Our three week workshops are open to all members of the Laureate International Universities – the workshops listed under this course run the full three weeks of Artfest13, from July 8 to July 26. To qualify for these workshops, you must: 

• Receive a code from your LIU International Office

• Be a student of the Laureate International Universities (find your school here)

• Be a high school student associated with LIU high schools – workshops for which high school LIU students are eligible are marked with a (*)

Alternative Photographic Processes

Chris Nail, Santa Fe University of Art and Design Photography Department Faculty

• 19th century processes in a 21st century context – This course introduces various alternative photographic processes invented in the 19th century. Emphasis is given to negative enlargement with analog and digital technologies. The course also involves advanced work with large-camera and small-camera formats and use of hand-applied emulsions, such as platinum/palladium, cyanotype, salt, and Van Dyke processes.
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Interpretive Landscape Photography

Santa Fe University of Art and Design Photography Department Member

• This advanced black and white analog workshop is for experienced photographers working in all formats who have knowledge of darkroom procedures.The course will consist of field sessions to areas of photographic interest in northern New Mexico. In addition, there will be daily print viewing sessions and critiques designed to refine the students’ artistic goals, with an emphasis on the photographic process as an interpretive medium.This class will also focus on darkroom demonstrations and discussion covering film exposure and development, contact and projection printing, understanding photographic chemistry, and using chemistry as a tool for fine-tuning print ambiance.  Other techniques taught will include toning for both permanence and expression and the use of a 4×5 view camera. The course will conclude with discussions and demonstrations on proper print presentation stressing the use of archival materials.
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Beginning Digital Photography*

Don Usner, Santa Fe University of Art and Design The Film School Contributing Faculty

•  This course introduces the professional use of digital SLR cameras, Lightroom™ image editing software, and digital printmaking. The course focuses on developing understanding of photography as a medium of creative expression and visual communication. Digital photography is placed in an historical context while examining contemporary artists using the medium. This workshop will also be offered in Spanish.
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Documenting Truth – The Narrative of the Real

Robert Jessen, Santa Fe University of Art and Design Liberal Arts Contributing Faculty

• How do documentarians deal with the phenomenon called the Roshomon Effect, where multiple truths appear to exist in one place at one time? Photo documentarians seem to come closest to the truth, but like a good magician’s tricks, it could be illusory.  Documenting Truth explores this debate among researchers, documentarians and journalists, and adds another question to the title of this course:  how close do you have to get? This workshop will also be offered in Spanish.
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Flash Animation*

Jeff LaFlamme, Santa Fe University of Art and Design Photography Department Contributing Faculty

• Learn how to create basic Flash animations and movies using the timeline. Find out how to navigate the Flash interface, create new Flash files, set stage properties, import images into Flash, create and work with text, create and format drawing objects and add layers. Discover how the timeline in Flash can be used to create basic frame-by-frame animations and motion tweened animations.
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Icon Words

Danilo Seregni, Nuova Accademia di Belle Arti Milano (NABA) Faculty

• The course aims to investigate and develop the themes about the iconic power of the typographic alphabets and management fonts supplying the students with useful tools to be used in different visual fields.In the history and especially in the graphic design history, the alphabets were used not only for their significant value but also for their esthetic relevance. In fact the graphic and advertising designers, with their work, often transform, amplify or turn over the function of the written words and the text reading.This approach open unlimited creative chances. The course will start from the presentation of case-histories and relevant examples of original and creative typography and will go through the didactic planning underwrite.
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Micro Cinema

Justin Golding, Santa Fe University of Art and Design The Film School Contributing Faculty

• Micro Cinema encourages filmmakers to embrace non-traditional and unorthodox approaches to production and distribution and utilize the web, mobile devices, and emerging digital platforms to reach a global audience. 
  
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Underground Story Telling

Luke Dorman, Santa Fe University of Art and Design Studio Arts Alumni

•  This interdisciplinary course focuses on Graphic Design, Photography, Fine Art and Illustration as expressed in subcultures such as comic books, album art, graffiti, and other alternative forms of production.  Projects focus on building bodies of work, unifying stylistic approaches, and looking at long-term objectives as artists and designers. Class discussions will address such questions as, “How do we get involved in subcultural movements we care about?” and “How do we make or find an audience?” while offering exposure to a wide range of artists, movements, and creative actions happening in the world today.
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At the Wheel: Finding Center

Craig Donalson, Santa Fe University of Art and Design Studio Arts Contributing Faculty

• So much of our work as artists, designers, architects happens in our heads or at the digital screen. This beginning pottery class sponsored by Santa Fe University of Art & Design places you “at the potter’s wheel” with materia prima, grounding you with the challenge of centering that lump of clay and tactilely moving it to form bowls and cylinders. Learn real techniques–throwing, trimming, glazing–and reawaken your thinking hands! Students will have the opportunity to make mugs and bowls, among other forms.
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From 2 to 3, Drawings that Grow Up and become Sculpture

Thomas Lehn, Santa Fe University of Art and Design Studio Arts Contributing Faculty

Jane Lackey, Santa Fe University of Art and Design Studio Arts Contributing Faculty

• This 3-week class will focus on the development of sculptural form by starting with drawings in the first week, slightly dimensional folded forms in week two and sculptural works in week three. Through open ended and provocative exercises, we will consider narrative content and the paper surface as lively content that moves between two and three dimensions. Simple hand skills such as cutting, adhering, folding and other methods of connection and surface treatment will be used to explore process. Our goal will be to explore how these relationships are often familiar, personal and powerful resources of expressiveness. As you isolate, compound and exaggerate material characteristics through connections, tension and release, you will sharpen personal language, vision and conceptual understanding. We will approach the class playfully and your will collaborate with each other to stimulate Ideas.
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The Myth of the City: Build Your Own

Bruce Matthes, New School of Architecture and Design Faculty

• For this collaborative project students may get as creative as they wish: design teams may draw from fantasy, mythical places, or act as visionaries to build a sustainable city for the third millennium. However, all cities must function as a place where people can actually live, breathe, and thrive. To do this successfully students will examine the historical context of cities, gain experience creating physical renderings, learn how to construct models, and participate in philosophical discovery that explores how people interact with place.
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From Natives to Nukes*

Robert Jessen, Santa Fe University of Art and Design Liberal Arts Contributing Faculty

• Although you can love history gleaned from books, it is much better to smell it, taste it, see it, and hear it. Rather than stay inside and imagine what it was like, we will go the sites where it happened. We will visit Bandelier National Park, where scholars make educated guesses about the prehistoric Ancestral Pueblo, and Pecos National Monument, which was the gateway to the Pueblos from the plains of the Comanche. We will call on the old Spanish redoubts of Trampas and Truchas, defenses against the same Comanches where the descendants of those warrior-farmers still live. We will respectfully explore Taos pueblo, where history is the present, and contrast that style of life with a tour of Los Alamos Scientific Laboratory, the birth place of the atom bomb. In addition, depending on the interests of participants, we can tour important artistic sites, such as the Blumenschein House and Mabel Dodge House in Taos, or the Georgia O’Keeffe Home and Studio in Abiquiu. In all regards, this workshop will be a blast! Don’t forget your camera and sketchbook, because all of it is beautiful. This workshop will also be offered in Spanish.
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Urban Arts: Intro to Hip Hop*

Rebecca Chornenky, Santa Fe University of Art and Design Performing Arts Department Contributing Faculty

• This course is a physical, creative and intellectual immersion into hip hop dance, including an exploration of relevant histories, practices, philosophies and contemporary issues. Students will train in the following disciplines: dance conditioning to prepare for the physical, technical, rhythmic, and emotional expression of hip hop choreography; B-boying/B-girling and battling; and influential 70s funk-styles such as popping, waving, tutting, animation, and boogaloo. A few hours per week will be spent viewing and discussing relevant dance footage and documentaries offering opportunities to explore hip hop in relation to identity, empowerment, social justice, spirituality, community, and commercialism. Readings will explore pre-Civil war roots of hip hop dance, the emergence of the “hip hop generation,” and culture versus commercialization of hip hop.
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Worlds of Music (3 part workshop)*

Tom Adler, Santa Fe University of Art and Design Contemporary Music Department Contributing Faculty

Fred Simpson, Santa Fe University of Art and Design Contemporary Music Department Contributing Faculty

Polly Ferber, Santa Fe University of Art and Design Contemporary Music Department Contributing Faculty

• Week 1: American Folk Music and Choral Tradition: The four day acoustic americana course will explore american traditional folk music in several of it’s many forms; old-time country string band fiddle tunes and songs, folk blues and rags, jug band music, and contemporary americana folk music. We’ll work toward learning complete arrangements for folk songs, learning instrumental and vocal parts including harmonies and explore the background and history of the song. We’ll discuss the folk process; how a song has changed and grown as it has been passed down through the generations and take a look at traditional folk music’s impact on contemporary americana music. We”ll listen to recorded examples of the music. Some sort of recording device for each student is highly recommended. I look forward to both meeting and making music with you all!
• Week 2: African Drumming: In this hands-on African Drumming seminar we will learn basic technique for African hand drums: Tone, Bass, and Slap. We will then learn rhythms from Central (Congo) or West (Guinea) Africa. The rhythms have a history that we will briefly discuss; where it comes from, who does it and upon what occasion. Singing, small percussion, and dunun will be added where appropriate.
• Week 3: Balkan Music and Dance: The Balkan Music and Dance summer course is intended for participants to gain and expand their understanding of Balkan music, dance, and culture. The repertoire will include instrumental as well as vocal material from diverse cultures such as Turkey, Greece, Macedonia, Bulgaria, and Albania, as well as the traditional dances that accompany this music. All instruments, vocalists, dancers, and observers are welcome. Previous knowledge or experience not necessary, just bring an interest and curiosity.
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Latin American and Southwestern Architecture*

Khristaan Villela, Santa Fe University of Art and Design Studio Art Department Faculty

• This course introduces the arts of the Southwestern US, from Pre-Columbian cultures to the present day. Major themes include the Pre-Columbian art and architecture of the Ancestral Puebloan, Chaco, Mimbres, Hohokam, and Casas Grandes cultures; Hispanic arts of the Spanish Colonial , Mexican, and later nineteenth century; Pueblo Indian arts, from the Spanish Colonial period to the mid-twentieth century; topics in modern and contemporary arts of the Southwest.
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Intro to Music Production Tools and Techniques*

Scott Jarrett, Santa Fe University of Art and Design Contemporary Music Department Faculty

• This course introduces participants to tools, concept and techniques implemented in the process of taking the raw materials of a song or musical idea through the many stages of development towards becoming a product. This course will be a mix of about one third lecture and two thirds hands-on participation in a full featured professional recording studio and on computer workstations.
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Fashion Design: Iper Marginalia

Guilia Pivetta, Nuova Accademia di Belle Arti Milano Faculty

• Aim of the course is to investigate the meaning of the detail: how details turns manufactured objects in masterpieces; the investigation will develops both with theory and practice. The experimentation and realization of handcrafted objects ( accessories, texture exemples, full clothes or part of it, linen) will be the core moment of the path: a tailor approaching on shapes and decorations to dignify materials. First step: “Alphabetization” Iconographic set presentation of contemporary subjects details such as: costumes, pantings, architecture, cinema. Students will be asked to take inspiration from these details to create personal sketches and moodboard, and then make a comparison with their ideas and the real meaning of the shown iconography (historical and social context,materials, techniques of execution). Second step: “Narration” Juxtaposing their intuitions to the find out original context, students are invited to work on textile materials, focusing attention on cut, tailoring and on different tools and methods of decoration and beautification (dye, embroidery, appliquè, knots). Third step: “Revelation”  Think about and outline a physical space where manufactured objects created by students will dialog with the intentional or unintentional observer. A living set where the details will act as an appropriate element of the landscape.
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Creative Textiles and Crafts

Seema Mahajan, Pearl Academy of Fashion Faculty

Pavni Agrawal, Pearl Academy of Fashion Faculty

• The workshop will provide an enriched experience of creative textures and surfaces on fabrics through various hand techniques. It will include activities based on Expressing emotions through colors on fabrics, Reusing – Renew – Unraveling – Recreating textiles and Creating three dimensional Textiles and Collage. The learning outcome of the workshop will be achieved through exploring, understanding and expressing creativity in textiles and product development.

Entrepreneurship

Faculty Member from Walden University to be announced

• Course description coming soon.