Get a taste of the topics you have been curious about with workshops in design, business, photography, wood, metals, printmaking, drawing, painting and more.
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
Do you have an idea that you would like to bring to life? Join a stimulating environment in which you can create the best version of your concepts through fresh perspectives, constructive critiques, and hands-on artwork generation. This workshop dives into pre-production processes in an animation workflow. Storyboarding, animatics, background … Read more
Start Date
01/02
Meeting Day
Tuesday, Thursday, Monday
End Date
01/11
Faculty
Shannon Lee
Time
6:30pm–9:30pm
Credits
0
Rich and expressive, monotype joins the graphic qualities of printmaking with the spontaneity of painting. This hands-on workshop teaches the basics of chine colle, pronto plate, collagraph, as well as other processes, and explores the sequential possibilities of monotype to develop images conceptually and formally. Image-making methods, ink handling, print … Read more
Start Date
01/05
Meeting Day
Friday, Saturday, Sunday
End Date
01/07
Faculty
David Bligh
Time
Friday, 6:30-9:30pm; Saturday and Sunday, 9am-3pm–
Credits
0
In this hands-on woodworking class, students will work with white ash to build a Danish cord footstool. Students will start off by building the bench base and learn about mortise and tenon joinery and domino construction. Students will use both machines and hand tools to build the base. From there they will learn about … Read more
Start Date
01/06
Meeting Day
Saturday and Sunday
End Date
01/07
Faculty
Ellen Kaspern
Time
9am–4:30pm
Credits
0
When using materials it is you and the material that change together This workshop is structured around developing a group of abstract drawings using various approaches, methods and processes to explore and grow ideas. Challenging the way you engage in abstract drawing impacts the way you see and imagine your ideas. … Read more
Start Date
01/06
Meeting Day
Saturday and Sunday
End Date
01/07
Faculty
Chuck Holtzman
Time
10am–2:30pm
Credits
0
Do you long for more self-expression, art and color in your life? Would you like creativity to become a habit but you don’t know where to start? Do you doubt your artistic skills or do you think you don’t have any artistic skills at all? In this 2 day workshop, … Read more
Start Date
01/06
Meeting Day
Saturday and Sunday
End Date
01/07
Faculty
Katia Wish
Time
10am–2:30pm
Credits
0
In this two-day workshop, students gain the fundamental tools and skills to take their drawings to the next level, in both accuracy and expression. Students work with a range of subjects, from still-life to the human hand. In addition to problem-solving drawing exercises, students learn techniques for depicting proportion, mark-making … Read more
Start Date
01/06
Meeting Day
Saturday and Sunday
End Date
01/07
Faculty
Janet Loren Hill
Time
10am–1pm
Credits
0
Traditionally, watercolor is a light-to-dark medium. Light washes are built up gradually in order to achieve rich tones. The focus of this course is to explain that when beginning a painting with the application of pre-mixed, middle value, transparent wet-on-wet watercolor washes, artists can create images that exude “instant” atmosphere, … Read more
Start Date
01/08
Meeting Day
Mon and Fri, 9:30am-12:30pm and additional meetings to be arranged
End Date
01/12
Faculty
Irena Roman
Time
9:30am–12:30pm
Credits
0
Learn to cut crisp and accurate dovetails. Dovetails are one of the strongest and oldest types of joinery; they are useful for building boxes and furniture. Students will learn to cut both Through and Half-Blind Dovetails by hand. They will learn to use chisels, marking gauges, saws, and mallets to cut … Read more
Start Date
01/13
Meeting Day
Saturday and Sunday
End Date
01/14
Faculty
Rachel Prentki
Time
9am–4:30pm
Credits
0
Thinking about a career in graphic design? Do you currently “dabble” in graphic design for personal projects? Have you found yourself designing flyers, webpages, brochures or other graphic design work professionally without any design training? This one-day workshop is specifically targeted for those with no graphic design background, to understand what makes a design “work” visually … Read more
Start Date
01/13
Meeting Day
Saturday
End Date
01/13
Faculty
Alisa Aronson
Time
9am–4pm
Credits
0
Over the course of a six hour day, students will work from a live model learning to draw and understand basic human anatomy. The first half of the day will be dedicated to linear drawing using pencil, the second half of the day is dedicated to value drawing using charcoal. Supply List: … Read more
Start Date
01/13
Meeting Day
Saturday
End Date
01/13
Faculty
Brett X. Gamache
Time
10am–4pm
Credits
0
Through a variety of exercises, students will learn basic anatomy and movements of children and animals. They will apply their observational skills into developing unique, believable and appealing characters suitable for children’s books. The emphasis is on creating characters who are consistent through a variety of facial expressions and movements.
Start Date
01/13
Meeting Day
Saturday and Sunday
End Date
01/14
Faculty
Katia Wish
Time
10am–2:30pm
Credits
0
Over the course of a six hour day, students will paint from a live nude model twice (morning & afternoon sessions). The course focuses on color mixing (skin tones), basic anatomy, and overall composition. Some painting experience is preferred. Materials needed for Figure Painting: *Oil Paints- suggested Titanium White (120 … Read more
Start Date
01/14
Meeting Day
Sunday
End Date
01/14
Faculty
Brett X. Gamache
Time
10am–4pm
Credits
0