HAROLD O'CONNOR
Architecturally Inspired:
Architectural Elements in Jewelry

August 16 - 20 |  Monday - Friday |  10AM - 4PM
$425 for a five day workshop

Whether it’s the works of Frank Gehry or Antonio Gaudi, historic or modern, students will explore how elements of architecture can inspire designs in metalworking. Transforming images from the big to the little is the emphases of this workshop. This class will cover the use of architectural elements in jewelry forms, creating corrugated sheet metal, constructing shapes from metal tubing, making and using soldering jigs, degree angle cutting, use of miniature miter boxes, hollow form construction, precise soldering, creating textures, stone integration and finishing methods.   

KENT HARRIS & ELMER TAYLOR
Two Approaches to Function

August 20 - 22   |  Friday - Sunday |  10AM - 4PM
$495 for a three day workshop

Texas potter Kent Harris returns to the Ah Haa School with Elmer Taylor this summer to teach their individual approaches for making functional pottery. Both potters will demonstrate their signature techniques for lidded forms, handles, spouts and many other wheel-thrown forms. This workshop will also encompass the ways that Harris and Taylor deal with the surface treatment and glazing of their pots, including a brush making demonstration by Elmer Taylor. This workshop is hands on. Students will be encouraged to find their own approaches to function while learning new techniques in their pottery making.

DAVE EDWARDS
Making a Strong Photograph

September 9 - 11, 2010   |  Thursday - Saturday |  10AM - 4PM
$450 for a three day workshop

Just in time for the splendor of fall colors, Dave Edwards, famous for his Kazakh Eagle Hunter series for National Geographic Magazine, will lead a three-day photographic workshop. Dynamic compositions, light, subject content, and the artistic elements of an image will be his main topics. There will be an emphasis on changing photographic habits, seeing with new eyes and experimentation. Starting with an introduction and slide show on Thursday evening, the workshop will continue for two full days of shooting and a lecture on Friday and Saturday, and end on Sunday at noon after more shooting and critique.

SHAWNA MOORE and REBECCA CROWELL Encaustics Hot Wax/Cold Wax Workshop

October 8 - 10, 2010 | Friday - Sunday |  9:30AM - 4:30PM |  $400

This exciting dual encaustics workshop will have Crowell working and teaching her cold wax technique the first day, while Moore shuttles you through her hot wax techniques on day two, with both teaching together on the third day. Through this introduction, students will discover the brilliant colors, evocative surfaces, and sheer pleasure that come while painting abstractly with wax. Explore the differences and similarities between two exciting methods, in a class taught jointly by Shawna Moore (encaustic artist) and Rebecca Crowell (who uses cold wax medium with oils.)

Rebecca Crowell received her MFA in 1985 from Arizona State University and has since been living and working in rural Wisconsin surrounded by forty acres of woods and fields. This location inspires her nature-based imagery, and allows for lots of focused studio time. A resident artist at the Centre D’Art I Natura in Catalonia, Spain, a remote medieval stone village in the Pyrenees, marked a turning point towards the abstraction of her current body of work.  Crowell’s work is exhibited regularly both regionally and nationally, and is included in hundreds of public, private and corporate collections. She is represented by Darnell Fine Art, Santa Fe; Telluride Gallery of Fine Art, Telluride, CO; Circa Gallery, Minneapolis; Wilde Meyer Gallery, Scottsdale, AZ; Grace Chosy Gallery in Madison, WI and Woodwalk Gallery, Egg Harbor (Door Co.)WI.

Shauna Moore is an established, professional painter and encaustic artist living in Whitefish, Montana, with exhibits in galleries in Montana, New Mexico, Oregon, and New York.  Anchored by the use of color and the immediacy of art making, Moore has spent the past 20 years developing   and refining her artistic process and intention. Her art integrates elements of painting and drawing, and reflects both her education in architecture and fine art, and her inventive and experimental nature.  In recent years, the ancient method of encaustic painting is Moore’s medium of choice. This unique and dynamic technique incorporates pigmented bee’s wax, which is heated, re-worked, etched or scuffed to achieve dimensional depth.  As each layer cools, another can be applied, resulting in a radiant and complex terrain of light, color and texture.