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2008 Workshop Schedule
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Soldering Success
Instructor: Lisa Cook
Date: Saturday Mar 29, 2008 - Sunday Mar 30, 2008
Have you tried soldering on your own, want to learn how, or need some supportive advice for trickier projects? Then set the world on fire (but not your studio) as you work out the kinks in your soldering repertoire.
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A Tote With A View
Instructor: DJ Pettitt
Date: Friday Apr 4, 2008 - Friday Apr 4, 2008
Create a one-of-a-kind, whimsical handbag with a view! Make your class project horizontal or vertical, in just about any size you would like in this one-day program.
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Altered Fabric Collage and Book
Instructor: DJ Pettitt
Date: Saturday Apr 5, 2008 - Sunday Apr 6, 2008
Create a fun fabric book with sketches, collage elements, finger painting and washes of color. Covers are thick and sturdy, yet flexible, and can be changed to any size you desire, or, can even be used as framable art.
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Working with Wire
Instructor: Keith Lo Bue
Date: Tuesday Apr 15, 2008 - Wednesday Apr 16, 2008
In this special workshop, you will learn to harness the possibilities of wire. From structural forms to chains, clasps and rivets, this valuable set of skills will enhance whatever you create, be it assemblage, jewelry or fixing something around the house!
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Plaster Architecture - An Exploration in Sculpting with Plaster
Instructor: Stephanie Lee
Date: Saturday Apr 26, 2008 - Sunday Apr 27, 2008
In this exploration of translating plaster into three dimensional forms, learn plaster sculpture construction and armature, carving and shaping sculptural forms with plaster and plaster-like products. Finishing and textural effects using paint, carving, sanding, incorporating paper ephemera and found objects and plaster casting will be explored in depth.
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The Painted Page
Instructor: Michelle Ward
Date: Saturday May 3, 2008 - Sunday May 4, 2008
Treat yourself to two full days of getting messy with paint and making interesting pages in your visual journal. Get immersed in the process and gain a new perspective and enthusiasm for both painting and journaling.
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Paper and Fabric Marbling
Instructor: Galen Berry
Date: Saturday May 31, 2008 - Sunday Jun 1, 2008
Learn to make the beautiful, multicolored patterned papers you often see in the covers of old book on paper and fabric, including traditional patterns like the Peacock, Stone Marble, Spanish Wave, Feather, Nonpareil, French curl and more.
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Attachment and Devotion
Instructor: Linda and Opie O'Brien
Date: Saturday Jun 7, 2008 - Sunday Jun 8, 2008
Learn the art of attachment, the solution to creatively join objects to one another. In this program, you will construct a devotional/shine from raw wood and learn myriad techniques to ensure secure and flawless attachments.
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Captured! Bezel Setting for Found Object Jewelry
Instructor: Jane Wynn
Date: Saturday Jun 14, 2008 - Sunday Jun 15, 2008
Learn how to bezel set a small found object like a pencil, a small toy, or a simple stone into a simple setting. Of course, this is not limited to just jewelry, you can embellish an altered book cover with an interesting found object, or adorn a shrine with a devotion.
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Artists' Books
Instructor: Mira Coviensky
Date: Saturday Jun 21, 2008 - Sunday Jun 22, 2008
Artists' books have the potential to combine images and writing with sculpture in unique and exciting ways. Created as art objects, they differ from journals and scrapbooks while remaining a form of personal expression.
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Making Fabric and Tyvek Paper and Embellishments
Instructor: Beryl Taylor
Date: Saturday Jun 28, 2008 - Sunday Jun 29, 2008
Learn a layering technique using three layers ( fabric / Tyvek, ephemera and photocopies, tissue paper ) to create a fabric-like paper. Use paints to create integral colors within the paper and to embellish the final piece.
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The Art of Being in a Relationship
Instructor: Karen Wallace
Date: Saturday Jul 12, 2008 - Sunday Jul 13, 2008
Explore who you are in relationships, learn how to balance the two basic life forces; the drive for individuality and the drive for togetherness and learn how to maintain your sense of self when you are emotionally and/or physically close to others. You will learn skills to help you develop more resilient intimate relationships and emotional connection in this art therapy program.
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Print, Pattern and Paper
Instructor: Anne Bagby
Date: Saturday Jul 19, 2008 - Sunday Jul 20, 2008
Look at various ways to make patterned and textured paper to use for fine art, books and fine Crafts of every kind using acrylics, glazes, stains, stamps, stencils, collage and more. It will be hard to ever go back to machine printed paper!
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Weird Wonderful Windows
Instructor: Michael DeMeng
Date: Wednesday Jul 23, 2008 - Thursday Jul 24, 2008
Create weird and wonderful windows by transforming simple wooden boxes into mixed media lightboxes/electrical assemblage. Your windows will be constructed with multiple layers of glass, photo transparencies, paint and bits of assemblage.
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Found Object Alchemy
Instructor: Michael DeMeng
Date: Friday Jul 25, 2008 - Sunday Jul 27, 2008
Transform the seemingly useless into something magical using the process of assemblage, collage and painting.
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Gatherings
Instructor: Nina Bagley
Date: Saturday Aug 2, 2008 - Sunday Aug 3, 2008
Spend two days learning several different "framing" techniques to create shallow shadowboxes on vintage book covers from such everyday items as dowel rods, box tops, matchboxes, and mica. Create one, two, or more art pieces that can be tucked within a ribboned "portfolio" that will hold your treasured artwork as a unified piece.
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Gatherings II
Instructor: Nina Bagley
Date: Monday Aug 4, 2008 - Tuesday Aug 5, 2008
Spend two days learning several different "framing" techniques to create shallow shadowboxes on vintage book covers from such everyday items as dowel rods, box tops, matchboxes, and mica. Create one, two, or more art pieces that can be tucked within a ribboned "portfolio" that will hold your treasured artwork as a unified piece.
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a. We Each Have Our Charms; b. Knot Now, Nina
Instructor: Nina Bagley
Date: Friday Aug 8, 2008 - Sunday Aug 10, 2008
This extensive, technique-filled workshop takes an elemental approach to creating the more formal, elegant and finished look of fine silver using precious metal clay applicable to everything from jewelry to book art and beyond.
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The Four Seasons II: Mixed Media for all Seasons
Instructor: Misty Mawn
Date: Thursday Aug 14, 2008 - Friday Aug 15, 2008
What color is Autumn to you? Could it be just one color, or is it a bountiful collection of colors, like a scattering of newly fallen leaves in the middle of October? What about Spring, Summer, and Winter? Can you capture them with paint and collage -- yes, you can!
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The Four Seasons: Mixed Media for all Seasons
Instructor: Misty Mawn
Date: Saturday Aug 16, 2008 - Sunday Aug 17, 2008
What color is Autumn to you? Could it be just one color, or is it a bountiful collection of colors, like a scattering of newly fallen leaves in the middle of October? What about Spring, Summer, and Winter? Can you capture them with paint and collage -- yes, you can!
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Open Book: An Artist Journal Weekend
Instructor: LK Ludwig
Date: Friday Sep 5, 2008 - Sunday Sep 7, 2008
We'll dig a little deeper as we make art journal pages that are rich with meaningful content and wonderful to behold. During a weekend of classes packed with creativity boosters, insight activities and interesting techniques, you'll explore some universal journaling themes, creating pages to compile into a finished journal that will serve as a guide book for further work.
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Mixed Media Collage: Visual Board Journal
Instructor: Katie Kendrick
Date: Saturday Sep 13, 2008 - Sunday Sep 14, 2008
Create an intimate and delicate visual journal using recycled cardboard and cheesecloth and fill it with textured, chunky pages filled with a combination of personal artwork and journaling.
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The Book of Talking Ribbons
Instructor: Pamela Sussman
Date: Saturday Sep 20, 2008 - Sunday Sep 21, 2008
Create a delightful book with hard covers, watercolor pages and colorful signature wraps sewn over luscious ribbons in a criss-cross fashion, known as the Romanesque braid binding.
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Dwell: The Coffee Table Book
Instructor: Traci Bautista
Date: Friday Sep 26, 2008 - Sunday Sep 28, 2008
Build a coffee table visual journal that measures up to 16" x 21". The journal covers are painted mixed media board with a doorway cutout, which tips out to expose a personal mantra. Inside the journal houses, hand painted and stained pages flip and fold in "non-traditional" ways.
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Crafting Personal Shrines
Instructor: Carol Owen
Date: Saturday Oct 4, 2008 - Sunday Oct 5, 2008
Learn how to construct a shrine that will tell your story, using your special photos and memorabilia. Using assemblage and collage, make a shrine to someone, someplace or something special.
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Metalsmithing Basics
Instructor: Thomas Mann
Date: Wednesday Oct 8, 2008 - Friday Oct 10, 2008
Advance your metalsmithing skills in this introduction to Metalsmithing 101 course. This three-day program will give you an intense exposure to the 12 basic tools and the five primary techniques any metalsmith needs to know.
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The Found Object Sandwich: The Photo Assemblage Brooch
Instructor: Thomas Mann
Date: Saturday Oct 11, 2008 - Sunday Oct 12, 2008
Explore the design concepts and fabrication techniques important to an assemblage approach to jewelry making.
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Bone Tool Making
Instructor: Shanna Leino
Date: Friday Oct 17, 2008 - Sunday Oct 19, 2008
Smooth, polished to a shine and fitting perfectly in your hand, there is nothing like the feel of a bone folder made with your own hands. During this three-day workshop, you will be introduced to the tools and techniques needed to form and finish bone folders of your own design.
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Reaching Back
Instructor: Lynne Perrella
Date: Thursday Oct 23, 2008 - Friday Oct 24, 2008
Returning to childhood allows us to collect and reclaim the very first rumblings of undiluted, unencumbered creativity. You'll return to low-tech ways of creating a surface that is full of layered color, images, words, and history. The process of layering creates a rich surface, full of history and accumulation -- a good metaphor for living a life full of various shadings of experiences and a wide range of interests.
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The Artful Alphabet
Instructor: Lynne Perrella
Date: Saturday Oct 25, 2008 - Sunday Oct 26, 2008
As children we're told "A is for Apple, C is for Cat",etc. As artists we have a whole lifetime of experiences and inspirations to harvest to create our personal Exemplar. (Exemplar: An artistic presentation of the letters of the alphabet.) We will work with collage and mixed media painting techniques to create large, expressive works of art that describe and define our lives. Each artist will create a bold and distinctive alphabet, using personal memorabilia and other ephemera, combined with painting, stamping, mono-printing, and found objects. Learn new ways of working with images, as well as tips for maintaining your creative verve.
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