Art Studio Tutor Western Washington University, Bellingham, WA Assist undergraduate students with drawing, painting, sculpture, and mixed-media projects. Provide one-on-one and group instruction on artistic techniques, composition, and conceptual development. Support students in preparing for critiques by offering constructive feedback and helping refine artistic statements. Maintain studio safety and organization, ensuring materials and tools are properly used and stored. Encourage creativity and problem-solving through guided discussions and visual references.

This course is designed for beginners and advanced users who want to learn goldsmithing and signature jewelry. You'll learn classic techniques such as chiseling, casting, setting, and wax modeling, combined with contemporary methods such as mokume and sculptural design. During the course, you'll develop your own personal pieces and projects, and learn how to structure your ideas to create a coherent jewelry line. We also cover basics of jewelry history and applied design, so you understand how to combine technique and creativity. My classes are personalized, tailored to your needs, level, and goals. You'll learn everything from hands-on practice on your own piece to conceptualizing signature jewelry projects or artistic endeavors. This course is designed for anyone who wants to learn jewelry making and metalsmithing, from beginners to advanced students. You will learn classical techniques such as engraving, casting, stone setting, and wax modeling, combined with contemporary methods like mokume, etching, and sculptural design. Throughout the course, you will create your own pieces and personal projects, while learning how to structure your ideas to develop a coherent line of jewelry. We also cover jewelry history and applied design, helping you combine technique and creativity. My classes are personalized and tailored to your needs, skill level, and goals. You will gain hands-on experience in creating your pieces as well as guidance in conceptualizing author jewelry projects or artistic ventures.

One-on-one tutorial with an award winning contemporary artist to help you to push your work forward thematically and technically, whist helping to realise how your work sits contextually in the world in this time and place. During your one-on-one tutorial I will help assist you with your personal practice by : - Encouraging experimentation, investigation and creative research, resulting in a substantial and successfully resolved body of work - Helping to develop of an enhanced level of applied skills, enabling the clear communication of ideas and research through a discipline or disciplines of choice. - Facilitating a deeper understanding of the wider contexts for practice and research; evidence of an awareness of contemporary practice, exhibitions, seminars and events and a broader cultural framework provided in the supporting work . The aims: - To introduce students to a range of ideas about place (e.g. historical, social, psychological) and to selectively use these to develop their individual practice and its conceptual underpinnings. - To support students in developing their practice across a range of media, materials and approaches. - To develop students’ ability to articulate orally and in writing their creative responses to, personal insights into, and critical understanding of, the significance of place and environment to their practice and in the wider field of contemporary art and design. ----------------- - Helping you to articulate an understanding of the critical and conceptual contexts of your art practice. - Encouraging experimentation with forms and approaches to art making and critically reflecting on conceptual and material decisions in the production of contemporary artworks. - Produce artwork that is responsive and demonstrates evidence of experimentation in dialogue with others and in consideration of the ethical dimensions of collaborative practices. - Assist you in critiquing and evaluating the intellectual and technical rationales and processes involved in the production of contemporary artwork for public exhibition