Fall Weekend Session:
October 18-21, 2024
Workshops are open to serious students of all levels unless specified in course description; beginners welcome.
METALS – FALL WEEKEND
OCTOBER 18 – 21, 2024
Ashley Buchanan
Let’s Powder Coat It!
Students in this workshop will learn to create a clean, durable, and colorful finish on jewelry or other small metal objects through the industrial process of powder coating. During the weekend we will cover the basic methods of application, experiment with alternative processes, and discuss the equipment needed to assemble a personal powder-coating set-up. This workshop will provide students with a practical and accessible finishing option that can be easily integrated into any studio practice. Bring finished pieces, unfinished projects, and lots of metal objects to powder coat. Beginning students can work with pre-cut metal shapes, simple wire drawings, or found metal objects. Come ready to work and play! All levels. Lower metals studio.
Studio artist; teaching: Society for Contemporary Craft (Pittsburg), and The Art League (VA), Penland; multiple awards of excellence at high end craft shows around the US; exhibitions: Racine Art Museum (WI), Museum of Arts and Design (NYC), SOFA Chicago; publications: two 500 Series books (Lark Books), Metalsmith, American Craft (featured as short-listed artist for Emerging Voices Award).
ashleybuchananjewelry.com | @ashleybuchananjewelry
Enrollment opens May 1
PRINTMAKING – FALL WEEKEND
OCTOBER 18 – 21, 2024
Heinrich Toh
The Layered Monotype
In this all-level, beginner-friendly workshop, we will explore printmaking applications with layered monotypes. This easy, intuitive process has endless possibilities that will help you learn to work with color, shapes, and composition while printing on an etching press. Our goal will be to create complex, luscious layers filled with painterly brushstrokes, marks, repeated patterns, impressions, and embossments. We will skillfully use found objects like cardboard, doilies, bubble wrap, dried flowers, and leaves. Get inspired and create one-of-a-kind prints. All levels; a love of puzzle-solving recommended.
Studio artist; teaching: Kansas City Art Institute (MO), Arrowmont (TN), Penland, Pratt Fine Arts Center (WA), Oklahoma Fine Art Institute at Quartz Mountain; exhibitions: Lawrence Art Center (KS), Wing Luke Asian Museum (Seattle), Bellevue Art Museum (WA); collections: Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art (MO), Albrecht-Kemper Museum (MO), Truman Medical Center (MO), University Hospital of Cleveland, American Century Investments.
heinrichtoh.com | @heinrichtoh
Enrollment opens May 1
WOOD – FALL WEEKEND
OCTOBER 18 – 21, 2024
Jenna Goldberg
Bandsaw Boxes
Bandsaw boxes are a simple way to make wooden box structures without the burden of complicated joinery. Students will learn the basics of cutting, gluing, and manipulating the material. We will also explore simple surface design treatments such as image transfers, color and painting techniques, texture, and surface carving. Demonstrations will include the safe use of machinery and sharpening chisels and carving tools. Personal exploration of form, surface, and imagery will be encouraged. All levels.
Studio artist; teaching: Rhode Island School of Design, Arrowmont (TN), Haystack (ME), Anderson Ranch (CO), Penland; collections: Renwick Gallery (DC), Mint Museums (NC).
Enrollment opens May 1