STUDIO CLASSES JULY - AUGUST 2008
Summer 08 Program now online!



STUDIOS SUMMER 2008
Study to be intrigued, involved and to have fun! Enjoy taking studios for the joy of learning and creating.  Consider earning college credits or Educators Professional Development Points. Your studio enrollment includes admission to Wednesday Evening Lecture Series, all school critiques, use of NISDA studios and figure studio on Thursday Evening.

Studios are open to enrolled students 9:30 AM - MIDNIGHT, except when classes and special events are in session.

Please note that Programs and Schedules are subject to change.
*Optional opportunity. Required by College Credit Students.



PAINTING “EN PLEIN AIR” AND STUDIO
Tuesday + Friday 9:00am - noon
includes*: Core Class, Tues. 1 - 4pm
Think Tank + Critiques, Tues. 4:30 - 6pm
and Lecture Series Wednesdays 8 pm

The Nantucket landscape will be our setting for in-depth exploration. We will paint and draw in the landscape and studio to expand perceptions and develop an alliance with intuitive creativity. Site trips will range from Altar Rock heathlands to harbor and hidden forest, in studio on rainy or windy days. Core Seminar Art-in-the-Environment nature / landscape experiences in pattern and natural phenomena will inform and provide resource and inspiration. Readings, exercises, discussion on artists, techniques and artmaking and critiques will augment our landscape drawing and painting. Explore the creative process using tools and media of your choice: oils, acrylics, watercolors, and pastels. Fruitful instruction and guidance for beginners and those more experienced. Your enrollment includes Figure Studio on Thursday evening.




CERAMICS WHEEL:
FUNCTIONAL AND EXPERIMENTAL
Monday + Thursday 1:00pm - 4:30pm
plus assigned personal studio time

Experience the expressive and powerful nature of clay and the satisfaction of working on the potter’s wheel. Learn the basic and intermediate techniques of wheel throwing, centering, properties of clay and their adaptation to the wheel. Explore the structural and surface pattern opportunities possible with hand building manipulation. We will experiment with glazes, application, slips, scraffito surface decoration. Class includes low fire glazing and other applications to firing. Students may focus on functional vessels, dinnerware, teapots as well as experiment with sculptural forms intended for interior, gardens or landscape site installation.




CERAMIC HAND BUILDING:
CLAY VESSELS AND SCULPTURE
Wednesday + Friday 1:00 - 4:30 pm
plus assigned personal studio time

Explores the process of creating 3D ceramic work. The process of form and image-making will draw inspiration from exercises in clay studio and in the AIE Program’s Creativity and Design. Ongoing discussions will relate artists clay works to places, traditions, cultures and earthworks around the globe. Exercises will utilize coil, slab and pinch methods of hand building clay in the making of functional pieces as well as sculptural form. Your focus may be on the practical to the abstract nonfunctional object making. We will learn the basics of glazing and surface manipulation. Participants that have wheel-throwing experience are welcome to work on the wheel independently and perhaps integrate thrown and hand built forms into their work.

Tuition includes in-class workshop materials and defined class firings. Additional clay may be purchased as well as firings arranged with instructor.




FIBERARTS AND TEXTILES
Thursday and Friday 9:00 - 1:00pm
includes*: Core Class, Tues. 1 - 4pm
Think Tank + Critiques, Tues. 4:30 - 6:00pm
and Lecture Series Wednesdays 8:00pm

Exploration of the multifaceted potentials for the fiberarts as media for contemporary sculptural expression, environmental arts and traditional uses in garments, cloth, and surface design. Students may choose an aesthetic fine arts focus or concentrate on gaining technical skills towards developing textile designs, logos or a portfolio. Individual design development of personal symbols and surface pattern will be directly related to and inspired by the perception ideas and explorations in The AIE Program’s Creativity & Design: Landscape Perceptions Course. Workshops demonstrations included are: Direct Dye Application exploring surface design on fabric through direct (non-immersion) dye techniques including brush, stamping & monoprint techniques including frottage and heat transfer images. A Silk Painting workshop exploring the unique and spontaneous qualities of direct painting and printing on silk. Embellishment Workshop exploring traditional and experimental embellishment, stitchery techniques such as trapunto chain stitch, appliqué, punch needle as well as beading and objects ornamentation. Quilting workshop will explore creative uses of traditional and non-traditional quilting materials, formats and techniques including patchwork, appliqué and reverse appliqué and their application to cloth as well as in sculptural works. Studio design resources will provide information and inspiration. Textile techniques, their ornamental and functional use seen in Japan, Indonesia and other cultures around the world will be explored. Classroom experimentation in pattern making and fabric design, resist dyeing methods, direct painting, stamping, stenciling, and ornamental embellishment along with individual project focus will culminate lots of great sample experiments, personal traditional textile cloth and perhaps a sculptural fiber work or placement in the landscape or in NISDA’s Silo Garden Gallery!




DESIGN FOUNDATIONS
Monday + Thursday 4:00 - 7:00pm
includes*: Core Class, Tues., 1 - 4pm
Think Tank + Critiques, Tues., 4:30 - 6:00pm and Lecture Series Wednesday 8:00pm

Students will experiment with many different sources and techniques for the exploration and creation of two-dimensional design. You will develop designs from basic, simple images to more complex designs while investigating composition, value, line, color, texture, through experimentation with a variety of media: pen, brush and ink, charcoal, pencil, pastel and paints. In addition to individual class and school critiques, an integral aspect of this course is participation in the core seminar: Art in the Environment. Class projects will incorporate individual expressions, responses and extensions of A.I.E. seminar and design assignments. The environment, whether natural or manmade, is an endless resource of the elements and principles of design. We will explore composition in spontaneous, collaborative and unconventional ways. Designs realized are applicable in technique studios: Clay, Textile, Photo, Jewelry and Painting.

This course is recommended for those seeking a design foundation as well as students working on portfolio development for college admission. In class workshop supplies provided are: music, colored pencils, watercolors, India ink, brushes, heavy weight, graph, and roll paper, basic equipment and library references. Please bring a large sketchbook (12” x 18” or larger), pencil, glue stick, black felt tip pens (1 fine and 1 medium) and tracing paper.




CREATIVITY THINK TANK AND CRITIQUES
Tuesdays 4:30 - 6:00pm
Explore Art as change agent, perceptive path, educator, communicator, personal, cultural and community Celebrator. Explore art for arts sake, and powerful, largely latent arts stewardship potential. A time for artists, thinkers and creators to consider compelling ideas, exercises, images, realities, networks as well as critiques of site works concept drawings and installations and Textiles, Clay, Photography, Paintings realized in studio.




OPEN FIGURE STUDIO:
DRAWING, PASTELS, PAINTING AND SCULPTURE
Thursday, 8:00 - 10:00pm
Community Drop-ins Welcome!

A studio evening to draw, sculpt or paint from the clothed and nude figure. Ultimately, there is no better way to learn and master the very challenging, yet rewarding rendering of the human figure.
No admissions fee for those enrolled in
NISDA courses or workshops!




PHOTOGRAPHIC EXPLORATION:
DARKROOM + ALTERNATIVE TECHNIQUES
Monday + Thursday, 6 - 9pm
plus darkroom use
includes*: Core Class, Tues., 1 - 4pm
Think Tank + Critiques, Tues., 4:30 - 6:00pm
and Lecture Series Wednesday 8:00pm

An opportunity to develop personal imagery, use of camera and to work in the darkroom gaining basic technical knowledge. Projects are designed to stimulate personal and landscape imagery resources to facilitate the creation of photographs include studio and site demonstrations while on trips into landscape, ideas, and techniques for optimum use of capacities of the camera and darkroom. We will be selective yet imaginative in documenting the ongoing facets of Nantucket’s environment… textures, light, sea and landscapes… capturing the emotion, action and place… the living detail. This course will further the knowledge of basic photographic techniques with focus on time exposure, night shooting, photographing motion and their possible use with the alternative techniques of hand coloring, toning and collage to personalize photographic images. Instruction on film development, use of enlargers and proof sheets, printing darkroom and chemical use. Core design workshops and assignments will be given to encourage a broadening of student perception. Students will create sequential images combining traditional and alternative photographic techniques as well as ideas for photographic inspired landscape installation site works. A personal 35mm camera and/or digital camera is required.




JEWELRY MAKING
Monday + Thursday 1:00 - 4:30pm
includes*: Core Class, Tues., 1 - 4pm
Think Tank + Critiques, Tues., 4:30 - 6:00pm
and Lecture Series Wednesday 8:00pm

Embellish a stone, found object or collectible. An opportunity to learn and explore the process of jewelry making. This course is an introduction to learning basic jewelry making techniques. These include sawing, hand forming and fabrication, soldering and fusing, stone setting, and surface treatment. Students will combine these classical jewelry-making skills with creative design to make a unique piece of jewelry. Students are encouraged to bring their own stones, shells, found objects, buttons, etc. to use. Small scale is best. Bring bag snack! Wear layered comfortable work clothes. Lab fee covers in-class project materials and tools plus assigned monitored studio use throughout week. Instructor has compiled a suggested list of tools and supplies to bring to class and to begin your own materials and tools set-up for continuing your work.

A GENERAL NOTE ON LAB FEE COVERS
Lab fees for all studios cover materials for in-class workshops, students will be given a supplement optional supply list at first meeting. There is often additional specialized materials available for purchase from instructor



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