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October 23 –
26, 2008 Songwriting from the Center
Bob Franke
Peabody, Massachusetts
Songwriting from the Center
http://www.bobfranke.com
Bob Franke has toured, performed and written songs for over 40 years. He has been described as "the singer/songwriter's singer/songwriter." His songs have been recorded by artists throughout the world including Peter Paul & Mary, John McCutcheon, June Tabor (England), Garnet Rogers (Canada) and the Black Family (Ireland). He has received many commissions, including the ODC Dance Company of San Francisco, the city of Salem, Massachusetts, and the Marblehead Eco-Farm, for whom he composed a historical cantata. Though beloved by folk music enthusiasts everywhere, his music now reaches a new, young audience since his song "Hard Love" became the center of author Ellen Wittlinger's award-winning young-adult novel by the same name. His songs can be found in hymnals and continue to be sung at countless weddings, funerals, and anywhere people gather. A resident of Massachusetts, Franke is at home on festival, concert, and coffeehouse stages throughout the country.
October 23 –
26, 2008 Solarplate Etching
Dan Welden
Sag Harbor, New York
Solarplate Etching
www.solarplate.com
Dan Welden has been pioneering safer alternative printmaking techniques since the early 1970's when he first developed solar plates. He is co-author of "Printmaking in the Sun," and Director of Hampton Editions, Ltd. in Sag Harbor, New York, where he has collaborated with many artists including Willem and Elaine de Kooning, Eric Fischl and Dan Flavin. He has been the recipient of numerous international printmaking grants extending from Belgium to New Zealand. He was recently invited to juror the international Printmaking Biennal in Italy in the fall of 2008. His teaching techniques bring out the "spontaneity of the person with a direct and simple technique."
October 23 –
26, 2008 Unconventional Painting Techniques
Joel Nakamura
Santa Fe, New Mexico
Unconventional Painting Techniques
www.joelnakamura.com
Award-winning artist Joel Nakamura is known for his unique style: a blend of folk art and sophisticated iconography rendered in a neo-primitive technique. He is chosen for many of his commissions for his knowledge of tribal art, mythology, and for his ability to convey stories and information in an intricate and engaging manner. Nakamura's ability to render humanity in such primal, edgy hues has captured the attention of clients like Time magazine, US News and World Report, and the Los Angeles Times. His paintings have enlivened the pages of many other books and publications, as well as the programs of the 2002 Winter Olympics opening and closing ceremonies. Nakamura has been profiled in Communication Arts, Step Inside Design, Confetti, and Southwest Art magazines. He is proud to be the recipient of over two hundred awards of excellence. Nakamura splits his time between commercial and fine art projects. His work is in numerous private and corporate collections, including those of Wynonna Judd, Chick Corea, and U.S. embassies around the world. Nakamura and his wife Kathleen have two children, Paloma and Kai.
October 30 –
November 02, 2008 Woodblock Printing: Pattern to Narrative
Jeanine Coupe Ryding
Evanston, Illinois
Woodblock Printing: Pattern to Narrative
http://www.olsonlarsen.com/artists.cfm?artist_id=691&cmd=display
Jeanine Coupe Ryding studied modern literature and art at the University of Iowa, where she received her B.A. She earned her M.F.A. equivalent in sculpture from the School of Fine Arts in Berlin, Germany. Her work has been exhibited in England, Belgium, Canada, Korea, Japan, Germany and the U.S. One of Coupe Rydings most significant work-related learning experiences was working as a paper and book conservator for about six years. The things she learned about handling, mending and preserving works of art on paper continues to effect the studio work she does on a daily basis. She has been teaching at The School of the Art Institute of Chicago since 1991 in the PrintMedia department, while keeping up with a busy exhibition schedule and continuing to make etchings, woodcut prints, collage and artists books in her converted garage studio.
October 30 –
November 02, 2008 Ballroom Dancing for the Classroom
Alee Reed
New York, New York
Ballroom Dancing for the Classroom
http://www.dancingclassrooms.com
Reed comes to OAI from the American Ballroom Theater (ABrT) in New York City. ABrTs Dancing Classrooms program is the subject of the hit documentary "Mad Hot Ballroom," as well as the inspiration for "Take the Lead," starring Antonio Banderas as ABrT founder Pierre Dulaine. Reed is the artistic director of the ABrT Youth Dance Company, which has performed at venues such as the Kennedy Center, Lincoln Center, and Madison Square Garden. Reed also serves as educational liaison for Dancing Classrooms, and is on the faculty of ABrT's scholarship program and the American Ballroom Dance Studio. Prior to entering the world of ballroom dance, Reed was a musical theater dancer, traveling Europe with "42nd Street" and across the U.S. with the national tours of "Gypsy," "Mame," "Jolson," and "Big." Reed is a graduate of Oklahoma City University and a proud alum of OSAI -- four summers!
Rainer Trubere
New Milford, New Jersey
Ballroom Dancing for the Classroom
http://www.dancingclassrooms.com
Rainer Trubere has over 30 years of experience teaching, choreographing, and performing throughout the U.S., Europe, Australia, New Zealand and Japan. He has a diverse background in ballet, jazz, tap, cabaret and ballroom dance. His extensive list of credits includes commercials, TV, film, and stage. Trubere was a "Solid Gold" dancer and a featured dancer with Juliet Prowse, and has worked with Joe Namath, Siegfried and Roy, Suzanne Somers, Charo, and Dionne Warwick, to name a few. His most recent film work was as a dancer in the Disney movie "Enchanted." Trubere teaches ballroom dancing to adults privately and at DanceSport in New York City, as well as to New York City school children through American Ballroom Theater's Dancing Classrooms program. Last year the students he taught at PS 89 in the Bronx were the first-place champions in the citywide Dancing Classrooms Grand Finals "Colors of the Rainbow" Team Match!
November 06 –
09, 2008 Monotype Printing with Water-Based Inks
Susan Rostow
New York, New York
Monotype Printing with Water-Based Inks
http://www.waterbasedinks.com
Susan Rostow is an active New York City artist / printmaker and educator. She is the president of Rostow & Jung Water-based Printshop & Inks Inc, an experimental printshop dedicated to the development of safer printmaking methods and materials. She is the inventor and formulator of Akua Kolor and Akua Intaglio water-based inks. Rostow has taught numerous printmaking workshops around the country for over 25 years. Her prints have been exhibited throughout the United States, Europe and Japan. Her works are included in numerous private and public collections including the Library of Congress and National Print Archives. Rostow is a past recipient of a Pollock-Krasner Foundation Award in printmaking
November 06 –
09, 2008 Classical Figure Drawing
November 06 –
09, 2008 Play, Sing, and Dance: An Introduction to Orff Schulwerk
Doug Goodkin
San Francisco, California
Play, Sing, and Dance: An Introduction to Orff Schulwerk
http://www.douggoodkin.com
Doug Goodkin is internationally known for his work as a music educator and as a proponent of Orff Schulwerk, a dynamic approach to music education developed by composer Carl Orff and his colleague, Gunild Keetman. Goodkin is currently in his 34th year at The San Francisco School, where he works with children between three years old and eighth grade. He also maintains a rigorous schedule of teacher training, presenting at conferences and giving workshops and courses in over 32 countries throughout the world. He is the author of six books, most recently "Now's the Time: Teaching Jazz to All Ages" and "The ABCs of Education: A Primer for Schools to Come." Goodkin is particularly well-known for his innovative application of Orff practice to the teaching of jazz and music of diverse cultures, as well as connecting Orff's generative ideas with the whole of education, culture and human potential.
November 06 –
09, 2008 Screenwriting
James Ragan
Norman, Oklahoma
Screenwriting
James Ragan is an internationally recognized poet and director of the University of Southern California's graduate professional writing program. A native of Pittsburgh, Dr. Ragan earned degrees from Pennsylvania's St. Vincent College, Ohio University, and London's Richmond University. Ragan has read his poetry for five heads of state including Mikhail Gorbachev and Czech President Vaclav Havel, and has been honored in the U.S. and abroad as an ambassador of poetry. In 1985 Ragan, Robert Bly, and Bob Dylan were the only three Americans invited to perform at the First International Poetry Festival in Moscow. Ragan has received three Fulbright Professorships, the Emerson Poetry Prize, eight Puschart Prize nominations, and many other poetry honors. He has authored six books, and his poetry has been translated into 12 languages. He has also written original plays and screenplays, including the screenplay "The Man," written for Clint Eastwood and based on the life of Howard Hughes. In 1996 BUZZ Magazine named Ragan one of the "100 Coolest People in Los Angeles: Those Who Make a Difference."
November 13 –
16, 2008 Encaustic Painting
Kristy Deetz
DePere, Wisconsin
Encaustic Painting
http://www.uwgb.edu/art/faculty/deetz.html
Kristy Deetz, currently an associate professor of painting and drawing at the University of Wisconsin-Green Bay, received her B.F.A. from Bowling Green State University in Ohio and her M.F.A. in painting and drawing from Ohio State University. She has taught painting and drawing at a number of universities and art schools over the past twenty years, including Michigan State University and Miami University. She has also conducted numerous encaustic painting workshops. Deetz's extensive exhibition record includes competitive, invitational, and solo exhibitions throughout the United States. Her recent encaustic and oil paintings, with carved and burned surfaces, revise traditional images of drapery and still life and explore how image and process reveal and conceal substance (the body) and spirit.
November 13 –
16, 2008 The Fundamentals of Acting
E. R. Gister
New Haven, Connecticut
The Fundamentals of Acting
E. R. Gister began acting at age six; now a septuagenarian, he has never stopped! After spending time in New York in his mid-twenties, Gister decided the New York theater scene wasn't for him. He began channeling his energy into teaching, and calls that the best decision of his life. Gister has served as head of acting at Carnegie-Mellon University, and director of the Leonard Davis Center in New York. He was the associate dean at the Yale School of Drama for 21 years. Now 75, Gister is retired, but continues to teach many workshops at such prestigious institutions as the Juilliard School, NYU, Rutgers University, North Carolina School of the Arts, and many others.
November 13 –
16, 2008 Visual Storytelling Through Digital Photography
Ami Vitale
Washington, D.C.
Visual Storytelling Through Digital Photography
http://www.amivitale.com/main.html
Ami Vitale, best known for her cultural documentation, has received recognition for her work from World Press Photo, the National Press Photographers Association, International Photos of the Year, Photo District News, and more. The South Asian Journalists Association presented her with the Daniel Pearl Award for outstanding print reporting on South Asia. Her stories have been awarded grants, including the first-ever Inge Morath grant by Magnum Photos, the Canon female photojournalist award for her work in Kashmir, and the Alexia Foundation for World Peace. Vitale's photographs have been published in major international magazines such as National Geographic, Adventure, Geo, Newsweek, Time, Smithsonian and Le Figaro, among others. They have also been presented in international exhibitions including Visa Pour L'Image, Perpignan, France; Reporters Sans Frontiers, Paris; the FotoArt Festival in Poland; the Open Society Institute and The United Nations in New York and in many other countries.
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