Education
The health and safety of our guests, artists, and instructors are our top priority. The Beatrice Wood Center for the Arts has put the following safety protocols in place:
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All patrons are welcome to wear masks
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Masks are encouraged for those at higher risk
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Up-to-date vaccinations are recommended
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Where possible activities take place outdoors
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For more information, please call 805-646-3381 or email BeatriceWoodCenter@gmail.com.
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Limited to 18 Participants
Unlock your inner Artist!
Indulge yourself in an afternoon of self-expression. No experience necessary. Learn a variety of abstract painting techniques. You will use both brushes and palette knives. Paint along with Amy Lynn Stevenson, step-by-step, adding vibrant and dynamic layers of acrylic paint on canvas. You will be provided with everything you need, not only a palette full of paint and materials, but assistance and encouragement. Each participant will have the opportunity to add their unique personal touches, and then take home their own expressive art work on a 16x20 gallery wrap canvas at the end of the workshop.
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Join Maryann Cord for a day of creating modern day artifacts based upon her Cypriot Antiquities Series.
Ancient artifacts show that the rattle has always held an important place in the civilizations of just about every culture. For many the rattle is regarded as the dwelling place of great spirits and ancestors. These rattles pay homage to ancient art from Cyprus in the Eastern Mediterranean dating back as far as 2000 BC. They represent quintessential Cypriot fusion of indigenous traditions and elements assimilated from the ancient Assyrians, Egyptians, Persians, Greeks, and Romans who one after the other controlled the island through its history.
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Let’s get wild! We'll mix and paint beautiful colors on paper and cut them into exciting shapes. We can start from anywhere—an idea, a dream, a photograph, a painting. We can make a still life from life, or from imagination. A bouquet of flowers is always fantastic! Landscapes, plants, toys, bowls, musical instruments...
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No experience necessary. Bring your friends and your imagination with you!
This workshop will focus on practical and creative approaches to creating and refining functional and sculptural forms. Using a variety of different clays, participants will work on small works using wheel and hand-building techniques, including throwing off the mound, altered wheel work, pinch, slab, coil, kurinuki, and combined hand-building processes.
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From the earliest civilizations through the Renaissance, Modernism, and contemporary art, artists have made use of symbols, some of them universal or iconic (for example, suns, moons, stars), some of them religious or used in magic (the caves of Lacaux animals, the cross, fertility figurines), some of them having to do with national identity (flags, the statue of liberty, the crown) and some of them highly personal (Picasso’s bull and peace dove, Klee’s eyes, fish, animals, and cities, Kara Walker’s enslaved girl silouettes, Matisse’s swimmers and exotic leaves)...
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Join award-winning artist Jennifer McChristian in this fun and invigorating 5-day plein air painting workshop. Learn the time honored traditions of painting outdoors in the gentle Ojai countryside. The aim of this workshop is to teach you to interpret the landscape in terms of paint, using light and color to create 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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A day to explore the medium of sculptural clay and have fun creating, while delving into the ancient heritage of the Goddess. Participants will create their own small ancient goddess from clay, will learn hand-sculpting techniques including the use of the dowel in clay, and explore texture and mark-making using ordinary objects and stamps. Ancient earth-mother-goddess figures are among the oldest ceramics known dating back some 30,000 years. Participants will also explore the use of oxides, under-glazes and mason stains to add color and depth to the clay. If time allows, participants will be allowed the privilege to create and alter one goddess pressing from an original Beatrice Wood mold. The goddess you create during the workshop includes the cost of kiln firing and will be fired and made available for pickup at a later date.
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Recently, the Center has experienced an increase in requests to book private workshops -- from corporations looking for unique inspirational and team-building retreats, to wedding planners seeking to provide a unique Ojai experience as part of the weekend celebration.
Kevin Wallace, Director of the Beatrice Wood Center for the Arts & Happy Valley Cultural Center leads a number of these Experiences, which can be booked as either three-hour workshops, at $40 per person with a 6 person minimum, or six-hour workshops, at $80. per person with a 4 person minimum. In both cases, all materials are included, with the six-hour workshops including a light lunch.
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Ongoing Educational Activities
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This informative workshop will assist artists in understanding the role that identity and exhibition play in building a career as a professional in the art world. Topics will include creating an engaging artist statement and biography, writing promotional materials including press releases, utilizing the Internet and navigating the often-mysterious world of galleries and museums.
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During the summer of 2014, the Beatrice Wood Center for the Arts staged an “ART-IN”, inviting visitors and members of the community to collaborate on paintings. Completed works, along with those in process, were included in an exhibition titled All Together Now: Collaborative Paintings, with proceeds from the sale of works supporting the Center’s educational programming.
The event and exhibition were inspired by the work of Liam O’Gallagher and designed to promote collaboration, creativity and community as a means of creating constructive change in the human condition and the planet.
Due to the success of this event, we are making this collaborative painting project an ongoing activity of the Center, open to individuals or groups.
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This workshop utilizes a Journal created by Binh Pho and Kevin Wallace based upon the books River of Destiny: The Life and Work of Binh Pho and Shadow of The Turning.
This workshop will be led by Kevin Wallace and participants will utilize the Embracing Destiny Journal as a means of exploring life through the process of journaling and opening up to the potential of creative writing and living.
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Megan Johnson
Intern Artist
Rustic Treasures Series
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The Beatrice Wood Center for the Arts Intern Program allows emerging artists to utilize Beatrice Wood's library and studio to create work. The Center works with colleges and universities to select participants, who create different series through studying art from diverse cultures and learning new techniques. The sale of works assists in supporting the Center's educational programming and allows collectors to acquire work by talented artists early in their careers.
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Previous Workshops & Demonstrations |
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A day to explore the medium of sculptural clay and have fun creating, while delving into the ancient heritage of the Goddess. Participants will create their own small ancient goddess from clay, will learn hand-sculpting techniques including the use of the dowel in clay, and explore texture and mark-making using ordinary objects and stamps. Ancient earth-mother-goddess figures are among the oldest ceramics known dating back some 30,000 years. Participants will also explore the use of oxides, under-glazes and mason stains to add color and depth to the clay. If time allows, participants will be allowed the privilege to create and alter one goddess pressing from an original Beatrice Wood mold. The goddess you create during the workshop includes the cost of kiln firing and will be fired and made available for pickup at a later date.
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THIS WORKSHOP SOLD OUT
Learn a unique expressionist approach to landscape paintings, free of photo-realism and perspective.
No experience necessary.
Bring your friends and your imagination with you!
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In the spirit of Matisse and other modernist experimenters (e.g. Picasso, Braque, Schwitters) participants will make collages out of cut paper and simple glue. Highly pigmented acrylic paint will be used to create gorgeous colors that pop, sizzle, hum, and harmonize. Instruction will include aspects of color and design, exercises in freeing the intuitive sense of composition, and looking at inspiring examples from both past and present collage artists.
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Limited to 18 Participants
Unlock your inner Artist!
Indulge yourself in an afternoon of self-expression. No experience necessary. Learn a variety of abstract painting techniques. You will use both brushes and palette knives. Paint along with Amy Lynn Stevenson, step-by-step, adding vibrant and dynamic layers of acrylic paint on canvas. You will be provided with everything you need, not only a palette full of paint and materials, but assistance and encouragement. Each participant will have the opportunity to add their unique personal touches, and then take home their own expressive art work on a 16x20 gallery wrap canvas at the end of the workshop.
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Join Yvette Franklin for this Sunday afternoon workshop where you will learn to cut glass, assemble necklace pendants and earrings, paint on glass, and make sun catchers, using specialty glass, including dichroic, and a sprinkling of frits, and glass paints.
This workshop is available to only 8 participants!
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In this workshop, participants will create beautiful spontaneous watercolor paintings with the use of liquid watercolor pigments, ink sprays, and dried organic matter such as pods, leaves, dried branches and plants. Each participant will create two unique paintings.
No previous experience is necessary.
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In this two-day hands-on workshop, Natasha Dikareva will share her process of forming otherworldy creatures, blending mythology, contemporary elements and imagination into a sculptural ceramic object.
During the first day she will demonstrate different clay hand-building techniques. On the second day, the main focus will be on surface treatments. The ceramic surface will be approached as a canvas, using slips, underglazes and the sgraffito technique to create vibrant, dynamic surfaces of visual storytelling. Participants will also have the ability to practice post-glaze techniques such as china painting. For this purpose, students are encouraged to bring bisque-ware to experiment on.
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A day to explore the medium of sculptural clay and have fun creating, while delving into the ancient heritage of the Goddess. Participants will create their own small ancient goddess from clay, will learn hand-sculpting techniques including the use of the dowel in clay, and explore texture and mark-making using ordinary objects and stamps. Ancient earth-mother-goddess figures are among the oldest ceramics known dating back some 30,000 years. Participants will also explore the use of oxides, under-glazes and mason stains to add color and depth to the clay. If time allows, participants will be allowed the privilege to create and alter one goddess pressing from an original Beatrice Wood mold. The goddess you create during the workshop includes the cost of kiln firing and will be fired and made available for pickup at a later date.
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Join award-winning artist Jennifer McChristian in this fun and invigorating 5-day plein air painting workshop. Learn the time honored traditions of painting outdoors in the gentle Ojai countryside. The aim of this workshop is to teach you to interpret the landscape in terms of paint, using light and color to create 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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Limited to 18 Participants
Unlock your inner Artist!
Indulge yourself in an afternoon of self-expression. No experience necessary. Learn a variety of abstract painting techniques. You will use both brushes and palette knives. Paint along with Amy Lynn Stevenson, step-by-step, adding vibrant and dynamic layers of acrylic paint on canvas. You will be provided with everything you need, not only a palette full of paint and materials, but assistance and encouragement. Each participant will have the opportunity to add their unique personal touches, and then take home their own expressive art work on a 16x20 gallery wrap canvas at the end of the workshop.
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THIS WORKSHOP SOLD OUT
No experience necessary. Bring your friends and your imagination with you!
This 2-day workshop will explore a variety methods and techniques involved in making hand-built and wheel-thrown drinking vessels, and other unique pieces.
What happens to simple forms with the addition of handles, surface design, texture, and other design elements? How can we contribute to the presence of a work and not inadvertently distract from it? How do the lip, body, and foot work together to create a cohesive and harmonious whole?
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THIS WORKSHOP SOLD OUT
Join Maryann Cord for a day of creating modern day artifacts based upon her Cypriot Antiquities Series.
Ancient artifacts show that the rattle has always held an important place in the civilizations of just about every culture. For many the rattle is regarded as the dwelling place of great spirits and ancestors. These rattles pay homage to ancient art from Cyprus in the Eastern Mediterranean dating back as far as 2000 BC. They represent quintessential Cypriot fusion of indigenous traditions and elements assimilated from the ancient Assyrians, Egyptians, Persians, Greeks, and Romans who one after the other controlled the island through its history.
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Limited to 18 Participants
THIS WORKSHOP SOLD OUT
Unlock your inner Artist!
Indulge yourself in an afternoon of self-expression. No experience necessary. Learn a variety of abstract painting techniques. You will use both brushes and palette knives. Paint along with Amy Lynn Stevenson, step-by-step, adding vibrant and dynamic layers of acrylic paint on canvas. You will be provided with everything you need, not only a palette full of paint and materials, but assistance and encouragement. Each participant will have the opportunity to add their unique personal touches, and then take home their own expressive art work on a 16x20 gallery wrap canvas at the end of the workshop.
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Limited to 18 Participants - Reserve Your Space Today!
Unlock your inner Artist!
Indulge yourself in an afternoon of self-expression. No experience necessary. Learn a variety of abstract painting techniques. You will use both brushes and palette knives. Paint along with Amy Lynn Stevenson, step-by-step, adding vibrant and dynamic layers of acrylic paint on canvas. You will be provided with everything you need, not only a palette full of paint and materials, but assistance and encouragement. Each participant will have the opportunity to add their unique personal touches, and then take home their own expressive art work on a 16x20 gallery wrap canvas at the end of the workshop.
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Caryl St Ama will guide students through an introduction to working with R&F Encaustic paint and pigment sticks. The 2-Day workshop provides students an immersive experience with a solid base in techniques and best practices for using wax. Throughout the two days, she encourages your creative development in painting, layering, mark making and mixed media work.
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Limited to 18 Participants
Unlock your inner Artist!
Indulge yourself in an afternoon of self-expression. No experience necessary. Learn a variety of abstract painting techniques. You will use both brushes and palette knives. Paint along with Amy Lynn Stevenson, step-by-step, adding vibrant and dynamic layers of acrylic paint on canvas. You will be provided with everything you need, not only a palette full of paint and materials, but assistance and encouragement. Each participant will have the opportunity to add their unique personal touches, and then take home their own expressive art work on a 16x20 gallery wrap canvas at the end of the workshop.
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BOTH WORKSHOPS SOLD OUT
A day to explore the medium of sculptural clay and have fun creating, while delving into the ancient heritage of the Goddess. Participants will create their own small ancient goddess from clay, will learn hand-sculpting techniques including the use of the dowel in clay, and explore texture and mark-making using ordinary objects and stamps. Ancient earth-mother-goddess figures are among the oldest ceramics known dating back some 30,000 years. Participants will also explore the use of oxides, under-glazes and mason stains to add color and depth to the clay. If time allows, participants will be allowed the privilege to create and alter one goddess pressing from an original Beatrice Wood mold. The goddess you create during the workshop includes the cost of kiln firing and will be fired and made available for pickup at a later date.
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Limited to 18 Participants - Reserve Your Space Today!
Unlock your inner Artist!
Indulge yourself in an afternoon of self-expression. No experience necessary. Learn a variety of abstract painting techniques. You will use both brushes and palette knives. Paint along with Amy Lynn Stevenson, step-by-step, adding vibrant and dynamic layers of acrylic paint on canvas. You will be provided with everything you need, not only a palette full of paint and materials, but assistance and encouragement. Each participant will have the opportunity to add their unique personal touches, and then take home their own expressive art work on a 16x20 gallery wrap canvas at the end of the workshop.
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Join Yvette Franklin for this Saturday afternoon workshop where you will learn to cut glass, assemble necklace pendants and earrings, paint on glass, and make sun catchers, using specialty glass, including dichroic, and a sprinkling of frits, and glass paints.
This workshop is available to only 8 participants!
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In this workshop, participants will learn how to use China paints to add color and design to ceramics. Following a brief history of China painting, including its use by accomplished artists, participants will learn about the materials and processes. What is needed for a China painting kit, and where to purchase supplies. The use of brushes, how to mix and apply the paints, an overview of penwork and how to fire the works will all be covered.
Participants will gain a basic knowledge of what supplies are needed and comfortable enough to make up a pallet and start painting at home.
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A day to explore the medium of sculptural clay and have fun creating, while delving into the ancient heritage of the Goddess. Participants will create their own small ancient goddess from clay, will learn hand-sculpting techniques including the use of the dowel in clay, and explore texture and mark-making using ordinary objects and stamps. Ancient earth-mother-goddess figures are among the oldest ceramics known dating back some 30,000 years. Participants will also explore the use of oxides, under-glazes and mason stains to add color and depth to the clay. If time allows, participants will be allowed the privilege to create and alter one goddess pressing from an original Beatrice Wood mold. The goddess you create during the workshop includes the cost of kiln firing and will be fired and made available for pickup at a later date.
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THIS WORKSHOP SOLD OUT!
Join Linda Illumanardi in making a botanically printed table scarf from the leaves at the Beatrice Wood Center for the Arts! Experience the magic of opening a warm bundle fresh from the steaming kettle for the reveal on a nice piece of raw silk (noil). The leaves love the protein fibers of silk and wool! Linda will prepare the fabric by washing and mordanting with a natural process and then guide participants step-by-step through the process of gathering leaves, doing a layout and bundling tightly to make gorgeous contact prints.
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In this two-day hands-on workshop, Natasha Dikareva will share her process of forming otherworldy creatures, blending mythology, contemporary elements and imagination into a sculptural ceramic object.
During the first day she will demonstrate different clay hand-building techniques. On the second day, the main focus will be on surface treatments. The ceramic surface will be approached as a canvas, using slips, underglazes and the sgraffito technique to create vibrant, dynamic surfaces of visual storytelling. Participants will also have the ability to practice post-glaze techniques such as china painting. For this purpose, students are encouraged to bring bisque-ware to experiment on.
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Inspire your inner Beatrice Wood! Channeling the spirit of Dada, we will create a lustrous eye-catching work of art on a porcelain box using overglaze lusters. No experience necessary, all supplies and instruction will be provided. Susan Spohr, a ceramist and China painter, will take you step-by-step to create a one-of-a-kind luster painting.
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This workshop will focus on current and age-old approaches to creating and refining functional and sculptural ceramic forms and developing your work. Using a variety of different clays, participants will work on wheel and hand building techniques, including throwing off the mound, altering wheel work, pinch, slab, coil, and combined hand building processes.
This 2-day hands-on workshop will include discussions, demonstrations, and encourage creativity and experimentation. Participants will be able to take home completed unfired forms or arrange to fire pieces later at the BWCA. Open to all levels.
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Join Maryann Cord for a day of creating modern day artifacts based upon her Cypriot Antiquities Series.
Ancient artifacts show that the rattle has always held an important place in the civilizations of just about every culture. For many the rattle is regarded as the dwelling place of great spirits and ancestors. These rattles pay homage to ancient art from Cyprus in the Eastern Mediterranean dating back as far as 2000 BC. They represent quintessential Cypriot fusion of indigenous traditions and elements assimilated from the ancient Assyrians, Egyptians, Persians, Greeks, and Romans who one after the other controlled the island through its history.
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THIS WORKSHOP IS SOLD OUT
Unlock your inner Artist!
Indulge yourself in an afternoon of self-expression. No experience necessary. Learn a variety of abstract painting techniques. You will use both brushes and palette knives. Paint along with Amy Lynn Stevenson, step-by-step, adding vibrant and dynamic layers of acrylic paint on canvas. You will be provided with everything you need, not only a palette full of paint and materials, but assistance and encouragement. Each participant will have the opportunity to add their unique personal touches, and then take home their own expressive art work on a 16x20 gallery wrap canvas at the end of the workshop.
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Unlock your inner Artist!
Indulge yourself in an afternoon of self-expression. No experience necessary. Learn a variety of abstract painting techniques. You will use both brushes and palette knives. Paint along with Amy Lynn Stevenson, step-by-step, adding vibrant and dynamic layers of acrylic paint on canvas. You will be provided with everything you need, not only a palette full of paint and materials, but assistance and encouragement. Each participant will have the opportunity to add their unique personal touches, and then take home their own expressive art work on a 16x20 gallery wrap canvas at the end of the workshop.
Limited to 18 Participants - Reserve Your Space Today!
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Join Yvette Franklin for this Saturday afternoon workshop where you will learn to cut glass, assemble necklace pendants and earrings, paint on glass, and make sun catchers, using specialty glass, including dichroic, and a sprinkling of frits, and glass paints.
This workshop is available to only 8 participants!
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Jeff Margolin
Ceiling Pattern |
Jeff Margolin has been carving clay for over 50 years, as an occupation and passion. In this workshop, participants will be exploring a variety of approaches, clays, and tools of the trade. There will be plenty of time to work on individual projects, as workshop participants are encouraged to bring leather hard pieces suitable for carving and design concepts to work on - yet there will be clay forms prepared and plenty of designs for carving as well. Participants will explore historical and cultural aspects of carving and work on generating their own designs and how those designs can be realized in clay.
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A day to explore the medium of sculptural clay and have fun creating, while delving into the ancient heritage of the Goddess. Participants will create their own small ancient goddess from clay, will learn hand-sculpting techniques including the use of the dowel in clay, and explore texture and mark-making using ordinary objects and stamps. Ancient earth-mother-goddess figures are among the oldest ceramics known dating back some 30,000 years. Participants will also explore the use of oxides, under-glazes and mason stains to add color and depth to the clay. If time allows, participants will be allowed the privilege to create and alter one goddess pressing from an original Beatrice Wood mold. The goddess you create during the workshop includes the cost of kiln firing and will be fired and made available for pickup at a later date.
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Caryl St Ama will guide students through an introduction to working with R&F Encaustic paint and pigment sticks. The 2-Day workshop provides students an immersive experience with a solid base in techniques and best practices for using wax. Throughout the two days, she encourages your creative development in painting, layering, mark making and mixed media work.
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Caryl St. Ama, core instructor for R&F Handmade paints will cover the technical aspects of R&F Pigment Sticks including a brief history, intro to the product line and basic information for safe handling and studio practices. Demonstrations on preparing appropriate substrates will be followed by highlighting the versatility and variety of approaches one may use when working with Pigment Sticks; Alla prima, plein air, printmaking, glazing, impasto, etc.
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Unlock your inner Artist!
Indulge yourself in an afternoon of self-expression. No experience necessary. Learn a variety of abstract painting techniques. You will use both brushes and palette knives. Paint along with Amy Lynn Stevenson, step-by-step, adding vibrant and dynamic layers of acrylic paint on canvas. You will be provided with everything you need, not only a palette full of paint and materials, but assistance and encouragement. Each participant will have the opportunity to add their unique personal touches, and then take home their own expressive art work on a 16x20 gallery wrap canvas at the end of the workshop.
Limited to 18 Participants - Reserve Your Space Today!
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The workshop will begin with a quick presentation of work made by Maracole Bijoux and discussion of the aim of the workshop. Participants will then be shown how to “skin” a baseball (removing its heavy core), and to stitch the two halves back together using an embroidery needle and seed beads. A discussion of patterns and color combinations will also occur during the process of bead embroidery.
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Join Yvette Franklin for this Saturday afternoon workshop where you will learn to cut glass, assemble necklace pendants and earrings, paint on glass, and make sun catchers, using specialty glass, including dichroic, and a sprinkling of frits, and glass paints.
This workshop is available to only 8 participants!
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This workshop will cover hand-building techniques of the most expressive features on the human body - faces and hands. Students will learn about the anatomical structure of the face to help accurately portray facial features and expressive qualities. Different methods of sculpting emotions will be demonstrated during the workshop.
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Participants will learn techniques of combining handbuilding with thrown forms to create imagery related to archeology and anthropology. There will be a demonstration of numerous works being created by using both handbuilding and combining thrown parts together, focusing on creative thinking when working. The workshop will include a discussion on low-fire color ranges in raku/sawdust/low salt and obvara firings.
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A day to explore the medium of sculptural clay and have fun creating, while delving into the ancient heritage of the Goddess. Participants will create their own small ancient goddess from clay, will learn hand-sculpting techniques including the use of the dowel in clay, and explore texture and mark-making using ordinary objects and stamps. Ancient earth-mother-goddess figures are among the oldest ceramics known dating back some 30,000 years. Participants will also explore the use of oxides, under-glazes and mason stains to add color and depth to the clay. If time allows, participants will be allowed the privilege to create and alter one goddess pressing from an original Beatrice Wood mold. The goddess you create during the workshop includes the cost of kiln firing and will be fired and made available for pickup at a later date.
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In this workshop, participants will learn how to use China paints to add color and design to ceramics. Following a brief history of China painting, including its use by accomplished artists, participants will learn about the materials and processes. What is needed for a China painting kit, and where to purchase supplies. The use of brushes, how to mix and apply the paints, an overview of penwork and how to fire the works will all be covered.
Participants will gain a basic knowledge of what supplies are needed and comfortable enough to make up a pallet and start painting at home.
Click for Additional Information |
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Join award-winning artist Jennifer McChristian in this fun and invigorating 5-day plein air painting workshop. Learn the time honored traditions of painting outdoors in the gentle Ojai countryside. The aim of this workshop is to teach you to interpret the landscape in terms of paint, using light and color to create 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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Beginning with a PowerPoint presentation on Dada history and aesthetics, participants will experience hands-on exploration of painting, poetry, collage and assemblage, while learning how to embrace chance and accident as a means of expanding artistic exploration. At the end of the day, participants will take home the works they created at the Center, having acquired new approaches to creativity and artistic processes.
Workshop Participants will receive a copy of the book Every Exit is an Entry: The Life and Work of Liam O'Gallagher.
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THIS WORKSHOP IS SOLD OUT
Unlock your inner Artist!
Indulge yourself in an afternoon of self-expression. No experience necessary. Learn a variety of abstract painting techniques. You will use both brushes and palette knives. Paint along with Amy Lynn Stevenson, step-by-step, adding vibrant and dynamic layers of acrylic paint on canvas. You will be provided with everything you need, not only a palette full of paint and materials, but assistance and encouragement. Each participant will have the opportunity to add their unique personal touches, and then take home their own expressive art work on a 16x20 gallery wrap canvas at the end of the workshop.
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Where do art and craft come from? Does art come from the mind, the heart, or both? How does our imagination and day-to-day experience intersect to help in our creative practice? This 2-day hands-on workshop explores these questions and more through individual work and demonstrations in the studio.
Using a variety of clays, participants will work on wheel and hand-building techniques, including throwing off the hump, altering wheel work, pinch, slab, coil, and the kurinuki process.
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The currents of Primitivism run through contemporary art. The term ‘Primitive’ can be interpreted ethnographically, as a reference to the artifacts of tribal people; and it can be viewed in a derogatory manner, a reference to works that are somehow less sophisticated than those created in the modern world. But once Primitivism was embraced by the great artists of the 20th century - Gauguin, Picasso, Matisse, Modigliani, Klee, Giacometti, amongst others, it came to be viewed with great respect, as an aesthetic designation.
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Join Yvette Franklin for this Saturday afternoon workshop where you will learn to cut glass, assemble necklace pendants and earrings, paint on glass, and make sun catchers, using specialty glass, including dichroic, and a sprinkling of frits, and glass paints.
This workshop is available to only 8 participants!
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Historically, most religious traditions - from indigenous cultures to the great civilizations - used the arts to enhance the spiritual experience. Most of the body of human artifact which we now refer to as ‘art’ consists of objects used in religious rituals or those that depict religious themes. Due to their strong emotional impact and ability to act immediately and directly upon our perception, the arts have the ability to enhance religious experience, and evoke a sense of transcendence, or the presence of some deeper or divine presence. The arts enhance religious experience by evoking strong emotions that preclude conceptual thought and may even invoke a sense of transcendence or the presence of the divine.
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“Who in the world am I?” asked Alice in Wonderland. “Ah, that’s the great puzzle.” Indeed, it’s the question that has inspired philosophers throughout the ages, with no definite answer beyond with whom and what we identify. Throughout history, from the most remote tribes to modern life, we know who we are by identifying “the other” or “the outsider”. Attire, furnishings, iconography, and emblems serve the purpose of identifying membership in a particular tribe, kingdom, church, or nation. Over the centuries, accepted aesthetics have been a means of sharing, and identifying position within a community.
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