Creative Arts Community at Menucha
Week 1: July 30 - August 5, 2023
Week 2: August 6 - 12, 2023
Since 1966, the Creative Arts Community has provided unique residential workshops at Menucha. Imagine... summer in the Pacific Northwest... a whole week to focus on art, make new friends, continue friendships, take your art to a new level and rejuvenate your spirit ... that's what happens during Creative Arts @ Menucha.
Menucha is thankful for the diligent work of the Creative Arts Community Board that works in partnership with us to offer this program.
Registration is now open.
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What to expect when registering:
- When you click which week you want to register for the Room & Board and Workshop choices for that week will appear.
- On both Room and Board, and Workshop choice, you can choose to make Full payment now, or Deposit payment on both amounts - half now, half on July 10.
- Indicate whether you want an Alternate Diet Meal Plan - it will add $51 which will be charged in the first payment if you have chosen to make deposit payments on Room/Board and Workshop.
- If you have chosen an Alternate Diet Meal Plan, AND deposit payments, the Running Total will show a higher first payment - this is correct. The system equally divides Room and Board, and Workshop costs, but not the Alternate Diet Meal Plan.
- Decide if you want to add Purchase Protection - this is offered by Purchase Protection LLC. It is an additional cost (based on the amount of your registration), it is not administered by Menucha. Click here to read Menucha's cancellation policy.
COST TO ATTEND
The cost to attend is broken down into these basic fees:
1. Basic Workshop Fee is $350 for all workshops.
2. Class Material Fee Class. Not every class has one, but those that do will be listed on the class description. You will pay this fee directly to your instructor.
3. Room and board. The cost for lodging and meals will depend on your selection of accommodations and if you need an alternative diet.
4. Alternative Diet Meal Plan is an additional $51 per week.
Lodging Rates (per person)
As of March 13, 2023
Quadruple $665 ( 0 available Week 1; 3 available Week 2)
Triple $745 (14 available Week 1; 0 available Week 2)
Double $965 (2 available Week 1; 0 available Week 2)
Single $1,250 (2 available) SOLD OUT both weeks
Barn Single $685 (4 available) SOLD OUT both weeks
Spots remaining in Workshops:
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Workshop |
Remaining Spots |
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Open Studio with Ruth Armitage |
2 |
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Experiential Drawing with Linda Berkley |
8 |
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Spill Your Guts with Leanne Grabel |
5 |
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Discovering Composition with Christopher Shotola-Hardt |
1 |
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Jewelry with Natural Materials with Junko Iijima |
3 |
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Text on Textiles with Bonnie Meltzer |
10 |
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Personal Narrative with Alison O’Donoghue |
10 |
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Printmaking with Dawn Endean |
7 |
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Watercolor Portraits with Trish Harding |
0 |
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Open Studio with Sandy Roumagoux |
0 |
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Contemporary Collage with Dayna Collins |
0 |
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Clay Vessels with Jennifer Hill |
5 |
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Natural Encounters with Sondra Holtzman |
3 |
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Acoustic Guitar with Laura Kemp |
12 |
Week 1 Classes
July 30-August 5, 2023
Open Studio with Ruth Armitage
Open Studio with Ruth Armitage
Open studio participants bring work in progress or explore new ideas with instructor input to help encourage personal expression and artistic development. Group critiques and one-on-one consultations will emphasize the elements of design: shape, color, line, value, form, etc. Suitable for relative beginners to professional artists, this is a class for painters seeking an intensive week of artistic exploration in a stimulating setting. Oil or acrylic, or water based media.
No class material fee
Ruth Armitage
Ruth Armitage is represented by the Portland Art Museum’s Rental Sales Gallery, Waterstone Gallery, Earthworks, and Gallery at Salishan. She was profiled on Oregon Art Beat in 2004. A former High School teacher, she enjoys sharing the creative process in the classroom. Students comment on her relaxed and positive teaching style. Ruth has juried local, national and international exhibitions. Her work was recently featured in Acrylic Artist Magazine, and has won awards in numerous National Exhibitions.
Learn more on her website: https://rutharmitage.com
Experiential Drawing with Linda Berkley
Experiential Drawing with Linda Berkley
Experiential Drawing is designed to inspire you, develop your skills of observation, encourage your investigation, support your intuition and the realization of your personal vision. Explore and expand the boundaries of your creative practice. Experience new mediums, techniques, and ways of thinking about drawing. Each morning starts with energizing drawing exercises, prompts, and demonstrations in response to the natural setting of Menucha, followed by one-on-one creative and technical support from me and time for your individual project development. Open to all levels of experience. Explore dry and liquid mediums, the layered and the transparent, in grand and miniature scale. Celebrate the joys of observation using methods of scientific illustration. Develop a drawing series. Consider sequence, narrative, and composition. Evaluate color, value, light, viewpoint and touch in drawing. Find inspiration from the literal to the sublime through the drawing process. Drawing becomes both meditation and dance, an intentional and intuitive action. Make your mark!
Class Material Fee $10 (to be paid directly to the instructor)
Linda Berkley
Linda D. Berkley is a professional artist working in drawing, painting, illustration, collage and mixed media since 1986. Based in Redmond, WA near Seattle, Linda is a graduate of the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston and received her MFA at the University of Arizona, Tucson. She is art department chair and full-time studio art faculty at Everett Community College, WA for 17 years and former art faculty member of Portland Community College for over 10. Her professional development studies in Scientific Illustration through the University of Washington, Seattle. In recent studio work, she continues exploring Rozome (Japanese dye painting) and digital applications in addition to traditional studio work. Linda D. Berkley has exhibited locally and nationally. Learn more on her websites: www.lindaberkley.net or www.lindaberkley.com (under revision)
Spill Your Guts with Leanne Grabel
Spill Your Guts with Leanne Grabel
There is nothing more liberating than telling your personal stories. There are so many impactful events and people in our lives that we will never forget because they changed us, they moved us. Sometimes the movement was forward. Sometimes the movement was backward. But we changed. These are the stories of memoir. In this workshop, we will look at the work of Alison Bechdel, Roz Chast, Maira Kalman, Ellen Forney, Ilene Beckerman, Nora Krug, etc., as well as tips on writing memoir from Mary Carr, Anne Lamott, William Stafford, Charles Bukowski, etc. You will write a series of flash memoirs--short pieces that recount these events and people that formed you. We will look at many examples, review poetic techniques and editing techniques so that your words will be concise and yet able to describe without becoming bogged down in length and complication. In essence, you will be writing prose poetry. You will also pair your pieces with something visual. This can be a drawing, a painting, a collage, or a photograph. And you will be presenting a piece or two at the end of the week.
Class Material Fee $15 (to be paid directly to the instructor)
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Leanne Grabel
Leanne Grabel is a writer, illustrator, teacher and performer in love with mixing genres. Her first collaboration was with a bongo player and sax player in the mid-70s and her most recent collaborations were with filmmaker Penny Allen and dancer/choreographer Gregg Bielemeier. She has written & produced numerous multi-media shows, including “The Lighter Side of Chronic Depression” and “Anger: The Musical.” Grabel's graphic novel, Brontosaurus Illustrated, was published by The Opiate Books in July of 2022. Her book of graphic prose poems My Husband’s Eyebrows was published by The Poetry Box in October 2022. Grabel is the 2020 recipient of the Bread & Roses Award for contributions to women's literature in the Pacific Northwest. She and her husband started and ran Cafe Lena, a poetry hub and restaurant, throughout the 90s. Grabel is a retired special education teacher, the mother of two daughters and the grandmother of three.
Learn more on her website: www.leannegrabel.com
Personal Narrative with Alison O’Donoghue
Personal Narrative with Alison O'Donoghue
Create an abundant, personal narrative acrylic painting on wood with an accessible, informal approach.Allow yourself to let go of conventional structures such as traditional ideas of realism pertaining to imagery, color, gravity, perspective, proportion, size relationships, etc. Your painting is your world, anything can happen! This class is open to all levels of experience. Tell your story, design and paint a painting alive with abundance, meaning, and movement. Allow the unexpected, intuitive to infuse your work. Explore practical matters of painting to create a harmonious vibrant work.I will guide you through a step by step process, each step building on the last. Exercises and lessons cover: generating imagery, preparing the surface, designing strong composition, painting with simplicity and economy of shape, willingness to make changes, being open to new discoveries, addressing the importance of value and contrast, color harmony, layering color, transparent washes, adding details that enhance the story.Throughout the class, there will be discussion, individual guidance, and instructional demos.
Modal Title
Alison O’Donoghue was born in Portland, Oregon, and is still based in Portland, Oregon.
Education: 1981-1984, educated at Portland State University. 1984-1988, educated at Pacific Northwest College of Art.
Galleries: Began showing in galleries in 1989, continued to present showing in Portland Or, Salem, OR, Ashland, OR, Astoria, OR, Seattle, WA, Port Townsend WA, Bellingham, WA, Bainbridge Island, WA, Los Angeles, CA.
Teaching: In Studio workshops, 2 online classes with Sonheim Creative, Master class with Oregon Art Educators Association, 3 day workshop at Northwind Arts Center, Port Townsend, WA.
Murals: Salem Hospital, Ebay Portland
Other Involvement: Sitka Art Invitational 2008-2022. Art Festivals in Portland, OR, Bellevue,WA, Salem, OR; 8 years.
Learn more on her website: https://www.aliorange.com/
Jewelry with Natural Materials with Junko Iijima
Jewelry with Natural Materials with Junko Iijima
In this workshop, students will learn simple bezel and prong setting techniques to set odd shaped rocks, beach pebbles, found objects or anything students want to incorporate into their Jewelry. Students will explore the designing process, and learn the basic skills of metal-smithing. We will also explore cuttlefish bone casting to add visual accent to the creation. Basic metal-smithing skills such as sawing, filing, soldering and surface finishing will be covered.
Class Material Fee $45 (to be paid directly to the instructor)
Junko Iijima
Junko is a studio artist living in North Portland, Oregon. She came from Japan to the United States as a high school exchange student. Fascinated by the diversity of people and culture, She continued her studies in the States and completed her MFA in Metalsmithing at the University of Oregon. Her work examines and questions the melding of cultural signifiers from the United States and Japan. Since 2002, she has been teaching metalsmithing, sculptures, and design at colleges and universities in the Portland area and currently, she teaches metalsmithing at Clackamas Community College and Multnomah Art Center.
Learn more on her website: https://www.junkoi.com
Text on Textiles with Bonnie Meltzer
Text on Textiles with Bonnie Meltzer
A project oriented, creative exploration of ways to get words onto fabric with by hand techniques— stitchery, appliqué, crochet —alone and mixed together. You don’t have to be a calligrapher or even know how to sew, but if you do have experience with fibers or lettering you will learn techniques to deepen and broaden your skills. Find which materials, tools and techniques work well for text, which don’t. Learn tricks to keep text straight and legible. Play with the shapes of letters and think outside the (text) box to turn words into shapes. Discover aids and short cuts that make the process less labor intensive. Develop the text you want to stitch with individual and class participation word play. Each student will get personalized instruction.
Bonnie Meltzer
Bonnie Meltzer’s art-making, activism, community building and gardening are linked together like crochet; one thread looping with itself creating an interlocking fabric. Born in New Jersey, Meltzer moved to Seattle to get an MFA at the University of Washington. There, she found her medium, her social commentary voice, and installation as a format. Throughout her career she has used fiber art techniques and found objects to make social commentary. In the last five year she has added stitched and crocheted text to her body of work. In her recent interactive Installation, Tikkun Olam - Mending the Social Fabric at the Oregon Jewish Museum, she embroidered text on 75 handkerchiefs. At the same exhibition, visitors mended and patched a torn parachute, a metaphorical social fabric. She has exhibited throughout the Northwest and beyond; Maryhill Museum, Hallie Ford Museum, and Tamastslikt Cultural Institute.Her work is in private and public collections; The National Science Foundation, University of Washington, Baylor University, and the City of Portland. Her sculpture is on the covers of the books “The Fine Art of Crochet” and “Artistry in Fiber: Sculpture”.
You can read about her latest projects at:
https://subjectivjournal.com/fall-2022/
https://www.orartswatch.org/exquisite-gorge-ii-power/
Discovering Composition with Christopher Shotola-Hardt
Discovering Composition with Christopher Shotola-Hardt
Abandon pre-conceived ideas of what you want to paint. Immerse yourself in process. Subject matter (be it representational or abstract) will reveal itself as you let go and let what happens on the substrate be your guide. Be welcoming to this dialogue with the unconscious!
On various substrates, we will explore traditional and experimental, additive and subtractive techniques, as we build up layers to develop sumptuous, emotive, evocative surface effects. Light source, highlights and drop shadows will be added to reveal innate compositions, and to define surface depth relationships. Each day yields several studies and one more-developed piece.
Traditional acrylic techniques include (but not limited to): washes; salt-resist; wet-on- wet; dry brush; sgraffito; frottage; glazing; masking.
Experimental techniques in these paint media: acrylics; gouache & ink; paste paint (tempera & wallpaper paste); bas relief (with joint compound, with tissue & glue, with Celluclay); gold leaf; photo transfer; faux effects; stenciling.
Works created this week by beginning, intermediate, or advanced painters may be considered complete, or be employed as backgrounds for future work. The goal is to expand our technical and conceptual tool kits as we explore the possibilities of the paint.
Class Material Fee $25 (to be paid directly to the instructor)
Christopher Shotola-Hardt
Christopher Shotola-Hardt received his MFA from Portland State University and his BA from Lewis & Clark College, with a year of study at Ludwig-Maximillians Universität in Munich, Germany. He has exhibited throughout the Pacific Northwest and in New York. His work is included in local, national, and international private collections and regional public collections, including the Hallie Ford Museum of Art, the Evergreen Air & Space Museum, Center for Research in Environmental Sciences & Technologies (CREST), South Metro Area Regional Transit (SMART), and City of Wilsonville. He has been one of the artist-owners of Blackfish Gallery in Portland’s Pearl District since 2004. Shotola-Hardt taught in the West Linn-Wilsonville School District for 32 years, and was named Oregon Secondary Art Educator of the Year (2005); Oregon Art Educator of the Year (2009); Pacific Region Secondary Art Educator of the Year (2018).
Learn more on his website: www.christophershotola-hardt.com
Week 2 Classes
August 6-12, 2023
Natural Encounters with Sondra Holtzman
Natural Encounters with Sondra Holtzman
In this unique experience, discover ways to ‘see’ into the natural world through sketches, observation, memory and word.
We will begin by making a simple but elegant hand crafted journal which will serve as a touchstone or safe place to explore what we experience when working with natural objects.
Next, we will venture out into the field, sustainably gathering a small collection of pieces that appeal to our individual senses and aesthetic.
Back in the studio (or on location in the field) we will employ various sketching and painting techniques using different tools to capture the essence of the objects we have in our own individual collections. If desired, add a simple poem or collection of descriptive words to your sketch, including the location in which they were found. All are invited to share their collections with others.
Students emerge from the workshop with new skills of ‘seeing’ instead of looking; a collection of their own illustrated interpretations of the natural world and a heightened appreciation of our environment.
Class Material Fee $45 (to be paid directly to the instructor)
Sondra Holtzman
Sondra is an artist, record keeper of an evolving life, and idea engineer living in Bend, Oregon. She studied fine art at Rhode Island School of Design and California College of the Arts and gleans the lion’s share of her inspiration from the natural world, inviting the viewer along on a journey of curiosity and exploration. Together with business partner and close friend Katie Wendel, Sondra conducts Wine and Watercolor excursions all over the world. A professional artist for over 30 years, she also leads painting workshops in the Pacific Northwest and Fiji and works with students on an individual basis. For her, the true joy of being an artist lies not only in the joy of creating but in the sharing of her passion with others, helping them to discover their own artistic voice.
Learn more on her website: https://www.sondraholtzman.com
Open Studio with Sandy Roumagoux
Open Studio with Sandy Roumagoux
Students will use oil or acrylic paint to start new paintings, start a series, finish old paintings,try different painting techniques or a combination of all four. Subject matter can be landscape, abstract, still life, figurative. Where the student is in their journey as a painter is where I will start with one on one instruction interspersed with brief class comments. The student can expect to complete 3 to 4 paintings in various sizes by the end of the class.
The class will focus on the process of painting, handling paint, mixing colors, brush techniques, exploring painting styles, and having fun with the creative process.
No class material fee
Sandy Roumagoux
Sandy Roumagoux, 1981 Master of Fine Arts (painting, drawing, lithography) University of Arkansas, Fayetteville; Selected Permanent Collections: Gladys Valley Marine Studies Building, Hatfield Marine Science Center, Newport; Portland Art Museum, OR; Hallie Ford Museum, Salem, OR; Oregon State University, Public Policy Building, Corvallis, OR; Oregon Health Sciences University, Portland, OR; Microsoft Corporate Art Collection, Redmond, WA; Center for Diaconal Ministry, Valparaiso, IN; City of Newport City Hall, OR; Samaritan Pacific Communities Hospital, Newport & Lincoln City, OR;
Recent Exhibitions: 2019 Sandra Roumagoux: Retrospective, Oregon Coast Council for the Arts, Newport Visual Arts Center, OR; 2018 Visual Magic: An Oregon Invitational, Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art, University of Oregon, Eugene; 2019 Water II, Lincoln City Cultural Center, Lincoln City, OR; 2017, Coastal Observations, Michael Parsons Fine Art Gallery, Portland, OR
Since 1982, I have taught the studio courses (painting, drawing, 2-D design) at the university and community college level either full time or as an adjunct instructor. I have taught at CAC, Menucha 1991-2010.
Service: 2012-2018 Mayor of the City of Newport, OR; 2003-2010 Board of Education, Oregon Coast Community College, Newport, OR; 2005-2007, Hosted “The Arts Considered” a weekly radio program, KCUP.
Learn more on her website: https://roumagoux.com/
Acoustic Guitar with Laura Kemp
Acoustic Guitar with Laura Kemp
Break out your guitars, voices, and writing notebooks! This workshop is for beginner to intermediate players who want to expand their repertoire of songs, learn new skills on the guitar, and explore the art of songwriting. Participants should know at minimum a few basic chords on the guitar and be able to comfortably switch between them. Laura will bring a selection of songs to teach the group, and in that process you will have the opportunity to learn new chord forms, flat picking and finger picking techniques, and basic music theory that will help you in your playing. We will also dive into the art of songwriting!
Each day will include time with the entire group, one on one instruction with Laura, and individual practice time. You will be encouraged and supported to do some small group playing and collaborating with others in the class. At the end of the week there will be an informal sharing/show, and you will come away from the camp with a handful of new songs to work on and play for your friends and family!
No Class Material Fee
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Laura Kemp
For three decades Laura Kemp has taught guitar, vocals and songwriting in Eugene, Oregon to students ranging in ages from seven to seventy. Her warmth, sense of humor, patience, positivity, and general encouragement of her students has made her one of the most sought after and experienced teachers in the area.
A seasoned performer, songwriter, singer, and guitarist, she has been captivating Northwest audiences since 1990. Her musical interests span anything from folk to bluegrass to jazz to kirtan, and she accompanies herself on guitar, harmonica, banjo, dobro and harmonium. She began playing guitar at the age of 8, eventually honing her skills in cafes and pubs as well as busking on the streets in Europe. Since then, she has gained a reputation as one of the finest performers on the west coast, performing on numerous stages throughout the country, from Passim in Cambridge, MA and CBGB’s Gallery in NYC, to The Great American Music Hall in San Francisco, Bumbershoot Festival in Seattle, and the main stage of the Oregon Country Fair. She has produced 7 studio and two live CD’s as well as won the Eugene Weekly’s annual poll for Best Singer-Songwriter too many times to keep track of.
Learn more on her website: https://laurakemp.com/
Watercolor Portraits with Trish Harding
Watercolor Portraits with Trish Harding
Watercolor wants to move. That is because it is...juice! Join Trish Harding in this unique and inspiring watercolor class that will put everything you’ve learned about this transparent medium on its head! We will be working upright on an easel and experimenting with color. We will go over setting up and learn the importance of using our palette, how to apply watercolor to the surface, and how to keep the surface juicy and moving. You can look forward to how exciting and freeing this class will be using a photo. Our week will be filled with how to push your painting as far as you dare. Watercolor will no longer be intimidating, but rather a free spirited full partner in your creations.
Some experience is helpful but not necessary and your own supplies are required.
No Class Material Fee
Trish Harding
Trish Harding lives and works “on the edge”. She was born in Washington State and grew up on Lummi Island literally feet from the water’s edge with a magnificent view of Mt Baker at the same time, always with one foot in the water and one on the land.
Her formal art training includes Western Washington State College (now WWU), and The Academy of Art College, San Francisco. Recognized as a Northwest Painter of regional icons she is best known for her land and seascapes as well as her urban industrial landscapes due to her work inspired by the deconstruction of the Georgia Pacific Paper Mill near her studio. Her love of plein air painting offers an in the moment quality to her brush strokes and application of paint. She has facilitated the Annual Downtown Bellingham Plein Air Paint Out and Exhibition (PAPO) event for 14 years.
In 2017 Trish was selected as the Skagit Valley International Tulip Festival Poster Artist. Her image recently received the Gold Pinnacle Award from the International Festivals & Events Association for Best Commemorative Poster in 2017.
Political work is a major part of her expression. She is known for work taking a stand against the Gateway Pacific Coal Terminal at Cherry Point, Coal Trains & Crude Oil trains traveling through sensitive environments and populated communities, loss of historical buildings, and Civil Rights/ Peace & Justice work.
Trish is owner of Studio UFO in Bellingham, which has proven to be the hot spot in Bellingham for leading edge art and art education. Trish not only teaches at Studio UFO she also has been teaching at Whatcom Community College for over 20 years, and Creative Arts Community for 15+ years, and countless workshops around the Pacific Northwest and the world. She is an art trip leader to various places in the world including Paris, France, San Miguel & Mexico City Mexico, Yellowstone Park & Cody, Wyoming, Ghost Ranch, New Mexico, Palm Springs, and Victoria BC, Canada.
Learn more on her website: https://studio-ufo.net/
Printmaking with Dawn Endean
Printmaking with Dawn Endean
Shellac Plate Printmaking is a low-tech and versatile technique for creating both intaglio and collograph prints. Through demos and lots of hands-on work we will create shellac plate prints using a variety of techniques including “etching”, collograph, chine collé and shaped plates. Students will gain proficiency in a range of printmaking skills, culminating in a varied portfolio of work. This course is for both beginners and experienced printmakers looking to add a new technique to their repertoire. Instruction will be tailored to the experience level of the student and will include lots of demos as well as group discussions and individual coaching.
Class Material Fee $50 (to be paid directly to instructor)
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Dawn Endean
Dawn Endean has been making art for over 40 years and works primarily in the disciplines of printmaking and painting. She has exhibited extensively in the Seattle area including at Davidson Galleries; Shift Gallery; the Jacob Lawrence Gallery; the Columbia City Gallery; at the Schack Art Center in Edmonds; The Island Gallery on Bainbridge Island; The Northwind Arts Center in Port Townsend and Mighty Tieton in Tieton Washington. Her work has also been shown at the Bellevue Arts Museum in Bellevue WA; the Cascadia Art Museum in Edmonds, WA; the Turner Print Museum in Sacramento, CA and Gallery 25 in Fresno, CA.
She has studied printmaking at Northern Illinois University, at Pratt Fine Arts Center in Seattle and in San Miguel de Allende and Oaxaca Mexico. Endean has taught Printmaking at the Pratt Fine Arts Center in Seattle, at The BARN on Bainbridge Island, at FEAST Art Center in Tacoma and at the Creative Arts Community Menucha Arts Retreat in Corbett Oregon.
She is represented by Columbia City Gallery in Seattle WA (www.columbiacitygallery.com) and by 1+1=1 Gallery in Helena MT (https://1plus1is1.com)
Learn more on her website: http://www.dawnendean.com
Contemporary Collage with Dayna Collins
Contemporary Collage with Dayna Collins
Part archiving, part storytelling, and part mad science - collage is so much more than cutting images out of a magazine and gluing them onto a piece of paper.
Students will learn a variety of techniques, use vintage papers, create a rich inventory of painted papers, and go home with a series of completed pieces. We will work with old letters, scraps of wallpaper, stained recipes, and material scavenged from discarded books, and give these old bits new life as collages. Students will learn to deconstruct books, excavating materials to use in their collages, and create a lively inventory of hand painted papers. With vintage materials alongside painted papers, we will create contemporary collages, focusing on how to incorporate elements of surprise. We will discuss collecting materials; composition and design elements; the importance of color and value; explore a variety of techniques, and how to display completed collages. There will be demos with time for hands on experimentation. An abundance of materials will be provided, along with tools and supplies to share.
Class Material Fee $25 (to be paid directly to instructor)
Dayna Collins
Dayna's fiery red hair sets the tone for how she makes her art and lives her life. She is an energetic, intuitive, abstract painter working in plaster, oil and cold wax, a collagist working with scavenged book scraps and faded fragments of ephemera, and an avid collector/junker of discarded objects, which she uses in her assemblage art.
As a collagist, Dayna's mixed media pieces reflect the passage of time, repurposing the scraps that are worn and weathered, transforming the aged and tattered pieces into something unexpected and beautiful, celebrating their fragile decay.
Dayna shows her art in three Pacific Northwest galleries. Her work can be seen in several published books, including Art for Everyone, Oil and Cold Wax, Art Abandonment, The Mixed-Media Artist, and Cold Wax Medium.
To stay current with Dayna's current projects, you can find her on Instagram at daynalovesart, and on Pinterest at Dayna Collins. She also has a website where you can sign up to receive her newsletter, and where she maintains a blog.
Learn more on her website: https://www.daynajcollins.com
Clay Vessels with Jennifer Hill
Clay Vessels with Jennifer Hill
Participants will learn exciting variations of ancient hand building techniques to create clay vessels with surfaces inspired by natural forms and textures. We begin with small maquettes to “sketch” out ideas while discussing what forms interest each individual, then move onto full sized vessels based on classic hand-building processes with suggestions to personalize the forming process. I will provide terra sigilatta, a super fine clay slip, which students hand burnish onto the pieces to create a finished but natural looking surface, and underglaze washes to add color in a naturalistic manner. Students will be able to bisque/low fire some pieces by the week's end.
Class Material Fee $30 (to be paid directly to the instructor)
Jennifer Hill
Jennifer Hill is a studio artist and freelance instructor in Southern Oregon. Earning a BFA and MFA in ceramics lead to teaching in colleges and art centers across the country for over 20 years. Her work is greatly influenced from living on Kauai for several years and she has attended art residencies in places as diverse as Rome, Italy and Missoula, Montana.
Learn more on her website: jenniferhillceramics.com