April 11-21, 2011 (2 Weeks)
This unique drawing workshop, presented by Jim Anderson, a landscape architect and illustrator with over forty years of practical design presentation experience and training, will introduce and explore a variety of media, techniques and drawing approaches with an emphasis on discovering many of the tricks, shortcuts, secrets and resources for time-saving and effective visual drawing. He will also explore some of the biases and myths about learning to draw and identify some of the no-no’s that limit and frustrate students' efforts.
The workshop will expand the students' appreciation of both the art form and artistry of their drawings while, importantly, focusing on the issues that Landscape Architecture students want to know most about getting better at communicating their work with more enjoyment and less fear.
The instructor will incorporate lectures, Powerpoint presentations, entertaining demonstrations, studio and field sketch exercises and individual and studio critiques over six days of instruction (total of 24 hours of student contact). In addition, the instructor will lead sketch exercises during the scheduled Česky Krumlov field trip!
(2 Weeks)
A two-week photography workshop taught by Nina Rosenblum—an Oscar-nominated, award winning, international documentary film producer/director, photographer, educator and human rights activist. Her company, Daedalus Productions Inc., established in 1980, works with national and international television productions companies. She has taught on the graduate level at Columbia University, NYU and undergraduate at Hunter College, Penn State and Queens College.
Her films include: In Search of Pitt Street—a loving tribute to her father Walter Rosenblum, the renowned American photographer, Twin Lenses—a 25-minute documentary about twin photographers, Kathryn Abbe and Frances McLaughlin-Gill, both pioneering fashion and editorial photographers, and America and Lewis Hine—about the photography pioneer Lewis Hine, the film details the efforts of a man who strove to change America's perception of child and blue-collar labor through pictorial essays.
The workshop will lead students to create their own pictorial essay on selected topics.
