Adult / Teen Workshop Descriptions
Extraordinary Workshops, Extraordinary Teachers
Workshops at Maud Morgan Arts offer an opportunity for intensive engagement in focused topics, taught by specialists in their fields.The groups are small, and attention is individual. Instructors respond to each participant wherever they may be in their artmaking journey.
Programs
Ceramics Summer Series
Instructor: Zackary Mickelson
Adult / Teen
6 Wednesdays, 6 – 8:30 pm
August 2 – September 6, 2017
The summer is what you make it.
Students can focus on throwing on the wheel as well as hand-building construction processes such as coils, slabs, and pinching.
This class will offer participants personalized instruction to develop their skills creating artwork in clay. Artists will benefit from building and throwing demonstrations as well as instruction on decorative and finishing techniques using various glazing combinations.
We will provide inspiration, information, and encouragement for our artists to establish a voice and style for their ceramic work. All levels of ceramics experience welcome.
Ceramics Summer Series
Instructor: Zackary Mickelson
Adult / Teen
6 Mondays, 6 – 8:30 pm
July 31 – September 11, 2017
Excludes September 4, 2017
The summer is what you make it.
Students can focus on throwing on the wheel as well as hand-building construction processes such as coils, slabs, and pinching.
This class will offer participants personalized instruction to develop their skills creating artwork in clay. Artists will benefit from building and throwing demonstrations as well as instruction on decorative and finishing techniques using various glazing combinations.
We will provide inspiration, information, and encouragement for our artists to establish a voice and style for their ceramic work. All levels of ceramics experience welcome.
Ceramics By Hand
Instructor: Zackary Mickelson
Adult / Teen
10 Thursdays, 10 am – 12 pm
October 5 – December 15, 2017
Excludes November 23, 2017
Try your hand at functional and sculptural ceramics!
Explore hand-building construction processes such as coils, slabs, pinching, and experiment with slump molds. A variety of glazing techniques with be shared in order to achieve desired decorative and finishing techniques using various glazes and resists. This class will cover a variety of basics, where you take it from there is up to your artistic vision.
All in One / All at Once: Printmaking from a Live Model
Instructor: Robert Siegelman
October 28 – 29, 2017
10 am to 4 pm
Adult / Teen Workshop
Come explore printmaking as a drawing medium. With a nude model as the observational focus, work directly and spontaneously on printing plates with an “all in one” approach and simple monotype techniques that seamlessly integrate printmaking and drawing.
This will be an intensive, fun workshop in a supportive and encouraging environment. Be prepared for challenges, and surprises. No experience in printmaking, figurative work, or drawing is necessary.
Painting Light: A Watercolor Workshop
Instructor: Joel Janowitz
November 4 – 5, 2017
10 am to 4 pm
Adult / Teen Workshop
Explore strategies for painting with watercolor. Focus on a variety of working methods and increase your understanding of how transparent washes can be layered both to create a full range of light and dark and to adjust colors as you works. We will also stay open to the playful, quick and spontaneous potentials of the medium. Students will paint primarily from observation and will work directly from a nude model on Sunday morning.
A materials list will be shared prior to start of workshop. All experience levels welcome.