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mendocino <strong>art</strong> center<br />
2009 summer & fall workshops<br />
ceramics • digital <strong>art</strong>s • fiber <strong>art</strong>s • <strong>fine</strong> <strong>art</strong>s • jewelry • sculpture • young <strong>art</strong>ists
highlights . . .<br />
ceramics<br />
digital <strong>art</strong>s<br />
fiber <strong>art</strong>s<br />
<strong>fine</strong> <strong>art</strong><br />
jewelry<br />
sculpture
The People of the<br />
<strong>Mendocino</strong> <strong>Art</strong> <strong>Center</strong><br />
Acting Executive Director Mike McDonald<br />
Interim Education<br />
Coordinator<br />
Michele Ketterer<br />
Registrar<br />
Linn Bottorf<br />
Gallery Manager<br />
Mark Cody<br />
Marketing & Publicity<br />
Director<br />
Mike McDonald<br />
Exhibition Coordinator Michele Ketterer<br />
Facilities Manager Gabe Arreguin<br />
Housing Manager Jessi Adamson Ekern<br />
Dep<strong>art</strong>ment Heads:<br />
Ceramics<br />
Jewelry<br />
Fiber <strong>Art</strong>s<br />
Sculpture<br />
Digital <strong>Art</strong>s<br />
Fine <strong>Art</strong>s<br />
Music<br />
Young <strong>Art</strong>ists<br />
Board of Directors<br />
President<br />
Vice Presidents<br />
Treasurer<br />
Secretary<br />
Members<br />
Darrin Ekern<br />
Pamela Kahlo<br />
Tara Turner<br />
Kathy Rousso<br />
Gert Rasmussen<br />
David Russell<br />
Marge Stew<strong>art</strong><br />
Marge Stew<strong>art</strong><br />
Gayle Caldwell<br />
Margaret Paul<br />
Brandt Stickel<br />
Cynthia Crocker Scott<br />
Dale Moyer<br />
Janis Porter<br />
Thomas Becker<br />
Madeleine Brink<br />
Robert Burridge<br />
James Cook<br />
Joan Gates<br />
Terry Lyon<br />
Don McCullough<br />
Richard Miller<br />
Don Paglia<br />
Leona Walden<br />
Lucia Zacha<br />
WELCOME TO THE<br />
MENDOCINO ART CENTER<br />
Whether you have received our workshop catalog through our mailing<br />
list or have picked it up at an <strong>art</strong> supply store or a fair, we hope<br />
you take the time to look through our wide selection of classes and<br />
consider coming to <strong>Mendocino</strong> for a wonderful <strong>art</strong>istic immersion.<br />
Our dep<strong>art</strong>ment heads work hard to bring the best instructors to our<br />
campus, and to provide a variety of <strong>art</strong>istic techniques and experiences<br />
each term. We offer workshops for all levels of students.<br />
For those of you who will be returning, we hope you notice that a fair<br />
amount of refurbishing has been going on at the <strong>Art</strong> <strong>Center</strong>. For those<br />
of you who have never been here, now is the time! What better way<br />
to set aside the cares of the world for a few days than to come to<br />
<strong>Mendocino</strong> and enjoy one of our soul-satisfying, retreat-style workshops<br />
in this spectacular setting. See you soon.<br />
MENDOCINO ART CENTER –<br />
An <strong>Art</strong> School, <strong>Art</strong> Galleries,<br />
a Gallery Shop, and a Theatre<br />
The MENDOCINO ART CENTER is an educational, exhibition, and<br />
resource center for the visual and performing <strong>art</strong>s founded by Bill<br />
and Jennie Zacha in 1959. This thriving center offers educational<br />
opportunities in the <strong>art</strong>s, including Fine <strong>Art</strong>, Sculpture, Ceramics,<br />
Digital <strong>Art</strong>s, Fiber <strong>Art</strong>s and Jewelry/Metalsmithing. In addition to the<br />
studios, the facilities include three galleries and a retail gallery shop<br />
featuring exclusive, one-of-a-kind <strong>art</strong>work created by members, as<br />
well as a performing <strong>art</strong>s theatre. The <strong>Mendocino</strong> <strong>Art</strong> <strong>Center</strong> is open<br />
year round.<br />
Images on page 2 (Top to Bottom, Left to Right) Brian Davis, Kelly and Trent<br />
Berning, Robert Burridge, Jima Abbott, Janet Davis, Ricky Frank, Dana<br />
Driver, Sha Sha Higby, Nancy Collins. Images on page 47 (Top to Bottom,<br />
Left to Right) Jerardo Tena, Larry Wagner, Xiaoping and Junya, Harlan Simon,<br />
Dale E. Moyer, Brent Sumner, Susan Louise Moyer, Gert Rasmussen, Nadine<br />
Spier.<br />
TABLE OF CONTENTS<br />
Ceramics 4<br />
Digital <strong>Art</strong>s 9<br />
Fiber <strong>Art</strong>s 13<br />
Fine <strong>Art</strong> 18<br />
Jewelry 30<br />
Sculpture 36<br />
Exhibits & Events 40<br />
Instructor Index 41<br />
Housing 42<br />
Other programs 43<br />
Registration & General Info 44<br />
Open Studios 45<br />
Registration Form 46<br />
MENDOCINO ART CENTER<br />
45200 Little Lake Street<br />
PO Box 765<br />
<strong>Mendocino</strong>, CA 95460<br />
707-937-5818 or 800-653-3328<br />
Email: Education Director: macdirec@mcn.org<br />
Registrar: mendo<strong>art</strong>@mcn.org<br />
Website: www.<strong>Mendocino</strong><strong>Art</strong><strong>Center</strong>.org<br />
<strong>Mendocino</strong> <strong>Art</strong> <strong>Center</strong> Mission Statement:<br />
The mission of the <strong>Mendocino</strong> <strong>Art</strong> <strong>Center</strong> is to be a vital<br />
cultural resource, providing a broad range of the highest<br />
quality educational and exhibition opportunities in the <strong>art</strong>s<br />
to all people.<br />
Cover image: Brian Davis Dahlia Duet, Oil on canvas. See<br />
page 22 for his workshop LUMINOUS OILS.<br />
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The Ceramics Dep<strong>art</strong>ment at the<br />
<strong>Mendocino</strong> <strong>Art</strong> <strong>Center</strong> has undergone<br />
some major changes in the last year<br />
and a half. If you have been here in<br />
the past, but not recently, now is the<br />
time to see all that has been done!<br />
Darrin Ekern took over as the Ceramics<br />
Director in September 2007, and since<br />
that time the Ceramics Dep<strong>art</strong>ment has<br />
been revitalized! Here are just some<br />
of the things he’s been up to: Cleaned,<br />
painted and organized the studio.<br />
Built new heavy-duty work tables.<br />
Done major reconstruction on all the<br />
kilns, electric and gas, so they are all<br />
working at top condition. Purchased<br />
a computerized controller for one of<br />
the electric kilns for better control of<br />
the firings. Built a new Raku kiln, and<br />
rebuilt the wood kiln. Also, this summer<br />
Darrin and his assistants will be<br />
modifying one of the gas kilns to be a<br />
high efficiency air-recuperating kiln,<br />
saving a bundle on fuel usage. This is<br />
only a p<strong>art</strong>ial list of the improvements<br />
that are now making the Ceramics<br />
Studio a top notch facility, and work<br />
continues on making the <strong>Mendocino</strong><br />
<strong>Art</strong> <strong>Center</strong> ceramics dep<strong>art</strong>ment one<br />
of the best ceramics studios around.<br />
Come and see for yourself!<br />
June 22 – 26<br />
(Monday – Friday)<br />
FIRE AND FORM<br />
– Exploring Functional Surface &<br />
Form for the Soda Kiln<br />
The soda kiln offers unlimited possibilities<br />
for the surfaces of our pots. This<br />
workshop is designed for experienced<br />
wheel-formers wishing to fire in a sodavapour<br />
atmosphere. Bring bisqued pots<br />
to slip, glaze, and soda-fire. Students<br />
will be hands-on in all aspects of kiln<br />
loading, firing, and unloading. While the<br />
kiln cools, we will be in the throwing<br />
studio. Bring an idea, problem, or issue<br />
to focus on. Day five, we unload the<br />
kiln. This is a wonderful opportunity to<br />
meld firing and forming. Tuition: $400<br />
(includes 50# of clay).<br />
ROBBIE LOBELL is a studio potter living<br />
and working on Whidbey Island,<br />
Washington. Her pots reside in kitchens,<br />
on tables, and in homes across the nation.<br />
Lobell’s work has been exhibited nationally,<br />
and featured in Ceramics Monthly<br />
Magazine, The Studio Potter magazine,<br />
and books about pottery. Lobell teaches<br />
workshops and classes throughout the<br />
country and in her studio.<br />
July 6 – 10<br />
(Monday – Friday)<br />
ANCIENT CLAY<br />
Beginning and experienced clay-workers<br />
will have the opportunity to investigate<br />
the techniques and aesthetics of<br />
ancient and tribal ceramics. We’ll focus<br />
on simple vessel construction using<br />
pinch and coil methods, exploring the<br />
broad diversity of handbuilt form and<br />
the range of decorative effects possible<br />
without the use of glazes. Slide<br />
shows will explore high points in the<br />
history of ancient and tribal clay. The<br />
work we make will be coated with terra<br />
sigillata and finished with ancient and<br />
tribal polishing techniques. Tuition: $375<br />
(includes 50# of clay).<br />
VINCE PITELKA has been a studio clay<br />
<strong>art</strong>ist for 35 years, teaching clay since<br />
1986, the last 14 years at Tennessee<br />
Technological University’s Appalachian<br />
<strong>Center</strong> for Craft, one of the best <strong>fine</strong>craft<br />
studio facilities in the nation. The<br />
BFA program is unique among university<br />
<strong>art</strong> programs, offering the highest quality<br />
professional <strong>fine</strong> craft education in<br />
clay, glass, metals, fibers and wood.<br />
July 13 – 17<br />
(Monday – Friday)<br />
EVERYTHING GOES:<br />
The benefits of inviting chaos into<br />
the studio.<br />
Marc Lancet will demonstrate a vast<br />
array of wheel and handbuilding techniques<br />
that he employs to create studio<br />
pottery and sculpture. Emphasis will be<br />
placed on combining techniques, developing<br />
novel forms and investigating the<br />
<strong>art</strong>istic process. Creative strategies for<br />
development and discovery in the studio<br />
will also be covered. Marc asks p<strong>art</strong>icipants<br />
to bring a written copy of their<br />
favorite <strong>art</strong> related quote, poem and/or<br />
writing on creativity, <strong>art</strong>-making and/or<br />
<strong>art</strong> process. Tuition: $375 (includes 50#<br />
of clay).<br />
MARC LANCET is co-author with<br />
Japanese master potter Masakazu<br />
Kusakabe of Japanese Wood-fired<br />
Ceramics. His work is exhibited internationally.<br />
He is in his 24th year as professor<br />
of three-dimensional <strong>art</strong> at Solano<br />
Community College. He has been a visiting<br />
professor of sculpture at Portland<br />
State University and at the University of<br />
California, Santa Barbara.<br />
800 653-3328 For Complete Workshop Descriptions visit: www.<strong>Mendocino</strong><strong>Art</strong><strong>Center</strong>.org
July 13 – 17<br />
(Monday – Friday)<br />
COILING POTS IN<br />
RELATION TO THE HUMAN<br />
FORM<br />
The instructor will take you back in<br />
history and introduce the coiled technique<br />
which has been applied by so<br />
many cultures throughout the world and<br />
centuries. The vessel form has survived<br />
throughout and the instructor draws the<br />
comparison to the human shape – which<br />
hasn’t changed that much either! This<br />
course will emphasize the relationship<br />
between people and vessels. The coiling<br />
process enables us to center ourselves<br />
while centering our pieces. Tuition: $410<br />
(includes 50# of clay).<br />
KARIN JARVINEN graduated in 1997<br />
from <strong>art</strong> school, the Rietveld Academy<br />
in Amsterdam, Holland. She’s had<br />
many exhibitions in Europe and the U.S.<br />
Her work has been bought by three<br />
museums in Europe: Het Princessehof<br />
Museum in Leeuwarden, Holland; Het<br />
Gemeentemuseum in Arnhem, Holland;<br />
and Museum of Decorative <strong>Art</strong> in<br />
Gent, Belgium (now called the Design<br />
Museum).<br />
July 20 – 24<br />
(Monday – Friday)<br />
MAKING YOUR OWN POTS<br />
This is a workshop for developing a personal<br />
language with pottery as a form<br />
of expression. The class will include<br />
instruction in different ways of making<br />
pots, using both throwing and handbuilding<br />
techniques, and firing them in<br />
an atmospheric salt and/or soda kiln.<br />
Ideas and information for surface treatments<br />
and firing techniques will be discussed<br />
and shared. Slides of the <strong>art</strong>ist’s<br />
work and contemporary ceramics will<br />
compliment this hands-on experience.<br />
Tuition: $375 (includes 50# of clay).<br />
JOSH DeWEESE is an Assistant<br />
Professor of <strong>Art</strong> in Ceramics at Montana<br />
State University in Bozeman, MT. He<br />
has served as Resident Director of the<br />
Archie Bray Foundation, holds an MFA<br />
from Alfred, and a BFA from the Kansas<br />
City <strong>Art</strong> Institute. DeWeese has exhibited<br />
and taught internationally and his<br />
work is included in numerous collections.<br />
July 20 – 24<br />
(Monday – Friday)<br />
MAKING LARGE POTS<br />
FROM LARGE MOLDS<br />
This workshop will cover not only the<br />
making and use of plaster press molds,<br />
but also a variety of other materials used<br />
to form clay: plastic, cardboard, wood,<br />
etc. Various found objects will be used<br />
as slump and hump molds for forming<br />
p<strong>art</strong>s for both pottery and sculpture.<br />
Other techniques demonstrated will be<br />
the “ten minute” punch bowl and freeform<br />
platters. Some of the subjects covered<br />
are from <strong>art</strong>icles written for Pottery<br />
Making Illustrated and recently used<br />
in a book by the American Ceramic<br />
Society. Tuition: $375 (includes 50# of<br />
clay).<br />
BILL SHINN received a BA Degree in<br />
Painting and an MA Degree in Ceramics<br />
at UCLA. During his career, Shinn has<br />
traveled extensively in the USA, Europe,<br />
Japan and Russia, furthering his <strong>art</strong><br />
experience and recognition. His work<br />
has recently been featured in Ceramics<br />
Monthly and Pottery Making Illustrated,<br />
to which he is a regular contributor.<br />
800 653-3328 For Complete Workshop Descriptions visit: www.<strong>Mendocino</strong><strong>Art</strong><strong>Center</strong>.org<br />
July 27 – August 1<br />
(Monday – Saturday)<br />
SOUNDING CERAMIC<br />
SCULPTURE<br />
Brian Ransom demonstrates many of<br />
the throwing, hand-building and assembling<br />
techniques he uses in creating<br />
his unique sounding ceramic sculptures<br />
and musical instruments. You’ll make<br />
and tune your own during the workshop.<br />
There’ll be discussions with Brian<br />
regarding clay bodies, firing techniques<br />
(p<strong>art</strong>icularly vapor-firing) and both the<br />
formal and informal sculptural processes<br />
Brian utilizes in his sounding ceramics.<br />
Tuition: $410 (includes 50# of clay).<br />
BRIAN RANSOM is Professor of Visual<br />
<strong>Art</strong> at Eckerd College in St. Petersburg,<br />
Florida. He is most noted for his sounding<br />
sculptures and musical instruments<br />
whose primary resonators are ceramic,<br />
although they increasingly employ an<br />
unusual variety of media and installation<br />
venues in their presentations. He writes<br />
compositions for his original ceramic<br />
musical instruments that have been<br />
featured in recordings, film and video<br />
soundtracks and ballet scores.<br />
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August 3 – 7<br />
(Monday – Friday)<br />
BERNING SCULPTURES<br />
AND VESSELS<br />
Two different areas of ceramics will be<br />
explored side by side. Trent will focus<br />
on wheel work and alternative throwing<br />
techniques. Some of these thrown<br />
and altered forms will include sectional<br />
pots, throwing ovals, d<strong>art</strong>ing, throwing<br />
larger vessels, and surface treatments<br />
on greenware using slips, textures and<br />
stencils. Kelly will focus on hand-built<br />
figurative sculptures and share her<br />
techniques in building larger figures in<br />
sections to fit them in a standard electric<br />
kiln. They’ll discuss issues in conceptual<br />
pottery and ceramics, who inspires<br />
them, and their love and passion for the<br />
medium. Tuition: $375 (includes 50# of<br />
clay).<br />
KELLY and TRENT BERNING met at<br />
the University of Tennessee, Knoxville<br />
where they received their MFA<br />
Degrees in Ceramics. Kelly teaches<br />
ceramics at Mira Costa College and<br />
Mount San Jacinto College in CA and<br />
Trent teaches ceramics at Mira Costa<br />
College, and Palomar College in CA. Visit<br />
Berningclaygallery.com<br />
August 10 – 14<br />
(Monday – Friday)<br />
HIGH EFFICIENCY KILN<br />
BUILDING<br />
Concerned with the high fuel costs and<br />
carbon emissions of your gas kiln We’ll<br />
modify a gas kiln into an air recuperating<br />
kiln, recycling heated air from the<br />
chimney back into the burner chamber<br />
and giving the kiln better insulation, saving<br />
up to 50% in fuel costs. Get hands-on<br />
experience in fuel efficient kiln building<br />
and insulation techniques, and learn<br />
how this technology can be applied to<br />
building your own air recuperating kiln.<br />
Tuition: $600.<br />
HUGH JENKINS has worked in glass<br />
since 1969. He brought glass into the<br />
Punahou School <strong>art</strong> dep<strong>art</strong>ment in 1972<br />
and taught there until 1998. He’s also<br />
taught glass at Penland School of Crafts<br />
in North Carolina. Since 1996 he has<br />
focused in collaboration with Stephanie<br />
Ross on a highly colored series of bowls<br />
and vases. He created a glass teaching<br />
program and a professional glass<br />
studio on the Big Island, and is currently<br />
helping other glass blowers improve the<br />
efficiency of their equipment.<br />
August 17 – 21<br />
(Monday – Friday)<br />
ALTERNATIVE RAKU<br />
Learn the Basics of selected Alternative<br />
Raku techniques, “upside down” throwing,<br />
slam molds, re<strong>fine</strong>d terra sigillata,<br />
contemporary burnishing/polishing,<br />
hydrometers in slip and glaze formulations,<br />
two-step naked raku (resist slip<br />
and “orange peel” under-fired glaze<br />
method), one-step naked raku (resist<br />
slip only method), saggar firings (aluminum<br />
foil and clay), ferric chloride (with<br />
and without glaze), horse hair (plain<br />
and colored), black ware, and “smokeless”<br />
reduction practices. Learn to fire<br />
raku kilns. You must bring 20 specially<br />
prepared bisqued pieces to fire. Level:<br />
intermediate to advanced wheel and<br />
handbuilding ceramic skills. Tuition:<br />
$375 (includes 50# of clay).<br />
EDUARDO LAZO is a professional potter/<br />
sculptor with 28 years of experience.<br />
He has taught in private studios, community<br />
centers, community colleges,<br />
and universities. Eduardo holds an MFA<br />
from California State University in Los<br />
Angeles.<br />
August 24 – 28<br />
(Monday – Friday)<br />
YIXING TEAPOTS AND<br />
SCULPTURE<br />
Xiaoping will use the Yixing paddled slab<br />
method to make contemporary abstract<br />
figures. Slabs are formed into cylinders<br />
that are manipulated from the inside and<br />
out to breathe volume and life into the<br />
body p<strong>art</strong>s. Junya will use traditional<br />
tools and slab techniques to demonstrate<br />
building yixing teapots. The roots<br />
of this ancient technique date back 1000<br />
years to the Song Dynasty. Since that<br />
time Yixing has been renowned for the<br />
elegance and function of its small teapots.<br />
Tuition: $450 (includes 50# of clay).<br />
XIAOPING and JUNYA split their time<br />
between Yixing and the US, teaching<br />
workshops and doing exhibitions<br />
throughout the US. Xiaoping received<br />
his BFA in Sculpture from Jingdezhen<br />
Ceramics College, and went on to<br />
become a member of the Architecture<br />
Faculty of Tongji University, Shanghai.<br />
In 1992, he opened his own teaching and<br />
<strong>art</strong> studio in Yixing.<br />
800 653-3328 For Complete Workshop Descriptions visit: www.<strong>Mendocino</strong><strong>Art</strong><strong>Center</strong>.org
September 5 – 6<br />
(Saturday – Sunday)<br />
CHAWANS AND BEYOND<br />
This workshop will explore the form of<br />
the tea bowl (chawan) as both a handbuilt<br />
and thrown object, and as a combination<br />
of the two. Decoration processes<br />
will also be explored, including incised<br />
design, slip decoration and applied textural<br />
elements. Work may be fired by<br />
arrangement with the <strong>Mendocino</strong> <strong>Art</strong><br />
<strong>Center</strong> Ceramics Dep<strong>art</strong>ment. Tuition:<br />
$175 (includes 50# of clay).<br />
DENNIS TREANOR has worked in<br />
Ceramics since 1964. He studied at San<br />
Francisco State University, earning a<br />
BA and MA in Ceramics and Sculpture,<br />
respectively. Mr. Treanor has directed<br />
the Randall Museum Ceramics Program<br />
in San Francisco since 1974. He is also<br />
active in the San Francisco Museum of<br />
Modern <strong>Art</strong> Docent Program.<br />
September 12 – 13<br />
(Saturday – Sunday)<br />
MATA ORTIZ HANDBUILT<br />
POTTERY<br />
Join Jerardo Tena, Master Potter from<br />
Mata Ortiz, Mexico, for a hands-on demo<br />
and workshop where he will share the<br />
handbuilding, painting and firing techniques<br />
of the pottery from Mata Ortiz.<br />
You will learn the “tortilla/chorizo”<br />
method of making your “olla” or pot and<br />
then finish your pot with your handmade<br />
human hair brush. Finally Jerardo will<br />
fire one of his painted pots using only<br />
wood or cow dung in a single firing to<br />
complete the process. Tuition: $240<br />
(includes 50# of clay).<br />
Master Potter JERARDO TENA was born<br />
in 1973 and has been a ceramic <strong>art</strong>ist for<br />
18 years. He is known for his intricately<br />
painted animal and human sculptures<br />
and has won 12 awards in the last 8 pottery<br />
competitions in Mexico for his work.<br />
He learned how to make pots from his<br />
mother and is one of the leading second<br />
generation potters in Mata Ortiz.<br />
September 25 – 27<br />
(Friday – Sunday)<br />
PINCH – N – PULL<br />
We’ll pinch a variety of utilitarian based<br />
forms and finish them by throwing<br />
and/or ribbing the surfaces. Scott will<br />
demonstrate sectional pinched forms,<br />
altered using cutting, pinching, and texturing<br />
techniques. A central theme in<br />
his process is to find limitations and<br />
turn them into strengths. Included is a<br />
slide presentation covering the use of<br />
native clays, anagama wood firing, as<br />
well as Scott Parody’s current work and<br />
influences. Tuition: $230 (includes 50#<br />
of clay).<br />
SCOTT PARODY received his BFA from<br />
the Kansas City <strong>Art</strong> Institute and MFA<br />
from Penn State University. He is now<br />
an assistant professor in his fifth year at<br />
California State University, Sacramento.<br />
Since 1996 Scott has been firing his 250<br />
cubic foot anagama wood kiln at his<br />
studio in Pope Valley, CA. Recent activities<br />
include “The Pleasure of Making<br />
Pottery,” a two-week workshop cotaught<br />
with Christa Assad at Anderson<br />
Ranch, and “Recently Pinched Pots,”<br />
a solo show at Trax Ceramic Gallery in<br />
Berkeley, CA.<br />
800 653-3328 For Complete Workshop Descriptions visit: www.<strong>Mendocino</strong><strong>Art</strong><strong>Center</strong>.org<br />
October 3 – 4<br />
(Saturday – Sunday)<br />
INSTANT STIFF SLABS<br />
A hands-on class with Linda Mau to<br />
learn her technique for creating geometric,<br />
architectural forms without waiting!<br />
Using simple hand-building tools, p<strong>art</strong>icipants<br />
will learn the basic construction<br />
techniques, plus how to design and<br />
fabricate their own unique vessels or<br />
sculptures. Most projects are finished<br />
immediately after rolling the clay! No<br />
previous experience necessary. Tuition:<br />
$180 (includes 50# of clay).<br />
LINDA MAU is a teacher, a writer and<br />
an innovative ceramic <strong>art</strong>ist. She is well<br />
known for her “functional sculpture”…<br />
ikebana containers based on geometric<br />
forms. Her work has been included in<br />
Ceramics Monthly, Clay Times and several<br />
Lark books.<br />
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October 9 – 11<br />
(Friday – Sunday)<br />
HONING YOUR SKILLS<br />
Hone your skills and re<strong>fine</strong> your techniques<br />
whether you’re just beginning or<br />
you’ve been throwing for years. Increase<br />
your understanding, expand your feeling<br />
vocabulary, and give yourself a solid<br />
foundation to throwing the shapes you<br />
want. This class combines elements of<br />
Michael’s “Anyone Can <strong>Center</strong>” technique<br />
and Michael’s “Pots with P<strong>art</strong>s”<br />
workshop. Learn the techniques that<br />
nobody talks about that will allow you to<br />
take giant leaps in throwing any shapes<br />
you focus on. Lots of individual attention.<br />
Tuition: $250 (includes 50# of clay).<br />
MICHAEL BERKLEY has been an <strong>art</strong>ist/<br />
teacher for over 30 years, helping thousands<br />
of students by offering a unique<br />
and simple way to getting clay centered<br />
and a solid foundation to throwing pots.<br />
He’s developed a way that allows a<br />
person to center 3-5 pounds of clay in<br />
less than 15 seconds. Formerly Resident<br />
<strong>Art</strong>ist and teacher at the University of<br />
Oregon, EMU, he now teaches in Walnut<br />
Creek, CA.<br />
October 16 – 18<br />
(Friday – Sunday)<br />
FORM, NARRATIVE &<br />
IMAGERY<br />
This workshop will focus on the techniques<br />
Ryan uses for creating larger<br />
forms as well as his perspective on<br />
proportion in relation to form. For the<br />
second half of the session the focus will<br />
be on developing narrative and imagery.<br />
You will be shown the versatility and<br />
richness of underglaze. Tuition: $230<br />
(includes 50# of clay).<br />
RYAN HURST is a second year resident<br />
at MAC. He received his BFA in Ceramics<br />
at the University of Wisconsin-Stout<br />
Menomonie, WI. In 2005, Ryan received<br />
an MFA in Ceramics from Bowling Green<br />
State University, Bowling Green, OH. His<br />
work mixes Ancient Greek forms with<br />
contemporary imagery.<br />
October 23 – 25<br />
(Friday – Sunday)<br />
FIRE A CONE 10<br />
REDUCTION, AIR<br />
RECUPERATING KILN<br />
Bring your bisqueware and learn how to<br />
fire the <strong>Art</strong> <strong>Center</strong>’s newest kiln addition.<br />
This kiln is specially designed to recycle<br />
preheated air back into the burner combustion<br />
chamber, saving up to 50% of<br />
the fuel consumption of a regular gas<br />
kiln. We’ll fire this kiln up to a cone 10<br />
reduction atmosphere. If you didn’t get<br />
a chance to take the summer class<br />
building this kiln, this is an opportunity<br />
to learn more about how you can save<br />
fuel costs modifying your own kilns. If<br />
you don’t have your own kilns, this is<br />
a chance to learn how to do it here.<br />
Tuition: $250 (includes 50# of clay).<br />
DARRIN EKERN, Ceramics Director at<br />
the <strong>Mendocino</strong> <strong>Art</strong> <strong>Center</strong>, has many<br />
years of experience building and firing<br />
kilns of all shapes and sizes. He received<br />
his MFA at the University of Tennessee,<br />
Knoxville, and has since been here at<br />
the <strong>Art</strong> <strong>Center</strong> reshaping the ceramics<br />
dep<strong>art</strong>ment.<br />
800 653-3328 For Complete Workshop Descriptions visit: www.<strong>Mendocino</strong><strong>Art</strong><strong>Center</strong>.org
June 25 – 28<br />
(Thursday – Sunday)<br />
WEB DESIGN 101<br />
Web authoring for everyone! If you can<br />
use a word processing program then<br />
you can make web pages. Using Adobe<br />
Dreamweaver, we will build websites<br />
that communicate, are beautiful and<br />
easy to navigate. We will use Photoshop<br />
to optimize our images and build simple<br />
animations. You will learn how to get<br />
your site hosted on the web and how to<br />
update it once it is there. Basic computer<br />
knowledge required. (Some Photoshop<br />
experience is recommended though not<br />
required for this class.) Tuition: $280.<br />
DAVID RUSSELL is a self-confessed<br />
MAC junkie. He received his MS from<br />
Peabody Teacher’s College and has<br />
taught digital skills to children and<br />
adults. He has been exploring digital<br />
and non-digital <strong>art</strong> for over 30 years and<br />
is MAC’s former webmaster.<br />
July 18<br />
(Saturday)<br />
INTRODUCTION TO THE<br />
DIGITAL CAMERA<br />
With today’s incredible digital cameras,<br />
anyone is capable of creating great<br />
images. This course gives the novice<br />
to the digital world familiarity with the<br />
capabilities that exist beyond “point and<br />
shoot.” Explained to your level of comfort<br />
will be setting up your camera for<br />
picture taking, photo formats, shooting<br />
modes, ISO, white balance, histograms,<br />
digital versus optical zooming, to mention<br />
just a few. Then you will get to practice<br />
and see the results. Tuition: $90.<br />
LARRY WAGNER has been a photographer<br />
since he was eleven years old<br />
and a fan of computer technology since<br />
the seventies. Digital photography and<br />
Photoshop became Larry’s passion at<br />
their onset. His digital <strong>art</strong> is on display<br />
on his website at www.wagnerphoto<strong>art</strong>.<br />
com. Larry has recently published two<br />
volumes of <strong>Art</strong>ists of the <strong>Mendocino</strong><br />
Coast, on sale at the MAC gallery.<br />
July 25 – 26<br />
(Saturday – Sunday)<br />
CREATE TROUBLE-FREE<br />
ADS<br />
Learn the computer tools to create your<br />
ad so that it is ready for a printed publication.<br />
We’ll go over layout, the use of<br />
fonts and images, and the software to<br />
create a trouble-free ad. This workshop<br />
will help you take your idea to a finished<br />
product. Basic computer knowledge<br />
is required and some familiarity with<br />
Photoshop would be helpful. Tuition:<br />
$170<br />
MORNING HULLINGER has worked in<br />
the printing industry for over thirty years<br />
through many technological changes<br />
from manual camera work and paste-up<br />
to layout on the computer and digital<br />
printing and still enjoys it. She has<br />
experience in all aspects of printing;<br />
from concept, design & layout, prepress,<br />
to printing; and use of all major graphic<br />
software. She loves to create a finished<br />
piece that matches expectations.<br />
800 653-3328 For Complete Workshop Descriptions visit: www.<strong>Mendocino</strong><strong>Art</strong><strong>Center</strong>.org<br />
July 27 – 28<br />
(Monday – Tuesday)<br />
PASSIONATE PIXELS IN<br />
PHOTOSHOP<br />
Create luscious prints using images of<br />
your <strong>art</strong>work as raw material as we<br />
push pixels beyond filters and simple<br />
effects. Explore and learn how to make<br />
Photoshop your companion in the creative<br />
process. If you are an <strong>art</strong>ist working<br />
in a traditional medium and have<br />
always wondered if Photoshop is a tool<br />
you could befriend, this is the class for<br />
you. Tuition: $195.<br />
KAREN WHEELER is an award winning<br />
<strong>art</strong>ist and educator who began her<br />
career working with drawing, printmaking<br />
and papermaking. She fell in love<br />
with Photoshop 14 years ago and has<br />
since then combined digital and traditional<br />
media. Associate Professor of <strong>Art</strong><br />
at Wingate University for 11 years, Karen<br />
has a unique ability to teach Photoshop<br />
in accessible terms. For more information,<br />
visit karen<strong>art</strong>.com.<br />
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digital <strong>art</strong>s<br />
10<br />
July 30 – August 2<br />
(Thursday – Sunday)<br />
DIGITAL AND MIXED<br />
MEDIA<br />
Jumpst<strong>art</strong> your creativity by joining this<br />
exploration of pixels, paint, pastels, pencils<br />
and collage. Our time will be divided<br />
between the computer lab and the studio.<br />
Spend two days learning simple<br />
Photoshop tools to create a variety of<br />
rich printed images. Then combine your<br />
prints with traditional <strong>art</strong>ist’s materials<br />
and collage techniques for surprising<br />
results. All levels welcome to enjoy the<br />
process. Tuition: $290.<br />
KAREN WHEELER: See “Passionate<br />
Pixels in Photoshop”<br />
August 12 – 13<br />
(Wednesday – Thursday)<br />
PHOTOSHOP BASICS:<br />
Use Photoshop to get to know your<br />
computer.<br />
Would you like to use the computer<br />
for your <strong>art</strong> and photos but find it a<br />
challenge In this class you will use<br />
Photoshop and let it help you learn<br />
basic computer skills: how computers<br />
work, create files and folders, operating<br />
system basics, tips and tricks, save<br />
images from the Internet, send images<br />
in email attachments (make them small<br />
so you can email them), and easy ways<br />
to make your pictures look good. Make<br />
friends with your computer and let it<br />
show you how much fun you can have!<br />
Tuition: $170.<br />
JANET DAVIS has been an educator<br />
for over 20 years. She is also a graphic<br />
designer and <strong>fine</strong> <strong>art</strong>ist. She developed<br />
educational websites for NASA and<br />
continues to train teachers in technology<br />
literacy. She writes training modules<br />
for Adobe and is project manager for the<br />
Adobe Train the Teacher program.<br />
August 14 – 16<br />
(Friday – Sunday)<br />
PHOTOSHOP – MORE<br />
BASICS AND ARTISTIC<br />
TECHNIQUES<br />
Have fun learning what Photoshop can<br />
really do. You will have hands-on experience<br />
working with dozens of recipes<br />
to create images with stunning special<br />
effects. Learn to use filters to enhance<br />
images <strong>art</strong>istically, create exciting collages<br />
with multiple images and apply<br />
amazing effects to type. You will also<br />
learn to retouch and manipulate your<br />
photos and use color in a whole new<br />
way. Also covered will be turning your<br />
photos into paintings, pastels or line<br />
drawings. (If you have yet to master<br />
opening files, saving files, email, using<br />
the Internet, you must take August 12-13<br />
class as prerequisite.) Tuition: $225.<br />
JANET DAVIS: See “Photoshop Basics”<br />
800 653-3328 For Complete Workshop Descriptions visit: www.<strong>Mendocino</strong><strong>Art</strong><strong>Center</strong>.org
September 12 – 13<br />
(Saturday – Sunday)<br />
LOVE YOUR COMPUTER<br />
. . . REALLY!<br />
Do you get frustrated with your computer<br />
Sometimes hate it Don’t understand<br />
why it’s doing the things it’s doing<br />
Have trouble with making it do what you<br />
want to This workshop is for you! Make<br />
friends with your computer. Learn how<br />
to find your way around; find and store<br />
files; keep your desktop manageable;<br />
and ENJOY using the machine sitting in<br />
front of you. Really! Tuition: $170<br />
MORNING HULLINGER has worked with<br />
computers since the mid eighties. In her<br />
design and printing business she uses<br />
a number of computers with different<br />
operating systems, and continues to add<br />
to her collection. Morning has worked in<br />
the printing industry for over thirty years,<br />
and is a professional Graphic and Web<br />
Designer as well as a Prepress Tech.<br />
September 19 – 20<br />
(Saturday – Sunday)<br />
BUILD AN ART BLOG!<br />
Create an <strong>art</strong> blog to display and discuss<br />
your <strong>art</strong> and connect with potential<br />
buyers and other <strong>art</strong>ists. Learn how to<br />
use the Wordpress blogging service to<br />
showcase your <strong>art</strong>. Some of the topics<br />
we will cover include: why an <strong>Art</strong><br />
Blog is a good idea; the mechanics and<br />
cost of creating a blog; how to manage<br />
and update your blog; how to prepare<br />
images of your <strong>art</strong>work for Web display<br />
and opportunities to make money from<br />
your blog. Tuition: $170.<br />
After previous careers as research scientist<br />
and inn owner, DENNIS FREEZE<br />
is currently a graphic and Web designer,<br />
and he teaches Web Design at<br />
the College of the Redwoods. Dennis<br />
is also the author of the <strong>Mendocino</strong><br />
Outdoors Guidebook and the creator of<br />
the <strong>Mendocino</strong>Fun.com Web site.<br />
September 26<br />
(Saturday)<br />
INTRODUCTION TO THE<br />
DIGITAL CAMERA<br />
With today’s incredible digital cameras,<br />
anyone is capable of creating great<br />
images. This course gives the novice<br />
to the digital world familiarity with the<br />
capabilities that exist beyond “point and<br />
shoot.” Explained to your level of comfort<br />
will be setting up your camera for<br />
picture taking, photo formats, shooting<br />
modes, ISO, white balance, histograms,<br />
digital versus optical zooming, to mention<br />
just a few. Then you will get to practice<br />
and see the results. Tuition: $85<br />
LARRY WAGNER: See “Introduction to<br />
the Digital Camera” on July 18.<br />
800 653-3328 For Complete Workshop Descriptions visit: www.<strong>Mendocino</strong><strong>Art</strong><strong>Center</strong>.org<br />
October 3 – 4<br />
(Saturday – Sunday)<br />
PHOTOSHOP ELEMENTS<br />
MADE EASY<br />
This is a great workshop for both beginning<br />
Photoshop and Photoshop Elements<br />
users. Do you want to learn Photoshop<br />
Elements in a fun, easy-going way<br />
When computers seem complicated it’s<br />
refreshing to learn in a relaxed atmosphere.<br />
This workshop will help you break<br />
free of techno-fears. Feel that sense of<br />
play and release in the creative process<br />
as you learn hands-on techniques to<br />
edit your images and apply effects with<br />
Photoshop Elements. Skills taught will<br />
be transferable to Photoshop as well.<br />
Learn how to make selections, collages,<br />
color adjustments, photo retouching and<br />
paint in your own special effects. Basic<br />
computer operating system experience<br />
desired. Tuition: $170<br />
JANET DAVIS: See “Photoshop Basics”<br />
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October 10<br />
(Saturday)<br />
INTERNET AND E-MAIL<br />
BASICS<br />
October 11<br />
(Sunday)<br />
CREATE A WEB SITE IN<br />
ONE DAY<br />
October 24<br />
(Saturday)<br />
SWITCH FROM PC to MAC<br />
SMOOTHLY<br />
October 31 – November 1<br />
(Saturday – Sunday)<br />
PHOTOSHOP<br />
WITHOUT FEAR<br />
digital <strong>art</strong>s<br />
12<br />
If you don’t know a web browser from<br />
a listserve, then this class is for you.<br />
Become an accomplished Internet<br />
surfer. Learn to use search engines to<br />
find information, make travel reservations,<br />
shop safely, and communicate<br />
via e-mail. Watch movies on YouTube<br />
or upload your photos to Flickr. We’ll<br />
discuss portals (such as Yahoo and<br />
AOL), the pros and cons of different<br />
web browser and e-mail programs, and<br />
how to download software, pictures and<br />
music from the Internet. It’s fun and easy<br />
when you know how! Tuition: $85.<br />
DAVID RUSSELL: See “Web Design<br />
101.”<br />
Build a site in one day! Web authoring<br />
for everyone! If you can use a word<br />
processing program then you can make<br />
web pages. Using Apple’s I-Life iWeb<br />
program, we will build web sites that<br />
communicate, are beautiful and easy to<br />
navigate. Modify the beautiful templates<br />
included in I-Web for a custom look. You<br />
will learn how to get your site hosted<br />
on the web and how to update it once<br />
it is there. Basic computer knowledge<br />
required. Tuition: $85.<br />
DAVID RUSSELL: See “Web Design<br />
101.”<br />
Make the transition from a PC to Mac<br />
easily and discover the fun! If you are<br />
considering making a change from the<br />
PC to the MAC, or have already done so,<br />
this workshop will make it easy to learn<br />
the differences in these two operating<br />
systems. Quickly learn where everything<br />
is located, the different names that each<br />
system uses, how the programs are set<br />
up and more. $85<br />
MORNING HULLINGER has worked with<br />
Macs and other computers since the mid<br />
eighties. In her design and printing business<br />
she uses a number of Macs with<br />
different operating systems, and continues<br />
to add to her collection. Morning<br />
has worked in the printing industry for<br />
over thirty years, and is a professional<br />
Graphic and Web Designer as well as a<br />
Prepress Tech.<br />
Have you wanted to learn Photoshop<br />
to enhance your digital photos but felt<br />
afraid to try because computers seem<br />
too complicated This workshop will<br />
help you break free of techno-fears.<br />
Learning to use the computer will no<br />
longer be an obstacle to your creativity,<br />
but will give you wings to discover<br />
what wondrous things the computer<br />
and Photoshop can do as tools in the<br />
<strong>art</strong>ist’s hands. Feel that sense of play<br />
and release in the creative process<br />
as you learn hands-on techniques to<br />
edit your images and apply effects with<br />
Photoshop. Basic computer experience<br />
desired. Tuition: $170.<br />
JANET DAVIS: See “Photoshop<br />
Basics.”<br />
800 653-3328 For Complete Workshop Descriptions visit: www.<strong>Mendocino</strong><strong>Art</strong><strong>Center</strong>.org
June 5 – 7<br />
(Friday – Sunday)<br />
INDIGO: HOW CAN YOU<br />
RESIST<br />
June 9 – 13<br />
(Tuesday – Saturday)<br />
WOVEN SHIBORI WITH<br />
NATURAL DYES<br />
June 18 – 20<br />
(Thursday – Saturday)<br />
ADVANCED PAINTING ON<br />
SILK<br />
June 22 – 24<br />
(Monday – Wednesday)<br />
ABSTRACT PAINTING ON<br />
SILK<br />
In this workshop we will explore the<br />
natural blue dye, indigofera tinctoria,<br />
and its uses in resist dyeing. Learn how<br />
to prepare an indigo vat, and experience<br />
the magical process, watching<br />
fibers change from green to blue in<br />
your hands! Use indigo in combination<br />
with other natural dyes for overdye and<br />
discharge effects. Fold, tie, stitch, and<br />
clamp cloth for traditional Japanese shibori,<br />
and create patterned skeins and<br />
warps for ikat weaving. Materials fee:<br />
$30. Tuition: $230.<br />
LINDA HARTSHORN has been creating<br />
beautiful handwoven textiles for<br />
more than twenty years. Her specialty<br />
is incorporating unique dyework into her<br />
handwoven fabrics. She teaches weaving<br />
at The Ink People <strong>Center</strong> for the <strong>Art</strong>s<br />
in Eureka, California, and is the winner<br />
of the 2007 Victor Thomas Jacoby Award<br />
for Weavers, Spinners and Dyers<br />
Weave, tie and dye your own unique patterned<br />
fabrics! Woven shibori fabric has<br />
extra threads woven in that are pulled<br />
up to gather the fabric before dyeing.<br />
Learn to layer different natural dyes to<br />
create various color effects. We will<br />
explore overdyeing, discharge, resists,<br />
and pleating with our fabrics and get<br />
fascinating results. Materials Fee: $20.<br />
Tuition: $330.<br />
LINDA HARTSHORN: See “Indigo: How<br />
Can You Resist”<br />
Richness of color and depth through texture<br />
brings our paintings to their greatest<br />
potential. St<strong>art</strong>ing with good composition,<br />
we will explore various ways<br />
to deliver images to the silk. Thickened<br />
dye, spray finishing and discharging<br />
are among the full repertoire of techniques<br />
demonstrated. With a sense of<br />
play plus genuine encouragement, each<br />
person will develop their painting to the<br />
full potential. Traditional and non-toxic<br />
resists will be presented. Materials fee:<br />
$15. Tuition: $250.<br />
SUZANNE PUNCH is a full-time <strong>art</strong>ist in<br />
New York showing in galleries across<br />
the country and in Japan. She hand<br />
paints fabrics for the fashion industry,<br />
including Ralph Lauren, Donna Karan<br />
and Marchesa. She has a BFA from the<br />
Cleveland Institute of <strong>Art</strong> in Painting.<br />
www.suzannepunch.com<br />
800 653-3328 For Complete Workshop Descriptions visit: www.<strong>Mendocino</strong><strong>Art</strong><strong>Center</strong>.org<br />
Dynamic and bold, subtle and evocative…abstraction<br />
is the most mysterious<br />
of all aspects of silk painting. But<br />
where to begin We will create structure<br />
through resists, intensity with color,<br />
and texture for depth. Manipulations<br />
of layered dye can reveal aspects of<br />
the medium only hinted at by earlier<br />
attempts. Always, we will be working<br />
toward new life in the entire painting.<br />
Thinned gutta and non-toxic resists will<br />
be presented. Materials fee: $15. Tuition:<br />
$250.<br />
SUZANNE PUNCH:<br />
Painting on Silk”<br />
See “Advanced<br />
fiber <strong>art</strong>s<br />
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fiber <strong>art</strong>s<br />
14<br />
June 27 – 28<br />
(Saturday – Sunday)<br />
HAIDA CEDAR BARK<br />
BASKETRY<br />
Students will learn to weave a small<br />
twined Haida-style open basket using<br />
red and yellow cedar bark. Learn the<br />
processes for st<strong>art</strong>ing, weaving the<br />
body, turning the corner, finishing and<br />
fitting a lid. Design elements will also<br />
be discussed and colored cedar bark<br />
provided for the patterns. Materials fee:<br />
$35. Tuition: $210.<br />
DIANE DOUGLAS WILLARD is a Haida<br />
weaver living in Ketchikan, Alaska. She<br />
attended the University of Washington,<br />
studying with Bill Holm and Marvin<br />
Oliver in the Indian Studies Program. She<br />
has a Certificate of Merit in Northwest<br />
Coast Weaving from the Totem Heritage<br />
<strong>Center</strong> in Ketchikan where she learned<br />
cedar bark and spruce root basketry<br />
under the tutelage of Deloris Churchill.<br />
Diane is a master weaver with over 24<br />
years of experience. She loves to teach<br />
and share stories while instructing.<br />
June 29 – July 3<br />
(Monday – Friday)<br />
TEXTILE PAINTING AND<br />
EMBELLISHING<br />
In this exciting five-day workshop we<br />
will explore the myriad possibilities for<br />
creating with Setacolor textile paint.<br />
You will learn to paint silk and cotton in<br />
layers to achieve depth, and then further<br />
enhance it with machine and hand<br />
stitching to create even more dimension.<br />
We will also cover color and design<br />
principles as we work. All skill levels are<br />
welcome, and no prior painting experience<br />
is required. Materials fee $30.<br />
Tuition: $325.<br />
APRIL SPROULE is a professional textile<br />
<strong>art</strong>ist who has won numerous awards<br />
for her work in national and international<br />
exhibitions. She is best known for her<br />
hand-painted and stitched silk fiber <strong>art</strong>,<br />
as well as her contemporary wholecloth<br />
quilts. She has operated Sproule<br />
Studios, a textile <strong>art</strong>s facility in northern<br />
California where she teaches and collaborates<br />
with other <strong>art</strong>ists, since 2001.<br />
July 10 – 14<br />
(Friday – Tuesday)<br />
TAPESTRY: ART FORM OF<br />
ITS OWN<br />
In tapestry weaving there is no background<br />
to weave, no paper, no canvas,<br />
only open warp threads. The weaver<br />
builds up one thread on top of the other<br />
and a good p<strong>art</strong> of it will disappear when<br />
the warp gets turned up. Basic weaveable<br />
forms unfold into a composition<br />
through repetition and variation. Such<br />
tapestries have their own rhythm and<br />
will continue moving when hanging on<br />
the wall. This course will inspire tapestry<br />
weavers of today to find out why<br />
this medium has such a unique life of its<br />
own. Tuition: $350.<br />
SILVIA HEYDEN was born in Basel,<br />
Switzerland, and studied at the School<br />
of <strong>Art</strong>s in Zurich. She bought her first<br />
tapestry loom in 1964 and moved to the<br />
United States in 1966. Her work has been<br />
in numerous large exhibits and commissions<br />
in the U.S. and Europe.<br />
July 15 – 19<br />
(Wednesday – Sunday)<br />
SILK PAINTING, COLOR,<br />
DESIGN & REVERSE<br />
APPLIQUE<br />
This workshop focuses on creating<br />
beautiful patterns and textures on silk<br />
that can be incorporated into a reverse<br />
appliqué design. Flowing iron set paints,<br />
water-soluble resists and wax will be<br />
used to create washes, blends, textures,<br />
images and design. Students will<br />
expand their design and color mixing<br />
skills throughout the workshop. Through<br />
a simple reverse appliqué technique,<br />
students will progress towards developing<br />
an original pattern and design.<br />
Materials fee: $55. Tuition: $330.<br />
SUSAN LOUISE MOYER is a silk painter,<br />
author and educator who has been<br />
teaching <strong>art</strong> and design for 18 years. She<br />
has authored two books: Silk Painting:<br />
the <strong>Art</strong>ist’s Guide to Gutta and Wax<br />
Resist Techniques and Silk Painting for<br />
Fashion and Fine <strong>Art</strong>, and has exhibited<br />
her <strong>art</strong> in galleries across the United<br />
States and in Europe. Recently, she has<br />
been designing for Rebecca Taylor in<br />
New York.<br />
800 653-3328 For Complete Workshop Descriptions visit: www.<strong>Mendocino</strong><strong>Art</strong><strong>Center</strong>.org
July 20 – 24<br />
(Monday – Friday)<br />
ECO-BUNDLING<br />
We all know there are still limits on<br />
recycling, and we each acquire materials<br />
along the way that normally go into<br />
landfill. Turn them into useful objects<br />
again by transforming them into sculptures.<br />
We will explore indigo and e<strong>art</strong>h<br />
pigments, fiber and paper coverings,<br />
consider dimensional surface embellishment,<br />
and take one or more local<br />
journeys together in search of treasure<br />
and inspiration. Plan on finishing at least<br />
one individual sculptural project, and a<br />
collaborative piece. Materials fee: $25.<br />
Tuition: $325.<br />
KAREN URBANEK builds layered images<br />
and sculptural forms using natural dyes<br />
and pigments, fiber and other materials.<br />
More than 30 years of work and independent<br />
research have led her to focus<br />
on sustainability as an <strong>art</strong>ist: meeting<br />
ecological standards and safe practices<br />
while retaining a full range of complex<br />
color and texture.<br />
July 27 – 31<br />
(Monday – Friday)<br />
IGNITING THE CREATIVE<br />
SPARK<br />
Intensively investigate new discoveries<br />
using disperse dyes to marble synthetic<br />
fabrics. This process is charged<br />
with intoxicating possibilities impossible<br />
to achieve with traditional techniques.<br />
Drawing and composition exercises,<br />
supported by group discussion and critique<br />
will help to integrate new ideas.<br />
From beginning steps through finishing<br />
and presentation of work, we will focus<br />
on experimental aspects of surface<br />
design, while developing an inspired<br />
visual language. Tuition: $700.<br />
LISA GREY teaches nationally and internationally.<br />
Known for her innovative<br />
work with disperse dyes, she focuses<br />
on discovering new uses for this<br />
exciting, yet largely ignored, class of<br />
dyes. JASON POLLEN is an internationally<br />
recognized fiber <strong>art</strong>ist, designer and<br />
educator. He is Chair of the Kansas City<br />
<strong>Art</strong> Institute Fiber Dep<strong>art</strong>ment, President<br />
of the Surface Design Association, and<br />
was recently named a Fellow by the<br />
American Craft Council.<br />
August 5 – 9<br />
(Wednesday – Sunday)<br />
4-END BLOCK-WEAVES IN<br />
RUGS<br />
Immerse yourself in a week of comprehensive<br />
rug weaving, from warping of the<br />
loom to designing, weaving and finishing<br />
the rug. We will explore 4-end blockweave<br />
(taquete), an extremely versatile<br />
structure for rug weaving. Exploration of<br />
various techniques will unlock the vast<br />
potential of designs this weave offers.<br />
Threading and shaft switching in relation<br />
to the weave structure will be fully<br />
explained, and students will be able to<br />
adapt their looms to try out this exciting<br />
technique. Tuition: $350.<br />
JASON COLLINGWOOD has been weaving<br />
rugs for a living for many years and<br />
spends 3-4 months each year teaching<br />
in North America and Europe. He<br />
learned to weave from his father (Peter<br />
Collingwood) and set up his own workshop<br />
in 1987. To date, he has approximately<br />
130 different designs in his portfolio,<br />
and has woven 1,500 rugs, which<br />
reside in collections around the world.<br />
800 653-3328 For Complete Workshop Descriptions visit: www.<strong>Mendocino</strong><strong>Art</strong><strong>Center</strong>.org<br />
August 14 – 16<br />
(Friday – Sunday)<br />
WHIRLING SILKEN<br />
VISAGES: MASKS<br />
Cast a mask from a rubber mold, then<br />
fashion your own on top, out of clay.<br />
Working with silk papers, we will dye<br />
and collage into the surface, attaching<br />
them to form three-dimensional shapes.<br />
Movement will inspire drawings that<br />
loosen us up to create wilder structures.<br />
Finally, we will create an informal performance<br />
of our masks. Materials fee:<br />
approx. $45. Tuition: $225.<br />
International performance/sculptural<br />
<strong>art</strong>ist SHA SHA HIGBY is known for her<br />
evocative and haunting performances<br />
using exquisite and ephemeral body<br />
sculpture she meticulously creates. Sha<br />
Sha studied for a year in Japan, 5 years<br />
in Indonesia and 6 months in India. She<br />
has received grants from the National<br />
Endowment for the <strong>Art</strong>s in Theater, and<br />
the Japan-US Friendship commission,<br />
supported by the Zellerbach Family Fund.<br />
In conjunction with her workshop, Sha<br />
Sha will be performing at the Matheson<br />
Theater in <strong>Mendocino</strong> on Thursday,<br />
August 13th. Tickets: $15.<br />
fiber <strong>art</strong>s<br />
15
August 17 – 21<br />
(Monday – Friday)<br />
BEGINNING AND<br />
INTERMEDIATE WEAVING<br />
September 5 – 7<br />
(Saturday – Monday)<br />
SHIBORI DYEING: A STUDY<br />
IN TRANSFORMATION<br />
September 12 – 13<br />
(Saturday – Sunday)<br />
ORNATE PINE NEEDLE<br />
BASKETRY<br />
September 19 – 20<br />
(Saturday – Sunday)<br />
CROWNS AND BRIMS:<br />
HATMAKING SURVEY<br />
fiber <strong>art</strong>s<br />
16<br />
Everything a beginner needs to know,<br />
from choosing materials and weave<br />
structures, to warping, weaving and finishing.<br />
Students can choose to weave<br />
samplers, or work on an individual project<br />
such as a scarf, placemats, napkins,<br />
runners or pillows, etc. This is an ideal<br />
refresher course for more advanced<br />
weavers to expand and learn new skills.<br />
Materials fee: $3 plus cost of materials<br />
based on individual projects. Tuition:<br />
$325.<br />
LOLLI JACOBSEN has made her living<br />
in the <strong>art</strong>s for more than 30 years. She<br />
trained as an apprentice weaver and<br />
fabric printer in Denmark and has a BA<br />
in <strong>Art</strong> from the University of Washington,<br />
Seattle. Lolli headed the <strong>Mendocino</strong> <strong>Art</strong><br />
<strong>Center</strong> Textile Apprenticeship Program<br />
for 15 years, and continues to teach<br />
at MAC, College of the Redwoods,<br />
<strong>Mendocino</strong> College and for guilds and<br />
groups. She runs her own fabric printing<br />
and dyeing business in her Fort Bragg<br />
Studio.<br />
Explore the unique dyeing methods<br />
of arashi shibori (pole-wrapping) and<br />
itajime (fold and clamp) dyeing. Both<br />
involve manipulating cloth into a threedimensional<br />
form by folding, pleating<br />
and wrapping with thread. The fabric is<br />
then immersed into the dyepot to create<br />
beautiful patterns. It is so exciting to<br />
unwrap the fabric and reveal what patterns<br />
result from the combination of dye,<br />
heat, technique and fabric! No experience<br />
necessary, but more advanced<br />
dyers will benefit from the instructor’s<br />
extensive experience as a professional<br />
dyer. Materials fee: $15. Tuition: $225.<br />
KAREN LIVINGSTONE studied at<br />
Fiberworks <strong>Center</strong> for the Textile <strong>Art</strong>s.<br />
Faced with mounting piles of dyed fabric,<br />
she launched Livingstone Dyeworks<br />
in 1984. Ever since, she has led the<br />
diverse life of an <strong>art</strong>isan, creating a<br />
line of hand-dyed fabric, teaching various<br />
classes, doing custom dyework for<br />
designers and wishing for more time to<br />
make <strong>art</strong>.<br />
Learn how to coil an ornate pine needle<br />
basket around a polished stone cabachon.<br />
Students will learn the swirling<br />
basic stitch that lines up on both sides<br />
of the basket, then as time permits,<br />
an assortment of additional beautiful<br />
stitches, how to insert beads between<br />
coils, how to add free-form sculptural<br />
aspects to the basket, improve shaping<br />
skills, and much more. The coiling<br />
technique can later be used to weave a<br />
variety of plants such as lavender, rosemary<br />
and jacaranda. Materials fee: $35.<br />
Tuition: $225.<br />
NADINE SPIER’s elaborately woven vessels<br />
and sculptures are displayed in<br />
many shows. She has won many commissions<br />
and awards, and lectures and<br />
teaches basketry at museums, conferences,<br />
universities and community colleges<br />
in the U.S. and Canada. Her work<br />
has been published in numerous publications,<br />
including 500 Baskets. In 2002<br />
Nadine was featured on the Discovery<br />
Channel. Visit www.nadinespier.com.<br />
How would you like to survey a wide<br />
range of millinery skills in one weekend<br />
Each attendee will make a hat<br />
based on two different millinery skills/<br />
mediums. Choose from wire construction,<br />
sewn straw braid, fabric covered<br />
buckram, blocked straw, and blocked<br />
felt. Purposefully, each hat will be made<br />
from two of the mediums. The purpose<br />
of these exercises is to practice as many<br />
skills as possible in a weekend, as well<br />
as learn the intricacies of putting different<br />
hatmaking elements together for a<br />
pleasing effect. Many couture finishing<br />
touches also demonstrated. Materials<br />
fee: $65. Tuition: $185.<br />
JAN WUTKOWSKI is the owner of<br />
aMuse: <strong>art</strong>isanal <strong>fine</strong>ry, a wearable <strong>art</strong><br />
boutique in Wilmington, NC. She studied<br />
traditional hatmaking at the Melbourne<br />
(Australia) School of Millinery and<br />
has been teaching millinery in the US,<br />
England, and Australia since 1998.<br />
800 653-3328 For Complete Workshop Descriptions visit: www.<strong>Mendocino</strong><strong>Art</strong><strong>Center</strong>.org
September 26 – 27<br />
(Saturday – Sunday)<br />
PAPERPULP SPRAYING FOR<br />
ARTISTS<br />
In this workshop you will be able to create<br />
a flat wall piece building up layers<br />
of pigmented pulp using the sprayer<br />
in conjunction with stencils and other<br />
tools. You will also have the option of<br />
making a dimensional piece spraying<br />
on fabric over a frame, which you make.<br />
Tuition: $165.<br />
SUSAN HERSEY has been a professional<br />
<strong>art</strong>ist in the Bay Area for the<br />
past forty years. After graduating from<br />
UC Berkeley, Susan st<strong>art</strong>ed out as a<br />
painter, then in the 70’s began working<br />
with handmade paper as a medium.<br />
About seventeen years ago she st<strong>art</strong>ed<br />
utilizing a pulp sprayer as a way of<br />
building up layers of paper pulp on her<br />
wall hangings and sculptures. She has<br />
shown her work extensively as well as<br />
creating commercial installations and<br />
private commissions.<br />
October 2 – 4<br />
(Friday – Sunday)<br />
SKIN AND STITCH<br />
FISHSKINS<br />
Alaska natives have utilized fishskins for<br />
garment material for generations. Now<br />
you can create this unique “fabric” for<br />
use in two or three-dimensional work.<br />
Learn how to skin fish, prepare it and<br />
then stitch it into baskets or other forms.<br />
Bring beads, buttons or other special<br />
items to embellish your completed basket.<br />
Materials fee: $20. Tuition: $275.<br />
AUDREY ARMSTRONG, Koyukon<br />
Athabascan, has been making unique<br />
fishskin baskets since 2002. Her baskets<br />
are in the collections of the<br />
Alaska Federation of Natives, Doyon,<br />
Cook Inlet Region, Inc. Alaska Native<br />
Medical <strong>Center</strong> Auxiliary and the Morris<br />
Thompson Native <strong>Art</strong>s Foundation.<br />
Besides making baskets, Audrey works<br />
for the Alaska Native Medical <strong>Center</strong>,<br />
is a champion archer and gives presentations<br />
on Alaska Native Culture and<br />
Athabascan Culture to many organizations<br />
in the Anchorage area.<br />
October 10 – 11<br />
(Saturday – Sunday)<br />
STRINGMAKING,<br />
NETMAKING AND<br />
ROPEMAKING<br />
Immerse yourself in the world of plant<br />
fibers! Learn how to extract high quality<br />
fiber from local native and naturalized<br />
plants and make those fibers into string,<br />
ropes and nets. Perfect a variety of different<br />
cordage methods, make a netting<br />
shuttle from oak shoots, use that shuttle<br />
to make a knotted net, make a small<br />
knotless netted bag and help make a<br />
rope using a basic ropewalk system.<br />
Materials fee: $25. Tuition: $165.<br />
TAMARA WILDER, primitive technologist,<br />
educator and author, has been<br />
practicing, teaching, and demonstrating<br />
ancient living skills for the past 20<br />
years. She regularly teaches at Point<br />
Reyes National Seashore, the Northern<br />
California Women’s Herbal Symposium,<br />
the Solar Living Institute in Hopland and<br />
a variety of Northern Californian schools.<br />
See website www.paleotechnics.com<br />
for general information about demonstrations,<br />
school programs, classes and<br />
events.<br />
800 653-3328 For Complete Workshop Descriptions visit: www.<strong>Mendocino</strong><strong>Art</strong><strong>Center</strong>.org<br />
October 23 – 25<br />
(Friday – Sunday)<br />
WEAVE A WILLOW BURDEN<br />
BASKET<br />
Each student will construct a medium<br />
sized Pomo-style burden basket using<br />
the technique of open twining with red<br />
willow gathered in the fall. This basket<br />
is used for collecting and storing acorns<br />
and pine nuts. Materials fee: $50. Tuition:<br />
$280.<br />
JULIA PARKER (Kashaya Pomo and Coast<br />
Miwok) is a renowned basket weaver<br />
and cultural demonstrator who worked<br />
for years at Yosemite National Park, the<br />
California Academy of Sciences in San<br />
Francisco as well as elsewhere in the<br />
United States and abroad. Her daughter<br />
LUCY PARKER (Yosemite Miwok and<br />
Pauite), granddaughter URSULA JONES<br />
and great-grand daughter NAOMI<br />
JONES also weave baskets and have<br />
taught and demonstrated around the<br />
country.<br />
fiber <strong>art</strong>s<br />
17
<strong>fine</strong> <strong>art</strong><br />
18<br />
June 15 – 19<br />
(Monday – Friday)<br />
DEVELOPING COLOR<br />
DYNAMICS<br />
Paint with dramatically enriched, yet<br />
believable color! In this powerful workshop,<br />
Ken reveals unique ‘color secrets’<br />
each day, and provides guidelines which<br />
encourage personal, creative interpretation.<br />
Painting demonstrations stress<br />
spontaneous painting and include a<br />
variety of subjects such as landscape,<br />
seascape, human figures or flowers.<br />
Ken has a special gift for clearly explaining<br />
his <strong>art</strong>istic method as he paints.<br />
He simplifies ideas and offers plenty of<br />
personal help and encouragement. For<br />
beginners to advanced. Tuition: $375.<br />
KEN HOSMER has been a guest workshop<br />
instructor for over 80 <strong>art</strong> organizations<br />
across the U.S. The <strong>Art</strong>ist’s<br />
Magazine has published a number of<br />
his <strong>art</strong>icles and he is included in the<br />
book Splash 4: The Splendor of Light. He<br />
has produced nine <strong>art</strong> instruction videos<br />
exploring his passion for color. Visit<br />
Ken on the Internet at www.kenhosmer.<br />
com.<br />
June 20 – 21<br />
(Saturday – Sunday)<br />
MONOPRINTING<br />
Monoprinting utilizes simple tools: soft<br />
brayers, water-based printer’s ink and<br />
plexiglass plates. From there, exploration<br />
begins. Other things can be used<br />
– a leaf, bits of lace, plastic or paper<br />
templates, marking tools, splash of<br />
water...the potential and possibilities<br />
are limitless and infinitely intriguing. No<br />
two prints can be the same. Capturing<br />
“ghosts,” images left on the plates, plays<br />
an important role in this kind of printing.<br />
No <strong>art</strong> experience required, yet exciting<br />
even to experienced <strong>art</strong>ists. Tuition:<br />
$175.<br />
KAREN COX graduated from California<br />
College of <strong>Art</strong>s and Crafts, teaches <strong>art</strong>,<br />
and studied Perception: Visual Language<br />
of <strong>Art</strong> with Ann O’Hanlon. She is a practicing<br />
<strong>art</strong>ist with a passion for monoprinting.<br />
CAYEN ROBERTSON is an exhibiting<br />
painter and sculptor and a p<strong>art</strong>icipant<br />
in Marin Open Studios. She has been<br />
giving workshops in Visual Perception<br />
since 1982 and monthly monoprint workshops<br />
since 2003.<br />
June 22 – 26<br />
(Monday – Friday)<br />
WATERCOLOR WONDER<br />
Paint on location and experiment in the<br />
studio, while discovering the flexibility<br />
of watercolor with Charlotte Severin<br />
in her 7th year of teaching for MAC.<br />
Experimental papers and supplies will<br />
be provided by the instructor at cost.<br />
Charlotte welcomes all levels of experience<br />
and everyone has fun! Tuition:<br />
$325.<br />
CHARLOTTE SEVERIN has taught more<br />
than 30 years in Bay Area schools and<br />
is teaching her 16th year for the city of<br />
Pleasanton adult classes. She paints<br />
all around the world leading plein air<br />
travel workshops, this year to Spain and<br />
southwest France. A signature member<br />
of CWA, she has paintings in the permanent<br />
collections of the Oakland Museum<br />
and the Riverside <strong>Art</strong> Museum and her<br />
works are collected internationally.<br />
800 653-3328 For Complete Workshop Descriptions visit: www.<strong>Mendocino</strong><strong>Art</strong><strong>Center</strong>.org
June 22 – 25<br />
(Monday – Thursday)<br />
VISUAL SENSATIONS IN<br />
MIXED MEDIA<br />
June 26 – 28<br />
(Friday – Sunday)<br />
LUMINOUS PASTEL<br />
STILL LIFES<br />
June 27 – 28<br />
(Saturday – Sunday)<br />
PASTE PAPER, BOOKS AND<br />
BEYOND…<br />
June 29 – July 2<br />
(Monday – Thursday)<br />
LIFE DRAWING WITH AN<br />
ATTITUDE<br />
Your sensibilities will take you on a<br />
whirlwind adventure as you discover<br />
materials, textures, and surfaces that<br />
you have never thought possible. The<br />
process of layering with non-traditional<br />
<strong>art</strong> materials along with acrylic paint and<br />
ink will move you into an unfamiliar territory<br />
that improves your expressiveness<br />
and uniqueness in painting. Abstraction<br />
in design will be the focus. Open to all<br />
levels of experience. Tuition: $285.<br />
JAN SITTS is an internationally known<br />
painter, painting instructor and author.<br />
She was formally trained at the Kansas<br />
City <strong>Art</strong> Institute and received a BA in <strong>art</strong><br />
from Western State College in Gunnison,<br />
CO. Jan has worked in the commercial<br />
<strong>art</strong>s and movie animation fields. She<br />
has been a gallery director, <strong>art</strong> teacher<br />
and has held various other positions<br />
in the field of <strong>art</strong>s. She is represented<br />
in five galleries, and has a new book,<br />
TextureColorFeeling.<br />
Learn to produce breathtaking still lifes<br />
glowing with brilliant color! Working<br />
from life, students will render their subjects<br />
using a layering technique incorporating<br />
both semi-hard and soft pastels.<br />
You’ll also learn how to blend those<br />
layers in varying degrees depending on<br />
your desired result. The instructor will<br />
demo this technique and touch on color<br />
theory also. Students should be able to<br />
complete 2-3 small (8”x10”) pieces by<br />
the end of the workshop. Materials fee:<br />
$10. Tuition: $225.<br />
GEMA LOPEZ recently left a 20+ year<br />
career in the graphic design field to<br />
pursue her passion of drawing and<br />
painting, a passion first instilled in her<br />
by her grandfather, a muralist in central<br />
Mexico. The recipient of several<br />
awards, she has exhibited in the San<br />
Francisco Bay Area.<br />
Paste paper, an age-old method of mixing<br />
paste and pigment, layering it, and<br />
then using tools to scrape, scratch and<br />
draw through the layers, not only renders<br />
beautiful results on paper but also<br />
opens the <strong>art</strong>ist to new creative experiences.<br />
Using this technique and others,<br />
we will create a stockpile of unique, personalized<br />
papers for your book and collage<br />
projects. We will also learn basic<br />
book forms to use with our new stash<br />
of decorated papers. All levels of students<br />
welcome. Materials fee required.<br />
Tuition: $175.<br />
SUSAN GROSS, an award-winning <strong>art</strong>ist<br />
with a BFA from <strong>Art</strong> <strong>Center</strong> College of<br />
Design, has served as adjunct professor<br />
at California College of the <strong>Art</strong>s. Currently<br />
teaching at <strong>Mendocino</strong> College, Susan<br />
enjoys many types of media from monotypes<br />
to paste paper collages and handmade<br />
books.<br />
800 653-3328 For Complete Workshop Descriptions visit: www.<strong>Mendocino</strong><strong>Art</strong><strong>Center</strong>.org<br />
Life drawing provides the opportunity<br />
to capture the attitude and emotion of<br />
the subject in a moment of time. As a<br />
student, you will learn to convey shape<br />
and form and spatial relationships. As an<br />
<strong>art</strong>ist, you will learn how to convey the<br />
emotion and attitude. Each day begins<br />
with quick warm-up poses designed<br />
to free your mind and sharpen your<br />
awareness. This will be followed by<br />
more sustained poses relating to various<br />
themes and attitudes. All levels. Model<br />
fee required (approx. $30-$50 per person).<br />
Medium: charcoal, conté, oil pastel<br />
(if time) on paper. Tuition: $275.<br />
DALE E. MOYER graduated from<br />
Philadelphia College of <strong>Art</strong>, worked as<br />
<strong>art</strong> director for 25+ years in NYC, taught<br />
at the School of Visual <strong>Art</strong>s and Parsons<br />
School of Design, NYC; Ridgewood<br />
School of <strong>Art</strong>, NJ; <strong>Mendocino</strong> <strong>Art</strong> <strong>Center</strong>,<br />
CA; and chaired the Sketch Class committee<br />
at the Society of Illustrators,<br />
NYC.<br />
<strong>fine</strong> <strong>art</strong><br />
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July 6 – 10<br />
(Monday – Friday)<br />
LOOSEN UP WITH<br />
AQUAMEDIA<br />
July 6 – 9<br />
(Monday – Thursday)<br />
ANATOMICAL LANDMARKS<br />
FOR ARTISTS<br />
July 11 – 12<br />
(Saturday – Sunday)<br />
INTUITIVE PAINTING –<br />
LARGE SCALE<br />
July 11 – 12<br />
(Saturday – Sunday)<br />
REINVENTION AND PLAY<br />
THROUGH COLLAGE<br />
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Burridge’s popular “Loosen Up” workshop<br />
nurtures individual success with<br />
emphasis on daily painting projects. It<br />
is a stress-free, highly energized painting<br />
workshop emphasizing loose and<br />
creative experimentation. Designed for<br />
the professional painter who is stuck<br />
in a style as well as the novice who<br />
wants to conquer their fear of painting,<br />
Burridge’s positive approach is inspirational.<br />
Expect an intense, concentrated<br />
and lively workshop where you will create<br />
many works of <strong>art</strong> using spontaneity<br />
for maximum effect. It’s like four years of<br />
<strong>art</strong> school! Tuition: $350.<br />
ROBERT BURRIDGE is a painter in<br />
all media, national juror, college and<br />
national workshop instructor. His many<br />
honors include the prestigious Franklin<br />
Mint award and the Crest Medal for<br />
Achievement in the <strong>Art</strong>s, previously<br />
awarded to Picasso, John Singer<br />
Sargent and Georgia O’Keeffe.<br />
This drawing workshop focuses on<br />
observing the landmarks and relationships<br />
of the human form. Each of the<br />
eight segments is initiated with a 30 minute<br />
presentation on gesture, proportion,<br />
foreshortening, lighting and progresses<br />
through physical details of sections of<br />
the anatomy. For the rest of each session<br />
the class works from a live model,<br />
each student receiving individual attention<br />
from the instructor. Model fee<br />
required. Tuition: $290.<br />
LARRY BENCICH received his MFA from<br />
the San Francisco <strong>Art</strong> Institute and has<br />
been teaching figure painting and drawing<br />
at the College of Marin for ten years.<br />
His work is in various galleries and collections<br />
in Northern California and the<br />
Midwest.<br />
During this inspirational weekend workshop,<br />
we will st<strong>art</strong> with small creative<br />
exercises and mine our internal source<br />
for rich authentic material to use as<br />
fuel for our painting, culminating on<br />
Sunday with a large scale acrylic painting<br />
on canvas. Experience the freedom<br />
of using intuitive insight to direct your<br />
<strong>art</strong>, and the excitement of working BIG.<br />
Individual assistance provided for suggestions<br />
and technical instruction. Open<br />
to novices and professionals alike who<br />
want to loosen up a little more and feel<br />
the incredible joy of painting! Tuition:<br />
$175.<br />
CYNTHIA SCONTRIANO SCHILDHAUER<br />
studied at Lesley College and the Boston<br />
Museum School of Fine <strong>Art</strong>s. She<br />
received an MA in Painting from CSU<br />
Chico. She has studied encaustic painting<br />
with <strong>art</strong>ists from the R+F Studios in<br />
New York. Her colorful textured paintings<br />
have been featured on the East<br />
Coast and throughout California.<br />
Collage, a way to re-contextualize<br />
everyday objects to create new works<br />
of <strong>art</strong>, is one of the most forgiving and<br />
expressive ways to explore and expand<br />
your creative practice. Susan will guide<br />
you through techniques and processes<br />
to enhance spontaneity and help you to<br />
transform something old or discarded<br />
into something new and fresh. Bring<br />
objects you wish to transform: old <strong>art</strong>work,<br />
objects, mementos—anything you<br />
would like to honor through the reinvention<br />
that is collage. All levels welcome.<br />
Materials fee. Tuition: $175.<br />
SUSAN GROSS: See “Paste, Paper and<br />
Beyond.”<br />
800 653-3328 For Complete Workshop Descriptions visit: www.<strong>Mendocino</strong><strong>Art</strong><strong>Center</strong>.org
July 13 – 17<br />
(Monday – Friday)<br />
WRITERS AND<br />
ILLUSTRATORS UNITE!<br />
Watercolorist Nancy Collins and writer<br />
Molly Dwyer team up to offer you the<br />
best of both worlds! Students will st<strong>art</strong><br />
with an illustration and then search<br />
for the story in their picture, or with<br />
words, finding pictures from their story.<br />
Students will be encouraged to move<br />
back and forth between the two. It will<br />
also be possible to work in collaboration<br />
with another student, in a painter/writer<br />
combo. Everyone is encouraged to try<br />
their hand at both processes for understanding<br />
and expansion of creative tools<br />
and to assist in the collaboration process.<br />
Tuition: $350.<br />
MOLLY DWYER, webmistress for the<br />
<strong>Mendocino</strong> <strong>Art</strong> <strong>Center</strong> and author of<br />
Requiem for the Author of Frankenstein,<br />
a novel about Mary Shelley, has been<br />
exploring the relationship between<br />
words and visual design on computers<br />
for over twenty years. Visit mollydwyer.com<br />
and vortextproductions.com.<br />
NANCY COLLINS: See “Wow, That’s<br />
Outrageous Color!”<br />
July 13 – 14<br />
(Monday – Tuesday)<br />
BEGINNING ENCAUSTICS<br />
Encaustic paint is one of the most beautiful<br />
and durable paints that an <strong>art</strong>ist can<br />
use. Made from wax and resin that can<br />
be polished to an enamel-like finish, it<br />
offers endless possibilities for exquisite<br />
surface qualities. This workshop<br />
will teach the basics of the encaustic<br />
method. Traditional painting and fusing<br />
techniques will be combined with contemporary<br />
approaches. Students will<br />
learn about the preparation of supports<br />
and grounds, the variety of tools used,<br />
and about the safe and archival uses<br />
of this medium. Materials fee. Tuition:<br />
$175.<br />
SANDI MIOT is a San Francisco Bay<br />
area <strong>art</strong>ist working primarily in the<br />
ancient Greek medium of encaustics.<br />
Richly textured and saturated with deep<br />
pigments, her work combines her new<br />
and unique techniques and formats with<br />
an exceptional command of this ancient<br />
and venerable medium.<br />
July 16 – 19<br />
(Thursday – Sunday)<br />
INTERMEDIATE<br />
ENCAUSTICS<br />
For the <strong>art</strong>ist already working in encaustics,<br />
the focus of this 4 day class will<br />
be the myriad ways to create enhancements<br />
and embellishments of the surface,<br />
including how to build up the surface<br />
with wax; incising and mark-making;<br />
templates; image transfers; use of<br />
drawing materials; application of metal<br />
and gold leaf; collage of dried materials<br />
and different kinds of papers plus the<br />
integration of nonporous elements such<br />
as metal, stone and wire. Encaustic<br />
Monotype, creating encaustic paintings<br />
on paper using a metal plate, will also be<br />
covered. Tuition: $295.<br />
SANDI MIOT: See “Beginning<br />
Encaustics.”<br />
800 653-3328 For Complete Workshop Descriptions visit: www.<strong>Mendocino</strong><strong>Art</strong><strong>Center</strong>.org<br />
July 17 – 19<br />
(Friday – Sunday)<br />
COLLAGE FOR A STAINED<br />
GLASS LOOK<br />
If you are an <strong>art</strong>ist asking, “What’s<br />
next,” and if you are ready and willing<br />
to take some risks and learn how to use<br />
unusual techniques and tools, and if you<br />
are willing to go beyond your normal limits,<br />
LOOK NO FURTHER! This stimulating<br />
two-day class can change your <strong>art</strong>istic<br />
lethargy. Sue has successfully leaped<br />
over her boundaries in color, materials<br />
and style and will show you her free<br />
flowing process for putting the WOW<br />
factor into your work. You will learn<br />
how to layer acrylics washes, to stamp,<br />
scrape, spray and drip your way to a<br />
glowing, stained glass effect. Tuition:<br />
$225.<br />
SUE SISKIN is a prize-winning <strong>art</strong>ist in<br />
both watercolor and acrylic collage.<br />
Her work is shown internationally. She<br />
teaches at the <strong>Mendocino</strong> <strong>Art</strong> <strong>Center</strong><br />
and also in Mexico. Her students of<br />
many years rave about her warm and<br />
enthusiastic teaching methods. Visit her<br />
website at www.SueSiskin.com<br />
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July 20 – 24<br />
(Monday – Friday)<br />
WATERCOLOR TEXTURES &<br />
TECHNIQUES<br />
This workshop will include many watercolor<br />
secrets and experimental techniques<br />
that depend on the paper you<br />
choose. Painting on a variety of smooth<br />
surfaces allows lifting and the translucent<br />
watercolor effects and textures<br />
that are are perfect for painting rocky<br />
streams, trees, ocean seascapes, flowers<br />
and other subjects. Gesso coated<br />
paper allows color to be glazed in layers:<br />
lifted easily to white and sprayed<br />
to make textures with salt, scraping,<br />
masking, tree seal, sponges, spatter and<br />
many more. This is a great workshop<br />
for beginning and advanced painters.<br />
Tuition: $350.<br />
PATRICIA MARTIN OSBORNE is a<br />
full time watercolor and mixed media<br />
impressionist painter. She studied at<br />
CCAC, Oakland and San Jose State<br />
University. Her workshops are designed<br />
to feel and see the magic in watercolor<br />
and have fun doing it. Visit her website<br />
at www.patriciaosborne.com.<br />
July 22 – 26<br />
(Wednesday – Sunday)<br />
MIX THAT MEDIA!<br />
This mini-retreat is about Discovery<br />
and Play. We experiment with different<br />
media on a variety of surfaces. Each<br />
day focuses on a different combination,<br />
such as soft pastels with acrylics.<br />
All imagery is applicable and paintings<br />
might develop entirely from layering with<br />
different materials, yielding surprisingly<br />
rich and unexpected results. Combining<br />
materials inspires experimentation and<br />
<strong>art</strong>istic risks, helping the <strong>art</strong>ist to focus<br />
on process as well as product. Each <strong>art</strong>ist<br />
is invited to use her/his waterbased<br />
medium of choice. Tuition: $350.<br />
MIRA M. WHITE, <strong>art</strong>ist and teacher,<br />
exhibits widely in the Bay Area and is<br />
represented in collections in the US<br />
and Europe. Mira teaches drawing and<br />
painting classes throughout California.<br />
Her professional career includes curatorial<br />
and administrative positions for<br />
both galleries and <strong>art</strong> schools.<br />
July 26 – 31<br />
(Sunday evening, 7-10pm – Friday)<br />
JAPANESE WOODBLOCK<br />
PRINTMAKING<br />
This workshop will cover centuries-old<br />
and modern block-making and printing<br />
techniques, using authentic handmade<br />
Japanese tools and materials. You will<br />
create prints from concept to completion<br />
and presentation. Students will learn to<br />
design a print, carve multiple blocks, set<br />
up registration, prepare paper and print<br />
beautiful multicolor woodblock prints.<br />
Plan on coming to the first session with<br />
an image design and line drawing ready<br />
for discussion. Tuition: $365.<br />
WALT PADGETT is an award-winning<br />
Oregon printmaker with over forty years<br />
of teaching experience, including community<br />
college, university, and private<br />
workshop levels. He personally trained<br />
with printmakers Robert McClain, Toshi<br />
Yoshida and Akira Kurosaki. He has<br />
been making woodblock prints in the<br />
Japanese method since 1978. Walt has<br />
studied in Japan and researched the<br />
rich cultural traditions and document<br />
imagery for his own print work.<br />
July 27 – 31<br />
(Monday – Friday)<br />
LUMINOUS OILS<br />
Brian Davis will demonstrate the<br />
approach to painting in oils that has<br />
made his floral paintings renowned. He<br />
will talk about choosing a subject, composition,<br />
the use of a value painting<br />
and the techniques of oil painting that<br />
contribute to the look of his works. You<br />
will watch Brian as he goes through the<br />
process of bringing a painting to life. You<br />
will also work on your painting. He will<br />
be there to answer questions and assist<br />
you with the creation of your masterpiece.<br />
Tuition: $350.<br />
BRIAN DAVIS is honored to be in the<br />
collections of seven museums, including:<br />
The Huntington Library, the Los<br />
Angeles County Museum of <strong>Art</strong> and the<br />
New York Botanical Garden. In 1971,<br />
he left Cal State University LA, in his<br />
senior year, to pursue an <strong>art</strong> career. He<br />
is primarily self –taught. He and a p<strong>art</strong>ner<br />
owned an <strong>art</strong> publishing company,<br />
Davis-Blue <strong>Art</strong>work, Inc. for 14 years. He<br />
now devotes all of his time and energy to<br />
making <strong>art</strong>.<br />
800 653-3328 For Complete Workshop Descriptions visit: www.<strong>Mendocino</strong><strong>Art</strong><strong>Center</strong>.org
August 1 – 2<br />
(Saturday – Sunday)<br />
SOLARPLATE<br />
PRINTMAKING<br />
“Solarplate” is the brand name for<br />
one of a variety of products that utilize<br />
light-sensitive polymer coatings which<br />
enable <strong>art</strong>ists to develop either intaglio<br />
(etched) or relief plates for printmaking.<br />
Solarplates are etched in water, are<br />
durable and easy to use. Depending<br />
upon the transparency used to expose<br />
the plate, results can rival lithography<br />
in appearance, photogravure, traditional<br />
etchings, and even woodcuts or<br />
linocuts, yet are processed with nontoxic<br />
means. This workshop will teach<br />
you how to expose, develop, and print<br />
solarplates, in both the intaglio and relief<br />
processes. Tuition: $175.<br />
WALTER PADGETT: See “Japanese<br />
Woodblock Printmaking.”<br />
August 3 – 7<br />
(Monday – Friday)<br />
WOW, THAT’S<br />
OUTRAGEOUS COLOR!<br />
Nancy Collins will help you understand<br />
the aspects of color, whether it’s the<br />
color in your subject matter or new<br />
colors in your shadows. Don’t get stuck<br />
in the idea shadows are always “gray”!<br />
Nancy will help you st<strong>art</strong> to think beyond<br />
gray and even black by the colors you<br />
use in your paintings. Give your paintings<br />
a new outlook, whether seen from a<br />
distance or up close. If you want to take<br />
your paintings to that next level of pizzazz<br />
this is the class for you! All levels<br />
are welcome. Tuition: $350.<br />
NANCY COLLINS has spent the last two<br />
decades painting watercolor. She is a<br />
tight watercolor <strong>art</strong>ist, but she allows the<br />
water to do the work for her. Nancy was<br />
published in American <strong>Art</strong>ist Magazine,<br />
March 2004, for her knowledge on color<br />
and in Watercolor Magic, April 2008, for<br />
a new technique she has developed.<br />
She can teach anyone how to paint!<br />
August 3 – 6<br />
(Monday – Thursday)<br />
FEARLESS PAINTING<br />
Cultivating the Imagination<br />
through Paint<br />
This class will provide you with a toolbox<br />
of painting techniques and creative<br />
ideas to inspire your painting process. It<br />
is a marriage of the right and left sides<br />
of the brain, designed for both beginning<br />
and experienced painters. Using acrylic<br />
paints, mediums and mixed media, we<br />
will be exploring color mixing, brushwork,<br />
layering, texture, image transfers<br />
and collage. We will explore the creative<br />
process, learning how to cultivate the<br />
mind and paint without judgment, with<br />
an attitude of fearless experimentation,<br />
ultimately embracing a sense of joy and<br />
confidence in our work. Tuition: $280.<br />
SUSAN DORF received her BFA from the<br />
Academy of <strong>Art</strong> College in San Francisco.<br />
She has exhibited her work in California<br />
as well as internationally. Her <strong>art</strong>work<br />
has been published in books, calendars<br />
and prints, and she has taught painting<br />
workshops throughout the US and in<br />
Europe and Mexico.<br />
800 653-3328 For Complete Workshop Descriptions visit: www.<strong>Mendocino</strong><strong>Art</strong><strong>Center</strong>.org<br />
August 10 – 14<br />
(Monday – Friday)<br />
TAKE CONTROL WITH<br />
WATERCOLOR PENCILS<br />
By far, watercolor is the most popular<br />
<strong>art</strong> medium, but unless <strong>art</strong>ists are able<br />
to devote many years to painting, they<br />
struggle to achieve even modest success.<br />
But now, everyone, from “weekend<br />
<strong>art</strong>ists” to experts, can learn a controllable<br />
approach to watercolors with<br />
watercolor pencils. Students are given<br />
easy to follow step-by-step demonstrations,<br />
reference <strong>art</strong>, notes and personal<br />
one-on-one instruction. Tuition: $350.<br />
GARY GREENE conducts workshops<br />
in an informal, encouraging environment<br />
with an emphasis on learning and<br />
fun. He is the author of nine North<br />
Light books including: Colored Pencil<br />
& Watercolor Pencil- No Experience<br />
Required, Painting with Water Soluble<br />
Colored Pencils, Creating Textures in<br />
Colored Pencil and Capturing Radiant<br />
Flowers in Colored Pencil. Gary has<br />
taught workshops nationally and internationally<br />
since 1985.<br />
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August 10 – 12<br />
(Monday – Wednesday)<br />
INTRODUCTORY<br />
FLAMEWORK GLASS<br />
BEADMAKING<br />
Learn how to make flamework glass<br />
beads! This introductory workshop<br />
shows how – covering safety, theory,<br />
technique and lots of hands-on. Topics<br />
include: basic bead formation and shaping,<br />
making and using stringers and<br />
multicolored twisties and other design<br />
techniques such as dotting, plunging,<br />
striping, masking, raking, “pin wheeling,”<br />
and clear casing. All materials,<br />
tools, and equipment, including oxygenpropane<br />
torches, and Italian soda-lime<br />
glass, are provided. Materials fee: $90.<br />
Tuition: $290.<br />
HARLAN SIMON has been professionally<br />
making and exhibiting glass beads<br />
and glass bead jewelry for ten years.<br />
Harlan has appeared on radio, TV, and<br />
the how-to Internet site expertvillage.<br />
com. His work has also been featured in<br />
Lark Books’ 1,000 Glass Beads and The<br />
Complete Book of Glass Beadmaking.<br />
Visit his website: harlanbeads.com.<br />
August 13 – 14<br />
(Thursday – Friday)<br />
CONTINUING FLAMEWORK<br />
GLASS BEADMAKING<br />
This two-day workshop helps consolidate<br />
the work of the introductory workshop,<br />
allowing for substantial additional<br />
practice and review. It also covers new<br />
techniques, in some or all of the following<br />
areas: use of frits, powders, dichroic and<br />
reactive glass, and inclusions (metal foil,<br />
millifiori). Students already possessing<br />
basic beadmaking skills may take this<br />
workshop without having taken the prior<br />
three-day introductory workshop. All<br />
materials, tools, and equipment, including<br />
oxygen-propane torches, and Italian<br />
soda-lime glass, are provided. Materials<br />
fee: $ 70. Tuition: $175.<br />
HARLAN SIMON: See “Introductory<br />
Flamework Glass Beadmaking.”<br />
August 15<br />
(Saturday)<br />
SPECIAL TOPICS IN<br />
FLAMEWORK:<br />
Glass Cabochons, Pendants, and<br />
Buttons<br />
This is a one day workshop on flamework<br />
cabochon, pendant and button making.<br />
Cabochons are small flat-backed domes,<br />
beautiful by themselves, as miniature<br />
paperweights, or with glue-on bails<br />
and shanks, as pendants and buttons.<br />
Instruction begins with simple dropdown<br />
sculptural he<strong>art</strong> bead pendants,<br />
and continues off-mandrel to simple frit<br />
pick-up, clear cased and more complex<br />
striped, radially generated cabochons.<br />
This workshop is useful for students<br />
interested in “away from the bead”<br />
design forms. Pre-requisites: prior<br />
flamework bead making workshop(s) or<br />
experience. All materials, tools, and<br />
equipment, including oxygen-propane<br />
torches, and Italian soda-lime glass, are<br />
provided. Materials fee: $35. Tuition:<br />
$90.<br />
HARLAN SIMON: See “Introductory<br />
Flamework Glass Beadmaking.”<br />
August 17 – 21<br />
(Monday – Friday)<br />
I NEVER KNEW OIL PASTEL<br />
COULD BE SO EASY<br />
Oil pastel, for me, beats soft pastel<br />
because you can draw and/or paint with<br />
it. Its forgiving qualities make it ideal.<br />
The way I conduct this class is to have<br />
students draw along with me. That way<br />
we get more paintings finished, I have<br />
time to help each student, and you learn<br />
the medium of oil pastel. I cover many<br />
of the basics as we paint and use a lot<br />
of humor to keep things fun. It seems<br />
everyone feels that they “moved up a<br />
notch” by having taken a class with me.<br />
Tuition: $330.<br />
JEFF LEEDY is a nationally recognized<br />
award winning humorist. He’s taught a<br />
variety of courses at the SF Academy<br />
of <strong>Art</strong>, Cooper Union (NYC) and the<br />
<strong>Mendocino</strong> <strong>Art</strong> <strong>Center</strong>. His specialty is<br />
helping adult students overcome their<br />
“blocks” to finding their creativity. “My<br />
goal is to lift each student up one whole<br />
level of ability.”<br />
800 653-3328 For Complete Workshop Descriptions visit: www.<strong>Mendocino</strong><strong>Art</strong><strong>Center</strong>.org
August 17 – 20<br />
(Monday – Thursday)<br />
FLOWERS IN BLOOM<br />
August 22 – 24<br />
(Saturday – Monday)<br />
TREASURES FROM THE SEA<br />
August 24 – 26<br />
(Monday – Wednesday)<br />
DRAWING WITHOUT PAIN<br />
September 4 – 6<br />
(Friday – Sunday)<br />
ABSTRACTION IN ACRYLIC<br />
Create a garden filled with beautiful<br />
flowers! In this class Birgit will focus on<br />
a variety of different flowers including<br />
the paper-like quality of the matajilla<br />
poppy, luscious red flowers, white tulips,<br />
water drops on flowers and others. You<br />
will learn how to build depth, add drama<br />
and build the magic of dimensional illusion<br />
by adding water drops. Birgit shares<br />
her techniques and color combinations.<br />
You will see how to interpret a flower<br />
without adding every detail. Some<br />
knowledge of watercolor is helpful. This<br />
class is open to all skill levels - beginners<br />
are welcome. Tuition: $280.<br />
BIRGIT O’CONNOR is a self-taught <strong>art</strong>ist<br />
whose work has been published in over<br />
26 publications. In 2008 Birgit released<br />
her first book, Watercolor in Motion,<br />
by North Light Publications. Birgit has<br />
produced 13 instructional programs.<br />
For more information visit her website at<br />
www.birgitoconnor.com.<br />
At low tide you can find wonderful sea<br />
treasures on the beach, such as rocks,<br />
shells, kelp or beach glass. This class<br />
will help you take a little piece of the<br />
beach home with you. Learn how to<br />
create texture in the rocks and feel as<br />
if you can touch the sand; learn how<br />
to incorporate other elements such as<br />
shells, glass or kelp. Birgit shares her<br />
techniques and color combinations to<br />
create the illusion of depth and shape in<br />
these shore treasures. Demonstrations<br />
throughout both days, work at your own<br />
pace. Birgit provides reference material<br />
and sketches but you are welcome<br />
to use your own photos or items found<br />
on the beach. This class is open to all<br />
skill levels, including beginners. Tuition:<br />
$225.<br />
BIRGIT O’CONNOR:<br />
See “Flowers in Bloom.”<br />
Did you st<strong>art</strong> painting only to discover<br />
that you didn’t draw very well Well,<br />
this is for you. We’ll do lots of “gesture<br />
drawing” to loosen you up and show<br />
you how to pick things to draw and what<br />
kind of lighting to choose. We’ll silence<br />
that inner critic who says, “That’s no<br />
good!” Frequently, after awhile, several<br />
classmates will come around and say,<br />
“Hey, I didn’t know you could draw!”<br />
What will you say “Hey, that wasn’t so<br />
hard. I didn’t feel any pain. And I think I<br />
just got better.” Tuition: $230.<br />
JEFF LEEDY: See “I Never Knew Oil<br />
Pastel Could Be So Easy.”<br />
800 653-3328 For Complete Workshop Descriptions visit: www.<strong>Mendocino</strong><strong>Art</strong><strong>Center</strong>.org<br />
In this non-representational workshop,<br />
acrylic on paper will be used to explore<br />
a direct and immediate approach to<br />
painting. You will explore a variety of<br />
methods and techniques for putting the<br />
paint on the paper – always looking for<br />
the “unexpected visual treats.” You will<br />
work from a quiet, meditative place to<br />
open to where intuition and creativity<br />
meet. We will use the “language of <strong>art</strong>”<br />
to discuss the work. Perception and<br />
openness take priority over experience<br />
and what you already know. Tuition:<br />
$230.<br />
KAREN COX graduated from California<br />
College of <strong>Art</strong>s and Crafts, teaches <strong>art</strong>,<br />
studied Perception: Visual Language of<br />
<strong>Art</strong> with Ann O’Hanlon and acrylic painting<br />
with Judith Hale for 5 years at the<br />
<strong>Mendocino</strong> <strong>Art</strong> <strong>Center</strong>. She is a practicing<br />
<strong>art</strong>ist with a passion for <strong>art</strong>. Visit her<br />
website at www.justabstract<strong>art</strong>.com.<br />
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September 12 – 13<br />
(Saturday – Sunday)<br />
INTERMEDIATE –<br />
ADVANCED GOUACHE &<br />
WATERCOLOR PAINTING<br />
From the smallest thumbnail sketch to<br />
more finished works in the field, discover<br />
the importance of planning and<br />
seeing more options in your compositions,<br />
color palettes and tonal combinations<br />
before committing time on larger<br />
studio paintings. The workshop will go<br />
over techniques to pre-visualize your<br />
final idea and see the many options a<br />
location can inspire in a final painting.<br />
By combining the best of gouache’s<br />
opaque-change friendly qualities with<br />
watercolor’s transparent subtlety, you<br />
can work more efficiently in capturing<br />
lighting, atmosphere and tonal information.<br />
Tuition: $180.<br />
ERIK TIEMENS is known internationally<br />
as an award-winning movie concept<br />
<strong>art</strong>ist as well as an accomplished <strong>fine</strong><br />
<strong>art</strong>ist. Erik studied at <strong>Art</strong> <strong>Center</strong> College<br />
of Design, Pasadena, CA, graduating<br />
with Distinction. He has shown in galleries<br />
in Laguna Beach, Sausalito and<br />
Connecticut.<br />
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September 12 – 13<br />
(Saturday – Sunday)<br />
CREATING SERIGRAPHS<br />
Screen-printing basics using waterbased<br />
inks and stencils to produce limited<br />
edition serigraphs will be the focus<br />
of this workshop. The instruction will<br />
include planning and building a set-up,<br />
making stencils, printing strategies, mixing<br />
inks and print production on paper.<br />
There is a definite excitement generated<br />
around pressing ink through a screen<br />
where a crisp, detailed image is produced<br />
with the pass of a squeegee.<br />
Tuition: $175.<br />
MICHAEL GUERRIERO is a studio printmaker<br />
and painter. He has produced a<br />
series of landscape serigraphs dating<br />
back to 1979. His prints are a combination<br />
of his reverence of the beautiful<br />
natural world we inhabit and his<br />
interest in generating a printed image<br />
that reflects the source of inspiration.<br />
You may find a catalog of his work at<br />
www.northcoast.com/~mguerro.<br />
September 19 – 20<br />
(Saturday – Sunday)<br />
FRAME IT YOURSELF!<br />
In this weekend workshop you will learn<br />
all about <strong>fine</strong> <strong>art</strong> framing and design.<br />
Bring a small project that you have<br />
always wanted to get framed, and the<br />
instructor will supervise the layout, matting,<br />
mounting and assembly. If you have<br />
several items to frame, or if you desire to<br />
frame <strong>art</strong> on a continuing basis, it won’t<br />
take long for some quality framing equipment<br />
to pay for itself. Picture frame<br />
restoration and archival techniques will<br />
also be demonstrated, so bring those<br />
old damaged frames for repairs. Upon<br />
completion of this class you will know<br />
how to cut multiple mats, safely handle<br />
glass and assemble a frame. No experience<br />
necessary. Materials fee: $25.<br />
Tuition: $165.<br />
Instructor and MAC Gallery Manager<br />
MARK CODY has been teaching framing<br />
for years. He is a graduate of R &<br />
D Framing Academy. Also, Cody has<br />
operated his own galleries in Denver<br />
and Santa Fe. The class will be fun and<br />
informative.<br />
September 19 – 20<br />
(Saturday – Sunday)<br />
MORE BEGINNING<br />
WATERCOLOR. . .<br />
You can do it! OK, here’s your chance<br />
for all you wannabe watercolor <strong>art</strong>ists.<br />
Renowned water colorist Nancy Collins<br />
is doing an absolutely beginning watercolor<br />
class. She will teach you all the<br />
beginning techniques, tools and tricks<br />
to st<strong>art</strong> you on your way to becoming<br />
the <strong>art</strong>ist you have always wanted to<br />
be. Don’t put off today what you have<br />
always longed to do. Not only will you<br />
pick up more than you ever thought possible<br />
but you will have loads of fun while<br />
you are learning. Tuition: $175.<br />
NANCY COLLINS: See “Wow, That’s<br />
Outrageous Color.”<br />
800 653-3328 For Complete Workshop Descriptions visit: www.<strong>Mendocino</strong><strong>Art</strong><strong>Center</strong>.org
September 26 – 27<br />
(Saturday – Sunday)<br />
ATMOSPHERIC<br />
LANDSCAPES<br />
September 26 – 27<br />
(Saturday – Sunday)<br />
ENCAUSTICS – A NEW<br />
APPROACH<br />
October 3 – 4<br />
(Saturday – Sunday)<br />
OIL PAINTING WITH ERIN<br />
DERTNER<br />
October 3 – 4<br />
(Saturday – Sunday)<br />
WATERCOLOR – COLOR<br />
DYNAMICS<br />
Be free, have fun—explore and express<br />
yourself by letting go of the frustration<br />
of trying to be in control or to create<br />
the perfect painting. You’ll learn about<br />
paper, brushes, how much water to use,<br />
moving color, layering and shape. Birgit<br />
will provide sketches so you can practice<br />
the basics while becoming familiar<br />
with the movement of the washes. Get<br />
ready to loosen up and let go, blending<br />
color to create atmospheric skies with<br />
minimal landscapes. This class is open<br />
to all skill levels; beginners are welcome.<br />
Tuition: $175.<br />
BIRGIT O’CONNOR:<br />
Bloom.”<br />
See “Flowers in<br />
This innovative workshop will introduce<br />
students to the incredible versatility of<br />
encaustic painting, using molten beeswax<br />
and pigments to create beautiful,<br />
layered, and textured works of <strong>art</strong>.<br />
Unlike traditional encaustic classes that<br />
focus primarily on technique, this weekend<br />
will focus on how to use encaustic<br />
as paintings. Non-traditional application<br />
of encaustic combined with mixed<br />
media will be demonstrated as students<br />
develop their own unique versions of<br />
encaustic <strong>art</strong>. Professionals and novices<br />
invited! Materials fee required. Tuition:<br />
$175.<br />
CYNTHIA SCONTRIANO SCHILDHAUER:<br />
See “Intuitive Painting – Large Scale.”<br />
Oils are sumptuous and forgivable and<br />
you will enjoy this workshop because<br />
of Erin’s “knee jerk” approach. She will<br />
st<strong>art</strong> each day with short value studies<br />
with a larger demo to follow. Shapes,<br />
values and edges will be stressed and<br />
she will help you “discover” new colors<br />
in the landscape or photo. Erin uses a<br />
knife, but brushes are welcome. Oneon-one<br />
interaction will be plentiful with<br />
a group “show and tell” in conclusion.<br />
Tuition: $175.<br />
ERIN DERTNER is an award winning<br />
local <strong>art</strong>ist who paints predominantly in<br />
oil with a palette knife. Her work can be<br />
seen in many noted national galleries<br />
and is collected both as original <strong>art</strong> and<br />
in reproductions ranging from prints to<br />
cards, tapestries and a myriad of gift<br />
items.<br />
800 653-3328 For Complete Workshop Descriptions visit: www.<strong>Mendocino</strong><strong>Art</strong><strong>Center</strong>.org<br />
We’ll explore color and how to use and<br />
manipulate it to create strong compositions<br />
with watercolor. St<strong>art</strong>ing with a<br />
limited palette we’ll mix gorgeous clean<br />
colors and deep rich blacks and neutrals.<br />
We’ll discuss color combinations,<br />
tonal ranges and how to look for light.<br />
Lots of personal instruction. Bring your<br />
favorite photos, drawings, etc. Tuition:<br />
$170.<br />
<strong>Art</strong> has always been a p<strong>art</strong> of<br />
MARGARET FAGO’s life. She began her<br />
formal <strong>art</strong> training at UC San Diego and<br />
UC Davis; many classes and workshops<br />
have followed. Margaret is a signature<br />
member of California Watercolor<br />
Association and teaches watercolor in<br />
Alameda. She devotes her time to painting<br />
the light, the reflections and moods<br />
of the water scenes, with boats and<br />
people and animals that she loves.<br />
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October 10 – 11<br />
(Saturday – Sunday)<br />
BOLD & BEAUTIFUL:<br />
WILDLIFE IN WATERCOLOR<br />
In this workshop you will learn to capture<br />
the magical moments in nature with<br />
wildlife. There will be demonstrations<br />
on back-lit leaf effects, grass, clouds,<br />
water and wildlife, capturing the quality<br />
of light, achieving color, harmony<br />
and good composition. This workshop<br />
is designed to feel and see the magic<br />
in nature and have fun doing it. Expand<br />
your <strong>art</strong>istic vision and discover a world<br />
you can capture in your paintings. All<br />
levels. Tuition: $175.<br />
PATRICIA MARTIN OSBORNE: See<br />
“Watercolor Textures and Experimental<br />
Techniques.”<br />
October 17 – 18<br />
(Saturday – Sunday)<br />
ENCAUSTIC MONOTYPE<br />
Encaustic monotype, the creation of<br />
one-of-a-kind encaustic paintings on<br />
paper using a warm metal plate, will<br />
be explored in depth. Covered in this<br />
workshop will be the different kinds and<br />
weights of paper, the use and creation<br />
of templates and stencils, integration of<br />
other materials, and presentation methods.<br />
No prior encaustic experience is<br />
necessary. Tuition: $175.<br />
SANDI MIOT is a full-time <strong>art</strong>ist in<br />
Northern California. She has worked<br />
extensively in a variety of mediums,<br />
from clay and glass to oil, pastels, and<br />
watercolor, but she especially loves the<br />
ancient mediums of encaustic and gold<br />
leaf. She has studied in Italy learning oil,<br />
egg tempera and gold leaf from master<br />
<strong>art</strong>ists in these mediums and enjoys<br />
finding new ways to integrate these<br />
mediums into encaustics. Her paintings<br />
are shown and collected both nationally<br />
and internationally and have appeared<br />
on the sets of popular TV shows such as<br />
Friends, ER and CSI: Miami.<br />
October 21 – 23<br />
(Wednesday – Friday)<br />
ABSTRACT FIGURATIVE<br />
PAINTING<br />
Learn to draw and paint the contemporary<br />
nude using expressive painting<br />
techniques. If you have ever wanted to<br />
learn how to paint the freestyle abstract<br />
figure, this workshop is for you. You will<br />
learn the 12 Design Compositions and<br />
color theory for a successful painting.<br />
Your “drawing the nude” skills are not<br />
a prerequisite. Variety of poses with<br />
undraped model. Lots of paint sketching,<br />
gestural wet drawing and finger painting<br />
techniques. Be prepared to paint looser,<br />
bolder, freer, lighter and more intuitively.<br />
Plenty of time for action-filled painting<br />
exercises, demos and personalized<br />
attention. All water-soluble paints are<br />
welcomed. Model fee of $15 payable<br />
with tuition. Tuition: $280.<br />
ROBERT BURRIDGE: See “Loosen Up<br />
with Aquamedia.”<br />
800 653-3328 For Complete Workshop Descriptions visit: www.<strong>Mendocino</strong><strong>Art</strong><strong>Center</strong>.org
October 24 – 25<br />
(Saturday – Sunday)<br />
STUNNING ABSTRACTS<br />
Do you enjoy working with a variety<br />
of media, but don’t quite know how<br />
to pull it all together Want to give a<br />
richer quality to your work Sometimes<br />
paintings just need a bit more texture,<br />
a more vibrant palette and some genuine<br />
discovery in process. In this high<br />
energy mixed media workshop we will<br />
explore a variety of methods for integrating<br />
surface and image. Our media<br />
will be primarily acrylics, texture paste,<br />
some collage and graphic materials. We<br />
will be working with a variety of rollers,<br />
sprayers, gloved fingers, brushes and -<br />
yes— even power tools! Tuition: $175.<br />
MIRA M. WHITE: See “Mix that<br />
Media!”<br />
October 24 – 25<br />
(Saturday – Sunday)<br />
ALL THINGS RED<br />
Red can be difficult to paint in watercolor.<br />
Using the form of a flower, we<br />
will focus on how to create luminous<br />
washes and intensify color. You will then<br />
be able to apply this technique to other<br />
red objects. For instance, there are different<br />
kinds of red: some can repel while<br />
others attract. With many demonstrations<br />
throughout the workshop, Birgit<br />
shares her techniques of color combinations<br />
and application of watercolor to<br />
color blending to create large, smooth<br />
washes of color for the petals. This class<br />
is open to all skill levels; beginners are<br />
welcome. Tuition: $175.<br />
BIRGIT O’CONNOR:<br />
Bloom.”<br />
See “Flowers in<br />
October 26 – 30<br />
(Monday – Friday)<br />
LARGER & LOOSER!<br />
The New Master’s Program for the<br />
Postmodern Painter<br />
Think BIG and st<strong>art</strong> painting large today!<br />
Creative painting techniques for the<br />
Postmodern <strong>art</strong>ist are now available<br />
in this cutting edge, large and loose<br />
workshop. Using Holbein Acryla acrylic<br />
paints, Burridge will demonstrate his<br />
latest color theories, goals and theme<br />
techniques for creating powerful show<br />
stoppers. Emphasis is on originality, personal<br />
vision, intentions and goals. This<br />
expressive abstract workshop pulls out<br />
all the stops and propels you into being<br />
a truly contemporary painter. Tuition:<br />
$350.<br />
ROBERT BURRIDGE: See “Loosen Up<br />
with Aquamedia.”<br />
800 653-3328 For Complete Workshop Descriptions visit: www.<strong>Mendocino</strong><strong>Art</strong><strong>Center</strong>.org<br />
October 31 – November 2<br />
(Saturday – Monday)<br />
DYECOLOR PAINTING<br />
ON SILK<br />
Watercolor enthusiasts as well as silk<br />
painters will find this workshop to be a<br />
dep<strong>art</strong>ure from tradition and an inspiration<br />
for new directions. The medium,<br />
DyeColor painting on silk, involves<br />
techniques that are similar to the way<br />
watercolor is painted on paper. As a surface<br />
to work on, treated silk enables the<br />
<strong>art</strong>ist to achieve luminous rich color and<br />
opens up new creative options. Learn to<br />
make latex treatment, prepare the silk,<br />
setup a palette and mix dye-color. Then<br />
we will explore watercolor techniques<br />
such as washes, shading, blending and<br />
stenciling. Wax resist techniques will<br />
also be explored. Materials fee: $45.<br />
Tuition: $230.<br />
SUSAN LOUISE MOYER is a silk painter,<br />
author and educator who has presented<br />
workshops throughout the United States<br />
for 18 years. Susan has written Silk<br />
Painting: The <strong>Art</strong>ist’s Guide To Gutta And<br />
Wax Resist Techniques and the revised<br />
edition of Silk Painting For Fashion And<br />
Fine <strong>Art</strong>.<br />
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June 4 – 7<br />
(Thursday – Sunday)<br />
ELECTROFORMING<br />
Build layers of metal, through electroforming,<br />
into one-of-a-kind jewelry by<br />
“growing” your own forms. The nonmetal<br />
form is coated with a metallic<br />
lacquer, which attracts metal to itself<br />
through a chemical bath. The process<br />
results in a freestanding layer of metal<br />
that is a replica of the form underneath.<br />
You can then combine electroformed<br />
elements with various surface<br />
treatments and found objects of every<br />
description. The options are endless!<br />
Tuition: $280.<br />
DEBBIE BURKETT has worked in ceramics,<br />
polymer clay, stained glass, fusing<br />
glass and jewelry. She has attended<br />
specialized classes from master jewelers<br />
in order to learn the <strong>art</strong> of incorporating<br />
diverse media into her jewelry<br />
pieces. She is a certified instructor<br />
in Precious Metal Clay, and currently<br />
shows her work at the Mountain <strong>Art</strong>ist<br />
Gallery in Prescott, Arizona.<br />
June 10 – 14<br />
(Wednesday – Sunday)<br />
MAKING SMALL<br />
SCULPTURE AND ART<br />
WITH JEWELRY SKILLS<br />
So many classes in the jewelry realm<br />
focus on teaching a p<strong>art</strong>icular technique,<br />
and jewelry makers tend to focus<br />
on a single technique with their work. I<br />
have always enjoyed integrating many<br />
techniques in my pieces. In this class we<br />
will explore doing exactly that: learning<br />
to use all the tools in our toolbox to make<br />
<strong>Art</strong>. Materials fee: $30. Tuition: $330.<br />
ADAM CLARK grew up in Rhode Island.<br />
He received his BFA degree from Maine<br />
College of <strong>Art</strong>, followed by a series of<br />
apprenticeships with renowned metal<br />
<strong>art</strong>ists. A prolific <strong>art</strong>ist, his work can<br />
currently be seen in galleries, books and<br />
magazines. Adam brings a contagious<br />
enthusiasm to his classes. His patience<br />
and understanding, coupled with high<br />
expectations, make his classes an<br />
entertaining and challenging learning<br />
experience.<br />
June 17 – 21<br />
(Wednesday – Sunday)<br />
WORKING WITH<br />
ARGENTIUM STERLING<br />
SILVER<br />
Explore the techniques required to work<br />
with Argentium Sterling Silver. Master<br />
goldsmith Ronda Coryell will provide<br />
expert instruction and close up demos.<br />
Students learn the process of fusing<br />
both flat and three-dimensional forms.<br />
Demonstrations are followed by handson<br />
experience to create earrings, rings,<br />
bezels, a bead and chains. Students may<br />
bring small stones or gold (18kt or 22kt)<br />
to add to the projects. Materials fee:<br />
$100. Tuition: $600.<br />
RONDA CORYELL is an instructor at The<br />
Revere Academy of Jewelry <strong>Art</strong>s, one of<br />
the world’s most well-regarded learning<br />
institutions for jewelers. She holds<br />
a degree in <strong>Art</strong> Education and founded<br />
the Northwest Chapter of the Florida<br />
Society of Goldsmiths. Her work has<br />
won wide recognition and is included<br />
in several books on contemporary jewelry:<br />
500 Earrings, 500 Bracelets and The<br />
<strong>Art</strong> and Craft of Jewelry Making. Visit<br />
www.rondacoryell.com.<br />
800 653-3328 For Complete Workshop Descriptions visit: www.<strong>Mendocino</strong><strong>Art</strong><strong>Center</strong>.org
June 24 – 28<br />
(Wednesday – Sunday)<br />
PRIMAL TECH ROCK<br />
ROCKS!<br />
July 2 – 5<br />
(Thursday – Sunday)<br />
PATTERNS, PROBLEM<br />
SOLVING & POTPOURRI<br />
July 8 – 12<br />
(Wednesday – Sunday)<br />
SHAKE, RATTLE & ROLL II:<br />
THE SEQUEL<br />
July 15 – 19<br />
(Wednesday – Sunday)<br />
MIXED MEDIA<br />
TECHNIQUES<br />
Explore lapidary techniques using your<br />
collection of beach/river stones. We<br />
will explore carving, shaping, texturing,<br />
polishing and inlaying <strong>fine</strong> silver<br />
into these stones for incorporation in<br />
jewelry or sculpture. No experience in<br />
lapidary techniques is necessary, but<br />
familiarity with basic jewelry tools and<br />
the flexible shaft is a must. Materials<br />
package of necessary diamond drill bits,<br />
diamond burs and water delivery system<br />
is provided. Materials fee: $150+. Tuition:<br />
$325.<br />
DANA DRIVER lives and works in Albion,<br />
CA. She has worked as a studio jeweler<br />
since receiving her BFA in Metal <strong>Art</strong>s<br />
from CCAC (now CCA) in 1975. She has<br />
been working with beach stones for<br />
the past 15 years and has developed<br />
her own technique of inlaying precious<br />
metal into stone. She shows her work<br />
in galleries across the country including<br />
<strong>Mendocino</strong> Jewelry Studio and North<br />
Coast <strong>Art</strong>ists Gallery.<br />
Are you stuck on setting an unusual<br />
stone Can’t quite get a certain fit<br />
on a tough solder job Want to forge<br />
or fabricate something that you have<br />
been casting We’ll demystify what it<br />
takes to get a bezel or prong to bend<br />
without damaging the stone, and learn<br />
proper techniques for forging, chasing,<br />
filing, sanding, finishing and soldering.<br />
No more stress, just solutions. Tuition:<br />
$290.<br />
JOHN PAUL received a BFA in<br />
Metalsmithing from the Univ. of<br />
Wisconsin-Stout in 1992, and opened his<br />
first jewelry gallery and studio 10 years<br />
ago, in Bend, Oregon. Known mostly<br />
for his custom work comprised mainly<br />
of wedding rings, he built a reputation<br />
steeped in old world craftsmanship. John<br />
continues to pour his own ingots, rolling<br />
out sheet and drawing down wire for his<br />
fabrications or carving complex waxes<br />
using the lost wax casting method.<br />
Explore techniques for connecting elements,<br />
resulting in a kinetic piece of<br />
jewelry. Learn how to create movable<br />
elements in bracelets along with pendants,<br />
and earrings that swivel. Other<br />
techniques such as roller printing, basic<br />
chasing, wire wrapping and bead making<br />
will be covered. Cabochon stones<br />
may also be included in the designs.<br />
Students are encouraged to select their<br />
own projects. Basic soldering skills<br />
a MUST! Materials fee: $40. Tuition:<br />
$330.<br />
YVONNE GIAMBRONE-MARTIN has<br />
been creating jewelry in northern<br />
California for forty years. Known for their<br />
mechanical elements, Yvonne’s creations<br />
are miniature kinetic sculptures.<br />
Galleries in New York, New Mexico,<br />
Arizona and California represent her<br />
work. After graduating from San Jose<br />
State University with a BA in design, she<br />
owned and managed a Sonoma County<br />
retail gallery and studio.<br />
800 653-3328 For Complete Workshop Descriptions visit: www.<strong>Mendocino</strong><strong>Art</strong><strong>Center</strong>.org<br />
Learn the properties of non-conventional<br />
materials and innovative surface treatments<br />
in jewelry. Experiment with plastics,<br />
glass, polymer clay, wood, shell,<br />
bone and eggshell. Explore the applicability<br />
of <strong>fine</strong> <strong>art</strong>s media such as paint,<br />
hard wax, metal leaf, colored pencil and<br />
more. Learn joining techniques such as<br />
riveting, pegging, bolting, tabbing and<br />
pronging. Problem solving will focus<br />
on creative solutions to technical challenges<br />
and will address the relationship<br />
between content, form, materials<br />
and technique while emphasizing sound<br />
craftsmanship. Tuition: $365.<br />
DIANE FALKENHAGEN has been a practicing<br />
metalsmith for over 25 years. She<br />
is best known for her fabricated, one-ofa-kind<br />
jewelry which incorporates pictorial<br />
imagery borrowed from historical<br />
paintings. Her work has been exhibited<br />
widely and has been published in<br />
American Craft, Metalsmith, Ornament,<br />
Southwest <strong>Art</strong> and the New York Times.<br />
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July 22 – 26<br />
(Wednesday – Sunday)<br />
CROCHETING WITH FINE<br />
WIRE<br />
Enjoy being able to take your “work”<br />
with you. Learn basic to advanced techniques<br />
of “crocheting” with wire, from<br />
simple chains to more advanced sculptural<br />
techniques. Students will learn to<br />
use a crochet hook with silver, copper<br />
and niobium wire, the “knitting” technique<br />
of single and double stitch, chain<br />
making, as well as methods for adding<br />
beads to the work. All materials that<br />
will be needed will be supplied for the<br />
class for a fee of $100. Come join the fun.<br />
Tuition: $350.<br />
JOAN DULLA has been a jeweler and<br />
crocheting with metal for over 15 years.<br />
She has shown her work throughout the<br />
United States and has appeared in many<br />
books and magazines. She continues to<br />
challenge the conventional boundaries<br />
of jewelry and <strong>art</strong> with her unyielding<br />
passion for her work.<br />
July 29 – August 2<br />
(Wednesday – Sunday)<br />
FORGING AND<br />
FABRICATING SILVER<br />
FLATWARE<br />
Explore the various silver alloys, with an<br />
emphasis on forging properties and temperature<br />
ranges. Students will alloy and<br />
pour ingots for forging and fabricating<br />
functional flatware. Tools, techniques<br />
and finishing will be covered. The spoon<br />
will be emphasized, but other flatware<br />
forms will be covered. Join us with<br />
an open mind to explore another area<br />
in jewelry and silversmithing. Tuition:<br />
$350.<br />
JAY BURNHAM-KIDWELL has an MFA<br />
in metalsmithing from the University of<br />
Georgia, and is Professor Emeritus at<br />
Mohave Community College, Kingman,<br />
AZ. He is currently a studio <strong>art</strong>ist and<br />
metalsmithing teacher and has taught<br />
at the <strong>Mendocino</strong> <strong>Art</strong> <strong>Center</strong>, Penland<br />
School of Crafts, Touchstone Craft<br />
<strong>Center</strong>, Peters Valley Craft <strong>Center</strong> and<br />
others. He teaches and exhibits on a<br />
national level.<br />
August 5 – 9<br />
(Wednesday – Sunday)<br />
CLOISONNE ENAMELING –<br />
A PLAYFUL APPROACH<br />
Take the mystery and tediousness out<br />
of cloisonné enameling. This can be<br />
a fun, spontaneous process. Students<br />
will learn/review the basic steps for<br />
making a cloisonné enamel piece, and<br />
then begin to push the possibilities by<br />
introducing textural elements into their<br />
pieces. Learn how to create enamels<br />
which “glow” from within, blend subtle<br />
color gradations, and create smooth<br />
polished finishes. For beginners and<br />
intermediate students. No experience<br />
required. Just an open mind! Materials<br />
fee: $25. Tuition: $600.<br />
RICKY FRANK has been a self-taught<br />
enamelist/jeweler for the past 32 years.<br />
His business, Ricky Frank Enamels, produces<br />
cloisonné enamel jewelry which<br />
is sold at high-end craft shows and<br />
at jewelry stores across the US. He<br />
has exhibited his work at the prestigious<br />
Smithsonian Craft Show and the<br />
Philadelphia Museum of <strong>Art</strong> craft show.<br />
August 12 – 16<br />
(Wednesday – Sunday)<br />
CENTRIFUGAL CASTING<br />
FOR JEWELRY<br />
Explore working with wax, using various<br />
techniques to create original pieces of<br />
jewelry. Students will learn to cast each<br />
of their creations using the “lost wax<br />
method.” Tuition: $325.<br />
MARIROSE JELICICH, a native of<br />
Sacramento, has been a metalsmith<br />
for over 30 years. She likes to create<br />
one-of-a-kind pieces using natural elements<br />
such as beach pebbles, glass<br />
and pearls. Known for her liturgical<br />
vessels which have been commissioned<br />
throughout the United States,<br />
her most recent commission is with the<br />
Cathedral of Christ the Light, in Oakland,<br />
CA. Her jewelry is shown and sold at the<br />
Soloman Dubnick Gallery, Crocker <strong>Art</strong><br />
Museum, Sacramento, CA, and the Blue<br />
Point Gallery in Roseville, CA.<br />
800 653-3328 For Complete Workshop Descriptions visit: www.<strong>Mendocino</strong><strong>Art</strong><strong>Center</strong>.org
August 19 – 23<br />
(Wednesday – Sunday)<br />
LET’S RAISE A BOWL!<br />
Come join us in a creative five-day workshop!<br />
We will be angle raising, as well<br />
as sinking, to create a small bowl or<br />
vessel formed out of copper. We will<br />
chase and repose the bowl, as well as<br />
apply some decorative embellishments.<br />
Some time will be spent on making<br />
your own chasing tools for the project.<br />
The workshop will be mostly hands-on<br />
while learning these basic metalsmithing<br />
techniques. Tuition: $325.<br />
August 26 – 30<br />
(Wednesday – Sunday)<br />
STONESETTING SAMPLER<br />
In this sampler you will be exposed to a<br />
wide variety of stone-setting concepts.<br />
In our week together, p<strong>art</strong>icipants will<br />
learn and practice: innovative bezel setting<br />
tips, prong-setting, channel-setting,<br />
flush-setting, graver-setting, gypsy-setting<br />
and more. The class will benefit students<br />
from beginners to advanced, who<br />
want to learn more about stone-setting.<br />
Open to all skill levels. Materials fee:<br />
$55. Tuition: $365.<br />
September 1 – 5<br />
(Tuesday – Saturday)<br />
CLOISONNE ENAMELING<br />
WITH PATSY CROFT<br />
Cloisonné enameling is one of the most<br />
beautiful and expressive techniques<br />
available to jewelers. Come learn this<br />
classical form of enameling, by shaping<br />
and applying intricate ribbons of<br />
24 karat gold wires to a metal base of<br />
<strong>fine</strong> silver. Then fill these cells you have<br />
created with beautiful colors of <strong>fine</strong><br />
enamels. Open to intermediate students.<br />
Materials fee: $30. Tuition: $600.<br />
JIM DAILING lives in Portland, Oregon,<br />
where he creates one-of-a-kind wedding<br />
rings in high karat gold and platinum for<br />
his clients around the country. He has<br />
taught at the University of Portland, the<br />
University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point,<br />
the Oregon College of <strong>Art</strong>s and Craft,<br />
the University of Oregon and many times<br />
here in <strong>Mendocino</strong>. He has a BFA from<br />
the University of Wisconsin-Stevens<br />
Point and an MFA from Tyler School of<br />
<strong>Art</strong>.<br />
JEFF GEORGANTES is Jewelry/Metals<br />
Instructor and Director at D<strong>art</strong>mouth<br />
College in Hanover, NH. He has an MFA<br />
in Jewelry/Metals from CSU, Fullerton<br />
and a BA in <strong>Art</strong> and an MA in Sculpture,<br />
both from CSU, Humboldt. He has studied<br />
at Haystack, Penland, and the Revere<br />
Academy of Jewelry <strong>Art</strong>s. He helped<br />
develop and coordinate the Jewelry/<br />
Metals Program at the <strong>Mendocino</strong> <strong>Art</strong><br />
<strong>Center</strong>.<br />
PATSY CROFT is the sole proprietor of<br />
Alohi Lani Designs. She is a self-taught<br />
cloisonné enamellist who incorporates<br />
gold fusion into the designs she creates.<br />
Patsy studied <strong>fine</strong> <strong>art</strong>s at Florida<br />
State University and has extended her<br />
knowledge of metalsmithing by attending<br />
the Honolulu Academy of <strong>Art</strong>s. She<br />
is recognized for meticulous quality and<br />
attention to detail with her exquisitely<br />
colorful and uniquely designed jewelry.<br />
800 653-3328 For Complete Workshop Descriptions visit: www.<strong>Mendocino</strong><strong>Art</strong><strong>Center</strong>.org<br />
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September 11 – 14<br />
(Friday – Monday)<br />
3-D FLIGHTS OF METAL<br />
Using the principles mastered by Charles<br />
Lewton-Brain, students will be introduced<br />
to the intriguing world of score<br />
folding and fold forming. These techniques<br />
allow you to work up 3-D forms<br />
which can be used for jewelry, hollow<br />
ware or sculpture. Learn to stretch what<br />
can be done with metal, while stretching<br />
your mind with new approaches.<br />
Most of the work will be done in copper,<br />
transferring the principles to silver on<br />
the last day. Materials fee: $45. Tuition:<br />
$290.<br />
KATHERINE PALOCHAK is a studio <strong>art</strong>ist<br />
known for her distinctive combination<br />
of ancient techniques with a modern<br />
contemporary interpretation. She has<br />
written for national trade journals like<br />
Lapidary Journal and Rock & Gem. Her<br />
work has been published in a variety of<br />
trade publications like AJM and Colored<br />
Stone, and a variety of national public<br />
magazines. Her workshops are known<br />
to be both fun as well as immediately<br />
applicable.<br />
September 18 – 20<br />
(Friday – Sunday)<br />
JEWELRY FROM PRECIOUS<br />
METAL CLAY<br />
An opportunity to explore the new ecofriendly<br />
21st Century jewelry material<br />
Precious Metal Clay. PMC is composed<br />
of microscopic bits of reconstituted silver<br />
embedded in a clay-like substance.<br />
After firing in a kiln the clay-like substance<br />
burns out and 99.9% pure silver<br />
remains. You will have the opportunity to<br />
create wearable <strong>art</strong>, pendants, earrings,<br />
bracelets, and buttons. Basic patinas<br />
and finishing techniques will also be<br />
taught. Handouts will explain step-bystep<br />
methods. Tuition: $230.<br />
HETTY HERMAN-MINSK began working<br />
with PMC 10 years ago. Prior to that she<br />
had been a professional ceramist and off<br />
loom weaver. She was one of the delegates<br />
of the American Crafts Council<br />
to an International Craft Conference in<br />
Kyoto, Japan. Using PMC to create <strong>fine</strong><br />
silver jewelry was a natural outgrowth<br />
of her previous training and experience.<br />
October 3 – 4<br />
(Saturday – Sunday)<br />
INTERMEDIATE ETCHING<br />
Etching onto red brass, copper, nickel<br />
and sterling silver will be taught.<br />
Students will experiment with acrylic<br />
and spray paint, nail polish, rubber<br />
cement, markers, ink and other resists<br />
to create textures, patterns and images<br />
on metal. Etched plates may also be<br />
used to texture metal. Basic techniques<br />
using image editing software (Adobe<br />
Photoshop) for preparing black and<br />
white images for etching will be covered.<br />
Students will be able to complete<br />
several pieces. Some jewelry experience<br />
and experience with image editing<br />
software is helpful but not necessary.<br />
Materials fee: $50. Tuition: $170.<br />
MONA CLEE has studied jewelry fabrication<br />
at the Revere Academy, the<br />
<strong>Mendocino</strong> <strong>Art</strong> <strong>Center</strong>, the Richmond<br />
<strong>Art</strong> <strong>Center</strong> and the Crucible. She studied<br />
etching with Carmel <strong>art</strong>ist Patti Walters<br />
Wells and with Angela Gleason of the<br />
Monterey Bay Metal <strong>Art</strong>s Guild.<br />
October 9 – 11<br />
(Friday – Sunday)<br />
THE BROOCH: PURELY<br />
PERSONAL SCULPTURE TO<br />
WEAR<br />
Before there were buttons, snaps and<br />
zippers, there was the brooch. The<br />
brooch’s journey through human history<br />
is reflected in the curious forms it has<br />
taken. Using basic fabrication skills,<br />
this class will design and construct a<br />
piece of wearable <strong>art</strong> expressive of<br />
our times and ideas. We will learn the<br />
various technologies behind the findings<br />
and have fun making brooches for the<br />
20th century. Basic metalworking skills<br />
are helpful, but not necessary. Tuition:<br />
$225.<br />
SUSAN CHIN is a full time studio jeweler<br />
living in Northern California. Her pieces<br />
are exhibited throughout the United<br />
States and have been published in<br />
Metalsmith, Ornament and other books<br />
and magazines. This will be her third<br />
workshop at <strong>Mendocino</strong> <strong>Art</strong> <strong>Center</strong>.<br />
Visit her website at www.susanchin.<br />
com.<br />
800 653-3328 For Complete Workshop Descriptions visit: www.<strong>Mendocino</strong><strong>Art</strong><strong>Center</strong>.org
October 15 – 18<br />
(Thursday – Sunday)<br />
CUSTOM CLASPS<br />
Create hand-made clasps that are safe,<br />
secure and truly one-of-a-kind. Learn<br />
the key, box and sphere clasp variations,<br />
make original simple latches and unusual<br />
shaped ear nuts. Customize terminals<br />
and findings to unify your <strong>art</strong> jewelry.<br />
We will explore a variety of solutions to<br />
link your custom-made clasp to the rest<br />
of your piece. Basic fabrication, including<br />
soldering, required. Materials fee:<br />
$20. Tuition: $280.<br />
ALISON B. ANTELMAN exhibits and<br />
sells her work out of her studio and<br />
at craft shows nationally. She teaches<br />
classes and workshops at the Richmond<br />
<strong>Art</strong> <strong>Center</strong> and <strong>Mendocino</strong> <strong>Art</strong> <strong>Center</strong> in<br />
California, Sun Valley <strong>Center</strong> for <strong>Art</strong>s in<br />
Sun Valley, Idaho and in her own studio.<br />
As President of the San Francisco Metal<br />
<strong>Art</strong>s Guild she enjoys proselytizing the<br />
word of metal <strong>art</strong>s.<br />
October 23 – 25<br />
(Friday – Sunday)<br />
BASIC FABRICATION:<br />
FOCUS ON SOLDERING<br />
Review basic soldering techniques and<br />
tackle difficult soldering projects. After<br />
25 years of working with precious metal<br />
I find soldering to be continually challenging.<br />
Getting to know your torch and<br />
being comfortable with it is crucial for<br />
a metalsmith. Practice is the only way<br />
to accomplish this and that is what we<br />
will do - practice soldering and become<br />
friends with your torch. Tuition: $225.<br />
NANCY GARDNER has been making <strong>fine</strong><br />
jewelry in <strong>Mendocino</strong> since 1985. She<br />
received her BA in design, and in metalsmithing,<br />
at the Univ. of New York, and<br />
went on to learn old world goldsmithing<br />
from master craftsmen in Italy and<br />
Portugal.With a p<strong>art</strong>icular attraction to<br />
<strong>Art</strong> Deco and <strong>Art</strong> Nouveau styles, Nancy<br />
brings a lifetime of technical expertise<br />
and an ongoing respect and love for her<br />
materials to her <strong>art</strong>istic process.<br />
October 31 – November 2<br />
(Saturday – Monday)<br />
MIXED METAL BEADS: HOT,<br />
COLD & ELECTRIC<br />
This fun workshop will focus on creating<br />
mixed metal tube-riveted beads,<br />
and learning ways to use them in jewelry<br />
forms. Explore an extensive array of<br />
techniques: piercing and sawing, overlay,<br />
roller-printing, using found objects,<br />
as well as texturing, heat-coloring and<br />
more. Learn techniques for applying<br />
posts, wires, and tie tacks to the jewelry<br />
you create. Basic jewelry fabrication<br />
skills are required. Materials fee: $30.<br />
Tuition: $300.<br />
JIMA ABBOTT is a self-taught jeweler<br />
who has been selling his work at juried<br />
<strong>art</strong> shows since 1970, and has taught<br />
workshops at the <strong>Mendocino</strong> <strong>Art</strong> <strong>Center</strong><br />
since 1997. PETER BAILEY has been creating<br />
jewelry since 1979. He received his<br />
initial training from the Tucson Museum<br />
<strong>Art</strong> School under Bruce Clark, and has<br />
been self taught ever since. A nationally-recognized<br />
designer, his work has<br />
appeared in magazines, exhibits and<br />
over 400 galleries around the US.<br />
800 653-3328 For Complete Workshop Descriptions visit: www.<strong>Mendocino</strong><strong>Art</strong><strong>Center</strong>.org<br />
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June 24 – 28<br />
(Wednesday – Sunday)<br />
FIGURATIVE STONE<br />
CARVING<br />
Students will be exposed to John’s theories<br />
of composition, design, and correct<br />
use of tools. He will demonstrate his<br />
techniques by carving a sculpture during<br />
the class. Students will be given time<br />
to work, but should not expect to finish a<br />
piece in this limited time frame. A variety<br />
of limestone blocks will be available for<br />
purchase. Tuition: $325.<br />
JOHN FISHER lived and worked in Italy<br />
for 20 years and brings with him a deep<br />
understanding of classical figure carving.<br />
June 27<br />
Also meets on August 22<br />
(Saturday), 8:00 am – 4:00 pm<br />
CEMENT GARDEN ART<br />
Spend a magical day in Sue Brown’s<br />
garden. Learn to sculpt a box of cement<br />
into a birdbath, or an ornament for your<br />
garden. Bring a favorite chipped plate,<br />
figurine, or tile. Or choose stained glass,<br />
mirrors, or pottery shards from Sue’s<br />
collection. You will create two pieces of<br />
<strong>art</strong> for your garden and the skill to make<br />
many more. No previous experience is<br />
necessary. Call Sue with any questions<br />
at 707-964-0425. This workshop meets at<br />
the instructor’s studio in Caspar. Tuition:<br />
$90.<br />
SUE BROWN is a local <strong>art</strong>ist known<br />
for her whimsical and beautiful garden<br />
<strong>art</strong>. Her work has been featured at the<br />
<strong>Mendocino</strong> <strong>Art</strong> <strong>Center</strong> and other galleries<br />
and shops. Her legendary garden is<br />
often included on garden tours and in<br />
garden magazines.<br />
July 8 – 12<br />
(Wednesday – Sunday)<br />
CARVING IN SOFT CAST<br />
STONE<br />
SCULPTURE THAT CAN LIVE OUTSIDE!<br />
Cast a cement mixture in a container<br />
to create the ‘stone’ you want. Carve<br />
it while it is still soft with simple hand<br />
tools. Easy, fun, anyone can do it! Create<br />
larger, lighterweight pieces by covering<br />
an armature with a cementitious mixture.<br />
There will be opportunity to create<br />
‘stone’ in a great range of color, texture,<br />
and finish. Advanced students may bring<br />
old work to repair, recolor, and/or resurface.<br />
You may make sculpture, planters,<br />
birdbaths, lanterns, fountains, or No<br />
experience necessary. Materials fee<br />
required. Tuition: $325.<br />
JUDITH GREENLEAF received her<br />
Masters from UCLA. A long-time local<br />
resident, she is a sculptor and a twodimensional<br />
<strong>art</strong>ist. She has taught drawing,<br />
painting, sculpture and <strong>art</strong> history<br />
and currently teaches winter workshops<br />
in Mexico.<br />
800 653-3328 For Complete Workshop Descriptions visit: www.<strong>Mendocino</strong><strong>Art</strong><strong>Center</strong>.org
July 15 – 16<br />
(Wednesday – Thursday)<br />
BEGINNING<br />
BLACKSMITHING<br />
Welcome to the magical world of blacksmithing!<br />
In this two-day workshop we<br />
will explore some of the possibilities of<br />
hot steel. You will get an introduction<br />
to the tools and techniques involved in<br />
manipulating the hot metal including<br />
dishing, tapering, twisting and punching.<br />
We will make projects such as bowls,<br />
hooks, forks, candleholders and more.<br />
Materials fee required. Tuition: $165.<br />
GERT RASMUSSEN is a Danish metalsmith<br />
<strong>art</strong>ist living and working on the<br />
<strong>Mendocino</strong> coast, who has been doing<br />
<strong>art</strong> for more than 40 years. Gert makes<br />
everything from gates, furniture, and<br />
candleholders to sculpture. He works<br />
in all kinds of materials, but has a passion<br />
for hot metal. As a member of the<br />
California Blacksmiths Association, Gert<br />
is keen on sharing the joy and knowledge<br />
of metal working. Meet Gert at<br />
MAC’s open studio every Tuesday from<br />
6 pm - 10 pm.<br />
July 17 – 19<br />
(Friday – Sunday)<br />
PATTERN WELDED STEEL<br />
Explore the ancient technique of forge<br />
welding different steels together, blended<br />
with a more modern approach to pattern<br />
development. The class will cover<br />
the basic techniques of forge welding<br />
and how to make patterns in the steel<br />
by folding, cutting, twisting and other<br />
means to bring about exciting results.<br />
We will go through the cleaning and<br />
etching process that will bring the final<br />
pattern to life. Warning! This process<br />
has been known to be quite addicting.<br />
Materials fee required. Tuition: $230.<br />
GERT RASMUSSEN:<br />
Blacksmithing.”<br />
See “Beginning<br />
July 23 – 26<br />
(Thursday – Sunday)<br />
SCULPTING THE HUMAN<br />
HEAD<br />
This is a great hands-on course for<br />
anyone who feels intimidated when<br />
attempting to sculpt the human head.<br />
Students will select their own model<br />
and prepare four photographs (front left,<br />
right and back sides) of their selected<br />
model. Using the photographs, students<br />
work in oil base clay as they learn<br />
the basic techniques and proportion<br />
guides that will enable them to create<br />
a human head and face. You will look at<br />
faces from a new perspective based on<br />
construction, light, shadow, mass, and<br />
proportion. After this course all faces<br />
will appear beautiful in their own way.<br />
Tuition: $280.<br />
CHRISTALENE LOREN has been teaching<br />
sculpting since 1991. She is currently<br />
working on a series of monumental<br />
sculptures at the future Psi Keep <strong>Center</strong><br />
for the <strong>Art</strong>s in Lake County.<br />
800 653-3328 For Complete Workshop Descriptions visit: www.<strong>Mendocino</strong><strong>Art</strong><strong>Center</strong>.org<br />
August 6 – 9<br />
(Thursday – Sunday)<br />
CREATING SCULPTURES<br />
WITH SURFACE BONDING<br />
CEMENT<br />
Create a sculpture in cement that will<br />
last outside for years and years. This<br />
course is for both the beginner and<br />
the returning student. It is easy and<br />
fun. Carve your basic form in Styrofoam<br />
using a minimal steel support and cover<br />
with layers of surface bonding cement.<br />
Learn how to create a basic armature<br />
out of pipe-fittings. Just screw them<br />
together. This course covers how to<br />
carve Styrofoam, how to visualize the<br />
mixing ratio of water to cement, how to<br />
add colorants to the cement mixture and<br />
techniques for applying the cement to<br />
the Styrofoam. Create water fountains,<br />
fanciful outdoor furniture, <strong>art</strong>ificial rocks<br />
and figurative sculpture. Materials fee<br />
required. Tuition: $280.<br />
CHRISTALENE LOREN: See “Sculpting<br />
the Human Head.”<br />
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August 12 – 14<br />
(Wednesday – Friday)<br />
DARJIT FREEFORM<br />
SCULPTURE<br />
Join tutor Brent Sumner for a fun, creative<br />
workshop to create a large free<br />
form sculpture for the garden. Each<br />
workshop begins with a demonstration<br />
and individual practice at using Darjit<br />
for free-form sculpture. Next, the techniques<br />
for creating the skeletal forms<br />
for large sculpture are demonstrated.<br />
Wire netting and steel bars are typically<br />
used for skeletal forms. A wide variety<br />
of effects can be achieved with Darjit,<br />
including embedded mosaic patterns,<br />
impressed patterns, textured finishes<br />
and handcrafted <strong>fine</strong> details. Materials<br />
fee: $15 - $60. Tuition: $250.<br />
Tutor BRENT SUMNER has been creating<br />
sculptures, including sculptured<br />
architectural work, performance <strong>art</strong><br />
pieces, garden sculptures and wood<br />
fired ovens for over 10 years. He developed<br />
Darjit, a recycled architectural<br />
sculpting compound, and runs workshops<br />
in New Zealand, Australia and<br />
California.<br />
August 20 – 22<br />
(Thursday – Saturday)<br />
RUBBER MOLD MAKING<br />
You will learn to make rubber molds<br />
that could be used to create waxes of<br />
lost wax casting, or for casting plaster,<br />
concrete, resins and plastics. We’ll<br />
explore the process of making a poured<br />
mold and a paint up-style mold. Bring a<br />
small pattern that will be molded during<br />
the workshop. This is a perfect lead-in<br />
for the Bronze Casting workshop offered<br />
August 24 – 28. Materials fee required.<br />
Tuition: $250.<br />
PAUL GRAF has a BFA in sculpture from<br />
California College of the <strong>Art</strong>s in Oakland,<br />
CA. He has over twenty years of experience<br />
as a mold-maker/caster for various<br />
Bay Area <strong>art</strong> foundries, and teaches<br />
at the Academy of <strong>Art</strong> University in<br />
SF. ELIZABETH DANTE is a renowned<br />
figurative sculptor, learning from the<br />
masters at Pietra Santa, Italy, and is<br />
now currently showing at and running<br />
the Giorgi Gallery in Berkeley. Both are<br />
master <strong>art</strong>isans in the sculptural/casting<br />
process, working as p<strong>art</strong>ners running<br />
“Hands On Sculptural Services.”<br />
August 24 – 28<br />
(Monday – Friday)<br />
BRONZE CASTING<br />
This workshop is positioned in the<br />
Sculpture schedule to dovetail with the<br />
Rubber Mold Making Workshop offered<br />
August 20 - 22, giving the student an<br />
opportunity to complete the full progression<br />
of clay or pattern to finished bronze<br />
sculpture. However, if you enroll only in<br />
Bronze Casting, not to worry! You will<br />
have two full days to create several<br />
wax patterns. This lost wax workshop<br />
will cover wax techniques, investment,<br />
metal chasing, patination and much,<br />
much more. Because of the volume of<br />
<strong>art</strong> that can be produced in this class,<br />
we will have a size limit on individual<br />
sculptures (think, “can I carry it in my<br />
lunchbox”). A materials fee will be<br />
required based on the weight of the<br />
finished bronze. Tuition: $400.<br />
ELIZABETH DANTE & PAUL GRAF : See<br />
“Rubber Mold Making.” TOM BROWN<br />
has been a mainstay of the MAC<br />
Sculpture Dep<strong>art</strong>ment from its onset, as<br />
coordinator, instructor, fundraiser and<br />
foundry man.<br />
September 19 – 20<br />
(Saturday – Sunday)<br />
MAKE WELDING WORK<br />
FOR YOU<br />
P<strong>art</strong>icipate in a friendly and practical<br />
workshop to develop new skills and<br />
learn some of the advantages of different<br />
types of welding equipment.<br />
P<strong>art</strong>icipants will get hands-on experience<br />
using Oxyacetylene equipment to<br />
weld, braze and cut metal. Safe operational<br />
procedures will be demonstrated<br />
for Oxyacetylene, Shielded Metal<br />
Arc, Gas Metal Arc and Gas Tungsten<br />
Arc Welding. Materials fee required.<br />
Tuition: $170.<br />
DAVID NOUROT has been helping his<br />
students design and develop their <strong>art</strong><br />
and equipment projects with different<br />
welding techniques for 30 years<br />
at Solano Community College. He has<br />
collaborated on metal and glass projects<br />
with his brother Michael Nourot,<br />
who is a glass blower, and has created<br />
many welded and forged projects of his<br />
own. David is a past President of the<br />
California Blacksmith Association.<br />
800 653-3328 For Complete Workshop Descriptions visit: www.<strong>Mendocino</strong><strong>Art</strong><strong>Center</strong>.org
September 25 – 27<br />
(Friday – Sunday)<br />
CUTTLEFISH BONE<br />
CASTING<br />
Did you see the casting of the ring in<br />
Lord of the Rings Now you can try out<br />
this ancient technique yourself. The process<br />
is called cuttlefish bone casting, is<br />
low tech, inexpensive and is very suited<br />
for jewelry and other small magical<br />
items. At the workshop we will be using<br />
bronze, but this technique works very<br />
well with gold, silver and most copper<br />
alloys. It is easy and fun, too. Materials<br />
fee required. Tuition: $225.<br />
GERT RASMUSSEN:<br />
Blacksmithing.”<br />
See “Beginning<br />
October 2 – 4<br />
(Friday – Sunday)<br />
SAND-CAST ALUMINUM<br />
SCULPTURE<br />
With this exciting process it is possible<br />
to produce a metal-cast sculpture in a<br />
single day! Styrofoam is used to create<br />
a sculpture pattern which is then<br />
packed in a very <strong>fine</strong> oil-bound sand.<br />
Molten metal is then poured directly<br />
into the sand, evaporating and replacing<br />
the pattern in metal. For the sculptor,<br />
Styrofoam is a very versatile material;<br />
it is easily cut, shaped, glued, and can<br />
even incorporate molded packing forms<br />
into the design. This workshop will take<br />
students through the entire process of<br />
pattern design, casting and finishing<br />
of sculptures in aluminum, a beautiful<br />
metal capable of being painted, stained,<br />
burnished and polished to a chrome-like<br />
appearance. Tuition: $250<br />
Oregon <strong>art</strong>ist WALT PADGETT has a<br />
MFA degree in Sculpture from Florida<br />
State University, taught for community<br />
colleges and universities for over thirtyfive<br />
years, and now is a full-time practicing<br />
<strong>art</strong>ist.<br />
October 10 – 11<br />
(Saturday – Sunday)<br />
INTRODUCTION TO<br />
BLACKSMITHING<br />
Come have a blast forging hot steel and<br />
learning the basics of an ancient craft.<br />
Introduction to Blacksmithing will cover<br />
the basic forming techniques and tools<br />
involved in forming and manipulating<br />
steel. These basic techniques, including<br />
tapering, upsetting, twisting, bending<br />
and dishing, will be practiced throughout<br />
the two-day intensive as students<br />
are guided in making projects such as<br />
hooks, spoons and forks. Tuition: $170.<br />
CARLA HALL uses steel to create furniture<br />
and sculpture. Her greatest influences<br />
are from Japanese folk <strong>art</strong> and<br />
architecture and from the <strong>Art</strong>s and Crafts<br />
Era. Her education includes studies at<br />
Penland Craft School, The Evergreen<br />
State College, where she received a BA<br />
in metalwork, and through apprenticeship.<br />
She currently runs Red Frog Metal<br />
Design, a blacksmithing and fabrication<br />
studio located in Oakland, and facilitates<br />
the youth <strong>art</strong>s program at the Crucible, a<br />
non-profit <strong>fine</strong> and industrial <strong>art</strong> school.<br />
800 653-3328 For Complete Workshop Descriptions visit: www.<strong>Mendocino</strong><strong>Art</strong><strong>Center</strong>.org<br />
October 17 – 18<br />
(Saturday – Sunday)<br />
INTERMEDIATE<br />
TO ADVANCED<br />
BLACKSMITHING<br />
TECHNIQUES<br />
This two-day intensive workshop is a<br />
project-based class that allows students<br />
to explore in greater depth the basic<br />
techniques of beginning blacksmithing.<br />
You will learn by doing, the use of<br />
the coal forge, anvil, and hand tools.<br />
Some of the techniques taught during<br />
the course are drawing out, twisting,<br />
upsetting, fullering, punching, hot cutting,<br />
riveting, forge welding, and heat<br />
treating. Students will complete several<br />
projects to take home. Students must<br />
have previous blacksmithing experience<br />
before taking this class. If you have<br />
questions please contact the instructor,<br />
gert@gras<strong>art</strong>.com. Materials fee<br />
required. Tuition: $170.<br />
GERT RASMUSSEN:<br />
Blacksmithing.”<br />
See “Beginning<br />
sculpture<br />
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exhibits & events<br />
There Is Always Something Happening At<br />
The <strong>Mendocino</strong> <strong>Art</strong> <strong>Center</strong><br />
June Gallery Exhibits<br />
Poster <strong>Art</strong>ist<br />
Nancy Collins,<br />
Afternoon Swim<br />
Main Gallery<br />
MENDOCINO COAST<br />
GARDEN TOUR POSTER<br />
ARTISTS RETROSPECTIVE<br />
Abramson Gallery<br />
JOAN BURLEIGH & SONYA POPOW<br />
“No Boundaries”<br />
Clay & Multi Media<br />
Nichols Gallery<br />
ERIC LARSON<br />
Photography<br />
July Gallery Exhibits<br />
Abramson Gallery<br />
MARGE STEWART<br />
Fine <strong>Art</strong>, Jewelry<br />
& Digital <strong>Art</strong><br />
Main Gallery<br />
GAIL RUSHMORE<br />
Sculpture<br />
Nichols Gallery<br />
ART EXPLORERS<br />
August Gallery Exhibits<br />
Main Gallery<br />
MEMBERS’ JURIED EXHIBIT<br />
Nichols Gallery<br />
JAKE EARLY<br />
California Highway One, serigraphs<br />
Abramson Gallery<br />
MARIKO IRIE<br />
Watercolor<br />
September<br />
Gallery Exhibits<br />
Main Gallery<br />
SUE SISKIN<br />
Retrospective<br />
Nichols Gallery<br />
PETER DOBBINS<br />
Photography<br />
Abramson Gallery<br />
KATRINA SMALL/ MONDAY MORNING<br />
PAINTERS<br />
October Gallery Exhibits<br />
Main Gallery<br />
BOB ROSS<br />
Events<br />
Brewmaster’s Dinner<br />
Benefit at North Coast Brewing<br />
TBA<br />
Rhododendron Ball<br />
50th Anniversary Gala<br />
Food, live music & dancing<br />
Saturday, May 2<br />
Festival Latino<br />
Dance, Music, <strong>Art</strong> Exhibits & More<br />
May 16 - 25<br />
17th Annual<br />
<strong>Mendocino</strong><br />
Coast Garden Tour<br />
Saturday, June 13<br />
50th Annual<br />
Summer<br />
<strong>Art</strong>s & Crafts Fair<br />
July 18 - 19<br />
Sha Sha Higby Performance<br />
August 13<br />
Labor Day Yard Sale<br />
September 5 – 6<br />
2009 Poster <strong>Art</strong>ist<br />
Hilda Pertha,<br />
Miksak’s Cherry Tree<br />
50th Annual Thanksgiving Fair<br />
November 27 - 28<br />
40 800 653-3328 For Complete Events Calendar visit: www.<strong>Mendocino</strong><strong>Art</strong><strong>Center</strong>.org
Abbott, Jima 35<br />
Antelman, Alison B. 35<br />
Armstrong, Audrey 17<br />
Bailey, Peter 35<br />
Bencich, Larry 20<br />
Berkley, Michael 8<br />
Berning, Kelly & Trent 6<br />
Brown, Sue 36<br />
Brown, Tom 38<br />
Burkett, Debbie 30<br />
Burnham-Kidwell, Jay 32<br />
Burridge, Robert 20, 28, 29<br />
Chin, Susan 34<br />
Clark, Adam 30<br />
Clee, Mona 34<br />
Cody, Mark 26<br />
Collingwood, Jason 15<br />
Collins, Nancy 21, 23, 26<br />
Coryell, Ronda 30<br />
Cox, Karen 18, 25<br />
Croft, Patsy 33<br />
Dailing, Jim 33<br />
Dante, Elizabeth 38<br />
Davis, Brian 22<br />
Davis, Janet 10, 11, 12<br />
Dertner, Erin 27<br />
DeWeese, Josh 5<br />
Dorf, Susan 23<br />
Driver, Dana 31<br />
Dulla, Joan 32<br />
Dwyer, Molly 21<br />
Ekern, Darrin 8<br />
Fago, Margaret 27<br />
Falkenhagen, Diane 31<br />
Fisher, John 36<br />
Frank, Ricky 32<br />
Freeze, Dennis 11<br />
Gardner, Nancy 35<br />
Georgantes, Jeff 33<br />
Giambrone-M<strong>art</strong>in, Yvonne 31<br />
Graf, Paul 38<br />
Greene, Gary 23<br />
Greenleaf, Judith 36<br />
Grey, Lisa 15<br />
Gross, Susan 19, 20<br />
Guerriero, Michael 26<br />
Hall, Carla 39<br />
H<strong>art</strong>shorn, Linda 13<br />
Herman-Minsk, Hetty 34<br />
Hersey, Susan 17<br />
Heyden, Silvia 14<br />
Higby, Sha Sha 15<br />
Hosmer, Ken 18<br />
Hullinger, Morning 9, 11, 12<br />
Hurst, Ryan 8<br />
Jacobsen, Lolli 16<br />
Jarvinen, Karin 5<br />
Jelicich, Marirose 32<br />
Jenkins, Hugh 6<br />
Jones, Ursula & Naomi 17<br />
Lancet, Marc 4<br />
Lazo, Eduardo 6<br />
Leedy, Jeff 24, 25<br />
Livingstone, Karen 16<br />
Lobell, Robbie 4<br />
Lopez, Gema 19<br />
Loren, Christalene 37<br />
Mau, Linda 7<br />
Miot, Sandi 21, 28<br />
Moyer, Dale E. 19<br />
Moyer, Susan Louise 14, 29<br />
Nourot, David 38<br />
O’Connor, Birgit 25, 27, 29<br />
Osborne, Patricia M<strong>art</strong>in 22, 28<br />
Padgett, Walt 22, 23, 39<br />
Palochak, Katherine 34<br />
Parker, Julia & Lucy 17<br />
Parody, Scott 7<br />
Paul, John 31<br />
Pitelka, Vince 4<br />
Pollen, Jason 15<br />
Punch, Suzanne 13<br />
Ranson, Brian 5<br />
Rasmussen, Gert 37, 39<br />
Robertson, Cayen 18<br />
Russell, David 9, 12<br />
Schildhauer, Cynthia Scontriano 20, 27<br />
Severin, Charlotte 18<br />
Shinn, Bill 5<br />
Simon, Harlan 24<br />
Siskin, Sue 21<br />
Sitts, Jan 19<br />
Spier, Nadine 16<br />
Sproule, April 14<br />
Sumner, Brent 38<br />
Tena, Jerardo 7<br />
Tiemens, Erik 26<br />
Treanor, Dennis 7<br />
Urbanek, Karen 15<br />
Wagner, Larry 9, 11<br />
Wheeler, Karen 9, 10<br />
White, Mira M. 22, 29<br />
Wilder, Tamara 17<br />
Willard, Diane Douglas 14<br />
Wutkowski, Jan 16<br />
Xiaoping & Junya 6<br />
instructor index<br />
800 653-3328 For Complete Workshop Descriptions visit: www.<strong>Mendocino</strong><strong>Art</strong><strong>Center</strong>.org<br />
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HOUSING AT THE MENDOCINO ART<br />
CENTER<br />
Stay on the beautiful grounds of the <strong>Mendocino</strong> <strong>Art</strong> <strong>Center</strong> while<br />
taking summer workshops. Meet new friends or come with a<br />
group to enjoy an ap<strong>art</strong>ment together. Stroll to your <strong>art</strong> studio<br />
each morning and in the evening take an easy walk through the<br />
charming village of <strong>Mendocino</strong> to cafes, restaurants and shops.<br />
Or marvel at sunsets over the ocean on a relaxed hike around the<br />
Headlands State Park trails just down the street.<br />
Need a Place to Stay<br />
Surround yourself with beautiful gardens and <strong>art</strong><br />
studios… at the <strong>Mendocino</strong> <strong>Art</strong> <strong>Center</strong><br />
Within easy walking distance of<br />
Cafés • Restaurants • Shops • Beaches<br />
On-site shared housing for workshop p<strong>art</strong>icipants is<br />
available June through September.<br />
$50 per person, per night. Free Wi-Fi<br />
Contact the housing manager<br />
707 937-5818, ext. 13 • macapts@mcn.org<br />
www.<strong>Mendocino</strong><strong>Art</strong><strong>Center</strong>.org<br />
The <strong>Art</strong> <strong>Center</strong> has low-cost ap<strong>art</strong>ments available for $50 per night<br />
per person, and this year housing is available through September.<br />
Each ap<strong>art</strong>ment has a kitchenette and bath with shower. All units<br />
are shared, with two to four twin beds in each. There are studio<br />
units accommodating two to three people, and double units with<br />
two bedrooms accommodating four people. A limited number<br />
of private rooms are available for $100 per night. There are also<br />
ground floor units with disabled access and one available with<br />
wheelchair access.<br />
Basic Amenities: Kitchenette equipped with basic cooking utensils;<br />
private bath with shower; some units with ocean views; all<br />
linens provided; guest computer lab with Macs, PC, wi-fi access<br />
and telephone (all in the main building); laundry with coin operated<br />
washer and dryer.<br />
In addition to our on-campus housing, or in the event that we are<br />
full, we are happy to make available a list of local housing accommodations<br />
offered by individuals in our community. These encompass<br />
a variety of room styles and sizes, and are very reasonably<br />
priced, generally ranging in price from $50 - $100 per night.<br />
To request housing, email our Housing Manager at macapts@<br />
mcn.org, phone 800-653-3328, ext. 13, or fill out the Housing<br />
Request Form on our website at www.<strong>Mendocino</strong><strong>Art</strong><strong>Center</strong>.org.<br />
42 800 653-3328 For Complete Workshop Descriptions visit: www.<strong>Mendocino</strong><strong>Art</strong><strong>Center</strong>.org
CHILDREN’S PUBLIC WORKS PROJECT<br />
TO BE CONDUCTED AT MAC<br />
At the request of the city of Fort Bragg, ceramic mosaic<br />
panels will be created by our local community’s youth to<br />
be affixed to a new, Spanish style bathroom planned for<br />
Bainbridge Park. Children of all ages are encouraged to<br />
p<strong>art</strong>icipate. A series of work sessions will be held on the<br />
following dates: June 13 & June 14, June 17, 18, & 19<br />
from 1 pm - 4 pm each day. This is a great opportunity to<br />
create ceramic mosaics, beginning with the clay design<br />
elements and glazing, and culminating with grouted,<br />
finished panels. There is no tuition for this exciting <strong>art</strong><br />
experience. To sign up, call Margaret Paul at 964-9483.<br />
RESIDENCY PROGRAM<br />
April 1st is the deadline for applications to the <strong>Mendocino</strong><br />
<strong>Art</strong> <strong>Center</strong>’s <strong>Art</strong>ist in Residence Program. Applications<br />
are accepted for emerging or established <strong>art</strong>ists in<br />
Fine <strong>Art</strong>s, Digital <strong>Art</strong>s, Ceramics, Sculpture, Jewelry/<br />
Metalsmithing, Fiber <strong>Art</strong>s, and Writing. Most residents<br />
apply to live at the <strong>Art</strong> <strong>Center</strong> for the period October 1st<br />
through the following March 31st. Residents pay a modest<br />
rent on ap<strong>art</strong>ments at the <strong>Art</strong> <strong>Center</strong> and minimal<br />
studio fees. Applicants are selected on the basis of<br />
<strong>art</strong>istic merit. Weight will also be given to the applicant’s<br />
potential for working within a community of <strong>art</strong>ists, as<br />
well as to the appropriateness of the applicant’s <strong>art</strong>istic<br />
objectives to the resources and facilities available<br />
at the <strong>Mendocino</strong> <strong>Art</strong> <strong>Center</strong>. Phone the <strong>Art</strong> <strong>Center</strong><br />
for an application, or download from our website at<br />
www.<strong>Mendocino</strong><strong>Art</strong><strong>Center</strong>.org<br />
other programs<br />
800 653-3328 For Complete Workshop Descriptions visit: www.<strong>Mendocino</strong><strong>Art</strong><strong>Center</strong>.org<br />
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MENDOCINO AND THE MENDOCINO COAST<br />
ENROLLING<br />
registration & general info<br />
<strong>Mendocino</strong> is a quiet, rural, coastal village 160 miles north of San<br />
Francisco, home to more <strong>art</strong>ists per capita than anywhere else in the<br />
U.S. It is surrounded by the rugged landscape and the bay and beaches<br />
of Big River. <strong>Mendocino</strong> is famous for its Victorian architecture, galleries,<br />
restaurants, <strong>art</strong>ists, writers, and performing <strong>art</strong>s. It is a visual and<br />
spiritual paradise for the <strong>art</strong>s, a retreat from the stress of today’s frenetic<br />
pace. There is no hustle and bustle in <strong>Mendocino</strong>, no fast food, no traffic.<br />
Painters claim that the quality of light here is unlike anything in the<br />
world. You will remember the beauty and tranquility of the <strong>Mendocino</strong><br />
Coast long after you have returned from your visit to the <strong>Mendocino</strong> <strong>Art</strong><br />
<strong>Center</strong>. For more information about what to see and do in the <strong>Mendocino</strong><br />
area, contact the Fort Bragg-<strong>Mendocino</strong> Coast Chamber of Commerce at<br />
707-961-6300 or www.mendocinocoast.com.<br />
HOW TO GET HERE<br />
If you are flying in, whether you arrive in Oakland, San Francisco, or<br />
Sacramento, plan on a four hour drive to the <strong>Mendocino</strong> <strong>Art</strong> <strong>Center</strong>, although<br />
Sacramento is an easier airport to get in and out of. From points south, take<br />
Highway 101 north to Highway 128; take 128 northwest to coast Highway 1;<br />
take 1 north to the only stoplight you’ll run into, at Highway 1 at Little Lake<br />
Street in <strong>Mendocino</strong>. Turn left at Little Lake and go several blocks west; the<br />
<strong>Art</strong> <strong>Center</strong> occupies an entire “city block” near the western end of Little Lake.<br />
From points north take Highway 101 south to Highway 20 at Willits; take 20<br />
west to Highway 1, then take 1 south to the stoplight at the intersection of 1<br />
and Little Lake Street; go west on Little Lake . . .<br />
WORKSHOPS<br />
Workshops are open to all students regardless of sex, race, color, nationality,<br />
ethnic origin, sexual preference or religion. Workshops are offered in<br />
Ceramics, Digital <strong>Art</strong>s, Fine <strong>Art</strong>s, Jewelry, Sculpture, and Fiber <strong>Art</strong>s—and a<br />
few resist categorization! Whether it’s pouring, throwing, painting, weaving,<br />
casting, or creating digital <strong>art</strong>, you can expect small classes designed<br />
to accomplish the most while you’re here, without pressure or measures of<br />
success.<br />
WORKSHOP DAYS AND HOURS<br />
Our workshops vary from one to six days in length, and meet from 9:30 am to<br />
4:30 pm, except as noted. There is a one hour lunch break.<br />
Enrollment is open to individuals 18 years and older (some exceptions made,<br />
with instructor’s consent). Class size is limited due to constraints of studio<br />
size. PLEASE REGISTER EARLY TO ENSURE YOUR SPACE.<br />
REGISTRATION FEES<br />
Each workshop has a specific tuition charge which is generally based on<br />
the costs of running the workshop. This fee must be paid in full at the time<br />
of registration. We cannot hold spaces without full tuition. Registration<br />
can be accomplished by mail, using the form in this catalog; by phone<br />
(707-937-5818, ext 10) or online through our website at<br />
www.<strong>Mendocino</strong><strong>Art</strong><strong>Center</strong>.org. We accept both VISA and Mastercard.<br />
LOCAL STAND-BY PROGRAM<br />
All <strong>Mendocino</strong> County residents who are members of the <strong>Art</strong> <strong>Center</strong> are eligible<br />
for our 50% tuition program. A $25 deposit on any workshop will put you<br />
on a “stand-by” basis. If space is available two weeks before the workshop<br />
begins, you can then register for 50% of tuition. The $25 deposit is refundable<br />
if the class fills or is cancelled.<br />
MATERIALS AND LAB FEES<br />
Materials fees are generally not paid to the <strong>Mendocino</strong> <strong>Art</strong> <strong>Center</strong>, but<br />
directly to the instructor. The materials fee is usually specified in the course<br />
description. Please note that NEARLY EVERY WORKSHOP REQUIRES THE<br />
STUDENT TO BRING SOME SUPPLIES TO CLASS, so you should check the<br />
website listing for the course you are taking to be sure you bring the appropriate<br />
materials and supplies with you. If you do not have Internet access,<br />
please phone our registrar to have a copy of the materials list mailed to you.<br />
REFUNDS AND CANCELLATIONS<br />
If you notify us at least 21 days before the first class meeting that you will<br />
not be attending a workshop for which you have registered, you will receive<br />
a refund of tuition less a $25 administrative processing fee. NO REFUNDS<br />
WILL BE MADE AFTER THAT DATE FOR ANY REASON, due to our contractual<br />
obligations, material acquisitions, etc. If the <strong>Art</strong> <strong>Center</strong> is compelled to cancel<br />
a workshop due to low enrollment, instructor illness, etc., you will receive a<br />
full refund.<br />
44 800 653-3328 For Complete Workshop Descriptions visit: www.<strong>Mendocino</strong><strong>Art</strong><strong>Center</strong>.org
OPEN STUDIOS<br />
OPEN STUDIOS allow students and the public to access our facilities to explore their<br />
creative interests in a self-paced, stress-free, non-judgmental environment. Each<br />
program has designated hours each week for drop-ins, and there is a small fee. Prior<br />
registration is not required for open studio attendance – just come on by!<br />
DIGITAL CAMERA AND BASIC PHOTOSHOP OPEN STUDIO<br />
Jima Abbott<br />
Wednesdays, 6 pm – 9 pm, $8 per session<br />
WATERCOLOR OPEN STUDIO*<br />
Nancy Collins<br />
Thursdays, 9 am – 5 pm, $5 per session<br />
FIGURE DRAWING STUDIOS<br />
Wednesdays, 1:30 pm – 4:30 pm, $7 per session, $24 per month; model fee required<br />
(Bob Ross)<br />
Tuesdays, 1:30 pm – 4:30 pm, (Bob Ross) – studio use and model fees required.<br />
Figure Drawing Open Studios meet in summer only when space is available – check<br />
with the office.<br />
JEWELRY SUPERVISED STUDIO*<br />
Tara Turner<br />
Wednesdays, 4:30 pm – 7:30 pm, $8 per session<br />
SCULPTURE OPEN STUDIO<br />
Gert Rasmussen<br />
Tuesdays, 6 pm – 10 pm, $5 per session<br />
FIGURATIVE SCULPTURE OPEN STUDIO*<br />
Don Paglia, Miriam Wadieff<br />
Tuesdays, 10 am – 1 pm<br />
Model fee dependent on number of p<strong>art</strong>icipants<br />
*These open studios are discontinued during the summer months of June, July and<br />
August.<br />
MEMBER/STUDENT BUSINESS<br />
DISCOUNT PROGRAM<br />
Enjoy discounts from our local merchants on lodging, <strong>art</strong> supplies<br />
and activities. Please check out our member/student discounts at<br />
www.<strong>Mendocino</strong><strong>Art</strong><strong>Center</strong>.org/level2/links.lasso<br />
50th ANNIVERSARY AT MAC – SPECIAL EVENTS<br />
We are proudly celebrating the 50th anniversary of the <strong>Mendocino</strong> <strong>Art</strong> <strong>Center</strong> in<br />
2009 with a yearlong celebration, including a number of special events.<br />
RHODEDENDRON BALL – 50th Anniversary Gala, May 2<br />
FESTIVAL LATINO, May 16 – 25<br />
17th ANNUAL MENDOCINO COAST GARDEN TOUR, June 13<br />
50th ANNUAL SUMMER ARTS & CRAFTS FAIR, July 18 – 19<br />
SHA SHA HIGBY PERFORMANCE, August 13<br />
GIANT LABOR DAY WEEKEND YARD SALE, September 5 – 6<br />
50th ANNUAL THANKSGIVING ARTS & CRAFTS FAIR, November 27 – 28<br />
In July, the <strong>Mendocino</strong> <strong>Art</strong> <strong>Center</strong> will release <strong>Mendocino</strong> <strong>Art</strong> <strong>Center</strong> – A 50 Year<br />
Celebration, a commemorative book chronicling the first 50 years of this jewel of<br />
the <strong>Mendocino</strong> Coast. This trip back in time includes highlights from each year of<br />
the first half century, a pictorial history, and an illuminating 1970s interview with<br />
founder Bill Zacha and some of the early <strong>art</strong>ists who helped transform the town of<br />
<strong>Mendocino</strong> into an <strong>art</strong>ists’ colony.<br />
Visit www.<strong>Mendocino</strong><strong>Art</strong><strong>Center</strong>.org for a full calendar of 2009 events and exhibits.<br />
SAVE A TREE<br />
Be good to the environment and have your catalog delivered electronically. Mark the<br />
box on the registration form or call 707-937-5818 EXT. 10, to be removed from the mailing<br />
list. We’ll notify you by email when workshops are added to the web site.<br />
CONTACT US<br />
P.O. Box 765 • 45200 Little Lake Street,<br />
<strong>Mendocino</strong>, CA 95460<br />
800 653-3328, ext. 10 • 707 937-5818, ext. 10<br />
www.<strong>Mendocino</strong><strong>Art</strong><strong>Center</strong>.org<br />
mendo<strong>art</strong>@mcn.org<br />
800 653-3328 For Complete Workshop Descriptions visit: www.<strong>Mendocino</strong><strong>Art</strong><strong>Center</strong>.org<br />
open studios/other information<br />
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800 653-3328 • 707 937-5818<br />
Do You Know<br />
Revenue from workshops and gallery exhibits does not fully cover the expenses of the <strong>Mendocino</strong> <strong>Art</strong><br />
<strong>Center</strong>. Like all nonprofit organizations, support from students and individuals in the community is imperative<br />
for MAC to bring vital cultural programs to the community, including hands-on field trips to over 1,000<br />
children each year, low-cost open studios, free <strong>art</strong>s fairs and musical concerts and a wide array of worldclass<br />
<strong>art</strong> workshops taught by some of the country’s <strong>fine</strong>st instructors.<br />
BENEFITS AT ALL LEVELS:<br />
Complimentary subscription to <strong>Mendocino</strong> <strong>Art</strong>s Magazine<br />
$25 discount on one workshop per year<br />
Exhibition opportunities in the Abramson Gallery and the Gallery Shop<br />
Special invitations to p<strong>art</strong>icipate in Members’ Juried Exhibits<br />
Members only discounts at selected businesses (lodging, <strong>art</strong> supplies)<br />
Recognition in annual newsletter<br />
Receipt of workshop catalogs and other mailings<br />
(<strong>Mendocino</strong> County residents only: half price tuition through our local stand-by program)<br />
BASIC ARTIST: $50 - $99<br />
All of the above.<br />
ART LOVER: $100 - $299<br />
All of the above plus recognition in <strong>Mendocino</strong> <strong>Art</strong>s magazine and a MAC bumper sticker.<br />
ARTS BACKER: $300 - $499<br />
All of the immediately above and invitation to a special gallery preview event.<br />
ARTS SUPPORTER: $500 - $999<br />
All of the immediately above and invitation to a special board-catered dinner at MAC.<br />
ARTS PATRON: $1,000 - $2,999<br />
All of the immediately above and name on plaque in Main Gallery.<br />
ARTS PILLAR: $3,000 - $4,999<br />
All of the immediately above and a special gift book.<br />
ARTS CHAMPION: $5,000 and up<br />
All of the immediately above and a commemorative tile with wording of<br />
your choice in the Zacha Tile Garden.<br />
Members receive a membership card entitling them to discounts on lodging, <strong>art</strong> supplies and activities.<br />
Visit www.<strong>Mendocino</strong><strong>Art</strong><strong>Center</strong>.org/level2/links.lasso to see the p<strong>art</strong>icipating businesses.
highlights . . .<br />
ceramics<br />
digital <strong>art</strong>s<br />
fiber <strong>art</strong>s<br />
<strong>fine</strong> <strong>art</strong><br />
jewelry<br />
sculpture<br />
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<strong>Mendocino</strong><br />
<strong>Art</strong> <strong>Center</strong><br />
45200 LITTLE LAKE ST.<br />
POST OFFICE BOX 765<br />
MENDOCINO, CA 95460<br />
NON-PROFIT ORG<br />
U.S.<br />
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