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Class Details: Karen Weihs, a Charleston, SC native, started showcasing her paintings in the family restaurants before establishing a gallery in Charleston in 1995. She credits Franck Licciardi and Andrew Peters for her vision and love of painting and understanding of color. Karen is represented by John Collette Gallery in Highlands, NC, Premieres Gallery of Pawley’s Island, SC, Watson Gallery in Atlanta, GA and and is currently the “Artist in Residence” at the Heritage Grove Arcade Gallery in Asheville, NC. Pre-registration is required for this class. Students must register and pay in full 30 days prior to the workshop. This guarantees ample income to cover artist's travel expenses. Payment is non-refundable. Classes with visiting artists fill quickly so please sign up early by calling 970-728-3886.
Class Details: Pre-registration is required for this class. Students must register and pay in full 30 days prior to the workshop. This guarantees ample income to cover artist's travel expenses. Payment is non-refundable. Classes with visiting artists fill quickly so please sign up early by calling 970-728-3886.
Class Details: This course introduces participants to processes of working metals common to Asia. Harold will introduce students to mokume-gane, married metals, Japanese alloys and coloring processes. This five-day workshop is intensive! Students will alloy the metals to make mokume and pattern it, combining various colored metals into designs for rings, pins and earrings. Special metals will be available from the instructor. Bring hand tools if you have them. Educated in the United States, Denmark, Finland, Germany, Austria and Mexico, Harold O’Connor has been a Goldsmith and teacher for over 40 years. He is the author of The Jeweler’s Bench Reference and The Flexible Shaft Machine – Jewelry Techniques. He has facilitated over 200 workshops in 14 countries including Portugal, Japan, Korea, New Zealand, Canadian Artic and Peru. His works are in collections including the Goldsmith’s Hall, London; The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York and the Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C. Pre-registration is required for this class. Students must register and pay in full 30 days prior to the workshop. This guarantees ample income to cover artist's travel expenses. Payment is non-refundable. Classes with visiting artists fill quickly so please sign up early by calling 970-728-3886.
Class Details: This course introduces participants to various techniques that enhance the richness of metal surfaces. Students will learn the art of creasing, folding, hollow construction, reticulation, fine gold-over-sterling silver lamination and roller embossing. Efficient studio methods and flexible shaft machine uses will be taught. Gold and silver granulation will also be introduced. Space is limited so sign up early. Educated in the United States, Denmark, Finland, Germany, Austria and Mexico, Harold O’Connor has been a Goldsmith and teacher for over 40 years. He is the author of The Jeweler’s Bench Reference and The Flexible Shaft Machine – Jewelry Techniques. He has facilitated over 200 workshops in 14 countries including Portugal, Japan, Korea, New Zealand, Canadian Artic and Peru. His works are in collections including the Goldsmith’s Hall, London; The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York and the Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C. Pre-registration is required for this class. Students must register and pay in full 30 days prior to the workshop. This guarantees ample income to cover artist's travel expenses. Payment is non-refundable. Classes with visiting artists fill quickly so please sign up early by calling 970-728-3886.
Class Details: During the first weekend of the workshop, there will be a demonstration of wheel and hand-building techniques as well as the formulation and firing of new raku glazes in preparation for the second Pre-registration is required for this class. Students must register and pay in full 30 days prior to the workshop. This guarantees ample income to cover artist's travel expenses. Payment is non-refundable. Classes with visiting artists fill quickly so please sign up early by calling 970-728-3886.
Class Details: Pastels offer a unique bridge between drawing and painting. For a painter who loves color, the directness of the heavily pigmented pastel stick to paper is intoxicating. Doug Dawson will help you discover and develop your own personal style. Each day begins with a demonstration, illustrating one of the two basic approaches to painting. Doug provides a continuous monologue explaining his thought process in pastel painting. After the demonstration, students are given the remaining time to try their hand at the skills illustrated. He also provides individual instruction for each student based upon need. Doug Dawson is a celebrated member of the American Watercolor Society, the Pastel Society of the Southwest, The Knickerbocker Artists (New York) and the Pastel Society of America. His work has been included in prestigious exhibitions with the Charles and Emma Frye Art Museum, Seattle, WA (a one person show); the Denver Art Museum; the Heritage Museum, Norfolk, Virginia; the John F. Kennedy Center in Washington, DC; the Hunter Museum of American Art Chattanooga, TN and the Societe Des Pastellistes de France International Exhibition Palais Rameau, Lille, France. Pre-registration is required for this class. Students must register and pay in full 30 days prior to the workshop. This guarantees ample income to cover artist's travel expenses. Payment is non-refundable. Classes with visiting artists fill quickly so please sign up early by calling 970-728-3886.
Four Days, Thursday 4 p.m. - Sunday noon Just in time for the splendor of fall colors, Dave Edwards, famous for his Kazakh Eagle Hunter series for National Geographic Magazine, will lead a three-day photographic workshop. Dynamic compositions, light, subject content, and the artistic elements of an image will be his main topics. There also will be an emphasis on changing photographic habits, seeing with new eyes and experimentation. Starting with an introduction and slide show on Thursday evening, the workshop will continue for two full days of shooting and a lecture on Friday and Saturday, and end on Sunday at noon after more shooting and critique. Dave Edwards has been a freelance photographer for over 20 years and a river guide in the Grand Canyon for 30 years. He has worked as a photographer and guide in Africa, Alaska, Chile, Bolivia, China, Mongolia, Nepal, Pakistan, Russia, and throughout the Southwestern U.S. His work has appeared in numerous national and international publications. His focus is on the documentary photographic essay. You can see his work at: www.daveedwards.com. Pre-registration is required for this class. Students must register and pay in full 30 days prior to the workshop. This guarantees ample income to cover artist's travel expenses. Payment is non-refundable. Classes with visiting artists fill quickly so please sign up early by calling 970-728-3886.
Past Visiting Artist Workshops Include: June 24 – 27 , 2008 July 7 – 10 , 2008 Susan X. Billings, Mixed Media Collage & Watercolor |
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