Visiting Artist Series

Exploring Your Sketchbook: Making Your Freshest & Purest Art with Julia Zollman Wickes
July 10 – 12 | three days | Friday –Sunday 10AM – 4PM
$125 for a three day workshop | $75 materials

During this workshop, students will reflect on personal artistic goals, explore surroundings and learn to rely on sketch-books and creativity to determine ways of expression. You will learn to size up the situation or scene quickly, paint wonderful descriptions of where you have been, find the details that have meaning and reflect emotional response. Students will spend time out of the studio and around the town, working primarily in sketchbooks, drawing, painting, writing, mixing media and even sculpting. We will gather at the beginning of each class and at the end of the class each day to discuss the work, offer critique, and discuss the next step.

Pottery | Scratching the Surface with Kent Harris
July 31 – August 2 | three days | Friday – Sunday 10AM – 4PM
$285 for a three day workshop | $50 materias includes glaze and firing

Texas potter Kent Harris returns to the Ah Haa School for a three-day workshop. Don’t miss this jam-packed workshop full of techniques on how to make pots more interesting! Saturday Kent will demonstrate goblets, berry bowls, juicers and other kitchen-ware pots not covered in previous workshops. Students will throw all day making pottery to embellish when leather-hard. Kent will teach multiple ways to apply slips, rope-texture, mark on the clay’s surface and add embellishments to create unique surface decoration.

Plein Air Pastel Techniques with Greg Barnes
August 7 – 9 | three days | Friday – Sunday 10AM – 3PM
$375 + materials for a three day workshop

This class dives head first into pastel painting and plein air techniques through the experiences of watching (demonstrations by Barnes) and doing (painting on location). Students receive a broad spectrum of art instruction, providing a rich experience for artists of all skill levels. Barnes teaches during the demonstrations by thoroughly explaining every step of his process – from deciding on subject matter and composing the scene to a nearly finished painting. The instruction continues with individual help alongside your easel during every scheduled plein air painting session. Along with the pastel techniques, students are exposed to compositional, value, and color theories that, when applied, will continue to teach well after class completion.