Ox-Bow Summer School of Art and Artists Residency

Plein air Landscape Painting and Drawing
Saturday and Sunday from 10-3 pm
with Michael Pfleghaar
$170 Bag lunch included on Saturday and brunch provided on Sunday.

A workshop on landscape painting from the natural forest, dune areas, lagoon, and historic buildings of the Ox-Bow Artists' campus.  Paintings and drawings will be done directly from observation in the field.  These works will function as both finished pieces as well as studies to be completed in the studio.  Students will focus on light, form, color, and composition through the use of their own choice of drawing and painting materials.  Studios available for inclement weather as well as group critiques.  Open to beginners through experienced students.  A suggested workshop supply list will be provided upon registration.

Something Suspended: Jewelry
Saturday and Sunday from 10-3 pm
$185 Bag lunch included on Saturday and brunch provided on Sunday.
with Renee Zettle-Sterling

This jewelry workshop will focus on exploring techniques such as surface embellishment, piercing, and soldering. Using these techniques, students will create one of a kind pendants and earrings. The students are encouraged to bring meaningful, personal or sentimental objects as a springboard for developing their ideas and designs. Materials included.

SPECIAL ONE-DAY WORKSHOP

Chocolate Workshop
Saturday September 27th
Saturday from 10-3 pm
with Chris Ferris
$100 Lunch included on Saturday.

Indulge your senses with this special one-day workshop. Learn about the history of this decadent treat, while sampling a variety and learning to make chocolate truffles. The lecture portion of the class will include the origin of chocolate, how it has influenced history, the chocolate making process and a description of chocolate products from cocoa to bittersweet to unsweetened baking chocolate. We will discuss connoisseurship, from single origin chocolates and blends to how to taste fine chocolates and responsibly farmed chocolate. We will do tastings during the lecture portion, then head into the kitchen for afternoon of creating our own truffles, flavored with herbs, honey, tea, coffee, spices, flowers, nuts and liquors. We will also temper chocolate and make marbleized candy bars, chocolate doodles and turtles. Each student will get to take a box of their handiwork home.

Autumn Poetry Weekend
September 27 and September 28
Saturday and Sunday from 10-3 pm
with Jackie Bartley
$170 Bag lunch included on Saturday and brunch provided on Sunday.

Haiku train the spirit in the art of attentiveness, the essence of all creative endeavor, so we’ll begin the weekend with them as a way of centering. Then, we’ll move through a variety of prompts toward longer, more complex poems. Along the way, we’ll experiment with imagery, sound and syntax, write “under the influence” of other poets, and share our work with one another in the understanding that the goal of a poetry workshop is to keep us all singing and to nudge each poem toward fullness.

      Bugs on a branch
floating downriver,
      still singing.
              —Issa

Landscape Explorations: Mixed Media
September 27 and September 28
Saturday and Sunday from 10-3 pm
with Rob Bondgren
$185 Bag lunch included on Saturday and brunch provided on Sunday.

Students will find ways to use recycled materials, and found objects to interpret the Ox-Bow landscape and create mixed media masterpieces! Focusing on materials and methods of cut and paste, transfer, drawing and painting, and patterning, students experiment and create their own landscape narratives. Students are encouraged to incorporate natural materials found at Ox-Bow, while paying special attention to the changing colors, patterns, and textures of the landscape.