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Students to Artists: Teaching Professional Practices in the Classroom What does it really take to go from talented student to working artist? What do you tell skeptical parents? This discussion-based workshop is aimed at teachers who want to help students understand that art can be a career, and will go over how to encourage the developing artist to present and promote their work, get involved in the art community, and understand what it means to be a working artist today. Teachers will leave the workshop with handouts and lesson plans to integrate career planning into their curriculum. Mary Urbas has 38 years experience in the professional art world as a gallery owner, curator, teacher, consultant, and exhibiting fiber artist, bringing a real-world perspective to the business and marketing of art. In 1997 she opened The Gallery in Chagrin Falls featuring contemporary fine art + crafts. Urbas became the Curator and Assistant Director at the Valley Art Center in 2001, where she taught adults and children, before becoming the Gallery Coordinator and Exhibition Curator at Lakeland Community College in 2005. Urbas earned a BFA from CIA majoring in Textile Design.
Teacher Workshops: ArtWORKS Our daylong workshops offer a relaxed atmosphere for networking with your peers while enhancing cross-curricular skills in fine art, design, craft and digital media.
Explore the range of opportunities for art as a career. Workshops will focus on developing skills in the applied arts and commercial fields.
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Saturday, April 21, 2018 9am–4pm
Cleveland Institute of Art 11610 Euclid Avenue Cleveland, OH 44106
216.421.7460 cia.edu
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Contemporary Commercial Photography This workshop will introduce teachers to the life of a contemporary advertising, commercial, and fine art photographer. Taking place at Keith Berr’s midtown Cleveland home and photo studio, teachers will get a glimpse of life as a full-time photographer. The workshop will include an overview of today’s digital cameras, utilizing the fundamentals of manual operation and taking control of aperture, shutter speed and ISO to influence your photographic vision. The afternoon will challenge each teacher to get creative and help develop an eye for what makes a great photo. When you switch on a camera you should never just mindlessly take a photo. Our theme of the day will be “If you can see light you can shoot anything.” Keith Berr is an international advertising, commercial and fine art photographer. He has recently custom designed and built a modern live/work compound in Cleveland’s Asia town. Current projects have included campaigns for AT&T, Verizon, Newell Rubbermaid, Aldi, Invacare, McDonalds, Kay and Zale’s Jewelers, Timken Steel, and University Hospitals. The American Society of Media Photographers’ has selected Barr as one of the top 10 photographers in the United States.
Introduction to Game Design Learn to integrate game design in your classroom with this fun, hands-on crash course in game design using the powerful “AAA” game engine Unreal Engine 4. You will learn the basics on how a 2D game level is constructed while building a basic “Mario Brothers”-style side scroller. You will be provided with pre-made assets and will learn how to create interactions using “blueprints,” and Unreal’s visual scripting interface that allows artists and designers to more easily code interactions. No prior programming knowledge will be needed for this course, and all skill levels are welcome! Harrison Walsh has been teaching game design and digital arts for the past seven years at the Cleveland Institute of Art, Hocking Technical College, and Cuyahoga Community College. He teaches courses ranging from 3D modeling, texturing and lighting, compositing, sound design, virtual reality, and digital art foundations. Walsh freelances in the film industry working in both the production and art departments with credits including films “Draft Day,” “My Blind Brother,” “My Friend Dahmer,” “Legacy,” and the ESPN documentary series film “30 for 30: Believeland.”
Noteworthy Portfolios: Personal + Universal
Communion with the Universe by JenMarie Zeleznak
Establishing a visual vocabulary to develop a body of work is most successful when connected to larger universal themes that others can identify with. Discover the visual vocabulary of a variety of contemporary artists while reflecting on personal experiences that will lead you to studio time to explore visual language through drawing and/or painting. At the end of the day, we will view the creations to discuss how each work can be understood and related to through verbal and written exercises. This workshop will introduce you to artists that you can take back to your classroom, informing your ability to help shape your students’ college portfolios, and help focus the conceptual side of your own personal practice. JenMarie Zeleznak’s work is introspective, concerned with emotional and spiritual experience, using the animal as an emblem for the human condition. JenMarie is represented by Visions West Contemporary in Denver, Colorado and Diehl Gallery in Jackson, Wyoming. Her work has been featured in American Art Collector, Art Galleries and Artists of the South, Savannah Homes, Southwest Art, and Images West. Zeleznak teaches at Lakeland Community College and Youngstown State University.
Figure Drawing: Underneath It All As a medical illustrator, drawing the figure isn’t enough. Understanding what makes up the structure, the substance, of the form solidifies a good illustration. How does our underlying structure support a believable figure? What are the prominent anatomical markers in the human form? Where are the common mistakes, the assumptions that we draw without really looking at the figure? This workshop will address these questions with a figure drawing studio session, and include an in-depth discussion of medical illustration as a career, how to integrate medical illustration into your classroom practices, and how it relates to other scientific and biological topics. Beth Halasz, MFA CMI, teaches full time at CIA in the Biomedical Art department while maintaining her freelance medical illustration business. She worked as a freelance artist for clients in the medical and equestrian veterinary fields, a casting technician at the Cleveland Museum of Natural History, a finish artist at American Greetings and a number of medical, veterinary and scientific publications. Halasz worked for 14 years at Cleveland Clinic as a medical illustrator. Halasz earned a BFA and MFA in Medical Illustration.