Seminars & Workshops

The Constance Saltonstall Foundation for the Arts (CSFA) offers ongoing professional development workshops for artists and writers. Based upon the tremendous success of these workshops in our region, CSFA will continue to develop outstanding workshops that address topics designed to take artists and writers to the next level. This year CSFA will also present a number of workshops designed with the young artist in mind. These workshops will be held at accessible locations downtown and will be available to the entire community. Please contact the Saltonstall Foundation office (tel: 607.539.3146; email: artscolony@saltonstall.org ) to register and make payment arrangements. Pre-registration is required.

Workshop Series for 2010!

September

Wednesday, September 1

Writing & Publishing After 60

To be held at Life Long 119 W. Court Street, Ithaca, New York 607.273.1511
10:00AM–4PM
New York State author, Ginnah Howard and The Constance Saltonstall Foundation will present a workshop at Lifelong. In this day-long workshop Ginnah will read from her first novel, Night Navigation, which was published last year. There will be an extended discussion about publishing one's first novel after age 60, as well as time for writing exercises that offer the participant a way of connecting the rich resources of past memories to the present. Lunch and refreshments will be served.

Workshop fee: $25 for Lifelong members; $30 from non-members.

Saturday, September 25

Digital Basics with Andy Gillis

To be held at the Saltonstall Arts Colony, 435 Ellis Hollow Creek Road, Ithaca, New York
9:30AM–3PM  

This full-day workshop will focus on the basics of digital photography, from taking digital images to creating the files you need to either print your photographs or comply with required standards. It will be useful to you if you are a visual artist who wants to upload photos of your work to the web or include images with a grant application, or if you are a photo enthusiast who wants to share your images, either in print or digital form, with family and friends.  In this workshop you will gain an understanding of RAW files, JPEG, TIFF and GIF files, and how to modify file sizes in Photoshop. Although they are not requirements for the workshop, it will be helpful if you are able to bring your images on cards or CDs, a card-reader, and a laptop. There will be a PowerPoint presentation and printouts of the presentation for you to take with you. The workshop begins at 9:30AM and goes until 3PM. Lunch and refreshments will be provided.

The workshop is limited to 15 participants, and the fee for the workshop is $30 for the full day. 

October

Saturday October 23

Setting as Source

To be held at the Saltonstall Arts Colony, 435 Ellis Hollow Creek Road, Ithaca, NY
9:30AM–4PM

Why do we become attached to places?  How does a place become something more vital than background?  What can art add to a place, and vice versa?  In this day-long interdisciplinary workshop, we will explore how settings, both real and imagined, inspire visual and literary works of art.  Led by a painter and a poet, participants will first discuss examples of other artists’ approaches to place, including: representation, abstraction, narrative, and lyric.  Then participants will experiment with various modes and mediums themselves, transitioning back and forth between drawing and writing.  This workshop will emphasize experimentation and revision rather than the production of a finished project.  Participants should leave this workshop with seeds of many ideas for future work. Lunch and refreshments will be provided.

Please bring a photograph or object from a place that is dear to you to the workshop.

Workshop fee: $35

The leaders of this workshop, Rachael Wren, painter and Cecily Parks, poet, are both recipients of a Summer Residency at the Saltonstall Arts Colony in 2009.

Saturday, October 30

A Caligraphic Approach to Drawing

with Mayumi Ishino

Location of this workshop to be announced.
9:30AM–3PM

Please check back for the full details of this workshop.

The workshop is limited to 15 participants, and the fee for the workshop is $30 for the full day. Please contact the Saltonstall Foundation office (tel: 607.539.3146; email: artscolony@saltonstall.org ) to register and make payment arrangements. Pre-registration is required.

The Saltonstall Foundation and the Community Arts Partnership (CAP) Working Together

This year The Saltonstall Foundation and the Community Arts Partnership(CAP) are teaming up in the advertising of their respective workshops. The Saltonstall workshop schedule is listed on the CAP web site and the CAP workshop schedule is listed below. If you have any questions you may call either the Saltonstall Foundation office at: 607.539.3146, or the CAP office at: 607.273.5972, ext. 20.

The Community Arts Partnership (CAP) of Tompkins County is also offering workshops in the fall of 2010.
NEW THIS YEAR: CAP is pleased to offer 25-minute, one-on-one consultations between visual artists and three NYFA trained local artist consultants on September 29th.

Go to the CAP website to learn more.
http://artspartner.org/content/view/workshops.html

One-on-One Professional Practice Consultations

Wednesday, September 29th / Ben Altman, Carrie Chalmers, Allen C. Smith

Ten Ways to Protect Your Intellectual Property

Thursday, October 14 / Howard Leib, Esq.

The Art of the Sale

Wednesday, October 20 / Bettsie Park, Allen C. Smith

Facebook 101

Wednesday, November 3 / Brett Bossard

Building a Website using Free or Inexpensive Blog Software

Thursday, November 11 / Alex Solla

Facebook 201

Thursday, December 2 / Brett Bossard