Continuing Inspiration 2008
An Annual Presentation of The Professional Institute for Educators
The Professional Institute for Educators at The University of the Arts is proud to partner with the Wayne Art Center to serve the
artistic needs of educators in the Main Line area and surrounding counties.
UArts courses are designed for teachers, but any course can be taken as
non-credit for those who are interested. These graduate-level credit courses
meet PA Act 48 requirements for teachers.
Register by calling The University of the Arts at 215-717-6092 or visiting the U-Arts website.
ED7611 Painting: Emphasis on Color & Design
Sat & Sun, Feb 23 & 24, Sat, Mar 1, Sat & Sun, Mar 8 & 9
9:00 AM - 6:00 PM
3 credit hours $725, $20 materials fee
PUSHING THE ENVELOPE. This studio painting course lets you redefine color theory and design concepts - a journey of personal exploration and the expansion of your visual understanding.You'll visit the outer reaches of color - changeable and elusive - to discover that color is the most relative element in the artistic vocabulary. In addition to applying color juxtaposition theory by Joseph Albers, students will examine ways of using design to describe, emote and influence human response, and how concepts and messages predict how line, shape, pattern and rhythm perform. Includes both painting from direct observation and imagination as well as collage and alla prima paint applications. Course allows for personal exploration and expression with media.Applicable to classroom use; all levels welcome. List of items to be purchased will be sent to students.
ED6022 Ceramics: Focus on Throwing
Fri, Mar 28, Apr 4, 5:00 - 9:30 PM,
Sat & Sun, Mar 29 & 30, 5 & 6, 9:00 AM - 6:00 PM
3 credit hours $725, $75 materials fee
Explore both traditional and experimental throwing techniques to make functional and sculptural pots. Develop your repertoire of skills, improve your competency at thinking and working three-dimensionally, and incorporate new methods to encourage craftsmanship and conceptual skills in your students. Focus on the potential of the potter's wheel as a tool for expression. This course provides an opportunity for personal invention as you develop sound skills to take back to the classroom. Learn throwing techniques with stoneware clays for both the beginning and more experienced student. In addition, discover finishes of the forms with colored slips, underglazes, and firing techniques.
ED6023 Ceramics: Advanced Throwing
Fri, Mar 28, Apr 4, 5:00 - 9:30 PM,
Sat & Sun, Mar 29 & 30, 5 & 6, 9:00 AM - 6:00 PM
3 credit hours $725, $75 materials fee
Learn advanced throwing techniques with stoneware clays, build your repertoire at a higher level, and expand your personal development with more challenging projects.We will focus on experimental throwing techniques to make functional and sculptural pots and continue your progression with this media. Time will be spent on finishes of the forms with colored slips, under glazes, oxides, shop glazes, and firing techniques. Improve your competency at thinking and working three-dimensionally and incorporate new methods to encourage craftsmanship and conceptual skills in your students. PREREQUISITE: ED 6022 CERAMICS: THROWING
ED768 Printmaking
Friday, April 11, 25, 5:00 - 9:30 PM,
Sat & Sun, April 12 & 13, 26 & 27, 9:00 AM - 6:00 PM
3 credit hours $725, $60 materials fee
SPONTANEITY WITH EASE. This class addresses image-making through basic printmaking media such as monoprinting, applying processes and techniques that can be used in a classroom without specialized equipment or presses.You'll create images by drawing and painting directly on the plate or by working from a sketch. The creative process is analyzed at every point. Processes include dark field, light field, trace monotypes, simple relief printing, and chine colle.Only nontoxic inks are used.
ED5702 Crossing Boundaries: Language & Music Inspire Painting
Saturday & Sunday, May 3 & 4, Saturday, May 10,
Saturday & Sunday, May 17 & 18, 9:00 AM - 6:00 PM
3 credit hours $725, $20 materials fee
SHARPEN YOUR SKILLS as a painter and an observer through the inspiration of other art forms.View the interchange of talent that produces disciplinary dialogue between artists, writers, and musicians. These results can produce a phenomenon that reaches beyond the products of each one singly. In this course, discuss famous collaborations:Mallarme,Manet and Debussy on the theme "Prelude l'apres midi d'un faune" (Afternoon of a Faun); the work of Andre Breton and the Surrealists, or the beat poets and artists. Then, with hands-on instruction and exercises in various painting techniques, color usage, collage, and some typography, apply your skills to interpretations of the word, poetry or musical phrase. See how language can inspire creative art where pattern and rhythm tie the two together or consider how sequencing and assembly can tie into the narrative. Develop your studio skills and enhance the information needed to produce exciting projects for the classroom where crossover thinking is essential for expanded expression. Demonstrations of materials and historical references for examples are included. Participants should come to class with a poem or musical selection to begin the process. Teachers in all subject areas are welcome, some previous drawing experience preferred but nor required.
