Welcome to Winter at the MARC.
Originally built as a church in 1926, the Moab Arts & Recreation Center
(MARC) was purchased by the City of Moab and renovated into an arts and
community center seventy years later. Today the MARC is a vibrant center
for creating community through recreation and the arts. Just last night as
I wandered through the building, I heard musicians playing dance music,
caught glimpses of dancers practicing their bachata steps, and smelled
fresh pine from crafters making fresh evergreen wreaths. This space
fosters creativity.
Moab is home to many excellent artists, and each winter, many offer to
teach during the Winter Class season. I encourage you to take advantage
of their offerings. Interested in digital technology? Improve your skills with
Photoshop or learn to make art with your iPad. Want to draw or paint?
Choose from acrylic, pastel, or drawing classes. Interested in books or
journaling? Learn to bind books, illustrate journals in the field, or try calligraphy. Enjoy working with your hands? Try wood carving or leather working.
Learn guitar! Join us for a Trashion Fashion workshop. Our offerings are as
diverse as this community of artists who call Moab home.
Classes are scheduled around a teacher’s availability. Some classes are
single day workshops and others are multi-week adventures. I encourage
you to read about our classes and see what strikes your fancy. Through a
partnership with WabiSabi Moab, scholarships are available for education
programs at the MARC. If you need financial help to take a class, please call
us for more information. Call us with questions or simply sign up on line at
moabmarc.com. - Laurie Collins, MARC Director
435-259-6272
You can also register online at
moabmarc.com
Scholarships available!
Guitar
Journeys
Emphasis on Songwriting
With Scott Ibex
Mondays, 4 sessions
January 5, 12, 19, 26
7-9 p.m.
Cost: $70
Join versatile guitarist Scott Ibex for a series of beginning or
intermediate guitar classes, with an emphasis on songwriting. Scott will
invite guest instructors and speakers each week and will cover chords
and scales, but will also begin to tackle the special pleasures of
inventing songs. This will be a relaxed, friendly class. No experience
necessary, though Scott is happy to work with guitarists who have some
basic experience and want to improve their musicianship. Bring your
own guitar, but Scott will also have some on loan for student use.
Studio in
Your Pocket
Art on the iPad
With Hannah Hinchman
Wednesdays, 3 sessions
January 7, 14, 21
7-9 p.m.
Cost: $60
You’ve probably seen some of the art created on iPads or tablets and
wondered how it was done. Here’s your chance to find out! Hannah
Hinchman will introduce you to this surprisingly powerful self-contained
“art studio.” Learn
about the array of tools
available, the power
of layers and lots of
special effects and
color choices. Students
will need to download
the app “Art Studio’ &
bring along a stylus.
(See supply list).
Classes require a minimum of 6 students. Tell friends!
Photoshop
Basics
With Chris Conrad
Saturday, January 10
9-12 and 1-4 p.m.
Cost: $60
Learn Photoshop with Chris Conrad, owner
of Petroscans Photographic & Digital Fine
Arts. Chris will cover the basic skills of
Photoshop: using adjustment tools, creating multiple layers and selecting the right
editing tools for your job. He’ll be
projecting from his screen, and you will
be able to follow along step by step to
transform your photographs. You will need
to bring: a laptop with Adobe Photoshop 7.0 or higher, or Photoshop Elements 3.0 or higher. Limited class size.
Wood Chunks, Wood Chips
Wonderful Wood Carvings
Experience the relaxing, companionable
With Bonnie Bower
art of wood-carving, with veteran folk
Monday/Tuesday
artist Bonnie Bower. You will learn to
4 sessions
handle carving tools, select from a variety
of projects to carve, and finish your carving Jan. 19, 20, 26, 27
6-9 p.m.
with paint if you wish. Bonnie will supply
all tools, patterns, wood blocks and paint,
Cost: $80
as well as individual instruction. All you
need to bring is a pair of garden gloves and your enthusiasm.
Pre-registration required, 10 days before each class begins.
Beautiful
Writing
Lettering &
Calligraphy
With Hannah Hinchman
Thursdays, 4 sessions
Jan. 22, 29, Feb. 5, 12
7-9 p.m.
Cost: $75
Beautiful handwriting is a vanishing art in this world of keyboards.
Come explore lettering and calligraphy and experience the meditative
satisfaction of shaping fine letterforms. You’ll learn two basic styles that
can be done with any tool, as well as two styles done with the
broad-edged pen. Possible projects include a framable quote or a
calligraphic art piece. Bring any pen you like and a tablet of graph paper
to the first session. Great tie-in if you plan to take Hannah’s Illustrated
Journal Class.
The Illusion of Light & Shadow
With Larry Christensen
Mondays, 3 sessions
Feb. 2, 9, 16
7-9 p.m.
Cost: $50
Artist Larry Christensen leads this
beginning-level drawing class, helping
students to master the illusion of depth.
Learn to recognize the parts of light and
shadow, and how they fall across both
planar and curved surfaces. Using charcoal, pencil and pen,
observing tiny stilllifes that you build
yourself, you will
learn how to create
the illusion of three
dimensions. Bring
your favorite paper,
and we’ll have some
too. Magic!
Pre-registration required, 10 days before each class begins.
Positively
Playful
Pastels
It’s not Chalk!
With Peg Harty
Wednesdays, 4 sessions
February 11, 18, 25, March 4
6-8 p.m.
Cost: $75
Pastels are luscious sticks of almost pure pigment, with an
incredible range of colors and shades. Painting with pastels is a playful
act: there are so many ways to use the colors, so many surfaces available,
and it’s relatively easy to create brilliant paintings. This is a class of
exploration and experimentation, for beginners, to get the feel of the medium and the variety of marks you can make. Come and revel in
pure color!
Trashion
Fashion
Workshop
With Abby Scott
Monday, Wednesday
Feb. 16 and 18
6:30 - 9:30 p.m.
Cost:$40
Be ready for Moab’s fabulous
Trashion Show! Abby Scott, of
Canyonlands Community Recycling,
will guide you in constructing your
own unique “creation,” a costume
made of recyclable materials. Bring
clean recyclables from home, and
we’ll also have tons of other
materials available. No experience
necessary. Come join the fun, and
leave with a dazzling piece of
wearable art!
Classes require a minimum of 6 students. Tell friends!
Painting People in Settings
Noted artist Larry Christensen With Larry Christensen
offers this novel class for the
Tuesdays, 7 sessions
intermediate or advanced
Feb. 17, 24, Mar. 3, 10, 17, 24 & 31
painter in acrylics. Here,
7-9 p.m.
participants will model for one
two-hour session of the series. Cost: $110
They will select their own
setting: props, dress, lighting and pose.
The rest of the class will paint them
in their chosen setting. If you paint in
acrylics and want a challenging workout for your winter painting inspiration,
this is a class you shouldn’t miss. Larry
will paint alongside you, while also offering individual instruction. Students
should bring their own materials.
Creating the
Illustrated
Field Journal
With Hannah Hinchman
Friday, Saturday, Sunday
Fri. 6-9, Sat., Sun. 9-4
March 6, 7, 8
Cost: $110
Join artist Hannah Hinchman in an
exploration of the illustrated field
journal. This art form includes
drawing, writing, naturalist skills,
lettering, page design and
adventures in the field! Hannah
will bring lots of examples, some
of her many journals, and plenty of
supplies to try out. The illustrated
journal is a wonderful tool for
seeing, learning and creating
powerful memories. Beginners are
welcome! Participants should bring
a journal or sketchbook, Hannah will
provide tools for the first session.
Pre-registration required, 10 days before each class begins.
Crazy, Curious Corvids!
With Susan Snyder & Hannah Hinchman
One night, Feb. 20, 6-9 p.m.
Cost: by donation
Join Utah Teacher-naturalist Susan Snyder as she discusses and displays
the crafty ways of Utah’s ravens, crows and their cousins. Explore the
sometimes tenuous, yet always
interesting, relationships
humans have had with these
birds, and learn to know them
much better through sketching.
Susan and Hannah Hinchman
team up on an informative
drawing session after the presentation. You’ll never see corvids
the same way again!
Unwind
and
Bind
With Serah Mead &
Nara Bopp-Williams
Thursdays, 6 sessions
Feb. 26, Mar. 5, 12, 19, 26,
April 6
7-9 p.m.
Cost: $120
Learn to create a book from the ground up, using mostly “found”
materials! Serah Mead and Nara Bopp-Williams will lead you through the
process of paper-making. You’ll learn about block and screen printing.
Finally, you will bind your pages into a simple book, perfect as a journal or
sketchbook. There are endless possibilities for creative expression in this
workshop. You’ll have lots of individual instruction, and a wealth of
inspiring examples from these two enthusiastic teachers.
Classes require a minimum of 6 students. Tell friends!
Leather-tooling
Intensive
With Shane Deeter
Saturday, March 14
9-12 a.m. 1-4 p.m.
Cost: $100
We are lucky to have master boot-andsaddle-maker Shane Deeter for this
one-day workshop. This class is for
people who have basic skills or higher
knowledge of leather tooling and want
to take their work to the next level.
Leather and finishes will be provided,
and you will leave with a completed belt. Shane will have a close-up
camera on his work surface, screening each step, so that there will be no
need to crowd around trying to see what he is doing. He’ll also be guiding
and mentoring each participant as they work. Don’t miss this chance to
study with Shane! Students will need to bring: swivel knife, tooling tools,
mallet, tooling surface (granite or marble slab), lighting (headlamp or
desk lamp), pencil and paper.
JANUARY 24TH. Mark your calendar!
Free Kids’ Leather Workshop!
With Shane Deeter and friends
Saturday, January 24
7-8 p.m.
Taught by Master
Saddlemakers from the
Colorado Saddlemaker’s
Association, this free
class is an introductory
leather-working
session for people under
18 years old. All supplies
provided. No experience
necessary. Come on
down and have fun with
master craftsmen!
Scholarships are available: call 259-6272.
Pastels with Margi Lucena
Special 2-day tutorial
Saturday/Sunday
March 7 and 8
9-12 a.m. 1-4 p.m.
Cost: $180
The pure color and amazing versatility of pastels are irresistible! In this
pastel landscape workshop with nationally recognized painter Margi
Lucena, it’s all about the great feeling of “working loose” while creating
and enhancing the illusion of fine detail. We’ll be applying a rough, textured primer underpainting to a hard board, building a wonderful surface,
perfect for expressive, loose landscapes that, at the same time, appear to
be full of fine detail. Participants should bring their own pastels, and one
or more hard boards (see supply list in the back of the catalog). Margi will
supply the primer for the boards.
Pre-registration required, 10 days before each class begins.
MARC INSTRUCTORS - WINTER 2015
Nara Bopp-Williams is a dabbler in all things art, specifically those involving paper and glue. She works for WabiSabi where she collects unicorn
paraphernalia, old books, and plastic dinosaurs. She has a BA in Journalism
and Book Arts from Hampshire College, and is very excited to co-teach this
class with the amazing Serah Mead.
Bonnie Bower learned to carve in 1999, and it was “love at first chip.” Her
work ranges widely, from 16-foot totem poles to tiny figures for nativity
scenes. She also admires Southwest Native and Northwest First Nations art.
Bonnie has taught for a dozen years and loves to see others “discover” carving and enjoy it as much as she does. See some of her work at
gallerymoab.com.
Larry Christensen, a founding member of Gallery Moab, received his MFA
from Brigham Young University. He has won many awards for his work, as
well as accolades for his teaching skills. He is an avid practitioner of both
plein air and studio work, with a thorough grounding in the foundations of
art. He is devoted to the Moab community, and loves to introduce people to
the joys of drawing and painting. See his work at gallerymoab.com.
Chris Conrad was introduced to photography shortly before the Digital
Revolution nearly erased the use of film. Trained in traditional film and darkroom techniques, Chris adapted his photography to the computer, scanning
film, then transitioning more and more to digital cameras. Adobe Photoshop
became an invaluable tool for Chris both personally and professionally. He
enjoys teaching others about Photoshop fundamentals which remain vital
even as advanced techniques continue to evolve. http://petroscans.com.
Shane Deeter, custom saddle and boot maker, grew up on a ranch and
learned early the importance of good tack and how to repair it. In 2000,
leatherwork became his full-time occupation. His work has won many
awards, including “Best Craftsman” at the prestigious Western Art Roundup
in Nevada. His leather products are widely known for their durability, comfort
and artistic appeal.deetercustomsaddlery.com.
Peggy Harty pursues beauty in many media, including painting, quilting,
photography and ceramics. “Pastel is a very forgiving medium which allows
both spontaneity and precision,” she says, and her work has received many
awards across the West. She is also a founding member of Gallery Moab.
See her work at gallerymoab.com.
Pre-registration required, 10 days before each class begins.
Hannah Hinchman is the author of 3 books on the art of the illustrated
journal, and has been keeping her own illustrated journals for 40 years.
She teaches workshops on the subject all over the country, including
several National Parks. See her works on amazon.com, or google her.
Scott Ibex, in his career as a performance artist, has shared the stage
with such diverse artists as Pato Banton, Jeff Gutierrez, and Antoine
Dufour. His original music features palm percussion, tonal harmonics,
fingerstyle guitar, delta slide blues, and dreamy melodies. He recently
taught master classes at the Southern Utah Guitar Convention. As his
website says, “Scott is passionate about giving back to his local community.” scottibex.com.
Margi Lucena is an award-winning pastel painter who lives and works
in New Mexico. She is a Pastel Society of New Mexico Distinguished
Pastelist, and a Signature Member of Plein Air Painters of New Mexico .
Lucena is represented by Selby Fleetwood Gallery in Santa Fe, NM, RS
Hanna Gallery in Fredericksburg, TX, and Cobalt Fine Arts in Tubac, AZ.
margilucena.com
Serah Mead is an artist from California. She relocated to Moab to engage in the unique and supportive nonprofit, desert, freeform-creative
environment that this community provides. With a degree in graphic
design and a background in screen printing, Serah loves playing with
typographic compositions, intuitive illustration styles, and X-acto knives. Abby Scott has been creating costumes, quilts and bags from discarded materials for as long as she can remember. A two-time designer
for the WabiSabi Fashion Show and current Program Director for Canyonlands Community Recycling, she is excited to bring those talents
together to help Moabbites make this year’s Trashion Show the best one
yet! Visit our Facebook page: Canyonlands Community Recycing.
Susan Snyder is an artist, Ogden Nature Center teacher-naturalist, and
is a Utah certified environmental educator. Susan was the 2011 recipient
of the Vern A. Fridley Utah Environmental Educator of the Year, who has
presented at local, state and national conferences on nature education,
illustrated nature journaling and humans’ relationships with ravens and
crows. She lives in Ogden with her husband, their cat and the neighborhood crows, for whom she sets out breakfast while still wearing pajamas
– even in January.
Scholarships are available: call 259-6272.