Summer Sessions

5/CLAY

The Dimensional Figure

The Pursuit of Hercules (detail) by Andréa Keys Connell, 2011. Clay, and paint.

This workshop focuses on clarifying conceptual intent to help express narratives and ideas through figurative sculpture. Topics will include the figure in space, the gaze, gesture, the fragmented figure, and scale. Hollow building methods will be demonstrated and issues of timing, weight, and balance—necessary to specific poses—will be addressed. While this class focuses on specific techniques for hand-building, the critical emphasis concerns individual vision and personal expression. There will be routine sessions for discussion and reflection. Experience and competency with handbuilding techniques required.

ANDRÉA KEYS CONNELL is Assistant Professor of Ceramics at Virginia Commonwealth University. Her sculptures, lectures, and writings demonstrate a desire to investigate how an individual’s personal history affects their identity, behaviors, and actions. Andréa Keys Connell received an MFA from Ohio University. Her work has been in a number of national and international publications, most recently in Art Papers and Korean Monthly Ceramics, and in a number of exhibitions, including at The Florida Holocaust Museum and The Kentucky Museum of Art and Craft. andreakeys.com

This workshop is supported by the Samuel J. Rosenfeld Faculty Fund for Sculpture in Ceramics and/or Wood.

5/GLASS

Material, Process, and Form

Shape of Vision Series, No.4 by Jin Hongo, 2011. Mirrors, approx. 12 " x 40 " x 12".

Workshop participants will explore the sense of shape. Glass is characterized by fluidity and brittleness. It can magnify, reflect, and refract light. The material ‘talks’ to us with its shape, and we ‘listen’ through our perceptions. Through demonstrations in the hotshop, students will learn the basics of hot glass techniques and will be encouraged to design unique shapes with glass, to enhance its materiality, and to explore with both sculptural and vessel forms. All levels welcome.

JIN HONGO is a Professor at Toyama City Institute of Glass Art, which was the first public glass art school in Japan. For twenty years he has taught and worked there, alongside many maestros and artists from around the world. Jin Hongo has also taught and lectured at many Japanese schools and studios, including Akita College of Arts and Crafts, Tokyo Art University, and Utatsuyama Crafts Studio, as well as at Haystack, Pilchuck, and the Glass Furnace in Turkey. His work has been in exhibitions at Japan’s Toyama Museum of Modern Art and Tonami City Museum of Art, and at the Grand Crystal Museum in Taipei, Taiwan. jinhongo.com

5/METALS

Anticlastic Raising

Dahlia pendant and earrings by Michael Good. 18K Gold; earrings: approx. 1 ½” and pendant approx. 1 ¼”.

This course will cover all aspects of Anticlastic Raising, the unique metalsmithing technique developed by Michael Good. He will lead students through a series of exercises designed to teach the principles of how metal is moved from flat sheet into non-definitive forms. Students will practice each stage in order to digest the concepts presented before moving on to the next exercise. All levels welcome.

MICHAEL GOOD is a designer/sculptor/jeweler whose side interests include physics, philosophy, archeology, and kayaking. He is known around the world as the master of Anticlastic Raising. Primarily self-taught, Michael came to Haystack for the first time in 1977 as a studio assistant to legendary metalsmith, Heikki Seppa. He has been exploring metal forming for over twenty-five years and has given workshops for professional organizations, universities, and schools in North America and Europe. His work is represented in stores, galleries, museums, and private collections around the world, and can be seen at the Michael Good Gallery in Rockland, Maine. michaelgood.com

5/MIXED MEDIA

Inflatable Drawings/Drawing Inflatables

The Great Haul by Anna Hepler, 2010. Plastic, thread, and staples, 24' tall and 20' x 20' at the ceiling. Photo by Scott Peterman.

This workshop is neither about making 2D nor 3D work, but the journey that can occur between the two. Using paper, plastic, fabric, and direct methods of construction, we will create 3D hollow forms that may be inflated with breath or blown air. These forms will, like ever-changing still life objects, become the basis for 2D explorations manifested as drawings, animations, and simple prints. These drawings may, in turn, become blueprints for new sculptural forms. This cycle, repeated several times, is an exercise in translation and exposes the richness of working and thinking between materials, processes, and forms. All levels welcome.

ANNA HEPLER builds large sculptural installations, small sculptural forms, and creates 2D work—most often as drawings and prints. Her work has been in exhibitions at the Portland Museum of Art, Maine; deCordova Museum, Massachusetts; Museum of Fine Arts, Santa Fe, New Mexico; and the Museum of Contemporary Art in Tokyo, Japan. Anna Hepler’s most recent solo exhibition was BLOOM at Suyama Space, Seattle, Washington, and her forthcoming project opens in February 2012 at the Kohler Arts Center, Sheboygan, Wisconsin. She is a periodic faculty member at Deep Springs College, California, and is a 2010–2011 fellow of the Roswell Artist-in-Residence program. annahepler.com

5/PRINTMAKING

Monotype Meets Digital

Wild Bird #2 by Frances Valesco, 2010. Mixed media print, 18" x 24".

Participants will explore printmaking using traditional monoprinting and digital processes. The goal is to explore high tech and low tech means to create an integrated and deeper aesthetic. We will be layering images using digital methods, multiple drops, and manipulating inks to create variation and richness. Workshop participants will have access to a scanner, small pigment ink jet printer, a traditional printing press, and the Haystack fab lab. Students are encouraged to bring pre-printed images to use during the workshop. Some experience with printmaking and computer graphics programs helpful, but all levels are welcome.

FRANCES VALESCO teaches monoprinting at City College of San Francisco and has taught at the San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco State University, and University of California at Berkeley. She has chaired and appeared on panels at Southern Graphics and MidAmerica Print Council Conferences and has written articles on technology and the art making experience for Leonardo, and the Kala Institute. Frances Valesco’s work is in the collections of the New York City Public Library, Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, and Galeria Nacional, San José, Costa Rica.

5/WEAVING

High Warp Tapestry (Gobelin): Design and Weaving

Chromatic Downpour by Marcel Marois, 2008. Tapestry; Wool on cotton, 101" by 120".

The emphasis of this workshop will be on personal expression and innovation with high warp tapestry weaving (Gobelin). Students will explore different studies with drawing, photography, or painting to create different designs (Cartoons of tapestry) to be conceptually and technically adapted to tapestry. Focus will be on woven interpretation, color blending, color gradation, and making. Students will be invited to weave and interpret a section of one of their new designs, exploring how fragment could become artistically harmonious and create its own new entity. These explorations will teach students the different stages of the making and how material and process have to be connected to design and expression. Basic tapestry weaving experience helpful. All levels welcome.

MARCEL MAROIS is an artist, and Professor and Director of the MA program at the University of Quebec at Chicoutimi, Canada. He was juror for the exhibitions Artapestry 1 in Denmark; Dia-logue, the 6th International Triennial of Tapestry in Belgium; and Canadian Consultant for the 7th, 8th, and 13th International Triennials of Tapestry in Poland. In 1998, Marcel Marois received the National Saidye Bronfman Award for Excellence in the Craft. His work has shown at The Textile Museum, Washington, DC; the 10th and 13th International Biennials of Tapestry, Lausanne, Switzerland; Karpit-Tapestry, Budapest; and the 4th, 6th, 9th and 11th International Triennials of Tapestry, Lodz, Poland. Marcel Marois’s work is in the collections of the Minneapolis Art Institute, Minnesota; Ararat Art Gallery, Australia; Collection Toms/Pauli, Switzerland; Musee National des Beaux-Arts du Québec; and Montreal Museum of Fine Arts.

5/VISITING MUSICIAN

ROY NATHANSON is a saxophonist, composer, poet, band-leader, actor, and teacher. He is the leader and principal composer of the Jazz Passengers, a seven piece group that he founded in 1987 with Curtis Fowlkes. The band has recorded nine CDs and toured throughout the US and internationally over its 20+ years moving through compositions that combine a basic hard bop dissonance with vocals from guests such as Elvis Costello and Deborah Harry. Roy has also composed semi-theatrical works with the group including “Fire at Keaton’s Bar and Grill” and “The Rock Concert,” commissioned by the University of Wisconsin to celebrate the world’s oldest geological material. In recent years, Roy Nathanson has concentrated on combining text and music with his band Sotto Voce. He has received grants from Chamber Music America, New York Foundation for the Arts, Meet the Composer, and the National Endowment for the Arts, as well as the Bessie and Joseph Jefferson Awards for music composition.

While at Haystack, Roy Nathanson will conduct workshop sessions that will explore ways that music can work as a multi-discipline narrative form. Participants will be encouraged to bring their visual work, words, photos, or any other medium to look at ways to combine the work compositionally to form a different kind of whole. All sound making inventions are also encouraged, such as using sticks and stones.

Visiting artists augment the session with informal activities and are not workshop leaders.

Support for musical performances comes from Haystack’s Hy Frumkin Fund.

Roy Nathanson’s residency at Haystack is in conjunction with the 12th Annual Deer Isle Jazz Festival at the Stonington Opera House, produced by Opera House Arts, August 2–4, 2012. operahousearts.org