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ARTIST PRESENTATION AND WEEKEND WORKSHOP BY PRAWAT LAUCHAROEN
PRINTMAKING: THE MOMENT
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ARTIST PRESENTATION AND WORKSHOP BY MINA TAKAHASHI We have re-scheduled Mina Takahashi, Artist in Residence, due to a family emergency. The new dates for her slide lecture and workshop are listed below.
If you signed up for her workshop as originally scheduled and this change in date prevents you from participating, please email hfac.dmac@hawaiiantel.net and a refund of fees paid will be sent to you. Additionally, we now have the following opportunities available with Mina:
February 23, 2008 (Saturday) from 9 am to 12 noon registered students can prepare fibers using "Mina's Recipe". Setsuko Morinoue and Tomoe Nimore will guide you.
March 14, 2008 (Friday) - new date SLIDE LECTURE Mina Takahashi * Takahashi is editor of Hand Papermaking, a nonprofit biannual publication dedicated to advancing traditional and contemporary ideas in the art of hand papermaking. Previously she was the long-time executive director of Dieu Donni Papermill, a nonprofit artist workspace in New York City assisting artists in the creation of their work in hand papermaking. She has taught and lectured on the craft and artistic applications of Asian and Western papermaking at universities, art centers, and craft schools nationwide and internationally. She has also consulted on international projects for UNIDO in India and for CARE in Ecuador. |
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March 15 and 16, 2008 (Saturday & Sunday) - new dates
Time: 9:00 am - 4:00 pm
In this two day workshop, participants will learn how to prepare and work with wauke fiber to create imagery in their handmade paper. They will explore a range of techniques including pulp painting, watermarks, mylar puzzle matrices, "blow-outs" to produce a variety of visual and textural effects in the paperworks.
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February 15, 2008 (Friday)SLIDE LECTURE, 6:30-8:30pm Robert Winokur * Winokur, a ceramic sculptor, is recognized nationally and internationally. Awards include membership in the International Academy of Ceramics, Geneva, Switzerland; participant in the 1st Yixing International Ceramic Art Conference, by invitation from the People's Republic of China; and researcher on contemporary Chinese porcelain and residency at the International Ceramic Studio in Keeskemet, Hungary. He was named professor emeritus at Tyler School of Art, Temple University, Pennsylvania, and Honorary Fellow of the National Council on Education in the Ceramic Arts. He was awarded the Visual Arts Fellowship by the National Endowment for the Arts, and his work has been exhibited extensively in museums as well as collections in the USA, Europe and China. |
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February 16 and 17, 2008 (Saturday & Sunday)
Time: 9:00 am - 4:00 pm The participants will be encouraged to construct clay forms from a list of signs, symbols and objects which will be established. This will encourage each student to think through the process for creating a very personal work of art. After the individual has created their pieces, they will share their thoughts and concept to collaborate in creating a piece of work together. Demonstrations with wheel throwing, hand building and slip casting will be included during the workshop. |
February 8, 2008 (Friday) Ojile, originally from Minneapolis, is an artist who lives and works in Honolulu. He teaches a class called "Intuitive Painting" at the Academy Art Center, and he has exhibited his artwork extensively in Hawaii and on the mainland, including in New York City. In addition, his work has been shown in Europe and Japan and gallery affiliations include venues in Provincetown, San Jose, Houston, Honolulu, New York City, Tokyo and Osaka. He is represented in art collections in Germany, Paris, Montreal, New York City, Houston, Dallas, Washington, D.C., Minneapolis, San Francisco and Los Angeles, among numerous other private and corporate collections. His artwork may be seen in the collections of the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco (DeYoung/Legion of Honor), and in Hawaii (the Honolulu Academy of Arts, The Contemporary Museum, the Hawaii State Foundation on Culture and the Arts and the Hawaii State Art Museum). Among the extensive list of catalogues and periodicals in which his work has been included and his exhibitions have been reviewed, is a review of his exhibition, "Terra Incognita," at the Honolulu Academy of Arts, in the April 2005 issue of Art in America. |
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February 9 and 10, 2008 (Saturday & Sunday)
Time: 9:00 am - 4:00 pm In this workshop, participants will be presented with a series of exercises which are designed to enhance creativity on a variety of levels. There will be drawing and painting with focus on composition and color. Individual attention to participants' needs will be a priority. |
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November 16, 17 and 18, 2007 (Fri, Sat & Sun)
Cement is an amazing medium in which to generate large forms easily and rather inexpensively. One just has to look around to see the ubiquitous use of concrete. This workshop will help generate a sensitive use of the material. Activities will cover the generation of forms and the layered process of building up the form with cement/concrete. There is a potential for quickly realizing large 3D forms. A general overview will be presented, as well as a conceptual framework for viewing cement as an artistic medium and the methods and techniques of working. Please bring your excitement and willingness to work & experiment. |
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November 16, 2007 (Friday)
Born and raised in Honolulu, Randy Shiroma currently resides in San Jose, California. Shiroma received a BA degree in mathematics and a BFA degree in ceramics from the University of Hawaii at Manoa in 1978 and went on to receive his MFA degree in sculpture from San Jose State University in 1980. Shiroma is inspired by the physical aspects of his surroundings and translates these feelings and visual qualities into three-dimensional sculptural forms using terrazzo, a polished and patinated concrete. He prefers to work in this material, for it allows him the freedom and spontaneity to create works that are large in scale. Shiroma applies concrete - tinted with a variety of pigments - layer upon layer over a metal armature and then sands the form down, revealing the edges and colors of the various layers. |
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November 3 and 4, 2007 (Saturday & Sunday)
Masks are powerful objects that can transform reality and transport us to other worlds. They simultaneously hide while revealing, unlocking and releasing the alter egos that we unwittingly harbor. This workshop will explore these concepts through the design and construction of masks using paper mache'. What we now refer to as composite construction, a fabrication technique that is associated with materials like polyester resin & fiberglass or epoxy & carbon graphite, refers also to paper mache', essentially a combination of paper and binder (glue). Paper mache' can be used to create strong rigid lightweight forms that cost next to nothing to make. The greatest expense is the labor invested. It is an amazingly versatile material that is highly underrated and usually overlooked. See below for artist info. |
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November 2, 2007 (Friday)
Michael Harada was born and raised in Hawaii on the island of O'ahu, where he still lives and works. He received both his BFA and MFA in printmaking from the University of Hawaii and is currently teaching drawing at Leeward Community College (Pearl City, O'ahu) and digital graphics at Honolulu Community College. He also freelances as an graphic illustrator, set designer and mask & puppet maker. His fascination with masks began in the early 90's when he started collaborating with "Monkey Waterfall", a Honolulu based performance group that uses masks and puppets. Since then he has been sucked into the world of theatre and has designed and constructed masks, props and sets for Honolulu Theatre for Youth, Kumu Kahua, and Manoa Valley Theatre. He continues to work with Monkey Waterfall. |
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October 6 and 7, 2007 (Saturday & Sunday)
Be imaginative and have fun creating narrative ceramic tiles! In this two day workshop, Nakazato will introduce many different approaches and methods to tell stories in the creation of a ceramic sculpture. She will share easy-to-exercise strategies on how to develop a personal visual language by tapping into that realm between imagination and reality. Aside from conceptualizing your ideas, you will also learn how to methodically analyze your creative ideas and art work. The workshop will also cover fun and rather unconventional ceramic techniques such as "food analogy", "clay dog on a stick", and "build it solid, hollow later", all of which are useful for utilizing and preserving the expressive nature of clay, as well as for speedily processing your ideas and creating a freshness in your work. |
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October 5, 2007 (Friday) Roaming between fantasy and reality, Tomoko Nakazato creates animated ceramic sculptures that reflect her cultural heritages and social conditions today. She uses both throwing and hand-building techniques to speedily process her ideas, which creates freshness in her works and preserves the expressive nature of the clay. Nakazato is native of Japan who graduated from San Francisco State University with a master's degree in Fine Arts in 2004. She currently teaches ceramics at community centers throughout the Bay Area, in 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 in 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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September 21, 22, 23 (Friday - Sunday), 2007
Learn the beginning process of lauhala hat making by weaving the piko and pa. Students will create a minimum of five pieces before being accepted into an upcoming workshop to complete a hat. Ed Kaneko began lauhala weaving in 1940 as a young boy. After retiring fifteen years ago, he returned to weaving and has been teaching at DMAC and at the annual weaving workshop at Kona Village Resort. He recently participated in the Smithsonian Institute's National Folk Life Festival in Washington, D.C. Jim Skibby has studied lauhala weaving under Ed for the past 4 years at DMAC; he now specializes in lauhala hat weaving. |
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September 16 (Sunday), 2007; 6:30-8:30pm This lecture will focus on the transitions in the art world for the artist, curator and those seeking a career in the arts. John Natsoulas will discuss how he has maintained a positive energy in his work and will offer advice on how to stay focused within your field. He will also discuss the cultural impact of art, and how art can stimulate community togetherness, and how to fulfill the needs of the artist within that community. Considerable focus will also be placed on the relationship between modern art and how it is a relative part of mass culture, catering to a wider audience, and the new evolution of artists creating events to pull a larger audience to support their art. |
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September 1, 2 (Saturday & Sunday), 2007
This 2 day class will focus on traditional beading and sewing techniques of the Plains and Plateau Indians. A beaded hide bag will be made, using a variety of beading stitches that the student can later use in creating their own work. After the class project is finished, guidance I will be provided to students who may have ideas of their own that they may wish to develop. There may be time at the end to make a drum beater. This class will be very informative about traditional methods and materials, as well as some modern substitutes that can be used to make your project more Hawaii weather-friendly. Angela Swedberg has been doing Native American beadwork since she was 5 years old. Her traditionally inspired work, as well and her contemporary glass creations are based on her extensive knowledge of 19th century Native American art of the Plains and Plateau regions. She also works as a beadwork and quillwork conservator for museums and private collectors. Her work is in both public and private collections. She has also made many items that are in current use by Native American dancers and traditional spiritual practitioners. |
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September 1 (Saturday), 2007
The patina finish that has become David Marks' trademark is a hybrid that he has developed since the early 1990's. It combines painting, gilding (metal leafing), chemical patinas, and lacquering techniques to produce complex, colorful, and very unique results. These techniques can be applied to any surface that will accept paint including wood, metal, paper, ceramics, and glass. Students will work with the traditional oil size of gilding and also explore creative gilding techniques such as Japanese Notan gilding, which is balancing positive and negative spaces. David will also present the process of chemical patination. He will demonstrate various cold patina processes working safely with mild acids. Students will take home some very creative and innovative techniques to enhance their work. David Marks is recognized internationally as a master craftsman of fine furniture, turner, sculptor, and host of the television show "Woodworks" on DIY and on the How To Channel in Australia. He has won numerous awards for his woodworking, including two NICHE Awards in 2001, and is a three time winner of Best of Show in Artistry in Wood in Sonoma County, California. He is a current member of the American Association of Woodturners, Baulines Crafts Guild, Sonoma County Woodworkers Association, and of the Furniture Society. He resides in Santa Rosa, California, where he teaches classes in his workshop/studio in addition to working on his own projects. |
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August 31 (Friday), 2007
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April 14 & 15 (Saturday & Sunday), 2007
In this exciting workshop you will learn how to transfer images using simple monotype techniques. You will explore gum arabic eucalyptus oil, and litho paper transfers. Chine colle collage techniques will be introduced as well. Transferred images can be over-printed with additional visual information, creating layered works of depth and beauty. Basic print techniques will be covered and skills solidified, so all levels of experience are welcome! Robynn Smith received her BFA from Rhode Island School of Design and her MFA from San Jose State University. Robynn is an internationally exhibiting painter and printmaker. Recent shows include the Triton Museum of Art in Santa Clara, California and Gallery in Tokyo, Japan. Robynn has been an artist in residence at the Frans Masereel Center for Printmaking in Belgium, the Kala Institute, the Ragdale Foundation and Villa Montalvo Center for the Arts. Robynn has taught many workshops including courses at Anderson Ranch, Casa Nambe, Donkey Mill Art Center and the Mendocino Art Center. She is a studio arts instructor at Monterey Peninsula College. She was named the Santa Cruz Art League Distinguished Artist of the Year in 2003. |
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April 14 (Saturday), 2007
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April 7 & 8 (Saturday & Sunday), 2007
Be imaginative, and have fun creating narrative ceramic sculptures! In this two day workshop, Nakazato will introduce many different approaches and methods to tell stories creating a ceramic sculpture. She will share easy-to-exercise strategies on how to develop a personal visual language by tapping into your "in-between realm" of imagination and reality. Aside from conceptualizing your ideas, you will also learn how to methodically analyze your creative ideas and art work. The workshop will also cover fun and rather unconventional ceramic techniques such as "food analogy", "clay dog on a stick" and "build it solid, hollow later", all of which are useful for utilizing and preserving the expressive nature of clay, as well as for speedily processing your ideas and creating a freshness in your work. Roaming between fantasy and reality, Nakazato creates animated ceramic sculptures that reflect her cultural heritages and today's social conditions. She uses both throwing and hand building techniques to speedily process her ideas, which create freshness in her works and preserves the expressive nature of the clay. Nakazato is native of Japan who graduated in 2004 from San Francisco State University with a master's degree in Fine Arts. She currently teaches ceramics at community centers throughout the Bay Area, California. Her work has been exhibited at The Artery and John Natsoulas Annex Gallery, Davis: as well as bootling Gallery, 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", she says. |
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April 6 (Friday), 2007
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March 16, 17 & 18 (Friday, Saturday & Sunday), 2007
Basics in learning about types of bamboo, and its usage as well as how to select, prepare and introduce some techniques of basic bamboo weaving will be presented. He will demonstrate how to apply simple basic weaving techniques applying to create contemporary forms as a sculpture for your living space. "These baskets represent a search for the beauty and precision in nature and a way to balance the chaos evident in these times." -Jiro Yonezawa |
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March 16 (Friday), 2007
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March 3 & 4 (Saturday & Sunday), 2007
This workshop is designed to give participants an opportunity to create and explore handmade books. She will be teaching a variety of basic and unusual book forms with variations. These books can be used for your own text and images or they can easily be incorporated into any creative works. She found that student-created books is a fun medium to explore. You will learn to use different book structures combined with your choice of content and images to create wonderful unique books. Janet Ballantyne is a hand paper maker and book artist from Vermont. She is co-founder of the Book Arts Guild of Vermont and has her books exhibited in galleries there. She has been studying book arts at the graduate level in summer program at Saint Michael's College for the past 8 years. She is a certified high school teacher with 14 years of experience. |
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February 25 (Sunday), 2007
A sense of refinement and love for materials pervades Hiroshi Yamano's luxurious, metaphorical sculpture that incorporates stone and metals, silver leaf engraving, and glass forming, cutting and polishing. Born in Fukuoka, Japan, in 1956, Hiroshi studied and worked in both Japan and the United States. He began to focus on the Japanese elements inspired from antique Kano School paintings, from which he developed not only an aesthetic approach, but also a personal symbol- the fish. Hiroshi has long identified with fish swimming in the ocean as he so often traverses the vast waters between continents in his own life. Hiroshi Yamano began his serious study of glass at the California College of Arts and Crafts, continued his studies at the Tokyo Glass Art Institute, and received his M.F.A. from the Rochester Institute of Technology. He is now recognized as one of Japan's foremost and innovative glass artists. Hiroshi is cofounder of the Ezra Glass Studio in Fukui, Japan, and helped establish the formidable glass program at Osaka University of Arts, where he now serves as chairman. Yamano is on the island for his one day opening from 6-10pm, on Saturday, February 24, at the new Sweeney Art & Design in the Shops at Mauna Lani. |
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February 17 & 18 (Saturday & Sunday), 2007
This workshop will briefly explore the process needed to gather, cook and prepare the pulp for papermaking. Vats of Hawaiian kozo, wauke, and Hawaiian breadfruit ("ulu"), will be ready to create lovely translucent sheets of paper. We will focus on "Blue and White". The art form of Japanese traditional technique of "Shibori", and "Ita-zome" with the sheets of handmade paper you made in workshop 1. If you were not in the first workshop, sheets of Japanese Kozo paper will be provided. The finished sheets will be strong and can be used for Japanese book-binding or many other art forms. |
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January 27 & 28 (Saturday & Sunday), 2007
Learn the fascinating way to transform local fibers into wonderful sheets of paper. We will work with two local fibers - wauke, the Hawaiian kozo; and the Hawaiian food staple plant, ulu, or breadfruit, fiber. Wold will teach how to harvest, process and prepare the fibers and how to form sheets of handmade paper. Participants will be forming sheets of paper and exploring watermarking techniques that create one of a kind sheets. Wold, an international free-lance artist uses native plants for her papermaking. Her art has been greatly influenced by primitive cultures and traditional art forms around the world. She has taught workshops and classes to all levels worldwide. Founder of "Wild Fibers" in Hawaii and Oregon, she has been in business for the last 20 years. Her paper product is used in custom work for many individual artists and businesses, and her artwork has been displayed in galleries in Europe, the United States and Japan. She has numerous articles published on her personal experiences of papermaking. |
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January 26 (Friday), 2007
Davis grew up on a farm in Washington State, and her sculptures refer to the simple architecture of farm life - a box, a table, a bench. She uses these familiar basic objects in magical ways, through conceptual feats of carpentry, engineering and artistry. Her sculpture is not objective or representational and her odd pieces of deconstructed furniture are deceptive and more humanistic than their abstract qualities at first imply. What she shares more than anything, is a powerful commitment to her singular vision and an ability to create the forms that represent her. Taylor is a graduate of School of the Museum of Fine Arts with Fine Arts, Tufts University with B.S. of Education, Milton Avery Graduate School of the Arts at Brad College with M.F.A. She holds grants and awards that include St. Botolph Foundation Grant, Association of International Art Critics Award, Institute of Contemporary Art Artist Prize, Massachusetts Cultural Council Grant. Articles and reviews included in Art Forum, The New York Times, the Washington Post, Art in America, The Boston Globe, and the Boston Herald. She is an Associate Professor at Massachusetts College of Art since 1999, co-chair of sculpture at Milton Avery School of the Arts at Bard College since 2003. |
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January 20 & 21 (Saturday & Sunday), 2007
In this two day workshop, participants will have demonstrations and hands-on opportunities to learn free form vessel carving from start to finish. Discussions will include safety and technique, using chain-saws and power tools, drying and preservation of green or wet wood, ho. Instructions will include how to begin carving a vessel, how to efficiently grind walls, thickness, and, lastly, how to finish and apply a hand-rubbed oil finish. The artist will be accompanied by assistant and sanding specialist, Steven Flatt. Discussions of form texture and aesthetics will be reviewed. Because time is limited, the class will collectively work on one or two pieces, depending on the size of the class. Note: Safety will be a primary focus, however, due to the aggressive nature of the carving process, participants will need to sign a waiver, relieving the artist and the art center of liability in case of injury. "When I begin to carve a sculptural vessel, I think about the tree's life and how it responded to the environment surrounding it. I think of form as if it were the tree's song revealing its high lonesome sound in 3D. Carving wood vessels are like singing harmony for Mother Nature." -Brad Sells |
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January 19 (Friday), 2007
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POTLUCK, SLIDESHOW & DISCUSSION
SCULPTURE: CEMENT 3D
CERAMICS: IMAGINATION & REALITY
LAUHALA HAT MAKING: The Basics
TRADITIONAL BEADING AND SEWING OF THE PLAINS & PLATEAU INDIANS
GILDING & CHEMICAL PATINATION
PRINTMAKING: transfer images through monotype
BAMBOO WEAVING:
THE CREATIVE ART OF BOOK MAKING
METAPHORICAL GLASS ART
PAPERMAKING II: 
PAPERMAKING I:
SLIDE LECTURE: Conceptual Sculptures
FREE FORM WOODEN VESSEL CARVING