Anderson Ranch Arts Center Workshop Catalogs 2010-2014 | Page 57

Diana Cooper, All Our Wandering

David Kimball Anderson, Box, Leaves, Buddha

Jane Lackey, Threadmap, Chain (detail)

July 12 - 16

July 19 - 30

July 26 - 30

Diana Cooper   

David Kimball Anderson & Tai Pomara   

Skill Level: III

Skill Level: I - III

Concept:  Explore the relationship between
drawing and the third dimension. Drawing is
treated as a circular path rather than a oneway street leading into the three-dimensional
world. We investigate work in sculpture and
installation to challenge and reinvigorate their
relationships to drawing and vice versa.

Concept: Learn to plan, prepare, cut, fabricate
and weld both ferrous and nonferrous metals.
We use a specific, step-by-step, vocational
sequence designed to serve all artists working
three dimensionally. We also discuss developing the image, selecting appropriate materials
and metal finishing – both patina and paint.

Media & Techniques: We emphasize the vital
role materials play in the making of art, provoking us to think about why we choose the
materials we do and how they reflect our conceptual and visual concerns.

Media & Techniques:  Media includes steel,
stainless steel, bronze and aluminum. Techniques include arc welding (both metal inert
gas, or MIG, and tungsten inert gas, or TIG)
and oxyacetylene torch braze welding.

Activities: Daily assignments act as catalysts
for individual work with flexibility for students
to pursue their personal interests.

Activities:  We make a metal sculpture with
sensible planning for image and scale. We cut
with oxyacetylene torches and plasma cutting
and fabricate with MIG and TIG arc welding
and oxyacetylene braze welding. Then we finish the work with patina and/or paint.

From 2D to 3D & Back Again 

Faculty: Diana Cooper has exhibited extensively
both in the US and abroad. In 2007 she had a
retrospective at the Museum of Contemporary
Art, Cleveland. She has participated in exhibitions at the Whitney Museum of American Art
at Altria; the Brooklyn Museum; the Contemporary Art Center, Cincinnati; the Sharjah Biennial;
the Tang Museum; and P.S. 1/MOMA. She is
represented by Postmasters Gallery, New York
City. Ms. Cooper has been the recipient of a
Pollock-Krasner Fellowship (2008), the Rome
Prize (2003-04), a Guggenheim Fellowship
(2000) and a New York Foundation for the Arts
Fellowship (2000). www.dianacooper.net

Tuition: $940 / Studio Support Cost: $1140
Studio Fee: $75  Code: D0611  Enrollment Limit: 10

Metal Fabrication 

Faculty:  David Kimball Anderson has received
three National Endowment for the Arts Individual
Fellowships, a New York Foundation for the Arts
grant and a Pollack-Krasner Foundation grant. His
work has been featured in numerous venues,
including the San Francisco Museum of Modern
Art and the Whitney Museum of American Art in
New York. www.davidkimballanderson.com

Tai Pomara is a former studio manager, summer teaching assistant and workshop instructor at Anderson Ranch. He is currently studio
assistant to sculptor James Surls. His work has
been exhibited in the San Jose State School of
Art Galleries, the Aspen Biennial and the Evelyn Siegel Gallery in Texas.
Tuition: $975 / Studio Support Cost: $1375
Studio Fee: $145  Code: S0710  Enrollment Limit: 10

Material Drawing: 
adjusting tension

Jane Lackey   
Skill Level: II
Concept: How do you build or release metaphorical, physical and psychological tension? Through
material choice, relationships, context and activity, to name a few. We explore using everyday fiber materials such as string, wire, tape,
paper, cloth and elastic along with other found
and favored hard and soft materials. We work
between drawing and sculpture discovering
how materials used in relationship can achieve
meaningful degrees of tension and release.
Media & Techniques: We use simple sewing,
cutting, knotting, adhering and other systems
of connecting materials that you already know
and use in your work. We explore expressive
and active relationships as we isolate, compound and exaggerate materials into expanded
dimensional installations. A key aspect of this
class is your selection of materials to bring –
guidelines will be sent in advance.
Activities: There are four plus intensive working days with a major portion of the fifth day
set aside for critique. Students are expected
to work both days and evenings around the
overall Anderson Ranch schedule. There are
daily one-on-one critiques, suggested readings, short demonstrations, slide lectures and
discussions throughout.
Faculty: Jane Lackey is a based in Santa Fe,
New Mexico. Lackey was Artist-in-Residence
and Head of Fiber at Cranbrook Academy of
Art between