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summer art workshops FOR 2010
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SUMMER ART WORKSHOPS |
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Valley Ridge Art Studio art workshops run between February and October, 2010.
Below is a listing of our summer art workshops only. Be sure to review our
full art workshop schedule to see all our workshops
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Exquisite Corpse Book
Instructor: Daniel Essig
Date: Wed Jun 2, 2010 - Thu Jun 3, 2010
Program Type: Workshop
Combining a variation of a collaborative technique invented by Surrealists with a book form generally considered a child’s toy, we will create a unique journal with whimsical and intriguing covers. The nature of the Exquisite Corpse covers will hopefully lead to imaginative and collaborative content. The covers will be constructed from composite mica, tyvek and/or handmade papers incorporating drawings and collage.
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Wooden Book with Centipede Binding
Instructor: Daniel Essig
Date: Fri Jun 4, 2010 - Sun Jun 6, 2010
Program Type: Workshop
The Greek binding is an ornate historical binding dating from the 7th century. This stitch has many similarities to the Ethiopian Style binding, but has a strikingly different effect. We will maximize this difference by sewing with 2 different colors of thread. The elegant sewing structure, combined with wooden covers, opens a wide range of possibilities for both the beginner and the advanced bookbinder. Using simple hand tools, you will drill, shape, and smooth your book covers.
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Magical Metal
Instructor: Beryl Taylor
Date: Sat Jun 12, 2010 - Sun Jun 13, 2010
Program Type: Workshop
The class will incorporate two main techniques - making fabric paper from candy wrappers and working with metal embossing foil. The fabric paper will be made to take on the appearance of metal and will be combined with the foil to create magical embellishments. The foil will also be used to create a wall hanging which will be a series of foil panels manipulated and machine stitched to a fabric background. The excitement begins when we start to emboss the foil and change its appearance with colored inks, nail polish, gesso, modeling paste, glass bead gel, water soluble paper, rubber stamps, embossing powders, eyelets, brads and punches.
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Warming Up To Cold Connections I
Instructor: Richard Salley
Date: Mon Jun 21, 2010 - Wed Jun 23, 2010
Program Type: Workshop
Whether you are an experience art jeweler or looking for your first class in jewelry making, you’ll learn a wealth of tips, tricks and techniques that you can apply to your own jewelry and assemblage projects. The class will focus on creating a beautiful and intricate hinged locket that you will construct from a humble rusty washer, etched metal components, wire and your own hand crafted chain and clasp.
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Warming Up To Cold Connections II
Instructor: Richard Salley
Date: Fri Jun 25, 2010 - Sun Jun 27, 2010
Program Type: Workshop
Whether you are an experience art jeweler or looking for your first class in jewelry making, you’ll learn a wealth of tips, tricks and techniques that you can apply to your own jewelry and assemblage projects. The class will focus on creating a beautiful and intricate hinged locket that you will construct from a humble rusty washer, etched metal components, wire and your own hand crafted chain and clasp.
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Hunter Gatherer Maker - The Art of Found Object Assemblage
Instructor: Jane Wynn
Date: Fri Jul 9, 2010 - Sun Jul 11, 2010
Program Type: Workshop
In this workshop, you will explore the fascinating world of assemblage art using found objects and create a stunning sculptural piece that creates an amazing dynamic personal narrative. Begin with the difficult part of planning and problem solving your design, then learn to construct an environment out of wood using power tools. Join elements together with a variety of connecting skills from soldering to wire wrapping, hammering, nailing and, of course, using a variety of different adhesives.
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Off the Cuff
Instructor: Nina Bagley
Date: Fri Jul 16, 2010 - Sun Jul 18, 2010
Program Type: Workshop
For the past few months, I’ve been enamored with the notion of hanging one’s jewelry on the wall as artwork. Why not? We spend hours (days) creating a piece to wear, when at day’s end we are apt to tuck the jewels away, hidden in a box or the back of a drawer. This workshop will blend together both jewelry and mixed media to form a lovely wall hanging worthy of the creations you make. With the simple use of pearled corsage pins, the jewelry can be removed and attached, as well as changed for a different look. I look forward to three peaceful days of stitching by hand amongst artist friends!
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Gypsy Fairy Cottages and Necklace
Instructor: Nina Bagley
Date: Fri Jul 23, 2010 - Sun Jul 25, 2010
Program Type: Workshop
Back by popular demand, and with the added delight of a fairy necklace, are the mica fairy houses that Nina made a few years back for Valley Ridge; a variety of these houses were featured in Lynne Perrella’s art book Beyond Paper Dolls. Many students have seen the structures in the common room at Valley Ridge, and requested that Nina teach the class again, but this time with a twist. We’ll work on little fairy cottages – simple or complex, detailed or not – using natural items such as twigs, moss, stones, combined with mica, plus stitch and wire a lovely gypsy fairy pocket necklace. This workshop would be especially fun for anyone who would love to wander around in the woods with a little friend and come back to create an homage to the fairy and gypsy spirit in all of us.
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Encaustic Painting Rediscovered: Age Old Techniques Updated for the Contemporary Artist
Instructor: Debbi Simon
Date: Sat Jul 31, 2010 - Sun Aug 1, 2010
Program Type: Workshop
Come explore encaustic wax painting in this new two-day workshop highlighting this age-old technique– while incorporating today’s tools, materials, and vibrant waxes. By starting with the basics, you will learn to work with the unique properties of wax to create textures that can be smooth and enamel-like, or extremely dimensional. We will continue to build on these techniques learning to layer materials, alter the wax with a variety of hot tools, incise, add found objects like fibers, nature and small treasures, and embellish with additional color such as oil pastels, micas, dyes, stamp pads, spices and more.
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Papermaking with Plant Fiber
Instructor: Nancee Wipperfurth
Date: Sat Aug 7, 2010 - Sun Aug 8, 2010
Program Type: Workshop
There is something magical about making paper by hand. You start with a fiber: the fallen leaves from the maple tree in your yard, or the bast fiber from the milkweed sticks you harvested from the roadside. You cook it, beat it, and pull it into a layer of wet pulp that dries into the most beautiful paper — comprised of textural earth tones and feathery deckle edges. When you use this handmade paper in bookmaking, it provides one more element where you have control of the aesthetic.
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Alternative Photo Workshop I
Instructor: Dean Ebben
Date: Thu Aug 12, 2010 - Fri Aug 13, 2010
Program Type: Workshop
Learn new techniques; add photographic images to your work without the use of a darkroom. You can make a cyanotype anywhere if you have sun and water. In this workshop, you will explore Cyanotype and Acrylic Lifts and Transfers. These are great processes for anyone who has wanted to use photography in their book making, painting, sculpture, or even quilting.
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Alternative Photo Workshop II
Instructor: Dean Ebben
Date: Sat Aug 14, 2010 - Sun Aug 15, 2010
Program Type: Workshop
Learn new techniques; add photographic images to your work without the use of a darkroom. You can make a cyanotype anywhere if you have sun and water. In this workshop, you will explore Cyanotype and Acrylic Lifts and Transfers. These are great processes for anyone who has wanted to use photography in their book making, painting, sculpture, or even quilting.
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Twenty-Two
Instructor: Judy Wilkenfeld
Date: Thu Aug 19, 2010 - Sat Aug 21, 2010
Program Type: Workshop
Twenty-Two (22) was created for my partner, an artist. It is the story of our journey and the places and things that are important to us. Learn to make a similar book using symbology, not words, to tell a story, putting mixed media works, assemblages and shrines into a book form. Take an exciting journey as you create your story using colours, materials and found objects to help build a book that is intended to last generations.
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Book of Reliquaries
Instructor: Judy Wilkenfeld
Date: Sun Aug 22, 2010 - Tue Aug 24, 2010
Program Type: Workshop
The Book of Reliquaries represents part of a major work on the life and times of Sara Coppio Sullam. It incorporates reliquaries to help tell the story during the early 17th Century and The Inquisition period. In this workshop you will make a similar book, with your own story and style. You will learn how to make reliquaries, attach them and mixed media objects, works, assemblages and shrines into a book form.
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Urn Your Keep
Instructor: Michael DeMeng
Date: Wed Aug 25, 2010 - Thu Aug 26, 2010
Program Type: Workshop
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.
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Mask Maker, Mask Maker, Make Me a Mask
Instructor: Michael DeMeng
Date: Fri Aug 27, 2010 - Sun Aug 29, 2010
Program Type: Workshop
Mask making is one of the oldest cultural traditions in the world. The ancient hunter world used masks to disguise themselves and stalk prey. In essence this is what a mask does, it changes the wearer into something else. This class will play with this concept, and using various found objects or existing masks, transform them into strange and unusual facial disguises.
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Nina Bagley |
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Michael DeMeng |
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Dean Ebben |
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Daniel Essig |
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Richard Salley |
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Debbi Simon |
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Beryl Taylor |
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Judy Wilkenfeld |
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Nancee Wipperfurth |
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Jane Wynn |
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