Ceramics: Hand Building Clay
MICHELE PARSONS
Students of all levels will create at least one finished, functional, ceramic art piece for their home or garden. Daily demonstrations will cover slab building construction, coil pots and pinch pots. In addition, several surface design techniques will be explored. The last two days of this workshop will be devoted to experimenting and exploring with clay, using techniques students have learned. There will be discussions about craftsmanship, process and content. No prerequisites are required. Just get ready to roll up your sleeves, learn the joys of working with clay, and discover your own abilities.
Michele Trowbridge Parsons graduated in 1979 from Principia College with a BA in studio art and a minor in metalsmithing. She has 10 years of retail sales and management experience in Boston, NYC and Seattle galleries, which featured both art jewelry and wearable art clothing. From 1994-2007, Michele has studied ceramics at The Kirkland Arts Center with nationally known ceramic artists Carol Guthro, Regnor Reinholdtsen and Diane Culhane. Since 1996, Michele has taught ceramics to adults and children of all ages. She has been Co-Art Director for Camp Newfound (3 years) and Owatonna (1 year). In 2007, she was invited to participate in the 4th annual Kirkland Art Studio Tour and sold her newly created "Urban Potter" ceramics.
Writing: Points of Departure
HEATHER VOGEL FREDERICK
Point of departure = a beginning from which an enterprise is launched. Getting started is half the battle in writing, and this workshop is designed to spark creative fire through a wide range of jumping-off places. Exploring both fiction and non-fiction alike, we'll draw from the deep well of memory, sharpen our observational skills, try our hand at inventing characters, and examine such elements of the craft as dialogue, description, setting, voice, and more. Along the way, the work of published writers and poets will serve as our touchstones and guides. Come ready to roll up your sleeves as we write, read, ponder, laugh, and share - and above all, come ready to break through self-imposed limitations and fears, from fear of the blank page to fear of failure. Whether you have years of experience under your belt or have never before put pen to paper, this workshop will inspire, surprise, delight, and challenge the writer in you.
After a 20-year career as a journalist, Heather Vogel Frederick decided it was high time to fulfill her lifelong dream of writing fiction. Chapter Two, her seventh novel for young readers, will be published in September 2008 by Simon & Schuster. Heather lives in Portland, Oregon, with her husband, their two teenage sons, the family dog, and three fun-loving chickens. You can learn more about Heather and her books at www.heathervogelfrederick.com
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Singing: Soul Songs and Then Some
JENNIFER FOSTER
Where can we take this singing business? Can we dig deeper into its source? Can we extend our vocal range within the infinitude of expression? Consider these synonyms for the word EXPLORE: ascertain, catch, come across, come upon, conceive, contrive, debunk, design, detect, determine, devise, dig up, discern, disclose, distinguish, elicit, espy, ferret out, find out, glimpse, hear, identify, invent, learn, light upon, locate, look up, nose out, notice, observe, originate, perceive, pioneer, realize, recognize, reveal, see, sense, spot, think of, turn up, uncover, unearth... Let's do some of this with our voices at Camp this September. You want more? (Good - always expect more!) We'll also be discovering ways to resonate ever more fully the unique music God is making through each of us by spending some time with Maggie's movement class. Interdisciplinary exploration, if you will. Sounds like true Soul-singing to me.
Jennifer Foster, soprano, has sung opera, oratorio, recitals and chamber music with world-class artists and conductors throughout the United States and in Europe. She has been featured with the Los Angeles Philharmonic at the Hollywood Bowl, LA Opera in lead and comprimario roles, a national tour with San Francisco Opera's Western Opera Theater, and at Aspen, Santa Fe, Tucson, Tanglewood and Verbier, Switzerland's summer music festivals, among many others. Major composers have written music, which she has premiered, including a commission by the renowned Lee Hoiby. Jennifer served as soloist at The First Church of Christ, Scientist in Boston, MA for seven years. She has recorded for the Naxos label, Watchfire, Arizona Friends of Chamber Music, and the Christian Science Publishing Society. In addition to the classical rep, she has studied and performed various styles including Broadway, jazz, gospel, and others. She lives in Westport, CT with her husband and four children.
Dance: Creative Movement with Maggie
MAGGIE PELTON
Ever wanted to Merengue, Grand Jete, or move like Fosse? We will experience the joy of movement through many different styles and techniques of dance, from Hip Hop to Ballet. With or without dance training, we will design a program that will challenge your coordination, help with fitness, and discover the grace that is within you. Classes will include proper warm-up, stretching, and strength training - all with a dance "flair." We might even partner with the singing group to combine our techniques in a show-stopping collaboration!
Maggie Pelton grew up in the New Jersey Ballet Company. She has trained at the Martha Graham and Jose Limon schools in New York City. After graduating with a BFA in dance from the Juilliard School, she toured internationally with the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater. Dancing in commercials, music videos and industrials, she began teaching ballet, jazz and modern dance in studios nationwide. She is a certified Zumba and PiYo instructor, and continues to travel and freelance as a guest artist, instructor and choreographer for dancers of all ages. Maggie and her husband Dave met at Newfound/Owatonna. They have three children and live in Nashville, Tennessee.
Mixed Media: The Illuminated Journal
SUSAN NEWBOLD
A journal is a place to work through one’s thoughts, desires, and personal discoveries. We are going to create unique journals, which will be something you and generations that follow you will treasure. Through a series of exercises that will be enlightened by our beautiful camp setting, you will first create individual pages for your journal. During this process, you will be introduced to several different medias, including pen and ink, watercolor, collage, and printmaking as well as ways to create interesting combinations between text and each media. Through this class, you will discover (or rediscover) which media and text you love most. Finally, we will put your journal pages into an artist book and finish it off with a special coptic binding. This class is designed for all levels.
Susan Newbold is a full time studio artist who teaches printmaking and journaling in both ME and CT. Susan received a BA in Studio Art from Principia College and an MFA in Visual Art from Vermont College. Her final project, an artist book, was acquired by The Chicago Institute of Art. She is also a graduate of the Post Bac program of the School of the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, MA. Susan has been awarded three fellowships to paint in France by the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts and The MD Institute of Art, and another fellowship to paint at the New Pacific Studio in New Zealand just this past winter.
Multimedia: Where Photography and Narrative Meet
NEAL & MOLLY MENSCHEL
Author and poet Muriel Rukeyser said: "The universe is made up of stories, not of atoms." Unlike video, still images stay with us, are memorable, and become fixed scenes in our memory. Audio is a visual experience that engages the imagination. Combining these two into multimedia creates an entirely new form that borrows the best from both mediums, creating a powerful viewing experience. This workshop will teach you how to create a variety of strong, compelling photo images, to gather interesting, vivid audio material and then to use uncomplicated and intuitive digital equipment and software. By the end of the week, using a very simple automated flash program, everyone will have created a visually rich and informative piece of synchronized photographs and sound - a short slide show. Please bring a digital camera and any digital media (compact flash, SD card, memory stick, etc.), lenses or tripods. Audio equipment will be provided and computers will be available - or bring your laptop. The equipment is not as important, as exploring and having fun and creating stories from the heart.
A journalist/documentarian and artist, Neal Menschel got his start in photography in 1969 at the Anchorage Daily News. Some busy years of Boston-based freelancing for national magazines and newspapers followed. Then from 1983 to 1996, Neal traveled the world for The Christian Science Monitor, serving at various times as senior staff photographer, photo editor, and Director of Photography. Besides being presently involved in documentary photojournalism, both commercial and personal work, Neal is now the Director of Photography and a photography instructor for the Salt Institute for Documentary Studies in Portland, Maine. He is presently working with his daughter Molly on a book about West Virginia that has an audio component.
Molly Menschel is a life-long devotee of Camp Newfound as both a camper and counselor. After studying radio at the Salt Institute for Documentary Studies, Molly fell in love with the creative possibilities inherent in telling stories through the medium of sound. Molly has been involved in documentary work in the field of writing as well as audio, has assisted in teaching radio-journalism at Hampshire College, and has done both professional and personal work as an audio producer. She is currently involved in the completion of a multi-media photography book with her father.
