 10 days, Ah Leon of Taiwan and Richard Notkin of Montana will teach a three-day workshop, share their expertise in tea ceremonies, oversee open studio in the ceramics area and participate with our children's art education program.
The Artist In Residence program is made possible by the Laila Twigg-Smith Art Fund, managed by the Hawai'i Community Foundation.
FIBER ART: Paper Making- Exploring dyed pulp
~With Marilyn Wold
Event Type: Workshop
Tuition: $145
Level: Open to All Levels
In this workshop the students will explore the beauty of color on natural plant fibers. Using Hawaiian plant fibers students will dye pulp to form sheets of all colors.
Did you ever see black, black banana paper? How about bright purple wauke paper or vivid green ulu paper? This workshop will explore handmade paper with local Hawaiian plant fibers. Explore the wonders of dyed pulp. Create colored sheets for a special book or piece of art work. Two full days of exciting paper making with all the colors of the rainbow!
FIBER ART: Paper Making- Exploring dyed pulp
~With Marilyn Wold
Event Type: Presentation
Cost: Free!
This presentation will cover Marilyn's career as an fiber artist traveling the world learning about endemic plants from native cultures. Potluck will precede the slide presentation.
"My fascination for papermaking intensifies in my personal research with various plant fibers and papermaking techniques. In the last ten years, travel and teaching have been a constant source of education, nurturing, excitement and pleasure." - Marilyn Wold