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lee arts
center Workshops: Saturday, March 7, 2009 |10 am - 4 pm Please join us in welcoming UK ceramicist,
Wendy Lawrence. In this hands-on workshop, students will learn to create a
large scale ceramic mural from start to finish. On the first day, students
will learn how to create patterns, lay out clay slabs, model and carve the
surface and make integrative cut lines. On the second day, using a bisqued
mural already created in Wendy’s previous art residency at Lee, students
will learn how to glaze a mural, exploring and developing glazing techniques
through handbrushing, stippling and flat brushing. Also discussed will be
substrates, mounting and adhesives.
Wendy Lawrence is a ceramicist who
is a Professional Member of The Craft Potters Association of Great Britain
and is currently working as Project Manager and Designer Maker of specialist
ceramic murals for Craig Bragdy Design
www.craigbragdydesign.co.uk/
She currently lives and works in Denbigh, Wales. To see her work please
visit
www.wendylawrenceceramics.com
The Art of the Reliquary Saturday, April 4, 2009 |10 am - 4 pm rel·i·quar·y: a container or shrine where relics or other precious objects are kept In this hands-on workshop students will use
personal imagery to create a precious object from porcelain and a reliquary
to house it. Niches, doorways and windows will be used to alternately hide
and reveal inner treasures. Personal imagery will be explored through
various group and individual exercises. The images and symbols discovered
will be central to the creation of each participant’s reliquary, imbuing it
with individual meaning and significance. Basic handbuilding techniques will
be utilized as well as mark making and carving to help develop surface and
narrative. The layering of glazes, slips, stains and oxides to achieve
weathered antique surfaces in cone six oxidation firing will also be shared.
Prerequisite: Basic handbuilding skills are required.
Novie Trump is a sculptor whose work
is in public and private collections throughout the United States and
Europe. Her ceramic sculpture has been selected for juried and invitational
group and solo exhibitions and has been featured in books and publications.
She is the founder and director of Flux Studios, a contemporary art space in
Mt. Rainier, MD. To learn more please visit her website at
http://www.novietrump.com
Altered Books Saturday, April 18, 2009 |10 am - 4 pm Altered book artists like to say there are
no rules. To that Carol Owen would add, just a chance to play and have fun.
In this workshop students will use collage and embellishment to turn old
books into interactive works of art. The instructor will provide books
to alter for everyone in class. Each student will make a reference book so
they have a permanent record of the techniques demonstrated. Various ways of
doing backgrounds and how to get color and texture on a page will be
demonstrated. Students will do pockets, slits and pull-outs, tip-ins (add in
pages), niches, windows, and drawers, transparencies, and many different
kinds of pop ups. Also discussed will be glues and paints, and the types of
books that work best for this art form.
Carol Owen has been a professional
artist for 30 years, working initially as a weaver and papermaker, and now
in mixed media. She has exhibited throughout the United States and her work
has appeared in many publications, including Collage for the Soul,
and magazines including Mary Engelbreit's Home Companion (Dec/Jan 2008),
Somerset Studio, Legacy and Country Living. Carol Owen's
book, Crafting Personal Shrines, was published by Lark Books in
October, 2004, and reprinted in soft cover in February, 2006.
The Glass Onion: Layers of Imagery and Text Saturday, May 2, 2009 |10 am - 4 pm Explore the narrative and painterly potential of kilnformed glass. Students will be introduced to a variety of expressive kilnforming techniques to enable the use of text and images in their glasswork. This class will be of interest to artists such as printmakers, painters, poets, or anyone for whom imagery, layering and personal expression are desired elements. Working with Bullseye glass, frit, powder, and stringer, students will create pre-fired design elements to be used in subsequent glass projects, combined with other glass techniques and/or adapted to other media. Opacity, transparency, and design concepts will be considered. While basic kiln practices will be touched upon, the focus of the class will be on the expressive use of the materials.
Kari Minnick has been an exhibiting
artist and educator for over twenty-five years. Collected internationally,
Kari's works are in private, corporate and embassy collections. Her work was
featured in the exhibit "Celebrating Connections: Contemporary Glass Art by
Mid-Atlantic Artists" at the Museum of American Glass in Millville, NJ.
Noted for outstanding craftsmanship and achievement in glass, Kari received
the prestigious Juror's Choice Award at the Bay Area Glass Institute 2008
Gala Auction.
Encaustic Collage Encaustic collage is a collage medium that uses beeswax as an adhesive and allows for layering of papers and lightweight found materials as a base for overpainting with oil and encaustic paint. This three day intensive workshop will cover collage layering processes using translucent and opaque papers and sculptural effects that can be created with the wax with stencils, stamps and incising. Ways to enhance your collage with encaustic paint will be introduced, as well as principles of layering wax and wax based paint over absorbent surfaces such as wood, cloth, canvas and watercolor paper. All materials will be provided for the $45.00 materials fee, including all substrates. A letter of optional collage materials to bring will be sent out after you register.
Katie Dell Kaufman has taught at the Corcoran College of Art and Design since 1989. She received her B.A. in sculpture from Bard College and her M.A. in Art Education from the University of Maryland with additional studies at Virginia Commonwealth University and the Corcoran College of Art and Design. Her drawings, collages and assemblages have been exhibited in solo shows in Maryland, New York and Washington DC and in group shows in galleries and museum shows in New York, Washington and in many other cities around the country. For more information visit www.katiedellkaufman.com
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