FOUND OBJECT WELDED SCULPTURE
mi Chelle Vara
July 3rd - 6th
1pm - 4pm
$280 + $50 lab fee
CANCELLED
Load your car trunk, pack your truck with weldable junk and be prepared for the exciting experience of creation using balance and form. Staff and equipment available for this artistic growth endeavor.
CAST IRON WORKSHOP, SESSION II
Felicia Glidden
July 11th - July 20th
IRON POUR JULY 19, 2008 11am - 6pm
$720
CANCELLED
In this 10 day residency workshop, participants will learn to make resin bonded sand molds to create cast iron sculptures. The workshop includes demonstrations throughout the week in making two or more part sand molds. We will begin with a discussion of projects the participants will be making and will continue with individual instruction as to how to create the sculptures intended. Participants will be involved with all aspects of mold making, breaking iron and coke (fuel), culminating in an iron pour. This process is rigorous and demanding, but no one will be required to do work beyond his or her capacity. Each participant is allotted up to 100 pounds of metal. No previous casting experience required
NONTRADITIONAL PRINTMAKING BY HAND, SESSION I
Ruth Sauer
July 15, 16 + 17
10am - Noon
$45
Ages 5 - 12
CANCELLED
In this hands-on workshop, young artists will explore a variety of printmaking methods and media with Salem artist, Ruth Sauer. Students will experiment with acrylic paints, printing ink, water-soluble crayons, and/or watercolors and use a variety of shapes they make from cardboard, wood, paper and found objects to make unusual, exciting, one-of-a-kind prints to share with friends and family. When registering, please note whether you are interested in the July or August session.
DRAWING
Stella Ehrich
July 20 – 23
2 – 5pm
$120
Students participating in SAW’s unique drawing class will study and learn directly from the breathtaking views surrounding Salem Art Works. The class will focus on the fundamentals of drawing: proportion, composition, quality of leine, and tone, with special attention paid to individual needs through one-on-one instruction. Students will be encouraged to explore the components of drawing that are most relevant to them and their personal work. This class is recommended for students at a variety of levels, beginner – advanced, ages 16 and up. Participants can work in the drawing medium of their choice. Vine charcoal is recommended for beginners.
Interested students may continue with plein-air painting, with one day of overlap.
WRITER’S RESIDENCY
Grayson Currin
July 8th – 18th
9am – 1pm with additional hours working independently
$525
CANCELLED
You’ve generally considered free writing as a cure or as an exploratory form. But what if we reconsider the freedom principle in free writing, recognizing that it’s acceptable to start with an idea, write at will, investigate the results and use those findings to build a document that’s seen neither as the precipitate of panacea nor as the ephemera of experimentation. Participants will study both freedom in music and literature before writing, reading, rethinking and rebuilding their own free writing on several topics of personal interest. Rustic accommodations will be provided as well as board for this 10-day residency.
SOUND, OBJECT, AND ACTION
Jason Sanford, Daniel Boucher + Mark Pearson
July 12th – 18th
9:30am – 12:30pm
$225 + $75 materials fee
CANCELLED
Students will have the opportunity to work alongside the members of the internationally-touring experimental musical group, Neptune. Sound can be an art form by itself, but it is also a connecting principle between object and action; sculpture and performance.
Topics addressed during the workshop will include:
•Sound, what it is and how it affects us
•Approaches to percussion
•Beginning experimental instrument construction
•Elementary electronic and amplification techniques
•Sound composition
•Sound performance
•Working in collaboration or as part of an ensemble
•Found sound
•Site-specific sound
•The limits of music
•Sound and narrative
A variety of concept-based assignments will be given. Students will keep a sound-journal of their thoughts and observations. Though some documentary efforts may be made, this is not a workshop about recording. SOUND, OBJECT, AND ACTION, is about eliciting real sounds from actual source objects and constructions in a direct and performative way.
PLEIN-AIR PAINTING
Harry Orlyk
July 23 - 25
7am - Noon
$180
In this early morning, plein-air painting workshop students will paint on the hill behind SAW, which provides stunning sunrise views over Bear Mountain, White Creek Valley and the Village of Salem. Students should bring a paint kit, preferably oil, six ready-to-use canvases of various sizes, one – two larger canvases and brushes of the same size. The paint kit should contain a full spectrum of primary and secondary colors plus titanium white and iron temperament.