Pop-Up Book Making – Beauvais Lyons, Chancellor’s Professor and Divisional Dean for Arts and Humanities   

Capacity: 15

This workshop will introduce principles of making pop-up books. Students will start by making a series of basic forms that use the principles of converging and parallel folds to learn some of the principles. Based on this, and through the study of a collection of different pop-up books, students will have an opportunity to make a set of four pop-up books.  Paper, glue and Xacto blades will be provided. Students should bring personal image sources and their favorite drawing media.

Printmaking 1: “The Foraged Matrix”    – Ashlee Mays, Director of Museum of Infinite Outcomes

Capacity: 12  

Join Ashlee Mays, director of the Museum of Infinite Outcomes, and explore the living world through the matrix of screen printing. The morning will kick off with a hands-on screen-printing demonstration and an open-air foraging session. After lunch, we will work in pairs to create unique compositions with our foraged materials, and through screen printing we will work in multiple colors building up layers while working collectively. All supplies will be provided. This is a beginner level course, no drawing or printing experience required. Students leave with two unique prints on paper.

Printmaking 2: “Trash to Treasure” – Gaby Hurtado-Ramos and Ivy Manska, Graduate Students in Printmaking

Capacity: 8  

Discover how to turn trash into treasure through pressure printing in the letterpress studio! In this workshop we will use found objects and stencils to create colorful prints on our letterpress proofing presses. We will then demonstrate how to set woodtype and create a poster to ink up and print on some of our pressure-printed backgrounds. Feel free to bring in your own found trash, leaves, flowers, or we will also have various materials provided.

Printmaking 3: Drypoint & Trace Monotype –   Eliza Frensley, Graduate Student in Printmaking

Capacity: 12

 This workshop presents a unique opportunity for students to learn non-toxic printmaking techniques, both with and without a press. Students will be introduced to drypoint and trace monotype methods to create editioned and non-editioned unique prints.

Each participant should bring a few personal photographs that capture celebratory events. These could be from a birthday party, wedding, potluck, or friend’s hangout. They can bring originals or scanned and copied versions no larger than 8.5”x11”. Using a tracing method, students will focus on recreating imagery and creating entirely new compositions by mixing and matching their found photos.

(FULL) Photography: Intro to Film and Dark Room – Bruce Cole, Lecturer in Photography
 Capacity: 12

This workshop looks at the basics of good photography. Learn about using a camera and photographic fundamentals such as aperture, shutter speed, light, focus, metering, and shooting modes. Students will learn the difference between digital and analog photography and how a dark room works.

(FULL) Stop Motion Animation –  Ruchi Singh, Graduate Student in Time-Based Art

Capacity: 10

This is a workshop for creating stop-motion animation. For their animation, students will have a range of materials to choose from – clay, paper cutout, drawing, or a mix of these materials. We’ll be using a camera and a laptop for taking pictures and creating a video. By the end of the workshop, each student will have a short animated film of their own.

(FULL) Ceramics – Frank Martin, Professor Emeritus of Ceramics and Hannah Langer, Graduate Student in Ceramics
Capacity: 12

This class will explore the use of finishing and firing techniques. Students will combine traditional and non-traditional methods while working with pre-fired tiles to explore various processes and concepts. The tiles will be Raku fired under staff supervision.

(FULL) Drawing Fundamentals and Techniques – Richard Mabula, Graduate Student in Painting and Drawing

Capacity: 12

In this workshop, you will receive a comprehensive introduction to the Ani Art Academies Language of Drawing Program. This includes in-depth instruction and guided practice of progressive exercises that teach drawing fundamentals through the use of Elements of Art (dot/line, shape, value, form, color, texture, and space). The workshop is designed to focus solely on helping you develop fundamental representational drawing skills. You will leave with the necessary deliberate exercise tools to continue to develop your ability to communicate with a vocabulary of confident marks, lines, and values. 

(FULL) Sculpture 1: Needle Felting* – Brigit Ciskowski, Graduate Student in Sculpture

Capacity:10

In this workshop, students will learn skills in needle felting on both a two-dimensional surface as well as creating 3D felted sculpture. Needle felting is a process of poking a barbed needle into wool to manipulate and condense the fibers. You will leave this class with a set of felted coasters, a representational sculpture and an abstract sculpture. 

*if needles make you uncomfortable, this class is NOT for you.

(FULL) Sculpture 2: Giant Puppet Construction – Nyssa Collins, Graduate Student in Sculpture

Capacity: 10

In this scrappy and very hands-on workshop, students will learn the basics of giant puppet construction, a tradition rooted in political activism, inventive solutions, and play. We will learn basic cardboard sculpting and papier-mache, puppet rigging and design, and a brief history of this fun tradition. Students will also receive a beginning lesson in puppetry and physical theater. This is a great workshop for students who love non-traditional performance, collaboration, or making huge projects with unlikely materials, or for students who are curious beginners in any of those areas. Nyssa Collins worked for five years as an artist, performer, and stilt walker with the giant puppet company Paperhand Puppet Intervention, and has since built several large junk sculptures and created numerous shadow puppet shows.