Early Bird Dates: Wednesday, 12/18-Saturday, 12/21. Use coupon code: EarlyBird
Workshops allow you to kick-start your creativity or learn a specialized skill in a convenient, shorter format. Taught by professional artists, workshops are available for students at all levels of experience and are kept small to ensure that individual attention can be given to everyone. Students learn in a supportive environment and are encouraged to fully explore their creativity and strive for excellence.
Book Arts
Suminagashi: Japanese Paper Marbling
(Due to popular demand, a second section has been added for 2/8/20)
Paulette Rosen
Learn the ancient Japanese technique of printing from inks floating on water. This non-toxic method of decorating paper creates a very organic and fluid-looking pattern. The process is hypnotic and meditative. After a brief lecture and demonstration, students will marble many different kinds of paper suitable for use in book arts, calligraphy, and gift-wrapping. Suminagashi is especially effective when combined with other printmaking and collage techniques.
All materials provided.
Saturday, 10:00 am–3:00 pm, 2/1
1 session: $75.00; Early Bird price: $71.25 (Discount available until 12/21/2019)
B. Saturday, 10:00 am–3:00 pm, 2/8
1 session: $75.00
Finish That Project
Paulette Rosen
Do you have an unfinished book on your shelf or a partially completed box gathering dust? Bring them to the bindery for a marathon of finishing. Guided by your instructor and motivated by the presence of others, you’ll clear your table for the coming of spring. Includes one 3-hour monitored open bench session each week.
Materials students should bring: Unfinished projects and personal book binding tools.
Prerequisite: Any previous book arts class
Tuesdays, 6:30 pm–9:30 pm, 2/18-2/25
2 sessions: $90.00; Early Bird price: $85.50 (Discount available until 12/21/2019)
Illuminated Initial Letters
Ah, those big, beautiful illuminated letters! Learn the traditional techniques to reproduce the Medieval-style initial letter. Decorative techniques will range from basic painted capitals to versal letters filled in with vines, Bible scenes, or a cross-hatched “diaper pattern.” Although we will not work with true gold leaf, the initials will be illuminated with touches of imitation gold. Paper and paints will be supplied. See below for additional supplies needed.
Materials students should bring: Illuminated Initial Letters Supplies
Saturday, 12:30 pm–4:30 pm, 3/7
1 session: $60.00; Early Bird price: $57.00 (Discount available until 12/21/2019)
Drawing + Painting
STEAM Workshop: Human Anatomy and Figure Drawing for Kids
Eric March
Learn how the muscles and bones of the body work and how to draw them with a kid-friendly approach to science and art. Build a miniature skeleton, learn the names of bones and how to identify them, observe muscle mechanics, learn proportions, and draw from a live model.
All materials provided.
Suggested ages: 9-12
Sundays, 2:00 pm–4:00 pm, 1/12-1/19
2 sessions: $60.00; Early Bird price: $57.00 (Discount available until 12/21/2019)
Josef Albers’ Famous Color Course
Fritz Horstman
Working directly from student recollections and from Albers’ teaching notes from the Bauhaus, Black Mountain College, and Yale University, we approach color with open eyes, working through exercises such as “make three colors become four” and “four-color worlds.” Because of the abstract and subjective nature of color, this workshop is useful to all artists—those focused on color and those focused elsewhere.
Materials students should bring: Famous Colors Course Supplies
Fridays, 1:00 pm–4:00 pm, 1/24-2/7
3 sessions: $135.00; Early Bird price: $128.25 (Discount available until 12/21/2019)
Pottery
Pottery Sampler
Michael Bradford
Consider a one-day sampler to find out what pottery is all about without committing to a whole term. You will be introduced to the studio and briefed on how to use our equipment, then dive in for some hands-on time with the potter’s wheel and a lump of clay. We provide the tools—just show up with an open mind and be ready to play. Wear clothes that can get dirty.
All materials provided. Optional: bring a small towel.
Saturday, 9:00 am–11:30 am, 2/1
1 session: $37.50; Early Bird price: $35.63 (Discount available until 12/21/2019)
Printmaking
Open Printmaking Week
Liz Pagano
Print all week in a monitored setting with basic materials for intaglio, relief, silkscreen, and paper lithography. Use one of four etching presses, the largest being 36″ x 60,” and equipment such as a light exposure unit, light box, plate cutter, and hot plate, as well as a separate room for printing editions.
Materials students should bring: Printmaking Supplies
Prerequisite: Printmaking experience and the ability to work independently and safely in a print studio. Preapproval from department head required.
Monday – Friday, 9:30 am–2:30 pm, 3/9-3/13
5 sessions: $375.00; Early Bird price: $356.25 (Discount available until 12/21/2019)
Young People — Drawing + Painting
STEAM Workshop: Human Anatomy and Figure Drawing for Kids
Eric March
Learn how the muscles and bones of the body work and how to draw them with a kid-friendly approach to science and art. Build a miniature skeleton, learn the names of bones and how to identify them, observe muscle mechanics, learn proportions, and draw from a live model.
All materials provided.
Suggested ages: 9-12
Sundays, 2:00 pm–4:00 pm, 1/12-1/19
2 sessions: $56.00; Early Bird price: $53.20 (Discount available until 12/21/2019)