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PAINTING WORKSHOP:


Sunday, November 25 – Friday, Nov. 30, 2012

Times: 10:00- 12:30 pm, 2:00- 4:30pm (Two or one class)

One hour break: You can continue with second class from 2:00- 4:30pm

You can sign up for both times or one time in that day!

6 Consecutive Days (4-6 students max) Sign up now!

Ulrike Dornis, Artist & Instructor

(No Previous Experience needed/ All Levels)

Location: Berlin, To be announced upon registration

Materials: will be discussed in the first class and a list provided
Cost: 20 euros per class or pro-rated for both. Students must pay registration fee for workshops.

For Registration and information, please email: berlincollective@gmail.com

Workshop Description: Watercolors (aquarelle), tempera, egg-tempera, dammar crystals, oil paint, acrylic, glaze, pigment, linseed oil, turpentine, white spirit, bees wax, varnishes, and more. You may of heard of all of these painting materials before. Do you want to know a bit more of it? No need to prime a canvas or piece of wood 7 times. You can start right away but maybe its still interesting to know a bit more about technique.
Course Breakdown:
First day at the studio we will have a look at the work/ techniques of Artist and Instructor Ulrike Dornis.
This gets us to your own points of interest:
- Which materials are known to you, what do you want to try out?
- How do you find your subject, what technique is fitting for it.
- Is technique always useful and why should you forget about it here and then?
- Acquire knowledge about technique and material to avoid harmful substances
For beginners, I will give an introduction into different techniques of paint. (water soluble and normal oil paint and acrylic)
If you are experienced you might get another perspective of material or painting in general. I have a profound knowledge about material in general please ask or come with questions.
For a small charge I will provide some material. After the first day you can decide if you go and get your own material or if you use mine. I have palette to use as well a some paper and stretched canvas. If you want to bring stretched canvas it should not be smaller than 40 x 30 cm.
You can expect a class where you learn to see and develop a general idea about painting and paint. By doing nature studies – in this case still live -  you’ll learn to see more. Seeing more is important because you can only react on things you really see with your own eyes. Our daily life (print and other media) implants so many pictures in our heads – how can we be sure that we really saw a thing?
In our class I am focusing on the realistic idea. We will have a still-live in the middle of the room.
But you are more than welcome to paint more or completely abstract. The “rules” in the composition of a painting are the same. You see in my paintings how I play using abstract and realistic forms together.
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Creative Writing Workshop: “WRITING FOR CREATIVES”
Workshop Instructor: Melinda Barlow
Duration: 2 days
Schedule: 1-3PM, Tues. Sept. 18th & 25th, 2012
1-3 pm Thursday, Sept. 20th & 27th, 2012
cost €25 per 4 hour workshop
Supplies: Please bring a suitable journal or notebook and writing utensil.

Have you ever wanted to write about your experiences, dreams, ideas, visions, stories, personal life, family? This workshop will consist of 2 x 2 hour classes and give participants the opportunity to explore the role of writing in their work.  You will take part in a number of exercises of 5 – 15 minutes duration each.  At least half the workshop will be practical writing time, and the rest will be made up of discussion, questions and feedback.

Participants are welcome to bring their current  writing projects and ‘work journal’ with them for their own reference during the workshop.  No pre-requisites required.

You must pay a registration fee if you are not a Berlin Collective Member. For more info and to sign up, please email: berlincollective@gmail.com

Melinda Barlow is a Berlin Collective Artist/an Australian freelance writer, blogger and aspiring photographer.  She has been writing in one form or another for most of her life, but started professionally in 2008 as creative director of Dragonfly Trading.  She has recently moved to Berlin, and is currently navigating her way through the choppy seas of German culture.

The choice to pursue a creative career is a brave one, and it is rare that creatives actually reflect on the act of making this choice.  This workshop aims to explore the creative experience through a series of writing exercises, and by providing some techniques to allow artists to maintain artistic creative reflection, and document their artistic life.

www.dragonflytrading.wordpress.com

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PAINTING: (October Painting & November workshop, sign up now!)

Painting in Berlin
Artist & Instructor: Gwen Kerber
October 15-20, 10:30-12:30pm (5 Consecutive Days of Painting)

To sign up for this course, please email: berlincollective@gmail.com

Course Description: This class is for anyone interested in painting.   Topics will include composition, light, creating space and working with color.  These issues apply whether you are interested in painting from observation,  abstractly, or from your imagination.  Students may work in oil or acrylic.  If you already have supplies please bring them to the first class.  If you are not sure whether you would like to use oil or acrylic I will have samples for you to try at the first class.  You can  decide which you would like to use then purchase your supplies in time for the second class.

The class  will begin with a basic still-life  project.  However, as it will be  small class, if you already have a certain direction you are pursuing we can work together to  plan some individual projects for you to work on.  There will be an optional homework assignment each day. The cost is 20 euros per session.  Other than on the first day, students are expected to bring their own supplies.  The class will be taught in English.

The class is limited to five students.  Once you sign up Gwen will email you to exchange email with each student before the first class to learn about your level of experience and your particular areas of interest.

To sign up, email us: berlincollective@gmail.com

Gwen Kerber is an American painter living and working in Berlin.  She has taught at Pratt Institute, The University of Connecticut, Trinity College, and Bucks County Community College.  She has a B.A. from Hampshire College, a B.F.A. from the Cleveland Institute of Art, attended the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture and earned an M.F.A.in painting at Yale University. www.gwendolynkerber.com

 

“Creativity and Code: Programming for Artists”/ Taught by Justin Blinder/ in Berlin

As creatives, we are often limited by the prepackaged digital tools we use. Commercial software force us into employing common techniques and routines, providing little opportunity for us to tinker under the hood.

This workshop will teach the fundamentals of programming as a means of creative expression, providing participants with the foundation to build their own drawing software. We will be using the creative coding environment Processing (www.processing.org) throughout each course. By the end of this workshop, partcipants will be able to build their own Photoshop alternative that uses non-traditional inputs such as physics and video input to create unique compositions. The course will cover the basics of object oriented programming, algorithmic drawing and animation, and image processing. No prior programming experience is required.

Participants must be able to bring a laptop, preferably with Processing preinstalled (www.processing.org).

Session 2
Monday Oct. 1st 2-5pm
Tuesday Oct. 2nd 2-5pm
Wednesday Oct. 3rd 2-5pm

Justin Blinder is a programmer and artist residing in Brooklyn, New York. Justin received his BFA in Design and Technology from Parsons the New School for Design in 2011. In the past, Justin has worked as a developer on the open source project ShiftSpace, and served as a Resident Creative Technologist for EDesign Labs. Selected personal projects of his have been featured on websites such as the New York Times, the Washington Post, the Atlantic, the BBC, and Boing Boing among others.

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Performance Workshop & LIVE Performance in Berlin with Artist Micol Hebron

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Summer Drawing Workshop

July 23 – August 15, 2012
with Mira O’Brien
This class introduces basic techniques in drawing, with a focus on drawing from observation. Exercises explore technique, medium and strategies in visual thinking. The class is a perfect introduction for beginners, with something new even for the more experienced.
Each class is structured around a formal topic (contour lines, tonality, negative space…), with examples from art-history and a brief discussion. We will build technique through a series of guided exercises, followed by time for experimentation and longer drawings. We will draw from a live model and from still life creations.
We will make several excursions to draw out in the field, including the ready-made still lives of Berlin’s Natural History Museum, the statues in the Pergammon Museum, and a plein air site.
Location: Berlin Drawing Room in Kreuzberg (Wrangelstrasse 31a)
Schedule: Monday 6-9pm and Wednesday 6-9pm
- the field-trip will be scheduled at a different time
Summer Drawing Workshop starts July 23 - August 15, 2012
Cost: 135 Euro for the complete Workshop (8 classes plus 1 field-trip)
                             - recommended for beginners
            or 20 Euro per individual class
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PAINTING>>>>>>>>>>>>

Painting Course/ Workshop with Artist in Berlin, July & August, 2012; Ulrike Dornis, Artist & Instructor

* Late Summer & Fall Painting Workshop< New Offer< August 30 – Sept. 15, 2012: Sign up now!

Note*Time schedule is flexible for this new course.

For more information, please contact us.

(No Previous Experience needed/ All Levels)

Workshop Dates:
July 1-17
Mondays: July 1, 9, 16 (Monday/ Tuesday 4 – 6 p.m.)
Tuesdays: July 3, 10, 17
Wed: July 10, 17

July 16/17 – plein-air  (Monday/ Tuesday, 4-5 hours per day)

Location: Berlin, To be announced upon registration
Materials: will be discussed in the first class and a list provided
Cost: 20 euros per class. Students must pay register fee.

For Registration and information, please email: berlincollective@gmail.com

Workshop Description: Watercolors (aquarelle), tempera, egg-tempera, dammar crystals, oil paint, acrylic, glaze, pigment, linseed oil, turpentine, white spirit, bees wax, varnishes, and more. You may of heard of all of these painting materials before. Do you want to know a bit more of it? No need to prime a canvas or piece of wood 7 times. You can start right away but maybe its still interesting to know a bit more about technique.
Course Breakdown:

First day at the studio we will have a look at the work and techniques of Artist and Instructor Ulrike Dornis.
This gets us to your own points of interest:
- Which materials are known to you, what do you want to try out?
- How do you find your subject, what technique is fitting for it.
- Is technique always useful and why should you forget about it here and then?
- Acquire knowledge about technique and material to avoid harmful substances

We use the studio close to Alexanderplatz to find your own models, still-lives, the inside interior of the building, built in the 50ies as the East-German Main-Telefon-Center. Motives might be the empty staircases, hallways, the beautiful view from the different windows – what ever you like. (hidden in the basement there are still some spy-proof phone lines from the fifties)

Drawing and painting by nature sharpens our view of the world. We observe more intensive, look behind the structure of an item. We compare and match measurements, color and perspective. Unsuspected views pop up. The inside of an apple or a blossom might develop into an architectural adventure.

People of former times did not have cameras. Those who traveled  bought vedutas, almost perfect drawings of the places or cities they saw. In addition to that, many, among them famous Mr. Goethe from the Weimar republic, neatly scribbled their own view into their diary or the sketchbook.

If you‘d like we could explore the Berlin environment that way. We could connect a few of our daily hours to go out to an interesting off-area (for instance around U-Bahn or railway-systems and bridges in Berlin) to really draw and paint outside all the day. That is almost always fun. It will be intensive and if you like, we could also do a Plein-Air at Tempelhof Airport. There we will look at the  architecture, historical sites, and the contemporary life today. The crossover of two times existing at once. A bit strange somehow and beautiful too. Let’s find out your way to the arts in Berlin.

About the Artist/ Instructor:
Ulrike Dornis received her MFA from HGB Leipzig – Academy of Visual Arts. She has exhibited at ACC Weimar, GfZK Leipzig, Germanic National Museum Nuremberg, NGBK–Berlin, Halle 12 – Spinnereistraße, Leipzig and Altes Museum Neukoelln, Berlin. She has also exhibited internationally at the Goethe-Instituts of Cairo and Khartoum and National-Museum, Warszawa. She received several Grants and stipends ( DAAD, Culture-Fond of the State of Saxony, Pollock-Krasner Grant, New York, NY. Her recent exhibition is in the Kunstverein Uelzen. This summer she will also teach at Sommerakademie Dresden, Germany. Her work is collected by HypoVereinsbank,  Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden (Federal Art Collections Dresden), Verbundnetz Gas AG (vng-art) www.ulrikedornis.de

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SCULPTURE>>>>>>>>>>>>>>

Sculpture Workshop with Artist John von Bergen in Berlin, July 14, 2012

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DRAWING>>>>>>>>>>>>>>

NEW Conceptual DRAWING COURSE: Leaving Traces: Conceptual and Material Approaches: Workshop with Artist: Mira O’Brien

Dates: July 3-6 and July  9, 2012

Time: 12 – 4pm, 25 euros a day

Course Description: What does it mean to leave a trace? Or conversely, how can one re-trace evidence left behind? This workshop will explore the potential of traces as indexes, leading towards or away from experiences, actions, memories, or source material. We will explore various material techniques for tracing, and what tracing as a medium could mean. We will visit the historical archive of Das Bundesarchiv Berlin (www.bundesarchiv.de) and an abandoned urban “site” in order to experiment with both leaving traces and recording traces. This 7-day workshop will start with group exploration and research, and culminate in individual projects and a small exhibition. Final projects can be anything from drawing, collage, sound recording or installation. Some of the ideas for this Workshop are based in my own practice, including a collaborative project called “GP Site Explorations” at Golden Parachutes in Berlin and my current interest in tracing.

Mira O’Brien, Artist/ Berlin Collective Director is from California and now based in Berlin. She received her BA from UCLA and her MFA from Yale. Her work has notably been exhibited in: the Torrance Art Museum in Los Angeles, as a solo exhibition in Vierter Stock supported by a grant from the US Embassy in Berlin, La Viola Bank Gallery in NY, and in the historic former East- Berlin theatre the Volksbühne.

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The Underground Berlin Art Scene- Dates & Times

Berlin has seen many changes over the last decade. The skyline has changed dramatically in the last few years alone and many feel the bohemian nature is being threatened by this constant change. Every city has an underground culture and art scene brewing under the surface. The thing that sets Berlin apart is the freedom of the art scene. Many would argue Berlin’s everyday art scene outdoes the underground scene of most other cities. Street art and graffiti flourish in places of abandonment. Berlin has turned into a playground for street artists, letting them push the boundaries beyond normal confinements.
Breakdown:
Visits, studies, drawing, photography, documenting, techniques, background and artist knowledge.
On the premise of “take nothing but pictures leave nothing but footprints” we will visit areas, stations and buildings in and around Berlin including:
  • Kreuzberg
  • Boxhangner/Warshauer (Friedrichshain)
  • Teufelsberg (Devils Mountain – Former US listening tower)
  • Skate areas
  • Berliner Eisfabrik (abandoned ice factory)
These places draw urban artists in with the freedom of what they are able to do in these spaces. We will look at the different types of urban and street art from the classic, revival and newer forms and ideas.
We will be posting more info on this workshop soon: email us for more info.
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Workshop with Artist/ Instructor: Roni Feldman in Los Angeles

Maximum Enrollment: 5 students

For 4 Sessions: $200., less sessions can be pro-rated. Materials list given upon registration.

Times: Course meets for four sessions Saturday and Sunday Dec 8-9, morning session 10-12am, lunch, 1:30-3:30pm

An introduction to the basic skills and processes of rendering an image using airbrushed acrylic.  Students work with simple still life objects and abstraction. Lectures, demonstrations, and assignments combine technical information with conceptual aspects of airbrush painting.

Pre-requisite:

Basic drawing and painting experience.  Basic understanding of one point perspective is a plus.

First Class Materials:
3M 6001 Vapor Mask, Iwata HP-CH Airbrush, Iwata Smartjet Compressor, assorted tubes of acrylic paint, 2oz squeeze bottle for each tube of paint, airbrush medium, 16oz squeeze bottle, airbrush cleaning pot with holder, white paper, illustration board or airbrush paper, low tack masking film, scissors, exacto knife, pencil, marker, paint rags.

Roni Feldman paints highly detailed, yet ethereal crowds of people using airbrushed acrylic and transparent varnish on canvas. He has been working with airbrush since 1994 and has taught painting and drawing courses at Otis College of Art & design since 2009.  His work has been featured in over a dozen solo shows including the Pasadena Armory Center for the Arts, Los Angeles; Toomey-Tourell Fine Art, San Francisco; Sloan Fine Art, New York; and Janet Clayton Gallery, Sydney, Australia. His work has also been shown in over seventy group shows including the Torrance Art Museum and Vincent Price Museums in Los Angeles; Werkstatt Galerie, Berlin; Gallery Lara, Tokyo; and many more. He has been awarded multiple prizes for his work such as the Durfee Grant and the MFA Now Prize and his paintings are featured in numerous private and corporate collections. He is currently represented by Garboushian Gallery, Los Angeles; Toomey-Tourell Fine Art, San Francisco; and Janet Clayton Gallery, Sydney. www.RoniFeldmanFineArt.com

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Sound Art Workshop:

“Introduction to Sound Art”

Taught by Alessandro Saccoia, Interactive Sound Designer & Musical Technologist

Times: 2 – 4 pm

Location: Once you sign up the Instructor will send you the location address and more information for the workshop, Cost: 15 euros per hour

To sign up: email us, berlincollective@gmail.com

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The workshop runs 2 or 4 days. All payments must be made on the first day of class. Receipts will be given by the instructors on the second day. No previous experience necessary!

Course Material

Participants should have their own laptop and headphones. All the exercises will be done with multi-platform, open source software.

Course Description

Perhaps when listening to a sound-scape, whether in a natural environment or within the white walls of a museum’s gallery, you have been transported to another time or even another place. Maybe you have even experienced a “state of immanence,” (a divine presence!) where the notion of here-and-now was stronger in one moment than in other times of your day. What is Sound Art? What makes it different from everyday music, and from the work of Foley artists? This workshop will give an overview of the history of sound art. You will learn through practical exercises and will gain an overview of the tools that help a sound artist in the creation of sonic material. Furthermore, subjects such as sonification and interactive sound design will be introduced in order to give participants ideas on how sound art is used in multimedia contexts. No previous experience is necessary to take this workshop.

Alessandro Saccoia’s expertise in the field of sound and music spawns from several areas. His work has always focused on finding novel solutions for contemporary music technology, which has led him to work at the IRCAM, Paris, where he collaborated with contemporary music composers to explore new approaches in sound design. Originally from Brescia, Italy, he currently works in Berlin. Alessandro’s latest projects have been in audio-visual installation (ISEA2012) and various sound design works for interactive experiences on the web. http://keplero.com