RED DEER COLLEGE SUMMER COURSE: FIGURATIVE SCULPTURE

by | Apr 24, 2010 | Uncategorized

FIGURATIVE SCULPTURE: REAL LIFE TO INSPIRE ART
Instructor: Sharon Moore-Foster
July 12 to July 16, 2010
Experience Level: all skill levels welcome
Course Fee: $525 + $26.25 GST
Monday to Friday, 9 am to 4 pm, Room 954

Working from a model, you will learn techniques to accurately create figurative sculpture. You will begin by creating gestural clay pieces from short poses, to help you develop an eye for the “life and breath” that makes figurative sculpture such an inviting challenge. Longer poses will follow, with directed observation of anatomy, proportion, sculptural shape, and balance will allow you to create more detailed pieces. Throughout the week you will experience drawing for sculpture and receive individual guidance on form and expression, sculptural dynamics, surface handling and closure of your pieces.

Red Deer College

University of Manitoba – Ceramics Summer Session

by | Apr 21, 2010 | Uncategorized






In case you haven’t heard, the open studios are on for the summer of 2010 at University of Manitoba. They’re excited to announce the resident artist lineup for this year includes Chris Pancoe, Xanthe Isbister, and Koi Neng Liew during the month of May, and Melissa Mencini for the first two weeks of June. As always, the open studio promises to be a full schedule of serious clay work, slide presentations, cook outs, and kiln firings!

Ceramics Open Studio provide access to the School of Art studios for self-directed artistic study and practice. Participants require a working knowledge of ceramics equipment and processes, including firing. If you have less than two years of experience, permission from the Ceramics Coordinator is required (see contact information below). Fees $300.00 plus GST per 2-week session $900.00 plus GST per 6-week session Fee includes limited basic glaze materials and limited kiln firing (wood kiln firing costs are extra). Raw materials for mixing clay and plaster are available for purchase. For information and/or permission to register call 474-9560 or [email protected]. There will a number of visiting artists-in-residence at the open studio. In addition to working with visiting artists in the studio, each will give a formal lecture/seminar on their work. Xanthe Isbister (May 3- 21) – her current work explores the psychological significance and impact the natural environment has on human identity. Xanthe received her MFA from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln in 2008, and her BFA Honors at the University of Manitoba in 2004. Koi Neng Liew (May 3-21) – the concepts of his characters are derived from the examination of fascinating individuals he has met in recent years. He transforms each aspect of their personality; exaggerated proportions, obscure objects and gestures personify each characters disposition. Koi Neng Liew, originally from Singapore, received his MFA from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, and his BFA from Alfred University. Melisa Mencini (May 31-June11) – is a ceramic artist living and working in Helena, Montana. She has held positions at University of Washington, the Archie Bray Foundation, and was most recently a resident artist at the Ceramic Workshop in Jingdezhen, China. Melissa holds degrees from Bowling Green State University (BFA, 2000) and Southern Illinois University at Carbondale (MFA, 2003). Chris Pancoe (May 3-21) – born and raised in Winnipeg, Chris is a graduate of the UM School of Art (BFA) and holds an MFA from the University of Minnesota. For the past ten years, Chris has been spending summers as a wilderness guide in northern Manitoba. This close tie with nature has had a profound influence on his work, which often involves animal imagery juxtaposed with human inventions to give a humorous and sometimes dark look at the line where urban life and wildlife collide. For information on registration and fee payment, please contact: Summer Session Web: umanitoba.ca/summer click Feature Programs Phone: (204)474-8008/6963 E-mail: [email protected]

Summer Ceramics Courses @ Harvard

by | Apr 21, 2010 | Uncategorized

Enroll Now for Summer Courses!


 Summer 2010 Registration Forms are available on-line.

To participate in one or more of the many creative experiences presented this Summer term, and for any questions, please email Shawn Panepinto or call 617.495.8680. Summer Courses

Hand Built Forms and Structures
June 1 – July 20, Tuesdays 6:30 – 9:30 pm
8 weeks/8 sessions: Whether you’re interested in making utilitarian wares, sculptures, or tiles, hand building is limited only by your imagination. Techniques include coil building, slab construction, simple press molding, and various combinations. Anything is possible.
Instructor: Forrest Snyder

Mosaics
June 1 – 29, Tuesdays 1:00 – 4:00 pm
5 weeks/5 sessions: Create mosaics with traditional Italian glass smalti. This course offers an in-depth experience of design, fabrication, and mounting of glass mosaics. Various public and private commissions will be highlighted.
Instructor: Lisa Houck

Handle This!
June 2 – 30, Wednesdays 9:30 am – 12:30 pm
5 weeks/5 sessions: Thrown and altered, or hand built, mugs, casseroles, pitches, and teapots are unique forms which all require special consideration when adding handles. Variations in forming, placing for function, and aesthetics will be explored in depth. The right tuck in a pot can make the prefect place for a handle.
Instructor: Delanie Wise

Exploring Clay
June 2 – 30, Wednesdays 6:30 – 9:30 pm OR
July 14 – Aug.11 Wednesdays 6:30 – 9:30 pm
5 weeks/5 sessions: You are invited to learn the ways of the wheel and hand building. Various decorative surface techniques and glazing will be highlighted. This is a great opportunity to try clay, providing an excellent foundation for further exploration. For those who have previous experience, instruction will be tailored for them.
Instructor: Stephanie Young

Throw Bigger! Better! Taller!
June 7 – July 26, Mondays 6:30 pm – 9:30 pm
8 weeks/8 sessions: First time throwers can gain foundation skills for throwing good solid pots. More advanced students will be instructed on special techniques to enlarge their throwing repertoire. All will enjoy making pots bigger! Better! Taller!
Instructor: Wayne Fuerst

It’s a Cover-Up
June 24 – Aug. 12, Thursdays 6:30 – 9:30 pm
8 weeks/8 sessions: The session focuses on making hand built, and thrown lidded forms that fit the pot’s function and aesthetics; ranging from simple jars to elaborate casseroles. Both experienced and new-to-clay students will be challenged to create a successful “cover-up”.
Instructor: Denny McLaughlin

Tile Murals: Design and Construction
July 5 – 28, Mondays and Wednesdays 2:00 pm – 5:00 pm
4 weeks/8 sessions: Explore an exciting range of mathematical concepts integral to making tiles and murals. Participants will learn new techniques and design solutions while working, invaluable for art educators developing projects for art classes at all levels. Graduate credit eligible through Framingham State College.
Instructor: Wasma’a Chorbachi

Where did that come from?
July 7 – Aug. 4 (no class 7/28), Wednesdays 12:00 – 1:30 pm
4 sessions (no class 7/28): This informal class will feature weekly 90-minute slide presentations representing work by contemporary ceramic artists with an eye toward showing the progression and development of style. Occasional critiques will engage students and offer opportunities for open discussion.
Instructor: Shawn Panepinto

Ocarinas: Making Musical History
July 13 – Aug. 10, Tuesdays 9:30 am – 12:30 pm
5 weeks/5 sessions: These whistle-flute like instruments date back thousands of years, being important to both Chinese and Mesoamerican cultures. Artist and musician Kathi Tighe leads the construction of both single note and multiple note ocarinas. Special emphasis given to raku firing and instrument tuning after firing.
Instructor: Kathi Tighe

Printing on Clay
July 20 – Aug. 12, Tuesdays and Thursdays 1:00 – 4:00 pm
4 weeks/8 sessions: A variety of printing techniques will be explored as a means of personal expression. Techniques include mono-printing, silk screening, stenciling, creating water-slide decals, embossing, and relief printing from plaster slabs onto clay. Historic and contemporary examples will provide inspiration.
Instructor: Kathy King

Independent Study
8-week and 11-week sessions only: Self directed work, for those who have previously enrolled in a class at the Ceramics Program and are capable of processing their own work; includes access to opportunities to participate in firing workshops and attend lectures by visiting artists.

Firing Workshops

Wood Firing: Green Fire, Smokeless Wood Kiln with Kusakabe, Masakazu. July 9 – 13th.
Saggar Firing: Painting with Fire with Pao-Fei Yang. July 10, 24, 31, Aug. 1, 2.
Raku Firing: Playing with Fire with Kathi Tighe. July 12, 29.
Soda Firing: Spray the Glaze through the Flames with Crystal Ribich. TBA

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Office for the Arts at Harvard, Harvard University

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Graduate program opportunity

by | Apr 15, 2010 | Uncategorized

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The School of Art, University of Manitoba, is pleased to announce a call for applicants to its new Master of Fine Arts program that commences September 2010.

This program is a two-year, fulltime studio practice degree that emphasizes intensive re­search and the expressive development afforded by concentrated work. Areas of focus include: ceramics, drawing, graphic design, painting, photography, printmaking, sculpture, and video, and the opportunity also exists for an interdisciplinary option within these areas, or with another discipline from another faculty at the University of Manitoba. The program culminates with a written thesis and exhibition.

Established in 1913, the School of Art is located at the geographic centre of Canada in Winnipeg, a city that offers a culturally diverse environment with an outward looking engagement with the global community. Students enjoy a school and community that has produced nationally and internation­ally acclaimed artists.

The School’s faculty includes fourteen fulltime studio professors and five art history profes­sors, each recognized in their individual field of research and practice. The School occupies three buildings on the University’s Fort Garry Campus: the FitzGerald Building and Annex, the Art Barn and the Ceramics/Sculpture building. Studios and lab spaces in these facilities are equipped with specialized equipment to support the various disciplines of the school. The FitzGerald building provides digital media labs, a video production studio, an art history re­search and study centre, a faculty resource centre and a wireless network for students and fac­ulty. Here, Gallery One One One presents work of historical importance at a national level and houses the School of Art Permanent Collection and the FitzGerald Study Collection.

In 2011 the School will take possession of a new 60,000 sq. f.t. stand alone structure that will offer state of the art facilities for the gallery as well as digital and studio research practices to students and faculty alike. They will have access to digital technologies and upgrades space for collaboration, experimentation and research, including animation and advanced computer-aided expression.

Deadline for applications: For this first intake, the School will accept applications until June 1, 2010.

For more information and application instructions, please visit our website: umanitoba.ca/schools/art/

Or contact:
Donna Jones,
Graduate Program Manager
[email protected]
Tel 204.474-8980
School of Art
203 FitzGerald Building
University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, MB R3T 2N2 Canada

Online Design Classes via Designboom

by | Mar 8, 2010 | Uncategorized



examining the origins of today’s
most common / popular design objects
and asking how we can improve them
or how they have been re-interpreted.

from its packaging to the surroundings in which it’s consumed and everything in between. this course gives you a good taste of design in the food sector…



youth and middle age are for fulfilling
desires and duties, when a person is spiritually ready, they allow the young to
replace them, in power positions. it means
the person spends more time in
philosophical pursuits and begin an inward
journey, a cultural practice of moving to greater truth.

lesson list online soon

enrollment for will be available
one month prior to course start date.
For more info check out the website here.