September at the Arkansas Craft School September 1 -31, 2015, Mountain View, AR
The Arkansas Craft School announces its fall craft and visual arts workshops. Creative Community Classes begin in September, offering extended classes with low cost tuitions. As always our teachers are the finest encouraging students to unleash their creative spirits.
Here’s the lineup of our Creative Community Classes…
SEPTEMBER 1-25 . Tues & Thurs 6-8:30 pm: WEB DESIGN with SHAWN HOEFER
This month long workshop, also part of our Business of Craft series, will guide you through the process of creating your own functional website that can be easily maintained. Requirements are minimal… Basic computer skills, a credit card or Paypal account to register domain names, a digital camera along with some pieces of your work to photograph – (smartphone cameras are acceptable), and a Wi-Fi enabled laptop, notebook, or netbook that will hold a charge for at least an hour. You will be provided with a flash drive containing the majority of the software needed
. Location: Ozarka College . Tuition: $275 . 8 21/2 hour classes
September 2-4 . 6:00 – 9:00 PM . PRODUCT PHOTOGRAPHY with ED ALEXANDER
Part of the Arkansas Craft School’s Business of Craft series, this course is designed to instruct craft artisans in taking professional photographs of their own work. The quality of the photograph is equally important to the quality of the artwork itself, and a professional portfolio is a must for presenting art for submission to art shows, galleries, and publications. This workshop will cover, setting and backgrounds, correct lighting and use of flash, detail photographs, color correction, processing and transferring to CD. Individual instruction will be provided for applying the appropriate techniques for each student’s specific artwork.
. Location: Ozarka College . Tuition: $100 .
October 6 – Nov 23, Tuesday 1:00 – 4:30 PM: 8 WEEKS OF CLAY with David Dahlstedt
Learn to throw on the potter’s wheel, to hand build, fire and glaze or spend this time improving your techniques under the guidance of a master. David’s work may be found in numerous public and private collections around the country, including the permanent collection of the Arkansas Arts Center, where he received the purchase award in the Regional Craft Biennial.
.Location: Arkansas Craft School .Materials Fee: $15 .Tuition: $280 .
Here are our Fall Weekend Workshops…
September 4-6: BEGINNING WEAVING ON A FOUR HARNESS LOOM with CYNTHIA COX
Try your hand your wall using colorful patterns and weaving a twill color gamp…. the best tool for studying color and pattern interactions in the weaver’s world.
Cynthia Cox considers weaving “warm and inviting”. She loves it for its texture, color, pattern, usefulness, uselessness, fashion and fun. She began weaving 34 years ago on a rigid heddle loom. Then moved to a floor loom, to refining her techniques, allow more intricate patterns and finer yarns. Cynthia is a member of the NW Arkansas Hand weavers Guild and the Arkansas Craft Guild. She exhibits and sells her work throughout Arkansas and surrounding states.
. Location: TBA in Mountain View . Materials fee: $35 . Tuition: $250.00 .
September 11-13: INTRODUCTION TO WOODTURNING with KIP POWERS
If you have ever wanted to learn to turn wood on a lathe, then here is a workshop for you! This introduction to woodturning will cover the equipment, tools, safety, and techniques used in the art of woodturning. By warming up with a simple spindle project, students will prepare to then move on to turning bowls and plates.
Kip Powers is the founder and past president of Stateline Woodturners, a chapter of the AAW. This award-winning turner is known primarily for his small to moderate scale one-off turnings, usually from domestic American woods
. Location: Arkansas Craft School . Materials fee: $10-$25 . Tuition: $250 .
September 16 – 18: NATURAL EDGE BOWLS AND VESSELS with GENE SPARLING
Explore how to make various styles of natural edge bowls, pots, and vessels – from regular natural edge open bowls to enclosed pot forms – from green logs, on the lathe.
Gene Sparling is a professional wood turning artist who lives in, and has a studio and gallery in the Ouachita Mountains, just outside Hot Springs National Park Arkansas. He creates wooden furniture, sculpture, and turned bowls, which include dough bowls, and bowls which appear to be elliptical in shape. His work is sold throughout Arkansas and neighboring states.
. Location: Arkansas Craft School . Materials fee: $25-$40 . Tuition: $250 .
Coming In October . . .
October 2 – 4: BEGINNING CERAMICS – WHEEL THROWING with DAVID DAHLSTEDT
October 9–11: INTRODUCTION TO TAPESTRY WEAVING with JENNIFER SARGENT
October 16 – 18: BEGINNING BLADESMITHING with JIM CROWELL
§ November 5 at 6:30 pm: !GALA FUNDRAISER!
§ November 6 – 8: Precious Metal Clay and Glass with Sage Holland
§ November 7 – 9: Basic Blacksmithing with Bob Patrick
For more information on these and other classes visit…
Arkansas Craft School’s website, www.arkansascraftschool.org
here you can learn more about these and other upcoming classes. Find registration forms, and information about scholarships as well as scholarship application forms. Students may also sign up for classes by calling Lucia Vinograd at (870) 269-8397.
