Fall 2007 Workshops

Welcome to the Fall 2007 season of Alchemy Studio, Voted The Best Place to Get Artsy in a Day in the New Times Best of 2005.

Image Transfer Techniques with Polaroid Film
Instructors: Carol Panaro-Smith
Date: Monday, September 17, 6-9 pm
Cost: $50.00 / $20.00 materials fee
Location: Alchemy Studio, 4022 East Cambridge Ave., Phoenix

Modern technology will never match the rich and vintage look of images made with Polaroid film. Whether you are looking for new ways to use photography or plan to implement fresh ways of incorporating imagery in a mixed media context, this workshop will explore the many methods of using Polaroid products and equipment. Image transfer and emulsion lift techniques using Polaroid 669 film and DayLab equipment will be demonstrated using either your slides or flat work, including digital prints, to create the image. These images can then be transferred to a multitude of surfaces including fine and handmade papers, cloth, metal and glass. No prior photographic experience is necessary.
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Cyanotype and Van Dyke Artists’ Book
Instructor: Carol Panaro-Smith
Date: Sunday,October 28-9:00am-4:00pm
(informational meeting: October 15-6:30-8:00pm)
Cost: $130.0/ $20.00 materials fee
Location: Alchemy Studio, 4022 East Cambridge Ave, Phoenix

This workshop will explore the artists’ book as a vehicle for expression. Unlike a blank handmade book, the artists’ book is content driven. It can provide the artist with a new way of presenting ideas. Participants will begin the process by creating a montage image using the van dyke and cyanotype printing processes. The format for the structure will be a simple origami folded book. Once the montage is folded into a book form it begins a narrative that will be further embellished with a variety of techniques including Xerox transfer, stitching, use of cut out windows and several mixed media finishing techniques. The format of the book along with the intuitive process of collage creates a finished piece that both informs and illuminates the artist. No photographic experience is necessary.
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Constructing Collage
Instructor: Carol Panaro-Smith
Date: Sunday, November 11, 9:00am-5:00pm
(+ informational meeting on Oct. 29, 7-8:30pm)
Cost: $120.00 / $20.00 materials fee
Location: Alchemy Studio, 4022 East Cambridge Ave., Phoenix

In this process intensive workshop, participants will learn several techniques that will give them, whether at the beginning or more advanced level, a larger repertoire of both techniques and approaches to collage to work from. Techniques that will be introduced include color and black and white laser transfer, simple relief printing using Easy Cut material and basic hand applied monotype techniques, simple chine collé, as well as an introduction to several finishing techniques using beeswax, shellac, buffing pigments, etc. Students will start by constructing a "practice" collage utilizing the techniques covered in the morning and then work on a small suite of collages in the afternoon.
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Please watch for the workshop schedule for:

· FORM 3-ritual-reflection-response starting in January of 2007

· Also, visit: http://www.aellsworth.com/artintersection.htm to learn more about a week- long art workshop in the Tuscan hills of Italy.

To view past Alchemy Studio workshops click here

Instructors_________________________________________

Carol Panaro-Smith is the Founder and Director of Alchemy Studio Workshops, which was established in 1998 to provide the highest quality workshops in the fine arts for the Phoenix community. She is a nationally acclaimed artist whose work exists in many public and private collections throughout the country. She received her M.F.A. from Arizona State University and brings to Alchemy over 20 years of teaching experience with a special emphasis in alternative photographic processes and mixed media.

James Hajicek is the Co-Director of Alchemy Studio Workshops and has been a Professor of Photography at Arizona State University for over 25 years. His area of specialization is late 19th century photographic printing processes. His work has been exhibited internationally and is included in many public and private collections of fine art photography. He has been the recipient of several National Endowment for the Arts Fellowships.