Visiting Artists Workshops at SNC
Posted on June 30, 2009
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Sierra Nevada College’s renowned Summer Visiting Artists Workshops are now in their 25th year.
Workshops will be held through July 31, 2009.
The program, started by ceramics instructor Carol Sphar at the college’s old mountain campus, received its funding from the Luria family for whom the ceramics studio was named (longtime residents may recall the Luria Art Building).
Sierra Nevada College is proud that its popular program has thrived for a quarter-century, since the notion of sustainability is at the forefront of its mission statement. As current chair of the Fine Arts Department Sheri Leigh O’Connor noted, “Our workshops continue to sustain themselves even in the current bad economic climate.” Some of the Who’s Who in the art world who have taught the summer workshops include Richard Shaw, Linda Arbuckle, and Gregory Kondos, and the offerings have expanded beyond ceramics to include glass fusing, painting, metalsmithing, photography, printmaking, digital art, and videography.
On Tuesday nights each week during the workshops, the college will host its “Meet the Artist” lecture, the Fine Arts Department will host a “Meet the Artist” lecture each Tuesday night during the workshops. Lectures will be held in the Prim Library, room 320, at 7pm, which will be immediately followed by an informal reception in the Tahoe Gallery, where many of the artists’ one-of-a-kind pieces will be displayed (as well as available for purchase). Both the lecture and reception are free and open to the public.
Sierra Nevada College Summer Art Program 2009 schedule:
Ceramics:
Nick Joerling/Pots/Possibilities/June 1-5
Stan Welsh/Heads Up: Ceramic Sculpture/June 8-12
Richard Shaw/Silkscreened Transfers & Plaster Molds/June 15-19
Randy Brodnax & Don Ellis/Fast Fire Pottree/June 22-26
Marc Lancet/Beginning Pottery Wheel Throwing/July 6-10
Linda & Charlie Riggs/Alternative Firing with Precision & Abandon/July 13-17
Bill van Gilder/Set Your Table!/July 20-24
Christa Assad/Ready, Set, THROW!/July 27-31
Glass Fusing & Slumping:
Carole & William Hutchison/Beginning Glass Fusing/June 8-12
Carole & William Hutchison/Advanced Glass Fusing/June 15-19
Metalsmithing:
Greg Wilbur/Moving Metal: The Art of Raising/June 15-19
Painting:
Gregory Kondos/Contemporary Tahoe Landscape/July 6-10
Phyllis Shafer/Plein Air Landscape Painting/July 13-17
Photography:
Jerry Dodrill/Digital Photography/June 22-26
Printmaking:
Sarah Whorf/Hot Off the Press/June 1-5
Digital Art:
Tim Guthrie/Digital Art Techniques/July 20-24
Videography:
Joe Pennella/Digital Storytelling/July 27-31
Weekend Workshops
Ceramics:
Glenn Grishkoff/Hand Made Brushes/June 13-14
Nancy Selvin/Color & Screen Printing on Clay Forms/July 18-19
Glass:
Carole Hutchison/Kaleidoscopes/June 13-14
For more information on registration, tuition, workshop times, and housing, please click here or contact Sheri Leigh O’Connor, Workshops Director, at 775.881.7588 or sleigh@sierranevada.edu.
Featured work – Nick Joerling
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