Cleveland Institute of Art Teacher Workshops
Pattern+ Texture Reconnect with your artistic side and develop new techniques and ideas that you can take back to the classroom. Earn CEUs or graduate workshop credit, network with other educators, and enhance your skills in digital arts, craft, design, and fine arts.
Saturday, October 19 9am–4pm
Sat Oct 19 9am–4pm
Jewelry + Metals: Die-Forms and Patterns
Traditional Paper Marbling
Ceramic Surface Treatment
Register by Monday, October 7
This workshop will introduce the basics of making and using dies, and the creation of patterned metal, to create beautiful forms for jewelry, accessories, and functional objects. Die-forming is a simple, immediate, and controlled method of producing forms that can be manipulated with ease and great variation, the extent of which is the product of three basic variables: material, pattern, and form.
Marbling is the technique of transferring paint suspended on water to another surface, traditionally paper. In this intensive workshop, students will learn the essentials of marbling with acrylic paints: how to set up a marbling station, how to prepare their paper, and how to recreate unique marbling patterns. This class will also cover the Japanese method of marbling called suminagashi.
This workshop will cover several different approaches to surface embellishment using readily available commercial ceramic products (underglazes, glazes, decals) to create rich and interesting textures. Lofton will demonstrate slip trailing, sgraffito, burnishing, stamping, carving, mono printing, faceting, and more. Participants will create tiles, and small objects, to experiment with these concepts.
Matthew Hollern is Professor in Jewelry + Metals at CIA where he has taught for over 25 years. His work has been exhibited throughout the United States and Europe and is included in public and private collections including the Smithsonian American Art Museum, Design Museo Helsinki, the Vatican Archives, the Ohio Crafts Museum, and others. cia.edu/hollern
A native of Akron, Claire Marks has spent the past several years immersing herself in the mesmerizing world of paper marbling. Her prints have been exhibited widely, including the Morgan Conservatory, Summit Artspace, and the John F. Seiberling Gallery. Marks sells her marbled paper and hand-bound books locally through her business Peaceable Kingdom Books. IG: peaceablekingdom_books
Lynne Norwood Lofton has been a ceramics artist and teacher for over 35 years, exhibiting in galleries through the Midwest. Sixteen years ago, Lynne founded TerraVista Studios in the Cleveland Arts Quarter, and has been working there ever since. terravistastudios.com
Registration form can be downloaded, or register online at cia.edu/teacherworkshops or by calling 216.421.7460.
Graduate credit Educators can receive one graduate workshop credit through our partnership with Ursuline College. There is an additional research/writing assignment and $140 fee for this option. More information will be sent once we receive your registration form. Cover image: Claire Marks
Explorations in Monoprint
Traced Objects and Tessellations
Wool Felting
Pattern + Texture in Fused Glass
Embrace your experimental side while mastering essential printmaking skills. In this workshop you will learn various methods of creating a monoprint, which include: direct painting, stencils and stamps, pressure printing, chine-collé, and photo transfer techniques. We will cover press use, as well as techniques that can be used without a press. Participants will create their own suite of monoprints.
Explore patterns through the use of everyday objects, as an introduction to tessellation. We will focus on drawing and collage exercises that can be integrated into any classroom or curriculum. These methods will help to develop a sense of resourcefulness alongside academic rigor, and reinforce the idea of ‘play.’ We will discuss how pattern can be applied to projects such as 3D objects.
Felt from wool is considered to be the oldest known textile. In this one-day workshop, participants will learn how to wet felt yardage, three-dimensional forms, and pattern/imagery that will open endless possibilities. Demonstrations, historical foundation, and sample production will take place in the morning, with individual projects in the afternoon.
We will explore oven casting with colored fusible glass. Both sides of a piece of glass will be considered to create patterns and texture. Sheet glass, powders and frit will be cut and stacked over castable to create new and interesting objects.
Stevie Lee Tanner has exhibited in the US and abroad, including shows at The Fleisher Center for Works on Paper in Philadelphia, PA, the Delaware Center for Contemporary Art in Wilmington, and Kunstraum Tapir in Berlin, Germany. She is the Technical Specialist & Shop Manager in CIA’s Printmaking department. stevieleetanner.carbonmade.com
Natalie Petrosky received her Masters of Fine Arts in Painting & Drawing at the University of Tennessee and her Bachelor of Fine Arts in Painting with an Honors Thesis in Glass from the School of Art at Kent State University in Kent, OH. Natalie was born and raised in Akron, OH. nataliepetrosky.com
Erin Duhigg is a visual artist whose work encompasses sculptural objects, performance, installation, and text. Her practice is invested in questioning the role trust and belief play as social contracts. She holds a BFA in Sculpture from the Cleveland Institute of Art and an MFA in Visual Art from Washington University in St. Louis. erinduhigg.com
Steve Leetch has an MFA in Glass from Rochester Institute of Technology and a BFA in Glass from the Ohio State University. He has been exploring glass for over 25 years and runs a specialty glass shop along with his wife in Avon Lake, Ohio. shortlineglass.com
11610 Euclid Avenue Cleveland, OH 44106
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