Friday, July 22, 2011

Annual Summer Mini-Conference!!!

It's that time again! Time to recharge your batteries, network with colleagues and start to think of the new school year ahead.


TAEA/MFAH Annual Summer Mini Conference for Teachers

Tuesday–Wednesday, July 26–27
8:30 am to 3:30 pm both days
Co-sponsored by the MFAH and the
Texas Art Education Association (TAEA)


At this annual two-day event, artists and art educators present multiple sessions on art-making, art history, and art education. Each session is based on works of art from the MFAH collections and includes a studio component, held at the museum's Glassell School of Art. Session topics include ceramics, drawing in the galleries, painting, photography (pinhole cameras), jewelry making, printmaking, and more. Registration for each session occurs onsite on a first come, first served basis beginning at 8:30 am each day. Ten workshops are repeated both days, with the opportunity to attend two 2.5 hour workshop sessions per conference day.

Registration is $40 per day. This fee includes materials, lunch, and a certificate of participation. Educators may register for one or both days.

The following courses are being offered:

Sketch-a-Doodle - Museum with Fahmi Khan meet in the Beck Lobby MORNING SESSION ONLY

The artist will concentrate on a variety of elements and principles of art while following the traditional method of drawing from antiquities, interlaced with doodling which will create a new way of looking at the antiquities - Doodling - the art of random drawing- will help to sharpen the creativity in the artist.

New Approaches to Non-Toxic Collagraph and Relief Printmaking with Suzanne Manns - Printmaking Studio 101, first floor, Glassell School of Art - Combining the new technology of PVC plates with easy to manipulate, self-adhesive tapes and textures as well as traditional relief cutting tools, participants will create plates that can be used to make either intaglio or relief prints. Although the process is immediate, the plates are durable with the possibility of yielding sophisticated results similar to those from traditional and much more toxic approaches to printmaking.

Cultural Exchange: Japonisme, Mary Cassatt, and the Counterproof with Kathryn Klauber - meet in the Law Building Lobby - Highlighting Japanese and Franco-American prints from the collection in the Works on Paper Study Center at the MFAH, this session will investigate Japonisme and its influence over Mary Cassatt near the turn of the 20th century. Includes viewing and discussing original prints, the ideology of cultural integration, sketching in the Beck Collection, and a hands-on activity in the creation of counterproofs.

Landscapes: Skies & Reflections with Watercolor with Ken Mazzu, Studio 202, Glassell School of Art - Realize your own vision in watercolor as you explore and create landscape skies and reflections in the studio. Work from photographic resources or imagination in composing fiery sunsets, rolling clouds, stormy atmospheres and clear blue skies. Landscape compositions that include ponds, lakes and still water will also allow for painted reflections. These investigations into landscape will include blending, blotting, hard & soft edges, light quality and combinations of wet and dry brushwork.

Pinhole Cameras and Developing Prints in the Darkroom with Amy Blakemore - Photography Studio, Glassell School of Art (12 spots available only) - Learn strategies for teaching students about positive and negative space and photographic processes. Using pinhole cameras and photographic paper, create original shots in the sculpture garden, and develop prints with an easy darkroom chemical process.

Abstracting the Narrative - Painting and Cubism with Patrick Palmer - Painting Studio 204, Glassell School of Art - With acrylic on canvas board, think like a cubist to build out a painting from an abstracted drawing of two points of view. This process combines sketches from a still life to create a complex abstract composition.

Fold-Up Frame Pins & Formed Acrylic Bracelets with Sandie Zilker - Jewelry Studio, First Floor, Glassell School of Art - Use thin textured copper to encase designs painted and applied on the back of acrylic shapes. Create bracelets from heat formed acrylic sheets. These two projects can be adapted to a variety of age groups and skills with a minimal amount of tools.

The Serti Technique: Silk Painting with Emily Anmuth - Studio 201, Glassell School of Art - Gutta or water-based resist acts as a barrier for paint on silk - keeping color within outlined areas of the design and allowing you to achieve sharply defined borders. The Serti technique is the silk painting technique in which gutta or water-based resists are applied to white silk on a stretcher, dried, and dyed.

Extruder Constructs with Jeff Forster - Ceramics Studio, First Floor, Glassell School of Art - The extruder creates a perfect, cylindrical, and even wall with which to build a sculpture. What you do with a cylinder is almost limitless. This workshop will focus on using extrusions as a starting point for various projects. Altering extruded cylinders, learn how to make lidded jars, pouring vessels, baskets and other utilitarian forms.

Cai Guo-Qiang's Odyssey Project as inspiration for Mixed Media Classroom Collaboration- with Angela Guy, Studio 207, Glassell School of Art AFTERNOON SESSION ONLY - Using Cai Guo-Qiang's "Odyssesy Project" as inspiration, will create a large-scale collaborative artwork using unexpected and inexpensive art materials and unusual techniques.


We hope to see you there!