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Classes are open to serious students of all levels unless specified in course description; beginners welcome.
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Session Two: June 8-20
Clare Dolan--Puppet Laboratory
From gigantic effigies to miniature toy theater, what exactly are puppets, dolls, and performing objects, and what kinds of vocabularies do they create? What happens when the puppet replaces the human body? How can paintings and sculptures dance? We will attempt to answer these questions as we cover Luddite puppet-building techniques emphasizing simple materials, organic substances, and trash. We will build, move, experiment, and create a “happening” as the culmination of the class. All levels. Code 02tbDirector, performer, former member of Bread and Puppet Theater (VT); visiting artist/guest lecturer: School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Columbia University (NYC), Rhode Island School of Design, Nana Projects Parade School (MD); founder of the Museum of Everyday Life (VT).
This class is part of the special session titled The Body.
Session Four: July 6-18
Benares Angeley & Samantha Fields--You Are Here: Mapping Our Stories
In a class specifically designed for teachers, participants will use traditional and nontraditional techniques in fibers, printmaking, and bookmaking to explore and map stories using their life history as subject matter. Through exploration of the landscape, journaling, and group discussions, students will investigate how to use the idea of personal mapping for themselves and the students in their classrooms. All levels. Code 04tb
Benares: studio artist, musician, teacher in the Literacy Through Art program at the Asheville Art Museum (NC), teacher at Cloth Fiber Workshop (NC); former Penland core student. Samantha: mixed-media artist and teacher at Chester College (MA), Massachusetts College of Art, and Gordon College (MA); Artist Resource Trust grant; work in many exhibitions and reviewed in Boston Globe and New York Times.
Benares Angeley
Samantha FieldsSession Seven: August 24-30
Jim Gallucci--Public Art: Making It Happen
This class will help artists develop the skills needed to apply for and develop public art projects. We will cover finding projects; submitting proposals; developing the proposal with detailed drawings, budget information, and models; communicating with clients; planning for contingencies; and managing the production, budget, and timelines of the project. This class is for artists working in any medium who are interested in moving into the realm of public art. It will take place in the iron studio. All levels. Code 07iStudio artist; public art commissions: First Union Commons (Charlotte, NC), North Carolina Botanical Garden, Town of Cary (NC), Rockville Center Park (MD), North Carolina Zoological Park, The Green (Charlotte, NC), North Carolina Art in Public Buildings Program. jimgalluccisculptor.com
