Wild Autumn Magic - Andie Thrams Workshop

Wild Autumn Magic: Surface Design & Accordion Books Workshop with Andie Thrams, November 6-7, 10:00am - 5:00pm, LCC Building 11, Room 119. 

Explore the elusive creative space between care and wild abandon as a way to invite the magic of fall into the making of a book. The workshop will begin by working with pure color to create beautiful shimmering paper surfaces.Wild flora will be used for inspiration and as tools for drawing and painting in both traditional and non-traditional ways. Once dry, our paper will have a surface wonderfully primed for building additional layers of drawing, painting and writing. Directed experiments will dance between the careful and the out of control, using watercolor, ink, gouache, pencil and pastel to develop imagery and content. Finally, all will come together as the work is bound into accordion-folded structures, full of autumn magic. Color mixing understanding is helpful, though not required.  All levels welcome, beginning to advanced.

Andie Thrams is a California-based visual artist working in painting andt he book arts. Her lifelong devotion to creative work in wilderness locations,especially within the pages of her field journals, has evolved into the artist’sbooks and paintings now held in prominent private and public collections.

Two scholarships are available for 3/4 of the tuition. To be considered, email the following to Robert Canaga at rcanaga@gmail.com. •Briefly explain your interest in art. • Is this workshop affordable to you without the scholarship? Sponsorship is provded by the Canaga-Lawrence Scholarship.

$75 for registered Lane students; $100 community at large (Includes$20 materials fee).  Class limit, 12 students. Registration deadline, October 29.

Contact:  Susan Lowdermilk, 541-463-3425 or the Art and Applied Design office, 541-463-5409.

Ellen Currans Ceramics Workshop - May 17

Local Clay is hosting a ceramics workshop by Ellen Currans at the LCC Ceramics Studio on May 17, Sunday, 10:00 am -4:00 pm.

Ellen Currans speciality is slab-built ceramic dishes with impressed textures. She makes pieces that people use for everyday dishes. The pots and platters make sense in the lives of the people who use them and impart dignity and beauty to the presentation of food. Currans grew up in the Okanogan Valley of north central Washington, studied at the University of Washington, and settled in Oregon with her husband in 1965.

The LCC Ceramics Studio is located in Building 11 on the main campus of Lane Community College in Eugene, Oregon. For more information about Currans' workshop, contact LCC ceramics instructor, Tom Rohr at 643-5417.

Copper Engraving - Printmaking Workshop - May 9-10

Printmaker John Salang will present a Copper Engraving Printmaking Workshop, May 9-10, in the LCC Printmaking Studio.

John Saling began studying printmaking in 1964 and has focused on engravings for the last 30 years. John’s work reflects his dramatic and structural use of line. Textures spring from direct work on the plate. "Each edition that I produce reflects a chosen engraving method, a type and combination of lines, and a specific size, all part of the considered vocabulary for a particular image." He is a graduate of Cornish School of Allied Arts in Seattle, WA., and has attended The Society of Arts and Crafts in Detroit, MI., and Pratt Graphic Art Center in New York City.

In this workshop John will demonstrate engraving, show original prints in a number of styles, and present a condensed history of the technique. We will review the use of engraving tools. Burins will be sized to individual users and sharpened in preparation to engrave on copper plates. This class will prepare students to create and develop their own engravings. During the workshop, students will design, create and print their own engraving from a copper plate.

The workshop will be held on May 9-10, 9:00 am -4:00 pm, in the Printmaking Studio, Building 10, Room 200 on the LCC main campus, 4000 East 30th Avenue, Eugene, OR 97405. The cost is $60 for LCC students and staff, $90 for community members, with a $30 materials fee.

Scholarships are available sponsored by the Canaga-Lawrence Scholarship.

The registration deadline is May 1. For more information about the workshop and scholarship and to register contact Susan Lowdermilk at 541-463-5413 or lowdermilks@ lanecc.edu.

Collagraph Printmaking with Jody Dunphy, Feb. 7-8

A Collagraph Printmaking Workshop with Jody Dunphy was held on February 7-8 in the LCC Printmaking Studio. An intensely rich, organic image quality and immediacy in working with the plate are the defining characteristic of this intaglio process. Collagraph is extremely versatile, allowing for the incorporation of found objects, drawing, painting, and/or relief.

Jody Dunphy is an artist and printmaker specializing in collagraph and combined printmaking processes. Her choice of materials and mode or working yields intensely layered, organic, reverent works of art. Jody creates her prints on a vintage, hand-made press in her home-studio in Eugene. For more information, contact Susan Lowdermilk, 463-5413.

Artist Book & Pop-up Basics Workshop

Susan Lowdermilk, book artist and printmaker will present an "Artist Book and Pop-Up Basics" workshop at the Eugene Textile Center. The workshop will be held on Saturday, February 21, 
10 am to 4 pm.

The workshop will include a presentation of artist books from Susan’s collection. Students will create a variety of basic folded and stitched book structures and pop-ups. The goal is to learn beginning skills and binding styles, enough to charge your imagination to start creating your own books.

An artist book differs from a typical book in that the book is not merely a container for art, but is designed, conceived and created by the artist as an art form in itself. The viewer is encouraged to touch, explore and take a journey as they experience an artist book. Artist books often use text and/or images. However some artists’ books are solely conceptual. As a book artist, you are your own author, artist/illustrator, typographer, printer and binder.

The Eugene Textile Center is located at 1510 Jacobs Drive, Eugene, Oregon 97402. To register, contact ETC at 541-688-1565
or by email at info@eugenetextilecenter.com. The workshop cost is $60 + $10 materials fee. For more information, contact Susan Lowdermilk, 541.463.5413.

Brad Mildrexler Sculpture Workshop

Brad Mildrexler will be giving a sculpture workshop in the Ceramics Studio in Building 11 at Lane Community College on Saturday, January 31, 10 am to 4 pm.

Mildrexler describes his large ceramic wall reliefs as "abstract expressions in textural form." Gallery owner Jack Walsh says that "Brad is truly respected in the ceramics worls - he's an artist, not because of the clay, but because he uses the clay as a vehicle to express modern ideas."

For more information contact Local Clay at 541.466.5635 or by email at flashpointartworks@gmail.com. At LCC, contact Tom Rohr at 541,463-5417.

Handbuilding: Tricks of the Trade - Vince Pitelka Workshop

Vince Pitelka offered a workshop titled “Handbuilding: Tricks of the Trade” on August 7-11, 2007, at Lane Community College.

Workshop Description - Our objective is to get you to handbuild with a sense of adventure and discovery. We will explore unusual ways of approaching pinch, coil, and slab construction in order to develop a particular mind set, an adventurous inclination to use handbuilt forms in new ways, opening up the possibility of original form inaccessible through more traditional approaches. Although our primary concerns are design and construction, we will bisque-fire as much work as possible so that it can be transported safely. We will have a number of slide shows to introduce a broad range of historical and contemporary handbuilt form and technique. I encourage you to bring samples, slides, or photos of your work to share with the group.
For information, contact Tom Rohr at rohrt@lanecc.edu or 541.463.5417.