Education
To RSVP for any of our workshops, please call 805-646-3381 or email artcenter@beatricewood.com.
Upcoming 2013 Workshops
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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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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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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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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
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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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Christina Carroll
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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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Create your own unique print while learning image-making using a hand-turned press.
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Join us on a creative safari into the jungles of human fears, nightmares, and internal disturbances.
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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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Dianne Bennett
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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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Richard Flores
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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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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.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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 |
