Sculpture
Texture & Colour – Handbuilding with Paper Clay
Cory McCrory
June 7-11, 2010
$405
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This class will inspire students interested in working with paper clay. Cory will demonstrate the construction of textured slabs, figurative additions, the use of clay like fabric, and of texture and underglaze on the handbuilt form. Students are encouraged to integrate their own style, push the limits of the clay and bring their own stories to life.
Cory McCrory was raised in New England then relocated to the Midwest. She has worked in the art field for more than 25 years, making, assisting, teaching, and learning. Her art education began in childhood when it was clear she had a gift. Whether functional or sculptural, her pots are interpretations of everyday life through the use of color, texture and whimsy. Her work is represented in several Chicago galleries and private collections around the world. She lives in Sandwich, Illinois with her husband and 4 children. http://home.comcast.net/~potteryhead/site/
Innovative Extruding
Michael Sherrill
July 5-9, 2010
$405
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This workshop will explore innovative extruding techniques to manipulate clay and laminated colored clay. Instead of the extruder being a static tool, just to make an object, Michael sees it as a workstation like a potter’s wheel. It is a place to make and manipulate forms. The focus of this workshop is on skill development and unusual handbuilding techniques. Students will explore creative problem solving in the construction and firing of porcelain. With a focus on quality of surface and sense of presence, this workshop is geared to advance the students’ functional and/or sculptural work.
Primarily a self taught artist, Michael Sherrill moved to the Western North Carolina mountains in 1974. His primary influences came from being in the proximity of the North Carolina folk pottery tradition and the community surrounding Penland School of Crafts and the Southern Highland Handicraft Guild. He is a frequent instructor at Penland and has taught at craft schools and workshops across the country and in Canada. Michael has always been a bit of an inventor and in 1995 he designed a line of tools for potters and sculptors—the birth of Mudtools®. In 2002, Michael was a featured presenter and lecturer at the U.S. Clay exhibition of the Smithsonian’s Renwick Museum of American Craft. In 2003, Michael was honored as Artist of the Year by the Mint Museum of Craft + Design, in Charlotte, North Carolina. As part of the International Ceramics Symposium/ WOCEF, Michael was one of 10 artists invited to build outdoor sculptures to be placed permanently at the International Ceramic Museum in Inchon, S. Korea, in the summer of 2004. www.michaelsherrill.net
Handbuilt Masks
Bob Kingsmill
July 10-11, 2010
$165
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This workshop is two days of building clay masks as sculptural, architectural and decorative works. Students will hand-build over forms to make objects for the garden, the home and those other places around you that need another reflective face peering (or staring) back. Masks large, small, and tiny, existing alone or as parts of utilitarian pieces will be explored.
Bob Kingsmill produces an extravagant variety of stoneware and raku-fired pieces. His masks are widely collected and his wall murals hang in homes and public buildings in many countries of the world. He opened a studio on Granville Island in Vancouver in 1979, which he continues to maintain while making his home and keeping a studio in the Okanagan, near Vernon, BC. www.kingsmillpottery.com
Sculpting Expression
Elaine
Brewer-White
July 10-11, 2010
$165
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This 2-Day class will focus on facial expressions and explore the minutia of emotion in the human face. Students will build a series of small, head and shoulders studies to investigate how subtle changes in muscle movement can impact the effect of a piece. Some experience with clay is useful, but beginners are also welcome, as success is possible on many levels. *Warning – laughter is a byproduct of this class, the instructor cannot be held responsible for bad jokes.
Elaine Brewer-White has been sculpting in clay for over 25 years. Her pieces are
in public and private collections world-wide. Elaine’s artwork
celebrates the figure in all forms, using humour and colour as her
touchstones. Her work challenges our notions of beauty and perfection and
presents the common man/woman as unique and wonderful. Her subjects can
range from 60 year olds on classic motorcycles, to dogs reclined on chaise
lounges, to large ceramic murals. Elaine’s work and life exhibit the
importance of art, play, laughter. Her passion is to promote art-making and
creative living. She believes in the creative spirit and seeks to celebrate
it in all she does.
www.ebrewerwhite.com
Head Sculpture
Elly Scheepens
July 10-11, 2010
$165 + $10 course supplies
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Using the human skull as a reference, students will sculpt a 1/2 life-size human head on a simple armature using paper clay. This is a unique opportunity to gain a deeper understanding of anatomy. Students will first sculpt the skull’s bone structure in detail, which is as personal as a fingerprint. Facial muscles will be attached to the skull with options to create facial expressions, such as laughing, crying, or yawning. The surface will be covered with a thin slab of clay resembling skin. Students will then focus on details such as hair, ears, lips, and texture.
Elly Scheepens was born in Holland and studied ceramics in Gouda. After immigrating to Canada, she majored in sculpture at ACAD in Calgary where she graduated in 1988. She has shown her work internationally and now operates Artel Art Studios in New Denver, BC. Her passion for nature and figurative work is driving her to create a body of 333 detailed goddess figures to be photographically recorded and then used for a public Goddess Quest to be launched on July 26, 2010.
Metal-Smithing for the Imaginative Artist
Crys Harse
July 12-16, 2010
$405 + $85 course supplies
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Fire up your imagination! Students will learn about (or increase their knowledge of) designing for metal, and make their own unique small-scale sculpture or vessel in copper, brass, or aluminum, using metalsmithing techniques such as sawing/cutting, hammer-shaping, texturing, bending, and colouring with simple patinas. Participants will master the art of cold connections, including multiple types of riveting, tab construction, and even sewing. From the traditional to the fanciful, from simple bowls to more complex projects, students will experiment, interpret ideas, and share their creativity. Both newcomers and seasoned artists are welcome.
Crys Harse has a Bachelor of Fine Arts from the Alberta College of Art and Design, and is an award-winning metalsmith with a passion for surface texture. Her interests include vessel-making and small-scale sculpture. Initially a basket maker, she is currently exploring connections between metalsmithing and basketry along with her ongoing work on etched and wrinkled surfaces. Her work has been exhibited nationally and internationally and featured in several weaving, metalsmithing, and art publications, as well as being in numerous private collections. She is an enthusiastic teacher, dedicated to the student’s artistic potential.
Art Jam
Based in the natural beauty of the Ome Region, Tokyo Prefecture, Japan, the Ome Art Jam is a movement determined to pay respect to nature and to share the traditions of Japanese art with the wider world. Beginning with his exhibition at the Art Gallery of Greater Victoria in 2004, painter Sugimoto Hiroshi has been dedicated to creating an international cultural exchange among artists. In 2006 five Japanese attended the Moss Street Paint-In in Victoria and a residency at University of British Columbia in Vancouver. In 2008 four Canadians spent three weeks at Art Jam 2008 in Ome. In 2009, Ome Art Jam invited one Canadian, one Laotian and four Thai artists. And this year three Japanese artists will come to offer courses at MISSA for one week as part of Art Jam 2010, a festival of art shows, performances and workshops throughout southern Vancouver Island. In addition to courses offered by the artists, two Noh theatre performers will be with us for the week, to offer background, performance and a taste of participation in this profound art form. Also, two samisen players will be with the group to perform NAGAUTA, Japanese ballads, accompanied by samisen. Another essential part of the Japanese contingent is Fukuda Nobuyoshi, whose understanding of the art forms and skill at interpretation will be invaluable. This cultural exchange program was made possible by the coordinating effort of Robert Amos in Canada and Nobuyoshi Fukuda in Japan. MISSA is truly fortunate to be host to this integrated cultural exchange
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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