Workshop Overview

In 2019, we offered our first workshops and the response was overwhelmingly positive! This summer you are invited to work alongside UHCL fine arts faculty in one of the following areas: ceramics, sculpture, printmaking, or book arts. Each workshop lasts 3 days with demonstrations by our faculty, and plenty of studio time for you to create on your own. Our emphasis is to develop your personal artistic interests and abilities as artist-educators.

Printmaking

You will explore a variety of mark-making, as well as the image generation of multiples - a unique aspect of printmaking. Everyone will have the opportunity to explore the media of monotype, linocut, and/or screenprint. Come prepared with some small drawings (or even a sketchbook) to use as references so you can jump right in to translating your images to print!

Sculpture

You will be introduced to a fully equipped woodshop facility. You will be fabricating in wood. The goal of this workshop is to teach you how to properly and safely use all the tools within the UHCL Sculpture woodshop. We will be learning to fabricate basic box and frame forms. Examples of projects will be wall/floor pedestals, boxed drawing/painting panels, frames, and canvas stretchers.

Ceramics

You will explore different ways to create and design form utilizing various molds including slump, hump, press, plaster, bisque, and slip-cast. Emphasis is placed on the vessel and utilitarian objects, but will also highlight sculptural potentials. Work made during this session may not be fully fired or finished by the end of the workshop, but can be picked up by arrangement.

Book Arts

Explore a variety of book arts techniques including accordion books, flag books, and star books. We will begin with a pamphlet stitched book and progress to more advanced structures. All materials will be provided, but participants are encouraged to bring source material if they would like to include it in their work. Small images, stickers, stamps found objects, ephemera, etc.