Summer workshops are for art teachers, artists and others with an interest in furthering their studies in studio art. Details about applying to IUPUI, costs and enrollment information are at the end of this document. Each workshop is available for either graduate or undergraduate credit.
Encaustic (beeswax) Printmaking & Painting Workshop
VISUAL RESEARCH HER – R 411 & 511
HER-R 411 6589
HER-R 511 6590
3 graduate or undergraduate credits
July 15 - July 31
Monday through Thursday 9:00 - 4:00, Friday 9:00 -12:00
Printmaking methods with Encaustic and Imaging-building with digital cameras and computers will be the focus this year in the summer workshop. There is quite a buzz about encaustic art lately even though some consider the encaustic process to be the oldest method of painting in history. Learn to work with melted beeswax and pigments to make highly textured or silky smooth paintings and prints and see why the ancient Egyptian artists thought this was such a beguiling medium. We will also cover setting up your own home encaustic studio easily and safely.
Just the smell and the process of melting wax and using it in one’s artwork seem magical.
Instructor Carolyn Springer’s encaustic paintings have been exhibited nationally and internationally since 1990 at sites ranging from Yokohama Japan’s Citizen’s Gallery, and Tijuana Mexico’s Cultural Center and locally at the Harrison Center for Art in Indianapolis. She has won numerous awards including a Juror’s Award in the “Encaustic Works “09,” exhibition in New Rochelle, NY and a Creative Renewal Fellowship to explore art and design in Japan in 2010. She maintains an art studio at the Harrison Center for the Arts.
Prerequisites: The Encaustic Printmaking & Painting workshop is open to anyone. Knowledge and basic experience with other types of painting materials will enable the student to get the most from this course. If you have questions, please contact the program coordinator Anita Giddings, at agidding@iupui.edu or 317-278-9492.
Making Artist Books
VISUAL RESEARCH HER – R 411 & 511
HER – R 411
HER – R511
3 graduate or undergraduate credits
July 29 – August 9th
Monday through Thursday 9:00-4:00, Friday 9:00-12:00
This is a course for novices and more experienced bookmakers, artists and non-artists alike. It will introduce the book as a unique vehicle for integrating a wide span of knowledge from history to technology to storytelling to hands-on skills. Participants will experiment with narrative building across a variety of traditional and non-traditional book making approaches including an introduction to the letterpress, book alterations and a surprise "book-performance.” A total of five experimental books and one traditional hard cover binding will be completed.
Instructor Karen Baldner will lead this intensive, hands-on immersion into the book arts. Karen teaches book arts, papermaking and letterpress at Herron School of Art & Design and has conducted several children's book arts camps and teacher workshops and has extensive experience in integrating books into the arts curriculum. The book arts are the base of her own work which has been shown in the US and Europe and placed in public and private collections around the country.
Prerequisites: No previous experience necessary. If you have questions, please contact the program coordinator Anita Giddings, at agidding@iupui.edu or 317-278-9492.
Contemporary Handbuilding Ceramics Workshop
VISUAL RESEARCH HER R511/R411
HER-R 411 8146
HER-R 511 7447
3 graduate or undergraduate credits
July 1 – 6 (no class July 4) 9:00 – 5:00 Daily
Instructor: Jeanne Nemeth & Visiting Artist, Boyce Covert
Course Description
This course explores contemporary ceramic artists and handbuilding processes. The hands on workshop will offer a platform for repetition of new skills, dialogue on surface solutions, and introduce ideas to bring to the studio or classroom. Visiting ceramic artist, Boyce Covert, will demonstrate a variety of techniques that play with texture and pattern to embellish surface design. Students will learn how to create simple paper templates for slab construction and discover how expressive shapes emerge from sketches, patterns, our environment, and the process of making itself. An additional curriculum/research project will be required (Class limited to 15 students). (3 credits)
Jeanne Nemeth is an assistant professor of art education at Herron School of Art and Design. Her research interests include material culture studies, contemporary art practices, and environmental psychology. Recent work explores the relationship between contemporary collecting and art practice, focusing on the collecting practices of artists and young people. Visiting Artist Boyce Covert, a native of Georgia, received a BFA from the University of South Florida. She has given numerous workshops and exhibits nationally. Her work celebrates a reverence for natural objects, organic shapes, vivid colors, pattern and texture.
Prerequisites: No previous experience necessary. If you have questions, please contact the program coordinator Anita Giddings, at agidding@iupui.edu or 317-278-9492.
The Leather-Bound Book
VISUAL RESEARCH HER – R 411 & 511
HER-R 411 7590
HER-R 511 7592
3 graduate or undergraduate credits
June 19 – August 5 9:00A-04:00P Monday/Wednesday/Friday
This workshop will focus on using leather as an expressionistic material for bookbinding. Leather has long since been employed as a covering for books and its adaptability makes it the ideal covering material. We will use examples from history to create three or more distinct books. This includes a multi-quire tacket binding with a limp-leather cover, a modified version of a case binding and a 15th century long-stitch book. Although we are using historical techniques, we are not making historical models. Instead, each book will have pages personalize by a profusion of image-making techniques and leather covers that are embossed, printed or painted in a contemporary manner.
Discussions and demonstrations will include leather-tanning methods, historical use of leather on books, historical and modern methods of leather design, how to cover boards, attachments of wrapping bands and the like. No paring of leather will be required. Goat leather can be purchased from the instructor; all other leather can be obtained locally.
Instructor Bonnie Stahlecker's work has been showcased in numerous publications. The latest is Masters: Book Arts, Lark Books, 2011. Her work is exhibited nationally and internationally and is included in many private and public collections. Stahlecker has taught over eighty workshops in the book arts since 1987. She used her 1999 Creative Renewal Fellowship to pursue private bookbinding lessons from internationally known professionals. In 2007, she explored printing on leather at the Banff Centre in Alberta Canada.
Prerequisites:No previous experience necessary.
Watercolor Workshop
VISUAL RESEARCH HER – R 411 & 511
HER-R 411 6722
HER-R 511 6123
3 graduate or undergraduate credits
June 20 - July 9
Monday through Thursday 9:00 - 4:00, Friday 9:00 - 12:00
Watercolor Painting has been a preferred medium for capturing nature for centuries. It can be used as a sketching medium, ideal for on the site work to inform studio paintings, or for it’s own right, as plein air or studio work. As an expressionistic medium, it is unrivaled for quickly establishing compositional abstraction. However, watercolor is also used, especially in conjunction with dry media, to create detail oriented illustrative work. Perhaps its most uncanny feature is its ability to convey mood.
Watercolor Painting is a studio class intended to increase awareness of drawing, color, composition, and craftsmanship through the medium of Watercolor. We will broadly cover five areas:
1) How to plan compositions through sketching, shape and value organization, and color harmony
2) How to engage with painting from life generally
3) How to engage with transparent media specifically
4) How to combine watercolor with other mediums
5) How to use photographic reference creatively and responsibly.
Instructor Michael Lierly has worked as a portrait painter, illustrator, and gallery artist in seven states and three countries. His current work features both naturalistic figurative paintings and expressionistic abstract works. He has worked with watercolor as a medium for over fifteen years and has taught watercolor painting in the U.S. and Italy.
Prerequisites: The Watercolor Painting workshop is open to anyone. Knowledge and basic experience with other types of painting materials will enable the student to get the most from this course. If you have questions, please contact the program coordinator Anita Giddings, at agidding@iupui.edu or 317-278-9492.
All Herron workshops are graded with letter grades. Herron offers other summer classes in a standard format; many are open to all students. Please contact Herron School of Art and Design at 317-278-9400 for more info on summer classes.
Workshop Registration Deadline is May 11th, 2013. Please contact us if you have trouble with this deadline.
Cost of the program and details:
Estimated total is $1,117.33 (Tuition and university fees are dependent on the enrollee’s status with IUPUI and may vary.)
$60 application fee to IUPUI (if you have never been an IUPUI student).
Please contact agidding@iupui.edu for details.
Class instruction will be one-on-one with group discussions. Participants will work individually with faculty guidance. This intensive learning experience provides a special opportunity to explore and develop ideas.
Registration Instructions:
All participants must apply to IUPUI. Apply as early as you can for best course availability. Applications will be accepted until noon on the last weekday of registration (May 11 for summer I classes, June 27th for summer II classes). After you apply, you may register for the workshops beginning on March 31st.
If you are currently taking an undergraduate or graduate class at IUPUI, you can register via OneStart.
If you took an IUPUI graduate class in summer 2012 or later, but are not currently an active student, call 317-274-1519 to be reactivated for summer 2013. If you are not sure of your status, call 317-274-6801 for verification.
If you have never taken courses at IUPUI, or were last actively enrolled as a graduate student in spring 2012 or before, please complete the online application (http://education.iupui.edu/soe/applying/graduate/index.aspx). Follow the instructions for License Renewal/Education graduate non-degree. (You can ignore the March 1 deadline for applying. License Renewal applications are accepted at any time.) When you apply, it will take approximately 3-5 business days for processing. You will receive an e-mail when your application has been approved; this will contain instructions regarding how to create a network ID and how to register. A $60 non-refundable application fee is due at the time of application.
Once you have established your current admission status, you must register for classes through Onestart (https://onestart.iu.edu). To create an IU computing account, including your Onestart account, visit https://ams.iu.edu/skit/StartHere.aspx. For help with technology, contact UITS Help at 317-274-4357.
Open registration for summer courses begins March 31, 2013.
If you are not a teacher or do not need a license renewal, you may apply as a Non-Degree Seeking Undergraduate Student. For more info and completing an application online go to; http://enroll.iupui.edu/admissions/undergraduate/non-degree/
If you have any questions about the workshops or registration procedures, please contact Anita Giddings at Herron School of Art and Design (agidding@iupui.edu) or 317-278-9492 for more information.
