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Spring One-Week Session I Classes are open to serious students of all levels unless specified in course description; beginners welcome. Glass 
Elizabeth Ryland Mears Elizabeth Ryland Mears
-Glass at the Bench Torch In this introduction to working with glass in the mesmerizing flame of a bench torch, students will use their own creativity and effort to transform hard, industrial borosilicate glass into something quite different. Bring a spirit of adventure and a willingness to try solid sculpting and blowing with clear and colored rods and tubes. Beginning level. Code S01GB Studio artist; teaching: Touchstone (PA), Pittsburgh Glass Center, Washington Sculpture Center (DC); exhibitions: Chicago Cultural Center, SOFA Chicago, Craft Alliance (St. Louis); author of Flameworking (Lark Books), author of a chapter in The Penland Book of Glass (Lark Books); collections: Lowe Art Museum (FL), Racine Art Museum (WI). LETTERPRESS 
Paul Moxon Paul Moxon - Letterpress Fundamentals This intensive class will teach you how to set lead and wood type and to print using a Vandercook proof press. The objective is simply to lay ink on paper with the best technical results. Guided by the instructor, you will create individual projects to develop a sensitivity toward the tools and materials of letterpress printing. Come to class with brief texts and whimsey. All levels. Code S01L Nationally known workshop instructor; authority on Vandercook presses; proprietor of Fameorshame Press. Metals James Thurman & Sandie Zilker - Colormania: Hue & You 
James Thurman & Sandie Zilker Starting with your own personal color palette, a dynamic duo of innovative instructors will teach, tantalize, and tickle your design senses into a frenzy of jewelry-making creativity through a mix and match of materials and techniques. Etched, roll-printed, and patterned metal will be combined with laminated paper (mokume-kami), layered/carved/formed acrylic, cast resin, papier maché, and polymer clay. Pencils, markers, and transfers will be used on metal and other surfaces. Cold-joining and handmade findings will complement the colorful cleverness. All levels. Code S01MB James: coordinator of 3-D foundations and faculty in metals and jewelry at the University of North Texas; workshop teaching: Arrowmont (TN), Touchstone (PA). |
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