A 5 week series in Evans’ unique style of modern dance technique. Appropriate for dancers with some experience at the beginning level in modern, contemporary, ballet or jazz. All ages welcome. Evans built his technique on his profound study of ballet and classic styles of modern dance, anatomy, kinesiology and on a decades-long study of the Laban/Bartenieff Movement System. His work enables dancers to avoid dance injuries, extend their dancing years, discover personal uniqueness and embody dynamic expressivity.

5-Saturday sessions with Evans’ uniquely lyrical style of modern dance technique. Appropriate for dancers who have reached the intermediate or advanced level in modern, contemporary, ballet or jazz. All ages welcome. Evans built his technique on his profound study of ballet and classic styles of modern dance, and on a decades-long study of the Laban/Bartenieff Movement System. His work enables dancers to avoid dance injuries, extend their dancing years, discover personal uniqueness and embody dynamic expressivity.

A 5-class series:
Saturdays 1:00-2:30 pm,
January 11 – February 8,
at Madrona MindBody Institute

Don your finest blue & green gear REGARDLESS of whose battling for the 54th Annual Super Bowl and head over to Taps at the Guardhouse to enjoy $15 pitcher & chicken wing specials ALL DAY LONG. More details to come – save the date!

Realistic drawing is the essential foundation of every form of art! This weekend workshop in being offered for those of you who want to learn the fundamentals of realistic drawing but have been unable to take an ongoing course. You will learn an eight step process for drawing three-dimensional subjects with an emphasis on form, depth, value and texture, using a variety of techniques and materials. We will also cover basic composition, linear perspective, and observational drawing (drawing from life). The techniques you learn will provide you with a visual language to express your personal artistic vision.

SUPPLY LIST:

Sketch pad – preferably 11” x 14” or larger, @70-80#, bright white paper

Pencils – drawing set or one each of HB/#2, 4H, 4B and Ebony

Kneaded eraser

Stomp – about ½”, solid rolled paper stick (for blending)

OPTIONAL SUPPLIES:

Ruler

Battery operated eraser

Battery operated sharpener

Note: Instructor can provide optional materials.

ABOUT NONIE

SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 2, 10 AM -3 PM

Working with a combination of Putty, concrete powder and liquid adhesive, we’ll make the medium together and then intentionally or just randomly create ridges, valleys, and shapes, either realistic or abstract on both a birchwood plywood board and a foam core panel. It will also be possible to embed materials, like leaves, seed pods, etc.

Then we will paint on top with acrylic paints. Fun, and new techniques, endless possibilities. No experience necessary, and all supplies provided.

CLICK HERE FOR NINA’S WEBSITE

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL9I7Ggq3tNJl_0gquY3vXA7Fveuehu8ga

“The road goes on forever…” – Robert Earl Keen

That line, from the great Robert Earl Keen song, certainly applies to the seemingly, endless wanderings of Ray Bonneville. Every now and then, you run across someone with a library’s worth of stories to tell. But unlike the raconteurs who regale friends with well-embellished versions of their exploits, these storytellers have lived so much, they reveal chapters of their hard-won wisdom slowly, carefully, like layers peeled from an onion.

Ray Bonneville didn’t even open his storybook until his early 40s, some 20 years after he started performing. But with a style that sometimes draws comparisons to JJ Cale and Daniel Lanois, this blues-influenced, New Orleans-inspired “song and groove man,” as he’s been so aptly described, luckily found his rightful calling.

Bonneville’s highway life began, more or less, at 12, when his parents moved their nine French-speaking children from Quebec to Boston. He learned to play a little piano, then guitar, but language and cultural challenges made school uninviting. But before getting expelled, he played weekends in New England with a young band that travelled in a 1957 Cadillac ambulance.

At 17, he joined the Marines, mainly to escape his devoutly religious, oppressively authoritarian father. That was just before Vietnam began showing up on the nightly news. He wound up there for more than a year. Post-discharge, he discovered Howlin’ Wolf, Paul Butterfield, James Cotton and other bluesmen, and taught himself to play harmonica in-between fares while driving a cab in Boston.

Bonneville spent the ‘70s in Boulder, Colo., where he formed the Ray Bonneville Blues Band, an electric five-piece, and got over his fear of flying by earning a commercial pilot’s license. “I was hooked bad right from the start,” he says. “When I was flying, I felt completely at home, like the plane’s wings were part of my body.”

He headed to the Pacific Northwest — first Alaska, then Seattle — flying wherever he could and playing rowdy rooms where listeners wanted to get their groove on, which helped him evolve a delivery that covered all bases. “My thumb became my bass player and my index finger became my lead guitar and rhythm player,” he explains. “My feet became my drums and with my harmonica and my vocal, made for a four-piece blues band.”

In Seattle, he got hooked on something else: his old friend, cocaine. Escaping to Paris, where he knew the language and could avoid temptation, he busked and played for boozy late-night revelers, but for the first time, Bonneville also encountered audiences who sat in silence, truly listening.

“It scared me,” he admits. “I realized that you’d better have something to say if you’re going to play in front of this kind of crowd.”

Returning stateside in ’83, he moved to New Orleans. Training pilots by day and playing at night, he was stirred by the city’s hypnotic undercurrent of mystery and magic, which hangs in the humid air like a voodoo spell. In his six years there, it seeped into his sound — and still ripples through it today.
His post-Katrina ode, “I am the Big Easy,” was folk radio’s No. 1 song of 2008 and earned the International Folk Alliance’s 2009 Song of the Year Award, but Bonneville wasn’t yet ready to write in New Orleans. That would take more living.

The romantic notion of becoming a bush pilot took him to northern Quebec’s wilderness, where he shuttled sportsmen via seaplane and played Montreal clubs in the off-season. That is, until, flying in fog, he almost hit a power line, and with no fuel left, barely found water to land on. After a nerve-calming whiskey, he decided his bush-pilot days were done. At 41, he moved to Montreal and began to write. He also began touring and recording; his 1999 album, Gust of Wind, won a Juno Award.

In 2003, Bonneville moved again, this time to Arkansas, where the fly-fishing was good. He began recording for Red House Records, and adding his talents to albums by Mary Gauthier, Gurf Morlix, Eliza Gilkyson, Ray Wylie Hubbard and other prominent artists. Bonneville also has shared songwriting credits with Tim O’Brien, Phil Roy and Morlix, among others. Slaid Cleaves placed Bonneville’s “Run Jolee Run” on his lauded 2009 album, Everything You Love Will Be Taken Away.

Bonneville headed to Austin in 2006, and released Goin’ By Feel, his second Red House album. Allmusic.com gave it four stars, the same as Gust of Wind, Roll It Down and Bad Man’s Blood — which it calls his “magnum opus,” noting, “With darkness and light fighting for dominance … he’s stripped away every musical excess to let the songs speak for themselves.”

“I have roughly 12 lines to make a story, so every one has to trigger the listener’s imagination,” he explains. “I want my songs to be believed, so I work on them until I believe them myself.”

On Easy Gone, his fourth record on the Red House label, songs like “When I Get to New York,” “Mile Marker 41” and “Love is Wicked” percolate with hints of something sinister and sexy. In the bluesy “Wicked,” you can almost hear the finger-poppers lurking in the club’s corners — the ones who might get a little wicked themselves later on. Even the album’s lone cover, of Hank Williams’ classic, “I’m So Lonesome I Could Cry,” carries a groove and momentum that’s Bonneville’s alone. It’s haunting, like many of his songs. He populates a lot of them with society’s fringes: the desperate and dangerous, damaged and vulnerable.

“I like the criminals and the lost people,” he says. “That’s why I love Flannery O’Connor and those kind of writers. ’Cause I’m lost myself.”

Whether that’s true or not, he knows how hard it can be for our internal compasses to lock on the direction in which we might need to go. That’s the subject of “Where Has My Easy Gone,” written with drummer Geoff Arsenault. In it, he sings, In the heart of a seeker a needle swings/homing on some elusive thing/I looked in the endless sky down along the sea/I could not find my easy.

With just a few simple words, Bonneville clearly expresses his thoughts, while allowing space for multiple interpretations. Which, of course, is the essence of great songwriting, the kind that earned him an International Blues Challenge solo/duet win in 2012. He doesn’t pretend to understand how he finds that essence, however.

“The whole songwriting thing, to me, is mysterious, and I want to keep it that way,” Bonneville says.

Ultimately, what matters is knowing how to translate the mystery into music, and that, he understands perfectly.

Realistic drawing is the essential foundation of every form of art! This weekend workshop in being offered for those of you who want to learn the fundamentals of realistic drawing but have been unable to take an ongoing course. You will learn an eight step process for drawing three-dimensional subjects with an emphasis on form, depth, value and texture, using a variety of techniques and materials. We will also cover basic composition, linear perspective, and observational drawing (drawing from life). The techniques you learn will provide you with a visual language to express your personal artistic vision.

SUPPLY LIST:

Sketch pad – preferably 11” x 14” or larger, @70-80#, bright white paper

Pencils – drawing set or one each of HB/#2, 4H, 4B and Ebony

Kneaded eraser

Stomp – about ½”, solid rolled paper stick (for blending)

OPTIONAL SUPPLIES:

Ruler

Battery operated eraser

Battery operated sharpener

Note: Instructor can provide optional materials.

ABOUT NONIE

TUESDAYS, JANUARY 7-FEBRUARY 11, 5-8 PM

Picture yourself making that picture book! Maybe you’ve had a great idea in your head forever and want to move forward. If so, we will march step by step through the process of character development to story, right up to your own dummy, ready for submission!*

Join Dana Sullivan, writer and/or illustrator of more than 16 picture books and graphic novels for this intensive dummy bootcamp, focusing on playful doodling, storyboarding, inside stories of the publishing world and having fun.

Open to all levels of artistic training. Stick figures welcome. A perfect class for illustrators AND writers looking for a new perspective on their work. Plus, that kick in the back cover you may have been needing. AGES 16+

Required Supplies:

• Ream of copy paper

• Pad of “Mixed Media” paper, 9”x12”

• Pencils • Pencil sharpener

• Fine tip sharpies or other black markers

• One regular black Sharpie (fat, but not poster size)

• Watercolor set (cheap kid type is fine)

• Two watercolor brushes, one medium, one big and fat

• Cheap sketch pad, 5.5” x 8.5” or so

• Small bottle of india ink (waterproof)

• Something to tote all of the above in, so you can bring EVERYTHING to EVERY class

• Questions? email Dana at danajsullivan@comcast.net
  *actual results may vary. You’ve gotta put in the work.

ABOUT DANA

Dana has written and illustrated a bunch of published picture books, including Ozzie and the Art Contest, Kay Kay’s Alphabet Safari, My Red Velvet Cape, and Family Farm. He’s illustrated the Digger and Daisy early readers and the BodyOpolis series. His first graphic novel, Dead Max Comix , launches January 23 at the PTSA Grover Gallery (!) and he is currently behind schedule on Dead Max 3: Bully for You. Dana’s favorite color is dog and his favorite vegetable is peanut butter.

CLICK HERE FOR DANA SULLIVAN’S WEBSITE

WEDNESDAYS, JANUARY 15-FEBRUARY 5, 6 PM-8:30 PM

This class is for anyone wanting to learn the technique of painting with watercolors, or for those who have experience, but would like to hone their skills. Class direction will primarily focus on brush skills, and will lead into paper and paint fundamentals. Students will work with both dry and wet applications and will learn how to add color(s) without losing a picture by turning it to mud! Nothing tricky to it and you will be amazed by what you can do!

THURSDAY & FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 6 & 7, 9 AM-4 PM

Making exact copies is a time honored activity of serious artists. It is a means of not only improving your knowledge of the subject, but of learning the technique of the copied artist. (Degas met Manet while both were copying the same Velasquez painting at the Louvre). Making exact copies of existing work, whether it be drawings, paintings or photographs, and comparing your copy with the original work allows you to see your mistakes of perception and make corrections, which does not happen when drawing from the live model. When copying a drawing in the same or a similar medium, you can copy line quality (in the spirit of), copy hatching or shading technique, and learn conventions for handling/suggesting various elements of a scene. Copying in this sense is not plagiarizing, it is a method for rapid learning.

Students will make several copies during the workshop and the final copy will be the best one they have ever achieved.

Required Supplies:

• 8 1/2 x 11 or 11 x 14 sketch pad.

• Four or five Drawing pencils of various grades: recommended 4 Ticonderoga yellow w eraser, 1 H and 1 3h pencil.

ABOUT CARL

Carl Jackson has been an artist and art instructor for over 40 years. Along the way, he has been an Illustrator, Arts Administrator, Gallery director, and Fine Artist with work in numerous public and private collections. A graduate of Annapolis, he served aboard nuclear submarines; upon leaving the Navy he attended Rhode Island School of Design. He helped in the founding of a school for delinquent youth in Massachusetts, was director of a Community Arts Center in New Hampshire in the mid 70’s, and in the mid 80’s was a drawing instructor, and co-chair of the Foundation Department at the New England School of Art and Design in Boston. For the past twenty years he taught Computer Graphics and Drawing at the Art Institute of Seattle.

Click here for Carl’s Website

THURSDAY & FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 6 & 7, 9 AM-4 PM

Making exact copies is a time honored activity of serious artists. It is a means of not only improving your knowledge of the subject, but of learning the technique of the copied artist. (Degas met Manet while both were copying the same Velasquez painting at the Louvre). Making exact copies of existing work, whether it be drawings, paintings or photographs, and comparing your copy with the original work allows you to see your mistakes of perception and make corrections, which does not happen when drawing from the live model. When copying a drawing in the same or a similar medium, you can copy line quality (in the spirit of), copy hatching or shading technique, and learn conventions for handling/suggesting various elements of a scene. Copying in this sense is not plagiarizing, it is a method for rapid learning.

Students will make several copies during the workshop and the final copy will be the best one they have ever achieved.

Required Supplies:

• 8 1/2 x 11 or 11 x 14 sketch pad.

• Four or five Drawing pencils of various grades: recommended 4 Ticonderoga yellow w eraser, 1 H and 1 3h pencil.

ABOUT CARL

Carl Jackson has been an artist and art instructor for over 40 years. Along the way, he has been an Illustrator, Arts Administrator, Gallery director, and Fine Artist with work in numerous public and private collections. A graduate of Annapolis, he served aboard nuclear submarines; upon leaving the Navy he attended Rhode Island School of Design. He helped in the founding of a school for delinquent youth in Massachusetts, was director of a Community Arts Center in New Hampshire in the mid 70’s, and in the mid 80’s was a drawing instructor, and co-chair of the Foundation Department at the New England School of Art and Design in Boston. For the past twenty years he taught Computer Graphics and Drawing at the Art Institute of Seattle.

Click here for Carl’s Website

FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 7, 2-5 PM

PLEASE NOTE: This workshop will take place at Curly Girl Art Studio, 889 53rd St., Port Townsend.

A fabulous introduction to collage, this Afternoon Art Adventure at Curly Girl Art Studio uses a variety of paper ephemera (printed matter) to create a small collage.  Using a quilting iron, we will adhere the paper items to small boards (approx. 5” x 7”) with aromatic (with no additional scent) melted beeswax. This process is absolutely addicting!

This workshop is for anyone interested in a delightful art experience, anyone just getting started with collage, or for an experienced artist who wants to experience a fun art event.

SUPPLY FEE: $15, payable to Curly Girl Art Studio at the beginning of the workshop. This supply fee covers:

• A wide choice of paper ephemera (printed matter) such as tissue paper, decorative napkins, maps, text pages, stamps, magazine images, envelopes and more!

• Wood panels, approximately 5” x 7”, use one or more, depending on your pace.

• Hanging hardware

• Aprons provided.

• Tea, Coffee, Water, Healthy Snacks

ABOUT VICTORIA FOSTER HARRISON – CURLY GIRL ART STUDIO.

CLICK HERE FOR VICTORIA’S WEBSITE

Fiddling with rustic patterns and fields of color along with embracing the “perfectly imperfect” are hallmarks of Victoria’s textural Urban Collages which include abstracted photography and mark-making. The heart of her art lies in Encaustic Printmaking – creating original one-of-a-kind prints. Standing at the warm aluminum palette with the alluring aroma of beeswax, she allows the medium to reveal its beauty. As a workshop teacher, her heart fills with satisfaction as she hears reactions from deep within; “You changed my view of art”, “I am in bliss land”, “I felt so successful and encouraged”. The Encaustic printmaking medium speaks volumes.

World renowned jazz pianist, composer, arranger, and flutist Scott Cossu returns to Rainshadow Recording with his groundbreaking style to celebrate the release of his 16th recording, continuing his longtime studio association with Neville Pearsall.

One of the prominent artists on the Windham Hill label for thirteen years (1981 – 1994), Scott’s music is a unique blend of jazz, classical and world music styles. An ethnomusicologist who has studied with musicians from around the world, Cossu brings a wealth of experience to his music that makes him difficult to classify.

Cossu was up front when New Age was just beginning over 30 years ago. He was one of the first Windham Hill Artists to join with founder Will Ackerman and Alex Degrassi, in their new label out of Palo Alto, California.

Scott would affectionately call his music Heavy Mental or Cosmic National Geographic. Considered to be one of the grandfathers of the New Age scene; he was labeled a “jazz luminary of the future”, by Billboard Magazine. Much of Scott’s work exhibits departures from the New Age field and includes a melodic blend of jazz, classical and ethnic influences.

Joining Scott for this concert is Holly Reeves. Reeves is well-known to Olympia concert-goers as principal cellist of the Olympia Symphony Orchestra. This year marks her twenty-first season with the group. She is also a long-time member of the Tacoma-based chamber orchestra Northwest Sinfonietta, performing in Seattle, Tacoma, and Puyallup. Before moving to the Northwest, Holly was a member of the Santa Barbara Symphony, the Santa Barbara Chamber Orchestra, and the Japan America Symphony Orchestra, and established a highly-regarded chamber series in Santa Barbara as a founding member of the award-winning Anacapa String Quartet. An experienced chamber musician, Holly has performed throughout the United States and in Canada, Costa Rica, France, Switzerland, Great Britain, Japan, and most recently, Italy.

PLEASE NOTE: This workshop will take place at Curly Girl Art Studio, 889 53rd St., Port Townsend.

A fabulous introduction to collage, this Afternoon Art Adventure at Curly Girl Art Studio uses a variety of paper ephemera (printed matter) to create a small collage.  Using a quilting iron, we will adhere the paper items to small boards (approx. 5” x 7”) with aromatic (with no additional scent) melted beeswax. This process is absolutely addicting!

This workshop is for anyone interested in a delightful art experience, anyone just getting started with collage, or for an experienced artist who wants to experience a fun art event.

SUPPLY FEE: $25, payable to Curly Girl Art Studio at the beginning of the workshop. This supply fee covers:

• A wide choice of paper ephemera (printed matter) such as tissue paper, decorative napkins, maps, text pages, stamps, magazine images, envelopes and more!

• Wood panels, approximately 5” x 7”, use one or more, depending on your pace.

• Hanging hardware

• Aprons provided.

• Tea, Coffee, Water, Healthy Snacks

ABOUT VICTORIA FOSTER HARRISON – CURLY GIRL ART STUDIO.

CLICK HERE FOR VICTORIA’S WEBSITE

Fiddling with rustic patterns and fields of color along with embracing the “perfectly imperfect” are hallmarks of Victoria’s textural Urban Collages which include abstracted photography and mark-making. The heart of her art lies in Encaustic Printmaking – creating original one-of-a-kind prints. Standing at the warm aluminum palette with the alluring aroma of beeswax, she allows the medium to reveal its beauty. As a workshop teacher, her heart fills with satisfaction as she hears reactions from deep within; “You changed my view of art”, “I am in bliss land”, “I felt so successful and encouraged”. The Encaustic printmaking medium speaks volumes.

Centrum’s vital chamber music series exists to showcase the brilliant talent of many of the world’s finest classical artists along with the top echelon of the most promising young talents in the field today. The intimacy and warmth of the Joseph F. Wheeler Theater at Fort Worden State Park provides an ideal venue for our dynamic performances and master classes throughout each year. Come and experience chamber music at its highest level. Seating is limited. Join us!

City of Angels Ensemble

Rob Brophy, viola
Lucinda Carver, piano
John Walz, cello
Tereza Stanislav, violin

Program

Mozart – Quartet for Piano and Strings in G Minor, K. 478
Ravel – Sonata for Violin and Cello
Brahms – Trio No. 1 in B Major for Violin, Cello, and Piano, Op. 8

Artistic Director Lucinda Carver has enjoyed the privilege of working with many world-class musicians, particularly in the Los Angeles area. In curating this program of chamber music, she selected a handful of favorites and invited them to make music just for you. Violinist Tereza Stanislav divides her time among chamber, solo, orchestral and recording projects. She is a member of the Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra and a former member of the Enso Quartet. Violist Rob Brophy is also a member of the Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra and a former member of the Enso quartet and is currently a member of the New Hollywood string quartet. Cellist John Walz has appeared as a soloist with over 150 orchestras on four continents, performing well-known concertos as well as introducing newer works. He is currently the principal cellist of the Los Angeles Opera. Experience how the affection of these talented performers enhances the highest level of musicianship.

Presented by the Port Townsend Marine Science Center

Admission: $5
(students & teachers FREE)
FREE admission for Octopus and Orca Donor Circle Members
Become a member today!

Neil Harrington
Environmental Biologist, Jamestown S’Klallam Tribe

Neil Harrington has worked for the Jamestown S’Klallam Tribe since 2012. His work has focused on harmful algal blooms, shellfish safety, invasive European green crab monitoring and outreach to school children. He has 17 years of experience working on natural resources on the North Olympic Peninsula. He holds a Master of Science in Biological Oceanography from UC Santa Cruz.

More info about the lecturer: https://soundwaterstewards.org/sw/2019/?q=page.pr.5878
Contact: nharrington@jamestowntribe.org

This is the fifth installment of The Future of Oceans lecture series.
This event is offered with generous support by the Darrow Family.

Assisted Listening Devices available

TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 11, 10 AM-4 PM

Enjoy collaging many hearts using colorful papers. Your favorite Valentines will love your special and unique creations.  Whether you are an experienced or beginner at collage you will enjoy this process of using papers of many colors and patterns to produce original heart shapes.

Supply List:

• Matte Medium

• Brush for adhesive

• Paper towels

• Scissors

• Collection of your own hand painted papers, text pages, calendars, maps, gift wrap, textured pages

 Materials Fee: $5.00 (to cover substrate paper), bring cash or check, payable to Anne Schneider.

ABOUT ANNE

TUESDAYS, JANUARY 7-FEBRUARY 11, 5-8 PM

Picture yourself making that picture book! Maybe you’ve had a great idea in your head forever and want to move forward. If so, we will march step by step through the process of character development to story, right up to your own dummy, ready for submission!*

Join Dana Sullivan, writer and/or illustrator of more than 16 picture books and graphic novels for this intensive dummy bootcamp, focusing on playful doodling, storyboarding, inside stories of the publishing world and having fun.

Open to all levels of artistic training. Stick figures welcome. A perfect class for illustrators AND writers looking for a new perspective on their work. Plus, that kick in the back cover you may have been needing. AGES 16+

Required Supplies:

• Ream of copy paper

• Pad of “Mixed Media” paper, 9”x12”

• Pencils • Pencil sharpener

• Fine tip sharpies or other black markers

• One regular black Sharpie (fat, but not poster size)

• Watercolor set (cheap kid type is fine)

• Two watercolor brushes, one medium, one big and fat

• Cheap sketch pad, 5.5” x 8.5” or so

• Small bottle of india ink (waterproof)

• Something to tote all of the above in, so you can bring EVERYTHING to EVERY class

• Questions? email Dana at danajsullivan@comcast.net
  *actual results may vary. You’ve gotta put in the work.

ABOUT DANA

Dana has written and illustrated a bunch of published picture books, including Ozzie and the Art Contest, Kay Kay’s Alphabet Safari, My Red Velvet Cape, and Family Farm. He’s illustrated the Digger and Daisy early readers and the BodyOpolis series. His first graphic novel, Dead Max Comix , launches January 23 at the PTSA Grover Gallery (!) and he is currently behind schedule on Dead Max 3: Bully for You. Dana’s favorite color is dog and his favorite vegetable is peanut butter.

CLICK HERE FOR DANA SULLIVAN’S WEBSITE

WEDNESDAY, THURSDAY, FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 12-14, 9 AM-4 PM

Skillful use of complementary colors is a very important concept to master as an artist. It’s right up there with understanding values and composition as a foundation for creating satisfying pastel paintings that hold the attention of the viewer.

The pastel medium offers an incredible range of every possible color from full strength high chroma shades to already mixed blends of complementary colors including warm and cool shades of gray. You could buy every shade of every color of every brand without ever learning to mix you own. But it’s way more fun to see what new colors you can create from what you already have.

Every pair of complementary colors has a warm and a cool shade. We will take a pair of complementary colors each day and learn to work with them by first making color swatches of the complementary colors you have in your kit. You’ll learn to mix and layer them, first with full strength color, then softly tonal, warm against cool, in a series of experiments where you end up achieving beautiful modulations of color.

Bring your pastel kits with whatever brands, colors and shades of pastels you have.

ABOUT CHRIS

WEDNESDAYS, JANUARY 15-FEBRUARY 5, 6 PM-8:30 PM

This class is for anyone wanting to learn the technique of painting with watercolors, or for those who have experience, but would like to hone their skills. Class direction will primarily focus on brush skills, and will lead into paper and paint fundamentals. Students will work with both dry and wet applications and will learn how to add color(s) without losing a picture by turning it to mud! Nothing tricky to it and you will be amazed by what you can do!

WEDNESDAY, THURSDAY, FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 12-14, 9 AM-4 PM

Skillful use of complementary colors is a very important concept to master as an artist. It’s right up there with understanding values and composition as a foundation for creating satisfying pastel paintings that hold the attention of the viewer.

The pastel medium offers an incredible range of every possible color from full strength high chroma shades to already mixed blends of complementary colors including warm and cool shades of gray. You could buy every shade of every color of every brand without ever learning to mix you own. But it’s way more fun to see what new colors you can create from what you already have.

Every pair of complementary colors has a warm and a cool shade. We will take a pair of complementary colors each day and learn to work with them by first making color swatches of the complementary colors you have in your kit. You’ll learn to mix and layer them, first with full strength color, then softly tonal, warm against cool, in a series of experiments where you end up achieving beautiful modulations of color.

Bring your pastel kits with whatever brands, colors and shades of pastels you have.

ABOUT CHRIS

WEDNESDAY, THURSDAY, FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 12-14, 9 AM-4 PM

Skillful use of complementary colors is a very important concept to master as an artist. It’s right up there with understanding values and composition as a foundation for creating satisfying pastel paintings that hold the attention of the viewer.

The pastel medium offers an incredible range of every possible color from full strength high chroma shades to already mixed blends of complementary colors including warm and cool shades of gray. You could buy every shade of every color of every brand without ever learning to mix you own. But it’s way more fun to see what new colors you can create from what you already have.

Every pair of complementary colors has a warm and a cool shade. We will take a pair of complementary colors each day and learn to work with them by first making color swatches of the complementary colors you have in your kit. You’ll learn to mix and layer them, first with full strength color, then softly tonal, warm against cool, in a series of experiments where you end up achieving beautiful modulations of color.

Bring your pastel kits with whatever brands, colors and shades of pastels you have.

ABOUT CHRIS

On Friday, February 14, Kit Stovepipe & Jonathan Doyle perform at Taps at the Guardhouse at Fort Worden from 6-8pm as part of the weekly Friday music series. Stovepipe & Doyle are an American roots music duo who play country blues, jug band, early jazz, and hillbilly music.

Kit Stymee Stovepipe is a Musician, Artist, and 78 collector based in the Pacific Northwest. He currently plays with the Crow Quill Night Owls and has also shared stages with Honey Boy Edwards, Dick Dale, John Sebastion, Robin Ramaley of the Holy Modal Rounders, and Baby Gramps. Stovepipe has also toured and recorded a Grammy-nominated album with singer Maria Muldaur. He has played everywhere from West Coast Farmers Markets to the subways of New York.

Known as a clarinetist, saxophonist, composer, and arranger, Jonathan Doyle brings over twenty years of experience with American roots music, particularly early jazz, jug band, and country blues. Living in Port Townsend, Doyle often hits the road and frequently visits Chicago and Austin. After a brief stint with
the Asylum Street Spankers, he joined the vibrant traditional jazz, swing, and western swing scene in Central Texas, performing with well-established acts such as Willie Nelson and Asleep at the Wheel and his own project, The Jonathan Doyle Quintet/Swingtet.

THIS EVENT IS SOLD OUT

Direct from Ketchikan, Alaska, Ray Troll and the Ratfish Wranglers, will be performing at Port Townsend’s legendary Palindrome event center on Valentine’s night, Friday, February 14 at 7 pm. Tickets are $15.00 at the door with advance tickets highly encouraged due to limited seating. A no-host bar operated by Eaglemount Wineries will serve wine, hard cider and beer. This is a 21 and over event.

The Wranglers will be recording an all new album of their fishy music in early February as part of a Centrum residency at Fort Worden State Park. They’ll be debuting many of the new tunes at this special ‘one night only’ event. Be prepared for one of the most unique musical events to hit Port Townsend since dinosaurs roamed the earth and trilobites swam in the seas. They’re more fun than a bucket full of eels and remember “they throw the science in for free”. Bring your dancing shoes!

Tickets are available via brownpapertickets.com at:

https://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/4512289

Love is in the air at Fort Worden. Join us for a very special Valentine’s themed brunch Saturday and Sunday, February 15 + 16 from 8am – 2pm. We’ll make it extra sweet by offering specialty menu items including Red Velvet Pancakes, Steak & Eggs with Shrimp Hollandaise and Strawberry Bellini’s & Mimosas!

Reservations are recommended.
Visit us at Resy to book now.
https://bit.ly/2RT6YrA

WEDNESDAY, THURSDAY, FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 12-14, 9 AM-4 PM

Skillful use of complementary colors is a very important concept to master as an artist. It’s right up there with understanding values and composition as a foundation for creating satisfying pastel paintings that hold the attention of the viewer.

The pastel medium offers an incredible range of every possible color from full strength high chroma shades to already mixed blends of complementary colors including warm and cool shades of gray. You could buy every shade of every color of every brand without ever learning to mix you own. But it’s way more fun to see what new colors you can create from what you already have.

Every pair of complementary colors has a warm and a cool shade. We will take a pair of complementary colors each day and learn to work with them by first making color swatches of the complementary colors you have in your kit. You’ll learn to mix and layer them, first with full strength color, then softly tonal, warm against cool, in a series of experiments where you end up achieving beautiful modulations of color.

Bring your pastel kits with whatever brands, colors and shades of pastels you have.

ABOUT CHRIS

SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 15, NOON-4 PM

This class will provide an in-depth review of the Lightroom Development module. This module provides a powerful set of non-destructive photo-editing tools. We will go over all the tools describing what they do, how they work together and how to use them get the most out of your images.

We will look at a range of images and explain how the Lightroom histogram panel can be used to advantage (starting with how to read a histogram). We will cover how the localized adjustment tools can be used for non-global corrections, the use of the Basic panel tools with emphasis on the White Balance, Tone and Presence sections.

The class will use the current Lightroom Classic CC desktop version. There will be a brief review of using Lightroom Mobile, which provides essentially the same editing tools on your phone or tablet.

While there are no prerequisites for this course, a basic familiarity with Lightroom will be helpful.

While bringing a laptop with Lightroom installed is preferred, a full set of notes will be provided along with the a copy of the presentation.

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Love is in the air at Fort Worden. Join us for a very special Valentine’s themed brunch Saturday and Sunday, February 15 + 16 from 8am – 2pm. We’ll make it extra sweet by offering specialty menu items including Red Velvet Pancakes, Steak & Eggs with Shrimp Hollandaise and Strawberry Bellini’s & Mimosas!

Reservations are recommended.
Visit us at Resy to book now.
https://bit.ly/2RT6YrA

SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 16, 10 AM-4 PM

In this class, we will work with various image transfer techniques to create dynamic prints that lie between printmaking and photography. Students will learn how to make gel medium transfers, xerox transfers, tape transfers, transparency transfers, and more. We will explore the ways this medium can be used in conjunction with other media, as well as the ways it is able to break away from the 2D nature of print work. These image making methods are fun and simple to learn and really lend themselves to experimentation. If you have a printmaking, collage, or mixed media artmaking practice, this class is a great way to add more tools to your toolbox. No experience in printmaking is necessary for this class – all are welcome.

SUPPLIES FEE: $10, cash or check payable to Katey Rissi at the start of the workshop.

ABOUT KATEY

I am an artist, educator, and medicine maker. I am entwined with the rhythms of the ecosystem around me, my relationship with plants, the place I live, and the people I cultivate community with. My work is centered around these relationships. I consider myself a process artist. Mediums I work with include printmaking, illustration, collage, natural sculpture, textiles, and photography. I teach to explore the ways creative expression can manifest, and so I can create space for people to access it. I teach and develop arts and ecology curriculum for children, creative retreats for adults, and art workshops for everyone. http://kateyrissi.com

Debut memoirist Sarah Townsend will be speaking at Goddard College’s MFA in Creative Writing Program on Sunday, February 16, 2020.  She will read and answer questions about her book Setting the Wire: A Memoir of Postpartum Psychosis (The Lettered Streets Press, 2019). This public event will take place at 7pm in the Reading Room on the second floor of Building 204, 200 Battery Way, in Fort Worden State Park, Port Townsend, WA 98368. A reception and book signing will immediately follow the reading.

Bestselling author Claire Dederer described Setting the Wire as “a tightly coiled and disturbingly gorgeous exploration of her postpartum mental breakdown. I devoured these pages–while willing myself to slow down so I could catch every nuance of Townsend’s taut, lyrical, wise writing.”

Sarah Townsend received her MFA from Goddard College, and her MA in counseling psychology from Northwestern University. Setting the Wire has been featured on Beyond Well with Sheila Hamilton, The Ish with Cameron Dezen Hammon, UpFront with Cat Brooks of KPFA (NPR) in Berkeley, and in the Chicago Review of Books. Sarah currently teaches at Hugo House in Seattle, WA. She also serves on the advisory committee of Perinatal Support Washington and on the Postpartum Psychosis Task Force of Postpartum Support International. She co-facilitates the Holyoke Reading Series and the Goddard College Alumni Lighthouse Writers’ Conference & Retreat.

About Goddard College

The mission of Goddard College is to advance cultures of rigorous inquiry, collaboration, and lifelong learning, where individuals take imaginative and responsible action in the world.  Goddard College offers undergraduate and graduate degrees in a number of disciplines.

Founded in 1976, Goddard’s low-residency MFA in Creative Writing Program was the first of its kind in the nation. The program offers residencies at campuses in Plainfield, Vermont, and Port Townsend, Washington. It is a 48-credit, student-centered program ideal for students with family, work, or personal obligations who choose to hone their writing skills while maintaining their other commitments.

The program regularly hosts luminaries from the theater and film industries, as well as the publishing trade, as part of its Visiting Writers, Alumni, and Professional Series.

For more information, visit: https://www.goddard.edu/academics/master-fine-arts-creative-writing-2/

MEDIA CONTACT

Claudia Zysk
(360) 344-4100 / claudia.zysk@goddard.edu

TUESDAYS, JANUARY 7-FEBRUARY 11, 5-8 PM

Picture yourself making that picture book! Maybe you’ve had a great idea in your head forever and want to move forward. If so, we will march step by step through the process of character development to story, right up to your own dummy, ready for submission!*

Join Dana Sullivan, writer and/or illustrator of more than 16 picture books and graphic novels for this intensive dummy bootcamp, focusing on playful doodling, storyboarding, inside stories of the publishing world and having fun.

Open to all levels of artistic training. Stick figures welcome. A perfect class for illustrators AND writers looking for a new perspective on their work. Plus, that kick in the back cover you may have been needing. AGES 16+

Required Supplies:

• Ream of copy paper

• Pad of “Mixed Media” paper, 9”x12”

• Pencils • Pencil sharpener

• Fine tip sharpies or other black markers

• One regular black Sharpie (fat, but not poster size)

• Watercolor set (cheap kid type is fine)

• Two watercolor brushes, one medium, one big and fat

• Cheap sketch pad, 5.5” x 8.5” or so

• Small bottle of india ink (waterproof)

• Something to tote all of the above in, so you can bring EVERYTHING to EVERY class

• Questions? email Dana at danajsullivan@comcast.net
  *actual results may vary. You’ve gotta put in the work.

ABOUT DANA

Dana has written and illustrated a bunch of published picture books, including Ozzie and the Art Contest, Kay Kay’s Alphabet Safari, My Red Velvet Cape, and Family Farm. He’s illustrated the Digger and Daisy early readers and the BodyOpolis series. His first graphic novel, Dead Max Comix , launches January 23 at the PTSA Grover Gallery (!) and he is currently behind schedule on Dead Max 3: Bully for You. Dana’s favorite color is dog and his favorite vegetable is peanut butter.

CLICK HERE FOR DANA SULLIVAN’S WEBSITE

Critically acclaimed author Nisi Shawl will be speaking at Goddard College’s MFA in Creative Writing Program on Wednesday, February 19, 2020. They will read and answer questions about their work, which includes the steampunk novel Everfair –an alternate and happier history of the so-called Belgian Congo . This public event will take place at 7pm in the Reading Room on the second floor of Building 204, 200 Battery Way, in Fort Worden State Park, Port Townsend, WA 98368. A reception and book signing will immediately follow the reading.

Nisi Shawl also wrote the James Tiptree, Jr. Award-winning story collection Filter House (2008). Other recent titles include the collections Talk Like a Man (2019) and A Primer on Nisi Shawl (2018). They co-wrote : Writing the Other: A Practical Approach (2005), a standard text on inclusive representation in the imaginative genres and the basis for many of their online and in-person workshops. They co-edited the anthologies Stories for Chip: A Tribute to Samuel R. Delany; and Strange Matings: Science Fiction, Feminism, African American Voices, and Octavia E. Butler . In 2019 Solaris published their latest editing venture, the acclaimed anthology New Suns: Original Speculative Fiction by People of Color.

Shawl has spoken at Duke University, Spelman College, University of Hawai’i Manoa, Smith College, and several other educational institutions, and has taught at University of Washington Bothell and at Sarah Lawrence College. They regularly contribute book reviews and criticism to The Seattle Times, Ms. Magazine, Los Angeles Review of Books, Seattle Review of Books, and The Washington Post. They also edit book reviews for the feminist journal Cascadia Subduction Zone. Shawl is a Carl Brandon Society founder and a Clarion West board member. They live in Seattle near an enticingly large lake filled with dangerous currents.

About Goddard College

The mission of Goddard College is to advance cultures of rigorous inquiry, collaboration, and lifelong learning, where individuals take imaginative and responsible action in the world. Goddard College offers undergraduate and graduate degrees in a number of disciplines.

Founded in 1976, Goddard’s low-residency MFA in Creative Writing Program was the first of its kind in the nation. The program offers residencies at campuses in Plainfield, Vermont, and Port Townsend, Washington. It is a 48-credit, student-centered program ideal for students with family, work, or personal obligations who choose to hone their writing skills while maintaining their other commitments.

The program regularly hosts luminaries from the theater and film industries, as well as the publishing trade, as part of its Visiting Writers, Alumni, and Professional Series. For more information, visit: https://www.goddard.edu/academics/master-fine-arts-creative-writing-2/

MEDIA CONTACT
Claudia Zysk
(360) 344-4100 / claudia.zysk@goddard.edu

THURSDAY & FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 20-21, 2-5 PM

2-day workshop intensive with group time + independent study.  6 students maximum

In this workshop, instructor Meg Kaczyk guides students in looking at their work holistically to identify influences, inspiration, content, passion and curiosity as elements to lead them on in their personal artistic journey. Previous students of Meg’s classes (Ways to Inspiration, Make It Abstract, and Paint a Poem) can use this class to deepen the path begun in those classes. New students are welcome too. The class format includes 2 days: 2 hours each day of group classroom time, time for meeting individually each day and time assigned outside the classroom for independent work.

THURSDAYS, FEBRUARY 20-MARCH 26, 4-6 PM

I believe that cartooning can be taught to most sighted people, including some who claim they “can’t draw a straight line.” (Many cartoonists never bother with straight lines!) You just need the desire, plus the willingness to set aside some preconceptions and habits that may be in your way. Cartooning is not a lesser art than realistic drawing; it is an approach to drawing that teaches you to observe and then translate your ideas in unique ways. And, let’s don’t forget: it can make people laugh or smile when it hits the mark.

While a good cartoon may look simple, it is a sophisticated distillation of observation and design, filtered through the cartoonist’s own personality. Thus, there is no one style that is necessarily better than another.

As we go along, we will examine and critique the drawings of many cartoonists, great and obscure. I will show you what I like and don’t like among today’s cartoonists. And we will draw cartoons together!

 Whether your ambition is to sell some cartoons to The New Yorker or just to amuse yourself and your friends, I can teach you ways to develop this exhilarating and rewarding art form. This class is open to artists ages 16+.

THURSDAY & FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 20-21, 2-5 PM

2-day workshop intensive with group time + independent study.  6 students maximum

In this workshop, instructor Meg Kaczyk guides students in looking at their work holistically to identify influences, inspiration, content, passion and curiosity as elements to lead them on in their personal artistic journey. Previous students of Meg’s classes (Ways to Inspiration, Make It Abstract, and Paint a Poem) can use this class to deepen the path begun in those classes. New students are welcome too. The class format includes 2 days: 2 hours each day of group classroom time, time for meeting individually each day and time assigned outside the classroom for independent work.

Building 205
1-3 p.m.

Our studios are anew with creative energy. Stop by and chat with the artists and discover multi-media sculptures and collages by Marion Bartl, and unique painting processes with Becky Busi and Jeanne Toal.