Expression - Tech Workshop

4-hr Open Workshop providing opportunities for students to achieve range and nuance in expression through focus on the dimensions of characteristics, elements, and principles of relationship in materials. Offered 2-3 times throughout the year through sign-up, although anyone should be allowed to drop in to observe or participate.

The idea is to allow students on a particular professional track the opportunity to strengthen or build their repertoire.

NOTE: The objective is strictly technical. The workshop is an opportunity in addition to one's professional track. [In other words, the point here is not to develop a work so much as to learn, acquire tools, strengthen one's abilities, and build a repetoire for immediate problem solving and to support one's interests as they are apt to evolve in the future.]

4-HOUR SESSION FORMAT

Part I. Introduction. 1-hr Demonstration and Q/A. Students observe reasons works have an affecting quality or tone. They observe techniques that impact change in mood, quality, weight, dynamic, or other visual elements as applied to imagery and its context or circumstance. They may observe expression through environmental impact of light or atmosphere, because of the circumstance or content (fresh, weathered, cold] or the result of emphasis in approach to the development or finish of imagery and composition. The emphasis here may be focused according to media or practice [ceramics, painting, photography, etc.] or it may be a slide presentation of works that stimulate consideration of expression and the strength of such works that may be subtle or bold or dramatic.

Part II. Practice. 2-hrs developing a series from the finished work a student is required to bring to the workshop in order to: a) Determine a range through a series b) Practice techniques to best achieve or facilitate the work in the series; c) Develop a Repetoir or sampler.