Basic Camera and Darkroom Techniques
Sam Magee
Schedule: TBD
Enrollment limited: advance sign up required (see contact below)
Signup by: 05-Jan-2009
Limited to 10 participants.
Participants requested to attend all sessions (non-series)
Prereq: register at saa.mit.edu
Fee: 40.00 for $40 for students, $80 for affiliates
Learn the basics of photographing with a manual 35mm camera. Learn your way around the darkroom: how to develop film and print photographs. Bring two rolls of'Ilford T-Max 400, 36 exposure' or 'Kodak TRI-X 36 exposure' black and white film to first class. Cameras available for student use during class-time on a limited basis. Students supply film and paper. Non-class darkroom use included. Meets 4 times starting Tues., Jan. 6th. Workshop dates: Tues. Jan 6, 4:00pm-7:00pm; Wed. Jan 7, 4:00pm-7:00pm; Thurs. Jan 8, 4:00pm-7:00pm; Fri. Jan 9, 4:00pm-7:00pm. Limited enrollment.
Web: http://saa.mit.edu
Contact: Sam Magee, W20-429, x3-7019, sammagee@mit.edu
Sponsor: Student Art Association
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Beginning Life Drawing
Sam Mage
Tue Jan 6, 13, 20, 27, 04-06:30pm, W20-429
Enrollment limited: advance sign up required (see contact below)
Signup by: 05-Jan-2009
Limited to 18 participants.
Participants requested to attend all sessions (non-series)
Prereq: see saa.mit.edu
Fee: 40.00 for $40 for students, $80 for affiliates
This course quickly allows people of all abilities to use the human form to learn the fundamentals of drawing and illusion. A variety of media will be used including pencil, charcoal, and pen and ink.
Web: http://saa.mit.edu
Contact: Sam Mage, W20-429, x3-7019, sammagee@mit.edu
Sponsor: Student Art Association
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Beginning Potters Wheel
Sam Magee
Wed Jan 7, 14, 21, 28, 04:30-07:00pm, W20-429
Enrollment limited: first come, first served
Signup by: 05-Jan-2009
Limited to 12 participants.
Participants requested to attend all sessions (non-series)
Prereq: see saa.mit.edu
Fee: 40.00 for $40 for students $80 for affiliates
Discover the working properties of clay. This course will focus on learning to center on the wheel as the basis for forming round objects such as bowls and cups.
Web: http://saa.mit.edu
Contact: Sam Magee, W20-429, x3-7019, sammagee@mit.edu
Sponsor: Student Art Association
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Center Sponge
Hope Ginsburg
Mon Jan 26 thru Fri Jan 30, 10am-05:00pm, N52-390
Enrollment limited: first come, first served
Signup by: 15-Jan-2009
Limited to 10 participants.
Participants requested to attend all sessions (non-series)
CAVS welcomes artist & MIT alumna Hope Ginsburg and her IAP Center Sponge, a five-day experience in total immersion. During each "absorb-a-thon" day, one theme will be explored in depth: Organism, Fantastical Realism, Optimism, Cynicism, and Metabolism. The event will culminate in an exhibition hosted by CAVS.
Center Sponge will string together encounters with the ocean floor, outer space, maple-sugaring, and singing in the rain. After a week of visiting expert presentations, film screenings, one intensive ukulele lesson, and three field trips (to an aquarium, a planetarium, and a museum), you will “wring-out” by delivering a presentation of your own. Prepare to leave the workshop (with a ukulele) ready to conduct future Sponges.
Web: http://www.hopeginsburg.com/sponge.php
Contact: Meg Rotzel, N52-390, x3-4415, mrotzel@mit.edu
Sponsor: Center for Advanced Visual Studies
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Ceramic Lidded Boxes
Sam Magee
Wed Jan 7, 14, 21, 28, 07:30-10:00pm, W20-429
Enrollment limited: first come, first served
Participants requested to attend all sessions (non-series)
Fee: for supplies (see saa.mit.edu) $40/stud,$80/fac
Learn to start with basic geometric shapes like rectangles, trapezoids, and circles, add a little decoration, and end up with great-looking containers. We will be using stiffened clay slabs to form containers with lids, emphasizing the more angular aspects of the material when used in this way. Measured approaches and more improvisational approaches will be compared. Flat surfaces lend themselves well to surface decoration, too!
Web: http://saa.mit.edu
Contact: Sam Magee, W20-429, x3-7019, sammagee@mit.edu
Sponsor: Student Art Association
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Ceramic jewelrymaking
Sam Magee
Sat Jan 10, 17, 24, 31, 10am-12:30pm, W20-429
Enrollment limited: first come, first served
Signup by: 05-Jan-2009
Limited to 12 participants.
Participants requested to attend all sessions (non-series)
Prereq: see saa.mit.edu
Fee: 40.00 for $40 for students $80 for affiliates
Create your own pendant and/or fashion beads, paint them with underglazes, and make ceramic earrings to match. Learn how to twist wire for creating your own hand-made jewelry for yourself, or gifts for others!
Web: http://saa.mit.edu
Contact: Sam Magee, W20-429, x3-7019, sammagee@mit.edu
Sponsor: Student Art Association
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Ceramica Botanica
Sam Magee
Tue Jan 6, 13, 20, 27, 07-10:00pm, W20-429
Enrollment limited: first come, first served
Signup by: 05-Jan-2009
Limited to 12 participants.
Participants requested to attend all sessions (non-series)
Prereq: see saa.mit.edu
Fee: 40.00 for $40 for students, $80 for affiliates
Nature is a wonderful source of inspiration. Both wheel thrown and hand-built vessels will be stretched, altered and manipulated in various ways with a nature theme. Exploring numerous surface techniques, we will transform your vessel into a functional form or sculptural object. Think large leaf platters, perhaps plump peach pitchers or over-sized sculptural pears.
Web: http://saa.mit.edu
Contact: Sam Magee, W20-429, x3-7019, sammagee@mit.edu
Sponsor: Student Art Association
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Chinese brush painting and western painting techniques
Sam Mage
Wed Jan 7, 14, 21, 28, 07-09:30pm, W20-429
Enrollment limited: advance sign up required (see contact below)
Signup by: 05-Jan-2009
Limited to 12 participants.
Participants requested to attend all sessions (non-series)
Prereq: see saa.mit.edu
Fee: 40.00 for $40 for students, $80 for affiliates
With a combination of traditional Chinese brush painting and western painting techniques, use freehand brushwork to explore expressiveness, interpretation, and abstraction. Students will learn how to paint using ink, watercolor, and gouache on rice paper. This term will do tulip, poppy, and iris.
Web: http://saa.mit.edu
Contact: Sam Mage, W20-429, x3-7019, sammagee@mit.edu
Sponsor: Student Art Association
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Creative Electronics
Jessica Rylan
Tue Jan 20 thru Fri Jan 23, 02-05:00pm, N52-390
Enrollment limited: first come, first served
Signup by: 14-Jan-2009
Limited to 12 participants.
Participants requested to attend all sessions (non-series)
This electronics building workshop IAP is designed for people who want to make creative use of electronics, but need some foundations. Over four days, we’ll start with the basics (how to read schematics and solder) and move on to the practical: adapting circuits to your own purposes, and making something that actually works.
Simultaneously, we’ll build a complicated audio circuit, one sub-system at a time. The finished project will make noises, transform audio inputs, exhibit chaotic behavior, and. . . we’ll see what you come up with!
Here is more detail about the topics to be covered: overview of overviews: safety, schematics, print and web resources commercial information: data sheets, catalogs, online sales creative electronics: learning to push the envelope
Web: http://Visit http://cavs.mit.edu/artists.html?id=50,330
Contact: Meg Rotzel, N52-390, x3-4415, mrotzel@mit.edu
Sponsor: Center for Advanced Visual Studies
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Exploring 3D Animation
Sam Magee
Sun Jan 11, 18, 25, Feb 1, 02-05:00pm, W20-429
Enrollment limited: advance sign up required (see contact below)
Signup by: 05-Jan-2009
Limited to 12 participants.
Participants requested to attend all sessions (non-series)
Prereq: see saa.mit.edu
Fee: 15.00 for fees
This is a class where students will be exposed to 3D animation software. We will learn the key principles used in the animation industry. We will take a collaborative idea from start to finish, including: story boarding, concept art, modeling, lighting, character animation, rendering and digital effects.This will be a largely student run endeavor with the possibility of a professional in the field assisting.
Web: http://saa.mit.edu
Contact: Daniel Dahan, ddahan@mit.edu
Sponsor: Student Art Association
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Getting Out of Purgatory
Sam Magee
Mon Jan 5, 12, 19, 26, 07:30-10:00pm, W20-429
Enrollment limited: first come, first served
Signup by: 05-Jan-2009
Limited to 8 participants.
Participants requested to attend all sessions (non-series)
Prereq: see saa.mit.edu
Fee: 40.00 for instruction and materials needed
So you threw a bowl... again. And now you're wondering what to do with it, and how to make it look less like the ten pieces that you already took home. Get out of decoration purgatory! In this class, we'll talk about all of the ways in which you can make your work more interesting: adding features, carving away, using slip or underglazes.... We will also discuss glaze options so that you can make the most of the resources available here at the SAA. This class will NOT teach you how to throw. You will have access to the studio to throw on your own time, but we will spend class time working mostly with leather-hard pieces.
Web: http://saa.mit.edu
Contact: Sam Magee, W20-429, x3-7019, sammagee@mit.edu
Sponsor: Student Art Association
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Hey, It's Only Clay
Sam Magee
Fri Jan 9, 16, 23, 30, 04-06:30pm, W20-429
Enrollment limited: first come, first served
Signup by: 05-Jan-2009
Limited to 12 participants.
Participants requested to attend all sessions (non-series)
Prereq: see saa.mit.edu
Fee: 40.00 for $40 for students, $80 for affiliates
Discusses structure-property relationships in ceramic materials. Includes hierarchy... oh, wait, that's 3.07 Introduction to Ceramics! This is Introduction to Pottery! Come and learn a low-tech way of playing with clay on a potter's wheel. No experience necessary.
Web: http://saa.mit.edu
Contact: Sam Magee, W20-429, x3-7019, sammagee@mit.edu
Sponsor: Student Art Association
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In Dialogue with Nature: A short history of the art, crafts, and materials of Japanese Painting - A Lecture
Tomoyuki Kambe Artist and Research Scholar
Thu Jan 22, 10am-12:00pm, E38-714, (7th fl conf rm)
No enrollment limit, no advance sign up
Single session event
This lecture is open to all, and is preparatory to the afternoon workshop "The Metamorphosis of Silver Leaf" which
requires advance signup and a $10 fee. The lecture is open to the community regardless of whether or not you sign up for the afternoon workshop, and is free of charge. The lecture will be given in Japanese with English consecutive interpreting.
Artist Tomoyuki Kambe graduated from Tama Art University in 2001 and has since been a member of the Tama University Art Laboratory. Mr. Kambe currently resides in Boston with a grant from the Japan Cultural Agency. For samples of Tomoyuki Kambe’s works please visit:
http://tomoyukikambe.web.fc2.com/english/works.html
Contact: Daniela Reichert, dreichert@mit.edu
Sponsor: MIT Japan Program
Cosponsor: Center for International Studies
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Intro to Clay
Sam Magee
Sun Jan 11, 18, 25, Feb 1, 10am-12:30pm, W20-429
Enrollment limited: first come, first served
Signup by: 05-Jan-2009
Limited to 12 participants.
Participants requested to attend all sessions (non-series)
Prereq: see saa.mit.edu
Fee: 40.00 for $40 for students, $80 for affiliates
The four week class will offer the student a basic understanding of clay working techniques. The students will work on a mug, a coil and slab bowl, firing and glazing. The class will focus on hand building. The students can expect to have a few finished work at the end of the IAP.
Web: http://saa.mit.edu
Contact: Sam Magee, W20-429, x3-7019, sammagee@mit.edu
Sponsor: Student Art Association
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Intro to Pan-dimensional Art: Reductive sculpture
Sam Magee
Mon Jan 5, 12, 19, 26, 06-09:00pm, W20-429
Enrollment limited: advance sign up required (see contact below)
Signup by: 05-Jan-2009
Limited to 10 participants.
Participants requested to attend all sessions (non-series)
Prereq: none
Fee: 40.00 for instructor pay
Sculpt anything with cheap and readily available materials and tools. Learn to
make sturdy structures, compelling surfaces, and dynamic forms based on
drawings, photographs, or 3-D objects.
Web: http://saa.mit.edu
Contact: Sam Magee, W20-429, x3-7019, sammagee@mit.edu
Sponsor: Office of the Arts
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Introduction to Gum Bichromate Printing - soup to nuts
Sam Mage
Fri Jan 23, Sat Jan 24, Fri Jan 30, Sat Jan 31, Sun Feb 1, 04-10:00pm, W20-429, see site for times
Enrollment limited: advance sign up required (see contact below)
Limited to 10 participants.
Participants requested to attend all sessions (non-series)
Prereq: register at saa.mit.edu
Fee: 200.00 for instruction and materials needed
Instructors: Thery Mislick, Graham Ramsay. Attendance: required for entire workshop. Preregistration: required (must register by Jan. 9). This five day intensive workshop is designed to introduce students to gum bichromate printing. One of the earliest photographic printing processes, gum printing utilizes a contact negative to produce delicate, painterly images that use watercolor paint as the pigment of their emulsions. The basic process is quite simple and fun. Once learned, the process can be duplicated simply in a variety of environments without the requirement of a traditional darkroom. Gum printing also permits a high degree of artistic expression, as each practitioner can personalize his or her technique to best suit their needs.
Web: http://saa.mit.edu
Contact: Sam Mage, W20-429, x3-7019, sammagee@mit.edu
Sponsor: Student Art Association
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Media Barrios in Jerusalem: Challenges for Design and Planning of Urban Arts Initiatives
Nitin Sawhney, Diane Davis, Raed Yacoub
Thu Jan 8, 04-06:30pm, 10-401
No enrollment limit, no advance sign up
Single session event
A participatory workshop examining the role of media arts and culture projects in revitalizing disenfranchised neighborhoods in conflict cities like Belfast, Berlin, and Jerusalem. This workshop primarily focuses on understanding the socio-economic and political dimensions of the city of Jerusalem as a working case study. We consider the design of physical/virtual interventions, creating participatory public arts programs, and challenges in urban design and architecture for such "Media Barrios" conceptualized in Jerusalem over the coming years. Co-sponsored by MIT Jerusalem 2050 Project (http://www.justjerusalem.org)
Contact: Nitin Sawhney, nitin@media.mit.edu
Sponsor: Urban Studies and Planning
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Mug Myopia
Sam Magee
Tue Jan 6, 13, 20, 27, 04-06:30pm, W20-429
Enrollment limited: first come, first served
Signup by: 05-Jan-2009
Limited to 12 participants.
Participants requested to attend all sessions (non-series)
Prereq: see saa.mit.edu
Fee: 40.00 for $40 for students, $80 for affiliates
Register at saa.mit.edu
This 4 week IAP workshop will focus on mugs... or cups or latte bowls, teacups, cups, yunomi etc. The functionality and numerous surface treatments for drinking vessels will be explored. The "mug", with its potential for personality balanced with functionality, is a wonderful subject to focus on. This is the workshop to help you overcome that "fear of handles" and explore the possibilities of slip applications.
Web: http://saa.mit.edu
Contact: Sam Magee, W20-429, x3-7019, sammagee@mit.edu
Sponsor: Student Art Association
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No Scarves Allowed Beginning Knitting
Sam Magee
Fri Jan 9, 16, 23, 30, 12-02:30pm, W20-429
Enrollment limited: advance sign up required (see contact below)
Signup by: 05-Jan-2009
Limited to 8 participants.
Participants requested to attend all sessions (non-series)
Prereq: see saa.mit.edu
Fee: 40.00 for $40 for students, $80 for affiliates
Everyone is knitting, but you! Join the rest of us and learn how to knit. Our first project will be a two-pointed hat knit on circular needles. If time allows, our second project will be a small felted purse – perfect to hold your cell, your ID, and your keys. No experience necessary.
Web: http://saa.mit.edu
Contact: Sam Magee, W20-429, x3-7019, sammagee@mit.edu
Sponsor: Student Art Association
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Nuno felting
Sam Magee
Sat Jan 24, 12-03:00pm, W20-429
Enrollment limited: advance sign up required (see contact below)
Signup by: 05-Jan-2009
Limited to 8 participants.
Single session event
Prereq: see saa.mit.edu
Fee: 10.00 for $10 for students, $20 for affiliates
What do you get when you combine silk fabric, wool fleece, and hot water? You get a beautiful piece of felted fabric. No sewing or knitting experience required, just show up and leave with a piece of wearable art.
1/24 12noon to 3pm
Web: http://saa.mit.edu
Contact: Sam Magee, W20-429, x3-7019, sammagee@mit.edu
Sponsor: Student Art Association
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Peace Tiles – Community Art and Action Tool
Lars Hasselblad Torres, Linden McEntire
Thu Jan 8, Thu Jan 22, 02-04:00pm, 4-402, Bring an appetite: pizza
Enrollment limited: advance sign up required (see contact below)
Limited to 40 participants.
Single session event
Prereq: Please RSVP by January 17th!
During this hands-on workshop, students will learn how the Peace Tiles project combines individual and group creativity with dialogue to produce public murals. Using a range of mixed media on 8” x 8” wood panel, Peace Tiles is a useful, positive tool for self-expression, education, self-advocacy and community-based research around difficult issues. This workshop will introduce the Peace Tiles process and encourage participants to think about ways the arts can be used to catalyze community change.
More than 3,500 Peace Tiles have been created in 19 countries, engaging thousands of young people world-wide. Murals have been exhibited at the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria, the Armory Arts Center in Pasadena, the Pretoria Museum of Art in South Africa, and many other community venues.
Web: http://www.peacetiles.net
Contact: Lars Hasselblad Torres, W20-549, x4-5176, lhtorres@mit.edu
Sponsor: Public Service Center
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Photoshop without a Computer
Sam Mage
Tue Jan 13, 20, 27, 07-10:00pm, W20-429
Enrollment limited: advance sign up required (see contact below)
Signup by: 05-Jan-2009
Limited to 12 participants.
Participants requested to attend all sessions (non-series)
Fee: 40.00 for $40 for students, $80 for affiliates
Learn how to combine, layer, and manipulate images without a computer. In this three class workshop we will use a variety of techniques including grid transfer and tracing in order to combine representational images from different sources into one convincing illusion.
Web: http://saa.mit.edu
Contact: Sam Mage, W20-429, x3-7019, sammagee@mit.edu
Sponsor: Student Art Association
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Searching for Light in the Shadows
Daniel Eppelsheimer
Sat Jan 10, 17, 24, 31, 12-05:00pm, TBA
Enrollment limited: advance sign up required (see contact below)
Signup by: 04-Jan-2009
Limited to 12 participants.
Participants requested to attend all sessions (non-series)
Prereq: Must bring DSLR to each session
Fee: 99.00 for Production of the member's portfolio
The Saturday sessions are workshops of progressive lighting control. Photography as an Art form is integrated into Digital Image Capture and Workflow. Class member skills will be enhanced to a minimum professional level. The goal for each is the production of a portfolio. The fees cover those and other costs. This course is being offered for the 10th time. Contact me with any question(s).
Contact: Daniel Eppelsheimer, E53-100, 253-5676, dseppels@mit.edu
Sponsor: Libraries
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The Metamorphosis of Silver Leaf - A Workshop
Tomoyuki Kambe Artist and Research Scholar
Thu Jan 22, 02-04:00pm, E38-714, (7th fl conf rm)
Enrollment limited: advance sign up required (see contact below)
Limited to 20 participants.
Single session event
Prereq: Morning lecture by Professor Kambe: In Dialogue with Nature
Fee: 10.00 for cost of materials
Mr. Kambe will instruct participants to create their own painting on square Japanese paper canvas (shikishi) using silver foil/leaves. The silver foil will subsequently be brushed with a special solution to create a ‘silver foil painting with a twist’. Participants are requested to also attend the morning lecture in preparation for the workshop. Workshop will be taught in Japanese with English consecutive interpreting.
Artist Tomoyuki Kambe graduated from Tama Art University in 2001 and has since been a member of the Tama University Art Laboratory. Mr. Kambe currently resides in Boston with a grant from the Japan Cultural Agency. For samples of Tomoyuki Kambe’s works please visit:
http://tomoyukikambe.web.fc2.com/english/works.html
Contact: Daniela Reichert, dreichert@mit.edu
Sponsor: MIT Japan Program
Cosponsor: Center for International Studies
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Watercolor
Sam Mage
Thu Jan 8, 15, 22, 29, 04:30-07:00pm, W20-429
Enrollment limited: advance sign up required (see contact below)
Signup by: 05-Jan-2009
Limited to 15 participants.
Participants requested to attend all sessions (non-series)
Prereq: see saa.mit.edu
Fee: 40.00 for $40 for students, $80 for affiliates
Introductory watercolor using opaque and transparent paint. Color theory and brush work will be explored. Work mainly from studio set-ups plus your imagination. Open to all levels.
First class will meet on Thursday, Jan. 8th at 4:30pm.
Web: http://saa.mit.edu
Contact: Sam Mage, W20-429, x3-7019, sammagee@mit.edu
Sponsor: Student Art Association
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What's a Sprig
Sam Magee
Thu Jan 8, 15, 22, 29, 07-09:30pm, W20-429
Enrollment limited: first come, first served
Signup by: 05-Jan-2009
Limited to 12 participants.
Participants requested to attend all sessions (non-series)
Prereq: see saa.mit.edu
Fee: 40.00 for $40 for students, $80 for afiliates
Sprigs are made from press molds. Hmmm, what's a press mold? It's a great way to add some highly detailed relief to your pottery. In this class we'll design models and make molds of small detailed embellishments for your pottery. Be prepared to work with oil clay and plaster! Some clay experience helpful.
Web: http://saa.mit.edu
Contact: Sam Magee, W20-429, x3-7019, sammagee@mit.edu
Sponsor: Student Art Association
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Who needs lenses
Sam Magee
Fri Jan 9, 07-10:00pm, W20-429
Sat Jan 10, 01-04:00pm, W20-429
Fri Jan 16, 07-10:00pm, W20-429
Sat Jan 17, 01-04:00pm, W20-429
Enrollment limited: advance sign up required (see contact below)
Signup by: 05-Jan-2009
Limited to 12 participants.
Participants requested to attend all sessions (non-series)
Prereq: see saa.mit.edu
Fee: 40.00 for $40 for students, $80 for affiliates
Who needs lenses? This workshop will cover lensless "pinhole" photography. Students will design and build simple pinhole cameras and shoot using both paper negatives and large format film. This course is perfect for:
All skill levels, beginners welcome!
Alternative process printers who want large format negatives to contact print
Luddites who want to just khow how much technology you can strip away and still make photographs
Interdisciplinary artists who wish to design and build cameras that become part of their art
Pinhole photographs have unique feel because they have no depth of field (or infinite depth of field), this means all parts of the image are equally sharp (or unsharp depending on your design).
Web: http://saa.mit.edu
Contact: Sam Magee, W20-429, x3-7019, sammagee@mit.edu
Sponsor: Student Art Association
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