Outreach

Annapolis, Continuing Education and Fine Arts Program - Summer 2009

Summer Workshops

The Painted Sketch
Instructor: Jean Brinton Jaecks

This two-day workshop will explore the painted sketch. While working en plein air on St. John's beautiful campus, artists will sketch and paint the spring gardens, historic buildings, landscape, and College Creek. Watercolor sketching can be very portable with materials and a sketchbook that will fit in a backpack or purse. The workshop will focus on capturing quick sketches and personal expression. The instructor will teach watercolor techniques, linear perspective, and expressing light. Lunch will be provided by St. John's College, and a critique will complete the day.

Friday, May 29, and Saturday, May 30
9 a.m. to 2 p.m.
On campus and indoors if rain.
Tuition: $150 (includes lunch)

Jean Brinton Jaecks is a plein air landscape painter. She received her MFA from George Washington University and a BFA from Maryland Institute College of Art; she also studied at the Cape Cod School of Art with Henry Hensche. She was the 2008 recipient of the Rochefort-en-Terre Artist Residency in Brittany, France. This summer Jaecks will be teaching plein air painting on the Amalfi Coast, Italy, as well as in the gardens of Annapolis. She is a painting instructor for the Smithsonian American Art Museum, the US Botanic Garden and Corcoran, and the National Arboretum. Her paintings have exhibited at the Rocherfort-en-Terre Museum in Brittany, France; Corcoran Museum of Art; the National Arts Club; the Central Park Boathouse in New York City; the National Adirondack Exhibit of American Watercolors; the McKissick Museum, Columbia, S.C; and the Heritage Museum, Talladega, Alabama.

Sculpture Workshop
Instructor: D.H. Banker

Participants, working in clay, stone, or wood, may explore and advance a sculpture in progress or a new idea in this one-day intensive workshop. Clay will be provided as part of the workshop; stone may be purchased at $2 a pound. Some tools will be provided, but students should also bring their own. Students will receive technical and creative support and direction. Sculpture from past masters will be reviewed, and the creative process will be mined for tips and clues to successful expression. Participants should bring a sketchbook and an open mind.

Saturday, June 6
9 a.m. to 5 p.m.
Mellon Hall, Room 200
Tuition: $100 (includes lunch)

D. H. Banker is a sculptor living in Annapolis. She has a BA with honors from George Washington University. She teaches sculpture at Glenelg Country School. Her work can be seen at DeMatteis Gallery in Annapolis. She is the recipient of Anne Arundel County's 2004 Annie Award for Excellence as an arts educator.

WRITING SKILLS WORKSHOPS

The Story Within: Finding Subject and Voice in the Personal Essay
Instructor: Laura Oliver

It is never too late to be what you might have been. — George Eliot

Identifying the essence of what a writer cares about is finding his subject. Learning to speak with authenticity is finding his voice. In this workshop, students will turn life into literature and the personal into the universal as they explore their lives for writing subjects. In addition, by examining the voices of a variety of successful writers, each participant will find a style that inspires his or her own. Through an exploration of published essays and stories, in-class writing exercises, and discussion of student work, class members will find their authentic voices and discover what they really want to write about.

Saturday, June 6
Hodson Room, Mellon Hall
9 to 11:30 a.m.
Tuition: $45
This workshop is open to adults 18 and over.

Presenting the Evidence
Instructor: Laura Oliver

My objective is to show what I found, not what I was looking for. — Pablo Picasso

Using the Mary Hood story, "How Far She Went," students will learn the most important skill a writer can possess: the ability to dramatize a scene so readers intuit both meaning and emotion. This is the skill that brings flat work to life. It is an ability that allows writers to show rather than tell, and to detail the action rather than summarize the events. Participants will learn how to telegraph character through dialogue and how to illuminate metaphor. In-class writing exercises and discussion will give class members new tools to enhance both fiction and memoir. This is a fun, stimulating, and supportive environment.

Saturday, June 13
9 to 11:30 a.m.
Hodson Room, Mellon Hall
Tuition: $45
This workshop is open to adults 18 and over.

Laura Oliver is an adjunct creative writing instructor at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County. She received her MFA in Creative Writing and Literature from Bennington College and has completed summer writing seminars at the University of Iowa in creative nonfiction. Her personal essays have been published numerous times in national magazines and newspapers such as Country Living and The Washington Post. Her fiction has appeared in top-tier literary journals such as "Glimmer Train," a publication that currently contributes more stories to the Best American Series than The New Yorker. In addition, she is published online at www.Beliefnet.com and in regional reviews and magazines. Oliver has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize and is a recipient of a Maryland State Arts Council Individual Artist Award in Fiction. She was a finalist for Glimmer Train's Very Short Fiction Award/2007, and a finalist in Glimmer Train's Family Matters competition/ 2008.

Pottery: Open Studio

This 10-week summer session is for students at all levels. More advanced students will work independently. The instructor will provide demonstrations and lessons for beginning students in hand-building as well as throwing on the potters' wheel. Class includes firing and glazing of finished pieces.

Saturdays, June 20 until August 22
10 a.m. to noon
Mellon Hall, Room 28
Tuition $220 (includes $35 materials fee)

John Jensen is a full-time studio potter in Annapolis and has been teaching pottery classes for the past 20 years. His pottery has sold nationally through catalog sales and locally at his studio. His 40-year career as an artist includes continuing work with figurative sculpture, painting, and drawing. He earned a BS from Louisiana State University in Baton Rouge.

REGISTRATION
Download registration form and mail to the address below or call Molly Burnett at 410-626-2881 to register via telephone.

Community Programs Office
P.O. Box 2800
Annapolis, MD 21404