Workshops
Upcoming Programs
Wax On Wax Off
Date: April 27 - April 29, 2012Instructor: Mary Beth Shaw and Julie Snidle
Join Mary Beth Shaw and Julie Snidle for a weekend of waxy wonder as we explore a variety of mixed media wax techniques. No body hair involved. Day 1 starts with the return of the ever popular Batik Paper and Mary Beth will share all the new methods she has developed. Papers that are so [...]
Workshop DetailsPostcards from the Other Side of Your Brain
Date: May 5 - May 6, 2012Instructor: Quinn McDonald
Through collage, found poetry, and experimentation with inks as paint, you’ll create intuitive art for one side of the postcard. The other will be messages developed using your own inner wisdom reached though guided visualization during deep writing sessions. The result will be Postcards From the Other Side of Your Brain, a set of tarot-like cards.
Workshop DetailsSacred Play
Date: May 18 - May 20, 2012Instructor: Misty Mawn and Katie Kendrick
In this 3 day workshop, our collective intention is to explore this creative realm and discover the myriad ways it reveals itself to us. We will lead you on various “adventures” designed to enhance your imagination, relax your body, and help you access the expansive, sometimes elusive YOU. Activities include (but are not limited to) various painting projects – both individual and collaborative, nature art/walks, yoga, visual “journeying”, performance art and sacred ceremony.
Workshop DetailsAll Wrapped Up – Bracelets & Chokers
Date: June 8 - June 10, 2012Instructor: Nina Bagley
Spend three full days designing richly detailed jewelry wraps that are perfect for layering assorted treasured findings, beads, and ribbons around either your neck or wrist; if made long enough, these pieces will look wonderful wrapped around the waist as well. I’ll be teaching a very wide variety of jewelry techniques for this brand [...]
Workshop Details“Long Tall Sally” Book
Date: June 22 - June 24, 2012Instructor: Beryl Taylor
Have some fun with the “Long Tall Sally” book. You’ll come away with a really interesting piece of art that you can keep on your shelf ( as long as it is a big one ) for years to come.
Workshop DetailsSingle Minded Binding
Date: June 29 - June 29, 2012Instructor: Andrea Matus
“One of these thing is not like the other, one of these things just doesn’t belong”, remember that from Sesame Street? Well believe it or not that song actually kind of relates to art of Single Sheet Coptic bookbinding. “Why?” well because one of the things that this style of binding allows us to do [...]
Workshop DetailsTransparental Guidance
Date: June 30 - July 1, 2012Instructor: Andrea Matus
Typically collage is about the clever ways we combine items to cover over and transform surfaces; this time we are going to explore this medium in a slightly different way. In this class you will be guided through the collage process incorporating items that are transparent in nature. Combining transparencies, mica, photos, textured papers, ephemera, [...]
Workshop DetailsdeMent-triloquism
Date: July 4 - July 6, 2012Instructor: Michael de Meng
deMent-triloquism: In case you were wondering, the fear of ventriloquist’s dummies is called automatonophobic (which by the way includes the fear of wax dummies and automatons like Zoltar the fortune teller). I can understand how ventriloquist dolls could illicit terror and trepidation; typically they are bit creepy looking. Remember Anthony Hopkins in the film Magic, [...]
Workshop DetailsTrash to Treasure Master Class
Date: July 7 - July 8, 2012Instructor: Michael de Meng
Artists are renowned for using whatever is readily available in there surroundings to create art. You’re not going to see many coconut carvings in Alaska. In many ways, this is why the process of assemblage has become so popular; after all, junk and discarded things abound. Perfect pickings for those with the desire for junking [...]
Workshop DetailsWooden Altered Book Cover
Date: July 12 - July 12, 2012Instructor: Daniel Essig
New for 2012, this workshop is the optional Part One of the Hand Bound Altered Book program, and guides you through the process of creating a wooden cover for your Hand Bound Altered Book. Part Two, Hand Bound Altered Book explores the pleasures of creating and filling a hand bound book, and is held on [...]
Workshop DetailsHand Bound Altered Book
Date: July 13 - July 15, 2012Instructor: Daniel Essig
New for 2012, this workshop is Part Two of the Hand Bound Altered Book workshop. In it, we explore the pleasures of creating and filling a hand bound book. The optional Part One, Wooden Altered Book Cover is held prior to this workshop. Utilizing a binding that has withstood the test of time with its [...]
Workshop DetailsSouthwest Style Rings
Date: July 19 - July 19, 2012Instructor: Richard Salley
Learn to make a fabulous silver and turquoise ring in the Southwest Style.
Workshop DetailsAlchemy & Relics
Date: July 20 - July 20, 2012Instructor: Richard Salley
Learn how to get the classic look of silver without paying the current price.
Workshop DetailsBehind Closed Doors
Date: July 21 - July 22, 2012Instructor: Richard Salley
In this 2-day workshop we will construct a locket that will be worn as a cuff
Workshop DetailsLove Letters: A Passionate Correspondence
Date: August 10 - August 12, 2012Instructor: Jill K. Berry
…should I draw you the picture of my heart it would be what I hope you would still love though it contained nothing new. The early possession you obtained there, and the absolute power you have obtained over it, leaves not the smallest space unoccupied. Abigail Adams to her husband, President John Adams. December 23, [...]
Workshop DetailsAlternative Photo Processes for Mixed Media Artists
Date: August 17 - August 19, 2012Instructor: Will Salley
This 3-day hands-on workshop has been designed as a way to make some of the historic photographic process accessible to Artists of various traditions. They requires no special photographic background and are easy to incorporate into your own art making. Over the three days we will explore the Albumen and Van Dyke Brown processes. Albumen [...]
Workshop DetailsThe Steely Chatelaine: Utility and Ornament Conjoined
Date: August 24 - August 26, 2012Instructor: Brenda Schweder
Learn steel wire techniques and mix the results with found materials of your choice to create your own chatelaine, either useful or decorative (or both!)!
Workshop DetailsBloom True: A Brave Intuitive Painting Adventure
Date: September 14 - September 16, 2012Instructor: Flora Bowley
Bloom True is an inspiring and encouraging workshop for both novice and experienced painters that teaches a spontaneous, bold, and fearless approach to painting as a process of discovery. Learn how to create colorful, unique, expressive paintings through a variety of techniques that combine basic, practical painting principles with innovative personal self-expression and personal growth.
Workshop DetailsThe Waxed-Linen Sailor
Date: September 27 - September 27, 2012Instructor: Keith Lo Bue
Many artists use waxed-linen thread to bind and attach – but after joining artist Keith Lo Bue for this day of sailors’ rope-rigging and micromacramé techniques scaled for small objects and jewelry, you’ll want to feature this strong and versatile medium front and center!
Workshop DetailsThe Tie that Binds: Kumihimo and The Found Object
Date: September 28 - September 30, 2012Instructor: Keith Lo Bue
The fascinating art of kumihimo, or Japanese braiding, has centuries of colourful history. Used long ago to connect the armor of Samurai warriors as well as to fasten silk kimonos, this easy to learn technique has so many creative possibilities it’s mindboggling.
Workshop DetailsBack On The Chain Gang
Date: October 1 - October 2, 2012Instructor: Keith Lo Bue
Whether you’re making jewelry, assemblage or a journal, often the need arises to add a chain or clasp for that finishing touch.
Workshop DetailsBotanica Exotica
Date: October 5 - October 5, 2012Instructor: Melissa Manley
Spend a day making wild and exotic sculptural flowers out of iron wire and sausage casings. The casings make luminous, transparent, taunt coverings over the wire that can be painted, inked, stitched, and written on.
Workshop DetailsGut Instincts
Date: October 6 - October 7, 2012Instructor: Melissa Manley
I have collected dolls and made dolls my whole life. But in later years I have become increasingly interested in spirit dolls and santos, or cage dolls. Come spend two days with me as we explore combining found objects, wire, metal and an ancient material used by hunter/gatherer cultures the world over, hog gut or [...]
Workshop DetailsSynchronicity
Date: October 12 - October 14, 2012Instructor: Michelle Ward
A simple painted journal is transformed into a handsome and unique artist’s book when we begin with deliberate manipulations then let Synchronicity take over. Using circles in art-making is an endless adventure and I never tire of investigating the possibilities with the classic, simple shape. Circles play an integral role in our interactive art book that will focus on all celestial beings, particularly the sun and the moon. These subjects unlock portals where one can explore dramatic shifts from light to dark, the subtle nuances between positive and negative, and the navigation of scale and repetition.
Workshop DetailsCompleted Programs
La Maison Fantôme
Date: January 30 - 4, 2012Instructor: Michael DeMeng
It is said that my home is haunted (though I have never seen the alleged spirit) but have had a number of friends who swear they exist and have experienced a variety of eerie occurrences with ghostly types. So it dawned on me that perhaps these ghosts just need a little bit of pampering, and this got me thinking about an interesting idea for a class: “la maison fantôme”, the ghost house.
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