Past-workshops – Page 17

Thursday January 10, 2019

Block Printing & Surface Design on Fabric

WEEK ONE (5-day): June 24 – 28, 2019 Classes run from 9 am – 4 pm each day and students are welcome to stay late in their studio.

Block Printing & Surface Design on Fabric

In this workshop, students will be guided through the process of block-printing on fabric and surface design. You will begin with simple repeat patterns with one colour and then work your way to more complex and multi-coloured patterns throughout the week. Students will explore a variety of printmaking techniques from ombre rolls, three block prints, jigsaw prints and collagraphic techniques and how this can be applied to fabric.

You will be taught how to create offset prints and how to register your stamps so your printed fabric has a professional look. Each day you will be introduced to a new design principal with a daily emphasis on you finding your own creative language.

All levels welcome

STUDENT SUPPLY LIST (Click here): All students are responsible for bringing their own supplies.
COURSE COST: $712 (Includes $681 tuition and a $31 material fee for supplies to be provided by the instructor.)

Tuition includes daily lunch and snacks. Prices are listed in Canadian Dollars and are inclusive of all applicable taxes. An accommodation package is available in QUAD or DOUBLE occupancy and includes breakfast and dinner. Click here for further details.

Mo Hamilton

Mo Hamilton is a printmaker, textile artist, mixed-medium painter and teacher. Recurring symbols and motifs show up in her work such as houses, trees, plants, birds and natural elements. Often she is drawn to her studio by an idea or agenda that needs to express itself only to find that the process takes over and intuition leads the way.

Presently Mo is exploring block-printing on fabric as well as working on an ongoing longer printmaking project called The 100 Houses Project. In Mo’s 100 Houses Project she explores the house as symbol for expressing the changes humans experience in their lifetimes.

Mo has lived in many communities across BC including, Summerland, Malcolm Island, Victoria, Castlegar, and Terrace, but now she resides in Prince George. The creation of art has provided consistency through the transitions she has made in both time and place, in soul and in heart, as a child, woman, partner, and mother. Her creations can be found in galleries and private collections throughout BC.

www.mohamilton.net

Workshops will not run until sufficient enrollment has been met.

CONFIRMED: This workshop has met the required registration numbers and will be running.

Thursday January 10, 2019

Painting Towards Abstraction

WEEKEND ONE (2-day): June 22 – 23, 2019 Classes run 9 am – 4 pm daily and students are welcome to stay late in their studio.

Painting Towards Abstraction

The focus of this workshop is how does one move from representation to abstraction. What is abstraction and the different possibilities it represents? Students will explore and experiment with a variety of conceptual and technical approaches. Each student will develop their own abstract painting(s) based on chosen applications enhancing his or her technical skills and personal expression. The course will move fluidly between traditional and experimental applications, and the expressive.

All levels welcome

STUDENT SUPPLY LIST (Click HERE): All students are responsible for bringing their own supplies.
COURSE COST: $303 (Includes $291 tuition and a $12 materials fee for specific supplies provided by the instructor)

Tuition includes daily lunch and snacks. Prices are listed in Canadian Dollars and are inclusive of all applicable taxes. An accommodation package is available in QUAD or DOUBLE occupancy and includes breakfast and dinner. Click here for further details.

Lori Goldberg

Lori Goldberg was born in Vancouver where she currently lives, works, and teaches. Her painting practice has evolved since the 1980’s from large, semi¬ abstractions inspired by industrial and Pacific Northwest environments to still life’s of everyday objects noted for their meditative qualities.

Goldberg’s work has been shown in major exhibitions including the Justina Barnicke Gallery at the University of Toronto, The Vancouver Contemporary Art Gallery, and the KX Kunst Auf Kampfnagel Gallery in Hamburg. She has received commissions for over 100 paintings from Intrawest Resorts and a large 5’ x 9’ painting for The Schuster Group, Walton Lofts, Seattle. Goldberg has received critical attention for her paintings, through support and awards including a Canada Council Grant, Tony Onley artists’ Project scholarship and Vermont Artist Award.

Goldberg’s work is held in public and private collections including the Canada Art Bank, The Vancouver Contemporary Art Gallery, The City of Vancouver, VGH Foundation and Michael Audain Private Collection.
For the past 20 years Goldberg has taught at ECUAD in the CS Department. Gallery representation is with South Main Gallery, Vancouver, BC.

www.lorigoldberg.ca

Workshops will not run until sufficient enrollment has been met. Please register before April 15th to avoid disappointment.

CONFIRMED: This workshop has met the required registration numbers and will be running.

Thursday January 10, 2019

RAKU: Mud, Fire & Smoke

WEEK TWO (5-day): July 1 – 5, 2019 Classes run from 9 am – 4 pm daily and students are welcome to stay late in their studio.

RAKU: Mud, Fire & Smoke

In this multi-faceted workshop, Ellen with share her favorite tools, tips and techniques to create gestural hand-built forms using soft slab construction.

Students will explore a variety of tools and methods to create unique surfaces on whimsical vessels, sculptural pieces and functional pots. Part of this process will involve learning to make and use latex rubber molds, which will be theirs to keep.

The week will also include the excitement and drama of Raku firing. Participants will have an opportunity to fully participate in the Raku process. It is a rapid firing method capable of producing dazzling colours and unexpected results. Glowing hot pots are removed from the kiln and placed in post firing reduction chambers where fire and smoke work their magic. The hardest part is waiting for the pots to be cool enough to peek!

Ellen will also demonstrate “Naked Raku” and horse hair firing methods, as well as post firing finishes using acrylic paints. It promises to be an action packed week of pottery fun.

All levels welcome, basic skills and a fundamental understanding of clay is preferable

STUDENT SUPPLY LIST (Click HERE): All students are responsible for bringing their own supplies.
CLAY ORDER FORM: (Click HERE)
COURSE COST: $724 (Covers $681 tuition and $43 for additonal course supplies/firing fees.)

Tuition also includes daily lunch and daily snacks. Prices are listed in Canadian Dollars and are inclusive of all applicable taxes. An accommodation package is available in QUAD or DOUBLE occupancy and includes breakfast and dinner. Click here for further details.

Ellen Statz

Ellen was born and raised in the small coastal community of Campbell River, B.C. on Vancouver Island. She obtained her degree in Fine Art at Malaspina College (now VIU) in Nanaimo in 1984.

Ellen approaches her work with a sense of humor and whimsy, delighting in what happens with the clay as she manipulates, stretches, textures and builds a variety of forms from decorative, to functional to sculptural. Daily meditative beach walks provide endless inspiration and she is always dreaming up new challenges to tackle. She continues to reside in Campbell River, where she operates her studio and offers classes in hand-building and Raku.

Ellen says that “A day with clay is ALWAYS a good day”.

www.ellenspottery.com

Thursday January 3, 2019

Writing Through Doubt

WEEKEND ONE (2-day): June 22 – 23, 2019

Classes run 9 am – 4 pm each day and students are welcome to stay longer in their studio.

Writing Through Doubt: Creative Process for Artists & Writers

Doubt rides shotgun in your creative journey. Doubt is a gift made just for you, but you have to know how to unwrap it if it’s going to be of any use.

This two day, all-level, cross-discipline workshop will include in-class writing, exercises, readings, and discussion to help you uncover the good news about your doubt. Whether you are a beginner or a more established artist or writer, this workshop will help you advance your practice while the cross-discipline aspect will enrich your understanding of creative process.

Using writing as a tool of discovery will help you get closer to your most authentic work so that you leave with a plan and strategies to execute it.

All levels welcome

STUDENT SUPPLY LIST (Click HERE): All students are responsible for bringing their own supplies.
COURSE COST: $293 (Includes $291 tuition and $2 in material fees)

Tuition includes lunches and daily snacks. Prices are listed in Canadian Dollars and are inclusive of all applicable taxes. An accommodation package is available in QUAD or DOUBLE occupancy and includes breakfast and dinner. Click here for further details.

Susan Andrews Grace

Susan Andrews Grace is a poet, essayist, and visual artist. She has taught writing at a variety of institutions including Nelson’s Oxygen Art Centre, Kootenay School of the Arts, University of Nevada, Las Vegas. The most recent of her five books of poetry, Philosopher at the Skin Edge of Being (Signature Editions, Winnipeg, 2013) was shortlisted for the Fred Cogswell Prize for Excellence in Poetry, 2014. She holds a BA in Philosophy and an MFA in Creative Writing, has exhibited visual works in public galleries over the last thirty years, mostly in Canada, but also the USA. Andrews Grace has lived in Nelson since 2001.

www.susanandrewsgrace.com

Thursday December 13, 2018

Encaustics & Mixed Media

WEEK ONE (5-day): June 24 – 28, 2019 Classes run 9 am – 4 pm daily and students are welcome to stay late in their studio.

Encaustics & Mixed Media

Discover the wonderful opportunities mixed media encaustic has to offer. This 2,000 year old process uses refined white beeswax and damar crystals melted together to form a strong archival compound that can be used to fuse and transfer images to its surface. You’ll be amazed by its limitless flexibility and creative potential using photography and mixed media.

This class will focus on creative exploration and innovative mixed media techniques using encaustic medium and paints; image transfer techniques; plaster and joint compounds; sprayed stencils and masks; oil rubs and stains; incising; and much more!

Push your encaustic art up to the next level with this upbeat, technique-rich class.

All levels welcome

STUDENT SUPPLY LIST (Click HERE): All students are responsible for bringing their own supplies.
COURSE COST: $723 (Includes $681 tuition and $42 for specific supplies provided by the instructor which include 8 encaustic pucks.)

Tuition includes lunch and daily snacks. Prices are listed in Canadian Dollars and are inclusive of all applicable taxes. An accommodation package is available in QUAD or DOUBLE occupancy and includes breakfast and dinner. Click here for further details.

Tony Bounsall

Tony has been working professionally as a commercial photographer/graphic designer for thirty years and is a photo arts graduate (BAPA) from Ryerson Polytechnical University. He is currently on the Faculty of The Vancouver Island School of Art teaching Collage, Alternative Photography, Photo-Based Mixed Media and Printmaking Tony has also taught classes and workshops at The Coast Collective, The Old School House in Qualicum Beach, MISSA (Metchosin International summer School of the Arts) and UVic-Continuing Studies, Camosun College-Continuing Studies and Red Deer College Series Summer Arts School and Leading Edge Workshops in Calgary. Tony is also past board president and participating Board member of MISSA.

In 2013 He received a Saanich Legacy Grant for an Artist in residence program for young adults called “Holga Dreams” and completed an Artist in Residency at Shawnigan Lake School in 2014. Over the last 15 years, Tony has worked in several different mediums, including digital artwork, iPhoneography, alternative based photography, mixed media, collage, printmaking and encaustics. His classes are innovative, relaxed and inclusive. His work draws inspiration from his travels, technical drawings and illustrations, vintage photography, birds/crows and his love of nature. He exhibits and sells his own fine art prints and mixed media work throughout North America.

www.tonybounsall.com

Workshops will not run until sufficient enrollment has been met. Please register before April 15th to avoid disappointment.

CONFIRMED: This workshop has met the required registration numbers and will be running.

Thursday December 13, 2018

Atmospheric Immersion: Soda Firing

WEEK ONE & WEEKEND TWO (7-days): June 24 – 30, 2019 Classes run from 9 am – 4 pm daily and students are welcome to stay late in their studio.

Atmospheric Immersion: Soda Firing

Immerse deep in to the world of atmospheric firing for 7 days of glazing, firing, making and exploring forms, surfaces, and how the soda infused kiln affects each piece.

You will apply flashing slips and glazes to the bisque ware you bring made from stoneware or high temperature porcelain clay and help load the soda kiln, becoming aware of differences in atmospheric kilns. You will be involved with firing the soda kiln and learning different methods of introducing salt and soda during the firing, as well as how to fire a gas kiln. Digital presentations will assist you as you begin to make work that will focus on the nuances of this type of firing.

Each day shapes will be explored; detailed surfaces with incised lines, carving, stamps, textures, and slip decorated surfaces will be delved into as you discover how to make your own unique work. Pieces will be dried and bisqued as students continue to realize new ways of making and decorating pieces specifically for soda firing. Flashing slips and glaze will be applied and then fired again.

This workshop is an amazing opportunity to propel ones’ skills and knowledge, with an immersion, into atmospheric firing!

Workshop level: Intermediate/Advanced

STUDENT SUPPLY LIST (Click HERE): All students are responsible for bringing their own supplies.
CLAY ORDER FORM: (Click HERE)
COURSE COST: $1008 (Includes $953 tuition and $55 for course supplies/firing fees.)

Tuition includes lunches and daily snacks. Prices are listed in Canadian Dollars and are inclusive of all applicable taxes. An accommodation package is available in QUAD or DOUBLE occupancy and includes breakfast and dinner. Click here for further details.

Cathi Jefferson

Cathi has exhibited nationally and internationally, with her work has been featured in numerous publications including Robin Hoppers Functional Pottery and Phil Roger’s Salt-Glaze Ceramics. She has attended residencies at Archie Bray in Montana, the Banff Centre and others in the US and abroad. In 2010, she was awarded the Carter Wosk BC Achievement Award for Applied Art and Design.

Cathi’s studio and gallery on the beautiful Cowichan River near Duncan, BC, is surrounded by the west coast rain forest that inspires her. The unique salt-fired functional stoneware and sculptural forms she creates have designs from nature that she cares about so passionately.

www.cathijefferson.com

Wednesday December 5, 2018

Solarplates: Monoprinting in the Sun

WEEK TWO (5-day): July 1 – 5, 2019 Classes run 9 am – 4 pm daily and students are welcome to stay late in their studio.

Solarplates: Monoprinting in the Sun

Explore the wonder of Solarplate printmaking technique combined with music, poetry and various
imagery to create a cohesive body of prints using the power of the sun as its magical ingredient. Solarplate is an artistic method of making multiple images on paper without sweat, blood and tears.

Learn and study this simple technique from a master printmaker who teaches through excitement and spontaneity. Without hazardous acids and chemicals UV light and water yield highly professional results. The light-sensitized polymer printing plate accepts all forms of art from drawings, paintings and/or digital images and is capable of yielding many impressions.

Alternatively, artists can work through traditional or digital approaches on transparent film or specially prepared ‘grained’ glass. Participants will be able to produce several 8×10 inch images during this intensive workshop. Larger plates may be made available with prior request.

All levels welcome, printmaking experience preferred

STUDENT SUPPLY LIST (Click HERE): All students are responsible for bringing their own supplies.
COURSE COST: $681+ (Covers $681 tuition. There will be an additional supply fee to be assessed at a later date. This course requires specialized materials and equipment which need to be shipped from out of country. We apologize for any inconvenience.)

Tuition also includes lunch and daily snacks. Prices are listed in Canadian Dollars and are inclusive of all applicable taxes. An accommodation package is available in QUAD or DOUBLE occupancy and includes breakfast and dinner. Click here for further details.

Dan Welden

Since the 1970’s, as one of the original pioneers of alternative printmaking and in the forefront of ‘health and safety’, Dan Welden developed the revolutionary process called Solarplate.

As an innovator of water based monotypes, he has been educating artists of all levels on every continent with environmental and spiritual awareness. As co-author of “Printmaking in the Sun”, and director of Hampton Editions, Ltd. in Sag Harbor, NY, he has collaborated with many artists including, Willem de Kooning, Eric Fischl, Kiki Smith, and Kurt Vonnegut among many others.

He has been the recipient of international artists’ grants traveling to China, Belgium, Peru, Australia and New Zealand and has had over 85 solo exhibitions and professional visits in 53 countries on 6 continents. He was juror for the international Printmaking Biennal in Aqui Terme, Italy and is represented by BCB Gallery in Hudson, NY. He recently received a ‘Lifetime Achievement Grant’ from A/E Foundation in 2016 and honored as Professor Emeritus at the Escuela des Beas Artes in Cuzco, Peru.

www.danwelden.com

Wednesday December 5, 2018

Haida Weaving: A Cedar Bark Basket

WEEKEND TWO (2-day): June 29 – 30, 2019 Classes run 9 am – 4 pm each day and students are welcome to stay longer in their studio.

Haida Weaving: A Cedar Bark Basket

Participants will make a small scale square cedar bark basket, beginning with a short Haida story of the first basket and then exploring the basics of preparing the cedar bark for weaving, such as cleaning, cutting and splitting into various widths. Using the prepared cedar bark, participants will design and weave their own unique basket combining such techniques as the Salish Weave (plaiting), Herringbone twill, twining, over-lays, and some imbrication. Sample baskets will be on hand for inspiration.

All levels welcome

STUDENT SUPPLY LIST: (Click HERE) Students are responsible for bringing their own supplies
COURSE FEE: $333 (Includes $291 tuition and $42 for specific supplies provided by the instructor, which will include dried cedar bark)

Tuition includes daily lunch and snacks. Prices are listed in Canadian Dollars and are inclusive of all applicable taxes. An accommodation package is available in QUAD or DOUBLE occupancy and includes breakfast and dinner. Click here for further details.

Todd Giihlgiigaa DeVries

Todd @Giihlgiigaa is a Haida Cedar Bark weaver based in Vancouver, BC, focused on the practical use of his creations and the community building potential of this fine craft. Todd first started weaving with Western Red Cedar Bark in 2001 following a mysterious vision he had of the Old Woman of the Forest. For the past eight years since his move to Vancouver, he has been sharing his skills, and teaching other weavers how to master materials of their own choosing as well as cedar bark, through demonstrations, workshops, weaving circles and informal mentorships. He has taught communities as diverse as elders and youth through community programs throughout BC.

Todd currently is an artist in residence at Britannia Community Center and at St. Kateri, Vancouver teaching basic weaving skills every week. Todd also sells his woven items, mainly hats through his own website as well as gift shops and galleries.

www.ithkilgaa.blogspot.com

Workshops will not run until sufficient enrollment has been met. Please register before April 15th to avoid disappointment.

CONFIRMED: This workshop has met the required registration numbers and will be running.

Tuesday December 4, 2018

Fantastical Creatures: 3D Needle Felting

WEEKEND TWO (2-day): June 29 – 30, 2019 Classes run 9 am – 4 pm each day and students are welcome to stay longer in the studio.

Fantastical Creatures: 3D Needle Felting

A needle felting workshop to sculpt a fantastical creature from wool and your imagination. Students will begin by learning which fibres are best for needle felting and the different types of needles used. Learn how to create and join different shapes, and how to felt around a wire armature. Students will create a 6” felted fantastical creature, like a mermaid, as a learning project on the first morning.

Students will then be challenged to create a fantastical creature in their own style, beginning with a wire armature where needed and felting the basic body shape. Students will felt on a coloured top coat, features, details and expressions to bring their creatures to life.

All levels welcome

STUDENT SUPPLY LIST (Click HERE): All students are responsible for bringing their own supplies.
COURSE COST: $331 (Inclusive of $291 tuition and a $40 material fee for specific supplies provided by the instructor, which include felting needles, armature wire and a selection of hand dyed wool)

Tuition includes daily lunch and snacks. Prices are listed in Canadian Dollars and are inclusive of all applicable taxes. An accommodation package is available in QUAD or DOUBLE occupancy and includes breakfast and dinner. Click here for further details

Nancy Wesley

Nancy Wesley (nan.c) is a creative contemporary felt designer who has been teaching and felting full time for 9 years. Trained as a graphic designer at the Ontario College of Art her works shows her love of line and clean simple design. She has lived in the Cowichan Valley on Vancouver Island for 18 years.

Nancy’s process begins by hand dyeing wool roving then sculpting and manipulating it using a variety of felting techniques. The inspiration for her dye-pot is nature. The myriad of shades and depth of each colour is what she attempts to mimic with the dyeing process, never aiming for a solid colour. Nancy combines needle felting techniques with the ancient methods of wet felting to create her line of art influenced by her graphic design background and her love of myth and folklore.

www.nancdesigns.ca

Friday November 30, 2018

Looking is Touching: Plein Air Painting

WEEKEND TWO (2-day): June 29 – 30, 2019 Classes run from 9 am – 4 pm each day and students are welcome to stay late in their studio.

Looking is Touching: Plein Air Painting

This workshop will examine the phenomenon of looking as an extension of touch. Plein air paintings are tactile pictures that emulate things and places. Focusing and studying places through painting, the distance between ourselves and the subject dissolves and we enter a rapport with place.

There will be one lecture that briefly outlines the avant garde history of plein air painting and its possible implications in today’s context, along with hands-on demonstrations and individual instruction. We shall seek a place on the campus that offers a range of subject matter from human to non-human with emphasis on the human legacy or story of the place. We will paint together – learning from each other over two days sharing feedback, conversation and insight. The workshop will conclude with a group critique directed by the instructor for usefulness and succinctness.

This workshop requires that we spend the day at one location working on a single painting, then returning to the same location the next day to work upon the same painting. Please be prepared for variable weather and insects as well as being receptive to changing light and colour.

All levels welcome

STUDENT SUPPLY LIST (Click HERE): All students are responsible for bringing their own supplies.
COURSE COST: $291

Tuition includes lunches and daily snacks. Prices are listed in Canadian Dollars and are inclusive of all applicable taxes. An accommodation package is available in QUAD or DOUBLE occupancy and includes breakfast and dinner. Click here for further details.

Jeremy Herndl

Jeremy Herndl is a painter living in Victoria, BC. His work is in collections such as The Surrey Art Gallery, the City of Surrey, The University of Victoria, The Brucebo Foundation, Sweden, The Alberta Foundation for the Arts, The Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade and private and corporate collections around the world. He has done residencies at the Banff Centre, The Brucebo Residency in Visby, Sweden, Tombstone Territorial Park, Tomaszow-Mazowiecki, Poland and upcoming fellowship at the Vermont Studio Centre.

In the past few years Jeremy’s work has exhibited at Michael Gibson Gallery, (London, ON), The Surrey Art Centre, Open Space Society (Victoria, BC), The ODD Gallery, Dawson City, Yukon, Two Rivers Gallery, (Prince George, BC) and numerous group shows. Jeremy has taught workshops and courses at Emily Carr University, Kwantlen Polytechnic University, The Vancouver Island School of Art, The Yukon School of Visual Art and the Metchosin International Summer School of the Arts.

www.jeremyherndl.com

Workshops will not run until sufficient enrollment has been met. Please register before April 15th to avoid disappointment.

CONFIRMED: This workshop has met the required registration numbers and will be running.