Collage, Assemblage, Mixed Media Workshop: Urn Your Keep with Michael DeMeng

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Collage, Assemblage, Mixed Media WORKSHOP

Urn Your Keep
Instructor: Michael DeMeng

Now I’m of a belief that to be a great artist you need to put yourself, body and soul, into your pieces. So perhaps I’m taking it a bit far with this idea, but hey why not create a nice little space for you to dwell in after you “shuffled off this mortal” coil? In this class we’ll be making mixed media urns or reliquaries to house very special items (heirlooms, old letters, or even YOU) for posterity. Sure it sounds a bit morbid but that doesn’t mean you can’t have some fun with the idea. Of course another possibility is that this is a time capsule of sorts for whatever object you what to enshrine for the future (I hear Twinkies last forever…or thereabouts).

The basic process will be to take a box, jar, canister, etc. and using found objects, and personal effects transform it into some sacred container. We will do this using a combination of assemblage, collage, and painting. To quote David Bowie: "Ashes to ashes, fun to funky.”

Click photos to zoom. Copyright Michael DeMeng

Studio & Material Fee:

Material fee covers miscellaneous student supplies and Anthraquinone Blue, Van Dyke Brown, Graphite Gray, as well as whatever weird color you want to try.

Student Supplies:

Students should bring the following supplies:

A small chest, canister, or container of any sort. Might be easier to alter if it isn’t glass or ceramic, but it can still be dealt with no matter what you bring. Whatever you bring make sure it is large enough to hold what you want to put in there….or you may need more that one.
Aves Apoxie Clay ¼ lbs or more
Variety of other found objects that might be interesting additions to the temple. Items like watch parts, gears, typewriter parts….just about anything, really.
Fabric and/or paper might come in handy to adorn the interior…this is just an option.
Paint Brushes (a couple small detail brushes, and some cheap brushes (1/2 inch to 1 inch in size)
Wire a couple of different gauges
Basic Tools…pliers, scissors
Paint (acrylic…preferably Golden brand…either fluid or heavy body will work)
- Matte Medium
- Liquitex
- Clear Gesso
- Quinacridone Nickel
- Azo Gold
- Black (Mars or Carbon)
- Titanium White
- Pthalo Green (blue shade)
- Dioxazine Purple
- Van Dyke Brown
- Quinacridone Crimson
- Whatever colors suit your fancy…we’ll have time to play with different styles and colors. Lets experiment.
Adhesives
- Dap Kwik Seal for kitchen and bath -White. Should say paintable or water base acrylic or latex.
- E6000

Optional Supplies:

Interference Colors (blue, violet or any others)
Iridescent colors (Gold, Silver, Bronze, Copper, etc)
Micaceous Iron Oxide
Graphite Gray
Heat gun
Dremel with cut off wheel and engraving bit

ADDITIONAL PROGRAM INFORMATION

Cancellations:
While we understand that circumstances can arise causing a change in your plans, we must adhere to a business policy. Because it is impossible for Valley Ridge to favor one individual situation or circumstance over another, we must adhere to our policy in all situations and can make no exceptions to our cancellation policy.

45 Days or More prior to a workshop: Full refund of tuition, less a $75.00 cancellation fee.
44 Days or Less prior to a workshop: No refunds or credits for any reason.

Registration Fees:
The entire registration fee is due in full at time of registration. Valley Ridge Art Studio provides a $75 advance deposit option to make it easier for those with financial constraints to participate in our programs. The advance deposit fee secures your workshop space, and is applied to your entire workshop registration fee. Payment for your fee/materials balance will be charged to your credit card 45 days prior to workshop. Non-credit card payments will receive an invoice, which is due upon receipt.

Transfer Policy:
You may transfer out of a workshop to another program in the same season. Transfer request must be received at least 45 days prior to a program. There will be a $50.00 transfer fee assessed on each transfer.

Credit Card Transaction Reversal:
You intended to reserve a workshop and registered for one instead. You noticed your credit card was charged for the entire balance and only wanted to apply $75.00. You would like your credit card credited for the difference. We at Valley Ridge Art Studio are willing to reverse your transaction. There will be a $25.00 administrative fee per reversal request. Your balance will be due 45 days prior to the workshop.

Program schedule is subject to change.

I understand the risks associated with my attendance at the Studio and the use of various tools, equipment and products found in the Studio. I voluntarily agree to assume the risk of injury or illness or property damage that may arise out of my attendance at the Studio and use of tools, equipment and products found in the Studio and hereby waive and release the Studio and its members, affiliates, employees, and agents and assigns from any and all claims, actions or losses which I may suffer as a result of my attendance at and use of the Studio. I further agree to hold harmless, defend and indemnify the Studio and its members, affiliates, employees, and agents and assigns from any and all claims, actions or losses arising out of my attendance at and use of the Studio or use of the tools, equipment and products found in the Studio regardless of the cause, including but not limited to the negligence of the Studio or its members, affiliates, employees, and agents and assigns.

Program Details

Date:	8/25/2010 to 8/26/2010
Time:	9:30 AM- 4:30 PM
Level:	All Levels
Min/Max:	8/15

Fees

Registration Fee	$295.00
Studio & Material Fee	$10.00

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about the instructor

Michael deMeng is an assemblage artist from Missoula, MT who exhibits throughout the United States. As an educator, he has been actively involved with VSA Montana, providing art education and encouraging participation in the arts to people with disabilities. Through these activities, as well as his artwork, deMeng fosters community awareness, and offers creative methods to explore the human experience.

In his art, he addresses issues of transformation. Discarded materials find new and unexpected uses in his work; they are reassembled and conjoined with unlikely components, a form of rebirth from the ashes into new life and new meaning.

These assemblages are metaphors for the evolutions and revolutions of existence: from life to death to rebirth, from new to old to renewed, from construction to destruction to reconstruction. These forms are examinations of the world in perpetual flux, where meaning and function are ever-changing.

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Collage, Assemblage, Mixed Media WORKSHOP

Urn Your Keep Instructor: Michael DeMeng

ADDITIONAL PROGRAM INFORMATION

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about the instructor

Urn Your Keep
Instructor: Michael DeMeng