PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT
Career Coaching/ Packets & Portfolio
Instructors: Jerry Dale McFadden, Neely Hyde, MFA & Mark Bradley-Shoup, MFA
Whether you are approaching prospective galleries or clients, entering a juried competition, or simply seeking feedback from peers, this workshop introduces participants to common mistakes that should be avoided and provides the crucial tips necessary to create an effective portfolio.
Wednesday, January 14/ 5:30-7:00pm
$5 AVA member/ $20 non-members CLICK TO PAY NOW
Career Coaching/ Accounting Basics
Instructor: Bill Noble, CPAThis workshop is designed to demystify the daunting process of some of the most complex accounting problems artists face, including how to identify tax-deductible purchases and how to prepare for tax season.
Wednesday, February 11/ 5:30-7:00pm
$5 AVA member/ $20 non-members CLICK TO PAY NOW
Career Coaching/ Resumes & Artist Statements
Instructor: Ron Buffington, MFA
For beginning to advanced artists, participants will learn how to develop the necessary skills needed to write concise and professional artist statements, bios and resumes.
Wednesday, March 4/ 5:30-7:00pm
$5 AVA member/ $20 non-members CLICK TO PAY NOW
VISUAL MEDIA COURSES
All courses are taught in the AVA Digital Media Lab and run for four (4) weeks, unless otherwise noted.
Photoshop II
Instructor: Steve Hamaker, AIGA
This class will introduce students to special effects, composite photographs and photo collages. In addition, this course will cover contrast controls and color correction, selection refinements, burning & dodging, blurring & sharpening, and sponging & smudging.
Tuesdays, January 6-27
$125 AVA Members/ $200 non-members CLICK TO PAY NOW
Beginning Digital Photography
Instructor: Steven Sewell, BFA
Utilizing practical camera-based exercises, this course will provide beginning level digital SLR camera users with a working knowledge of equipment, digital imaging, innovative project ideas and advice to improve compositional and technical skills.
Thursdays, January 8-29/ 6:00-8:00pm
$125 AVA Members/ $200 non-members CLICK TO PAY NOW
Slide Scanning Workshop (2 hours)
Instructor: Chris Oughtred, Owner, Northlight Digital Imaging
This workshop will allow participants to breathe new life into those antiquated slides, as well as demonstrating how to properly scan both negative and positive film images to produce a usable high quality digital image.
Saturday, January 17/ 10am-12pm
$30 AVA Members/ $75 non-members CLICK TO PAY NOW
C2C: From Camera to Computer Workshop (3 hours)
Instructor: Chris Oughtred, Owner, Northlight Digital Imaging
Participants will be introduced to the basic steps required to create a digital image of their work, as well as how to manipulate the captured image in Photoshop to create a usable digital file.
Saturday, January 31/ 9:00am-12:00pm
$45 AVA Members/ $90 non-members CLICK TO PAY NOW
Photoshop I
Instructor: Barry Settlich, BFA
Students will be introduced to the basics of digital imaging. Using film, prints or digital files, students will learn how to navigate the basic functions of Photoshop for the best digital output.
Tuesdays, February 3-24/ 6:00-8:00pm
$125 AVA Members/ $200 non-members CLICK TO PAY NOW
Introduction to Web Design
Instructor: Alex Zuccarelli
Learn the basics of how to create and develop an effective Web page. This course will cover design, technical aspects and the best approach for the beginning Web designer.
Thursdays, February 5-26/ 6-8pm
$125 AVA Members/ $200 non-members CLICK TO PAY NOW
C2C: From Camera to Computer/ Documentation Methods for Art Instructors
Instructor: Chris Oughtred, Owner, Northlight Digital Imaging
This class will address specific documentation guidelines for AP Art portfolios as well as guide participants through the basic steps of appropriate lighting, proper camera techniques, as well as how to translate a digital image into Photoshop in order to create a usable jpeg, tiff or PDF file.
Saturdays, February 7-28/ 10am-12pm
$125 AVA Members/ $200 non-members CLICK TO PAY NOW
C2C: From Camera to Computer/ Documentation Methods for Artists
Instructor: Chris Oughtred, Owner, Northlight Digital Imaging
This class will offer an in-depth continuation of AVA’s previous C2C workshop designed specifically for artists who want to learn more about documentation methods, as well as how to manipulate their digital images in Photoshop.
Tuesdays, March 3-24/ 6-8pm
$125 AVA Members/ $200 non-members CLICK TO PAY NOW
Art Film & Video
Instructor: Neely Hyde, MFA
This class is dedicated to exploring the history of Art Film and Video and allowing participants to make and share their own video pieces. Students will have the opportunity to view and discuss examples of rare and hard to find time-based works, as well as, have access to cameras, equipment and computers to make their own.
Thursdays, March 5-26/ 6:00-8:00pm
$125 AVA Members/ $200 non-members CLICK TO PAY NOW
P4P: Photoshop for Photographers
Instructor: Chris Oughtred, Owner, Northlight Digital Imaging
This class is for any photographer seeking a solid foundation in the capabilities of Photoshop in order to manipulate, modify, or optimize photographs and digital images.
Tuesdays, April 7-28 / 6-8pm
$125 AVA Members/ $200 non-members CLICK TO PAY NOW
I2I: Illustrator to InDesign
Instructor: Chloe Ingalls, AIGA
Find out how to incorporate elements from Photoshop and Illustrator and arrange them into a flyer, brochure, or an entire book using Adobe InDesign. This class will walk students through the various applications that are found in the Adobe Creative Suite software, through hands-on applications.
Thursdays, April 2-30/ 6-8pm
$145 AVA Members/ $225 non-members CLICK TO PAY NOW
Claymation
Instructor: Jim Alverson
Learn how to make claymation and stop-action films using iMovie. This class will focus on a group project that will yield a final claymation short film. Students will learn how to create character, sets and backdrops as well as the basics of stop-action filmmaking.
Saturdays, April 4-25/ 10am-12pm
$125 AVA Members/ $200 non-members CLICK TO PAY NOW
STUDIO COURSES
Life Drawing @ UTC (12 hours)
Instructor: David Young, MFA
AVA, in cooperation with the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga, present a life drawing class for intermediate and advance students. Working from live models, students will study anatomy and the expressive forms of the human body.
Wednesdays, February 4 – March 11/ 6-8:00pm
$95 AVA Members/ $135 Nonmembers CLICK TO PAY NOW
Class Limit: 15 students
Zen and the Art of the Repetitive: Mold Making & Casting Techniques @ CSTCC (12 hours)
Instructor: Stan Townsend, MFA
This two-day course will walk students through a variety of mold-making and casting techniques using silicone and urethane materials. Through lecture and demonstrations, students will be instructed how to make a one piece and a two piece re-usable mold, how to make castings, and how to create a variety of post-finishes.
Saturday, February 21, 9:00 a.m.-5:00 p.m. & Sunday, February 22, 9:00 a.m.-2:00 p.m.
$175 AVA Members/ $225 non-members CLICK TO PAY NOW
Class Limit: 15 students/ Lunch provided on both days
LECTURES
Art Speak/ Shifting Motivations: Art Practice as Relation, Network and System
Featured Speaker: Jessica Westbrook, MFA
This talk will focus on artists working collectively to take advantage of the creative potential of group action. This talk is in conjunction with the Seed exhibition in AVA’s Main Gallery.
Wednesday, January 28/ 5:30-7:00pm
Free and open to the public
Art Speak/ The Anxious Object: Art in Place in the 21st Century
Featured Speaker: Jeff Morton, MFAThis discussion will explore the notion of art and its place in the 21st century and how art has progressed in recent history.
Wednesday, February 18/ 5:30-7:00pm
Free and open to the public
ART SPEAK is an on-going informal lecture series designed to stimulate dialogue among artists and art, while advocating relevant topics in the visual arts. This year’s theme is: Current Exploration of Contemporary Art and its Impact on Culture. Participating artists and arts professionals are being asked to explore the notion of relevance, irreverence and opulence and how such concepts pertain to contemporary art. In a larger sense, we are asking participants to speak to the impact that the art world is having on culture, and in turn, how work being created today reflects contemporary society. Is there a common thread? Has our field of vision shifted, and how has our perception of our surrounding environment changed?
For more information, contact mshoup@avarts.org.
