» 4-Day Art Workshops

These workshops do not include lunch. A 4-day lunch plan is available for an additional $60. Please select this option when registering if you wish to join us for lunch at 1 p.m.

Introduction to Bronze Casting

DATES: Tuesday, June 7–Friday, June 10, 10 a.m.–1 p.m. FACULTY: Brent Harris

TUITION COST: $235 We will explore the basics of sculpting through lost-wax bronze casting. Students will work directly in wax to create a small, sculptural work of art. The works will be invested and burned out in a furnace to make ready to cast in molten bronze. We will work as a group to help set up the foundry, melt the bronze, and pour the works. Through handson processes and instructor-led demonstrations, students will learn the finishing techniques and patinas that will bring their bronze sculptures to life.

Watercolor for the Fearful

DATES: Tuesday, June 21–Friday, June 24, 10 a.m.–1 p.m. FACULTY: David Baker

TUITION COST: $185 Would you like to paint with watercolor, but feel reluctant to jump in? Perhaps you have heard other artists talk about how difficult it is. Perhaps you work in another medium, but don’t think you’ll be able to control this one—after all, you have to work backward! And how does one correct mistakes? Learn the theory and practice of transparent watercolor. Develop control of the basic techniques that allow you to realize your creative vision.

First, You Build a Sketchbook . . .

DATES: Tuesday, June 21–Friday, June 24, 2–5 p.m. FACULTY: David Baker

TUITION COST: $205 First, you will learn how to make your own 32-page sketchbook from quality papers. Next, you will create a unique cover. With the aid of your favorite sketching media, you will spend the rest of the week exploring Ox-Bow’s campus, filling your sketchbook with inspired observational drawings! Materials for the book itself will be provided.

Methods of Creativity

DATES: Tuesday, June 28–Friday, July 1, 10 a.m.–1 p.m. FACULTY: Calee Cecconi

TUITION COST: $185 Do you have trouble coming up with ideas? Or when you have a great idea, do you find somebody else has already made it? Is your work starting

to look a bit homogenous? This workshop will guide you through several alternative methods of ideation to help break you out of your creative rut—methods that you can continue to apply to your creative process in the future! Although this workshop is based in visual art and design processes, writers, musicians, and creative people of all stripes are encouraged to join in.

Screenprinting & Collage: Generating Form

DATES: Tuesday, June 28–Friday, July 1, 2–5 p.m. FACULTY: Bobby Gonzales

TUITION COST: $205 This class will focus on the creative possibilities of combining screenprinting and collage. Students will learn how to create handmade stencils for screenprinting, and be guided through the printing process from start to finish. With the screenprint as a starting point, students will explore pattern, symmetry, color, form, and surface as we create original collages from our prints on paper. Those wishing to explore a more graphic sensibility in their work are great candidates for this workshop.

Material Ecologies Lab: Indigo on the Meadow

DATES: Tuesday, June 28–Friday, July 1, 2–5 p.m. FACULTY: Cathy Hsiao

TUITION COST: $205 We will explore the life cycle of indigo blue from seed to dye, focusing on the diasporic history of indigo, from the global south to the plantations of colonial America. Learn to source indigo seeds from ethical local growers and start those seeds indoors. Plant a small plot of indigo outdoors on Ox-Bow’s campus. Then, learn to extract color from indigo plants, utilizing the natural dye techniques of vat dyeing and solar jar dyeing. We will honor the innovations inherent in traditional craft knowledges, and apply them to an expanded field of ecology that includes connecting the local environments of our kitchens and studios with other, wider geographies.

Expanded Relief Printmaking: The Multitude of Matrices

DATES: Tuesday, July 5–Friday, July 8, 10 a.m.–1 p.m. FACULTY: Cooper Holoweski

TUITION COST: $205 Relief printmaking is most often associated with wood and linoleum block printing, but there are many other ways to make relief prints. We are surrounded by an expansive array of possible print matrices every day! This workshop empowers students to use nearly any material to create a relief print through techniques of texture rubbing, relief collagraph, masking, and others. We will discuss the unique, indexical relationship between matrix and print, and focus on how to use texture to create and convey meaning. While we will use the printmaking studio, handprinting methods will also be covered to equip participants for printing independent of access to a press.

Temporary Arrangements: Making Art with People & Environments

DATES: Tuesday, July 5–Friday, July 8, 2–5 p.m. FACULTY: M.T. Giddings

TUITION COST: $195 Participants in this workshop will exercise their resourcefulness and creativity by making process-oriented found object compositions and installations, borrowing strategies from contemporary art and cultural history. The tent will be our collaborative studio, housing skill-shares, a wide variety of tools, and our growing collection of materials and objects. Each participant will create an accordion-fold artist’s book documenting their experience through drawing, writing, and photography. The workshop culminates in a collaborative, ephemeral installation for OxBow’s campus that is large-scale and site-specific.