2012 CLASSES - July 16 - July 27
Online registration starts April 29 at 12:00 PM!
Get the early bird special before June 10!
• Students must be 18 years or older.
• Easy online registration on this site or with Cabrillo Extension.
• Small class size - limited to 16 students.
• A 10% service fee for all refund requests. No refunds given after July 3.
• Workshops will be held in the new Visual and Performing Arts Complex.
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Macy Chadwick Combine your ideas, influences and writing into a new unified artist’s book project in this exciting workshop with Macy Chadwick. By looking at inspiring examples and book demonstrations, students will build a basic vocabulary of book structures that will include accordions, simple pop-ups and sewn bindings. Using these structures as a platform, students will then create complex artist's books that utilize different formats in combination. Students will examine the way creative content relates to dynamic structure and how to successfully combine the two into cohesive and successful books. In-class activities will include mark-making techniques, writing exercises, and working with a variety of materials. Some prior experience is helpful but not necessary. Macy Chadwick received an MFA in Book Arts and Printmaking from The University of the Arts in Philadelphia and assisted book artist Julie Chen at Flying Fish Press in Berkeley for three years. She currently creates books and prints in her letterpress studio in Oakland, and teaches classes at Academy of Art University in San Francisco, San Francisco Art Institute, and San Francisco Center for the Book. Her work is in prominent collections in the U.S. and abroad, including the Victoria and Albert Museum, Yale University Special Collections, and University of Washington, Seattle. You can see more of her work at macychadwick.com.
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Rocky Lewycky Potters and handbuilders will investigate the expressive qualities of different clay bodies and finishes in this workshop. Each type of clay offers a distinctive sensation that can best describe a form and/or idea. Participants will have the option to create the following processes: porcelain with mica flake inclusion, porcelain paper clay with cellulose fiber, the inclusion of feldspar chip, grog, and sand in both stoneware and porcelain, and a Greek style terra-sigillata for low-fire work. Alternative finishing techniques to be explored include the use of ferric chloride, pit/barrel firing, and naked raku. Rocky Lewycky received a MFA in Ceramics from the University of South Carolina and a BA from San Diego State University. He has been featured in museum shows, as well as gallery exhibits of contemporary sculpture, installation, and performance throughout the country, including The New Us Project, Santa Cruz, The Long Now, Underground Gallery of Contemporary Art, Santa Fe, and I Am Already Dead: Vessels for Time, Robert Nichols Gallery, Santa Fe. Rocky is an Instructor at Foothill College and Monterey Peninsula College and a recent recipient of a Rydell Fellowship.
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Celeste Baross Our lives contain our histories which contain the stories that provide meaning and substance. This class will focus on developing the imagery and technique used to best convey our ideas and stories. The source for the visual narratives may be found in our personal experiences, thoughts, myths and dreams. In keeping with the unique nature of personal narrative, these ideas may be depicted realistically or metaphorically and may be conveyed expressively or descriptively. The class will work with acrylic on canvas or paper, medium to large scale. Celeste Baross is director and teacher at Santa Cruz Studio School which she founded in 1993 to offer painting and drawing classes to children and young adults. She received her BA and BFA from U.C. Santa Cruz in 1976 and 1980 respectively. Her work has been exhibited locally and nationally. In 2011, she was a nominee for the Anonymous Was A Woman national award, and in 2007 for the Eduardo Carrillo Prize given by the San Jose Museum of Art.
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Sayumi Youkuchi This workshop explores ‘sound’ as an inspiration for new forms in contemporary jewelry and metalsmithing. Through a series of exercises with small audio recording modules (provided), students will experiment with the possibilities for wearable objects that reference the physical and metaphorical properties of the sound that surround us. While some technical material will be covered (cold connection techniques, for example) the workshop course will not focus on specific jewelry-making techniques, but rather on the process of working with new ideas and developing a personal voice. Sayumi Yokouchi was born and raised in Tokyo, Japan. She began her practice in metalsmithing at Cabrillo College in California. She earned her BFA in Metal Arts from California College of the Arts, followed by an MFA in Metal Arts from State University of New York in New Paltz. She has taught at the Rhode Island School of Design, Kutztown University, State University of New York, New Paltz, and Penland School of Craft. She currently teaches at 92nd St Y and New York University in New York City. Exhibitions include: The Museum of Arts and Design (New York), SOFA Chicago and New York, Society of Arts and Crafts (Boston, MA). Publications include: American Craft, Metalsmith, and Lark Books’ jewelry series.
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Karen Kunc This intensive, exciting workshop will awaken the possibilities of the woodcut printing process for the beginning and advanced printmaker. This approach is not technically tradition-bound...but inventive, with contemporary, creative methods, that can be spontaneous, simple and direct. This expressive medium will be introduced and explored through demonstrations and discussions of cutting techniques, oil-base ink and modifiers, and printing by hand as well as using the press. Participants will go from designing their images and cutting blocks, to printing several projects using a variety of methods and individual discoveries. Karen Kunc is Cather Professor of Art at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln where she has taught since 1983. She received her BFA from UNL, and her MFA from Ohio State University. Her recent solo exhibitions include: Davidson Galleries, Seattle; Gallery Piano Nobile, Krakow, Poland; Blackburn 20/20, New York City. She has received awards in exhibitions in Poland, France, Japan and throughout the U.S. She has taught numerous workshops around the world and served as a visiting artist to over 100 institutions, including: the Academy of Fine Art, Helsinki, Finland, University of Tennessee Knoxville, University of Colorado, and Pyramid Atlantic, Washington DC.
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Carrie Grissim To enroll in this workshop, students must also be enrolled in Karen Kunc’s Color Woodcut. The Open Lab will provide additional opportunity to expand on woodcut projects, under the supervision of Instructor, Carrie Grissim. No formal instruction will be provided, however professional help will be available to assist students. Carrie Grissim is a highly accomplished printmaker with experience in a wide variety of print media. Working closely with the MPC Printmakers on the Monterey Peninsula, Carrie has extensive experience as a studio technician. Her work has been show in art centers and galleries throughout California and Hawaii.
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Martha Casanave The earliest experimenters with light-sensitive materials in the 18th century, and the early photographers of the 19th century made cameraless imagery, which is now experiencing a revival. This hand-on class, in addition to providing a brief review of the history of cameraless photography, will introduce lumen prints, chemigrams, cliché verre, cyanotype photograms, reversed cyanotype photograms, dry plate tintype photograms, and other processes. The class will be largely experimental, with no “good” or “bad,” just lots of fun! Martha Casanave graduated from the Monterey Institute of International Studies with a degree in Russian Language and Literature and began her working life as a translator in Washington, DC. She has been an exhibiting and working photographer and educator on the Monterey Peninsula for over thirty years. She was awarded the Imogen Cunningham Photography Award for her portraiture (1979) and also was a 1989 recipient of the Koret Israel Prize. Her book Past Lives-- Photographs by Martha Casanave was published by Godine in 1991. Her second book, Beware of Dog, was released by the Center for Photographic Art in 2002. Her most recent book (exclusively pinhole) called Explorations Along an Imaginary Coastline, was published by Hudson Hills Press in 2006. Casanave’s photographs are included in many major collections, such as the Boston Museum of Fine Arts, the Art Institute of Chicago, the Stanford Museum, the Bibliotheque Nationale, the J. Paul Getty Museum , and the Graham Nash private collection.). Casanave teaches Beginning Photography, Portraiture, and Alternative Photographic Processes at Cabrillo College in Santa Cruz, and Monterey Peninsula College. She also teaches workshops and Master Classes nationally and internationally..
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Steve Jordan This workshop will explore Tools as Art. On a daily bases we encounter numerous things we grab, hold, push, pull, and turn. Each is designed for the hand but none of them are made by hand. Here’s your chance to change that. From paint brushes to jewelers saw frames we’ll explore materials, construction techniques of the tools we use, with a particular emphasis on form and aesthetics. Designing sculptural solutions to functional form will be encouraged. Steve Jordan works with Steinert Industries making glass blowing tools for both the craft/art and industrial glass fields. He spent 4 years working for Rose Iron works, an industrial forge shop manufacturing tongs for the steel industry, as well as producing architectural projects for private and public buildings. Steve has taught work shops and classes at Kent State and Akron Universities as well as workshops throughout the country and, most recently have complete several large collaborative public art projects. Steve received his B.F.A. from Kansas State University, and an M.F.A. Southern Illinois University-Carbondale.
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Margaret Niven In this drawing workshop students will experience the development of imagery and ideas by working in series. Working in series will allow students to follow paths from earlier work, consider alternate directions and integrate new ideas encountered along the way. We will consider several approaches for the generation of ideas and imagery and work with various media on paper. Materials will include charcoal, pastel, ink, graphite, gesso, and acrylic paint. Margaret Niven’s works on paper explore repetitive mark-making,color, shape and patterns inspired by the abundant layers and structures of the natural world. Working in series, she develops metaphors that tangle and untangle as they flow from one work to another. Margaret has taught art classes and workshops in the Monterey Bay area for over twenty-five years. She is currently on the faculties of Monterey Peninsula College and West Valley College. She received her MFA in the practice of art from UC Berkeley in 1982. A resident of Santa Cruz since 1983, Margaret now lives and works in the Artspace Tannery Lofts at the Tannery Art Center in Santa Cruz.
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