Workshop Descriptions

Friday Sessions A, B & C

Heart 2 Heart: Sgraffito vs Mishima

Students will create 2 heart ornaments out of clay that will be decorated in black and white using the Sgraffito and Mishima techniques (think positive/negative). These will need to be fired to cone 05 when you return to your school. This is great for both 2D and 3D students because they will get tips and tricks for both the creation and the drawing.

Session B - Friday 1:00PM-2:30PM

Session C - Friday 3:00PM-4:30PM

Hum 222

Limited to 20 attendees

Taught by: Lynn Hatcher (Fulton County Schools)

THEATRE IMPROVISATION!

The basic assumptions of good improvisational habits is the topic of this session!

Session A: Friday 10:00-11:30 am

Session B: Friday 2:00-3:30 pm

Session C: Friday 3:00-4:30 pm

Old Auditorium

Limited to 30 attendees per session

Taught by: Pauline Gagnon and Shelly Elman (UWG)

POP UP SCENE DESIGN!

Theatrical scene design is a form of sculpture. In this workshop, students will develop a concept and scenic design!

Session A: Friday 10:00-11:30 pm

Session B: Friday 1:00-2:30 pm

Session C: Friday 3:00-4:30 pm

Martha Munro

Limited to 15 attendees per session

Taught by :Bailey McClure-Frank & Joe Monaghan (UWG)

PUZZLE COLLAGE

In this class we will create a collage using oil pastel transfer method. We will cut and assemble our collage using various papers and materials.

Session B - Friday 1:00-2:30 pm

Session C - Friday 3:00-4:30 pm

HUM 150

Limited to 30 attendees per session

Taught by: Elizabeth Rojas & Allison Asberry (Heritage HS)

OBVARA POTTERY FIRING TECHNIQUE

Bring your own Cone 5 Bisqueware

This is a participatory, hands-on workshop where students will fire their own bisque-fired ceramic pieces in a raku kiln and finish them utilizing the Obvara process.

Session A: Friday 10:00-11:30 pm

Session B: Friday 1:00-2:30 pm

Session C: Friday 3:00-4:30 pm

Visual Arts Building: Ceramics Studio

Limited to 12 attendees

Taught by: Dave T Collins (UWG)

REED BASKETRY

Reed Basketry

Session B - Friday 1:00PM-2:30PM

Session C - Friday 3:00PM-4:30PM

HUM 3rd Floor Open Area

Limited to 20 attendees per session

Taught by: Cathy Heller (Peach County High School)

WRITING AN ARTIST STATEMENT

In this workshop, students will be invited to review and deconstruct several artist's statements from national and international artists. In small groups, students will analyze and evaluate examples, identify successful strategies, and recognize empty rhetoric. Through discussion and thoughtful consideration, students can begin to strategize how to approach their own artist statement with authenticity and substance.

STUDENTS MUST BRING NOTEBOOK/SKETCHBOOK & PENCIL

Session A: Friday 10:00-11:30 pm

Session B: Friday 1:00-2:30 pm

Session C: Friday 3:00-4:30 pm

Humanities Building: 232

Limited to 25 attendees

Taught by: Melissa Jackson (UWG)

LEGO LETTER PRESS

Participants will learn how to build designs with Lego tiles, ink them, and print a poster using a press. This creative technique combines play, design, engineering, and 15th century printing technology with innovative results!

Session A: Friday 10:00-11:30 pm

Session B: Friday 1:00-2:30 pm

Session C: Friday 3:00-4:30 pm

Visual Art Building: 134

Limited to 15 attendees

Taught by: Stephanie Smith & Cynthia Lollis (UWG)

PAPER NEGATIVE PORTRAITS

Students will explore making black and white portraits with paper negatives using pinhole and 4x5 film cameras.

*Please bring Sketchbook and pencil*

Session A: Friday 10:00-11:30 pm

Session B: Friday 1:00-2:30 pm

Humanities Building: 349

Limited to 12 attendees

Taught by: John Morris and Mark Schoon (UWG)

ARTIST TRADING CARDS

What’s more fun than creating miniature mixed media art works in any theme you’d like? Sharing it with others!! Join in on the FUN of ATC’s and experience the joy of trading art cards!

Session C - Friday 3:00-4:30 pm

HUM 351

Limited to 20 attendees

Taught by: Debi West (The Art of Education University)

ENCAUSTIC PROCESSES

Explore the dynamic art of encaustic painting in this hands-on workshop, where students will create vibrant, textured works using molten wax and pigment. Working with small panels, participants will learn layering, fusing, and sculpting techniques to produce richly expressive, miniature compositions.

Session A: Friday 10:00-11:30 pm

Session B: Friday 1:00-2:30 pm

Session C: Friday 3:00-4:30 pm

Humanities Building: 341

Limited to 20 attendees

Taught by: Erin Dixon and Jenni Horne (UWG)

BIOMORPHIC ABSTRACT PAINTING

Explore abstraction and water-based paint media. Learn techniques while investigating abstraction inspired by the natural world. This workshop will focus on process, strategies, and color mixing. Watch a live painting demonstration then make your own lively abstract painting.

*Students bring sketchbook and drawing tools*

Session A: Friday 10:00-11:30 pm

Session B: Friday 1:00-2:30 pm

Session C: Friday 3:00-4:30 pm

Humanities Building: 222

Limited to 20 attendees per session

Taught by: Erin McIntosh (UNG)

CROSS CONTOUR TO DEFINE FORM

Using cross contour lines to define the curves in a form and offset that with a detailed background.

Session B - Friday 1:00-2:30 pm

Session C - Friday 3:00-4:30 pm

HUM 229

Limited to 20 attendees per session

Taught by: Cathi Warren (Oconee County Schools)

Concept Art on the Go: Digital Painting with ProCreate

Learn the basics of digital painting techniques through the popular, portable software of ProCreate! This demo will follow how tools and techniques from Photoshop are translated into this software to create illustrations for preproduction. The tools covered include layer-management, adjustment curves, smart masks, brush creation, and more.

*iPad with Procreate preferred, or any form of digital painting tools (The material is software agnostic)

Session C - Friday 3:00-4:30 pm

Humanities Building: 351

Limited to 15 attendees per session

Taught by: Dominic Nguyen (UWG)

ART HISTORY TRIVIA TIME!

Come build your art historical skills while participating in a fun, light-hearted trivia game—while competing for fabulous prizes!

Session A: Friday 10:00-11:30 pm

Session B: Friday 1:00-2:30 pm

Session C: Friday 3:00-4:30 pm

Humanities Building: 237

Limited to 20 attendees

Taught by: Nathan Reese/Laura Wolfe/Maria Lunden (UWG)

PAPER SCULPTURE COMPETITION

Using nothing but newspaper and tape, students must build sculptures to inconceivable heights. This workshop will experiment with engineering and art and how design and structure work together to design a sculpture made out of such flimsy materials.

Session A: Friday 10:00-11:30 pm

Session B: Friday 1:00-2:30 pm

Session C: Friday 3:00-4:30 pm

Humanities Building: 359

Limited to 20 attendees per session

Taught by: Casey McGuire (UWG)

Figurative Sculpture utilizing alginate molding and 3D scanning and printing

Students will have the opportunity to mold one of their fingers using alginate and cast crayons into the mold. Students will also be shown a more detailed use of alginate in a face mold demonstration, as well as the use of 3D scanning.

Session A: Friday 10:00-11:30 pm

Session B: Friday 1:00-2:30 pm

Session C: Friday 3:00-4:30 pm

Visual Art Building: 106

Limited to 20 attendees per session

Taught by: Ryan Lamfers (UWG)

FELTING Fun and Furry Creatures

Felting Fun and Furry Creatures

Session B: Friday 1:00-2:30 pm

Session C: Friday 3:00-4:30 pm

HUM 350

Limited to 20 attendees

Taught by: Claudia Wilburn (Brenau University)

BLEACH ART

Come have fun while we distress and art up some dark fabric with bleach! Learn how to gently manipulate the bleach for different values and create a WEARABLE piece of art! Participants can extend their creations with fabric embellishments and other additional materials. Be sure to bring your OWN item/s to work with! These items should be mostly cotton and a black or dark fabric, such as shirts, hoodies, shoes, bandanas, etc. The possibilities are endless!

Session B: Friday 1:00-2:30 pm

Session C: Friday 3:00-4:30 pm

HUM 232

Limited to 20 attendees

Taught by: Christen Gilbreath (Gwinnett County Schools)

THREAD PAINTING

Thread painting -- how to use embroidery thread to create layered, freeform art. (materials - embroidery hoops, needles, scissors, felt, embroidery floss)

Session B: Friday 1:00-2:30 pm

Session C: Friday 3:00-4:30 pm

HUM 340

Limited to 20 attendees

Taught by: Tiffany Ard

PAPER MAKING

Make your own customized paper!

Session B: Friday 1:00-2:30 pm

Session C: Friday 3:00-4:30 pm

HUM 3rd Floor Open Area

Limited to 20 attendees

Taught by: Dr. Veronica Martin (Hall County Schools)

GRAPHITE REDUCTION

Learn how tips & tricks on graphite reduction drawing!

Session B: Friday 1:00-2:30 pm

Session C: Friday 3:00-4:30 pm

HUM 348

Limited to 15 attendees

Taught by: Dana Munson (GADOE)

GELLI PLATE PRINTING

Learn how tips & tricks on gelli plate printing!

Session B: Friday 1:00-2:30 pm

Session C: Friday 3:00-4:30 pm

HUM 2nd Floor Open Area

Limited to 20 attendees

Taught by: Marea Haslett (Forsyth County Schools)

Bleed Through Sketchbooks with Animation Inspired by Artist & Illustrator Henrick Drescher

Students will create an image that morphs from one subject to another by drawing on rice paper sketchbooks and using Sharpies and other felt tip pens/markers. They will then use an app to create a GIF of their drawings into an animation.

Session B: Friday 1:00-2:30 pm

HUM 152

Limited to 15 attendees

Taught by: Brooke Richards, Duluth High School, Gwinnett County Michelle Milder, Johnson High School, Hall County

Blah Blah’s Inspired By Canadian Artist Julie Liger-Belair

Students will use vintage images, drawing and mixed media to create unique surreal creatures/people using strange juxtapositions of imagery. Drawn elements will be added to create unique environments for the creatures.

Session C: Friday 3:00-4:30 pm

HUM 152

Limited to 15 attendees

Taught by: Brooke Richards, Duluth High School, Gwinnett County Michelle Milder, Johnson High School, Hall County

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