Guest Artist
Classes Family Day: Origami Creatures with Mitsuru Brandon
Storytelling Through Collage with Vicki Fish
Tue, Wed, Thu, Jan 25–27, 5:30–8:30pm $200 / $250 nonmembers $25 supply fee The Center, Hailey Registration deadline: Tue, Jan 11 Karen Jacobsen will present an introduction to the rendering techniques and style of scientific illustration. In this kind of illustration, learning to draw is learning to see. Participants will work on observational skills and interpreting subjects with a discriminating eye. Students will experiment with a variety of media, working in black and white, as well as color, improving personal drawing skills while working with biological subject matter.
Teen Workshop: An Introduction to Scientific Illustration with Karen Jacobsen
Jan 14 – Mar 12, 2011 Sun Valley Center for the Arts Fantastical creatures have occupied the human imagination for thousands of years. Gorgons, the Minotaur and Cyclops all played central roles
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in Greek myths. In the middle ages and early Renaissance, as Europeans began to explore the world beyond their continent, stories and images of monstrous beasts filled maps and books. Our interest in legendary beasts didn’t end with the advent of the modern era. In fact the nineteenth and twentieth centuries saw a boom in reports of “cryptids,” creatures whose existence has been reported but unconfirmed by the scientific community, like the Loch Ness Monster, Bigfoot or Sasquatch, Yeti and Chupacabra. While true believers insist on the existence of creatures that most dismiss as fantasy, scientists continue to identify new species of plants, animals and insects, discovering specimens we never knew existed. Some of these are so unusual that it can be hard to believe they are real. This multidisciplinary project explores the defy our common understanding of the natural world. We hope to get at both the universal questions about legendary creatures and how we project our fears, anxieties and fantasies onto them, as well as more local issues: habitat, biodiversity, the interdependence of species.
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role of creatures both legendary and real that
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Sat, Feb 12, 12–4pm $10 pre-registration required The Center, Hailey Registration deadline: Fri, Jan 28 This one-day student workshop will introduce observational techniques and scientific illustration, where learning to draw is learning to see. Students will explore perspective, light and shadow, value, rhythm and pattern, and how best to present the subject matter.
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BOISE ID PERMIT NO. 679
Thu & Fri, Feb 10 & 11, 10am–4pm $150 / $200 nonmembers The Center, Hailey Registration deadline: Thu, Jan 27 Create your own fantastical creature in this mixed media workshop where we will explore the ideas of transformational myths and personal storytelling. Students will combine collage, drawing materials, gesso, paint, transfers and found objects to transform an old photograph into a work of art where the subject is part human/part animal. Topics to be discussed include selection of materials, transfers, integration of materials, adhesives, and creative ways to attach found objects. Instruction will include demos and lots of hands-on time with personal attention.
Combining Art and Science: An Introduction to Scientific Illustration with Karen Jacobsen
From Bigfoot to the Yeti Crab
Sun Valley Center for the Arts P O Box 656 Sun Valley, ID 83353
Sat, Jan 22, 3–5pm The Center, Ketchum FREE Origami is the traditional Japanese folk art of paper folding. Join Mitsuru Brandon as she teaches families how to transform these delicate pieces of paper into real and mythical creatures inspired by Creatures: From Bigfoot to the Yeti Crab. Families will bring their paper creations home while also taking with them basic paper folding techniques for future paper creations.
Naturalist and illustrator Karen Jacobsen captures creatures most people can only imagine. She was the first person to record the yeti crab and is among a select few who have viewed deep ocean vents from a tiny submersible. While her illustrations are included in the Ketchum exhibition, Karen will lead a teacher workshop addressing new ways to integrate science into classrooms, an observational drawing class with adult artists and a drawing workshop for middle and high school students.