If you have been curious about the Brazilian martial art game capoeira and are physically fit, this is your chance to try it out. Immerse yourself in one week of intensive learning and playing together. Capoeira Regional in the mornings, Angola in the evenings. In between playing music, discussions, movies, celebration. Beginners welcome. We are [...]
Through action workshop, participants learn about the present moment, how to be here, unveiling themselves to themselves, one moment at a time and one moment leading to the next. Zaporah’s exercises which are physical, vocal and verbal, invite the practitioner into unknown yet uncannily familiar territories, territories of the embodied imagination. By examining awareness, play, [...]
Intensive Monotype – Aug. 8, 5 days. This intensive, in-depth, five-day course will cover the history, techniques and reasons for making monotype prints. Each all-day session will be divided between demonstrations and supervised work time. Updated methods for a wide variety of traditional techniques will be presented along with new experimental directions. The purpose of [...]
This workshop will utilize concepts from John Torreano’s book “Drawing By Seeing.” The morning sessions are group directed and consist of exercises designed to confront the difference between seeing for everyday use and seeing for the purpose of drawing. The afternoon sessions will be individually directed wherein students try to apply ideas from the morning [...]
This class is an introduction to direct carving techniques for wood sculpture. Begin with whole logs and by utilizing a variety of carving tools, from chain saw to wood lathe to chisel, explore the most direct path from idea to form. Surface treatments and texture will also be explored as a means of enhancing the [...]
Marquetry is a technique where different colors of wood veneers are carefully cut to fit precisely together creating a design in wood. The workshop will focus on the double-bevel method of marquetry. This highly accurate technique is cut by hand and creates tightly fitting marquetry pieces. With practice, the cutting of the veneers can be [...]
I produce prints, drawings, and paintings using a variety of techniques, many of which I have developed. In addition to exhibited works, I create artwork on commission for specific sites in keeping with a client’s needs and tastes. My works are in private and corporate collections in the United States, Europe, Peru, and Japan. I teach printmaking in the San Francisco Bay Area and abroad.
Workshop Description : Performing Arts with Ruth Zaporah – August 10, 2011 Website: http://www.actiontheater.com Ruth Zaporah entered the dance studio at age 3 and now 6 decades later continues to enter the studio door. The doors have changed as have the locations but the particularities of what she does in the studio, responding to her [...]
John Torreano Website: www.johntorreano.com Workshop Description : Drawing By Seeing with John Torreano August 8-12, 2011 Born and raised in Flint, Michigan, a G.M. town, it was working class, industrial and bleak. There were no art classes. (Recently it has achieved notoriety because of Michael Moore and his film Roger and Me.) It wasn’t until [...]
Website: http://markgardnerstudio.com Workshop Description ; Carving Techniques For Wood Sculpture August 1-5, 2011 I have always enjoyed working with my hands. I’ve done lots of different things with my hands, from set construction and painting, to sculpting clay to woodworking. There is something about working with wood that gives me the most satisfaction. I started [...]
“Creating one-of-a-kind furniture represents a unique blending of the beauty and elegance of the natural world and that created by the human imagination.“ Website: http://www.cvstevens.com Workshop Description I studied furnituremaking at the College of Redwoods in northern California, a program renowned for its excellence in craftsmanship and attention to detail. There, under the instruction [...]
Ruth is offering an introduction to her improvisation physical theater practice, Action Theater, to the Santa Fe Community College. Through action the practitioner learns about the present moment, how to be HERE, unveiling themselves to themselves, one moment at a time, one moment leading to the next. Ruth’s exercises, physical, vocal and verbal, invite the [...]
This intensive, in-depth 5 day course will cover the history, techniques and reasons for making monotype prints. Each all-day session will be divided between demonstrations and supervised work time. Updated methods for a wide variety of traditional techniques will be presented along with new experimental directions. The purpose of the class is not to produce [...]
Etching aluminum with copper sulfate is a safer, easier and cheaper alternative to traditional copper and zinc etching in acid. It even aquatints itself! Students will learn to prepare the etching bath, ground their plates with acrylic floor polish, transfer a drawing to the plate and scribe their design through the ground. Aquatinting methods will [...]
This workshop, directed by artist John Torreano, will utilize concepts from his recent book Drawing By Seeing. The morning sessions are group directed consisting of exercises designed to confront the difference between seeing for everyday use (customary perception) and seeing for the purpose of drawing (aesthetic perception.) He describes the exercise portion of the workshop [...]
Marquetry is a technique where different colors of wood veneers are carefully cut to fit precisely together creating a design in wood. The workshop will focus on the double-bevel method of marquetry. This highly accurate technique is cut by hand and creates tightly fitting marquetry pieces. With practice, the cutting of the veneers can be [...]
This class is an introduction to direct carving techniques for wood sculpture. We will begin with whole logs and by utilizing a variety of carving tools from chain saw to wood lathe to chisel we will explore the most direct path from idea to form. Surface treatments and texture will also be explored as a [...]
