MUSIC WORKSHOP - 2000

Kiniwe!
Conducted by: Leon Dunkley

Kiniwe is a word from the Ewe who live on the eastern coast of Ghana in West Africa. The word means "Are you with me?" or "Are you there?" It is also the name of a workshop that offers an opportunity to explore the world of sound and rhythm by learning about traditional African and African American musical culture. "Kiniwe!" lets you experience musical culture through singing, drumming and dancing (no previous experience required). We will also be incorporating contemporary music, folk music and jazz into the mix! Bring energy and enthusiasm. Bring open hearts and open minds.

Dr. Leon Dunkley is currently the director of the Mary Lou Williams Center for Black Culture at Duke University. He received a Ph.D. in ethnomusicology from the University of Pittsburgh in 1997 and taught last year at Brooklyn College in New York. He sings and plays guitar, piano, percussion and gamelan (an instrument from Java/Bali in Indonesia). He reports that, with luck, he will be traveling to the African Continent for the first time this Winter. His hope is to reach the peak of Kilimanjaro.

DRAMA WORKSHOP - 2000

Ensemble Scene Building
Conducted by Paula Marchese

Come into the world of the imaginary circumstance where we will create characters, relationships and problems to be resolved. Flex your creative muscles. Put all that pain and suffering and joy to work. We will work with physical and verbal exercises to open ourselves up to the possibilities of our all too human behavior. Explore the wonder of impromptu theater in a safe space that accommodates both the comic and the serious. This workshop is for all levels, experienced performers or first time participants. The idea is to make the most of the moment and have fun!

Paula Marchese has worked in theatre, film and television on both sides of the house as an actor, director, casting director, production assistant, acting teacher and coach. She has a Masters Degree from the University of Michigan where she completed her graduate studies on a Professional Theatre Fellowship. Paula is a founding member of the Ensemble Studio Theatre in New York and Los Angeles. As a Charter Member of Los Angeles Chapter of the Ensemble she served three years on the Board of Directors. Paula also co-produced From Stage to Screen, a seminar of noted directors (Stanley Kramer, Ed Zwick), actors (Jane Alexander) and writers (Beth Henley) focusing on the stage-screen adaptation process. Since relocating to Rochester, NY in 1992, Paula has segqued into writing fiction and drama. Her one-act play, The Ring was winner in the GeVa Regional Playwrights Festival in 1998 and was part of the New York Ensemble's Octoberfest in the fall of 1999. She is a member of the 1st Unitarian Church of Rochester where she serves on the Social Responsibility Council.

WRITING WORKSHOP - 2000

Suddenly Fiction
Conducted by: Sarah Freligh

Sudden fiction, flash fiction, the short story--often literary nuggets can do in two pages what a novel can do in two hundred. We'll examine what ingredients make a tantalizing short-short story by looking at published fiction, and write our own flash fiction in daily assignments with the aim toward marketing our finished product. This class is appropriate for both beginning and more experienced fiction writers who think they are too busy to write.

Sarah Freligh's short stories have appeared in many literary journals, including Cimarron, Iowa Woman, Third Coast, and Painted Bride Quarterly. She was the recipient of a 1997 Artist Residency Exchange: Western New York Grant. She has recently joined the staff of BOA Editions, Rochester, NY, one of the premier independent presses in the country.

Image Recipes: Insightful Overview of the Creation of  Photographic Ideas

Conducted by: Dan Olek

This workshop will focus on making pictures, not just taking pictures. Topics covered will include:

Six Rules for Creating a Striking Image

The Direct Approach
The Unusual Technique
The Added Unusual Feature
The Missing Feature
Compounded Features
The Literal Method

Creative Stimulus

Brainstorming
Memory
Knowledge
By an Object
Pre Visualization
Self Stimulation

Conclusions and Applications

Note: These ideas do not apply exclusively to photography. Any artist in any medium may apply these principles to their own form of expression.

Dan Olek is a freelance photographer in Fairport, NY, whose work concentrates on portraiture, annual reports and fine art nudes.

Dan earned his B.F.A.from Ohio University in 1979. He has worked with Joyce Tenneson at the Palm Beach Photographic Workshops and continues to assist there with the annual FOTOfusion seminars, which offer a week of presentations, panel discussions and portfolio reviews with leading photographers and photographic professionals. He is currently represented by the Elizabeth Collection of Rochester, NY.

Dan's work will be seen in an upcoming issue of ARTcrowd Magazine, a New York City Floating Gallery publication.

VISUAL ARTS WORKSHOP - 2000

White-Line Woodcut
Conducted by Connie Grace
and Ingrid Davis

The visual arts workshop this year is the "white-line" woodcut. This is a technique whereby a multi-colored print is produced utilizing only one block of wood. It is a technique born in the early 20th century and practiced by a group known as the Provincetown Printers. It lost popularity with artists for some years but is now enjoying a healthy resurrection.

A simple drawing is made, transferred to tracing paper and traced onto the block. The lines are then incised with a knife so that each color area is separated from its adjacent color area by a grooved line. Printmaking paper is attached to the side or top of the block so that it folds over and back like a page in a book. Using watercolors, the separate areas on the block are painted with a brush, the paper flipped over and the back of the paper burnished with a bamboo paddle or a silver spoon to transfer the color from block to paper. This process is repeated until the print is completed, at which time the paper is removed from the block. It is a slow, careful process but, oh, so satisfying.

In this class the added enhancement of colored pencil to the finished print will be demonstrated and explained. This is Ingrid's expertise. Purists may want to leave the print as it is but you, of the more experimental persuasion, will want to add the extra dimension of the colored pencil. I tend to lean toward purism (though not always) and Ingrid toward enhancement. You can choose one, the other or both. Try anything. Try everything.

Ingrid Davis

A gifted, multi-talented artist, Ingrid Davis was raised in West Berlin and came to this country in 1958. At that time she worked mostly in oils and pastels. In 1976 she moved to Japan and developed an interest in rice-paper collage which she pursued until her return to the US in 1981. Her fascination with printmaking began with a course in etching and continues with her great love for the white-line woodcut technique which she now practices almost exclusively. Ingrid studied at the Art Student's League in New York, the Brooklyn Museum School of Art in New York, The School of Visual Arts in New York and has taken many private courses. She received a first place award in Graphic Arts from the Miniature Art Society of New Jersey, a third place award in Graphic Arts form the Hudson Artists Association in New Jersey and the Judges Award for her white-line woodcuts, Parrot Tulips and In the Studio at the Art League in Alexandria, Virginia.

(Some of Ingrid's work may be viewed by visiting our galleries page.)

Connie Grace

Connie Grace saw her first white-line woodcut at an exhibition by the Provincetown Printers at the National Collection of Fine Arts in Washington, DC. She fell instantly in love with the simplicity of the design and the freshness of the watercolor. Until then she was mostly doing linocuts in the reduction method and printing on a press. Making prints with watercolors and printing by hand was a real departure but she began experimenting on her own. When an opportunity arose to study the technique with Ruth Hogan in Orleans, Massachusetts, she grabbed it. Connie and a friend spent an intense three days with Ruth in the dead of winter, working morning until night. That was in 1985 and she has been "white-lining" ever since. Connie attended the prestigious High School of Music and Art, Brooklyn College, the Corcoran School of Art in Washington, DC and The Art League in Alexandria, VA. As well as classes with many private teachers. Her white-line woodcuts are in the permanent collections of Georgetown University, The Museum of Modern Art in Buenos Aires, The National Institute of Health, Bell Atlantic Corporation and Lang Communications among others. Other prints are in the collections of The Library of Congress, The National Museum of Women in the Arts, The Corcoran Gallery and more. Shows have included Presswork: The Art of Women Printmakers (only 97 selected nationwide) and Prints: Washington at the Phillips Collection in Washington, DC.

(more works by Connie Grace can be seen at http://torpedofactory.org/artists/grace_c.htm) or by visiting our links page or galleries page.)