Raku Ceramics, hand building
Join us in exploring forms that can be achieved through ceramic hand building techniques. Design and create unique jewelry jars, ikebana vases, tiles, and anything your creative mind can envision. You will become the ceramic artist, experiencing the full process of design, creation and firing your pieces in a portable Raku kiln! (Due to the low firing temps and chemicals within glazes, Raku pots are not food safe.)
Thursday, July 17th, 2008
6:30pm-9:30pm
Registration fee: $40.00
Material fee: $13.00
*minimum six participants
This course provides three hours of studio instruction & an evening of Raku firing. Date and time of the firing to be determined by the availability of the class participants. Supported by the Studio at Rush Creek and the Maple Grove Arts Council.
To register contact:
Karen at studiorushcreek@gmail.com, 763-315-3001 or
Amie Pence at amiepence@hotmail.com, 612-703-6346
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Summer Classes for Kids
Classes held in cooperation with the Studio at Rush Creek
SAORI WEAVING CAMP
Group A: June 9th & 10th, 2008 / 8 a.m. - 12 p.m.
June 11th, 2008 / 8 a.m. - 10 a.m.
Group B: June 11th, 2008 / 10 a.m. - 12 p.m.
June 12th & 13th, 2008 / 8 a.m. - 12 p.m.
(Young adults)
Create art through weaving in an established free-style weaving program that promotes freedom to express and create a unique piece of art on a loom.
Teaching Artist: Chiaki O'Brien
Registration fee: $93.10 per student
Supply fee: $18.00 per student
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POEMS TO PUBLISH OR PERISH, OR PERFORM
June 9th - 13th, 2008 / 1 p.m. - 5 p.m.
(Teens and young adults)
Poets of all styles can shape their work into publication or performance. This course offers a guide into your own poems. We will work on shaping and creating poems for publication, performance, or for a safe deposit vault. All forms encouraged. All levels of poets are welcome.
Teaching Artist: Diego Vazquez
Registration fee: $99.75 per student
Supply fee: N/A
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ANIMATION BASICS
July 14nd - 18th, 2008 / 8:30 a.m. - 12:30 p.m.
(Teens and young adults)
Students will have the opportunity to learn the basics of animation through visual exercises. Each student will storyboard, draw, and time out their animation using index cards, pencils, and a light box. Each student will receive a CD/DVD containing work completed in the class.
Teaching Artist: Leo Winstead
Registration fee: $133 per student
Supply fee: $28.50 per student
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SCULPTING A BAS-RELIEF (tentative)
July 14nd - 18th, 2008 / 1 p.m. - 4 p.m.
(Ages 10 through adult - a highly motivated younger
person may attend with prior approval from the instructor.)
Bas-relief sculpture is often considered the most difficult of techniques to master. We will be following the methods of the masters in this art—the ancient Greeks—working in clay and then casting in plaster. Your material fee will include a professional quality sculpting tool that you may keep.
Teaching Artist: Glenn Terry
Registration fee: $46.50 per student
Supply fee: $7.00 per student
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METAL LIGHT SCULPTURE
August 11th - 15th, 2008 / 10 a.m. - 12 p.m.
(Teens and young adults, all skill levels welcome)
Create a Metal Light/Lamp Sculpture out of tin, aluminum, copper, wood, recycled materials and found objects. Class involves designing and planning a light sculpture with available materials, metal fabrication (cutting, stamping/embossing, hammering, joining with rivet tool, sanding/polishing), patina/painting and wiring the light fixture.
Teaching Artist: Sara Hanson
Registration fee: $77.50 per student
Supply fee: $14 per student
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CREATIVE PHOTOGRAPHY
August 11th - 15th, 2008 / 1 p.m. - 3 p.m.
(Age 14 and up)
This class will challenge students of all skill levels to develop and further advance their photographic style. By exploring composition, light sources, alternative processes and methods of abstractions, students will learn how to enhance their creative sensibility. We'll be examining the works of well-known photographers and learning about each other's work through a series of in-class critiques.
Students must provide their own camera, digital or 35mm with daily processing, for in-class and at-home shooting. Point and Shoot allowed, SLR recommended.
Teaching Artist: Patricia Sikora
Registration fee: $53.20 per student
Supply fee: $5.00 per student
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REGISTRATION PROCESS
Courses listed take place at:
The Studio at Rush Creek
9481 Garland Lane North
Maple Grove, MN 55311
Phone: 763-315-3001
Click here for a registration form
Please send completed form with payment to:
Maple Grove Arts Council
Box 2009
Maple Grove, MN 55311
Questions? Email Amie Pence, Education Director
at amiepence@hotmail.com
or call 763-494-5984 and leave a message.
A council member will return your call.
