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Summer 2012 Preview

 

Complete information will be posted in early January.

Note: Summer registration information has not been updated. Please do not send in applications yet.

Session Dates

Session 1: May 27 - June 8
Session 2: June 10 - 22
Session 3: June 24 - July 6
Session 4: July 8 - 20
Session 5: July 22 - August 7
Session 6: August 12 - 24
Session 7: August 26 - September 1

 

Books & Paper

1 Paul Wong - Visual Paper/Visual Text

2 Jody Williams - Boxmaking Intensive

2 Barb Tetenbaum - Intuition & Chance: A Playful Approach to Printing Books on the Vandercook (letterpress studio)

3 Frank Hamrick - Papermaking & Handmade Books
4 Bea Nettles - Cooking the Books

4 Matthew Shlian - Paper Sculpture (print studio)
5 Kathleen O'Connell - Paper/Book/Object
6 Laura Wait - Writing as Image: Exposed Sewing

6 Macy Chadwick - The Layered Letterpress Book (letterpress studio)
7 Yukari Hayashida - Japanese Bookbinding & More

Clay

1 Dan Anderson- Altered Pots
1 Israel Davis - Objects & Images
2 Kevin Snipes - Drawing Conclusions
2 Kelly & Kyle Phelps - Figure Narrative: Clay as Process
3 Catherine White - Woodfiring: A Studio Stew
3 Deborah Horrell & Tom Spleth - Fork in the Road: Clay & Glass
4 Martina Lantin - Pots in Process
4 Arthur González - The Metaphorical Portrait
5 James Watkins- Raku, Saggar & Throwing Large
5 MaPo Kinnord-Payton - Low-Relief Tile Production
6 Jim Lawton - Shape Shift: The Pot
6 Tom Bartel - Assembling the Figure
7 Kate Missett - Printing on Clay
7 Jeff Zamek - Easy Glaze Calculation

Drawing & Painting

1 Miles Bair - Painting with Gold
2 Erin Goodwin-Guerrero - Mixed Media on Paper
3 Michael Dixon & Beverly McIver - Contemporary Portrait Painting
4 Pinkney Herbert - Freedom to Paint
5 Susan Goethel Campbell - Drawing: Points of Departure
6 John Beerman - Busting the Cliché: Depth in the Landscape

6 Holly Roberts - Solving Problems: Collage & Paint (photo studio)

7 Nicholas Raynolds - Portrait Drawing in Pencil

Glass

1 Rick Beck - Slump-Cast Glass
1 Andre Gutgesell - Sculpting with the Flame: Abstract Expression
2 Einar & Jamex de la Torre - Liberal Bias
2 David Willis - Make What You Like
3 Giles Bettison - Inside & Outside the Square
3 Jon Chapman - Building on Curiosity
4 Pearl Dick - Sculpting Hot Glass
4 Kate Fowle Meleney - Advanced Decorative Techniques for Beads
5 Beth Lipman & Leo Tecosky - Icon/Our Con: Exploration of Imagery
5 Jacob & Arlo Fishman - Glass, Gas & Electrification
6 Richard Meitner & Michael Rogers - So to Speak
6 Matt Eskuche - In Place, Out of Place
7 Janusz Pozniak - Glass with Class
7 Shane Fero - Survey of Forms in Soft & Borosilicate Glass

Iron

1 L. Japheth Howard - Ignite, Reignite
2 Shawn Lovell - Fundamental Blacksmithing Skills
3 James Viste - A Worthy Vessel
4 David Court - Early American Hardware: A Study in Frugality
5 David Burtt - Buiding from Blacksmithing Foundations
6 Jon Shearin - By Any Means Necessary
7 Jim Masterson - Jumpstart to Public Art

Metals

1 Kristina Glick - Sumptous Surfaces: Enameling & Electroplating
1 Natasha Seedorf - Small Smithing: Steel from 1/4” Down
2 Kristin Mitsu Shiga - The Language of Jewelry
2 Michael Gayk - Raising a Little Containment
3 David Clemons - Beguiled: Brooching Technique
3 Jeffrey Clancy - Tankards to Teaspoons
4 Richard Elaver - Making Eyeglasses
4 Jana Brevick - Melt

5 Suzanne Pugh - Casting Call!

5 Caroline Gore - The Intentionally Ambigious Narrative
6 Daniel DiCaprio - Wood Jewelry

6 James D.W. Cooper - Chasing & Repoussé: Drawing with Hammers & Punches
7 Joanna Gollberg - Rings!
7 Hiroko Yamada - Setting Stones

Photo

1 Lisa Frank - Discovering the Natural World through Technology
2 Jim Stone - Photographing Strangers
3 Neal Rantoul - The Expressive Landscape
4 Maxine Payne - Fabulous, It’s Film!
5 Heather F. Wetzel - Copper Plate Photogravure
6 No photography class. The studio will be used for Holly Roberts's Solving Problems: Collage and Paint.
7 Michelle Bates - Toying with Photography

Print & Letterpress

1 Susan Webster - Making Prints Mostly Without a Press
1 Steve Miller & Mary Wehner - Visual Letterpress
2 Dennis B. O’Neil - Woodcut to Screenprint: Traditional & Contemporary Applications
2 Barb Tetenbaum - A Playful Approach to Printing Books on the Vandercook
3 Phil Sanders - Dry Point & Spit Bite

3 John Horn & Beth Lambert - Exploring Letterpress: A Class for Beginners
4 Matthew Shlian - Paper Sculpture
4 Laura Richens - Letterpress & Relief Prints
5 Goedele Peeters - Playing with Possibilities in Woodcut (print & letterpress studios)

6 Ina Kaur - Variables Multiply
6 Macy Chadwick - The Layered Letterpress Book
7 Flo Hatcher - Relief & Intaglio with Water-Based Ink
7 Chandler O’Leary & Jessica Spring - Letterpress: Old Dog, New Tricks

Textiles

1 Carmen Grier & Heather Allen-Swarttouw - Magnificent Textured Cloth
1 Suzanne Halvorson - Introduction to Weaving
2 Charlotte Kwon - Natural Dyes
2 Peggy Hart - Dishtowels to Damask: Weave Structure Families
3 Rachel Miller - Wearable/Sculptural
3 Marguerite Jay Gignoux & Susie Wilde - Writing and Illustrating for Children
4 Natalie Chanin - Explorations in Hand Sewing
4 Patricia Hickman - Structure & Skin
5 Arlene Burke-Morgan - If Wishes Were Horses
5 Hillary Steel - Woven Inheritance: Ikat, Shibori & Handweaving
6 Victoria May - Sculptural Cloth
6 Michael Radyk - The Rug: Color, Surface & Structure
7 Lisa Sorrell - Introduction to Leather
7 Robin Johnston - Weaving as Journaling

Wood

1 Peter Schlebecker - Lamp Making & Design
2 Yoav Liberman - Modern Campaign Furniture
3 Richard Prisco - Screw It! Alternative Joinery
4 Hunt Clark - Alternative Methods of Carving
5 Wade Smith - Fundamentals of Boat Building
6 Wayne Henderson & Michael Peyton - Guitar Building
7 Tom Shields - Woodworking Without the Lumberyard

Specials

3 Marguerite Jay Gignoux & Susie Wilde - Writing and Illustrating for Children (weaving studio)
3 Deborah Horrell & Tom Spleth - Fork in the Road: Clay & Glass (clay studio)

7 Lisa Sorrell - Introduction to Leather (surface design studio)

7 Jim Masterson - Jump Start to Public Art (iron studio)