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book arts, mixed media, art WORKSHOPS
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Get Your Art On Buffet
Instructor: Traci Bunkers
Date: Fri Jul 10, 2009 - Sun Jul 12, 2009
A three-day workshop buffet of experimental printmaking and mixed-media art gluttony. Fuel your hungry soul with an art diet full in protein to keep you energized long after you leave. Each day is intertwined with the next, building on and taking from each other to make a weekend full of tasty treats! You'll go home with a hand-made and hand-bound mixed-media artist's book, original printed collage material, a funky-sugary-sweet self-portrait, and handmade printing blocks and printing rollers to continue printing when you return home. You will look at the oddities from dollar stores, thrift stores and garage sales in a whole new light, and you will never be able to pass one up.
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Pipe Dreams
Instructor: Jane Wynn
Date: Fri Jul 17, 2009 - Sun Jul 19, 2009
Create several original pieces of art to wear. Learn how to fashion a pipe bezel pendant, construct a bezel ring, and alter the surfaces using a variety of textural effect including the use of a rolling mill and a dapping block.
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Discovering the Creative Self
Instructor: Karen Wallace
Date: Sat Jul 25, 2009 - Sun Jul 26, 2009
We enter the creative process when we reconnect deeply with our self. We each have a unique way of entering this process, experiencing and drawing from it.
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Island of Demented Toys
Instructor: Michael DeMeng
Date: Wed Jul 29, 2009 - Thu Jul 30, 2009
Remember the Island of Misfit Toys in the claymation epic “Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer”. Well that’s nothing compared to what we’re going to do in this class. You’re going to bring all sorts of parts and pieces from a variety of toys. You round up everything from Barbies to Tonka trucks, to snow globes, to wind-up zeppelins, and reassemble them “into something rich and strange” (to quote Shakespeare’s The Tempest).
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Mad Alchemists Cabinet
Instructor: Michael DeMeng
Date: Fri Jul 31, 2009 - Sun Aug 2, 2009
Back in the olden days, (you know, back when you’d take the kids to a drive-in movie in an ox cart) alchemy was all the rage. In a simplified nutshell, alchemists were scientist/mystics who had two main goals: to find the “elixir of life” (sort of the Fountain of Youth) and to transform every day metals into gold. They remind me of the quintessential mad scientist, obsessed with the knowledge of the unknown, not matter the cost.
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Anthropomorphic Dolls
Instructor: Akira Blount
Date: Sat Aug 8, 2009 - Sun Aug 9, 2009
Learn to make animal heads using soft sculpture techniques and other techniques developed by Akira. These heads are attached to human doll bodies to create innovative anthropomorphic figures.
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Diary Paintings for Quilted Art Books
Instructor: Susan Shie
Date: Wed Aug 12, 2009 - Sun Aug 16, 2009
Make soft, hand drawn, painted, written, and machine sewn art books of personal thoughts and images, based on the concept of a diary, so your theme will naturally evolve. In an open and sharing environment, discuss your work each day in show-and-tell format.
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The Black Swan and the Lost Key
Instructor: Juliana Coles
Date: Sat Aug 22, 2009 - Mon Aug 24, 2009
Discover the transformational and healing nature of Extreme Visual Journalism developed by Juliana Coles. Learn to recognize and develop your own personal mythology through the ancient myths, untold stories and faded fairy tales of your life. We gather at this retreat equipped with the compassion of our visual journals; not just as a tool for self expression, but the Secret Key to our rich inner world, full of unique signs, symbols, and golden threads. Within you lies a vast archive of stories and images that are rich with metaphor and energy to assist you on the Black Swan's journey of telling the rare and as yet, untold tale of herself by combining words with art and images in the safe container of a book or journal.
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Nature Inspired
Instructor: Tracie Lyn Huskamp
Date: Sat Aug 29, 2009 - Sun Aug 30, 2009
Explore ways of developing and painting a scene from Nature. This workshop combines methods for sketching images onto muslin canvas, working with and mixing acrylic paints to render natural subjects, capture the important details of delicate flora and fauna, along with examining multiple ways to distress large areas to make interesting backgrounds and creating a swatch book of sample techniques for reference.
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Metalsmithing BASICs 101 The SOLDER Challenge
Instructor: Thomas Mann
Date: Sat Sep 5, 2009 - Mon Sep 7, 2009
This workshop will focus on one of the most challenging skills to be mastered in any metalsmith's kit of tools and techniques. Tom will guide you through soldering challenges ranging from basic techniques to advanced projects.
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The Journey from Spontaneity to Intent
Instructor: Mary Beth Shaw
Date: Sat Sep 12, 2009 - Sun Sep 13, 2009
Paint & play go hand in hand while learning the ins and outs of working on claybord! When we are spontaneous and let ourselves really mix up the media, the result is a true artistic adventure.
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Telling Stories
Instructor: LK Ludwig
Date: Sat Sep 19, 2009 - Sun Sep 20, 2009
These whimsical puppets and their stories are brought to life by a little sculpture, a little painting, a little writing and some magic. Each puppet will carry your tale in words and image, canvas, paper and paint, on its surface, along with a small accompanying journal to serve as a storybook.
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Where the Story Begins II
Instructor: Misty Mawn
Date: Thu Sep 24, 2009 - Fri Sep 25, 2009
This class will focus on mixed media painting; adding layers of paint, collage, inks, image transfers, ephemera, drawing and painting the face, and other techniques. Spend two days playing, exploring, and creating a story to show and tell.
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Where The Story Begins I
Instructor: Misty Mawn
Date: Sat Sep 26, 2009 - Sun Sep 27, 2009
This class will focus on mixed media painting; adding layers of paint, collage, inks, image transfers, ephemera, drawing and painting the face, and other techniques. Spend two days playing, exploring, and creating a story to show and tell.
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Memento Mori: A Book of Remembrance and Joy
Instructor: Lisa Engelbrecht
Date: Fri Oct 2, 2009 - Sun Oct 4, 2009
The Roman General has a slave that follows him closely from behind. The slave whispers “Memento Mori” --remember you are mortal, remember you will die.
The symbolism of memento mori has occurred again and again in artworks for centuries. One’s inevitable death can have transformative power for art, as in “Ars Moriendi” -- The art of dying well or living righteously in this moment. In this workshop, you will create a very personal tribute book, filled with mementos and touchstones. This book will be a celebration and a memorial to our loved ones' past and a commitment to a life and love to honor their memory.
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Stairway to Heaven II
Instructor: Michelle Ward
Date: Thu Oct 8, 2009 - Fri Oct 9, 2009
A fascination with architecture and a love of pattern spawned Michelle's interest in Byzantine imagery -- with the deep, rich colors found in the religious icons, shrines, and cathedrals and the recurring use of arches and domes. With a nod toward Byzantium, learn to paint papers using layers of repetitive motifs, then the use the papers to build a triptych book.
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Stairway to Heaven I
Instructor: Michelle Ward
Date: Sat Oct 10, 2009 - Sun Oct 11, 2009
A fascination with architecture and a love of pattern spawned Michelle's interest in Byzantine imagery -- with the deep, rich colors found in the religious icons, shrines, and cathedrals and the recurring use of arches and domes. With a nod toward Byzantium, learn to paint papers using layers of repetitive motifs, then the use the papers to build a triptych book.
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Exploration of Resins- an Emerging Voice in Metalwork
Instructor: Susan Lenart Kazmer
Date: Wed Oct 14, 2009 - Thu Oct 15, 2009
Explore the vast possibilities resins have to offer in jewelry and in combination with metalwork. Learn mold making and cast charms using a non toxic, jewelers grade resin. This hands on workshop offers many ground breaking techniques such as creating and filling hollow bezel forms and working with nature to create durable, water proof elements such as sticks, flower buds and egg shell. Create colorful stone like textures from organic material such as sand, pepper and crushed powders. Use resin on paper to create transparent layers or journal pages. Students will complete a collection of elements, build a mold and take home endless ideas for this technique.
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Creating Objects and Elements in Jewelry
Instructor: Susan Lenart Kazmer
Date: Fri Oct 16, 2009 - Sun Oct 18, 2009
This powerful retreat is offered as a three-day workshop to focus deeply and explore a variety of hands on jewelry techniques Challenge the norm in wearable adornment by building layers and incorporating mixed medium into your metalwork.
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Personal Iconology
Instructor: Lynne Perrella
Date: Wed Oct 21, 2009 - Thu Oct 22, 2009
Throughout history, Icons have provided fascination and comfort to highly-varied cultural groups; from 12th Century jewel-encrusted examples from Russia, to exuberant spontaneous "pathway icons" from modern-day India. Whether viewed as objects of reverence, or as remarkable works of art, they inspire and invite creative curiosity. As mixed media artists, our specialty is to gather inspiration from traditional artforms and bring our own sense of adventure, creativity and exploration to the challenge of re-inventing and re-interpreting these ideas.
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Zen is When
Instructor: Lynne Perrella
Date: Fri Oct 23, 2009 - Sun Oct 25, 2009
For centuries, Asian cultures have lead the way with their love of paper, painted surfaces, found objects and wearable art. In this three-day workshop, we will take a "zen" approach and work both sides of the brain... learning how to plumb the depths of our creativity with free-wheeling exercises, plus have plenty of time to create works of art. We will explore endless ideas for creating a rich, lavish, layered surface and create a one-of-a-kind Asian-themed artist book with a painted and collaged hand fan as an embellishment.
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Altered Books from Beginning to End, Background Techniques To The Cover
Instructor: Carol Owen
Date: Fri Oct 30, 2009 - Sun Nov 1, 2009
Play with a lot of different ways to make backgrounds for books or cards: scraping, bleaching, masking, stamping and more, using simple materials such as sponges, old credit cards, shaving cream and more. Be prepared for fun and lots of surprises! Then, take an old, unloved, book and turn it into an interactive work of art. You will learn to make pockets, pop-ups, windows, niches and drawers that will entice the viewer to keep turning pages.
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Clasps, Hinges & Closures
Instructor: Shanna Leino
Date: Fri Nov 6, 2009 - Sun Nov 8, 2009
Learn basic and diverse ways to create metal closures for a myriad of projects. We will begin by making a wooden board coptic bound book that will receive your closures. Based on historic examples we will then build hinges, pegs and clasps fashioned from brass and attached with hand formed rivets and woven leather thongs. Hammer, saw, stamp and shape simple sheet into a working wonder!
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COMPLETED PROGRAMS |
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Personal Geographies: Mapping Your Life
Instructor: Jill Berry
Date: Sat Mar 28, 2009 - Sun Mar 29, 2009
Humans have been making maps for thousands of years: it is an urge some of us can't resist. Using collage, illustration, journaling, paint, paper and other mixed media, you will create "maps" of your life experience, based on historical models. These maps of the imagination can record our journeys of the past, future, backyards, hopes, dreams, and mythological places.
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Paper and Fabric Marbling
Instructor: Galen Berry
Date: Sat Apr 4, 2009 - Sun Apr 5, 2009
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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Bookstone Journals
Instructor: Daniel Essig
Date: Wed Apr 15, 2009 - Thu Apr 16, 2009
This workshop will explore a mica product intended for lampshades. Composite mica is made with finely flaked mica sprayed with shellac to form large sheets of various colors and thicknesses. The strong translucent material is an ideal collage material and is a wonderful book cover alternative. Create two different book structures, each taking advantage of the unique quality of this form of mica.
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Mica Album
Instructor: Daniel Essig
Date: Fri Apr 17, 2009 - Sun Apr 19, 2009
Back by popular demand! This workshop will push beyond using mica just as an element in book arts. Build covers and collage pages that are primarily mica. Use and explore the Indian version in its vastly different grades, translucencies and commercially available shapes. The main focus of this program will be using composite mica used in the lampshade industry, which are much larger and come in several colors, depending on the variety of mica and the shellac that holds the sheet together. You will learn how to use and recognize both natural and composite forms of mica, when to pierce, to sew, to drill, to glue or to nail.
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A Lasting Impression
Instructor: Keith Lo Bue
Date: Tue Apr 21, 2009 - Wed Apr 22, 2009
This exciting new two-day workshop brings students through the process of etching imagery and/or text into copper, brass and nickel using a variety of techniques, each with their own particular personality. Plates etched using these methods will then be carefully cut, formed and shaped to integrate with found objects brought by the students, creating a mysterious marriage of found and fabricated materials.
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Weathering & Distressing Techniques
Instructor: Keith Lo Bue
Date: Thu Apr 23, 2009 - Fri Apr 24, 2009
Got a brand-new piece of metal that you'd love to make look old and worn? How about some wood? Or glass? Using a few tools, some simple solutions and a sprinkling of know-how, we'll get that distressed look that will turn your new material into an artifact quicker than you can say Antiques Roadshow!
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Precious Little: Poetics of the Found-Object
Instructor: Keith Lo Bue
Date: Sat Apr 25, 2009 - Mon Apr 27, 2009
The materials we use for creative expression can be found literally at our feet.
Join noted American art jeweller Keith E. Lo Bue on an energetic exploration of unusual and unexpected materials in jewelry making. Through hands-on projects and thought-provoking instruction, students will learn the varied methods of selection and assembly this limitless palette demands.
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Mixed Media Encaustic
Instructor: Judy Wise
Date: Sat May 2, 2009 - Sun May 3, 2009
Explore new mixed media techniques, creating textured paintings of paper, paint, and collage, mounting them on wood. Then, continue to build up the surface with more paint, more collage and a layer of encaustic wax that you'll will transfer onto, incise, and glaze with oil-based pigment. This is a class to help all levels think outside the box when creating mixed media paintings.
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Story Booklace: an Intensive Three Day Journey into the Magic World of Jewelry Designs I
Instructor: Nina Bagley
Date: Fri Jun 5, 2009 - Sun Jun 7, 2009
Back by popular demand is the wonderful booklace design, this time executed in nothing less than sterling silver. This time around, too, the booklace can be worn either front or back, as both sides bear intricate designs: the front (or back, if you wish) is hammered with either a poem or a statement, and the back is adorned with a vintage brass bezel, filled with resin and then attached by eyelets to the booklace cover.
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Story Booklace: an Intensive Three Day Journey into the Magic World of Jewelry Designs II
Instructor: Nina Bagley
Date: Fri Jun 12, 2009 - Sun Jun 14, 2009
Back by popular demand is the wonderful booklace design, this time executed in nothing less than sterling silver. This time around, too, the booklace can be worn either front or back, as both sides bear intricate designs: the front (or back, if you wish) is hammered with either a poem or a statement, and the back is adorned with a vintage brass bezel, filled with resin and then attached by eyelets to the booklace cover.
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Intuitive Mixed Media Collage: Visual Board Journal
Instructor: Katie Kendrick
Date: Wed Jun 24, 2009 - Thu Jun 25, 2009
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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I feel like a different person when Im at Valley Ridge Im NOT thinking about work which is a very difficult thing for me to do. I am HAPPY! I am having FUN! I am aspiring to learn, learn and learn more. I cannot finish here without mentioning Bill. He is the man behind the scenes. I think someone referred to him as the mighty OZ behind the curtain. He is as much a part of the weekend as anyone and am always happy to see him walk through the studio door to tell us that lunch is ready.
— Jennifer White, The Four Seasons: Mixed Media for all Seasons attendee
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