CLASSES
STUDIO ARTS
SESSION ONE
All Studio Art classes meet MTWTHF, 9:00AM - 4:25PM
Ken Bova Art 40EM/Section 59589 Experi-Metal: Jewelry Inspirations, Ideas, and Applications
Color, collage, assemblage, and traditional jewelry processes will be combined with play and experimentation to develop inspirations, and practical applications for making jewelry. We'll cover tool technology, techniques, and construction methods to manipulate metal and other material in creating quick and effective results. Processes including riveting, tying, stitching, linking, forming, pinning and setting mechanics will be employed to tease out one-of-a-kind treasures-to-wear. Students will come away with a small set of tools, a whole bunch of experimental pieces and one souvenir work.
Ken Bova is a studio jeweler who lives and works in the historic smelter town of Anaconda, Montana in a home he shares with his wife, dog, and four cats. He taught as adjunct assistant professor in the jewelry metals program at Montana State University for over 20 years. Other teaching includes the Penland, Haystack, and John Campbell schools and numerous workshops nationwide. He has served as president of the Society of North American Goldsmiths and his work is in the collections of the Smithsonian National Art Museum, The Tacoma Art Museum, and the Racine Art Museum, among others.
Tiffany Schmierer Art 40CSD/Section 59586 Clay Surfaces: Depth, Design and Imagery
This workshop will explore three-dimensional forms in clay and surface treatments using low-fire materials. A painterly approach to developing surfaces will be encouraged. Methods that create depth, design and imagery will be explored through texture, brush marks, resist methods, and transfer techniques. Don’t miss this opportunity to let your color imagination soar.
Tiffany Schmierer received her MFA from San Francisco State University. She currently teaches ceramics at SFSU, Skyline College, and Merritt College. Her work has been exhibited in regional and national exhibitions, receiving special recognition including the award of Best in Show at the California Clay Competition. Schmierer’s complex sculptures reflect upon relationships observed in the environment and in popular culture. She uses a collage-like process of layering between two and three dimensions using form and color, construction and arrangement, idea and intuition to complete multifaceted works.
Beverly Rayner Art 40FOB/Section 59591 Mixing it Up: Found Object Sculpture
Delve into an inquisitive investigation of ideas through the creative mixing of found objects with other media. Three-dimensional artworks will be built around intriguing objects that suggest a story, stir up a memory, or spark a psychological reaction. Exploring innovative approaches to using materials will open a vast repertoire of possibilities beyond typical art materials and this workshop will inspire you to see beyond the ordinary to reveal surprising associations within everyday objects.
Beverly Rayner received her B.F.A. from San Jose State University, and is currently a part time lecturer there. Her extensive exhibition history includes shows at the Otaru Municipal Art Museum in Otaru, Japan, the San Jose Museum of Art, the Berkeley Art Museum, the Museum of Art and History in Santa Cruz, the Monterey Peninsula Museum of Art, and the Triton Museum in Santa Clara. Her work is in the collections of the Oakland Museum of California, the San Jose Museum of Art, The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, and the Berkeley Art Museum, as well as in many other prominent public and private collections. She is currently represented by Couturier Gallery in Los Angeles, Braunstein/Quay Gallery in San Francisco, and G. Gibson Gallery in Seattle. In 2007 she received the Rydell Visual Arts Fellowship.
Stephanie Metz Art 40F/Section59595 Sculptural Felting
You may know that felt is a non-woven textile made of wool, but have you considered its sculptural possibilities? This workshop will teach you an innovative use of a humble and inexpensive material that is bound to energize your art making. Using simple tools, like a felting needle, you can manipulate wool to create three-dimensional, free-standing, solid felt sculpture. Wet felting and wool dyeing techniques will also be covered.
Stephanie Metz lives in San Jose where she has been sculpting with felted wool since 2002. Her work tends to be organic and off-kilter, taking full advantage of the unique physical and conceptual characteristics of wool that make it an intriguing sculptural medium. Metz received her BFA from the University of Oregon and has taught workshops throughout the Bay Area. She is represented by Hosfelt Gallery in San Francisco.
Bridget Henry Art 40DC/Section59583 Dream in Color: Exploring the Color Woodcut Print
This workshop will cover image transfer, carving techniques, sharpening tools, ink mixing, and printing with the press and spoon. A variety of approaches for developing color prints will be demonstrated, including chine colle. Color reduction prints will be explored and the process will cover; image and color planning, registration methods, mark making, inking and the printing process. In addition to studio work there will be slides, some woodcut history, and conversations on the commitment, development, articulation and relevancy of personal imagery.
Bridget Henry has been a professional printmaker for 13 years working at her home studio located on the north coast of Santa Cruz. She has been a participant in Santa Cruz Open Studios for 11 years. Bridget has been deeply involved with the UCSC print shop starting as a student in 1993 and continues as one of the studio technicians. She has taught various workshops on the woodcut process. She is the winner of the 2001 James Phelan Award in Printmaking and participated in winning a Guinness Book of World Record event by helping print the largest woodcut ever printed with wooden spoons.
Michele Giulvezan-Tanner Art 40PP/Section59593 Portraits from the Inside Out
Go beyond the photo realistic portrait into the soul of the model, and explore interpretations through the eyes of the painter. The workshop will explore ways to create dynamic portraits that use classical portraiture techniques, but explore contemporary and expressive approaches. Don’t miss this opportunity to work with new water mixable oil paint that can be made to flow like gouache or watercolor. For painters looking for impasto or allo prima methods, techniques will be provided that will produce a thick, oily, buttery surface using water soluble mediums. Contemporary portrait painters will be investigated.
Michele Giulvezan Tanner has been commissioned to paint numerous portraits in the Santa Cruz, Monterey, and Carmel areas. Her work has been exhibited locally and nationally including the Outwin Boochever Portrait Competition 2006 at the National Portrait Gallery at the Smithsonian in Washington D.C. She received her BFA in Painting, and her MA in Art Education from the University of Illinois. Her teaching experience ranges from high school to university level.
SESSION TWO
Anika Smulovitz Art 40PWA/Section 59592 Material Play: Wearable Art
This workshop will explore inventive approaches to creating wearable art using fabric, paper, metal, discarded/recycled items, and other mass materials that we take for granted, such as rubber bands and candy wrappers. A variety of construction methods will be incorporated including riveting, sewing, knotting, weaving, and any other method that seems appropriate to the materials used. Bring an open mind and a readiness to experiment to this workshop.
Anika Smulovitz received her MFA from the University of Wisconsin-Madison and her BFA from the University of Oregon. She is currently a professor at Boise State University. Smulovitz has an extensive exhibition and publication record, as well as a US Design Patent for her Lip Liners.
John Babcock Art 40MPE/Section 59597 Making Paper: An Artists Exploration
Explore the realm of hand-made paper using fibers and pigments from around the world, to create unique art pieces. Experience the preparation of colored pulp to produce paper in infinite arrays of color and form while pushing pulp to the limit. Students will develop unique methods of collage, pouring, and casting, colored paper pulp into large format works. New methods to achieve lines, textures, patterns, and color, will be explored.
John Babcock lives and works at his studio near Santa Cruz, California. His medium is paper, and his work has been shown in over thirty major museums in Europe, the United States and Japan. He manufactures his own paper to build art works that are poured, cast, inlaid, and collaged.
Tom Hill Art 40 DWM/Section59587 Drawing with Metal, Sculpting with Line
Creating expressive sculptural forms using wire will be the focus of this workshop. Starting with static studies and progressing to video/camera stop action sequences and finally a live model, this workshop will investigate drawing techniques to capture and explore movement.
Tom Hill graduated in Jewelry for Middlesex University in London. He set up a studio immediately after graduation and has been a full time artist since. Commissions include works for the Hyatt Hotel Group, the BBC Symphony Orchestra, The John Lewis Partnership and numerous private collections. He shows regularly at SOFA Chicago and has work in the collection of the Victoria and Albert Museum in London. Recently he had a solo exhibition of “Drawing from Muybridge” at the Fuller Craft Museum in Brockton, Maine.
Richard Elliott Art 40FF/Section 59590 Franken Fabrics: Fabric Alterations, Manipulations & Transformations
Ever wonder what would happen if you accidentally bleached a silk scarf or a wool sock, over-ironed a nylon undergarment, left a shirt on some rusty metal or your compost pile for a week, or put fabric through your ink-jet printer? This workshop will act as a laboratory playground for breaking the rules. By transforming the surface and/or molecular structure of a variety of fabrics, we will create our own extraordinary hybrids. The resulting “new” raw materials may then inspire quilts, clothing, costumes, interior furnishing, sculpture or conceptual works. Processes include bleaching, rusting, composting, bonding, laminating, piercing, slashing, burning, boiling, melting, shrinking, heat shaping, degumming, foiling, ink-jet printing, and more
Richard Elliott is an adjunct professor in the Textiles program at California College of the Arts where he teaches Textile Printing. His work with image transfer and digital processes on paper and manipulated fabric investigates structures and patterns hidden within the human body. He frequently lectures, teaches workshops, and exhibits his work. He is currently writing a book on image transferring. He is a recipient of a California Arts Council Artist-in-Residency grant and a CCA Faculty Development Grant. His work is in private, public and corporate collections. He received his MFA from Fiberworks Center for the Textile Arts, John F. Kennedy University, Berkeley, California.
John Maxon Art 40CPP/Section 59584 Express, Impress: The Painted Print
Luminous and expressive, monoprinting combines the use of an etching press and basic printmaking techniques with the spontaneity of painting. This in-depth workshop spotlights the creation of multi-drop color monotypes emphasizing painterly drawing methods along with printed rolls of color. Workshop participants will transform their unique visual ideas and imagery through specialized techniques such as viscosity printing, offset printing, collage, incised line and rainbow roll printing. Emphasis will be on the evolution of the student’s image through rich color development. Health conscious habits will be stressed.
John Maxon, MFA, UC Davis, BA San Jose State University, Stanford University, is on the faculty of Cabrillo College. He has been a visiting artist and workshop presenter at Hartnell College, Pacific Union College and Fort Lewis College. His work can be found in many private and corporate collections, nationally and internationally, and he is represented locally by the Linda Durnell Gallery of Los Gatos and the Robert Allen Fine Art Gallery of Sausalito, California.
Ursula O’Farrell Art 40PWP/Section 59594 Painting with Passion
Working from live models, this intense workshop will explore contemporary approaches to figure painting. Expand your visual dialogue with loose brushwork, experimental color harmonies and evocative poses that convey energy, human emotion and moods.
Ursula O’Farrell is a contemporary figurative artist with a BA from Loyola Marymount University and an MA from San Jose State University. Her intention in painting is to always begin from life, then interpret the subject matter from a deeply personal and expressionistic point of view. O’Farrell has exhibited nationally and is represented by Dolby/Chadwick Gallery in San Francisco, Linda Durnell Gallery in Los Gatos, Bryant Street Gallery in Palo Alto, and Winfield Gallery in Carmel.
Carl Rohrs Art 40EL/Section 59588 Experiments in Lettering
Lettering as craft, lettering as art. People the world over are working with letters in expansive and mind-boggling ways. This workshop will expose you to as many approaches as we can fit in two action-packed weeks. Classic and contemporary techniques in pen and brush calligraphy; drawn letters and modern type design; decorated letters, cut paper lettering, gold leaf on glass, sandblasted wood, and lettering as sculpture. Sample it all or concentrate on your heart’s desire.
Carl Rohrs has been a freelance lettering artist and sign painter in Santa Cruz, CA for 30 years, and a teacher of lettering, typography and graphic design at Cabrillo College since 1984. He has taught calligraphy workshops for societies around the U.S., Canada & Europe. He served as the editor of “Alphabet, the Journal of San Francisco’s Friends of Calligraphy” from 1989–1992. He has guest lectured at A Typ I, Typecon, Seattle’s Letters of Joy, Cooper Union in New York City, San Francisco Public Library, Discoveries International Calligraphy Conference in San Diego, California, Legacies International Calligraphy Conference in Dallas, Texas, and Letterforum International Calligraphy Conference in Harrisonburg, VA, Sunderland University in Great Britain, Oostmalle, Netherlands and Bruges, Belgium.
THEATRE
SESSION ONE
Hubeau & Nolin TA 85D / Section 59422 Acting for the Camera 7/14 - 7/23
Class time: MTWTHF, 6 - 9:15PM
Nolin and Hubeau bring a sensitive and inspired approach to the actor interested in acting in front of the camera. Their unique sensibility is informed by their work in French film technique. Through personal experience, the actor discovers all that can nourish the character without forgetting that to be believed, one must play a unique “truth” as simply as possible. Actors learn to activate choices and discover creative freedom through improvisation and exercises that lead to the deepest levels of their characters.
Catherine Hubeau is a professional actress, director and workshop leader based in Paris. She trained at the Comédie Française and as a member of the company, performed in plays from the classic repertory. Her credits also include extensive work in French film and television. She has worked closely with new writers in a number of productions as actress and director. She often produces and performs at the Avignon Theatre Festival.
Olivier Nolin is a diversely talented director, actor, screenwriter and composer based in Paris. His credits include a broad range of award winning work in French film, television and theatre including feature length films, CD ROMs, documentaries and film shorts. He brings his extraordinary talent and experience to the process of coaching with workshops in acting for the camera which he leads in Paris, London and New York in collaboration with his wife Catherine Hubeau. They draw out the extraordinary in each actor they encounter.
MUSIC
SESSION ONE
Phil Collins MUS85Z / Section 57534 Performing Arts Attendance/Appreciation 7/15 - 8/5
Class time: T & Arranged, 6 - 10PM
Explore masterworks of music and theatre, and experience live performances by world class artists at discounted prices. Heighten your appreciation of the musical and dramatic performances you encounter at three Santa Cruz summer festivals: Cabrillo Festival of Contemporary Music, Cabrillo Stage and Shakespeare Santa Cruz. These three widely acclaimed festivals will be introduced and explored through lectures and discussions in conjunction with audio and visual media, and presentations by guest lecturers.
Philip Collins teaches world music, classical guitar, music appreciation and music composition at Cabrillo and Hartnell Colleges. Collins has served as artistic director and conductor of New Music Works’ contemporary music series since 1979 and is an active composer whose works have been played throughout the US and Canada. Collins is also a active lecturer and gives pre-concert talks annually at the Cabrillo Festival of Contemporary Music
SESSION TWO
George Hess Mus85R / Section 57533 Music and Computers: Reason 7/28 - 8/7
Class time: MTWTH, 9AM - 12:15PM
Create music using programmable internal synthesizers and audio samples controlled via a MIDI keyboard or other input device. Each programmable instrument, its mixing board and editing control panels appear in a realistic graphic display as if installed in a studio rack.
George Hess, composer/jazz guitarist, professor of music at the Yong Siew Toh National Conservatory of Music, Singapore. Hess did his undergraduate studies at The Berklee School of Music and his masters and doctorate in music are from the University of Northern Colorado.
Jim Stewart Mus 85PT / Section 59596 Introduction to Pro Tools 7/28 - 8/9
Class time: MTWTH, 9AM - 12:15PM
Pro Tools is the industry-leading computer environment for recording and producing music. Workshop covers hardware set-up, basic recording techniques, waveform editing, automated mixing, post-production and mastering in Pro Tools LE. You will participate in recorded music projects from pre-production to completion.
Jim Stewart, composer/percussionist, earned a masters degree in music from UC Davis and has been teaching electronic music composition at Cabrillo College for over 15 years. Stewart is currently the director of instrumental and electronic music at Soquel High School’s leading edge program.
DANCE
SESSION TWO
Karl Frost DA 79CIP/Section 59826 Contact Improv Partnering
Class time: MTWTHF, 9:30AM - 1:00PM
Karl Frost’s innovative, released approach to Contact Improvisation, features investigations of three dimensional movement, working with other bodies, and efficiency and power in partnering. This workshop focuses on the investigative creative process and body awareness, and facilitates the study and practice of body-based exploration and the intersection/integration of life and art.
Karl Frost has been practicing and performing contact improvisation and interdisciplinary, dance-based performance since the mid 80's. In the last years, his work has been gravitating more and more towards directing experimental body-based theater. His physical work is influenced by release technique, his study of martial arts, and an intimate knowledge of physics (physics degree from UC Berkeley, 1992). Known internationally for his dynamic movement style and for the edge-pushing nature of his work, physically and psychologically, both in process and performance, his performances take the body and emotionally and physically felt experience as their reference points. His work has been showcased over the last two decades across five continents, both in established institutions/universities and in independent studios and theaters.
Karl Frost DA 79 CIE/section59737 Contact Improvisation Explorations
Class time: MTWTHF, 5:30 - 9:00PM
In this workshop Karl Frost will focus on developing new frames for creating and composing Contact Improvisation dances including kinesthetic, theatrical, and psychological approaches. These investigations will include study based on the work of Steve Paxton and Jerzy Grotowski. Workshop participants will cultivate greater ease, power, and pleasure in being in a body, as well as greater presence in physical inquisitiveness and aesthetic exploration.
Sabela Grimes DA 79BRK/Section 59722 Funkamentals of Breaking
Class time: MTWTHF, 1:30 - 5:00PM
This workshop features contemporary breaking, popping, locking, uprocking and floorwork techniques, combined with study, rehearsal, and critique of dance making for street dance forms. Students will learn techniques of improvisation and composition derived from street dances to craft performances rooted in the politic and aesthetic of the movement.
Sabela "OVASOUL7" Grimes is an interdisciplinary artist who passionately merges elements of language, sound and movement. He has performed and taught internationally, as a dancer, vocalist, and poet. Grimes’ dance workshops celebrate the history and traditions of African-American social dance, and affirm that this language of movement, rich in innovations and African aesthetics, mis-labeled "Hip Hop" dance, has deep roots and a broader sense of purpose than we tend to acknowledge. In addition to exploring the subtle nuances that typify Black dance, Sabela Grimes primary focus is to facilitate an experience that inspires the dancer to build a strong relationship with the music and move from the inside out.
Anna Marie Alvarez DA 79SW/Section 59723 Salsa Push and Pull: Dancemaking Contratiempo
Class time: MTWTHF, 5:30 - 9:00PM
Afro-Cuban Salsa Dance technique fundamentals and principles of leading and following combined with improvising in pairs, groups, and small learning communities. Pulling techniques from the Rueda form students will create movement studies designed to engage with, and push, audiences to redefine and explore new ideas about dance partnering and the Salsa form.
Ana Maria Alvarez, artistic director of Los Angeles based contra-tiempo, creates work that engages diverse audiences with unique Salsa-based, urban-Latin dance theater. She has been sharing her joy, love and obsession for moving in rhythm with others for over fifteen years. As a teacher, choreographer, and community arts activist, she moved to Los Angeles from NYC in 2002. Since then she has taught, choreographed and performed at UCLA, Highways Performance Space, Summer Sounds at the Hollywood Bowl, Fowler Museum, REDCAT Disney Hall, and Grand Performances. While living in New York, Alvarez performed and taught at Dixon Place, The Tribeca Performing Arts Center, The Brooklyn Arts Exchange, and the Red Hook Waterfront Festival. Alvarez received her MFA in Choreography from UCLA’s Department of World Arts and Cultures.