Through its natural beauty and isolated location, Telluride’s beauty inspires. The Ah Haa School brings equally inspiring instructors and artists from around the country From painting and mixed media to writing, the Ah Haa School produces a dynamic line up of visiting artists each season. Providing both beginning and advanced students the opportunity to study with renowned regional and national artists, the Ah Haa invites you to be inspired. Take advantage of this unique opportunity, be energized by the mountain beauty and explore your creativity.
Bruce Gomez
Barbara Gilhooly
Harold O’Connor
Robert Lemler
Memphis Barbree
Harold O'Connor Oriental Metal Techniques
February 25 - 26 | two days
Saturday - Sunday | 10am - 4pm
Tuition: $300
Materials: Call for material list
Experiment with combining scrap silver and copper into alloys of Shibuichi and Shakudo. Form these materials into pendant forms known as spiculums. They are hand fabricated by forming a sheet of silver into a hollow, tapered spear shape. It has a soft twist, giving it a sense of movement. Learn to patina metal as well in this hands-on class.
Harold has been a practicing goldsmith/teacher for over forty years. His works can be seen in private and public collection including the MOMA in New York, The Smithsonian Institution in DC and The Goldsmiths Hall in London.
To view more of Harold’s work, please visit www.haroldoconnor.com
Robert Lemler
Light & The Figurative Subject
VISITING ARTIST
March 8 - 11 | four days
Thursday - Sunday | 10am - 4pm
Tuition: $450
Materials: Call for a supply list
The focus of this oil painting class is light and its characteristics of direction, strength and color. A consideration of these characteristics is essential to the successful interpretation of the subject. Working from a model, students will examine the character of natural and artificial light sources. The weak and cool light source offered by the Depot windows is very different from direct sunlight with its strength and warm color. Students will learn to recognize and interpret the qualities of these very different lighting conditions. Students will paint portraits, nude and costumed subjects illuminated by both warm and cool light sources. Be prepared to work hard and have fun! Acrylics welcome.
Robert’s distinctive style touches each subject. Robert believes that in painting, like poetry, real beauty lies in simplicity; stripping a statement down to its simplest form to make the most impact. His paintings are exhibited in finer galleries throughout the United States, and for over a decade has taught drawing and painting in the classical tradition at the Scottsdale Artists’ School.
To view more of Robert’s work, please visit www.robertlemler.com
Memphis Barbree
Exploring the Mystery,
Spirit & Form of Telluride
VISITING ARTIST
March 14 - 16 | three days
Wednesday - Friday | 10am - 4pm
Tuition: $450
Materials: Please bring your laptop (software not required)
To create photographs that share a sense of mystery and magic, that touch the minds, hearts and souls of ourselves and others we must use not only a mastery of technique, but a mastery of feeling. We must open our hearts, souls and minds to the world around us - we must love what we are photographing. We must photograph with our whole selves - our sight, hearing, touch, emotions, thoughts, dreams and know how to communicate those with our cameras and developing techniques.
In this workshop we will cover science and techniques - human perception and camera dynamic range, how to translate between the two, the grayscale, color space, reading histograms, contrast, white balance. Group image reviews will be paired with discussions about contrast, color spaces and grayscale.
We will explore creativity - how to connect with ourselves, with the world around us, how to find inspiration, passion, love for what we are photographing.
We will bridge technique and creativity and immerse ourselves in the magical winter landscape of Telluride and go beyond the dimension of the seen to make inspired images with depth and feeling to honor the magic, mystery and form of the place and moment.
My personal love is black and white photography so the workshop will be most heavily weighted on the grayscale and expressing through the black and white image.
For more information on Memphis Barbree and to see more of her work, please visit www.memphisbarbree.com
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