DIGITAL DREAMS: HOW DO I GET THERE FROM HERE? • Carmen Hathaway
Delve into the remarkable world of digital imaging – expand and excite your artistic vision with Ca-nadian artist Carmen Hathaway. Participants will explore the limitless possibilities of digital rendering, through this twenty-first century, creative, inspirational, and fascinating process.
CREATIVE REALISM WITH ABSTRACT CONNECTION •
Charles Crossley
This is a workshop of painting and collage. Participants will combine forms and unlimited media as the imagination explodes into a new creative vision. Mississippi Artist Crossley (12th year Art Colony Artist) will help you to rediscover the magic of composition through mixed media and collage.
POLYMER CLAY • Sarajane Helm
Build faces from Polymer clay, hand-dye cotton jersey, and paint; sew stuff and decorate dolls, pup-pets, masks, and more. Participants in this workshop will create “unique and very personalized fig-ures” under the expert guidance of Colorado artist, Sarajane Helm (returning Art Colony instructor).
TEXTURAL APPROACH TO WOOD CARVING •
Ronald G. Koehler
The works of Mississippi Artist/Art Educator, Ron Koehler evidence how simple woodworking and carving tools-the band saw chisels, and other non-traditional tools can produce amazing and ap-petizing results in the manipulative hands and imagination of the artist.
CREATING ICONS AND ANCESTRAL MEMORY •
Allen Uzikee Nelson
Participants in this workshop will experience welding through the Engineering Technological exper-tise of D.C. artist Uzikee Nelson. His sculptures are designed to bridge the gap between African ritual and abstract art, as well as, African and Western culture.
FROM THE SPIRIT • Arlington Weithers
New York Artist Arlington Weithers personal faith and faith in the transformative possibilities for art will have participants in this workshop experiencing a new understanding of the acrylic medium as a connection is made between form, structure, and painterly freedom.
LIFE DRAWING • William "Bill" Henderson
When drawing medium meets the surface of the page and the eyes and hand connect, live models and the expert guidance of Mendenhall, Mississippi artist, Bill Henderson(First TC Art Colony Direc-tor) will give even the inexperienced draftsman the vehicle that will help move the creativity into the inner and outer channels of the human figure.
• Special FREE Public Events and Open House
World famous Brenda Singletary presents No Guts, No Glory: A Profitable Alternative to Selling Fine Art.
Music by Jesse Primer & Band. Thursday, 7:00PM, July 17. Owens Health & Wellness Center
Hot Art Exhibit: July 13-17, Owens Health and Wellness
Open Studios: Friday, July 18, 9:00AM-12:00NOON
TOUGALOO ART COLONY
Tougaloo College, P.O. Box 578, Tougaloo, MS 39174
601-977-7839 or 601-977-7743 • Fax 601-977-4504
art@tougaloo.edu • mwatson@tougaloo.edu
