Poetry Workshop
~With Sharon Marie Olson
Event Type: Workshop
February 4 , 2012 (Saturday)
Time: 2:00pm - 4:00pm
Tuition: $25
Level: Beginners
Enrollment: 12 seats remaining
Don't miss the opportunity to receive one on one coaching from Spoken Word Poet, Sharon Marie Olson. Learn the history of poetry slam, review footage and discuss award winning poets and learn fundamentals of constructing a performance piece that suits your comfort level.
Attendees are asked to bring two original poems of their own construction, writing materials, and an item or photo of special meaning.
Fearless Calligraphy
~With Jenny Hainsworth
Event Type: Workshop
February 11 , 2012 (Saturday)
Time: 1:00pm - 4:00pm
Tuition: $55
Supply Fee: $10
Level: Beginners
Enrollment: 10 seats remaining
Have you ever wanted to learn real calligraphy, but you were overwhelmed about where to start? Or you have tried it and all you got was a frustrating mess?
Join artist and calligrapher, Jenny Hainsworth, for a friendly introduction to the amazing world of European calligraphy and lettering art.
Students will receive the following:
-an intro to the tools needed for most lettering styles;
-exercises to help you learn quickly and well;
-familiarity with calligraphy terminology;
-trouble-shooting for those with some experience;
-confidence to practice, learn and improve at home
Note: The hand (letter style) taught in this workshop will be Roman majuscules (capitals), as they are the foundation of all lettering in the western world. If time permits we will try some italic miniscules (lower case).
Materials for each student to bring:
-drawing board (larger is better)
-2 bulldog clips
-long ruler (more than 12")
-pencil
-eraser
-any calligraphy materials you already have (optional)
*all other materials will be provided
Jenny Hainsworth is a recent Big Island transplant from Victoria, BC. She has a degree in linguistics from the University of British Columbia, studied calligraphy in Edinburgh, Scotland, and learned egg tempera and traditional gilding and gesso techniques in the Lower East Side of Manhattan. Jenny brings a lively sense of humor, encouragement and adventure to classes!
Mask Making Workshop
~With Tanya Bautista
Event Type: Workshop
February 18 , 2012 (Saturday)
Time: 10:00am - 3:00pm
Tuition: $95
Supply Fee: $10
Level: Beginners
Enrollment: 10 seats remaining
This Mardi Gras themed masking making workshop is designed for ages 10 yrs on up! With artist Tonya Bautista, you will be making a mold of your own face for a custom, made-to-fit mask. Bring your lunch and join us at the Mill for a fun, creative and interactive workshop!
Materials & Tools to bring:
-brown or black eyeliner pencil
-vaseline (very important!)
-scissors for fabric and paper
-light-weight card board (ie: USPS mailing envelopes)
-scraps of fabric
-glue (ie: tacky glue, low-temp glue gun, etc)
-embellishments (sequins, ribbon, feathers, beads etc)
-acrylic paints
-paint brushes
-markers
-awl (to make holes in mask for ribbons)
-mask ribbons (at least 3 yds of 1/2" satin for ties)
-craft wire (18-22 gauge)
-anything else that can be used as embellishments..
LET'S BE CREATIVE!
Useful Pots: Design Decisions
~With Ellen Shankin
Event Type: Workshop
February 24 - February 26, 2012 (Friday ~ Sunday)
Time: 10:00am - 4:00pm
Tuition: $225
Supply Fee: $0
Level: Intermediate
Enrollment: 0 seats remaining
Useful pots made on a wheel serve a specific purpose.Their form,
however, contains a world of possibilities. It has been my particular
passion to take the thrown pot beyond the wheel, out of round,
while holding fast to the restrictions that usefulness imposes. In this
workshop I will encourage the exploration of those techniques and
ideas: from simple immediate manipulation of the wet pot as it leaves
the wheel, to the more forced imposition of form on leather hard
clay.... a variety of approaches will be demonstrated .
Information will be shared and progress made through slide
presentation, one on one attention, a lot of throwing and group
discussion. While throwing we make choices about our work, often
unaware.....the rim thick or thin....throwing lines visible or removed ....
These decisions, whether made consciously or not, radically affect
the overall presence and resolution of the piece.
Conversations about design decisions will encircle every
demonstration and effort in the studio.
I want students to come away from this experience jazzed up about
the altered pot, with the skills to continue that investigation when they
leave. And to have developed a richer vocabulary of self-expression
as it manifests itself in the simple pot.
This 3-day workshop will be also include open studio time with Ellen as mentor the following week, Tuesday-Friday 2/28- 3/2.
BOOKMAKING: Creative Bookmaking - Two 1 day Workshops Offered!
~With Janet Ballentyne
Event Type: Workshop
February 25 - February 29, 2012 (Saturday ~ Wednesday)
Time: 10:00am - 4:00pm
Tuition: $75
Supply Fee: $0
Level: Beginners - Intermediate
Enrollment: 8 seats remaining
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.
We are offering 2 separate workshops:
Saturday, February 25th, &/or
Wednesday, February 29th.
Tuition is $75 per class (take one or both!)
All materials will be provided.
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.
Introduction to Digital Photography
~With Alvis Upitis & Eric Edwards
Event Type: Workshop
March 3 , 2012 (Saturday)
Time: 1:00pm - 4:00pm
Tuition: $35
Level: Beginners
Enrollment: 20 seats remaining
Miscellaneous:
Part 1 of a 5 Part Series of Workshops for the Beginning Photographer - $35 per class or $140 for all 5 classes
What camera is right for me? How can I get the best out of my digital camera? What can I do with the images once I have them? The goal of this workshop is to teach people a basic understanding of digital cameras, managing images, printing images and an brief introduction on basic editing tools. Format will include an illustrated lecture covering simple techniques to understand and operate your camera and manage your images.
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.
Eric Edwards developed digital imaging products, technology and intellectual property at Sony, and led development of international standards in digital
photography, digital cinema, JPEG and MPEG.
Photography: Artful Seeing - Introduction to Composition
~With Kathleen Carr
Event Type: Workshop
March 10 , 2012 (Saturday)
Time: 1:00pm - 4:00pm
Tuition: $35
Level: Beginners
Enrollment: 20 seats remaining
Miscellaneous:
Part 2 of a 5 Part Series of Workshops for the Beginning Photographer - $35 per class or $140 for all 5 classes
If you'd like to learn how to take better photographs, come to this 3 hour workshop. After a slide presentation reviewing the key elements of good composition and artful seeing, each participant can show up to three images and Kathleen will demonstrate how to improve the composition for each photograph. Please bring three jpeg images for viewing on a thumb drive or CD. 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.kathleencarr.com and www.kathleentcarr.com
Ohana Style Potluck and Slide Presentation
~With Jan Edwards
Event Type: Presentation
March 15 , 2012 (Thursday)
Time: 6:00pm - 8:00pm
Admission: Free!
Jan Edwards had a Fine Arts background before she learned to make pots at Anderson Ranch Art Center while living in Colorado. She has has been working as a Studio Potter for the last 30 years. After returning to "the Ranch" as an Artist - in - Residence and then on Staff for a few years, she moved her home and studio to Portland, Oregon. There she makes useful pots and special pots, Architectural Tile, and lately some "Drawings in Clay".
Jan teaches regularly at Mount Hood Community College and Multnomah Art Center. She loves to travel, teaching Workshops, "wherever they'll let me". Jan has taught workshops all over the US, in Mexico, Canada & most recently in Tuscany.
Her work is in collections around the US, in Canada and in Italy. It is also shown in several books on Claywork and Tilework.
In 2002 Jan won the Prestigious "Bennet Welch Award" for Surface Decoration, a peer award from the Oregon Potter's Association.
Making and Decorating Ceramic Tiles
~With Jan Edwards
Event Type: Workshop
March 16 - March 18, 2012 (Friday ~ Sunday)
Time: 10:00am - 4:00pm
Tuition: $225
Supply Fee: $45
Level: Beginners - Advanced
Enrollment: 0 seats remaining
"I think every person has beautiful pictures, wild patterns, engaging visions, numerous songs, stories, and images running around inside themselves. We humans are able to bring some of this intriguing material up and out and make Art of it." Jan Edwards
This three day hands-on workshop will focus on exploring some ways to achieve that task by making tiles. We can mine some of our inner richness and be inspired by our natural surroundings, using these ideas to compose a series of ceramic tiles. In this class we will form good tiles to give ourselves a surface to play with. Using earthenware clay, slips, and colored stains, we will explore a variety of ways to embellish the clay surface with color, line, pattern, and texture. Participants will spend time painting, drawing, carving, scratching, stamping and otherwise making marks to make our tiles beautiful and personal. This workshop will provide the basics of what you need to do to make individual "art tiles". We will also take time to look at the issues surrounding planning, creating and installing a tile project for your home.
Photography: Simple Post Production Techniques
~With TBA
Event Type: Workshop
March 17 , 2012 (Saturday)
Time: 1:00pm - 4:00pm
Tuition: $35
Level: Beginners - Intermediate
Enrollment: 20 seats remaining
Miscellaneous:
Part 3 of a 5 Part Series of Workshops for the Beginning Photographer - $35 per class or $140 for all 5 classes
One of the most exciting aspects of digital photography is the many ways
images can be edited, communicated, manipulated and enhanced once they are
acquired. The goal of this workshop is to introduce several of the post
production options available to digital photographers including tools such
as Picasa, GIMP, Lightroom and Photoshop. Format will include an illustrated
lecture covering simple techniques to manage, edit and improve your images.
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.
Eric Edwards developed digital imaging products, technology and intellectual
property at Sony, and led development of international standards in digital
photography, digital cinema, JPEG and MPEG.
Photography: Advance Your Personal Eye
~With Johnathan Rawle
Event Type: Workshop
March 24 , 2012 (Saturday)
Time: 1:00pm - 4:00pm
Tuition: $35
Level: Beginners - Intermediate
Enrollment: 20 seats remaining
Miscellaneous:
Part 4 of a 5 Part Series of Workshops for the Beginning Photographer - $35 per class or $145 for all 5 classes
How does your personal eye see and tell about the world around you?
Bring three of your own favorite photo images on a USB thumb drive or recordable CD/DVD. We will share these with each other and learn to appreciate what you do with a camera. Bring, too, your digital camera, because after sharing and discussion of each other's visual strengths we will go outside and shoot new images. We'll stay near the Donkey Mill area but wear clothes and shoes appropriate to exploring outside. We'll then share these to see growth, new visual expression. There will be plenty of opportunity to ask questions about photography that are important to you. Our goal is for you to appreciate and advance your personal eye.
Workshop Leader: Jonathan Rawle. Mr. Rawle is a Big Island commercial photographer. An annual report, corporate, and adverting photographer in Boston for twenty years some time ago, he has returned to the photography business after careers in business and teaching elementary school in Massachusetts and Waimea.
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Photography: Photographing Artwork
~With Alvis Upitis
Event Type: Workshop
March 31 , 2012 (Saturday)
Time: 1:00pm - 4:00pm
Tuition: $35
Level: Beginners - Intermediate
Enrollment: 20 seats remaining
Miscellaneous:
Part 5 of a 5 Part Series of Workshops for the Beginning Photographer - $35 per class or $140 for all 5 classes
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.
Woodworking: Image Transfer Workshop
~With Wendy Maruyama
Event Type: Workshop
April 6 - April 8, 2012 (Friday ~ Sunday)
Time: 10:00am - 4:00pm
Tuition: $225
Level: Intermediate
Enrollment: 8 seats remaining
Miscellaneous:
This workshop will go over the various ways that images can be transferred to wood surfaces, and how these surfaces can create story-lines, depth and metaphor in small (or large) case pieces.
The participants will need to collect images and scans that suit their work and create colored xeroxes (printed color images from a home computer will not work) from these images in advance. These images can be from photos, books, magazines, drawings and text. These images can also be used in the form of a collage and then color xeroxing, or by scanning images and manipulating them via Photoshop. If TEXT is used, the text must be mirrored so it is reversed - when it is applied to the wood then it will be able to be read properly. Please note, even black and white images must be COLORED xeroxed.
Each participant will need to bring their own wood - just for practice, 1/2" thick birch or maple plywood will work fine. Solid wood panels may also be used - it is advised that the wood be at least 1/2" thick.
TOOLS REQUIRED BY EACH PARTICIPANT:
*hard rubber brayer (the kind used in printmaking)
*clean, fine 3-4" foam rollers (2 in case)
*an old pie pan or a glass, ceramic dinner plate.
(an 8"X8" piece of plexiglass will work)
*sponges, rags and towels for cleanup
Learn woodworking from one of the most innovative, contemporary woodworkers and furniture designers of our time.
Wendy Maruyama is professor emeritus of the Furniture Design & Woodworking Program at San Diego State University.
This 3 day workshop is sponsored through a collaboration with Hawaii Industry Association, Hawaii Craftsmen and Holualoa Foundation for Arts and Culture.
Project Art: Sharing Simple Acts of Creativity
~With DMAC instructors & visiting artists
Event Type: Workshop
April 14 , 2012 (Saturday)
Time: 9:00am - 3:00pm
Tuition: $6
Level: Open to All Levels
Enrollment: 50 seats remaining
The Holualoa Foundation for Art and Culture opens the Donkey Mill Art Center to share simple acts of creativity with the community.
With over 50 volunteers to guide you through every new experience, 'Project Art' offers an array of hands on workshops taught by Donkey Mill instructors and visiting artist.
Tuition only $6 for the day with participants under the age of 6 are FREE!
Join the entire community in a spectacular day of sharing in creativity!
Sculpting Cherub Busts
~With Esther Shimazu
Event Type: Workshop
April 21 - April 22, 2012 (Saturday & Sunday)
Time: 10:00am - 4:00pm
Tuition: $150
Supply Fee: $25
Level: Intermediate - Advance
Enrollment: 6 seats remaining
Miscellaneous:
"Esther Shimazu creates sculptures of proud, spirited women who make the viewer smile. While lighthearted, these figures are imbued with a deep strength. Shimazu's pieces are feminine liberation, manifested." -Ann Nathan Gallery
In this workshop we will be making small hand built cherub busts including the head and shoulders/upper body. This class will cover sculpture techniques from the basic form through the feathers and dimples. We will focus in on fine detail, and students will learn to construct and attach wings, halos, head lei, even details such as individual teeth. The goal is to create a finely made, totally unique piece.
Concrete Sculpture Workshop with Randy Shiroma
~With Randy Shiroma
Event Type: Workshop
May 18 - May 20, 2012 (Friday ~ Sunday)
Time: 10:00am - 4:00pm
Tuition: $300
Level: Open to All Levels
Enrollment: 10 seats remaining
Randall Shiroma has both pioneered and mastered the use of terrazzo as a sculptural material. Terrazzo is an Italian method in which various sized chips of marble are set in concrete, cut, shaped and finally polished. Shiroma creates his organic abstract forms in an additive technique, similar to the way a ceramic sculptor might work with clay.