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To RSVP for any of our workshops, please call 805-646-3381 or email artcenter@beatricewood.com.

Upcoming 2013 Workshops

Children's Art Workshops

 

Children's Art Workshops with Seda Sevada
June 1, 2013

Workshops are held the first Saturday of every month

These workshops, led by Seda Sevada, introduce children to a wide range of media and processes. In many cases the workshops will involve artists-in-residence at the Center, or special guests, providing unique opportunities for expansive experience with the arts.

The Beatrice Wood Center for the Arts also presents Children's Art Workshops at venues in Southern California throughout the month. For more information, contact: seda@beatricewood.com.  

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9th Annual Luster Glazes Unveiled Workshop

10th Annual Luster Glazes Unveiled Workshop
with Myra Toth
June 13 - 16, 2013

Four days of study and investigation of the materials and processes that create the signature Luster Glazes of Beatrice Wood and others will be presented by Myra Toth, ceramic artist and teacher of Ceramics and Glaze Theory for 37 years.

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Wood Art Workshop with Graeme Priddle

Wood Art Workshop with Graeme Priddle
August 3 - 4, 2013

Graeme Priddle has over twenty years experience in the woodworking field, best known for his sculptural turnings/carvings reflecting his life and environments in Northland, New Zealand.

This two-day intensive workshop is for artists who are experienced with working in wood, and will cover a wide range of surface treatments and embellishment possibilities, including carving, texturing, pyrography, coloring, and multi-media approaches.  

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Post Pre-Pottery Figurine Workshop

Post Pre-Pottery Figurine Workshop
with Allison Newsome
October 17 - 20, 2013

This four-day workshop will share information gleaned from a recent twelve-week workshop presented at Harvard by Allison Newsome. The workshop at the Center will share Newsome’s experience with this project and explore Neolithic pre-pottery figurines (5,000.00-3,000.00 BC) as a metaphor and point of departure for clay sculpture.

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Previous Workshops

Workshop and Mini Concert Featuring Grammy Winner Darlene Koldenhoven

Workshop & Mini Concert Featuring Grammy Winner Darlene Koldenhoven
March 31, 2012

Wellness With Sound and Voice
Join Grammy-winner Darlene Koldenhoven for an informative, entertaining and rejuvenating adventure with sound, utilizing the many newly researched and proven benefits of music and sound-making for the brain, body and all around health.

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Children's Art Workshops

Christina Carroll
Christina Carroll

Children's Art Workshops with Seda Sevada
Saturday, April 14, 2012
  
With Special Guest Artist Christina Carroll

These workshops, led by Seda Sevada, introduce children to a wide range of media and processes. In many cases the workshops will involve artists-in-residence at the Center, or special guests, providing unique opportunities for expansive experience with the arts.

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Wish You Were Here: Postcards from Happy Valley with Christina Carroll

Wish You Were Here: Postcards from Happy Valley
with Christina Carroll
Sunday, April 15, 2012

Create your own unique print while learning image-making using a hand-turned press.

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Dragons, Gargoyles, and Things that go Bump in the Night Workshop with Richard Flores

Dragons, Gargoyles, and Things
that go Bump in the Night
Ceramic Workshop with Richard Flores
April 27-29, 2012

Join us on a creative safari into the jungles of human fears, nightmares, and internal disturbances.

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Basketry Workshop with Gerri Johnson-McMillin

Basketry Workshop with Gerri Johnson-McMillin
May 5 & 6, 2012

Learn to use basketry techniques to make your own traditional Adirondack backpack. This extremely functional and beautiful alternative to the modern backpack resembles what the Woodland and Appalachian Native Americans used to gather their food or carry their belongings. You will use different reeds to create this backpack - which can be used to gather materials for future basketry workshops.

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Children's Art Workshops

Children's Art Workshops
Dianne Bennett

Children's Art Workshops with Seda Sevada
May 5, 2012
    
With Special Guest Artist Dianne Bennett

Workshops are held the first Saturday of every month

These workshops, led by Seda Sevada, introduce children to a wide range of media and processes. In many cases the workshops will involve artists-in-residence at the Center, or special guests, providing unique opportunities for expansive experience with the arts.

Additional Information  

Children's Art Workshops

Children's Art Workshops
Richard Flores

Children's Art Workshops with Seda Sevada
June 2, 2012
    
With Special Guest Artist Richard Flores

Workshops are held the first Saturday of every month

These workshops, led by Seda Sevada, introduce children to a wide range of media and processes. In many cases the workshops will involve artists-in-residence at the Center, or special guests, providing unique opportunities for expansive experience with the arts.

Additional Information  

9th Annual Luster Glazes Unveiled Workshop

9th Annual Luster Glazes Unveiled Workshop
with Myra Toth
June 14 - 17, 2012

Four days of study and investigation of the materials and processes that create the signature Luster Glazes of Beatrice Wood and others will be presented by Myra Toth, ceramic artist and teacher of Ceramics and Glaze Theory for 36 years.

Additional Information  

A World of Glass with Richard Flores

A World of Glass
with Richard Flores
September 28 - 30, 2012

September 28 - 30 we will be presenting our first glass workshop. A World of Glass with Richard Flores will serve as an introduction to the use of glass as an artistic medium throughout diverse cultures and the centuries with hands-on experience exploring this exciting medium.

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Amphorae and the Figure Workshop with Allison Newsome

Amphorae and the Figure Workshop
with Allison Newsome
October 4 - 7, 2012

This four-day workshop will share information gleaned from a recent twelve-week workshop presented by Allison Newsome for the Harvard Ceramics Program Office for the Arts. The Harvard workshop was a multi-disciplinary collaboration with University of Rhode Island’s Inner Space Center and included Amphorae research from Black Sea Byzantine shipwreck discoveries.

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Children's Art Workshops

 

Children's Art Workshops with Seda Sevada
October 6, 2012

Workshops are held the first Saturday of every month

These workshops, led by Seda Sevada, introduce children to a wide range of media and processes. In many cases the workshops will involve artists-in-residence at the Center, or special guests, providing unique opportunities for expansive experience with the arts.

Additional Information  

Basketry Workshop with Gerri Johnson-McMillin

Basketry Workshop with Gerri Johnson-McMillin
October 6 & 7, 2012

Learn to use basketry techniques to make your own traditional Adirondack backpack. This extremely functional and beautiful alternative to the modern backpack resembles what the Woodland and Appalachian Native Americans used to gather their food or carry their belongings. You will use different reeds to create this backpack - which can be used to gather materials for future basketry workshops.

Additional Information  

Day of The Living Dead Workshop with Richard Flores

Day of The Living Dead
with Richard Flores
October 26 - 28, 2012

This ceramic workshop with Richard Flores offers a fresh and personal exploration of traditions relating to El Dia de la Muerte and Halloween. Create and celebrate your ancestors in this unusual, fun, and educational workshop.

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Children's Art Workshops

 

Children's Art Workshops with Seda Sevada
November 3, 2012 & December 1, 2012
January 5, February 2, March 2, April 6,
and May 4, 2013

Workshops are held the first Saturday of every month

These workshops, led by Seda Sevada, introduce children to a wide range of media and processes. In many cases the workshops will involve artists-in-residence at the Center, or special guests, providing unique opportunities for expansive experience with the arts.

The Beatrice Wood Center for the Arts also presents Children's Art Workshops at venues in Southern California throughout the month. For more information, contact: seda@beatricewood.com.  

Additional Information  

Nomadic Altars Workshop

Nomadic Altars
with Richard Flores
February 15 - 17, 2013

This three-day workshop will explore historic and personal approaches to the altar. Participants will create small ceramic altars, along with two-dimensional studies, that marry historic exploration and self-expression.

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Influence & Impression Workshop with Christina Carroll

Influence & Impression Workshop
with Christina Carroll
March 23, 2013

This afternoon workshop is being presented in conjunction with the artist’s residency and exhibition of the same title at the Center. Participants will learn to create their own unique prints while learning image-making using a hand-turned press.

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Plein Air Painting Workshop with Jennifer McChristian

Plein Air Painting Workshop
with Jennifer McChristian
April 1 - 5, 2013

Join award winning artist Jennifer McChristian in this fun and invigorating 5-day plein air painting workshop. Learn how to interpret the landscape in terms of paint, using light and color to create form. The aim of this workshop is to teach you to think, see and express light and form. Color relationships, design/composition, simplifying and the benefits of painting outdoors will be discussed, as well as how to design and build a painting that carries an emotional impact.

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Thought Forms Workshop

Thought Forms Workshop
with Richard Flores & Kevin Wallace
April 12 - 14, 2013

This three-day workshop is based upon Thought Forms, the 1901 book by Annie Besant and Charles Leadbeater that inspired Wassily Kandinsky, Piet Mondrian, Paul Klee and countless other artists. Participants will explore the ideas that pre-date and inspired abstract painting through insights into the processes of seeing and recording impressions in form and color.

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Please call 805-646-3381 or email artcenter@beatricewood.com for more information on our exhibitions, workshops, and performances. 

Our workshops and classes all take place at the Beatrice Wood Center for the Arts (driving directions).

For workshop registration please contact: The Beatrice Wood Center for The Arts
Tel: 805-646-3381 or e-mail us at ArtCenter@BeatriceWood.com

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