Education

Summer 08 Class Schedule PDF

DIVA offers a variety of seasonal classes and workshops in traditional mediums as well as film and video.

You can register for classes at DIVA, by mail, by phone with a credit card in hand, or email diva.programs@gmail.com
DIVA Class Registration PDF

Summer 2008

Paint an Expressionist Landscape- Outdoors!
Instructor: Rich Klopfer
Saturday, July 12
Time: 9:30 am - 4 pm
Cost: $50 + $3 materials fee
Prerequisites: Some drawing experience helpful
Register by July 5

It's summer – time to paint outdoors! Learn to paint in the German
Expressionist tradition, with pure color, and draw in a
representational but stylized way. Once the class arrives at a scenic
location, instructor Rich Klopfer will show you how to put a drawing
onto canvas and apply bold colors with passion. In this class students
will be using a direct non-academic approach to painting, while having
fun too. Some color mixing instruction will be covered as well. What
to bring: lunch, acrylic paints, a few different size brushes, a small
table (like a tv table), and anything else you like to have when you
paint. Instructor will provide: a gessoed 16x20 board to paint, rags,
cans for water, boards for palettes, easels, and lots of fun painting.
Materials list available at registration.

Rich Klopfer is a locally-based artist with 30 years of experience.
He has exhibited his painting and sculpture in solo shows across the
U.S. His work has been featured in the quarterly and on exhibit at
Gunnar Nordstrom Fine Arts in Kirkland, WA.

Acrylic Collage Landscapes
Instructor: Susan Lehman
Saturday, August 16
Time: Noon - 4 pm
Cost: $50 plus $5 materials fee
Teens (high school) $40 plus $5 materials fee
Maximum 12 students; minimum 8 students
Register by August 9

Explore the exciting world of mixed media paintings, using exotic
paper, fluid acrylics and bits and pieces of ephemera. Some
experimentation will be done on Yupo (a plastic painting surface).
Unusual textures will be created by printing with rubber stamps or
artist-made foam stamps. This class is for all levels—a different
approach for those experienced in collage—as well as a great place to
begin in mixed media painting!
All materials will be provided! Come dressed for mess!!!

Susan Lehman is a mixed media artist whose paintings and collages have
been shown extensively in Oregon's South Coast galleries.

The Natural Way to Draw -Intro to Figure Drawing
Instructor: John Holdway
Wednesdays August 5, 12, 19, & 26
Time: 6 pm - 9 pm
Cost $50. DIVA members $45, 4 sessions.
Register by June 28
Prerequisite knowledge and/or skills: beginner to advanced. A minimum
of 6 students is required for the class to go forward (so bring a
friend!).

This figure drawing class is for beginners or experienced artists
wanting to get back into figure drawing. Inspired by the historical
text by Nicolaides, "The Natural Way to Draw." Each class session begins
with exercises from the book such as gesture, flash pose and potential
gesture. With longer poses, students study tonal drawing, contour
drawing, anatomy and sight size drawing. Also open to Drop-ins at
$12.50 per session.

John Holdway has been in numerous single and group exhibitions
regionally and across the country including Beauty Revisited at Mt.
Scott Art Center in Portland, 15x15 at the Decker Gallery in Baltimore
and the Eugene Mayor's Art Show. He is represented at Opus6ix Gallery
in Eugene and Bella Perla Gallery in Portland. He earned a BFA in
painting from the Maryland Institute College of Art.

Figure Drawing –Open Session
Tuesdays, August 5, 12, 19 & 26
Time: 6 pm - 9 pm
Cost: $25 for 4 sessions. Class minimum: 6 students. Drop-in $10.
Register by July 29

Come on down to DIVA on Tuesdays and draw! A live model is provided
and a volunteer artist supervises the sessions. Drop-ins are welcome
but class minimums must be met, or the sessions are cancelled. After
6:30 pm knock on the door, or call 344-3482.

Manga for Teens
Instructor: Marianne Walker
Wednesdays, August 13 & 20
Time: 6:30 pm - 8:30 pm
Cost: $25 each class, or 2 for $45. DIVA members $22.50 or $40.50 for two.
Materials provided. Classes designed for young artists age 13-19.
Register by August 6

If you're a fan of anime and have always wanted to learn to draw your
own Manga characters, these workshops are for you. In Session 1:
Design, Characters & Inking, you'll learn how to design a character
from start to finish –pencil to ink. And if you're an experienced
manga artist, or have taken Marianne's workshops before, have no fear,
there will be advanced techniques covered in both sessions too.

In Session 2: Backgrounds, Accessories, and Sequential Stories, you'll
take you Manga skills to the next level. Think of a character, or
characters, and we'll learn about creating settings, situations,
accessories, and making a one-page comic ready to be copied for your
friends.

TEEN VIDEO WORKSHOPS

DIVA's new Youth Visions program offers a series of July-August video
workshops that provide the basic skills for teens wanting to make
movies. Teens will learn how to write stories that can be filmed and
shared with others. Practice basic techniques for getting the best
image and sound with available equipment. And, discover the secrets of
making special effects with simple materials and a bit of imagination.
Individual workshops are $40 each. A special package including any
five $40 workshops- $150.

Tuesday, July 1 - Workshop: Jump–In Video Basics
Time: 11 am - 2 pm

What better way to begin your filmmaking career than to grab a camera
and start shooting a prepared simple screenplay with a team of
like-minded collaborators? Edit in-camera and bring your results back
to the group for discussion and further collaboration: "How could we
do it better?" Emphasis is given to developing good camera and sound
recording techniques. Instructor: Jon Labrousse.Cost $40. Register by
June 24. (Late registration ok -if class is not full.)

Tuesday, July 8 - From Fresh Idea to Screen Story
Time: 11 am - 2 pm

Let's face it: your cast/crew is 3 people and your budget is $0. But
you've got a camera, and you're eager to make a movie. Discover
techniques to develop a story out of the resources you have at hand to
make a movie that will be enjoyed by a cheering audience. Instructor:
Jon Labrousse. Cost: $40. Register by July 1.

Saturday, July 26th - Low-Budget Special Effects & Makeup
Time: Noon - 2 pm

Movie-making is all about creating illusions. Learn to make your next
fight scene, zombie attack, or gore film that much more intense using
low-cost special effects and makeup. Instructor: Hank and Sarah
Weintraub, 531 Productions.
Cost: $40. Register by July 19.

Saturday, TBA - Picture it before you shoot
Time: TBA

Just as comic books tell a story through a sequence of pictures, so do
movies. Most filmmakers use a "storyboard" to plan out each shot
before they begin production. You'll learn to use storyboarding as a
tool for visually planning your whole movie before you shoot it.
Instructor: Todd Kesterson. Cost: $40.

Wednesdays, August 6 &13 - Intro to Title Sequence Design
Time: 1 pm - 2:30 pm

The title sequence completed a movie by setting the tone for the
audience. Explore techniques of creating title sequences. We'll see
examples of the creative use of still-frames, live-action, animation,
typography, and graphic design all rolled together into short title
sequences. Students will learn how to produce a dynamic title
sequence. Instructor: Brian Walker. Cost: $40. Register by July 23.

Tuesday, August 12 - Jump-In Video Intermediate
Time: 10 am - 2 pm

You've already got a handle on some of the basic steps to putting a
movie together. You're looking for a supported challenge to take your
filmmaking to the next level. This workshop gives you a prepared, more
complex, screenplay to edit in camera with a team of collaborators.
We'll share and workshop your results. Instructor: Jon Labrousse. Cost:
$40. Register by August 5.

Monday-Friday, August 18-22 - The Teen Animation Club
Time: 1 pm - 3 pm
Class size is limited, pre-registration required. A second session
may be offered if needed.

Come learn about the history of the art that moves. We'll briefly
discuss the wide spectrum of animation from Oskar Fischinger (of
Fantasia) to Chuck Jones (of Looney Tunes) and the many animators
in-between. In addition we will create zoetropes, flip-books,
thumatropes and other short animations complete with sound effects and
music. The Teen Animation Club is a guided independent studio where
teens are open to any animation technique.The Animation Club meets for two hours a day for five consecutive days of the summer. Instructor: Brian Walker. Cost: $80. Register by August 12.