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Spring 2006 Workshops

Welcome to the Spring 2006 season of Alchemy Studio, Voted The Best Place to Get Artsy in a Day in the New Times Best of 2005. We are offering three antique photographic processes workshops in our new studio to commemorate its grand opening. Come join us and celebrate.

Photography____________________________________

Ambrotype: A Collodion Process
Instructor: France Scully Osterman
Date: Saturday, March 4, 9:00am-5:00pm
Cost: $250.00/ $20.00 materials fee
Location: Alchemy Studio, 4022 East Cambridge Ave., Phoenix
Participants will be guided step-by-step through the wet-plate collodion process to make a half plate ambrotype (4.25" x 5.50") self-portrait with a large format period camera and lens. Included will be instructions on mixing chemicals and advice on equipment adaptation, and the manual, "The Wet-Plate Process, A Working Guide." No photographic experience is necessary.
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Introduction to Platinum/Palladium Printing
Instructor: Tracy Longely-Cook
Date: Saturday, May 27, 9:00am-4:00pm
Cost: $120.00/$30.00 materials fee
Location: Alchemy Studio, 4022 East Cambridge Ave, Phoenix
This workshop will introduce the student to what has been referred to as one of the most beautiful and permanent photographic printing processes ever discovered. This 19th century process is characterized by subtle tones, soft textures, and delicate highlights not obtainable through regular gelatin silver printing. The chemistry of printing with salts of platinum and/or palladium will be discussed and various techniques of coating papers will be demonstrated. This is a contact printing process so students will need to supply their own large format negatives, 4 x 5 or larger, either from original in camera negatives or enlarged duplicate negatives. Basic to intermediate darkroom knowledge is required for the workshop.
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Cyanotype and Van Dyke Artists' Book
Instructor: Carol Panaro-Smith
Date: April 18, 6:30-8:00pm & April 29, 9:00am-4:00pm
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 montaged 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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Mixed Media_____________________________________

Constructing Collage
Instructor: Carol Panaro-Smith
Date: Saturday, April 1, 9:00am-5:00pm
Cost: $120.00/ b$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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Breaking the Surface: Low Relief Collage
Instructor: Melissa Button
Date: Thursday, March 30, 7:00-8:30pm & Saturday, April 8, 9:00am-4:00pm
Cost: $120.00 workshop fee $30.00 materials fee
Location: Alchemy Studio, 4022 East Cambridge Ave, Phoenix
In this workshop students will be exploring the way in which one can begin to look beyond the flat surface. Combining elements of collage and low relief participants will work to achieve optimum visual impact utilizing both an additive and subtractive approach. Participants will experiment with works that bridge the gap between two-dimensional drawing/painting and discover how to build and construct works that represent the three dimensionality of low relief spaces in a mixed media context. Included in this course will be a brief meeting prior to the workshop to discuss material options and alternative places for finding materials.
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Un)dress: Experimental Writing & (Re)defining Identity
Instructor: Julie Hampton
Date: Tuesday, May 16, 6:30-9:30pm & Saturday, May 20, 10:00am-3:00pm
Cost: $110.00 / $5.00 materials fee
Location: TBA
Using interdisciplinary techniques, this workshop will explore the metaphoric "dress" we have each worn throughout our lives. In the first meeting we'll read and discuss some experimental writers and use their work as a model to write about various styles of "dress"-language, body image, career, sexuality, spirituality, and emotional life-we've been given to wear by our parents, teachers, religious leaders, friends, that helped formed our identity. At the second meeting students will arrive with material, both literally and figuratively, to work with: a variety of fabrics as well as patterns, photographs, texts and personal writing, which will be assembled into a mixed media piece.
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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.

France Scully Osterman is guest scholar at George Eastman House and has given lectures, demonstrations and workshops throughout the United States, Japan and Europe. Her workshops have been held at Bennington College for Art New England, Anderson Ranch in Colorado, the Art Institute of Boston, Tyler School of Art and more. Her writings have been included in a large number of publications, and her work has been highlighted in a number of solo exhibits. She has received glowing reviews of her "Sleep" exhibit in Art in America, Paris Photo Magazine and the Village Voice. She is represented by Howard Greenberg Gallery, NYC. Osterman's work was featured in Photovision Magazine, Photography's Antiquarian Avant-Guarde, The New Wave in Old Process Photography by Lyle Rexer, Coming into Focus by John Barnier, and The Book of Alternative Photographic Processes by Christopher James. More information about her work and the collodion process can be found at: http://www.collodion.

Tracy Longley-Cook is a third year MFA candidate in photography at Arizona State University. She has been working with large format and alternative printing processes for ten years. Her work is exhibited nationally, and has also appeared in View Camera and Camera Arts magazine.

Melissa Button received a Bachelor of Science in architecture and an MFA in painting at Arizona State University. She is a faculty associate at Arizona State University, working in both the College of Fine Arts, and the College of Architecture. Melissa is currently represented by G2 Gallery in Scottsdale, Fala Collections in Tucson, and Finer Things Gallery in Nashville.

Julie Hampton received her MFA in Creative Writing at Arizona State University in May 2005. Her work has been published in Indiana Review, Spork, and Hayden's Ferry Review. From 1995 - 2001, she was director of the YMCA Writer's Voice. Currently, she teaches for ASU's Young Writers Program and the Virginia G. Piper Center for Creative Writing.

a.ware parties____________________________________

The "aware girls", better known as Julie Hampton and Carol
Panaro-Smith, are ready to entertain you!

A hybrid of the Tupperware party, morphed into the 21st century, a.ware parties are the new way to shop. Imagine your place transformed into a really hip art boutique. Invite your favorite people over for an evening of customized cocktails and conversation, followed by a sassy "show and tell" of items for the home and body-they'll tell you the stories behind the dizzying array of artist-created works. The objects are always changing but can include scarves, handbags, belts, handmade books, prints, unique cards, vintage finds and other treasures the girls discover on their travels. The evening will end with a sampling of delectable homemade desserts (these girls can bake!) and an opportunity to shop, shop, shop.

Booking a party is easy: contact Julie at 602-262-2092 or juliehampton@earthlink.net and she'll fill in the details. Don't hesitate-these girls are in demand.

Available dates:
February 17, 18, 25
April 29
May 12, 13
Please note: as parties are booked some dates may no longer be
available.See below for more a.ware opportunities.

A.ware Studio
1023 Grand Avenue, Studio E

A boutique on First Fridays and design studio the rest of the month,
a.ware studio opens its doors for you to take care of your creative
side. All you have to do is reserve a space and show up; materials are
included in the workshop price. The instructors will walk you through
the rest.

Candle making
Design your own scented beeswax candles with a variety of essential
oils and plant-based materials to choose from.
Saturday, March 4
1:00 - 3:00 pm

Body scrubs
Learn how to make all-natural, sensual bath scrubs for different skin
types with items found in most kitchens.
Saturday, April 8
1:00 -3:00 pm

A Mother's Day Poem
Write the poem you've always wanted to write for your mom-or the mom in
you.
Saturday, May 6
1:00 -3:00 pm

All Workshops $25

To reserve your space, call 602-262-2092 or email
juliehampton@earthlink.net