2015 PORTER CORE Makers’ Workshops
A creative program for PORTER CORE
located in the Sesnon Underground (next to the Porter activities office)
contact Shelby Graham for more information: sgraham@ucsc.edu
Workshop Dates: October 5 – November 20, 2015
(sign-up on Oct. 2 during OPEN HOUSE in the Sesnon Underground 12-4pm)
The workshop you attend will give you the opportunity to develop your creative skills and also to work on one of the creative projects that will be assigned in your seminar by your instructor. Workshops are 1 hour and 45 minutes long, and you will attend one time for the quarter (not once per week).
You'll be able to sign up for the workshop and time/date that work for you at the Creative Commons Open House this Friday, 10/1, noon-4 PM in the Sesnon Underground. Attendance at this event is required. You may attend any portion of the Open House that fits into your schedule. If you can't attend because of your class schedule, please email the Creative Commons staff in advance at sesnon@ucsc.edu to arrange an alternate way to sign up for your workshop.
Porter Core Workshop SCHEDULE [You only need to sign up for one workshop (one meeting) per quarter]
Monday workshops full
12:00-1:45pm Photo::Capture with Shelby Graham
Tuesday: Oct. 27, Nov. 3, Nov. 10, Revision Nov. 17
2:00-3:45pm Book Arts with Victoria May
4:00-5:45pm Book Arts with Victoria May
Wednesday: Oct. 28, Nov. 4, Nov. 11, Revision Nov. 18
4:00-5:45pm printmaking with Cary Wander.
6-8pm Open Lab in conjunction with Sesnon Gallery late hours
Thursday: Oct. 29, Nov. 5, Nov. 12, Revision Nov. 19
4:00-5:45pm Drawing with Tra Bouscaren
6:00-7:45pm Drawing with Tra Bouscaren
Friday Open labe and make-up workshops
Photo::Capture: Oct. 30, 12:00- 1:45pm
12-5pm Open Lab staffed by Sesnon Gallery students
email sesnon@ucsc.edu to sign up.
Workshop descriptions
Photo::Capture with Shelby Graham
This hands-on workshop will explore historical sun-printing techniques, digital concepts and more. Students will work individually or in collaboration with others on issues of representation in our image-saturated culture through the medium of photography. Demos and discussions related to Core readings will help prepare students for visual assignments and critical final Core projects.
Book Arts with Victoria May
Examines the history and construction of handmade books as a mode of personal and/or political expression. Students will learn to make the modular folded structure of the Leporello book format to create an accordion book with layers, windows and pop-ups. Explore telling a story through structural shifts in the treatment of the paper and pages. Learn how to translate abstract concepts into visual motifs that transition over the course of the pages.
Printmaking with Cary Wander
This workshop will focus on introductory techniques into relief printmaking. Students will learn basic carving and printing methods that can be done in a classroom or home without a printing press or designated studio space. Different types of papers from around the world, viable carving materials, and the necessary tools and techniques to produce prints will be provided. Students will gain a understanding of the fundamental skills needed to create a print.
Drawing with Tra Bouscaren
All academic disciplines can be assessed according to the manner in which they draw our attention across a field. This workshop will explore drawing both for its sake, as well as towards the goal of establishing a language for connecting disciplines. Our focus in this workshop will rest squarely upon observational drawing techniques which will serve to close the gap between what we see and what we think we know.
Performance Workshop with Jenna Bean Veatch specific dates Oct.13-21
Performance workshop dates:: October 13, 14, 15, 16, 20, 21, and 22, times listed below.
This cross-disciplinary performance workshop will draw on methods of generating material from the fields of theater, dance, music, and writing. It will rely heavily on improvisation as a tool for creating both spontaneous performance and set material. Students will ease into performance by beginning with simple, pedestrian movement. We will then move into partner work and large group improvisations, working our way towards short trio, duet, and solo performances.
Performance ONLY dates/times:
Tuesday, 10/13, 6-8 PM
Wednesday, 10/14, 2-4 PM
Thursday, 10/15, 8-10 PM
Friday, 10/16, 10-Noon
Tuesday, 10/20, 12-2
Wednesday, 10/21, 4-6
Thursday, 10/22, 12-2 (Revision Workshop)
Artist Bios:
Shelby Graham has an MFA in photography and a 30-year career as an arts educator and experimental photographer, including exhibitions in the U.S., Japan and the Czech Republic. Graham has been the Director/Curator of the Mary Porter Sesnon Art Gallery at the University of California, Santa Cruz (UCSC) since 1999. She has taught courses in photography, digital arts and new media, contemporary art and museum practices at UCSC, San Jose State University, Cabrillo College, and Seinan Gakuin University in Japan.
Victoria May received her MFA from San Jose State University and her BA from UCLA. In 2010 she received a Santa Cruz County Rydell Fellowship and in 2011 she took part in the Jentel Artist Residency Program in Wyoming. Her work has been published in By Hand, Fiber Arts and has appeared on the BBC website. She exhibits in the Bay Area and nationally and was named an Artist Laureate by Silicon Valley Creates in 2015.
Cary Wander is a recent graduate of UCSC in printmaking. His work focuses on ecological activism and the effects of industrialization on the natural environment, using lithography, etching, and large-scale woodcutting techniques.
Tra Bouscaren is a post-disciplinary artist and researcher. He earned an MFA from the University of Pennsylvania and a BA in Philosophy from Yale. Bouscaren's work has been featured in over 70 exhibitions nationally and internationally at venues including the Centre Cultura Contemporania de Barcelona, Victor I Fils Gallery in Madrid, the Museum für Naturkunde in Berlin, the Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts in Philadelphia, Hallwalls in Buffalo, the Santa Cruz Museum of Art and History, and New York's Lincoln Center. He has been represented by N2 Gallery in Barcelona since 2007.
Performance workshops with Jenna Bean Veatch: October 13, 14, 15, 16, 20, 21, and 22. TBA
Artist Residency for 2 weeks only! more info contact Ingrid Lariviere <imoody@ucsc.edu>
Jenna Bean Veatch is a multi-disciplinary performing artist who has been accused of creating “pure, unadulterated, heart-stopping whimsy.” She makes not just dance and theater, but music, stop-action animation, delightful objects, and community gatherings, all of which get incorporated into her larger performances. She lives in Bellingham, WA and is an MFA candidate in Interdisciplinary Arts & Creative Inquiry at the California Institute of Integral Studies in San Francisco.
Porter Core Course students participate in workshops at The Creative Commons, a partnership between Porter College and the Sesnon Gallery and Arts Division. These workshops introduce students to the creative process in a range of art forms and help them to complete three art projects (word, thing, and self-portrait) that complement the course’s writing assignments. In week ten, Porter Core culminates in EnCore, an exhibition and celebration of student work.