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UKULELE MAKING FOR BEGINNERS
This workshop is intended for beginners, however, experienced woodworkers will enjoy it too. Participants will be making a traditional 'ukulele patterned after a Martin tenor from the 1950's. Rosen, a goldsmith, sculptor, and 'ukulele maker, has a studio and gallery in Holualoa Village located in the historic old Holualoa Post Office building. He has lived and worked in Holualoa since 1977. He is one of the founders of the HFAC, and has previously taught jewelry making at the Donkey Mill Art Center. He started making 'ukulele about three years ago as an incentive to learn how to play. "I have very little experience doing fine wood working," says Rosen, "but found this project very rewarding." At the end of the workshop, we will all learn a song and be able to play. HAVE FUN! |
OPEN STUDIO
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LIFE DRAWING
The Foundation asks you to help sustain this Life Drawing Session by participating regularly. * Studio Passes are available for members to purchase for $45. |
PRINTMAKING
Morinoue is a native of Holualoa, and holds a BFA from the California College of Arts and Crafts. He has worked successfully in a variety of media including mixed media paintings, printmaking, ceramics, photography, and sculpture. He has long been a patient observer of the rhythms, cycles and patterns of nature. He has shown his works in galleries across the mainland and Japan. His art may also be seen in the State Foundation for Culture and the Arts collection, The Contemporary Museum, The Honolulu Academy of Arts, The National Parks Collection, The Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, The Ueno no Mori Museum in Tokyo, The First Hawaiian Bank, Neiman-Marcus' Chicago Collection, Verizon Hawaii Collection, the Honolulu State Library, the Honolulu Convention Center, Pahoa High School and Library, and First Hawaiian Bank. In summer, 2006, he studied at Pilchuck Glass School under the auspices of the Laila Art Scholarship program. Japanese woodblock printmaking offers the luminous brilliance of watercolor using non-toxic material, minimal workspace and simple hand tools. You will learn the A to Z's of "Mokuhanga", Japanese woodblock printmaking, traditional to contemporary; registration; image transfer methods; and carving techniques, including the sharpening of tools. The workshop covers the characteristics of a variety of wood and paper, the types and use of color brushes, and maintenance of the baren, a traditional printing disk. The class concentrates on printing techniques through a variety of exercises so students can leave the workshop feeling confident in their ability to print at home. Students will also learn the traditional chemical-free engraving process of dry point. * Studio Passes (10 four hour sessions) are available for members to purchase at $45. Persons who have taken a printmaking class may study with Mr. Morinoue for a four hour session on a weekly basis. |
POTTERY
Learn basic techniques of pottery creation using the potter's wheel. While seemingly simple and easy, students will be challenged by the skill necessary to throw a pot on the wheel. Each student will discover their own individual style which all potters find necessary in mastering this form. Students will become comfortable with throwing, by first learning centering, making perfect cylindrical forms, then shaping. Ben will guide you through these basic techniques and help you better understand this form of pottery. Discussions will cover form, design, stoneware glazing, and firing. Gerald A. Ben is a local-born artist and lifelong resident of Hawaii. His interest in art began with a high school class in ceramics. While earning a degree in electronics and working as a production potter, his interest in art continued to grow and led him to pursue a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from the University of Hawaii at Manoa. Soon after graduating, Ben moved to Kona where he embarked on a career as a skilled craftsman of fine furniture. Ben's artwork has been exhibited globally and his list of awards is impressive. |
EXPLORATIONS IN OILS
Formulated for the beginner, all aspects of the medium will be discussed. This class will focus on a foundation of compositional arrangements, the use of bold color, and expressive brushwork. Demonstrations will help students investigate these elements through small scale exercises gradually building to a final painting of which content and subject matter is left to the student. Beginners are often intimidated by coming face to face with a blank canvas and initial marks are made with a sense of hesitation. Keep an open mind and loosen up those artistic muscles! Come prepared to expand your abilities. Gerald Lucena received his BFA from the University of Hawaii at Manoa and attended the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture in Maine. He currently teaches adult and children's classes for the Donkey Mill Art Center. Lucena states, "The human form is my source of inspiration...I use the formal aspects of the art-making process as a metaphor for human relationships." His recent mixed-media visual narratives involve an on-going collaboration with artists David Curcio and Miho Morinoue, which combine drawing, painting, printmaking, and fiber arts. |
DRAWING AND WATERCOLOR
Class A: Academic art education, commercial art experience, fine art creation and teaching have made "Mac" aware of the primary importance of realistic drawing. This background helps him empathize with those who want to create art but become frustrated by their inability to draw. Disciplines to be taught in class cover perspective, volume, shapes, light, shadows, values, techniques, tools, paper and composition. Intense homework assignments will be combined with constructive critiques and demonstrations. Join this class and experience satisfying progress in creativity. Class B: The ability to really see - to understand what you are seeing - through watercolor techniques will be taught in a studio setting. Emphasis will be on personal instruction suited to your abilities. In-class demonstrations and constructive critiques will strengthen and inspire progress both in class and in homework assignments. McKenna was born, raised and lived in Colorado for 69 years before coming to Kailua-Kona in 1992. Graduation from Denver University followed World War II military service. He also studied at the California School for Fine Arts in San Francisco. All phases of marketing and advertising constituted his 44 years in Denver. He is an active member and past president of the Kailua Village Artists group and displays his watercolors in the two KVA galleries in Kailua-Kona. |
PULP FICTION
Papermaking will serve as a foundation for this experimental mixed-media course. Through the simplicity of creating blank sheets of paper (a bare slate) students can begin to invest in or invent almost anything that the imagination can conjure. Participants will then have the freedom to explore image-making possibilities in order to create rich multi-layered visual narratives which will combine drawing (pen/ink), painting (gauche), printmaking (monotypes/drypoint), and fiber arts (quilting/stitchery). This class is designed for the student artist to rethink conventional art making processes and to gain an awareness of material, process, and image as it relates to the development of personal meaning within each individuals own work. Collaboration among students is encouraged. For artist bio, see "Explorations in Oils", above. |
CERAMICS:
February 5-March 25, 2008 (Tuesdays, 8 weeks)
This course covers all the basic ceramic techniques you need to start your ceramic experience such as basic hand-building techniques, designing and glaze decoration basics, and introduction to wheel throwing. It will also feature fun and rather unconventional techniques which will spark your imagination and inspire you to create truly original ceramic work of your own, whether sculptural or functional. With hands-on demonstrations and open dialog among instructors and classmates, you will not only learn useful tools for forming an authentic visual language and style, but also learn how to conceptualize and analyze your ideas and artwork in context of ceramic history. Setsuko Watanabe-Morinoue was born in Japan where, in her youth, she enjoyed photography. She then took an interest in kusaki-zome (painting with natural dyes) and in the 70's, after moving to Hawaii, she became immersed in the art of clay. Today, she still works with clay but has extended her field of creative works through mixed media in painting, printmaking and sculpture. Her work has been shown in Japan, New York City, California and Hawaii, receiving several awards for her works in ceramics, painting and printmaking over the years. Her works in public and corporate collections include the State Foundation on Culture and the Arts; the Honolulu Advertiser; First Hawaiian Bank, Honolulu, Kailua-Kona, and Guam; Bank of Hawaii; the Royal Hawaiian Hotel; and the offices of Advanced Medical Nutrition in Hayward, California. Nakazato is a native of Japan who graduated from San Francisco State University with a master's degree in Fine Arts in 2004, she has taught ceramics at community centers throughout the Bay Area of California. Her work has been exhibited at The Artery and John Natsoulas Annex Gallery in Davis, CA, as well as Bootling Gallery in Oakland, and the Lab, San Francisco. She said many of her works explore Japanese relations with the West. "After I came to this country I tried to identify myself culturally." |
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