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October 11 –
14, 2007 Darkroom Fundamentals
Konrad Eek
Norman, Oklahoma
Darkroom Fundamentals
http://www.eekphoto.net
Konrad Eek owns and operates Maxwell Eek Design Photography and teaches advanced photography at Oklahoma City Community College. Eek's work has been exhibited in numerous one-person and group shows, and his photographs appear in the Midwest Photography Archives and in the permanent collection of the Fred Jones, Jr. Museum of Art at the University of Oklahoma.
Derek Jennings
Madison, Wisconsin
Darkroom Technician
Derek Jennings is owner and manager of Derek Rendel Jennings Photography, a freelance photography and graphic design business primarily serving the photography and promotion needs of non-profit, educational and government entities. His freelance experience includes a national campaign for the American Diabetes Association. Jennings is currently a Ph.D. candidate in curriculum and instruction at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, where his research is focused on how imagery creates and defines community, and the role of imagery in various cultures, including popular culture. In his research, Jennings is concentrating on the use of photography as a primary research method and tool, incorporating images and text equally into a final thesis. Additionally, Jennings is the art coordinator for the PEOPLE Program, an initiative designed to give underserved high school students greater access to college educations. Jennings earned a bachelor's degree in film and sociology from Dartmouth College and holds a master's degree in education from the University of Oklahoma.
October 11 –
14, 2007 Ballroom for the Classroom
Kate Linkous
Oklahoma City, Oklahoma
Ballroom for the Classroom
http://www.dancewithkate.com
Kate Linkous is a professional ballroom and Latin dance competitor and instructor. She began dancing at the age of eight. Linkous spent several years studying and performing as a jazz dancer, as well as performing in drama and musical productions. She then had the opportunity to study ballroom dance, and she has been teaching and competing in ballroom dance for over a decade. She has worked as a ballroom professional in Washington, D.C. and Las Vegas. Linkous is currently located in Oklahoma City.
John Swick
Oklahoma City, Oklahoma
Ballroom for the Classroom
John Swick has been dancing and performing for over 40 years in many different styles. He has studied ballet, jazz, tap, flamenco, and theatre as well as ballroom. Swick has over eight national dance titles to his credit, and has trained four United States champions. On the faculty of Oklahoma City University's School of Dance, he is also a certified national-level judge, chairman of judges, scrutineer and examiner. Professional organization memberships include: NDCA (National Dance Council of America), North American Dance Teacher's Association, International Dance Council, Actor's Equity Association, Screen Actor's Guild, and American Federation of Radio and Television Artists.
October 11 –
14, 2007 Field Drawing & Nature Journaling
Debby Kaspari
Norman, Oklahoma
Field Drawing & Nature Journaling
http://www.debbykaspari.com
Debby Kaspari has been a nature artist and illustrator for over 30 years. Field sketching and observation of wildlife is essential to her artwork, and expeditions to the rainforests of Panama, Australia and Costa Rica have led to solo shows at the Oklahoma State Capitol and JRB Art at the Elms Gallery. Group exhibits include the prestigious Birds in Art at the Woodson Museum and Art of the Animal Kingdom at the Bennington Center, among others. Her work appears in Bird Watcher's Digest, Oklahoma Today Magazine, Art Focus Oklahoma and Crosstimbers, and she recently completed a project for the Sam Noble Oklahoma Museum of Natural History, creating mural-sized reconstructions of Paleozoic animals for Collecting Oklahoma.
October 11 –
14, 2007 Improvisational Theater
Regina Saisi
San Francisco, California
Improvisational Theater
Regina Saisi is a San Francisco-based actor and improviser. She is an instructor at the American Conservatory Theater in San Francisco, as well as at BATS Improv and the Marin School District. She has taught at Stanford University, UC Santa Cruz and the California Institute of the Arts. She has an international reputation as one of the foremost improvisation teachers and performers in the world, having performed and taught in Belgium, Holland, Italy, Finland and Sweden. A pioneer in the development of long-form improv, she is a founding member of the improvisational theater companies True Fiction Magazine and Pulp Playhouse and is a member of BATS Improv. Saisi is a firm believer that improvisation has value to anyone, regardless of their profession, and has taught improvisation to corporate clients such as Fujitsu and Sun Microsystems, as well as to inner city youth in Oakland and San Francisco.
October 25 –
28, 2007 Monotype Extravaganza
Marwin Begaye
Norman, Oklahoma
Monotype
Marwin Begaye has been a professional artist since 1990. For this Navajo man, the act of communicating through marks, words and colors is as traditional an art as weaving. He is an internationally exhibited painter and nationally recognized graphic designer. As a graphic designer, Begaye concentrates primarily on print materials, including corporate logo development, promotional materials, and event-specific informational items. Begaye's graphic design work is mutually supported by his image-making with oil and water-based paints. He enjoys incorporating satire and realism into images from his childhood and imagination. He has had extended exhibitions at SITE Santa Fe, the National Museum of the American Indian in New York City, the Institute of American Indian Arts in Santa Fe, and Rotorua Convention Bureau Main Gallery in New Zealand, among others. In all of his image-making, Begaye strives to maintain accountability to family and community. Begaye holds degrees from the Art Institute of Pittsburgh, the Institute of American Indian Arts, and he is pursuing an MFA at the University of Oklahoma.
Betty Wood
Norman, Oklahoma
Monotype Technician
Betty Wood has created prints and mixed media art for over 30 years. Her biography is included in the national Marquis' publication of Who's Who of American Women, Who's Who in America, and Who's Who in the World. She received a BA in art with honors from Penn State University and an MFA with printmaking/design emphasis from the University of Oklahoma. She has taught at universities, museums, public schools, art centers, and Elderhostel programs, and presented workshops in Puerto Rico, Pennsylvania, Maryland and Oklahoma. She has participated in artist residencies in Costa Rica and Vermont. In addition, Wood has coordinated art festivals, curated exhibitions, and participated in national and international juried exhibitions. Her experiences include assistant museum registrar, museum preparatory, museum installation assistant, manuscript editor, and art consultant. Her artwork has been in over 350 exhibitions and is included in private collections across the United States and in Europe.
October 25 –
28, 2007 Landscape Oil Painting
Rick McClure
Oklahoma City, Oklahoma
Landscape Oil Painting
http://www.rickmcclurefineart.com
An award winning plein-air and studio painter, Rick McClure has been painting professionally for more than 25 years and is recognized for his impressionistic landscape paintings founded on the principles of plein-air painting. Many of his on-location gems stand on their own while others form the basis for larger studio works, all of which sparkle with spontaneity. Mr. McClure has captured numerous awards including those at the American Impressionists Society National Exhibition, the 71st Grand National Exhibition at the Salmagundi Club in New York and the Best of Show at the Cincinnati Art Club. Rick McClure is a member of the Oil Painters of America, a signature member of the National Academy of Professional Plein Air Painters and the American Impressionist Society. His work is part of numerous corporate and private collections and he is represented in several prestigious galleries throughout the United States.
October 25 –
28, 2007 Sculpting in Stone
Jesús Moroles
Rockport, Texas
Sculpting in Stone
http://www.moroles.com
Jesús Moroles was born in Corpus Christi, Texas in 1950. He continues to live and work in Texas, with his studio in Rockport, Texas. He received his Bachelor of Fine Arts from the University of North Texas, Denton, in 1978 and apprenticed under Luis Jimenez for one year immediately after his graduation. In 1979 he left for Italy worked in Pietrasanta, Italy for one year before starting his body of work for which he is widely known. Moroles has more than 2,000 works in place in China, Egypt, France, Italy, Japan, Switzerland, and the United States, in museum, corporate, public and private collections. To date Moroles work has been included in over one hundred and fifty one-person exhibitions and one hundred and seventy-five group exhibitions worldwide. Among his distinctions, Moroles is a member of the Board of the Smithsonian American Art Museum in Washington, DC.
October 25 –
28, 2007 Writing for Children & Teenagers
Anna Myers
Chandler, Oklahoma
Writing for Children & Teenagers
http://www.annamyers.info/
Anna Myers is the author of fifteen books, all published by Walker & Company of New York. Book number sixteen will be published in the fall of 2007. She graduated from Chandler High School and the University of Central Oklahoma and has been honored by both schools with a distinguished alumna award. She taught high school and junior high for twenty-five years. Awards for her books include three Oklahoma Book Awards, Parents' Choice Awards, American Library Association Quick Pick, Independent Publishers' Award, New York Public Library's Books to Read and Share, American Bookseller's Pick of the List, Bank Street College Children's Books of the Year, New York Public Library's Books for the Teen Age, and inclusion on children's choice lists for more than twenty-five states. Myers lives in Chandler, Oklahoma, with her husband John Calvin.
October 25 –
28, 2007 Watercolor
Michael Crespo
Baton Rouge, Louisiana
Watercolor
http://www.michaelcrespo.com
Michael Crespo's paintings have been exhibited throughout the United States for over 35 years, and he is the recipient of a number of artist fellowships. Crespo's large-scale public commissions can be seen in New York, Dallas and Baton Rouge. He has been a professor of painting and drawing at Louisiana State University since 1971, where he was accorded the university's Distinguished Faculty Award and an endowed professorship. He has published four best-selling art instruction books.
October 25 –
28, 2007 Digital Photography
Ben Long
San Francisco, California
Digital Photography
http://www.completedigitalphotography.com
Ben Long is a San Francisco-based photographer and writer. The author of over a dozen books on digital photography and digital video, he has been a longtime contributor or contributing editor to many magazines including MacWeek, MacUser, Macworld UK, and others. He currently writes for Macworld magazine, and is a senior editor at CreativePro.com. His photography clients include 20th Century Fox, Blue Note Records, Global Business Network, the San Francisco Jazz Festival, the Pickle Family Circus, and Grammy-nominated jazz musicians Don Byron and Dafnis Prieto. He has taught and lectured on photography around the world, and currently leads a "photo university" inside Apple, Inc., where he teaches photography to Apple's imaging engineers. In 1985 he was a student at the Oklahoma Summer Arts Institute, where he studied acting with Ed Sherin.
November 01 –
04, 2007 Unique Prints: Monotypes & More
John Hitchcock
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Madison, Wisconsin
Unique Prints: Monotype & More
http://website.education.wisc.edu/jhitchcock
John Hitchcock is an artist and associate professor of art at the
University of Wisconsin-Madison where he teaches relief cut, screenprinting, mixed media prints, and installation art. He was born in Lawton, Oklahoma and grew up in the Wichita Mountains of Oklahoma.
Hitchcock earned his MFA in printmaking and photography at Texas Tech
University, Lubbock, Texas and received his BFA from Cameron University, Lawton. He is the recipient of many honors and awards including the American Photography Institute, National Graduate Seminar Fellowship at New York University, Tisch School of Arts and a Jerome Foundation grant, Minneapolis, Minnesota. Hitchcock's teaching experience includes assistant professor at the University of Minnesota, Morris, and visiting artist at Texas Tech University. Hitchcock has a national, international, and regional exhibition record including exhibitions in New Zealand, Australia, South Africa, Germany, Ireland, Spain, Chile, Argentina, Brazil, New York, California, Washington D.C., and other parts of North America.
November 01 –
04, 2007 Conducting High School Voices
Jan Hanson
Chickasha, Oklahoma
Choral Accompanist
This year marks Dr. Jan Hanson's twentieth year of teaching at the University of Science and Arts of Oklahoma (USAO), where she serves as the director of choral activities and the conductor of the Concert Choir. She is frequently called upon to serve as a guest clinician in the public schools and serves as an adjudicator with the Oklahoma Secondary School Activities Association, the American Choral Directors Association and the Oklahoma Summer Arts Institute. An accomplished pianist and organist, Dr. Hanson is the keyboardist for the First Christian Church in Chickasha. She has accompanied for the Oklahoma Choral Director's Association as well public schools in the area. As part of the USAO music faculty, she has accompanied student and faculty recitals, opera theater productions and scenes, and music theater productions. Dr. Hanson maintains professional memberships in the Oklahoma Music Educator's Association, Music Educator's National Conference, Oklahoma Choral Director's Association and American Choral Director's Association.
Jerry McCoy
Denton, Texas
Conducting High School Voices
http://www.music.unt.edu/choral/pages/faculty/jmccoy.html
Dr. Jerry McCoy is director of choral studies and professor of music at the University of North Texas where he conducts the A Cappella Choir, the North Texas Chamber Choir and Grand Chorus, teaches graduate choral conducting and advanced choral techniques, and guides the choral studies program. He is also founding artistic director/conductor of Texas Choral Artists and president-elect-designate of the American Choral Directors Association. McCoy has been a guest conductor and clinician for choruses, orchestras, and universities in Korea, France, Venezuela, Sweden, China, the United Kingdom, Canada, and across the United States. Distinguished appearances by his choirs include refereed performances for the national conventions of the American Choral Directors Association, the Association of British Choral Directors, and the national MENC convention. His recordings include releases by Klavier Records and GIA Music Publications, as well as four compact discs produced and released through university music departments. McCoy currently serves as a member of the ACDA Robert Shaw Choral Institute steering committee.
November 01 –
04, 2007 Poetry
David Biespiel
Portland, Oregon
Poetry
David Biespiel's books of poetry include "Wild Civility," "Pilgrims & Beggars," and "Shattering Air." Recipient of a Stegner Fellowship in Poetry at Stanford University and a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship in Literature, his work has been anthologized in The New American Poets and in American Poetry: The Next Generation. He writes the monthly column on poetry for The Oregonian and is the editor of Poetry Northwest, as well as a contributor to American Poetry Review, Parnassus, Poetry, and The New Republic.
November 01 –
04, 2007 A Sense of Place: Digital Photography
Jack Kotz
Santa Fe, New Mexico
Digital Photography
http://www.jackkotz.com
Jack Kotz has been an award winning fine art and commercial photographer for over twenty years. His commercial work consists of editorial and advertising photography on a national scale. His photographs have been published in six books on architecture and historic places. In 2002, he published the book "Ms. Booth's Garden" a twenty-year project on a small town in Mississippi in conjunction with the Mississippi Museum of Art. An exhibition of this work is currently traveling in the South. Kotz's photographs are in the collection of the Smithsonian Museum of American Art, the Ogden Museum of Southern Art, the Mississippi Museum of Art, and numerous private collections. He is represented in private galleries in Washington, D.C., Oxford, Mississippi, and Santa Fe, New Mexico. He has had sixteen one-person exhibitions and has been part of seventeen group exhibitions nationally since 1984. Originally from the Washington, D.C. area, Kotz now lives with his wife and son in Santa Fe.
November 08 –
11, 2007 Monotype
Benjamin Harjo, Jr.
Oklahoma City, Oklahoma
Monotype
Considered one of the nation's leading Native American artists, Benjamin Harjo Jr. is Seminole-Absentee Shawnee. His formal education includes two years at Santa Fe's Institute of American Indian Art and a BFA conferred by Oklahoma State University in 1974. During a career spanning over thirty years, Harjo has garnered numerous honors and awards including the 2003 Honored One Red Earth Festival, the 2002 Best of Division - New Directions, Painting Santa Fe Indian Market, 2002 Distinguished Alumni Award from Oklahoma State University, and 2001 Best of Division - Painting from the Heard Museum Guild Indian Art Fair and Market. Recent one-man museum shows include "The Earth, The Moon, The Stars Above" at the Wheelwright Museum in Santa Fe and "The Spirit of Color and Line" at the Mabee-Gerrer Museum in Shawnee, Oklahoma. Harjo's work has been featured in numerous national and regional publications and is privately collected throughout the U.S. and abroad.
November 08 –
11, 2007 Oklahoma Storytelling
Dr. Joe Moore
Canyon Lake, Texas
Oklahoma Storytelling
http://www.docmoore.com
Doc Moore brings over thirty years of public school and university teaching experience to the telling of history, folk, ghost and inspirational stories. A popular performer for the past twelve years at the Texas Folklife Festival, he appears regularly at local, state and national festivals.
Tim Tingle
Canyon Lake, Texas
Oklahoma Storytelling
http://www.choctawstoryteller.com
Tim Tingle is an enrolled member of the Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma. He has performed as a featured storyteller in festivals covering a thirty-state area and appeared at the 2004 American Library Association in Orlando, Florida. He has completed eleven tours of Germany, performing at the Young Author's Conference in Heidelberg and at schools for the children of military personnel.
November 08 –
11, 2007 Ceramics
Brandon Reese
Stillwater, Oklahoma
Ceramics
http://www.gebertcontemporary.com/theartists/24
Artist Brandon Reese works primarily with stoneware and porcelain. He received his BFA in sculpture from the Kansas City Art Institute. While in Kansas City, he apprenticed with Jim Leedy until pursuing a graduate degree specializing in ceramics at Bowling Green State University. There, he had the privilege of working with artists Jun Kaneko, Don Reitz and Peter Voulkos. While at Bowling Green, he focused on salt and wood firing for creating unusual and varied surfaces on each sculpture. Upon graduation, Reese was hired by Oklahoma State University as an assistant professor of its newly expanded ceramics department. In addition to teaching, Reese regularly exhibits his large-scale ceramic sculptures. His work has been exhibited in Germany, Taiwan and across the United States. The Gebert Contemporary Gallery in Santa Fe, New Mexico, and Chiaroscuro Gallery in Scottsdale, Arizona represent his work. Although most of Reeses exhibitions are ceramic sculpture, he balances teaching hand-building techniques with wheel throwing pottery and functional vessels. More work by Brandon may be found at http://www.chiaroscurosantafe.com/artists/reese/
November 08 –
11, 2007 Arts Integration
Sharon McColl
Oklahoma City, Oklahoma
Arts Integration
With a master's degree in dance education from Wayne State University in Michigan, Sharon McColl has been involved in arts education for 30 years. She is currently an A+ Fellow and an artist-in-residence with the Oklahoma Arts Council. As an artist in the schools, McColl's specialty has been the creative process and the integration of dance with the academic curriculum. Additionally, she has focused on developing informal concerts performed by children and students that evolve from the children's ideas. These concerts weave together language, dance and visual art into movements that speak to human connectedness and caring. McColl has designed creative dance curriculum for children ages 4-13 through her work with the State Department of Education and the School of the Plains. She has served as adjunct faculty at Wayne State University, teaching the graduate course "Creative Dance for Children." McColl has published several articles on creative dance and dance as aesthetic education.
Christina Pickard
Oklahoma City, Oklahoma
Arts Integration
Christina Pickard has a background in art and education and a love for travel and exploration. She spent a year studying art history and French culture at the Sorbonne in Paris and then graduated from the Kansas City Art Institute with a BFA in painting/printmaking. She spent a semester backpacking and mountaineering at the National Outdoor Leadership School. Pickard returned to Oklahoma to work on her MA in Early Childhood/Montessori Education at Oklahoma City University. She is on the artist-in-residence roster at the Oklahoma Arts Council, teaches art part-time at Westminster School, and is a faculty member of Oklahoma A+ Schools. Pickard's work has been shown in galleries across the country and is in numerous private collections throughout the United States and Canada.
Patrick Riley
Oklahoma City, Oklahoma
Arts Integration
http://okragraphics.com
G. Patrick Riley is a nationally recognized artist and teacher of the arts to children and teachers. He served as arts administrator for the Oklahoma City Public School's Fine Arts Program in the 1990s and helped implement arts integration programming into the schools. He is a past chairman of the visual art department of Southwestern Oklahoma State University in Weatherford, where he trained future classroom teachers and art teachers to teach art. In the last ten years he has presented arts integration workshops to teachers in many areas of the United States, including the National Reading Conference in San Francisco and the National Art Education Conference in New York City. Riley is currently a member of the Oklahoma Arts Council's artist-in-residency program and a member of the board of directors of the Oklahoma Arts Institute and Oklahoma Alliance for Arts Education.
Cindy Scarberry
Norman, Oklahoma
Arts Integration
Cindy Scarberry is a national board certified elementary music teacher at Monroe Elementary School in Norman where she co-founded Manyawi!, Oklahoma's first children's world music and marimba ensemble. Her passion for multicultural arts integration has led to many collaborations and grant opportunities. In October of 2002, Scarberry was one of two Oklahomans awarded the Fulbright Memorial Fund National Award which included a three-week study in Japan. Last year, she was awarded the Fund for Teachers and Oklahoma Foundation for Excellence grant where she and two colleagues traveled to Zimbabwe, Africa to study culture, traditional music and to help establish a marimba program for the Nhimbe Community Center which serves seven rural villages. Upon return, Scarberry and her team were awarded the 2006 National Raymond Plank Fellowship Award, given to the team whose fellowship best exemplifies the Fund for Teachers' mission. Scarberry is also a professional singer/songwriter, studio vocalist, and member of the Opry Hall of Fame.
November 08 –
11, 2007 Intermediate Darkroom
Luther Smith
Fort Worth, Texas
Intermediate Darkroom
http://www.luthersmith.net
Luther Smith was born in Tishomingo County, Mississippi. At the age of ten his family moved to Aurora, Illinois. He attended college at the University of Illinois where he studied photography from Bart Parker, Bob Flick and Art Sinsabaugh. He received a BA in independent programs of study in 1972 and an MFA from Rhode Island School of Design where he studied with Aaron Siskind and Harry Callahan. He taught photography at the University of Illinois from 1974 until 1983. He currently is a professor of art photography at Texas Christian University in Fort Worth. TCU Press published his series of photographs, "Trinity River," as a book. He has exhibited extensively and is in numerous collections, including the Amon Carter Museum in Fort Worth, the Library of Congress in Washington, D.C., the Museum of Fine Arts in Houston, the High Museum in Atlanta, and the Art Institute of Chicago.
November 01 –
04, 2007 Show, Don´t Tell: Illustration
Kim Doner
Tulsa, Oklahoma
Illustration
http://www.kimdoner.com
Kim Doner was left by Gypsies on Betty and Otto Doner's front porch on July 21,1955. As a child, she aspired to be a ballerina-veterinarian-artist: dancing at night, saving animals by day, and summering in Africa to draw wild animals from a Tarzan-esque treehouse. Although some would scoff at childish dreams, she has pursued this vision. Now, she writes and illustrates children's books, shares her love of the arts through speaking and teaching, rehabilitates wildlife, and plans a return to Africa with her outdoorsy husband. Take that, scoffers! (To offer some degree of professional credibility, it might be mentioned that Kim has won state and national awards for her work as a writer/illustrator and designer. A Tulsa University graduate, she is experienced in drawing, painting, design, writing, and teaching and has recently completed her ninth childrens book, "On a Road in Africa," to be released April 2008.)
October 11 –
November 11, 2007 Extracurricular Activities
OFAI participants can participate in optional fitness classes during their Quartz Mountain workshop.
Leila Nazarali
Oklahoma City, Oklahoma
Fitness Instructor
Leila Nazarali has been in fitness industries since 1986 and currently teaches fitness at Tinker Air Force Base in Oklahoma City. Nazarali received a bachelor's degree in science and math and an MBA in management information systems from Oklahoma City University. Nazarali is a certified instructor in Group Fitness and Personal Training and holds certifications in Pilates from the Physical Mind Institute, Yoga from Yoga Fit, Step from Step Reebok, Aerobics from AFAA, Personal Training from Apex, Kickboxing from National Karate, Aquatic from NFPA, Cycling from Lemond, Weight Training from Rep Reebok, CPR from the Red Cross and Tiabo. Teaching healthy lifestyles to others is part of her daily life and she enjoys watching clients progress towards their goals.
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