Trust the Process
June 9-14, 2024
June 9-14, 2024
Trust the Process:
Taking a closer look at how experimenting and addressing failure in the process can help us grow as artists, teachers, leaders and learners. Valuing the word Trust as we trust ourselves as artists, teachers, leaders and learners. Are we listening to what we tell our students? Are we listening to our own inner student?
Tina Butterfield, M.F.A., Chair of the Department of Art and Design at Western Colorado University.
Patrick Dougherty, Internationally recognized sculpture artist, University of North Carolina
Kimberly Chiaris,BFA in Photography, Kansas City Art Institute
Taking a closer look at how experimenting and addressing failure in the process can help us grow as artists, teachers, leaders and learners. Valuing the word Trust as we trust ourselves as artists, teachers, leaders and learners. Are we listening to what we tell our students? Are we listening to our own inner student?
Tina Butterfield, M.F.A., Chair of the Department of Art and Design at Western Colorado University.
- Lead artist collaborating with a team of writers and artists creating the book: Woman of the Land.
- She works with loose gestural, dance-like movement on large canvas on the ground and often creates her materials from the land.
- Her workshop with us will be getting us outdoors and help us have “Fun with Failure”, growing and experimenting and later using these in collage work.
Patrick Dougherty, Internationally recognized sculpture artist, University of North Carolina
- Uses primitive techniques of building and to experiment with tree saplings as construction material.Combining his carpentry skills with his love of nature, Patrick began to learn more about primitive techniques of building and to experiment with tree saplings as construction material.
- built over 300 of these environmental works. His sculpture has been seen worldwide---from Scotland to Japan to Brussels, and all over the United States.
Kimberly Chiaris,BFA in Photography, Kansas City Art Institute
- Her practices often involve digital composites combined with analog and alternative processes that include elements of mixed media.
- Her focus is mainly on themes about origin and identity and how trace memory, emotions, time and culture shape and shift our understanding of history.
- Numerous exhibitions and honors as well as teaching workshops, most currently at the Colorado Photographic Arts Center.
- Her workshop with us will be on Cyanotypes and their possibilities for artmaking.
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Time & Location
Date: June 9-14, 2024 Location: Western Colorado University, Gunnison, CO |