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B111 - BOX of POSSIBILITIES
Contemporary Collage & Mixed Media Workshop
Date: Friday, March 4, 2011
Time: 9:00 to 4:00 (one hour break for lunch)
Instructor: Bonnie Mineo Workshop
Fee: $150.00 All levels welcome

A one-day workshop using paint, paper, paste and your imagination. Demonstrations include acrylic paint, creating your own source materials, and applying various glues to collage papers and found objects, building layers and meaning. Working quickly and intuitively, we use random incidents cultivated by the collage process for works in a series, handmade books or collaborations. Discover the unlimited possibilities and learn new approaches for working between image and abstraction. Workshop ends with critique and discussion. For new and experienced artists, return students welcome.

Registration Deadline: Feb. 11, 2011 (register by deadline to waive $10.00 registration fee)

B112 - BOX of PLATES
Relief Printmaking without a Press
Date: Saturday, March 5, 2011
Time: 10:00 to 5:00 (one hour break for lunch)
Instructor: Bonnie Mineo
Workshop Fee: $150.00 All levels welcome

A one-day workshop using water-based inks and foam plates to create one-of-a-kind prints without a press. Demonstrations include making plates, ink roll-up and application, and transferring the image to paper by hand. We make simple shaped, textured and marked plates that are layered using transparent and opaque inks. Develop a related series of unique prints. Workshop ends with critique and discussion. For new and experienced artists, return students welcome.

Registration Deadline: Feb. 12, 2011 (register by deadline to the waive $10.00 registration fee)

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B113  - BOX of CRAYONS
Drawing Faces and Masks
Date: Friday, March 11, 2011
Time: 9:00 to 4:00 (one hour break for lunch)
Instructor: Lisa Knox
Workshop Fee: $150.00
All levels welcome

What do Michelangelo and your average second grade class have in common? They used crayons.
You can too! Increase portrait-drawing skills by developing your knowledge of skeletal structure, musculature and facial features in this fun and fast-paced one-day workshop. Discover why artists over the centuries – from Michelangelo to Hopper, have used crayons to execute their portrait and figure studies.

Registration Deadline: Feb. 18, 2011 (register by deadline to waive $10.00 registration fee)

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B114  - BOX of BUILDINGS
Tunnel Books & Pop-Ups
Date: Saturday, March 12, 2011
Time: 10:00 to 5:00 (one hour break for lunch)
Instructor: Stephanie Stigliano
Workshop Fee: $150.00
All levels welcome

Stephanie Stigliano leads this fast-paced, hands-on workshops on Tunnel Books and Pop-Ups. Using easy-to-find and inexpensive materials participants will build structures ranging from elementary to complex. Each form constructed will fold-flat when closed and open magically to reveal the interplay between light, shadow and design. For the benefit of art educators the class will discuss how these objects can be taught in conjunction with printmaking, collage, color theory, two & three dimensional design and incorporated into interdisciplinary themes with core subjects. Most templates can be adapted to a variety of age and skill levels. Participants will leave the workshop with a bibliography, a supply and resource list and sample templates for further independent work.

Registration Deadline: Feb. 19, 2011 (register by deadline to waive $10.00 registration fee)

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B115 - BOX of BOOKS
Portable Studio
Date: Friday, March 18 , 2011
Time: 9:00 to 4:00 (one hour break for lunch)
Instructor: Peter Madden
Workshop Fee: $150.00
All levels welcome

Spend the day creating a handsome, multi-signature book with a stiff paper cover that makes a perfect, sketchbook, journal or scrapbook. Although this binding can be executed on any scale, our books will be approximately 7 x 10 inches with the possibility of including a wide variety of papers (vellum, graph paper, lightweight Japanese papers, etc.). Some simple techniques for embossing, embellishing and transforming paper will also be covered as time permits. No previous bookbinding experience is required and no unusual or expensive tools are needed to continue making these on your own.

Registration Deadline: Feb. 25, 2011 (register by deadline to waive $10.00 registration fee)

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B116 - BOX OF BRUSHES
Watercolor & Wet Mixed Media
Date: Sunday, March 20, 2011
Time: 10:00 to 5:00 (one hour break for lunch)
Instructor: Jacob Higginbottom
Workshop Fee: $150.00
All levels welcome

Join us for a fun, exploratory class intended to demystify the intimidating reputation of watercolor and free you up to create dramatic flowing landscape paintings you can be proud of. In this one-day workshop we will explore methods of creating landscape compositions in the controlled atmosphere of the studio giving students the opportunity to experiment with a variety of techniques. We will be working from photographs, selected by students from their own photos or photos will be provided by the instructor.

Registration Deadline: Feb. 27, 2011 (register by deadline to waive $10.00 registration fee)

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B117 - BOX OF PAINTINGS
The Daily Painting Project
Date: Friday, March 25, 2011
Time: 9:00 to 4:00 (one hour break for lunch)
Instructor: Lisa Knox
Workshop Fee: $150.00
All levels welcome

Jump start the creative process by incorporating painting techniques borrowed from a variety of traditional sources and applying them to contemporary studio practices. Learn how the painting-a-day concept can be combined with still life exercises to help unblock creativity and improve productivity. Perfect for artists looking to explore new working methods, start a painting-a-day blog or just work faster!

Registration Deadline: March 3, 2011 (register by deadline to waive $10.00 registration fee)

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B118 - BOX of PAPER
New Media: Paper Cuts, Silhouettes and Shadows
Date: Saturday, March 26, 2011
Time: 10:00 to 5:00 (one hour break for lunch)
Instructor: Randal Thurston
Workshop Fee: $150.00
All levels welcome

Randal Thurston creates installations, public art and decorative wallscapes which are dense with metaphor and meaning. In this workshop Thurston will share how the traditional folk art technique of cutting silhouettes from paper can be adapted to contemporary art and design practices. You will explore how silhouette elements function as a point of departure for arranging and referencing imagery which is both complex and elegant. Hands-on projects will center around a specific set of themes which deal with contrasting issues of group and individual identity. Workshop will end with discussion and critique.

Registration Deadline: March 4, 2011 (register by deadline to waive $10.00 registration fee)

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B120 - BOX of PASTELS
Pastel Portrait Workshop
Date: Sunday, April 3, 2011
Time: 10:00 to 5:00 (one hour break for lunch)
Instructor: Janet Monafo
Workshop Fee: $175.00
All levels welcome

Janet Monafo has been investigating the psychological aspects of the human figure and self portrait in pastel for over thirty years. A widely respected artist, she co-edited “The Best of Pastel” (see below) and was selected for the Pastel Society Hall of Fame in 2002.

During this one-day pastel portrait workshop you will be shown methods of organizing the proportions of the head and features by blocking in simple planes and values. A limited mono-chromatic palette and techniques such as "lost' and found' edges" will enable students to quickly create the illusion of 3-dimensionality. Working from life, students will be encouraged to work loosely, with many beginnings to help establish an expressive sense of unity within the portrait.

To view “The Best of Pastel” click here:
Best of Pastel: Constance Flavell Pratt, Janet Monafo

Registration Deadline: March 13, 2011 (register by deadline to waive $10.00 registration fee)

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B120 - BOX OF TCHOTCHKES
Drawing & Painting Workshop
Date: Sunday, April 10, 2011
Time: 10:00 to 5:00 (one hour break for lunch)
Instructor: Lisa Knox
Workshop Fee:$150.00
All levels welcome

Do you have a favorite object or Tchotchke ("CHACH-kee")? This workshop will examine how a familiar object can suggest multiple interpretations depending on scale, point of view, light and placement. Students have the option of bringing in an object of their choosing or working with objects provided by the instructor. We will explore the possibilities using graphite, pastel, acrylic and metallic pigments. Class time will include hands-on exercises, demonstrations and critiques.

Registration Deadline: March 20, 2011 (register by deadline to waive $10.00 registration fee)

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