2012 Classes
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09 September
Meditations in Clay (CER090712)
September 7-9
Friday-Sunday, 9am-5pm
Jax Members $243 / General Public $300
Deposit $75
Materials Fee: $20-$40
Minimum Enrollment, 3: Maximum Enrollment, 8
Minimum Age: 16
‘In the beginner’s mind there are many possibilities, in the experts there are few’ -S. Suzuki
Get in touch with your inner artist and express yourself through a meditative exploration of clay. Participants will combine wheel and hand built parts to push the limits of clay and experimenting with molds, altering, colored slips, slip trailing and carved surfaces. Each day will start out with a silent meditation in the Zen tradition, cultivating awareness from our reflection into a more authentic creative experience. Sometimes some of our greatest work can come from experimentation and ‘mistake’s that evolve from it! This is a exciting clay class which will focus on hand building and wheel throwing for all levels.
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Sarah McCarthy is a full time studio potter who lives in Floyd, Virginia. She is a self taught artist who has studied at Arrowmont School of Arts and Crafts. Sarah creates functional wheel thrown and hand built pots with attention to surface decoration and subtle Asian influenced glazes. She hopes her pots add to the beauty of the intimate spaces in our daily lives.
www.sarahmccarthypottery.com
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Weaving on Gourds (FIB090712)
September 7-9
Fri-Sun, 9am-5pm
Jax Member $243/ General Public $300
Deposit $75
Materials Fee: $45-$65
Minimum Enrollment, 3: Maximum Enrollment, 12
Minimum Age: 18
Beginning to Intermediate
Learn the earthy and beautiful art of gourd weaving! Participants in this inspiring class will weave two different gourds; one will have a dream catcher woven in the front with an undulating weave on top, using many different materials: dyed reed, seagrass, yarns, cedar bark, and a rim of philodendron sheath and pods. Various techniques will be taught, including three-rod wale (triple twine), increasing and decreasing, and plain weave. Another gourd will be created using the coiling technique. A choice of seagrass or paper core will be offered.
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Marianne Barnes has been a basket maker for 22 years and a gourd artist for 21 years. After retiring from a 38-year career as an art teacher in public schools, Marianne wrote her first book, “Weaving on Gourds.” Her second book, “New and Different Materials for Weaving and Coiling” will be released in early 2012. The combination of baskets and gourds is the art form she most loves to create, texture being the core of her art and natural materials being the source. She teaches at workshops, conventions, gourd shows, and in her home studio in South Carolina.
http://maribasket.com
Jewelry: Primitive & Modern (JWL090812)
September 8-9
Sat-Sun, 9am-5pm
Jax Member $162/ General Public $200
Deposit $50
Materials Fee: $20-$30
Minimum Enrollment, 3: Maximum Enrollment, 6
Minimum Age: 18
Hammer your way to beautiful unique copper, brass and bronze jewelry. Students in this class will work in the center’s blacksmithing forge with plate and wire metals to make unique bracelets, earrings, rings and/or pendants. Students will have the opportunity to learn a variety of skills using hammers as well as saws, shears, chisels, and the anvil to cut, forge, texture, shape and bend the metals—annealing the metals with a torch or forge to soften it between hammering sessions.
Day two of this class the student will work in the center’s jewelry studio. Students will be working with sheet metal, wire, beads, found objects, the jewelers saw, chasing hammers, pliers and a variety of other jeweler’s tools. Wire will be used to anchor embellishments to pieces created at the forge, as well as finishing earrings and pendants with jump rings and some basic wire techniques.
Some jewelry options include twisting copper wire and hammering it into a flat ,braided look for bracelets and rings; cutting out leaf earrings from bronze sheet, then hammering texture, veining into the metal and cold connections.
Discussion will include essential tools, and how to avoid the acquisition of expensive ones, scrap sources and scavenging, the use of heat and alternative sources to produce it. Each student will make at least one bracelet, a ring, or a pair of earrings, experimenting with free form hammering and shaping on the anvil, wooden forms and sandbags.
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Carly Burke learned the fundamentals of wearable art while attending Savannah College of Art and Design where she majored in Metal and Jewelry Design. With more than ten years experience, a passion for metal manipulation drives her creativity. Bending, chasing, and connecting wire and metal to enhance the beauty of materials is an inspiring process. With a focus on quality design and quality materials, Carly is able to create elegant and durable jewelry that is sure to enhance any collection.
http://mountainlightjewelry.com/Welcome.html
James Quinn was born between the Korean war and the Cuban Missile Crisis, in Greensboro NC, where he attended school… sometimes. In his mid twenties he developed an interest in sculpture and blacksmithing. Modern techniques seemed necessary to build tools and equipment and along the way they became standard in his shop and work. He has traveled and worked in blacksmith shops and foundries in Colorado and Montana, learning about sculpture casting, the forging of materials and attending college in Flathead Valley in Montana. Making kinetic sculpture and forging have been his favorite pastimes, but he enjoys all areas of metal working and will try just about anything.
http://quinnmetalarts.com/
Writing with the Senses (BIZ090812)
Mara Robbins
September 8-9
Sat-Sun, 1-4pm
Jax Member $62/ General Public $76
Deposit $10
Materials Fee: $5
Minimum Enrollment, 3: Maximum Enrollment, 12
Minimum Age: 18
Would you like to cultivate the ability to seek out the sensory details that can create the most evocative writing? So much of this has to do with an author’s ability to invoke sensory perceptions, plus, tasting things and touching things and listening to things and smelling things and looking at things is FUN! This weekend will be spent experiencing all sorts of different sensory stimuli and experimenting with ways to translate our discoveries onto paper. Please let us know if you have any food/fragrance allergies.
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Mara Eve Robbins is an award winning writer who specializes in poetry but appreciates and creates all forms of literary expression. A graduate in creative writing from Hollins University, she has been active in the literary arts in Floyd County since she was a teenager and facilitates writer’s groups and spoken word events. Mara believes that we all have a voice that can be translated onto the page, and advocates joy in writing for all ages—it is never too early or too late. She is committed to furthering appreciation of both the written and the spoken word within her immediate and greater community, and firmly believes that knowing and telling your story makes a profound difference in your life and the lives of those you share it with.
The Waterfall: Bob Ross Oil Painting (TWD091512)
Kathy Barton
September 15
Sat. 10am-4pm
Jax Member $62/ General Public $76
Deposit $25
Materials Fee: $110 – includes use of all materials. Students leave with one completed painting.
Minimum Enrollment, 7: Maximum Enrollment, 12
Minimum Age: 18
Learn to paint the Bob Ross Way during this one-day workshop focused on his wet-on-wet oil painting “The Waterfall.” Students will complete their own Waterfall painting with assistance from a Certified Ross Landscape (CRI) artist and instructor Kathy Barton. Practice a beautiful sky, trees, water and mountains and astound yourself by finishing all in one 6 hour class!
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Kathy Barton was born and raised in the foothills of the Great Smoky Mountains and Lived in Blacksburg, VA for a while; she now lives in Aiken, SC. She has been painting for a long time in various mediums. She became a Bob Ross Certified Instructor 3 years ago and has been teaching professionally ever since. She simply cannot express her love for his wet-on-wet technique of oil painting. She went to art school in New Smyrna Beach, FL. One of her favorite things about teaching is watching people gain a new confidence after taking her classes. “If you take one of my classes it really can be life changing, especially if you never thought you could paint a painting. I guide my students through step by step and the results have always been very positive. My classes are very casual and relaxing. We never make mistakes, only Happy Accidents.”
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