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Explorations - Discovering One's Personal Voice 
Dorothy Field
June 4 - 11, 2010 + Part II in March, 2011 (dates tba)
$790 (parts I & II)
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There are times in an artist’s career when one
may benefit from what might be called a focusing process. This can happen
when one is starting out or well into mid-career. Usually, this process
revolves around deep connection with one’s inner voice/inner spirit.
This two-part course, open to artists in any medium, art or craft,
is designed to help participants access their personal voices. During the
initial eight days at MISSA, students will work with each other and
mentor/facilitator Dorothy Field in a safe, supportive environment
balancing inner exploration and outer process. Their time will be split
among group exercises, one-on-one sessions with the mentor, and personal
studio work. Because such personal exploration can be an exhilarating time
as well as a time of vulnerability, the group will work to create the
ground necessary for each person to explore new directions.
Participants, in collaboration with Dorothy, will each choose an
individual direction to pursue over the next seven months. During this
period, there will be ongoing mentorship and group interaction via the
internet. At a follow-up session, 4 days in early 2011,
students will gather to review the bodies of work that they have produced
in the interim.
 Acceptance for workshop is contingent upon a portfolio review by committee. Ten slides or a CD of the applicant’s pieces should be submitted with the application plus an art bio and a brief statement regarding the work/project that the applicant intends to pursue at MISSA. Residency is recommended.
Dorothy Field is a visual artist and writer working with handmade paper for drypoint prints, collage, sculpture, and artists’ books. She has taught and shown her work throughout North America. Her book, Paper and Threshold, an investigation into paper’s spiritual role in Asian culture, grew out of her extensive travels and research in Asia. Her third book of poetry The Blackbird Must Be is due in autumn 2010. Though she continues to teach courses in paper and textiles, she particularly enjoys helping artists and writers access and celebrate their deepest selves.
Art With A Story  (canceled)
Jeanne Krabbendam
July 5 - 9, 2010
$405 + $12 course supplies
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Using mixed media painting techniques to capture a wonderful experience, remember loved ones or to simply record a holiday is an amazing way to tell a story with paint. The course includes lots of information and hands-on exercises that enable students to explore this narrative art form. Participants will explore the use of acrylic paints, spackle, gels, transfers, lifting techniques, glazing, tissue paper and antiquing techniques and much more, to create expressive, unique and dramatic paintings which tell their stories.
Jeanne Krabbendam lived in Europe, The Netherlands and Tunisia, before immigrating to Vancouver, Canada in 1999. Jeanne is a mixed media artist whose work incorporates a variety of materials and layering techniques including acrylics, oils, encaustic, printmaking and collage. She has formal art training in the European art tradition and extensive exhibit experience both in Europe and Canada. Jeanne studied at the Académie des Beaux Arts (France) and Academy Artibus, University of Windesheim and Academy Rosenberg (The Netherlands). www.jeannekrabbendam.com
A Woven Adventure in Dynamic Balance (canceled)
Jacquetta Nisbet
July 5-9, 2010
$405 + $50 course supplies
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Discover the essence of pattern with brush, scissors and Navajo loom. The Japanese term Notan refers to this dark/light, positive/negative balance. It is vital to living design from painting to architecture, and from ceramics to weaving. After loosening up with brushwork and paper cutouts the focus is on warping and weaving a spontaneous Notan tapestry on the Navajo loom. Surprising things happen when you evolve a design this way, from the bootstraps up, and using resources you never knew you had! This Navajo way of weaving is deeply connected to Asian origins.
Jacquetta Nisbet arrived in the USA from Scotland with a Fine Art degree in one hand and a vigorous enthusiasm for the arts of primary cultures in the other. For over 50 years she has studied weaving techniques of Peru, Bolivia, Guatemala, Mexico, Hopi and Navajo, and the arts and philosophies of Asia. Now living in BC, she translates these influences into her own creative works and teaches workshops and seminars throughout the West. Her works are collected internationally and her two instructional videos/DVDs are classics of ethnic weaving.
Textile Collage
Shannon Wardroper
July 10-11, 2010
$165 + $20 course supplies
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Textile Collage will explore screen printing on silk as a base on which to layer (up to six hand-painted layers) Japanese wax resist dyeing. Ghost printing and embellishment serve as final floating layers before strip-piecing (cutting, reordering, and re-sewing). The results are often dark, intriguing and mysterious.
Shannon Wardroper of Geernaerts Textile Arts on Salt Spring Island has studied, taught, and exhibited internationally. For an artist, the blending of both motif and material gathered is a natural way to record a journey through multiple cultures. Shannon has recently returned to Canada after spending the last decade between Japan and S.E. Asia. Currently, Shannon creates abstracted botanical wall hangings. Her large-scale work is exhibited annually in Japan and the U.K., a highlight being the Royal Horticultural Society’s Chelsea Flower Show in London. www.geernaerts.org
Altered Imagery 
Tony Bounsall
July 12-16, 2010
$405 + $40 course supplies
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This hands-on class will appeal to anyone interested in using altered photographic images in their creative work, such as scrapbooking, mixed media painting, collage, or art journals. Emphasis will be on creative exploration and personal expression in a relaxed workshop environment. Daily demonstrations and presentations will enable students to expand their visual vocabulary. Areas covered include: image alteration & distressing methods, image transfer, hand colouring techniques, working with acrylic mediums, paperplate lithography and gum bichromate printing. No photographic experience is necessary, just your enthusiasm.
Tony Bounsall is a photo arts graduate from Ryerson Polytechnic University and has been shooting professionally for 27 years. He is a member of The Professional Photographers of British Columbia (PPABC) and The Professional Photographers of Canada (PPOC). He currently teaches at the Victoria College of Art and at The Western Academy of Photography. His work has won several awards and he exhibits and sells his own Fine Art prints and mixed media work throughout North America. www.photo-design.net
Encaustic
Nixie Barton & Carol Rae
July 12 - 16, 2010
$405 +$20 course supplies
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One medium, two instructors, endless techniques. Beeswax, damar crystals, and pigment blended together with heat create a formula for image making that dates back to the ancient Egyptians. Some of those paintings have outlasted paintings in other mediums. Nixie and Carol use some of the same techniques, but they each have their own bag of tricks and are excited to share with students as well as with each other. Encaustic, by its very nature, always has an experimental quality. Balance that with technical information, demonstrations, and plenty of handouts, and we have the makings for one exciting adventure.
Nixie Barton, born in Vancouver, was educated at Malaspina College in Nanaimo and received her BFA from the University of Victoria. She lives and works in Yellowpoint on Vancouver Island. Barton exhibits extensively across Canada and is actively involved in fund-raising and awareness for several organizations. She is a well known acrylic painter and has been involved in many group and solo shows over the past 25 years. She has been pursuing the art of encaustic painting for the last 6 years and is most excited to be able to share all her learned techniques with other interested artists. She, herself, has taken several classes at MISSA and holds the school in high regard.
Carol Rae is a Vancouver artist now living in Lake Cowichan. Her art education spans many years and includes California College of Arts and Crafts, Western Washington State College, Central Washington State College. She specializes in printmaking, but has also enjoyed glassblowing, photography, costume and set design, bookbinding, collage, painting, sculpture, and yodeling. Her work has been featured from coast to coast in both Canada and the US in shows and publications. She has been teaching off and on for 30 years and believes she learns more with each experience. She has been on the MISSA board of directors for several years.
Contemporary Silk Fusion Basketry
Wendy Durfey
July 12-16, 2010
$405 + $34 course supplies
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Students will create baskets with the luxurious colours of silk fusion, in combination with traditional and contemporary basketry techniques. Students will complete three silk fusion baskets utilizing different techniques – a crimped foil rim; an embellishment of curls; a third layer of wire looping. Participants will weave all baskets using watercolour paper they have prepared; then apply silk fusion to them; and finally, will finish the baskets with some different techniques. Some basketry experience necessary.
 Wendy Durfey began her textile career weaving on a loom in 1980. Later, she completed the Ontario Handweavers and Spinners Weaving Certificate course at Sheridan College. In 1995, she switched to basketry, making traditional baskets with traditional materials. In 2003, she developed a basketry technique using silk fusion. Wendy incorporates black ash, bamboo, metal, wire, beads, silk and cotton archival paper into her pieces. She exhibits and teaches in Canada and the United States and attends a few select craft shows each year. She is currently a director with the National Basketry Organization in the United States. www.wendydurfey.com
Compositional Cloth - finding your voice in the print of cloth
Eleanor Hannan
July 12 - 16, 2010
$405 +$30 course supplies
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Beginning with 100% cotton, students will create a 2-3 metre piece of “compositional cloth” based on a personal story. The process will include block making and printing, pattern creation, simple silkscreen printing and hand painting techniques. Additionally, students will create their own portable or temporary print table. The finished piece can be used for art purposes or adapted for clothing.
Eleanor Hannan is a visual artist who works with machine embroidery. She has a BFA from the University of Manitoba and has exhibited across Canada and in the UK (most recently at the Knitting and Stitching show in London, October 2009). Teaching is part of her creative purpose and she works in the Textile Arts Program at Capilano University, at Emily Carr University of Art and Design and in the Fashion Department at the University of the Fraser Valley. Her collection of faces called Portraits of Forgiveness was shown at Place des Arts in Coquitlam, BC this past November. www.eleanorhannan.com
Art Jam - Woodcarving
Ito Kojiro
July 14 - 16, 2010
$245 + wood available for purchase from instructor
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Ito Kojiro (b. 1945) is constantly occupied in Japan carving realistic statuary in wood for Buddhist temples. His deep religious conviction and consummate skills as a woodworker are a necessity for such work. Beyond this commissioned work, Ito's distinctive figurative carvings have been acquired by people in Japan as well as in overseas. These take the form of stylized people. Their refined heads are set into massive supports of wood, infused with striking designs of mineral pigments. Ito lives in an ancient house in the hills beyond Ome. When not carving, he is a teacher of woodcarving at art classes in Ikebukuro and Tachikawa, both in Tokyo.
At MISSA he will use red and yellow cedar wood and carving tools, to lead carvers in a three-day project of carving small animal figures out of a wood cube with one side approx. 20cm in length. The participants are expected to bring their own tools (wood chisels and carving knives). His techniques may be new to western hands, so some carving experience is required for his workshop. Mr. Ito will be joined during one day of his residency by John and Luke Marston, celebrated young Coast Salish carvers. During Art Jam 2008 in Ome, Japan they lived and carved with Ito, and this renewed collaboration will be something to look forward to.
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