This workshop will help participants learn how to analyze and draw the individual likeness of someone. There are features of the human face, skeletal and muscular, that are common worldwide. Knowing these commonalities helps artists capture the unique look of individuals. The proportions of the human head and the structure of facial features will be examined in this introduction to portrait drawing. Following step-by-step instructions, workshop participants will create an anterior (front) view portrait drawing.

Hackathon for mobile games. The purpose of this workshop is to plan, conceptualize, and design a prototype mobile game in a short time. In this workshop, students will be introduced to not only game design and core game concepts but also design a game prototype using simple geometric shapes.

After a short discussion of character, physics, timing, and story, you will have the opportunity to animate a short sequence incorporating fundamental stop-motion techniques. You will utilize old-fashioned technology, and at the end of the session you will have a short, simple film that you can record on your smartphone to the eternal wonderment of friends and family. Moreover, you’ll gain new working knowledge of how drawings have been brought to life for over 100 years.

In this energetic workshop, participants will be introduced to the versatile printmaking process of screen-printing through hands-on printing onto a variety of papers and fabrics using pre-imaged screens. Participants will also create a collaborative, unique group doodle which will be exposed onto a screen during the course of the session. Each participant will leave with several printed articles, including a print generated from the group effort.

This workshop will be an investigation of collage as a medium for illustration. Participants will be supplied a variety of images, materials and tools needed to create singular works that are unique in both idea and visual presentation. Professor Dana will also have his professional portfolio on hand for viewing.

Using Herron's Think It Make It Lab as well as the furniture design facilities, you will explore how creative use of new technologies can augment new and innovative ways of thinking and making. You will have the opportunity to create and take home an engraved, wooden box.

Scanograms stem historically from photograms—light impressions made by placing objects on traditional photographic paper. Instructors will introduce some notable artists working in digital scanograms today. Participants will then work with a variety of materials to create their own unique collage on desktop scanners that will be output on Herron’s suite of digital inkjet printers.

Come work with faculty and students from the Sculpture Program as you learn to bend, cut, and weld steel. This is a very fun, hands-on session that will allow each student to try multiple tools. Safety will be discussed with each process and individual attention will assure that everyone has a great experience. This can be a messy process, so come dressed in work clothes including long pants and closed toed shoes. We will provide all other safety gear. At the end of the session, you will be able to leave with at least one small, steel sculpture.