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.
DIANA FAYT
Nature on the Surface
Rescheduled for March 2011
Using simple three dimensional forms students will explore composition and drawing on the form, taking into consideration all aspects of the three dimensional surface and not be limited by edges and boundaries. Diana’s daily demonstrations will include using molds to build simple forms, surface applications such as layering of slips and underglazes to create rich fields of color, drawing on and in the clay, the use of oxides, firing and tips and tricks to obtaining clean crisp lines in clay. Diana will also discuss and demonstrate other ceramic mediums and processes to create rich and interesting surfaces on your three dimensional forms, using things like cardboard letter stencils and old letterpress typeface, as well as how to transfer your images onto clay surfaces without sophisticated drawing skills. During her demonstrations, Diana will discuss elements of design, how to push the boundaries and see your pieces as limitless surfaces for expressing your visual ideas.
