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| Holiday Artisans Market at the Blue Raven Gallery If you have fine art items you think will sell - of your making - and that will fit on tables in the Gallery, then please submit them for consideration. |
Thanksgiving weekend and continuing until Jan. 3, 2009 | Blue Raven Gallery & Gifts 3054 N. 1st Ave., Suite 4 Tucson, AZ 85719 |
Katie Iverson Blue Raven Gallery & Gifts 3054 N. 1st Ave., Suite 4 Tucson, AZ 85719 BlueRavenGalleryAndGifts.com 520-623-1003 Katie's cell 405-3657 Holiday Artisans Market |
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| Call to Artists: Blue Raven Gallery & Gifts is requesting gift items made by local artist for sale in the Blue Raven Gallery over the holidays from Thanksgiving weekend until January 3. For information, download Holiday Artisans Market Inventory List and Agreement from our website: http://www.BlueRavenGalleryAndGifts.com or email Katie Iverson at: Katie@katieiverson.com or call or visit the Gallery during our open hours. | |||||
 Call to Artists Blue Raven Gallery is accepting applications for “Whimsical Works”. |
Due date for image submissions is Sat., Jan. 10, 2009 and for accepted works is Sat. Jan. 17. Artist reception is Jan. 24 from 3:00-6:00. Show runs through Mar. 14, 2009. | Blue Raven Gallery & Gifts at Many Hands Courtyard BlueRavenGalleryAndGifts.com 3054 N. 1st Avenue, Suite 4 Tucson, AZ, 85719 |
Katie Iverson 520-623-1003 cell 405-3657 Katie@KatieIverson.com |
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| Call to Artists: Blue Raven Gallery is accepting applications for “Whimsical Works.” Due date for image submissions is Sat., Jan. 10, 2009 and for accepted works is Sat. Jan. 17. Artist reception is Jan. 24 from 3:00-6:00. Show runs through Mar. 14, 2009. For prospectus, visit the Blue Raven Gallery, at Many Hands Courtyard, 3054 N. 1st Ave. Tucson, AZ, 85719, go to www.BlueRavenGalleryAndGifts.com or contact Katie Iverson at Katie@KatieIverson.com or 520-405-3657 | |||||
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January 17, 2009, 9-3:30 | TBA | Clydean Troner workshops@sa-clayartists.org |
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| Notes: Misty Ahearn will demonstrate her knowledge of surface decoration including use of oxides and her approach to brushwork. Jada Ahern will focus on techniques used in both stiff and soft slab construction, demonstrating making pieces such as tea bowls, ocarinas (rattles) & small houses. Jan Bell will demonstrate ways to create surface texture with bisque sprig-molds and vessel molds, which are easy to make and fun to use. Nip and Tuck: Designing clay forms using patternmaking techniques. Marilyn will demonstrate some easy ways to create or alter shapes based on templates as well as removing clay pieces and rejoining the cut ends Karen Phillips will share her experience in carving on clay, including characteristics of various clay bodies, steps in planning a carving project on three dimensional as well as flat pieces, and the use of a variety of tools. |
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January 24th 2:00 – 4:00 pm |
Martha Cooper Branch Library 1377 N. Catalina Avenue (between Alvernon and Craycroft, 2 blocks north of Speedway) |
Jim Dunning chair@sa-clayartists.org |
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| Notes: Members are encouraged to bring their questions about kilns and their firing, as well as, pots with glazes that didn’t quite meet expectations (bubbles, pin holes, unexpected colors, expected colors that didn’t come to the party, etc.). If you have the witness cones for the misfirings bring them along too! | |||||
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January 28 - February 1, 2009 | Artifacts Studio | (520) 825-7807 | ||
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30 January 2009 Friday 09:00 AM |
Randolph Arts & Crafts Bldg#4-Jewelry Studio 200 S Alvernon Way, Tucson AZ 85711 |
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| Notes: Shirley has worked with glass for 25 years. Dichroic glass thoroughly captured Shirley’s interest and is the focus material in her creations. She is a pioneer in the use of dichroic glass for fusing, and works closely with leading manufacturers of vapor deposition products. Because she continues to develop new ways to use dichroic glass, she is always on the leading edge of the fused glass movement. Shirley teaches extensively throughout the U.S. Participants will explore the diverse and amazing methods of fusing with dichroic glass. Layering multiple colors will be a special focus. We will start with the basics and continue on to more advanced techniques for etching, manipulating dichroic glass in the kiln, and surface designs. Learn about the dichroic coating process, where the color comes from, and how to determine the unfired-to-fired color-shift. Gain control of the colors and see the stunning results in your completed, fused work. |
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14 February 2009 Saturday 09:00 AM |
ASU Metal Studio Tempe AZ |
Register Becky McDonah (480) 965-7526 |
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| Notes: Since 1979, Sharon Church has been a professor in the College of Art and Design at the University of the Arts, Philadelphia. She received her MFA from the School for American Craftsmen, Rochester Institute of Technology, where she worked with both Hans Christiansen and Albert Paley. Lush foliate imagery and richly carved forms combine in Sharon Church’s jewelry to create metaphors about life and longing. The artist pursues her search for increasingly poignant imagery through iconic form. Sharon believes that metal has its own language of form; it moves in its own sensuous ways, full of life. As an artist, she is interested in jewelry that embodies shimmering beauty along with its dark, damp and mysterious underpinnings. "Carving Jewelry Forms" will be offered as a two-day intensive workshop exploring the rudiments of carving as a means to personally expressive form. The workshop will emphasize strategies that are especially appropriate to jewelry design, employing subtractive techniques that derive from traditional bench work. Using natural forms as source material, students will employ various hand tools and the flex shaft to subtractively produce 3-dimensional forms in materials such as boxwood, plastic and bone. Some experience with jewelry fabrication and the use of the flexible shaft is required. |
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14 February 2009 9:00 AM - February 15, 2009 4:00 PM |
Randolph Arts & Crafts Bldg#4-Jewelry Studio 200 S Alvernon Way Tucson AZ 85711 |
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| Notes: Joan earned an MFA from Cranbrook in 1979, an M.S.in Art, and a BFA, from the University of Wisconsin, and a Bachelor of Education from Dominican College, Racine, Wisconsin. She was an instructor of metals at the Univer¬sity of Wisconsin, an arts specialist in Milwaukee Public Schools, and is currently a metals instructor at Milwaukee Technical College. Joan has exhibited in more than 20 shows and she has been published in Lapidary Journal and Art Jewelry. From lockets to boxes, to treasures and pockets, hinges open and shut a fascinating world of treasures. Learn how to use copper, brass and sterling silver tubing on simple constructions of bracelets, necklaces, pendants and boxes. Discover the best techniques for applying your hinges to jewelry and boxes. Guided demonstrations will allow each student to decide which construction technique is best suited to individual interests, styles and experience. |
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February 21st & 28th, 2009 | Clydean Troner workshops@sa-clayartists.org |
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| Workshop is currently full, but you can add your name to the waiting list if you are interested | |||||
| Notes: Judy Fried will share her knowledge of making low-fire pottery beads, which she has done for the last 21 years. During the first Saturday session she will reveal her techniques for making beads and applying underglazes. The second Saturday will involve learning to glaze and fire the beads on handmade racks that Judy will provide for each participant. She will also demonstrate how to make the firing racks. Participants will learn how to handle small objects without damaging them and how to utilize the racks to keep beads separated during firing. All materials, including clay and glazes, as well as firing, are included in the workshop fee. Participants should bring their own tools. |
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Saturday 21 February 2009 9:00 AM |
Pima College West Metals Studio W Ankland Rd. |
Nancy Worden - "Cold Connections" | ||
| Notes: Nancy Worden is an internationally known jewelry artist who has been making jewelry since 1972. She graduated from Central Washington University with a BFA in art in 1977 and earned an MFA from the University of Georgia in 1980. Her work is in major private and public collections in the U. S. and Europe and has been published in Ornament, Metalsmith, American Craft and Sculpture magazines, as well as several books. She has been teaching for many years at Pratt Fine Arts in Seattle. Cold Connections: This workshop focuses on jewelry construction methods without using a torch. Nancy will reveal the construction techniques of her one-of-a-kind jewelry made from found objects and show students how to make a stack bead with rivets. If you like to use unconventional materials and you don’t have much equipment or you want to free yourself from the confines of your studio, this is the workshop for you. Nancy will show you how to make a bead from an orange or almost anything else you might want to wear./span> |
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Saturday 21 February 2009 9:00 AM |
TBD | Michael Hosaluk - "Woodturning" | ||
| Notes: Internationally respected wood turner, Michael Hosaluk of Saskatoon, Canada, creates functional vessels, furniture and sculptural pieces that are recognized for their humor, inventive spirit and technical mastery. Hosaluk, who is self-taught, says that his work tells stories of his life. Also an author, Hosaluk’s 2002 book, Scratching the Surface: Art and Content in Contemporary Wood, features exceptional examples of surface design and narrative content of 100 acclaimed artists. He is a member of the Royal Canadian Academy of Arts and the Saskatchewan Crafts Council, and was the 2004 recipient of the Saskatchewan Lieutenant Governor’s Award for Innovation in the Arts. Michael’s work is exhibited throughout Canada,the United States, England, Germany, and Japan, and can be found in the permanent collection at Buckingham Palace. Michael is a co-founder of the American Association of Wood turners. Explore personal direction in object making. The student will learn by ex¬changing techniques and creating objects. New techniques will be explored and developed. Use cultural and societal found objects to convey the essence of the your ideas. Wood and woodworking techniques will act as the catalyst of ideas, but all materials and techniques will be considered. Collaboration will be encouraged. |
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March 27th-29th, 2009 | 140 N Main Avenue Tucson, AZ 85701 |
Kathy Dunning shows@sa-clayartists.org |
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March 21 & 22, 2009 9:30 to 3:30 |
TBA | Clydean Troner workshops@sa-clayartists.org |
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| Notes: Farraday Newsome is a nationally known ceramic artist whose specialty is majolica. She teaches at Mesa Arts Center in Mesa, AZ. Her hand built, highly decorative tableware and sculpture work is included in public collections such as the Smithsonian American Art Museum, The Long Beach Museum of Art, Arizona State University Art Museum Ceramic Research Center, and RISD Art Museum. Newsome's work has been published in numerous books and magazines over the years. (Google Indigo Street Pottery for more information and a list of publications in which her work appears). She is especially known for her colorfully glazed, three-dimensional surface elaboration and for her painterly imagery often using nature as metaphor. Farraday Newsome has taken traditional majolica into a non-traditional direction with some of her techniques, which she will demonstrate during her two-day workshop for SACA. In addition to glazing techniques, she will also demonstrate wet clay work utilizing the wheel, the slab roller and the extruder. Using slides she will trace the fascinating history of majolica over the centuries and present a survey of her own history and work. |
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April 8th-11th, 2009 | Phoenix, AZ | NCECA 2009 | ||
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October 24 & 25, 2009 | TBA | Clydean Troner workshops@sa-clayartists.org |
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This workshop will be advertised nationally in the early spring, so if you plan to attend act quickly; we want to be sure all of our members who want to attend have a spaceNotes: This demonstration workshop will include 50+ techniques for making functional hand-built and wheel-thrown forms. Wheel work will include short cuts, tips and tool use at the wheel and cover a wide variety of forms, lid arrangements, trimming and foot finishing possibilities, faceting and fluting as decoration, handles and lugs, collaring techniques and decorating with wet, thick slip. Hand-building demonstrations may include slumped oval slab platters, humped squared plates, foot attachments (slab, sprigged and coiled) and textured decoration using wet slip, pressed and resisted textures. Tools, a sampling of current work and his book will be made available for participant purchase. A discussion about glazes will also take place during the workshop. |
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