Our 1- and 2-day workshops offer a taste of something new and a little digging deep, while teaching artists from around the country provide in-depth exploration for the benefit of our instructors, advanced students, and curious learners during Visiting Artist Workshops.
Summer
FRENCH POUR S’AMUSER (FOR FUN)
Elise Head / Multi-Purpose Classroom
Mon 7/22-7/29
6-8:30pm / Two Days
$80 / Members: $60
Brush up on your French Conversation or start from scratch in a fun and supportive environment. Learn basic French terms while discussing popular French music, film, art and food. Coffee and snacks will be provided!
INDIGO DYEING
Gretchen Huggett / Studio 1
Sat 7/20
10am – 4pm / One Day
$120 / Members: $100
Immerse yourself in the color blue for a day! Learn the care and feeding of natural indigo dye pots plus the instant gratification of pre-reduced indigo. Stitched and clamped resists will be discussed as well as other resist techniques. Two silk scarves will be provided with the course plus other blank items will be available for purchase.
BLIZZARDS!
Deborah Mattson / Printmaking Studio
Sat 7/13
12-4pm / One Day
$70 / Members: $50
Escape the summer heat with your own blizzard–a blizzard book, that is! Students will make several types of blizzard books including simple blizzard books with pockets, blizzard folders and boxes, and crown books and stars. All paper will be supplied, but you are encouraged to bring any specialty papers you may have.
HANDMADE PHOTO BOOK
Laurie Pruitt and Mary Whalen / Computer Lab
Fri 7/12-7/19
10am-4pm / Two Days
Prerequisite: A basic knowledge of Photoshop or Lightroom is helpful
$185 / Members: $165
Select, edit, print, and bind your photos into a handmade book while viewing and handling a selection of artist-made books to serve as inspiration for your own. The first day will be devoted to the editing, sequencing, and printing of images. The following session will be committed to folding, stitching, and binding into a hardcover book. Instructors will email instructions to enrollees for images to be used.
HOT CLAY NIGHT
Wyatt Lane and Amy Hudson / Studio 5 & 7
Fri 7/19
6-9pm / One Day
Pair: $150 / Members: Pair:$130
Spend a summer evening in the KIA ceramics studio! Come as a pair and work side-by-side on the potter’s wheel or meet friends after your work week. We’ll fire up the raku kiln, firing pre-made pieces you’ll glaze and take home. It’s the ideal opportunity to have a creative introduction to clay. Pots thrown on the wheel during the workshop will not be fired. All tools and materials supplied, but dress for the mess! Bring an apron and a beverage and be ready to experience something new. Parent and teen pairs are welcomed, but youth must be over the age of 14.
NATURE SKETCHING IN CLAY
Anna Ill / KNC Barn
Tue 7/9-7/16 5-8pm
5-8pm / Two Days
$120 / Members: $100
Wet clay invites impressions and the walking trails at the Kalamazoo Nature Center are full of inspiring imagery. Using drawing tools and found objects, we will create compositions from the Nature Center grounds on small ceramic tiles. Each student will have access to several tiles on which to create “clay sketches”. On day one, we will walk the trails, find inspiration, and make several clay sketches. Tiles will be fired and ready for completion with cold finishes on day two. This course will include traditional as well as non-traditional finishing techniques utilizing waxes, polishes, and acrylics. Dress appropriately for this outdoor class. No prior clay experience or special tools are required.
Fall
THE HAND PAINTED PHOTOGRAPH
Mary Whalen / Multi-Purpose Classroom
Sat 9/14-9/21
1 – 4pm / Two Days
$120 / Members: $100
Hand color a black and white photograph! You have the option to selectively color or color the entire image. We will start with a digital inkjet black and white photograph and prepare it so that it can be hand colored with various mediums, oil, color pencil pastels.
An email will be sent to participants for submitting images to be digitally printed for the class.
MACRO PHOTOGRAPHY
Mark Cassino / Multi-Purpose Classroom
Sat 10/12
10am-4pm / One Day
$100 / Members: $80
Explore the world of high magnification macro photography! This one day
workshop will cover the basics of how to photograph tiny subjects at
high magnifications. Topics will include techniques for achieving high
magnification, managing depth of field, lighting subjects, and using
focus stacking. Photographing small subjects both in the field and studio will
be covered. Please bring a lunch.