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Learn to develop and market textile designs using Adobe Photoshop and Illustrator. Topics include building a design from a motif, creating colorways for your print, using scanned artwork to create designs, and texture mapping. Students create a series of print designs and a collection of coordinated prints.
Start Date
09/06
Meeting Day
Wednesdays
End Date
12/13
Faculty
Meg Young
Time
6:30pm–10pm
Credits
3
The 20th century is particularly suited to study the multicultural heritage of fashion and art history. In its first 50 years, fashion and art were an expression of Eurocentric partisanship, despite extensive, uncredited cultural borrowings from peoples and countries in the global community. In the mid-1960s these broader voices in fashion … Read more
Start Date
09/06
Meeting Day
Wednesdays
End Date
12/13
Faculty
Carlos Villamil
Time
6:30pm–9:30pm
Credits
3
This class is fully enrolled.
Learn woodworking fundamentals through a series of exercises utilizing both hand tools and machines. Develop a habit of sharpening and tuning your tools. Practice a variety of joinery techniques and build your own sample library of construction options. Put your newly honed skills to test by building a final project … Read more
Start Date
09/06
Meeting Day
Wednesdays
End Date
12/13
Faculty
Rachel Prentki
Time
6:30pm–10pm
Credits
3
Screen printing is an old and versatile process with many modern uses. We present a variety of techniques and contemporary fine art applications of silkscreen printing. Students are guided through the transformation of an idea to printed image and encouraged to take a creative approach. The emphasis is on experimentation, … Read more
Start Date
09/06
Meeting Day
Wednesdays
End Date
12/13
Faculty
Carlos Alvarez
Time
6pm–10pm
Credits
3
This class not available.
The documentation and communication of ideas require fluency with symbolic and illustrative methods; a language. This course develops and refines the basis of this language, the “alphabet and grammar” used to communicate the characteristic of objects and systems. Through the exploration of various media using architectural or industrial design contexts, … Read more
Start Date
09/07
Meeting Day
Thursdays
End Date
12/14
Faculty
Neil Madramootoo
Time
6:30pm–19pm
Credits
3
Explore advanced construction and drafting methods for custom tailoring. Learn how to design and construct a tailored ensemble using traditional methods that include pad stitching, foundation shaping, special lapel and collar treatments, and finishes. Prerequisites: Introduction to Creative Fashion and Introduction to Pattern Drafting or permission of instructor. Email: achan@massart.edu. … Read more
Start Date
09/07
Meeting Day
Thursdays
End Date
12/14
Faculty
Andy Chan
Time
6:30pm–10pm
Credits
3
An overview of pattern drafting and an introduction to clothing construction. Students explore the different methods of pattern making, from using the dart for fit to adding shape for fullness, and learn how to take body measurements for fit. Pattern drafting and construction techniques are then applied to an original … Read more
Start Date
09/07
Meeting Day
Thursdays
End Date
12/14
Faculty
Jennifer Varekamp
Time
6:30pm–10pm
Credits
3
This class is fully enrolled.
Design and fabricate individualized place settings, serving dishes, teapots, and vases. Employing hand-building, the potter’s wheel, plaster molds, and various kiln-firing techniques (stoneware, soda, low-fire) students are able to create pottery that is useful as well as personally expressive. Frequent demonstrations, lectures, and dialogue with the instructor enable beginners as … Read more
Start Date
09/07
Meeting Day
Thursdays
End Date
12/14
Faculty
Ben Ryterband
Time
6:30pm–10pm
Credits
3
Traditionally, street photography is an established method of documentary investigation made popular in the 20th century by greats such as Eugene Atget and Walker Evans. Following the Second World War, photographers like Robert Frank, Garry Winogrand, and Diane Arbus began to look at photography and the street in very different … Read more
Start Date
09/07
Meeting Day
Saturdays in-person starting Sept 9th, with additional zoom mtg, Sept 7 from 7:30-9:30pm
End Date
10/21
Faculty
Michael Hintlian
Time
10am–1pm
Credits
0
This class not available.
This hands-on course is designed to equip students with the essential skills and techniques required to design a chair. This course is intended for students with a passion for furniture design, interior design, or industrial design who aspire to develop a deep understanding of chair design and its impact on … Read more
Start Date
09/08
Meeting Day
Fridays
End Date
10/20
Faculty
Joe Sheehan
Time
1:30pm–4:30pm
Credits
0
This is a seven week course starts with quick exercises working from a still life on week 1 and then working from a live model on weeks 2 and 3. The course will shift into more independent work starting Week 4 through 7. The participants will respond to prompts and … Read more
Start Date
09/09
Meeting Day
Saturdays
End Date
10/28
Faculty
Jennifer Pochinski
Time
10am–1pm
Credits
0
This class is fully enrolled.
This course exposes students to a variety of specialized woodworking techniques applicable to furniture production. Through a series of modules devoted to select skills, sessions explore the basics of techniques with the objective of giving students enough exposure to begin applying them independently to studio projects. Areas include carving and … Read more
Start Date
09/10
Meeting Day
Sundays
End Date
12/10
Faculty
Annie Meyer
Time
10am–4pm
Credits
3
We often think of wood as rigid and hard, but by adding heat, we can bend flexible, sweeping curves. It really feels like magic – suddenly you can tie a knot in a piece of wood or form the ribs of a canoe. Steam bending doesn’t have to be intimidating! We’ll … Read more
Start Date
09/10
Meeting Day
Sundays
End Date
09/24
Faculty
Oliver Strand
Time
10am–4pm
Credits
0
This class is fully enrolled.
This course introduces a variety of concepts and techniques used in contemporary ceramic object-making. Demonstrations and studio activities include hand building, mold making and wheel working. Each student researches and designs a series of pieces which reflect their personal interests. Projects may include work in tableware, sculpture, or designed objects. … Read more
Start Date
09/11
Meeting Day
Mondays
End Date
12/11
Faculty
Janna Longacre
Time
6:30pm–10pm
Credits
3
Students create and fit virtual garments using CLO software. Through the run of this course the designer translates in-person activities, such as patternmaking and fitting, into a virtual language. Specifically, the cohort begins by virtually sewing and fitting conventional garments – pants, shirts, jackets, and skirts – and transitions to … Read more
Start Date
09/11
Meeting Day
Mondays
End Date
12/11
Faculty
Alfredo Lujan
Time
6:30pm–10pm
Credits
3
An overview of pattern drafting and an introduction to clothing construction. Students explore the different methods of pattern making, from using the dart for fit to adding shape for fullness, and learn how to take body measurements for fit. Pattern drafting and construction techniques are then applied to an original … Read more
Start Date
09/11
Meeting Day
Mondays
End Date
12/11
Faculty
Renee Harding
Time
6:30pm–10pm
Credits
3
Students explore the current practices being used by sustainable fashion designers/companies, organic and eco-friendly textiles, innovations in design/ production, textiles, waste minimization, and upcycling in design and manufacturing. While working through their own process, students will use sustainable methods to design and create projects addressing social responsibility in the fashion … Read more
Start Date
09/12
Meeting Day
Tuesdays
End Date
12/12
Faculty
Jennifer Varekamp
Time
6:30pm–10pm
Credits
3
This workshop is an introduction to vitreous enamel on metal. Students learn different methods of applying color, images, and textures to metal surfaces. During this workshop, students explore a variety of techniques to create personal designs through successive layers of glass fired on copper using processes such as sifting, drawing, and … Read more
Start Date
09/23
Meeting Day
Saturday
End Date
09/23
Faculty
Tzu Ju Chen
Time
10am–4pm
Credits
0
In this introductory, course participants will learn how to design and carve wooden utensils. Students will be shown how to safely and efficiently use the bandsaw as well as hand tools such as gouges, rasps, files, scrapers, and a variety of handsaws. Whether it’s spoons, spatulas, forks, knives, or something … Read more
Start Date
10/01
Meeting Day
Sundays
End Date
10/08
Faculty
Ellen Adams
Time
1pm–5:30pm
Credits
0
In this introduction to lapidary course participants will learn how to transform rough stone into jewelry-ready cabochons. Learn the basics of identifying rocks and develop an understanding of how the mohs hardness scale affects cutting/cabbing an stone work. Students will be carefully shown how to safely operate trim saws, a diamond … Read more
Start Date
10/14
Meeting Day
Saturday
End Date
10/14
Faculty
Allison Keast
Time
10am–4pm
Credits
0
In this class students will work from found images and/or drawings of their own to explore mark making with the needle. Through embroidery stitches from basic to advanced, we will learn, experiment and push the types of mark we can create with the simple tool of needle and thread. During class, basic … Read more
Start Date
10/21
Meeting Day
Saturdays
End Date
10/28
Faculty
Joetta Maue
Time
10am–4pm
Credits
0
Delve into the fascinating world of bent lamination. Explore a range of techniques that will bring versatility and creativity to your wood and furniture projects. Through practical demonstrations and hands-on exercises, learn how to bend wood using molds, a vacuum bag, freeform bending methods, and more. This workshop is a module … Read more
Start Date
10/22
Meeting Day
Sundays
End Date
11/05
Faculty
Joe Sheehan
Time
10am–4pm
Credits
0
Chair Building: From Design to Construction is an immersive hands-on experience that focuses on transforming chair designs into physical pieces. This course is meant to build upon the design acquired in the previous course the “Chair Design: Through Sketching, Modeling, and Full-Size Mock-ups” but if a student wishes to take … Read more
Start Date
10/27
Meeting Day
Fridays
End Date
12/15
Faculty
Joe Sheehan
Time
1:30pm–4:30pm
Credits
0
This class not available.
This is a seven week course starts with quick exercises working from a still life on week 1 and then working from a live model on weeks 2 and 3. The course will shift into more independent work starting Week 4 through 7. The participants will respond to prompts and … Read more
Start Date
10/31
Meeting Day
Tuesdays
End Date
12/12
Faculty
Jennifer Pochinski
Time
6:30pm–9:30pm
Credits
0
Drawing is the process of creative thinking and discovery. When you are engaged in the process of transforming materials, you’re also opening new pathways of seeing and knowing as a person and an artist. In this class you will explore ideas through the manipulation of a range of materials on … Read more
Start Date
10/31
Meeting Day
Tuesdays
End Date
12/12
Faculty
Chuck Holtzman
Time
6:30pm–9:30pm
Credits
0
Use basic embroidery strategies to introduce aspects of value and the illusion of 3-dimensional space. Practice and be introduced to techniques, such as hatching, stippling and “shading” as ways to improve how you see and render light and gradations of light and depth in your embroidered drawings. We will discuss … Read more
Start Date
12/02
Meeting Day
Saturday
End Date
12/02
Faculty
Joetta Maue
Time
10am–4pm
Credits
0
