Workshops
The Arts Station is pleased to be able to offer a multitiude of classes and workshops throughout the year. We have a dedicated Workshop Series twice a year, September thru December and January thru April, offered in conjunction with the College of the Rockies.
Our Workshop Series is supplemented as well with classes taught by a number of highly qualified and creative individuals. These classes can range from dance, to sewing, to giant puppet making, to watercolour painting. Or…if you an individual interested in teaching a class through The Arts Station please contact us to discuss your ideas and how we can work together to make your class a success.
The Arts Station Winter 2012 Workshop Series
ADULT CLASSES AND WORKSHOPS
Adult Wheel Weekend Crash Course
Friday 6:30-8:30pm/ Saturday10am-3pm/ Sunday10am–noon/ January 6-8
$140 including materials and studio fees
Join potter Kerri Holmes is this weekend course full of instruction and hands-on doing! This Wheel course is suitable for beginners to those with some experience or simply those who want to spend a weekend making amazing things! Various techniques and styles will be explored.
Evening Pots
Wednesdays / January 11-February 1 /7-9pm
$140 including materials and studio fees
This class is for those who want to work on a specific project – pots! Honey pots, baking dishes, etc…will be all be explored in this hands-on pottery class. Suitable for those with basic experience in pottery but this is not necessarily required. Contact The Arts Station for more info on this class.
Create the Eloquence – Stained Glass Workshop
Thursdays / January 19 – February 23 /7 -9 pm
$150 including materials
Learn how to create art work and gain skills in glass cutting techniques, soldering, foiling and framing. Elements and principles of design layout will be discussed to help find unity in your work. Participants will begin the course with a simple idea and finish with a complex project.
Woodblock Printing – An Introduction
Friday and Saturday / January20-21 /7-9:30pmand9am-5pm
$155 includes prepared wood block and basic paper
Location: Clawhammer Press
Wood block printing is an ancient form of print making that creates a tactile, pleasing texture on paper. Carving a wood block forces the artist to reverse their normal positive/negative space perception by carving away the parts they don’t want printed. Each finished piece has subtle variances which makes each print unique. The workshop will cover initial design, carving of the block and printing a one colour woodblock print. Materials (a wood block and basic paper) are included in the cost of the workshop. Carving tools will be provided. Taught by Michael Hepher, owner/operator of Clawhammer Press. For more information visit www.clawhammer.ca
Find Your Vision
Sunday / January 22 /1-4pm
$20 including most supplies
Spend an afternoon connecting with the favourite things in your life; your hopes, your
wishes, your passions, your core beliefs. Create your own vision board to keep you
grounded in the next year and to steer you into the direction that gives you joy. Most
supplies included. Please bring a stack of your favourite magazines to lovingly destroy as well as 2-10 significant dimensional items to add to your visions board-can include any mementos-letters, found objects, photos, quotes, notes etc.
Altered Books
Mondays / January 23-February 20 /7-9pm
$75 including materials
Cut up a book? Paint on the pages? Appalling? Curious? Fun! Give yourself a creative jump, break some rules and breathe life into an old hardcover book by building up a new one. Play with Japanese papers collage, maps, drawing, painting and linoprints while sharing the power of a group. Warmup activities, emphasis on process! All levels welcome- just say yes! Juicy materials provided from Lesley Graham’s studio stash.
Landscape and Acrylics
Friday – Sunday / January 27-29 / Friday 7-9 and Saturday and Sunday 9-4
$160 plus materials
Join Laura Nelson for this workshop that is sure to educate and inspire. Participants will explore different painting methods and the use of colour and contrast to create dimension and movement in a painting. Class will include demos, individual counselling and group critique. Participants will start and finish one painting minimum. Please visit www.lauranelson.com for examples of Laura’s beautiful work.
Intro to Glazing
Tuesday / February 7 /7-9pm
$40 including materials
Explore surface decoration using ancient techniques. We will learn how to glaze pots with our studio glazes as well as with ready-to-paint glazes. Layering glazes with varying degrees of control should bring surprising results. Our aim is to explore and delight in the gifts of the kiln!
Adult Wheel Session I
Saturdays / January 28 – February 18 /2-4pm
$140 including materials and studio fees
Feel centered this winter! Explore the creativity of clay using the potter’s wheel with instructor Kerri Holmes. This class is for beginners to those with some experience. This class involves making common tableware on the pottery wheel but may also involve molds and hand-building techniques. Limited to 4 people, this becomes almost individual instruction. Ages 15+
Basic Hand Typesetting for Letterpress Printing
Friday and Saturday / February 17-18 / 7-9:30pm and 9am-5pm
$195 Including Materials
Location: Clawhammer Press
Letterpress printing has become an artisan trade with a unique aesthetic and tactile appeal. The printing process used in letterpress printing has remained virtually unchanged in 500 years. Because it is the only relief printing process, the product has a 3 dimensional, tactile quality that modern digital presses cannot achieve. At this workshop Michael Hepher will teach you how to pick, set, and print with traditional lead type on a 100 year old Chandler & Price press. The end result will be a small printed product like a broadsheet, poem, or paper ephemera that you can take home. Bring a favourite poem, quote, or phrase and dress in clothes you don’t mind getting dirty! www.clawhammer.ca
Art Tapas
Tuesday / February 21 /6-9pm
$40 including materials
Join three of The Arts Stations favourite instructors in a fun and random “taster” evening of art! Start the evening with nibbles and refreshments then move on to a gentle exploration of art mediums. Always wanted to try pottery but don’t want to commit to a month of Wednesdays? Here is your chance to try it out. Painting, felting and other mediums also offered. Be creative, have a date night or just a night out and try something new!
Watercolour Basics – Getting Started
Saturday and Sunday / March 24-25 /10am-4pm
$120 Plus Materials (list available upon registration)
Always wanted to learn how watercolour paintings are created? Join local artist Pamm Ciupa for this great weekend workshop! Pamm will demonstrate and instruct on the wonders of this so-called elusive media through her guidance of the techniques that make up this form of painting. Learn washes, glazing with wet and dry brushes, colour mixing, and brush strokes. You will leave this great class with an understanding of and the ability to start your very own water colour journey!
Advanced Woodblock Printing: Multi-Coloured Reduction Prints
Friday and Saturday / March 23-24 / 7-9:30pm and 9am-5pm
$155 Including Materials
Location: Clawhammer Press
For those who have taken the ‘Introduction to Wood Block printing’, this takes the process a step further. Reduction prints are multi-coloured prints carved from the same block. The final result is a truly limited edition print because the original block is ‘destroyed’ in the process, leaving only the final colour printing surface on the original block. The process takes some planning and forethought. The instructor will guide students through the steps and planning. Materials are included in the cost of the workshop. Carving tools will be provided. Taught by Michael Hepher, owner/operator of Clawhammer Press. For more information visit www.clawhammer.ca
Intermediate Hand-setting Type – taking it to the next level
Friday and Saturday / April 20-21 / 7-9:30pm and 9am-5pm
$195 Including Materials
Location: Clawhammer Press
Required pre-requisite: Intro to hand-set type course
This workshop will discuss more in-depth the history of typography, advanced techniques, and creating more complex or multi-coloured typographic projects. Students who enjoyed the basic course will be able to apply these skills, and add some new knowledge about typographic techniques, 2 and 3 colour projects, and experimenting with new and creative ideas. For more information visit www.clawhammer.ca
KIDS CLASSES
Youth Wheel
Fridays / January 13, February 3, 17, March 2 /3:30-5:00pm
Ages: 10 and up
$120 Including Materials
Spinning the wheel and getting muddy is what this class is all about! Learn a new skill and enter the world of handmade objects in this fun and educational class. Join Kerri Holmes for this series of afternoons for kids to delight and explore in the world of the wheel! Bring an old shirt that you don’t mind getting dirty.
Knitting for Kids “Pocket Full of Posie”
Thursdays / January 19-26 /3:30-5:30pm
$40 including supplies and healthy snack
Ages 9-12
Want to learn to knit but your own grown-up seems to have forgotten how? Come to a class for just kids and make a cool, and simple little bag to carry around your mot important stuff. (Then teach your siblings!)
Altered Books for Kids
Mondays / January 23-February 20 /3:45-5:15pm
$75 including materials
Ages 8-12
Cut up a book? Paint on the pages? Fun & energizing! Freedom! Choose a hardcover book and go for it- make it yours! Change the words, draw, paint, linoprint, collage…get your hands on quality artist materials and try out techniques in this undercover project! All materials provided from Lesley Graham’s studio stash.
Kids Drawing
Wednesdays / January 25-February 22 / 4-5:30pm
$75 including materials
Ages 7-8
Love to draw?? Let’s go! Use quality charcoals, pastels, pens, pencils, inks. Small, humongous- draw what you want- freedom! Come ready to look at pattern, texture, light, shading, shapes and proportion too. Classes include movement, games, gallery visits.
On My Game
Thursdays / February 2, 9, 16 (Choose one day!) /3:30-5:30pm
$15 including materials
Ages 7-10
Time to make the game you always wanted to play! This time you get to make all the rules AND decide who will win. You bring your ideas, we supply the stuff to make it happen. You go home with a board game to play with your family and friends.
The “Who I Am” Project
Sunday / February 19 /1-4pm
$15 including snack and most supplies
Ages 13-17
For Teens who like to make new years resolutions and create art about their place in the
world. Spend an afternoon with all your creative energies flowing and make a vision board that best represents the YOU that you want to be in this world. Supply suggestions list upon registration.
Pro-D Friday Ukelele Band
Ages 6 and up
Details to come so keep you ears open!
**Be sure to keep your eyes open for information on yet-to-be-announced Children and Youth Programming! Visit www.theartsstation.com for upcoming classes, events and more.
And don’t forget that The Arts Station hosts amazing Birthday parties! This is your loot bag! Contact Courtney at 250-423-4842 for information on how to have fabulous hands-on activities for any age- tots, kids, teens, adults- and we will match your needs with an Arts Station artist.
