Spring 2020 Class Catalog Photo Credit: Above It All by Michelle Firment Reid Mark Your Calendars…………………..….pg 2 Special Events………………………... pg 7 Glass…………………………………pg 12 Facility Rentals,……………………….…...pg 3 Featured Workshop…………………...pg 8 Drawing, Painting, & Printmaking…pg 13 Our Instructors……………………….….pg 4-5 Clay……………………………………..pg 9 Fiber Arts & Textiles………………..pg 15 Private Groups……………………….…….pg 6 Jewelry & Metals……………………..pg 10 Course Calendar……………….pg18 - 19 Mark Your Calendars for Spring 2020! Oh, the joys of Spring! We’re excited to bring a new teaching artist into the fold at WaterWorks Art Center as we welcome Jini Kim. Jini will teach “Beginner’s Drawing,” an often-asked-for introductory drawing series of classes beginning on Thursday, April 2, 1 - 4 p.m. WaterWorks Spring Break Art Camp is scheduled for March 16 - 20, 9 a.m. - 4 p.m. for young artists ages 7 - 11. Enrollment begins February 1 and is limited to 10 participants. Questions? Give us a call at (918) 596-2440. Tuition is $125 and includes all art supplies and a week of fun. Multidisciplinary artist, Michelle Firment Reid, brings her inspired vision to guide participants through the process of exploring a wordless open-form of writing and art in her two-day feature workshop, “Asemic Writing: Freedom & Fluidity” on Friday and Saturday, April 3 and 4. Space is limited on a first-come, first-served basis for this WaterWorks Advisory Council sponsored event. Enroll online for the workshop at www.waterworksartcenter.com. Executive Director WaterWorks Hours of Operation: Lee Anne Zeigler, [email protected] Mondays - Thursdays 8:30 a.m. - 8:30 p.m. Fridays - Saturdays 8:30 a.m. - 4:30 p.m. WaterWorks Art Center will be closed: Friday & Saturday, April 10 - 11 for Easter Break Saturday - Monday, May 23 - 25 for Memorial Day Weekend Come Celebrate Birthdays with Us! Art-themed parties are available for kids ages 6 and up. Each Birthday Party lasts approximately 1 & 1/2 hours (45 minutes for the art project and the remaining 45 minutes for guests to enjoy refreshments brought by the host family). Typical art projects include: acrylic painting on canvas; watercolor painting on paper; cards with ink stamping; and mixed media collage. WaterWorks Birthday Parties include: • Use of the large studio space with tables and chairs; • Use of art supplies necessary to complete your take-home project; and • An Art Instructor who guides guests through the art project. 1 - 10 children: $100 (minimum) 11 - 20 children: $10/child (maximum 20 children) 2 Facility Rental Are you planning a reception, small corporate function or party? WaterWorks Art Center is the perfect venue for your event! Up to 150 guests can enjoy our beautiful large studio space with picturesque windows, stage, adjoining outdoor patio, and views of historic Newblock Park and the downtown Tulsa skyline. On-site parking and a kitchenette are available for your event at no extra cost. Rental Area Hourly Rate Contact us for more Large Studio information and to check $100 availability of dates. with Stage Phone: (918) 596-2440 Email: [email protected] Outdoor East Patio $60 3 Our Instructors Laura Borders is a Cherokee artist Cady Carlson Dill owns and operates who has been creating art all her life, her jewelry design and CAD company, and weaving for more than 25 years. Cady Carlson Dill Designs. After She was taught by Kathy Van Buskirt, receiving a Bachelor of Fine Arts from master Cherokee basket weaver, who Savannah College of Art and Design, is recognized by the Cherokee Nation she moved home to Tulsa. Dill has as a "National Living Treasure." She always had a fascination with the arts continues to share her knowledge and and is active in the local art scene. She expertise in Cherokee art to children enjoys learning new processes and is and adults in her community through inspired by other entrepreneurs and art Artists-In-The-Schools, by The Arts and deco architecture. Follow her on Humanities Council of Tulsa, Gilcrease Facebook, Instagram and check out her Museum, Leadership Oklahoma, and website at www.cadycarlson.com. WaterWorks Art Center. She has also conducted classes as a guest artist in Yusuf Etudaiye is a contemporary Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. African artist, born in Nigeria on the west coast of Africa. At the age of 19, Jenny Bradley is a studio jeweler from he came to the U.S. to study and Tulsa whose work is inspired by both received an Associate of Arts degree classic and modern forms influenced by from Northern Oklahoma College in her surroundings, in nature and Tonkawa, Oklahoma. He later received architecture. Jenny studied jewelry and a Bachelor of Fine Arts from Oklahoma metalsmithing in Providence, RI, State University. Etudaiye later receiving a bachelor’s degree at the established Etudaiye Pottery Studio in Rhode Island School of Design. She McAlester, Oklahoma, and looks at art later went on to earn her Masters of "not just as a matter of talent, but rather Fine Arts at State University of New a process of evolution.” York at New Paltz. She has worked as a bench worker and jewelry designer Hans Fichtenberg has always been while teaching metals courses over the drawn to creative forms of expression years, and is a current staff member at and enjoys all visual art, including WaterWorks. creating pottery, experimenting with faux finishes, photography, exploring Sara Brooks Charles is an Oklahoma- architecture and interior design, paper based bookbinder and creative making and various painting styles. entrepreneur. She earned her Master of Hans served on the WaterWorks Fine Arts in studio art from Indiana Advisory Council for three years before University and Bachelor of Fine Art from joining the WaterWorks staff full time. the University of Oklahoma. In 2013, she established Original Brooks, a book bindery that specializes in handcrafted Nancy Harkins is an award-winning journals made from vintage and painter whose work is included in repurposed materials. Sara has taught several corporate collections and classes and workshops on published in four books. For more than photography, art, and bookbinding 35 years, Nancy has worked in across the country including Indiana watercolor and exhibited her work in University, Warren Wilson College, many national and regional exhibits Asheville Bookworks, and Pyramid including “American Art in Miniature” at Atlantic Book Arts Center. To see more Gilcrease Museum. She also won of her books, follow Original Brooks on “Best of Show” in Women Artists of the Instagram or Facebook and visit her West’s National Exhibit. She has website, www.originalbrooks.com. taught at WaterWorks Art Center for 12 years. To see more of Nancy’s work, Tom Conrad holds a Master of Fine go to her website: Arts degree from the California College www.harkinsfineart.com of the Arts as well as a bachelor’s degree in art history and Master of Art Jini Kim received her Master of Fine in painting from the University of Tulsa. Arts in Painting at the University of He is an experienced art teacher and Tulsa. She currently teaches at Rogers has taught printmaking, color and State University in Claremore, design, and even English in Tokyo, Oklahoma. Her large-scale linocut Japan. His extensive travel and living prints have been exhibited at Tulsa Arts experience in other cultures provide a Coalition, Hardesty Arts Center, and at perspective and enthusiasm for many Green Moon Fine Art Gallery in Taos, art forms. His paintings are exhibited at New Mexico. To see more of Jini’s Joseph Gierek Fine Art Gallery. More work, visit www.artbyjinikim.com images of Tom’s work may be seen at www.tomconradart.com 4 Our Instructors Joseph Jenner is a metalsmith who creates work that focuses on process Cheri Tatum graduated from Southern and traditional metalsmithing Nazarene University with a Bachelor of techniques. Joseph received a Bachelor Science in natural science. She mixes of Fine Arts in metalsmithing and her interest in science with her passion blacksmithing from Southern Illinois for art. She trained at Tulsa Tech in University Carbondale, IL. In 2011, he their Professional Bench Jeweler’s relocated to Tulsa where he works as a program. Cheri developed a passion for shop manager at Wiemann Metalcraft. forming metal by hammering and has He sells his work as Wander Rust and studied with master jewelers in Boston, frequently exhibits in local and regional San Francisco and New York. Her work craft fairs. can be seen at 108 Contemporary. Gina Crowder Levesque works with natural dye stuffs, weaving, rug Lynn Tedder holds a Bachelor of Fine hooking, spinning and traditional penny Arts degree from the University of rug construction. She has been dyeing Texas at Austin. She has been weaving with natural materials and researching for over 30 years as well as studying, their history for over 20 years. Gina has teaching, and writing about weaving for taken and taught many natural dye over 20. She has had articles and workshops throughout the country. projects published in Weaver’s and Handwoven magazines. From 2000 until 2015, she served as a technical Taylor Painter-Wolfe was born and editor for Handwoven magazine. She raised in Tulsa and is a graduate of particularly enjoys figuring out what the Booker T. Washington High School. threads in a weave structure are She attended The Kansas City Art actually doing and then explaining her Institute where she majored in fiber art discoveries to anyone who stands or and developed her interest in making sits still long enough to listen. and dyeing felted wool. She later received a Master of Special Education from The University of Washington Maurie Traylor is most noted for her State, and now divides her time expressionist inspired portraits that between making and showing her work connect the viewer to her work through and teaching art.