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Thursday, 205pm, Coppertop 2
$60 Class Fee, $0 Materials Fee
12 participant limit
This Class will be showcasing a popular Terra Sig additive to create a different look in conjunction to Horse Hair Raku. This will be a hands-on class. Students will be provided a piece of bisqueware that they will glaze and fire. Students can take the pieces home after being fired. Students are welcome to bring their own pieces to glaze and fire. PIECES MUST BE MADE WITH ^6 CLAY that contains grog or sand. PIECES MUST BE BISQUED AND NO LARGER THAN 6”X6’X6”.
All materials will be provided.
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Thursday, 7-10pm, Coppertop 2
$60 Class Fee, $0 Materials Fee
This Class will be firing traditional Raku and discussing some of the chemistry that goes into the
process. This will be a hands-on class. Students will be provided a piece of bisqueware that
they will glaze and fire. Students can take the pieces home after being fired. Students are
welcome to bring their own pieces to glaze and fire. PIECES MUST BE MADE WITH ^6 CLAY
that contains grog or sand. PIECES MUST BE BISQUED AND NO LARGER THAN 6”X6’X6”.
All materials will be provided.
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Friday, 9am-12pm, Coppertop 2
12 participant limit
CLASS DESCRIPTION
This Class will be discussing ^6 salt Firing and about the differences in results compared to
Oxidation and Reduction Firing. This will be a hands-on class. Students will be provided a piece
of bisqueware that they will glaze and fire. Students can take the pieces home after being fired. Students are welcome to bring their own pieces to glaze and fire. PIECES MUST BE MADE
WITH ^6 CLAY. PIECES MUST BE BISQUED AND NO LARGER THAN 6”X6’X6”.
MATERIALS TO BRING
All materials will be provided
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Saturday, 2-5pm, Coppertop 2
12 participant limit
CLASS DESCRIPTION
This Class will be using a Baltic Raku technique as an alternative to traditional Raku firing. .
This will be a hands-on class. Students will be provided a piece of bisqueware that they will
glaze and fire. Students can take the pieces home after being fired. Students are welcome to
bring their own pieces to glaze and fire. PIECES MUST BE MADE WITH ^6 CLAY that contains
grog or sand. PIECES MUST BE BISQUED AND NO LARGER THAN 6”X6’X6”.
MATERIALS TO BRING
All materials will be provided
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Thursday, 1-5pm, Imperial Ballroom B
$60 Class Fee, $20 Materials Fee
CLASS DESCRIPTION
Hand Papermaking is a fun, versatile, and
environmentally-responsible medium for artmaking, with a quick learning curve, and lots of classroom applications and connections! Come explore the basics of papermaking with handmade paper artist and teacher Bonnie Ferrill Roman, who has been creating and exhibiting large-scale paper-based sculpture and installation art locally and regionally since 1996!
You will learn how to set up, prepare pulp, use a mold and deckle to pull and couch sheets, create a post, hand press, and dry your sheets of abaca-based paper, and you will have the opportunity to explore creative techniques including layering, laminating, pulping and using recycled paper pulp, using shaped deckles, making watermarks, “painting” with colored pulps, adding inclusions,
embedding, embossing, and more creative ways to
customize your paper sheets.
The last hour of the workshop will include a
demonstration of various techniques for creating
3-dimensional paper sculptures using sheets of wet abaca paper; though a 4-hour workshop is not enough time to learn to make your own paper AND to create 3D sculptural forms with it, you will leave with a wealth of ideas for further experimentation and a post (stack) of your own hand-formed wet sheets of paper ready to be dried flat,
incorporated into other artworks, or used to create
sculptural forms of your own.
MATERIALS TO BRING
1 or 2 Large-size cookie sheets to carry home your wet papers - sheets with a shallow lip will keep them from dripping during transport.
Optional: Materials for inclusions, such as dried & pressed flower petals, herbs, or leaves, craps of old prints or small colored or printed papers, threads, yarn, or embroidery floss, confetti or other small shapes (shaped hole-punched papers can be fun!),
dried herbs, fine glitter, flower seeds. Small objects to cast over, or smallish molds to cast into (like candy molds).
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Thursday, 1-5pm, Imperial Ballroom A
$60 Class Fee, $0 Materials Fee
25 participant limit
CLASS DESCRIPTION
In this acrylic painting workshop we’ll go through each stage of the painting from start to finish. Create your own memorable abstract portrait of Colorado, messing nature into your own distinctive style.
MATERIALS TO BRING
Canvas - no bigger than 18x24 (to start with), half inch angled brushes, two inch cheap house painting brush, fine tipped brush optional, water container / cloth for drying water (prefer this than paper towel as it lasts longer), palette, easel set up optional can work on a flat surface if you prefer. Paints: Acrylic - soft body or heavy body, unbleached titanium (very important color), any black (very important color), only two or three
additional colors of your choice. Think of the color you wish the painting be. Painting clothes.
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Friday, 1-5pm, Imperial Ballroom A
$60 Class Fee, $10 Materials Fee
20 participant limit
CLASS DESCRIPTION
Join us in exploring the unique art of combining acrylic paintings of flowers with the three-dimensional elements of embroidery. Our class will start with an acrylic painting of a flower arrangement. While that is drying, we’ll learn how to do some different stitches that you can use to add dimensions to your flowers. I will share tips for embroidering on canvas. There will be a slide show of examples with how-to videos for different stitches. Leave with an 8”x 10” embroidered canvas! All materials will be provided. If you wish to work larger than 8”x 10”, you can bring your canvas, must be a standard stretched canvas, not a canvas board.
MATERIALS TO BRING
None - All supplies provided in class Material fee is $10 which covers the paint, canvas, needle and thread.
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Saturday, 11:30am - 3:30pm, Imperial Ballroom A
$60 Class Fee, $0 Materials Fee
20 participant limit
CLASS DESCRIPTION
Participants are to paint self-portraits from observation using mirrors or selfies from your phone; applying (1) using warm over cool color theory, (2) capturing correct facial proportions, (3) drafting method for blocked-in values, (4) underpainting techniques, and (5) using paint to effectively portray facial shapes.
MATERIALS TO BRING
All materials provided.
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Friday, 8am-12pm, Imperial Ballroom B
$60 Class Fee, $0 Materials Fee
25 participant limit
CLASS DESCRIPTION
Coming soon!
MATERIALS TO BRING
Laptop computers which have PowerPoint installed
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Friday, 8am-12pm, Imperial Ballroom A
$60 Class Fee, $10 Materials Fee
20 participant limit
CLASS DESCRIPTION
Have you always wanted to make Jewelry? Would you like ideas on how to make jewelry in the classroom without acids and torches?? Learn how to make earrings, necklaces, key chains and more! I have loved the designs on vintage printed tin cans since I was a teenager. I have hunted all over the country & Europe in my travels to find unusual colors and designs. Tin is an inexpensive material (comparative to metal) that is easily sourced. You may have some lovely tins at home! Bring them! We will learn cold connection processes that are simple and can be used by artists 5th grade and older. We will use simple & inexpensive tools. We will talk about cutting tin w/o cutting yourself! You can make 2 or more artworks dependent on how quickly you work. If you have special beads you would like to use, please bring them along. Scissors, ruler, sharpie, & tin snips are also helpful. Can’t wait!!
MATERIALS TO BRING
All materials provided
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Saturday, 11:15am-2:15pm, Coppertop 3 Alcove
$60 Class Fee, $0 Materials Fee
10 participant limit
CLASS DESCRIPTION
You use textures and glue and cardboard to create a shallow three-dimensonal surface. It is then covered with regular aluminum foil which is then covered with black marker and then buffed with steel wool.
MATERIALS TO BRING
I will provide all supplies, just show up.
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Friday, 1-5pm, Imperial Ballroom B
$60 Class Fee, $0 Materials fee
In this class students will use basic ceramic
hand building skills to create portraits that include
elements of their spirit animal. We will have a deck of oracle cards to choose an animal or participants can come with a predetermined one. I will share my personal method for creating faces and focus on using intuition as a guide to the sculptural process. Working spontaneously and drawing on imagination, participants will find their personal style and create unique portraits. We will use handbuilding techniques such as slab, coil, and pinch methods for construction.
MATERIALS TO BRING
Clay—I use a raku clay but any type will work
Clay tools—various wood tools and ribs.
Slip or water
Canvas mats or work surface
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Saturday, 11:30am - 3:30pm, Imperial Ballroom B
$60 Class Fe, $2 Materials Fee (pay directly to artist)
CLASS DESCRIPTION
Participants will discover the ease and economic process of Tetra Pak printing. Recycling food containers into printable intaglio etching plates will be the goal for the day. Techniques for preparing, engraving, inking/ wiping, as well as printing the plate on a printing press will be covered. Options of colored ink, papers, and Chine Cole will be used as time allows.
MATERIALS TO BRING
Printmaking or Watercolor Paper, Black Oil based printing inks or oil paints, Empty Clean Juice or Soup boxes with silver lining, Sharp tools such as etching needle, dental tools, or even x-acto knife, Heavy scissors, black sharpie pen, Drawings, photographs, inspiration images, Rags and paper towels, rubber or plastic gloves, Optional: rice or tissue papers, colored inks
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Saturday, 11:30am-2:30pm, Coppertop 2
12 participant limit
CLASS DESCRIPTION
This Class will be discussing ^6 reduction Firing and about the differences in results compared
to Oxidation Firing. This will be a hands-on class. Students will be provided a piece of
bisqueware that they will glaze and fire. Students can take the pieces home after being fired.
Students are welcome to bring their own pieces to glaze and fire. PIECES MUST BE MADE
WITH ^6 CLAY. PIECES MUST BE BISQUED AND NO LARGER THAN 6”X6’X6”.
MATERIALS TO BRING
All materials will be provided
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Friday, 1-4pm, Coppertop 2
12 participant limit
CLASS DESCRIPTION
This Class will be discussing Tin Foil Saggar and about the differences in results compared to
other low firing methods. This will be a hands-on class. Students will be provided a piece of
bisqueware that they will glaze and fire. Students can take the pieces home after being fired.
Students are welcome to bring their own pieces to glaze and fire. PIECES MUST BE MADE
WITH ^6 CLAY that contains grog or sand. PIECES MUST BE BISQUED AND NO LARGER
THAN 6”X6’X6”.
MATERIALS TO BRING
All materials will be provided
