PSAD Workshops 2016

SUMMER 2016

MASTER ARTISTS WORKSHOPS Ceramics • Jewelry and Metals Paducah School of Art and Design West Kentucky Community and Technical College

Tim Lazure Yoshi Fujii Elaine Henry Jill Baker Gower Sunshine Cobb

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KENTUCKY COMMUNITY AND TECHNICAL COLLEGE SYSTEM

the vision becomes a reality With the completion of our remarkable 2D and Graphic Design Building this winter, Paducah School of Art and Design (PSAD) is proud to have fully realized its vision for a comprehensive and cutting-edge school of art. PSAD was launched in August of 2008 through the collaborative efforts of the City of Paducah, West Kentucky Community and Technical College (WKCTC), and other interests from throughout the region.

This final phase of our campus expansion significantly enhances the education programs offered by WKCTC while reinforcing the City’s award winning Artist Relocation Program – established as a means of revitalizing its historic LowerTown neighborhood in March 2000. This highly successful program has infused over thirty million dollars into the local economy while earning Paducah international recognition as a historic cultural destination and enriching the cultural life of the region.

PSAD’s physical expansion has been methodical and incremental through three phases of expansion since January 2013, but its student body grew beyond expectations from the start – serving an expanding cohort of traditional college students through its Associate in Fine Arts degree program, along with aspiring artists of all levels from the surrounding region.

PSAD’s new 30,000-square-foot 2D and Graphic Design Building houses our programs in drawing, painting, photography, visual communications, and multimedia. This historic landmark anchors our campus and is adjacent to our 6,700-square-foot Ceramics and Small Metals Building and 7,000-square-foot Sculpture Building. All of PSAD’s programs are supported by state-of-the-art studios and equipment.

With the launch of our Master Artists Workshops program in the Summer of 2014, PSAD positioned itself within a national context and set the stage for the years ahead with an exciting selection of workshops in ceramics and metals. Our inaugural year featured artists Susan Beecher, Jessica Calderwood, Harris Deller, Martha Grover, Doug Harling, Tova Lund, John Neely, and Craig Rhodes. Our second workshop program in Summer 2015 offered an equally impressive selection of experiences and presenters including Chris Baskin, Fong Choo, Jason Hess, Victoria Lansford, Tim Lazure, Sharon Massey, Lisa Naples, and Jen Townsend.

This year’s program once again focuses on ceramics and small metals, featuring intensive workshops with nationally recognized artists and experienced workshop presenters Sunshine Cobb, Yoshi Fujii, Jill Gower, Elaine Henry, and Tim Lazure, who is returning for a second year.

PSAD is a division of West Kentucky Community and Technical College, which has been recognized as an Aspen Prize Top 10 Community College each of the three years the Prize has been awarded, and named a Finalist of Distinction twice.

Tim Lazure

July 7-9 Stone Setting Intensive

Tim Lazure is an associate professor in the Metals Design Program at East Carolina University. He received a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from Rochester Institute of Technology’s School for American Crafts and a Master of Fine Arts degree from the University of Massachusetts at Dartmouth. His work is in the collections of the Mint Museum of Craft and Design, and the Gallery of Art and Design in Raleigh, North Carolina. Images of his work have been published in 1000 Rings, 500 Brooches, The Art of Enameling, and The Craft of Silversmithing (Lark Books). Lazure’s work in jewelry, silversmithing, and furniture design have regularly been featured in national and international exhibitions and the Albert Museum in London, England.

This workshop provides the opportunity to dedicate time to honing your skills in stone setting. Participants will cover a wide variety of stone setting techniques, including tube setting, flush setting, prong setting, and bezel setting faceted stones, with ample time to practice each one. To simplify the prep time, kits will be provided with stone setting burs, bezel wire, tubing, practice stones, and other materials needed. Although this workshop is designed for individuals with basic skills in metalsmithing, do not be intimidated, it will provide a very thorough explanation of stone setting that is suitable for beginners as well!

Tim Lazure • July 7 - 9 • Tuition $290 • materials and supplies additional Stone Setting Intensive

Yoshi Fujii

July 8-9 Carving and Surface Embellishment

Yoshi Fujii is a resident artist and instructor at Baltimore Clayworks in Maryland. Yoshi moved from Japan to the United States in 1996 and received a Bachelor of Fine Arts in sculpture with an emphasis in ceramics in 2002. He also attended Southern Illinois University–Carbondale, where he earned his Master of Fine Arts in ceramics in 2008.

Yoshi was awarded the 2008-09 Lormina Salter Fellowship at Baltimore Clayworks, the 2010 Mary E. Nyburg Fund for Artist Development at Tainan National University for the Arts in Taiwan, and an Individual Artist Award from the Maryland State Arts Council in 2015. His work has been published and shown in international exhibitions and competitions, won multiple awards, and added to collections. He is one of Ceramics Monthly’s Emerging Artists of 2015 and a fellow of the Craftsmen’s Guild of Mississippi.

This two-day hands-on workshop will introduce students to surface embellishment through carving the leather-hard surface of simple forms. Yoshi will demonstrate using the potter’s wheel to create functional objects (simple cup & bowl forms) to serve as a focus for visual inspiration. Students will explore the elegant quality of porcelain and seductive beauty possible through patterns and motifs, hand-carved lines, and slip trailing to create visual and physical depth for tactility, visual richness, and communication.

Previous clay experience is required, open to hand-builders or wheel-throwers. Students are encouraged to bring leather-hard pots or tiles and design references. The use of grog-free clay is highly recommended.

Yoshi Fujii • July 8-9 • Tuition $180 Carving and Surface Embellishment

Jill Baker Gower

July 22-24 Etched and Hollow Constructed Jewelry

Jill Baker Gower

is an artist, metalsmith, and educator who resides in southern New Jersey where she is an associate professor of art at Rowan University. She is originally from the Chicago area, received her Bachelor of Science degree in Art Education from University of Wisconsin–Madison, and her Master of Fine Arts in Metals from Arizona State University. Jill’s work has been in many juried and curated exhibitions nationwide and has been published in Metalsmith magazine, 500 Enameled Objects and the forthcoming book CAST. Jill is a former resident artist of Arrowmont School of Arts and Crafts in Gatlinburg, Tennessee.

In 2015 Jill was a recipient of the New Jersey State Council on the Arts Individual Artist Fellowship.

She has most recently exhibited her work in a solo exhibition entitled Dermal at Heidi Lowe Gallery in Rehoboth, Delaware.

Create unique, one of a kind jewelry using the etching process! In this workshop students will learn salt water etching to create patterns, imagery, words, and/or textures on copper or brass sheet metal by means of easy to use resists and transfer paper. Salt water etching is inexpensive, non-toxic, and easy to clean up. Students will also learn to use their etched metal to create one of a kind hollow form jewelry. The class will cover a wide variety of jewelry making techniques, including piercing, bending, scoring and folding, dapping, soldering, and finishing. Beginning students and others with prior metalsmithing experience are all welcome!

Jill Baker Gower • July 22-24 • Tuition $290 Etched and Hollow Constructed Jewelry

Elaine Henry

July 22-24 Developing and Understanding Your Personal Aesthetic

Elaine Henry

is the editor and publisher of the international journal Ceramics: Art & Perception as well as Ceramics TECHNICAL. Elaine earned a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from the University of Wyoming and a Master of Fine Arts degree from Southern Illinois University at Carbondale. She taught at Emporia State University from 1996–2007, where she also served as the Chair of the Department of Art from 2000 – 2007. In addition, Henry served as the President of the National Council on Education for the Ceramic Arts (NCECA) from 2002 to 2004. She is currently a Fellow of NCECA and an elected member of the International Academy of Ceramics.

Her work is internationally published, widely exhibited, and collected.

This workshop will include a combination of demonstrations and hands-on activities.

Participants will tap into their personal, intuitive aesthetic responses to works of art, materials, and processes to gain a greater understanding of what it takes to develop a signature style. We will also develop critiquing skills to better analyze our own work and the work of others. Participants will also do a collaborative project in clay, as well as pursuing their own work in the materials of their choice. Please be certain to bring examples of your work and a journal.

Elaine Henry • July 22-24 • Tuition $290 Developing and Understanding Your Personal Aesthetic

Sunshine Cobb

August 4-6 Discovering the NEW in the OLD

Sunshine Cobb graduated with a Bachelor

of Arts in Studio Art from California State University at Sacramento, in 2004. In 2010 she received her Master of Fine Arts degree in Ceramics from Utah State University, and in 2013 she was named as an emerging artist by both Ceramics Monthly magazine and the National Council on Education for the Ceramic Arts. Sunshine is working as a potter and travels the country as a lecturing and demonstrating artist.

She is currently focusing on functional ware, embracing the richness of red clay, and exploring the challenge of electric firing. She was a long term resident at the Archie Bray Foundation in Helena, Montana (2012-2014) and is currently running a studio in Sacramento, California.

Sunshine’s workshop will motivate you to experiment with new and old forms and methods of construction. It is geared toward creative expansion and a process-over-product mentality certain to inspire beginners and advanced students alike. Participants are encouraged to use these various hand-building techniques within a progress-over-perfection approach to clay. Demonstrations will include coil and pinch methods and hard and soft slab construction to generate working clay components. She will also speak to building surface through the making process and discuss the glaze and surface treatment of her work.

Sunshine Cobb • August 4-6 • Tuition $290 • materials and supplies are additional

Discovering the NEW in the OLD

Paducah School of Art and Design

registration To ensure your participation in our exciting 2016 Master Artists Workshops program, please complete this form, detach, and return with either full payment or a deposit of $200 to Paducah School of Art and Design, 905 Harrison Street, Paducah, Kentucky 42001.

Paducah School of Art and Design reserves the right to cancel workshops due to insufficient enrollment two weeks in advance of the beginning of each workshop. Deposits and tuition fees will be refunded in the event of cancellations. Deposits and tuition, less a $50 processing fee, will be returned for students canceling enrollment in writing at least three weeks in advance of the workshop. Balances due on registration will automatically be charged to the credit card on file two weeks in advance of the workshop, unless other arrangements are made in advance.

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