CLASSES/WORKSHOPS
- Redbird Studio
SHUT UP & WRITE!
with Judy Bridges
Develop your skills. Build confidence. Get moving!
Spring Session: Mar 25-27, 2010
START YOUR NEW YEAR RIGHT
with Roi Solberg
Create Your Best Year Ever
Thurs evening, January 14, 2010 Details TBA
WRITING LIFE STORIES
with Carol La Chapelle & Judy Bridges
Find Your Voice. Tell your story.
Sat, Feb 27, 2010, 9:30am-4pm
CREATE A CIRCLE OF SUPPORT
with Judy Bridges
A Power of the Pen program at Fox Valley Tech, Neenah, WI
Saturday, March 20, 2010
THE HAIRSHIRT
with Judy Bridges
Women's Writing Retreat at St. Clara Convent
April 22 - 25, 2010 - BIRCH CREEK MUSIC PERFORMANCE CENTER
summer music school - DISCOVERY WORLD - Forensic Science for Mystery Readers and Mystery Writers
Tuesday, April 6, 6:30 pm - 8:00 pm - John Michael Kohler Arts Center - Classes
On-going - Peninsula School of Art
year-round programming - Redbird Studio - CREATE A CIRCLE OF SUPPORT
Sat, March 20, 2010 - Redbird Studio - SHUT UP & WRITE!
Spring Session- March 25-27, 2010 - RedBird-RedOak - Open Studio Writing
1st and 3rd Thursdays of each month - Shake Rag Alley Center for Arts & Crafts - Mineral Point
through March, 2010 - Sharon Lynne Wilson Center for the Arts - Theater Classes
through April, 2010 - Sharon Lynne Wilson Center for the Arts - Visual Arts Classes for Adults
through May, 2010 - Sharon Lynne Wilson Center for the Arts - Visual Arts Classes for Youth
through April, 2010 - The Clearing - Folk School in Door County
- The Lakes Gallery of Fine Art (Guest Poetry Workshop Teacher: Cristina Norcross)
Thurs., March 11, 2010 from 7 - 9:30 PM - Valley Ridge Art Studio - Art Workshops for 2010
through 2010 - Waupaca Community Art Center - Lampwork Bead Making
May 8, 15, 22 from 10:30-4, 3rd session 11-1 - Waupaca Community Art Center - Beginning Lampworking, One Day Class
May 1 from 10:30 to 4 - Waupaca Community Arts Center - Beginning Smocking
March 3, 10, and 24 - Waupaca Community Arts Center - Knitting Two Socks on One Needle
April 9 and 16 - Waupaca Community Arts Center - Open Knitting
Tuesday afternoons and Friday mornings - Waupaca Community Arts Center - Wicker Baskets
April 24, 25, or May 1, 2 - Waupaca Community Arts Center - Woodcarving
Saturdays, April 17 and 24, 10 - 4:30
Redbird Studio
http://www.redbirdstudio.com
REDBIRD STUDIO PROGRAMS - See website for details
SHUT UP & WRITE!
with Judy Bridges
Develop your skills. Build confidence. Get moving!
Spring Session: Mar 25-27, 2010
START YOUR NEW YEAR RIGHT
with Roi Solberg
Create Your Best Year Ever
Thurs evening, January 14, 2010 Details TBA
WRITING LIFE STORIES
with Carol La Chapelle & Judy Bridges
Find Your Voice. Tell your story.
Sat, Feb 27, 2010, 9:30am-4pm
CREATE A CIRCLE OF SUPPORT
with Judy Bridges
A Power of the Pen program at Fox Valley Tech, Neenah, WI
Saturday, March 20, 2010
THE HAIRSHIRT
with Judy Bridges
Women's Writing Retreat at St. Clara Convent
April 22 - 25, 2010
BIRCH CREEK MUSIC PERFORMANCE CENTER
http://www.birchcreek.org
Birch Creek Music Performance Center is a summer music school (academy) in Door County, Wisconsin, for advanced young musicians. With a performance emphasis, students are taught by nationally-known performance artists and educators during the day, and perform alongside them in concerts at night. Four sessions focus on symphony, percussion & steelpan, and big band jazz (2 sessions).
3821 County E
P.O. Box 230
Egg Harbor, WI 54209-0230
Phone 920-868-3763
Fax 920-868-1643
E mail mainoffice@birchcreek.org
DISCOVERY WORLD - Forensic Science for Mystery Readers and Mystery Writers
http://www.discoveryworld.org
DISCOVERY WORLD Presents another Tuesday Teach-In Seminar: Forensic Science for Mystery Readers and Mystery Writers
Tuesday, April 6, 6:30 pm - 8:00 pm
Discovery World; 500 N. Harbor Drive,
Milwaukee, 53202
If you're a CSI fan, you'll want to join Thomas
Hanratty, former forensic investigator and currently police science instructor at MATC along with Alissa Ehr, master of forensic science and FBI Intelligence Analyst, as they separate myth from reality in the world of crime fighting.
Topics covered include:
fingerprints, DNA, bloodstain pattern analysis, gunshot wounds, pathology, time of death, and much more.
This is an interactive presentation so bring your questions about your favorite novel, movie or TV
show.
Some graphic material - parental discretion is advised.
Price - $8 members, $10 non-members
For a complete schedule of all Discovery
World's Tuesday Teach - In offerings, go to
www.discoveryworld.org or call 414 765.8625
for more information or reservations.
John Michael Kohler Arts Center - Classes
http://www.jmkac.org
Classes/Workshops
On-going
A nationally acclaimed visual and performing arts complex in downtown Sheboygan, Wisconsin, the John Michael Kohler Arts Center is devoted to innovative explorations in contemporary American visual and performing arts. The JMKAC provides a wide variety of classes for beginners and experienced artists; children, teens and adults
See the website for current classes, dates and times.
Peninsula School of Art
https://www.peninsulaartschool.com
Founded in 1965 and located in the heart of Door County, Wisconsin, Peninsula School of Art is a center for education and exploration in the visual arts.
We offer year-round programming, including one to five day workshops in ceramics, sculpture, jewelry and metal arts, watercolor, painting, drawing, photography, printmaking, mixed media and youth arts; lectures and symposium on art appreciation, history and career skills for artists; special events and family-friendly programs for students of all ages and abilities.
Mailing Address:
P.O. Box 304
Fish Creek WI 54212
Campus Address:
3900 County F
Fish Creek, WI 54212
Phone: (920) 868-3455
Fax: (920) 868-9965
Redbird Studio - CREATE A CIRCLE OF SUPPORT
http://www.redbirdstudio.com
At Fox Valley Technical College in Neenah WI
With Judy Bridges
Sat, March 20, 2010
12:30 - 3:30
Offers women the opportunity to focus on aspects of life that really matter and write about them in a supportive, non-judgmental atmosphere. Includes tips on structure, style, craft and voice, plus discussion of various examples of personal, family and published writings.
Please bring a notebook, pen, and bag lunch.
A list of supplies needed for class participation is available.
Catalog #47801409B
Registration: contact Lisa Bell - 920-720-6820
Location: Fox Valley Technical College in Neenah WI
2320 Industrial Drive
Neenah, WI 54956
Contact: Lisa Bell, 920-720-6820
Redbird Studio - SHUT UP & WRITE!
http://www.redbirdstudio.com
Develop your skills
Build confidence
Get moving!
Do you want to write fiction, nonfiction, an article, a play? Have you been thinking (and talking) about it for a long time, but just can't seem to get it done? Here's help for you -- a seminar with a writing coach who just won't take No for an answer. Judy has heard every excuse (and tried most of them!) and knows how to give you the nudge you need.
Shut Up & Write! is a highly individualized program in which Judy focuses on your particular goals and finds ways to help you meet them. She's had a lot of experience doing this, so be prepared to make progress.
Get inspired as you learn practical techniques you can use to develop characters, set narrative drive, plot stories, handle point of view, organize your thoughts for fiction and nonfiction and get your work published.
Space is limited in this nationally known workshop. There is often a waiting list, so we suggest that you register as soon as you are able.
I can't remember the last time I enjoyed something as much as I enjoyed this class. I felt safe, stimulated and inspired.
Marie Moody - New Berlin, WI
Gave me the help I need to organize and make something out of my thoughts
Tricia Mowen - Austin , TX
Simplifies the process for me, even as an already professional writer.
Judy Fossen - Delafield, WI
Class meets Thursday evening, Friday evening and 9:30-3 on Saturday
Fee: $325 includes class materials and follow-up visit or critique ($100 deposit)
Bring a brown bag lunch on Saturday. Coffee and tea provided.
Spring Session- March 25-27, 2010
Thurs - Mar 25, 6:30-9:00 pm
Fri - Mar 26, 6:30 - 9:00 pm
Sat - Mar 27, 9:30 am-3:00 pm
Plus: Optional follow up. (Date to be determined), either:
- Attend a reading-and-feedback session
- submit manuscript pages for written critique
RedBird-RedOak - Open Studio Writing
http://www.redbirdredoak.com
The weather didn't cooperate for our first Open Studio Writing, but that hasn't discouraged us. Hope you can join us in the studio on the 1st and 3rd Thursdays of each month (10 am - 12 noon) for some focussed writing time and camaraderie. Check out our blog post (Solitary but not alone) to learn more.
Shake Rag Alley Center for Arts & Crafts - Mineral Point
http://www.shakeragalley.com/calendar-of-classes.html
February 26-28 Women's Winter Retreat
February 27 Make a Small Rustic Stool
March 6 Silk Screen Notecards
March 6 Facebook for Personal Use
March 13-14 Fiber Accordion Book
March 13 Paint a Wild, Wonderful Piece of Furniture
March 13 Photographing Your Art
March 14 Intermediate Photoshop Elements
March 20 Facebook for Business
March 20-21 Powerful Graphite Drawing
March 27-28 Garden Getaway
through March, 2010
See website for details
Sharon Lynne Wilson Center for the Arts - Theater Classes
http://www.wilson-center.com
First Stage’s professional theater training program teaches “life skills through stage skills.” It is the largest program of its kind in the nation.
Register for theater classes through First Stage Theater, call (414) 267-2970 or visit them online at firststage.org.
CREATIVE DRAMA CLASSES
Story Drama (grades K5−2)
Step into your favorite stories as we use creative drama to bring them to life! Students are guided through dramatic activities that encourage self-expression, concentration, cooperation, and discussion. This class emphasizes telling the story, and creating dialogue, action, and characters. (Includes one free ticket to a First Stage production!)
$160/$145 BackStage Members
Winter: “If You Take a Mouse to School”
Tuesdays, Jan 26−Mar 16, 4:30−5:30 pm
Spring: “Alexander & the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day”
Tuesdays, Mar 30−May 25, 4:30−5:30 pm (no class Apr 6)
Creative Drama-Time Travelers (grades 3−4)
Have you ever wished that you could travel through time? Now, through the power of your imagination, you can! Each semester our team will research and bring to life exciting adventures. Guided by our teachers, travel through time! Travel the world! Pack your bags, say your goodbyes and set a course for adventure.
$160/$145 BackStage Members
Winter: “Discover New Worlds!”
Thursdays, Jan 28−Mar 18, 4:30−5:30 pm
Spring: “Future Exploration!”
Thursdays, Apr 1−May 27, 4:30−5:30 pm (no class Apr 8)
CORE CLASSES
Acting-Core Classes (grades 4−6)
Core classes progress from beginning to advanced actor training. Small class sizes allow teachers to meet each student at his or her level of ability. As in any discipline-from sports to music-the training process is continuous. Students are encouraged to repeat core classes.
$160/$145 BackStage Members
Winter: Scenework
The heart of any great scene is an honest, engaging relationship. Students in this class work together to make positive choices and create realistic relationships on stage.
Tuesdays, Jan 26−Mar 16, 7:00−8:15 pm
Spring: Performance
Using the fundamentals of character work and scene study students will rehearse and perform a short play. The teaching artist will become director and the students the cast of the production. Class time will be treated as rehearsals for a final performance.
Tuesdays, Mar 30−May 25, 7:00−8:15 pm (no class Apr 6)
ELECTIVE CLASSES
Improvisation: Comedy (grades 7−12)
Fans of “Whose Line is it Anyway?”-this is the class for you! Quick thinking, give and take and playing the action will be the key to success and a lot of laughs. This popular class fills up quickly, so don’t delay!
$160/$145 BackStage Members
Winter: Thursdays, Jan 28−Mar 18, 7:00−8:15 pm
Spring: Thursdays, Apr 1−May 27, 7:00−8:15 pm (no class Apr 8)
Plan now for summer!
First Stage’s Summer Academy comes to the Wilson Center once again. Check on-line for details: www.firststage.org
BackStage Members call (262) 373-5023 to receive your discount code to register online at firststage.org.
Students registering for the first time will pay an activity fee to First Stage. Call (414) 267-2970
or visit them online at firststage.org for more information.
through April, 2010
Sharon Lynne Wilson Center for the Arts - Visual Arts Classes for Adults
http://www.wilson-center.com
Browse our class offerings and sign up for something creative this summer.
Register Now!
Contact the Education Office at (262) 781-9470 x5023 or email for more information.
Figure Drawing (ages 18+)
Learn to approach drawing as it pertains to the human figure. Line, volume, value, and proportion as well as the basics of anatomy will be covered. This class is appropriate for beginning and intermediate skill levels that are interested in the figure, or for students seeking to advance their mechanical and observational skills. Model fee is included in tuition. Instructor: Eriks Johnson
Wednesdays, Jan 27−Mar 17, 6:00−8:30 pm
$164/$148 BackStage Members WI78
Introduction to Oil Painting (ages 14+)
Working exclusively with oil paints, students will learn how to prepare a surface, develop a solid sketch, and map out more complex value and color schemes to produce rich and colorful paintings. Beginners and more experienced painters will increase their awareness and understanding of the painting process. Instructor: Michael Foster
Mondays, Mar 8-Apr 12, 6:00−8:30 pm
$124/$112 BackStage Members WI75
Pottery and Platery (ages 18+)
In this course, learn to work with clays and glazes to create unique pots, plates, and other vessels using hand-building techniques. Students will explore slab, coil, mold, and sculpting processes, along with additional components such as handles and lids. Instructor: Brock Ruhmor
Saturdays, Feb 6−Mar 20, 1:00−4:00 pm (no class Mar 6)
$164/$148 BackStage Members WI77
Landscape in Mosaic (ages 14+)
Discover the Zen of creating a beautiful mosaic from landscape imagery. Learn about color and depth, mosaic terminology, glass and tile cutting techniques, adhesives application, and grouting for various surfaces. This ancient form of art is perfect for beginners and experienced artists alike. Instructor: Leann Wooten
Tuesdays, Mar 16−May 4, 6:00−8:30 pm
$148/$132 BackStage Members WI76
Intermediate Painting (ages 14+)
Take you observational painting skills to the next level. In this class we will work with more complex subjects. Still lives which emphasize materials such as reflective surfaces, intricate patterns, and detailed components will be set up to challenge the students’ abilities. A longer painting session and large painting surfaces will be utilized. An individual approach in picture making will be encouraged. Instructor: Eriks Johnson
Wednesdays, Mar 24−May 12, 6:00−8:30 pm
$148/$132 BackStage Members WI79
Polyester Plate Lithography Workshop (ages 14+)
Try printing without a press, chemicals, or prior experience! Join Ploch Art Gallery exhibiting artist Barry Roal Carlsen in this one-day workshop that will introduce printmaking concepts. Just come with your ideas, and leave with a small edition of hand-made prints.
Registration closed.
Monotype Printmaking (ages 14+)
This printmaking process, in which only a single print is pulled from each plate, is ideal for those who enjoy drawing and painting. Using a variety of materials including watercolor and oil-based paints, you will explore both additive and reductive ways to create rich, colorful imagery on plate matrixes that you will then print with an intaglio press. Students of all levels and abilities are encouraged to join. Instructor: Michael Foster
Registration closed.
through May, 2010
Sharon Lynne Wilson Center for the Arts - Visual Arts Classes for Youth
http://www.wilson-center.com
Browse our class offerings and sign up for something creative this summer.
Register Now!
Contact the Education Office at (262) 781-9470 x5023 or email for more information.
The Drawing Circle (ages 6−10)
Join the Circle and have fun learning new ways to express your ideas on paper. Students in this class are encouraged to explore the imagination through a variety of drawing media and exciting group projects.
Session I: Wednesdays, Jan 27−Mar 3, 4:00−5:30 pm WI67
Session II: Wednesdays, Apr 14−May 19, 4:00−5:30 pm WI68
$78/$70 BackStage Members
Early Art Explorers: My Favorite Books
(ages 3−4 with parent/adult)
Give your child the tools for self-expression and share in the experience. Tots and parents spend quality time together discovering visual art through a variety of fun and creative activities inspired by popular children’s books. Emphasis is on artistic exploration rather than a final product.
Session I: Saturdays, Feb 6−27, 10:00−11:00 am WI65
Session II: Mondays, Mar 8−29, 9:30−10:30 am WI66
$48/$44 BackStage Members
March Mask-ness! (ages 6−10) new!
Immerse yourself in your imagination to create a spectacular paper-maché mask. Students will sculpt, paint, and embellish their masks for a special parade around the Wilson Center on the last day. Materials included.
Wednesdays, Mar 17−31, 4:00−6:00 pm
$56/$50 BackStage Members WI69
Super Mosaic-Man! (ages 10−13)
A superhero for the artist in you! Build your action figurine from a variety of materials, then give it the power of Creativity when you armor it in a mosaic of tile, glass, beads, ceramic, and metal. Materials included.
Tuesdays, Mar 16−Apr 13, 4:00−5:30 pm (no class Apr 6)
$60/$54 BackStage Members WI70
Little House on the Night Stand (ages 6−11) new!
Is it a cottage, a bungalow, or a mansion? Design and construct your dream house out of clay then bring it to life when you add a light to the inside for a magical night-time effect. One week between classes is necessary for clay drying and firing.
Thursdays, Mar 11 & 25, 4:30−6:00 pm (ages 6−9) WI71
Thursdays, Apr 15 & 29, 4:30−6:00 pm (ages 9−11) WI72
$56/$50 BackStage Members
Ceranimals (ages 8−12)
Design a ceramic pet-real or fantastic! Will it have horns? A long tail? Learn basic clay building techniques as you create your dream animal.
Thursdays, Feb 4 & 11, 4:30−6:00 pm
$36/$32 BackStage Members WI73
through April, 2010
The Clearing - Folk School in Door County
http://theclearing.org
The Clearing offers a wide range of classes, including painting, writing, quilting, birding, wood carving, poetry, rustic furniture making, photography, poetry, fine wood-working, music, weaving, philosophy, stained glass, metal work, nature study and paper arts. All Clearing classes are taught in a relaxed, informal style.
The Clearing
12171 Garrett Bay Rd.
P.O. Box 65
Ellison Bay, WI 54210
920-854-4088
Toll Free 877-854-3225
FAX 920-854-9751
clearing@theclearing.org
The Lakes Gallery of Fine Art (Guest Poetry Workshop Teacher: Cristina Norcross)
http://www.lakesfineart.com/art_classes___events
Ekphrastic Poetry 101
with Cristina M.R. Norcross
Thurs., March 11, 2010 from 7 - 9:30 PM
Poetry workshop with group discussion, writing prompt exercises & feedback sessions.
Location: The Lakes Gallery of Fine Art, North Lake, WI. (N76 W31428 County Rd. V. V.)
Students are asked to bring 1 finished poem in any genre to share with others for a feedback session. Please bring 8-10 photocopies of your poem, so we can read the poem together. Please bring the tools of your trade - pens, pencils, notebooks - as we will be doing guided, in-class writing exercises. This is a hands-on poetry workshop! We will enjoy open discussions with a supportive environment for poets at all levels.
$20 per person. Registration required
Call: 262-966-1804
OR go to the website: http://www.lakesfineart.com/art_classes___events
Ekphrastic poetry is the conversation between two pieces of art. The writer interprets a work of visual art & then creates a narrative in verse form that represents his or her reaction to that painting, photograph, sculpture or other artistic creation.
Cristina resides in the U.S., dividing her time between Wisconsin & New England. She graduated with a B.A. Honors Degree in English Literature from the University of Ottawa, Canada. Cristina lived in London, England for 5 years where she worked in publishing & taught high school level English. She also taught creative writing & language skills at a youth organization & is the author of a grammar usage manual. Ms. Norcross has had over 50 short stories, poems & articles published in literary magazines in England, Wales, The United States, Canada & Algeria. Published books: Land & Sea: Poetry Inspired by Art (2007), The Red Drum (2008), Unsung Love Songs (2010).
Website: www.FirkinFiction.com
Valley Ridge Art Studio - Art Workshops for 2010
http://www.valleyridgeartstudio.com
WORKSHOPS through 2010
Fiber Play Days: Create Your Own Wearable Art!
Instructor: Jeanne Weymouth
Date: Sat Feb 20, 2010 - Sun Feb 21, 2010
Program Type: Workshop
Explore the endlessly inventive world of wearable art. Whether you transform an old sweater by reshaping it with a few snips of the scissors; or rework a coat with original applique designs; or use bleach to create new patterns on t-shirts; or embellish with anything from old laces, ripped silks, freeform crochet or fabric paints ... you will surprise yourself with the countless fiber art techniques you can incorporate into the creation of one-of-a-kind wearable art !
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Sculptural Collage - Working with Found Materials
Instructor: Brian Dettmer
Date: Fri Mar 12, 2010 - Sun Mar 14, 2010
Program Type: Workshop
This workshop focuses on re-used and found objects. Use found media like books, cassette tapes and maps and alter them to become new works of art. Consider the original intentions of the material and the meanings and assumptions of the material and its uses to transform them into something new, either functional, pictoral or purely sculptural.
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Every House Tells a Story
Instructor: Carol Owen
Date: Fri Mar 19, 2010 - Sun Mar 21, 2010
Program Type: Workshop
Gather your memories of people or places significant to you, and we will begin the journey of creating a spirit house that will tell your story. Here is the place for those mementoes and scraps of papers you couldn't bear to throw out, the bits and pieces gathering dust in a drawer, the photographs in a box. All these mementos can be used as you tell your story in your personal shrine.
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Golden Acrylics Overview
Instructor: Sandi Bacon
Date: Fri Mar 26, 2010 - Fri Mar 26, 2010
Program Type: Event
A fun, fast paced overview of Golden acrylics. We will briefly touch on the history and philosophy of the new acrylics, and how they expand vast array of acrylic possibilities. We will explore: the various lines of paints with different viscosities, the rich pigments and inherent qualities from interference paints to historic colors, grounds to draw on, texture, and provide lush surfaces,as well as mediums , gels and pastes. Included will be demonstrations of the new line of open paint with the expanded dry time, and some possibilities with the new digital grounds.
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The Painterly Print and Seductive Surfaces
Instructor: Sandi Bacon
Date: Sat Mar 27, 2010 - Sun Mar 28, 2010
Program Type: Workshop
The new digital grounds expand the possibilities for painting and mixed media artwork. Techniques for combining printed imagery with an inkjet printer with unusual surfaces will be explored. We will create acrylic skins for layering with transparent, opaque, metallic, and one-of-a- kind surfaces, and push imagery into a new realm.
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Spheres, Cones, and Cubes Oh My!
Instructor: Stacey Webber
Date: Fri Apr 16, 2010 - Sun Apr 18, 2010
Program Type: Workshop
In this three day workshop you will be taking on the challenge of making 1-3 hollow constructions out of 18 gauge copper sheet. You will choose to make a sphere, cone, or cube that you will deck or make two sides which fit into each other. You will conclude by finishing the surface and presto!-you have a beautiful, delicate container. We will be practicing advanced soldering methods, scoring and bending sheet metal, dapping, forming, sanding and finishing.
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Take Three: The Magic of Color Triads is Revealed
Instructor: Mary Beth Shaw
Date: Thu Apr 22, 2010 - Fri Apr 23, 2010
Program Type: Workshop
Finally, the class you asked for ... color management using acrylic paints. You know how all the color books seem geared toward watercolors or oils? How even the most detailed of books never name colors you can find in your local store? Combining theories from different art references, learn how to find the right Triad, because it's all about Red/Yellow/Blue. But you need to combine the right Red/Yellow/Blue in order to make beautiful colors. By mixing colors and adding black and white, you'll learn to make any color you will ever need and assemble an Easel Book Color Wheel that will become a constant companion in your studio.
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All on Board for Mixed Media
Instructor: Mary Beth Shaw
Date: Sat Apr 24, 2010 - Sun Apr 25, 2010
Program Type: Workshop
Experiment and play with all the boards and panels that are on the market today. From the incredibly versatile Claybord to Gesso Board to Pastel Board to MDF to Wood panels, we will check out all the rigid substrates. We will work on a number of pieces at one time, trying the same technique across the board (tee, hee) to see how they react and how unique effects can be achieved. We will work with stencils and texture mediums, crackle paste that really cracks, gold leaf and 3D semi-sculptural elements. See how your end products can easily be bound into books or mounted on floating cradles.
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Re-sin'-blage: A Charming Exercise in Jewelry Adornments
Instructor: Jill Shulse
Date: Sat May 1, 2010 - Sun May 2, 2010
Program Type: Workshop
Experience the magic of creating resin objects. Make molds, fill bezel cups, and explore the myriad of ways to use resin. Transform objects into elements to incorporate into unique jewelry pieces and embellishments to enhance your assemblage and journaling work. We will then take these elements to the next level, to assemble your own signature, one-of-a-kind, charming bracelet.
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Untold Tales; A Big and Tall Book
Instructor: Katie Kendrick
Date: Fri May 21, 2010 - Sun May 23, 2010
Program Type: Workshop
We will spend these three days building a tall and thick mixed media book, full of painted background pages, one or two finished encaustic coated paintings, and snippets of fabric and collage elements strewn through the many pages. You will leave with a book full of pages to fill in future weeks ahead with your own visual journaling and artwork.
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Exquisite Corpse Book
Instructor: Daniel Essig
Date: Wed Jun 2, 2010 - Thu Jun 3, 2010
Program Type: Workshop
Combining a variation of a collaborative technique invented by Surrealists with a book form generally considered a child's toy, we will create a unique journal with whimsical and intriguing covers. The nature of the Exquisite Corpse covers will hopefully lead to imaginative and collaborative content. The covers will be constructed from composite mica, tyvek and/or handmade papers incorporating drawings and collage.
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Wooden Book with Centipede Binding
Instructor: Daniel Essig
Date: Fri Jun 4, 2010 - Sun Jun 6, 2010
Program Type: Workshop
The Greek binding is an ornate historical binding dating from the 7th century. This stitch has many similarities to the Ethiopian Style binding, but has a strikingly different effect. We will maximize this difference by sewing with 2 different colors of thread. The elegant sewing structure, combined with wooden covers, opens a wide range of possibilities for both the beginner and the advanced bookbinder. Using simple hand tools, you will drill, shape, and smooth your book covers.
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Magical Metal
Instructor: Beryl Taylor
Date: Sat Jun 12, 2010 - Sun Jun 13, 2010
Program Type: Workshop
The class will incorporate two main techniques - making fabric paper from candy wrappers and working with metal embossing foil. The fabric paper will be made to take on the appearance of metal and will be combined with the foil to create magical embellishments. The foil will also be used to create a wall hanging which will be a series of foil panels manipulated and machine stitched to a fabric background. The excitement begins when we start to emboss the foil and change its appearance with colored inks, nail polish, gesso, modeling paste, glass bead gel, water soluble paper, rubber stamps, embossing powders, eyelets, brads and punches.
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Warming Up To Cold Connections I
Instructor: Richard Salley
Date: Mon Jun 21, 2010 - Wed Jun 23, 2010
Program Type: Workshop
Whether you are an experience art jeweler or looking for your first class in jewelry making, you'll learn a wealth of tips, tricks and techniques that you can apply to your own jewelry and assemblage projects. The class will focus on creating a beautiful and intricate hinged locket that you will construct from a humble rusty washer, etched metal components, wire and your own hand crafted chain and clasp.
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Warming Up To Cold Connections II
Instructor: Richard Salley
Date: Fri Jun 25, 2010 - Sun Jun 27, 2010
Program Type: Workshop
Whether you are an experience art jeweler or looking for your first class in jewelry making, you'll learn a wealth of tips, tricks and techniques that you can apply to your own jewelry and assemblage projects. The class will focus on creating a beautiful and intricate hinged locket that you will construct from a humble rusty washer, etched metal components, wire and your own hand crafted chain and clasp.
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Hunter Gatherer Maker - The Art of Found Object Assemblage
Instructor: Jane Wynn
Date: Fri Jul 9, 2010 - Sun Jul 11, 2010
Program Type: Workshop
In this workshop, you will explore the fascinating world of assemblage art using found objects and create a stunning sculptural piece that creates an amazing dynamic personal narrative. Begin with the difficult part of planning and problem solving your design, then learn to construct an environment out of wood using power tools. Join elements together with a variety of connecting skills from soldering to wire wrapping, hammering, nailing and, of course, using a variety of different adhesives.
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Off the Cuff
Instructor: Nina Bagley
Date: Fri Jul 16, 2010 - Sun Jul 18, 2010
Program Type: Workshop
For the past few months, I've been enamored with the notion of hanging one's jewelry on the wall as artwork. Why not? We spend hours (days) creating a piece to wear, when at day's end we are apt to tuck the jewels away, hidden in a box or the back of a drawer. This workshop will blend together both jewelry and mixed media to form a lovely wall hanging worthy of the creations you make. With the simple use of pearled corsage pins, the jewelry can be removed and attached, as well as changed for a different look. I look forward to three peaceful days of stitching by hand amongst artist friends!
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Gypsy Fairy Cottages and Necklace
Instructor: Nina Bagley
Date: Fri Jul 23, 2010 - Sun Jul 25, 2010
Program Type: Workshop
Back by popular demand, and with the added delight of a fairy necklace, are the mica fairy houses that Nina made a few years back for Valley Ridge; a variety of these houses were featured in Lynne Perrella's art book Beyond Paper Dolls. Many students have seen the structures in the common room at Valley Ridge, and requested that Nina teach the class again, but this time with a twist. We'll work on little fairy cottages - simple or complex, detailed or not - using natural items such as twigs, moss, stones, combined with mica, plus stitch and wire a lovely gypsy fairy pocket necklace. This workshop would be especially fun for anyone who would love to wander around in the woods with a little friend and come back to create an homage to the fairy and gypsy spirit in all of us.
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Encaustic Painting Rediscovered: Age Old Techniques Updated for the Contemporary Artist
Instructor: Debbi Simon
Date: Sat Jul 31, 2010 - Sun Aug 1, 2010
Program Type: Workshop
Come explore encaustic wax painting in this new two-day workshop highlighting this age-old technique- while incorporating today's tools, materials, and vibrant waxes. By starting with the basics, you will learn to work with the unique properties of wax to create textures that can be smooth and enamel-like, or extremely dimensional. We will continue to build on these techniques learning to layer materials, alter the wax with a variety of hot tools, incise, add found objects like fibers, nature and small treasures, and embellish with additional color such as oil pastels, micas, dyes, stamp pads, spices and more.
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Papermaking with Plant Fiber
Instructor: Nancee Wipperfurth
Date: Sat Aug 7, 2010 - Sun Aug 8, 2010
Program Type: Workshop
There is something magical about making paper by hand. You start with a fiber: the fallen leaves from the maple tree in your yard, or the bast fiber from the milkweed sticks you harvested from the roadside. You cook it, beat it, and pull it into a layer of wet pulp that dries into the most beautiful paper -- comprised of textural earth tones and feathery deckle edges. When you use this handmade paper in bookmaking, it provides one more element where you have control of the aesthetic.
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Alternative Photo Workshop I
Instructor: Dean Ebben
Date: Thu Aug 12, 2010 - Fri Aug 13, 2010
Program Type: Workshop
Learn new techniques; add photographic images to your work without the use of a darkroom. You can make a cyanotype anywhere if you have sun and water. In this workshop, you will explore Cyanotype and Acrylic Lifts and Transfers. These are great processes for anyone who has wanted to use photography in their book making, painting, sculpture, or even quilting.
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Alternative Photo Workshop II
Instructor: Dean Ebben
Date: Sat Aug 14, 2010 - Sun Aug 15, 2010
Program Type: Workshop
Learn new techniques; add photographic images to your work without the use of a darkroom. You can make a cyanotype anywhere if you have sun and water. In this workshop, you will explore Cyanotype and Acrylic Lifts and Transfers. These are great processes for anyone who has wanted to use photography in their book making, painting, sculpture, or even quilting.
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Twenty-Two
Instructor: Judy Wilkenfeld
Date: Thu Aug 19, 2010 - Sat Aug 21, 2010
Program Type: Workshop
Twenty-Two (22) was created for my partner, an artist. It is the story of our journey and the places and things that are important to us. Learn to make a similar book using symbology, not words, to tell a story, putting mixed media works, assemblages and shrines into a book form. Take an exciting journey as you create your story using colours, materials and found objects to help build a book that is intended to last generations.
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Book of Reliquaries
Instructor: Judy Wilkenfeld
Date: Sun Aug 22, 2010 - Tue Aug 24, 2010
Program Type: Workshop
The Book of Reliquaries represents part of a major work on the life and times of Sara Coppio Sullam. It incorporates reliquaries to help tell the story during the early 17th Century and The Inquisition period. In this workshop you will make a similar book, with your own story and style. You will learn how to make reliquaries, attach them and mixed media objects, works, assemblages and shrines into a book form.
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Urn Your Keep
Instructor: Michael DeMeng
Date: Wed Aug 25, 2010 - Thu Aug 26, 2010
Program Type: Workshop
Now I'm of a belief that to be a great artist you need to put yourself, body and soul, into your pieces. So perhaps I'm taking it a bit far with this idea, but hey why not create a nice little space for you to dwell in after you shuffled off this mortal coil? In this class we'll be making mixed media urns or reliquaries to house very special items (heirlooms, old letters, or even YOU) for posterity. Sure it sounds a bit morbid but that doesn't mean you can't have some fun with the idea.
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Mask Maker, Mask Maker, Make Me a Mask
Instructor: Michael DeMeng
Date: Fri Aug 27, 2010 - Sun Aug 29, 2010
Program Type: Workshop
Mask making is one of the oldest cultural traditions in the world. The ancient hunter world used masks to disguise themselves and stalk prey. In essence this is what a mask does, it changes the wearer into something else. This class will play with this concept, and using various found objects or existing masks, transform them into strange and unusual facial disguises.
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Beguiling Book House
Instructor: Jill Berry
Date: Sat Sep 4, 2010 - Mon Sep 6, 2010
Program Type: Workshop
This workshop is about the transformation of one book into a house full of books. Starting with a vintage volume of children's stories, the cover will become the roof of the Book House, and the pages books of stories that fill the rooms. We will match the stories we find to structures that best present them (a hopping structure might be about a frog) with instructions for many, many shapes and sizes of small books. Book making, box making, painting, collage, storytelling and some illustration techniques will be covered in this nostalgic journey.
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Learning Focusing to Help Free the Artist in You
Instructor: Karen Wallace
Date: Fri Sep 10, 2010 - Sun Sep 12, 2010
Program Type: Workshop
Focusing is direct access to bodily knowing. It is a practice that takes a person towards a state of conscious perception that goes far beyond knowing something on a mere conceptual level. Focusing helps you learn how to be Present and listen to yourself so that you can move ahead in your life in an empowered and safe way. Focusing brings you closer to wholeness and allows you to access your inner wisdom. This helps you move in the direction of your potential. It can help you move beyond artist's block, time and money issues you may have around your art and help you get in touch with your goals. SPECIAL NOTE: This program begins the evening of Friday, September 10 from 6:30 to 9:30 PM, and continues on Saturday and Sunday between 9:30 AM and 4:30 PM.
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The Mosaic Voyage
Instructor: Laurie Mika
Date: Fri Sep 17, 2010 - Sun Sep 19, 2010
Program Type: Workshop
Get ready to set sail on a mosaic voyage like no other. In this intensive three-day workshop, you will transform a plain metal book case into a beautiful handmade mosaic travel compendium. Students will be guided through a myriad of mixed media techniques using polymer clay to create highly embellished tiles. We will use paint, mica powders, gold leaf, beads, metal findings and jewels to enhance the polymer clay tiles.
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Roll With It
Instructor: Michelle Ward
Date: Thu Sep 23, 2010 - Fri Sep 24, 2010
Program Type: Workshop
Learn to create interesting painterly surfaces with layers of texture, pattern, and color. We will brush, brayer, scrape, stamp and spray to create an informative dossier of over twenty techniques on a twenty-five foot roll of paper. Day one is focused on the process, and is fast-paced to stay one step ahead of the inner critic. Day two is focused on the project, where the completed work is manipulated into a journal where every page has its own foundation, ready for your personal entries. The composition of each layout is only the first of many discoveries that will take place as we review several methods for adding content to the painted backgrounds.
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Parlor Tricks
Instructor: Michelle Ward
Date: Sat Sep 25, 2010 - Sun Sep 26, 2010
Program Type: Workshop
Fabricate a wickedly cool gothic mansion from paper! This vertical format triptych book is the perfect place to clear the cobwebs and work some magic. For two full days we will have a riot employing creative trickery with paint, stencils, and dimensional deceptions resulting in one-of-a-kind architectural tomes. Come to my neighborhood and we'll cast some spells together. Address: Mysteria Lane (ha!)
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Selective Seeing: Painting the Mind's Eye View
Instructor: Stephanie Lee
Date: Thu Sep 30, 2010 - Fri Oct 1, 2010
Program Type: Workshop
The mind remembers, in fuzzy or vivid detail, snippets of history and portions of the whole picture. You might remember what dress you wore the first day of kindergarten but the rest of the school year is a blur. You may even have the outline burned in your memory of the peripheral view of those who were with you when you stood for an award, but can't for the life of you remember who those people were. Or, maybe, you remember every little detail of particular event - the people, the scents, the colors of the sky, sounds of commotion but most important to you are a few key details of the moment. The apron grandma always wore, dad's work boots, the color of morning on the farm. Those are the details we will bring into focus in this two-day intensive exploration in dreamscaping.
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Handbook of Elements
Instructor: Stephanie Lee
Date: Sat Oct 2, 2010 - Sun Oct 3, 2010
Program Type: Workshop
The earth offers tactile and durable materials for use in artistic expression. Metal and gypsum, both earth elements, are combined in this stout little book comprised of solder-flooded metal covers and plaster pages. In this project-focused workshop, students will learn how to transform and build up sheet metal, adding vintage and found elements to the cover of the book using basic metal-smithing techniques and materials.
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BIGLinks
Instructor: Thomas Mann
Date: Fri Oct 8, 2010 - Sun Oct 10, 2010
Program Type: Workshop
Think BIG! This NEW three day workshop will introduce participants to sculptural perspective on linkages for jewelry. A variety of materials and techniques will be explored in the creation of BIG Link bracelets, neckpieces and belts. We'll employ the fabrication techniques of die forming, forging, chasing, hot connections (soldering) and cold connections.
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VisualPoetry: Techniques in Digital Photomanipulation
Instructor: Susan Tuttle
Date: Sat Oct 16, 2010 - Sun Oct 17, 2010
Program Type: Workshop
Discover the magical world of digital art. Using Adobe Photoshop Elements, you'll manipulate single photos and create digital montages. Learn how to give your photos a retro/vintage feel, create diffused light effects, convert your images to black and white and sepia tones, apply textural layers for a grungy effect, and more. Explore digital montage to create landscapes with a composite of images, and fill these digital environments with figures, objects, props to create a surreal work of digital art that looks like a seamless photograph.
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Faux Bone Workshop - Now in Full Color
Instructor: Robert Dancik
Date: Wed Oct 20, 2010 - Thu Oct 21, 2010
Program Type: Workshop
In this very hands-on workshop, we will explore Faux Bone(TM), a new, friendly and extremely versatile material. Faux Bone(TM) can be cut, and carved, sawn and sanded. It can be filed, hammered, polished, drilled, stamped, inlayed, dyed, and painted. It can look like ivory, have the patina of aged ceramic, or be polished to a pure white.
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Forming Lasting and Meaningful Attachments
Instructor: Robert Dancik
Date: Fri Oct 22, 2010 - Sun Oct 24, 2010
Program Type: Workshop
The scene: you have a glass marble, a vintage photo of a race car, a piece of fired metal clay formed from a silicone mold you made of a Monopoly piece, a broken bicycle tail light and a carnelian cabochon. All these need to be combined with sterling silver to form a bracelet and of course, be as durable as possible. You could just hang them from a chain however, you also want to ensure that the materials and the manner in which they are combined forward the idea you want to express in the piece.In this very useful and extensive workshop, participants will explore ways of attaching almost anything to almost anything else and enhance the message in your work.
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Life Drawing
Instructor: Susan Shie
Date: Tue Oct 26, 2010 - Thu Oct 28, 2010
Program Type: Workshop
If you think you can't draw, but you want to be able to, take this class. Drawing is to making other art like piano lessons are to making other music. Drawing is the basic knowledge you need to be versatile enough to make whatever images you want in your work. You'll learn how to really look at what you're drawing - how to analyze what you're really seeing and move your drawing tool with your eye, looking a lot more at the image than at your paper.
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Painted Cloth Diary Books
Instructor: Susan Shie
Date: Fri Oct 29, 2010 - Sun Oct 31, 2010
Program Type: Workshop
Bring out your freer inner self and get your creativity really flowing out again. In this three day program, you'll start a small book, exploring hand brush painting and line drawing with markers and airpen on white cotton fabric, to create diary paintings and turn them into quilted book pages. Draw freehand on Kona cotton with black permanent fine tip markers, then brush paint in the colors, and finally use the markers again, as well as an airpen, to write freehand on the surface, creating a verbal texture over the images in the story.
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Valley Ridge, LLC
c/o Katherine Malkasian
1825 Witek Road
Muscoda, Wisconsin
Phone: (608) 943-6212
kathy@valleyridgeartstudio.com
Waupaca Community Art Center - Lampwork Bead Making
http://www.wcacenter.com
2 Plus! Day Intensive Lampwork Bead Making Class
May 8, 15, 22 from 10:30-4, 3rd session 11-1.
Waupaca Community Arts Center
In this beginner class, students will learn to set up a safe glass bead making station and wrap molten glass on a steel mandrel. Experiment with stringers, millifiore, mica powders, metal leaf, enamels, silver wire, silver glass and dichroic glass to create stunning glass beads. Students will learn to make their own twisties, latticino, and murrini and to manipulate the lass into different shapes including round, barrel, square, olive, tab, and bi-cones. Encased beads, chemical reactions between colors and various metals will be covered in this intensive beginner class. Class Fee $250 payable to the instructor, Mary Beisner. Supply Fee $60 includes entire list of supplies available from Mary. Call her at 715-281-0173.
Waupaca Community Art Center - Beginning Lampworking, One Day Class
http://www.wcacenter.com
May 1 from 10:30 to 4 at Waupaca Community Arts Center
Learn to safely wrap molten glass on a steel mandrel to make your own glass beadds. Students will be able to experiment with stringers, millifiore, and mica powders to create unique beads on specialized torches. Fee is $65 plus supply fee of $40 payable to the instructor:
Mary Beisner. For more information call 715-281-0173.
Waupaca Community Arts Center - Beginning Smocking
http://www.wcacenter.com
March 3, 10, and 24
4:30 - 6:30 pm
Waupaca Community Arts Center
200 N Main
Waupaca
Instructor is Carol Kruger; $65 materials included; payment required ahead of time to guarantee a spot to Carol Kruger, C/o WCAC, 200 N Main, Waupaca, 54981; min - 4, max - 8
Waupaca Community Arts Center - Knitting Two Socks on One Needle
www.wcacenter.com
April 9 and 16
1 - 3 pm
Waupaca Community Arts Center
We will knit a pair of toddler size socks at the same time on a 40 circular needle. Needles and supplies will be available for purchase at the time of the class. If you really want to retain this method, it is advisable to start another pair at home parallel to the pair we will be doing in class. Book is available but not necessary for $16.95. Prerequisite: you have already knit a pair of socks one at a time. If you have not, please call the instructor before registering. 715-258-5664
Cost of the class is $25 payable directly to the instructor one week before the class starts. Class minimum is 4 students. Maximum is 6.
Instructor is Jane Haasch.
Waupaca Community Arts Center - Open Knitting
Open knitting is held Tuesday afternoons and Friday mornings. All are welcome to come, share your knitting, and your expertise.
Location
200 N Main St
Waupaca, WI, 54981
715-258-3741
Hours
Tues:
1:30 pm - 4:00 pm
Wed - Sat:
10:00 am - 4:30 pm
The Waupaca Community Arts Center is organized to promote the arts in the Waupaca community and provide space for artists and community members to display, experience, and learn about the visual, theatrical, musical, and literary arts.
Waupaca Community Arts Center - Wicker Baskets
http://www.wcacenter.com
April-May (See notes)
Waupaca Community Arts Center
This class depends on the weather. Local reeds will be collected as a group meeting at the art center at 10 am on the first good weather day either April 24, 25, or May 1, 2. Baskets will be made on a agreed upon date 2-3 months later to allow time for drying. Cost is $40 payable to the instructor, Olga Baltmanis.
Waupaca Community Arts Center - Woodcarving
http://www.wcacenter.com
Whimsical Cottages and Lighthouses; woodcarving out of Great Plains Cottonwood Bark
$65 paid in advance; Materials $20.
Instructor: Lee Belanger
Saturdays, April 17 and 24, 10 - 4:30
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