Fall/Spring 2014-2015

Spring One-Week Session II | April 5 – 11, 2015
Painting
Tremain Smith
Encaustic Painting:
Layers of Meaning
Code S02D
This workshop will cover the basics of encaustic
painting: making encaustic medium and
encaustic paint, fusing, substrates, equipment,
materials, and safety. Once we cover these
foundations, we’ll explore transparency and
opacity, creating texture, building and removing
layers, collage, branding, incising, glazing,
dry brushing, and surface manipulation. I will
demonstrate my particular technique of using
a template as a reference point for drawing,
layering transparent wax, and adding color
with oil glaze and collage. Students will use
the techniques covered in the workshop to
serve their own creative ends. All levels.
Studio artist; teaching: Truro Center for the Arts
(MA), K&F Handmade Paints (NY), Penland;
exhibitions: Rosenfeld Gallery (Philadelphia),
Paia Contemporary (HI), Darnell Fine Art (Santa
Fe); collections: Metropolitan Museum (NYC),
Pew Charitable Trusts (Philadelphia), Lancaster
Museum (PA).
tremainsmith.com
Tremain Smith, Sublime Creature, oil and wax
on panel, 48 x 32 inches
Printmaking
Takuji Hamanaka
Japanese Woodblock Printing Code S02P
Learn the basic techniques of the Japanese tradition
of woodblock printmaking with waterbased
inks. This tradition is associated with
the extraordinary lessons of design and color
passed on from the earliest ukiyo-e masters.
All aspects of the process will be covered:
proper care and use of the carving tools, preparing
and carving the woodblock, and handprinting
using the baren. All levels.
Studio artist; teaching: Manhattan Graphics Center
(NYC), Center for Book Arts (NYC), Pyramid Atlantic
Art Center (MD); fellowships: New York Foundation
for the Arts, McDowell Colony (NH); exhibitions:
International Print Center (NYC), Whitman
College (WA), National Academy of Fine Art (New
Delhi), Royal Scottish Academy (Edinburgh).
takujihamanaka.com
Takuji Hamanaka, Coral, woodblock, collage,
34I x 23 inches
Special
Caverly Morgan & Joy Seidler
Mindfulness & Making Code S02CB
Our workshop will focus on discovering
authentic personal entry points into the creative
process. Together we’ll explore mindful
participation with creativity and with
life as we avoid the temptations of control
and end-gain. We will use crafts—including
pastepaper, journal making, clay work, and
other forms—as a vehicle for the practice of
presence and receptivity and for experiencing
interconnectedness. We’ll also explore
meditation, strategies for bringing mindful
practices into your life, and the role of service
in craft. And we’ll address questions such as,
“What does it mean to be a vehicle for creative
life force while being an object maker?”
and “How can our creative processes assist
us in being more awake in the world?” All
levels.
Caverly: meditation teacher, Zen practitioner and
founding director of One House of Peace. Joy: studio
artist, consultant, educator, trainer of teachers; 20 summers
of pastepaper journal workshops in Massachusetts.
onehouseofpeace.org
Joy Seidler, Two Moon Journals, paste paper
coptic binding, 9 x 12 inches, dust jacket
journal with image sewn, 10 x 8 inches