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   Painting Improvisations:

 A Visual Jazz Exploration

   with Joanne Ruggles

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jfiduMonday - Friday, August 11th - 15th

9:00am to 4:00pm

(with one hour break at noon)

$325 Members/ $375 Non-members

Registration Deadline  is June 15th

Joanne Ruggles is a Professor Emeritus of Studio Art at California Polytechnic State University.  She is teaching a new workshop looking at the shared language and processes of music and the visual arts.  Visual artists can learn valuable lessons from jazz musicians whose creations depend on exploration, improvisation, and collaboration.  In this workshop participants will be led though a series of words that build the skills needed for risk-taking in the arts.  Whether your artistic interests fall into areas of landscape, figurative or still life - there will be something for everyone to gain from this workshop.

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Fibers Workshop:

Abstraction on The Surface (1)

With Jan Rickman

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August 2nd   9am - 4pm

(one hour break  for lunch)

Tuition Member $75/ Non- Member $85

 ($20 material fee to be paid first day of  class to the Instructor)

registration deadline is July 22nd

In this full day workshop, students will create a small abstract fiber wall piece.  Discovery of the unique design effects that can be created on fabric will open up each student's imagination and reveal the unlimited possibilities in composition.

In the morning session they will explore techniques of surface design, using acrylic paint applied to hand-dyed fabric by various methods.  Students will use brushes, sponges, foliage, mono printing and found objects to apply paint.  A piece  will be completed in the afternoon session with one's own individual surface design  and the fusing techniques  explored in the morning session.  

Color balance will be addressed.  No sewing machine is required.  Kit  $20.00 (includes variety of hand-dyed cotton fabric to use for the project, plus a descriptive handout of the class.  Students must provide items on supply list that is available at The Art Center front desk.

Rickman's work has been shown at the Textile Museum in Washington, DC; as well as galleries in Telluride, Baltimore, San Diego to just name a few.

Jan Rickman will be the sole juror for AQUA's ( Art Quilters Association) exhibit in

August of 2008 at The Art Center of Western Colorado.

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Functional Pots,

 Aesthetics of Form and Function

 Summer Workshop with Peg Malloy

July 25th- July 27th

Tuition Members 150.00/  Non- Members 175.00

Deadline for Registration July 1st, 2008

Friday, July 25th  5:30pm - 7:30pm slide show

Sat & Sunday, July 26th and July 27th - lecture and demonstrations (throwing and altering)

Peg Malloy, with over 30 years in a career as a studio potter, is highly acclaimed as an artist.  Peg was awarded First Place, in the functional category, at the 2006 Biennial Contemporary Clay Exhibit hosted by The Art Center.  

Currently most of Peg's work focuses on wood-fired functional stoneware, fired in a Bourry Box style kiln.  While satisfying function, her forms resonate with a tactile and visual sensuous quality.  She has an uncanny ability to alter symmetry while retaining a fictional stance.  Much of her work is blushed with the warm glow of shading from natural fly ash of the wood fire.  During her workshop, Peg will demonstrate her throwing and altering techniques for creating pitchers, bowls, cups, baskets and other functional forms.  She will guide students through a hands-on session of handle making and application to form on the second day.  Dialogue on glazes, slips and decorative techniques and kiln design and firing will be covered.

Peg Malloy pitcher and cup set

A Three Day Workshop with Roger McCoy:

Drawing and Painting the Figure From Life

Friday August 1st - Sunday August 3rd

9am- 12pm

$150 Member/ $180 Non-member

Deadline for Membership Discount is July 1st

Roger McCoy has taught at the Dallas Museum of Art, The Colorado Institute of Art and is currently teaching at Mesa State College.  1987 - 1999 Roger was the Vice President and Dean of  Education at The Dallas Institute of Art.  Mirror Image was a solo exhibit  at The Art Center in 2006, in which McCoy's dynamic large scale figurative work took command of the North Gallery.  He is masterful at applying mark and color in both a lose and specific manner.  This workshop is not recommended for beginners.  Roger will leave it up to the individual as to which of these three mediums they prefer;  pastel, vine charcoal or oils.  There will be a suggested materials list for oil painters mailed to you or available at the front desk of  the Art Center with Carolyn or Maxine.  There is also an Art Center Copy of  the Mirror Image catalog at the front desk of the Art Center.  Please feel free to get to know the work and artistic approaches of this dynamic instructor by  thumbing through this exhibition catalog.