Workshops
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Isamu Noguchi: The Sculpture of Spaces with Bruce Altshuler
June 29 - July 2, 2-4:30pm
Tuition: $495
Noguchi saw sculpture as concerned with the creation of the spaces within which people live; places where we experience the world and interact with others, rather than viewing sculpture as the creation of individual objects of aesthetic pleasure. Studying Noguchi’s work from this perspective students will encounter one of the most fascinating artists of the 20th century.
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Nostalgia as Form & Content in Contemporary Art with Toby Kamps
June 29 - July 2, 2-4:30pm
Tuition: $495
Like nostalgics gripped by a longing for a distant time, many contemporary artists seem compelled to explore bygone periods and movements. Are these manifestations of a melancholic, stalled cultural moment, or are they idealistic attempts to harness the idealism and power of the past to inspire greater consciousness and activism?
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The Entertainment Design of Las Vegas, Nevada with Libby Lumpkin
July 6 – 9, 2:00 - 4:30 pm
Tuition: $495
Critic and curator Libby Lumpkin looks at Sin City’s many reinventions to understand the vigorous relationship between architecture, design, commerce and consciousness.
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Darger, Ramirez & the Popularity of the Intuitive with Brooke Davis Anderson
July 13 - 16, 2:00 - 4:30 pm
Tuition: $495
In this engaging seminar, the great Outsider Artists Henry Darger and Martin Ramirez will be examined in detail. Class discussion will include their biographies, their oeuvres, and an overview of the fascinating discipline of Outsider Art.
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Histories & Myths of the American West with Deborah Bright
July 20 – 23, 2:00 - 4:30 pm
Tuition: $495
This four-day seminar will explore the West through the evolution of its visual representations in Anglo-America from the mid-19th century to the present. Each generation of artists, novelists and filmmakers reinvents “the West” in its own image.
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Which Craft? blurred boundaries in contemporary ceramics with Peter Held
July 20 – 23, 2:00 - 4:30 pm
Tuition: $495
The field of craft has witnessed dramatic shifts in studio practice, the marketplace, collecting and presenting since the birth of the American postwar craft movement. A new generation of artists is no longer rooted to past traditions; they are interdisciplinary, incorporating new technologies, processes and materials that explore the edges of art, design, fashion and architecture.
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Lessons from Prospect.1 with Dan Cameron
August 3 - 6, 9:00 - 11:30am
Tuition: $495
This workshop will provide an overview of the Prospect.1 International Biennial that took place in New Orleans this year. Dan Cameron, the show’s chief curator and director, will review some of the incredible artworks created for this show, as well as discuss some of the challenges he faced in organizing the biggest international art biennial in America.
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Contemporary Japanese Ceramics with Ronald Otsuka
August 4 - 6, 2:00 - 4:30 pm
Tuition: $385
Denver Museum’s Asian Art Curator Ronald Otsuka will examine the birth and incredible dynamism of Japan’s Contemporary Ceramics Scene.
In conjunction with this workshop there will be a special free public lecture by Alice and Halsey North on Wednesday, August 5 at 7pm.
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After the Crash: world photography, 1929-1939 with Alex Sweetman
Aug 10, 2009 - Aug 13, 2:00 - 4:30 pm
Tuition: $495
Professor Alex Sweetman will survey the incredible worldwide rise of photojournalism and art photography following the financial crash of the 20s.
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Free Lectures
Sculptor Charles Long
Tuesday June 23 at 12:30pm
Schermer Meeting Hall
Charles Long received an MFA from Yale University and
has received numerous awards such as a Guggenheim
Fellowship, two NEA Grants and recently the Medal for
Sculpture from the American Academy of Arts and Letters.
With over 35 solo shows internationally, his work was featured
in the Whitney Biennial 2008. He is currently a professor
of art at the University of California, Riverside.
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Painter Peter Halley
Tuesday June 30 at 12:30pm
Schermer Meeting Hall
Peter Halley is an artist working in New York City. He received
his BA from Yale University and his MFA from the
University of New Orleans. From 1996 to 2006, he was
also the publisher of index magazine. He is currently director
of graduate studies in painting at the Yale University
School of Art.
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Critic Jerry Salz on Cindy Sherman
Tuesday July 7 at 5pm
Schermer Meeting Hall
"Cindy Sherman: The Face that Launched a Thousand Theories": Jerry Saltz, art critic for New York magazine, speaks about Cindy Sherman’s
work. Tickets are $5 and must be purchased in advance. Call 970/923.3181
for more information.
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Ceramicist Victor Babu
Thursday July 30 at 12:30pm
Schermer Meeting Hall
Victor Babu is Professor Emeritus at the Kansas City Art
Institute, where he taught for over 30 years. Victor has
mentored hundreds of ceramic artists. His art work is in
collections and museums around the world.
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Collectors Alice and Halsey North
Wednesday August 5 at 7pm
Schermer Meeting Hall
"Contemporary Japanese sculptural ceramics – an explosion of
creativity!": Halsey and Alice North will highlight works that are extraordinarily
innovative, with diversity of techniques, forms and textures. They will
discuss what factors nurtured the unique explosion of ceramic creativity
in Japan over the last 60 years.
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Photographers Greg Gorman and R. Mac Holbert
Thursday August 20 at 12:30pm
Schermer Meeting Hall
Greg Gorman is an internationally-renowned portrait photographer
with numerous magazine covers and several
fine-art photography books to his credit. He has successfully
made the transition from film to digital over the past
several years.
www.gormanphotography.com
R. Mac Holbert is the co-founder of Nash Editions, widely
regarded as the world’s first digital printmaking studio focusing
solely on photography. For 17 years Nash Editions
has established an international reputation for fine-art photographic
digital output.
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Woodworker David Ellsworth
Thursday August 27 at 12:30pm
Schermer Meeting Hall
David Ellsworth is the founder and former president of
the American Association of Woodturners and is a Fellow
and Trustee of the American Craft Council. His work is
in the collections of the Museum of Arts & Design, the
Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, the White House
and the Renwick Gallery of the Smithsonian Institution.
www.ellsworthstudios.com
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