Saturday Workshops
Wholeness in the SOZO Creative Process
Time Frame: Saturday, 9-4 pm Facilitator: Lonnie & Margie Johnson Skill Level: All Levels Welcome Creativity is a process that Papa God loves to use in a way that reveals His loving healing and transformation. "Sozo" is a Greek word that means to make well, whole, restore, or rescue. This one day intensive class will be an opportunity to actively engage Holy Spirit and allow Him to bring a fresh perspective regarding your value, purpose, dreams and the journey itself. We'll be painting (or drawing) in order to allow that visual creative expression to become a part of the conversation with God and a reminder of the amazing things that He will reveal to you through this time. If you have a hunger to experience co-creative partnership with Holy Spirit, as well to see how He wants to bring freedom, wholeness, healing, and full life, then this will be a great class that will change the way you look at your creative process forever! Additional Materials Fee: $30 |
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Acrylic Fluid Art & Painting with a Purpose
Time Frame: Saturday 9-4 pm Facilitator: Sandra Lett Skill Level: All Levels Welcome We will incorporate the intrigue and surprise of a fluid art painting with purpose in the first half of the day and in the second half, we will take an acrylic pour and rework it into a totally different expression of your creative freedom through intentional embellishments. I will also throw in a bonus activity of acrylic pour making jewelry. Additional Materials Fee: $25 |
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Praying in Color & Mixed Media
Time Frame: Saturday, 9-4 pm Facilitator: Diane McFerrin Skill Level: All Levels Welcome If you are in love colorful art supplies, but are not sure how to layer them together this is the class for you. In this class, I will show you my process for layering the different paint, mediums, and mixed media elements to create a painting that is alive and personal. Using acrylics, oil-sticks, watercolor crayons, pastel, charcoal, and metallic leaf you can build your own 12x12 mixed media painting. With new tools on your tool belt, and lots of materials to explore, we will invite the Holy Spirit to lead us through the creative process as we take the skills we just learned to create a personal expression of prayer. Additional Materials Fee: $55 |
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Acrylic Collage with Holy Spirit
Time Frame: Saturday, 9-4 pm Facilitator: Aeron Brown Skill Level: All Levels Welcome We will create an Acrylic Collage Painting as we focus on Holy Spirit and the person of God The Father as He leads us in our creative process. Aeron shares his stories and process of how God the Father has shaped over a decade of creating as a professional. In this class you will learn how to use acrylics to paint landscapes and trees . Learn to create washes, layers, blending and representational images. We will go on a treasure hunt through collage items as we learn to listen to the Holy Spirit in our process. |
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Mosaics and Design - Fundamentals and Beyond
Time Frame: Saturday, 9-4 pm Facilitator: Amy Haid Skill Level: All Levels Welcome Mosaics are so spiritual as they bring together our broken pieces and allow the Lord to make something beautiful from our brokenness ! My prayer for the class is that you will get a sense of how you can take the ordinary and make it into your own unique story . We will begin with the fundamentals in working with stained glass and constructing a mosaic . This is for the beginner but can be for any level as we will also be discussing my 20 years of hints and tricks along the way! Design or as we refer to it , “andamento “ is the visual flow of a mosaic created by arranging the glass in rows, and it can make the background of your mosaic as visually interesting as the figures in the foreground .Often this step is not taught and is what will set your mosaics apart and really give them that professional look! You will be constructing your own mosaic stone , as a paper weight or door stopper, so that you have something small to pack in your suitcase but we will dive much deeper in comparing mosaics in class and online to really see how this can shape your mosaics into quality work! You will also have a handout which will get your started in finding great resources in mosaics and then we will dream big on what you’d like to do in the future and how I can help you get started ! You won’t want to miss this ! I’m looking forward to teaching you ! I’ll be supplying all your tools so you can “try out “ this medium before you have to invest in your own tools - I will also be bringing some fun extras that you can purchase ( optional ) to add into your mosaics , but all supplies will be provided in your supply fee so that you don’t have to carry them for the week! Additional Materials Fee: $25 |
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Live Painting as a Visual Scribe: Posture, Prayer and the Prophetic
Time Frame: Saturday, 9-4 pm Facilitator: Bryn Gillette Skill Level: All Levels Welcome Since 2005 Bryn Gillette has been regularly painting live during church services, special events, conferences, weddings, and even funerals. He has come to describe the role as being a "visual scribe": being in tune with the Holy Spirit and documenting the real time unfolding of God's presence in visual form. "In the course of the many hundreds of live painting experiences I've had, I have come to see the consistent important our posture during the process of live painting; our posture to the Lord, to those we are serving, to the Body of Christ serving alongside us, and to our own work and materials." Live painting often requires setting aside preconception and working fast, drawing upon skills that have been honed ahead of time. With that in mind, this workshop revolves around both a substantial firsthand experience of live painting (privately in our group first and then optionally in the larger conference) as well as a series of skill developing techniques isolated key elements of (fast) paint mixing, color theory, paint application techniques, and drawing human figures quickly and accurately. "I was once asked by a pastor to join him on stage to paint as I was inspired by the Spirit, and despite NO experience seeing or experiencing this process, I said yes. I look back and see that as the genesis moment God took my artistic loaf of bread and fish and multiplied it 1000 fold. I pray this is a moment of awakening for others who long to paint live AS an expression of worship." Additional Materials Fee: $50 |
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The Power of Four: An Abstract Dynamo of Shape Series
Time Frame: Saturday, 9-4pm Facilitator: Pat Butynski Skill Level: Intermediate In this workshop, we look at, painting 4 white 12"x 12” wooden panels at a time. Working this way gives you 4 opportunities to accelerate your understanding, while eliminating intimidation, and joyfully bringing a strong series of paintings forth together. It’s a fast, fun and free form way to begin to master the foundational element of Shape and space division in your paintings. In this workshop through a series of What, When, Why lectures, and rollicking exercises:
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Art Journaling With Intentionality To Increase Creativity
Time Frame: Saturday, 9-4 pm Facilitator: Angela Bruch Skill Level: All Levels Welcome An 1 day workshop where students will learn how to use art journaling as a means to increase their creativity, identify excuses holding them back, learn color theory and using household items and art supplies create beautiful pages. We will pray and play allowing the Holy Spirit to guide us in our artistic journey. Additional Materials Fee: $30 |
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Painting with Freedom
Time Frame: Saturday, 9-4 pm Facilitator: Amy Smith Skill Level: All Levels Welcome Painting with freedom is all about letting go of whatever hinders us on our art journey. Students will learn to let go of expectations, break through creative blocks and cast off the lies that hinder them from being able to listen and respond to the Holy Spirit in their creative process. We will learn a vocabulary of mark making, color, layering and pattern to create expressive spirit-led abstract work. This class is fun and free and powerful. It is good for beginners or established artists. It is great for artists who want to pursue abstraction or those who want to paint more traditionally but loosen up and find freedom in the process. Additional Materials Fee: $5 |
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Look, See, Draw
Time Frame: Saturday. 9-4 pm Facilitator: Anne Conover Skill Level: All levels welcome Drawing is one of the building blocks of good art. Being confident in your ability to draw will enhance all of your art. Even if you are primarily an abstract artist you can use drawing skills in your artwork by combining representational objects with non-representational shapes. This workshop will help the beginner, as well as, the more advanced artists. You will learn new drawing skills and or sharpen what you already have. You will be learning to look and SEE. You will learn about light and shadows, shading and how to turn a form with shading. You will do exercises to increase your knowledge and ability to see and draw prospective correctly. In this class you will engage in some exercises to obtain a better understanding of negative space and how important it is to your overall drawing skill. In addition, you will learn about right and left brain attributes and become conscious of how you can best use this knowledge to become better at your drawing. You will enjoy sketching by observing an object before you and correctly drawing it. You will finish by completing a still life set up before you with either a pen/ink line drawing embellished with a watercolor wash or by doing a charcoal drawing with line and shading. You will leave this workshop feeling more confident of your drawing ability and motivated to use the tools you will receive in the workshop to continue to practice and improve your drawing ability. Additional Materials Fee: $30 |
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Embellished Abstract Watercolor
Time Frame: Saturday, 9-4 pm Facilitator: Jill Williams Skill Level: All Levels Welcome The purpose of this class is to explore the cry of your artistic heart by creating a larger, emotive piece based on your personal experience, current spot in the journey, healing, etc. Students will be guided through a variety of techniques to build multiple color and texture effects in addition to connecting with their own unique creative process. Students will be encouraged to work with a sense of freedom to develop and unlock their individual styling. Using nature themes as a foundation, we’ll build abstractly using water based media, fiber, and other smaller watercolor paintings, to create a very personalized artistic representation of each artist’s heart. |
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Photographing and Editing Artwork for Reproductions
Time Frame: Saturday, 9-4 pm Facilitators: Jacob Daniels Skill Level: All Levels Welcome I have owned my own Gicleé business Overflow Studios since 2013. It was born out of a necessity to reproduce my own artwork. Since then I have developed a process of image capture, proofing, and reproducing on paper and canvas. Many have asked me to share this knowledge so I am offering a one day class at GOA to do so. I feel art reproduction is an important arsenal for the visual artist to have because it allows for more people to experience and enjoy a piece of art. It is also a great way for an artist to generate income from their work. In this class we will learn: 1. What resources and items you will need to correctly take a picture of 2d artwork. (Cameras, lights, tripod etc. ) 2.How to prepare and correctly light a piece of artwork to capture it. 3. How to transfer that image to a computer and use photoshop to edit and compare to the original. 4. I will also talk about how I print and sell my gicleés. God tells us to let our light shine before men so that they can give the glory to God, if you're an artist in the Kingdom this means sharing your artwork with the world! I believe this is a very good tool to have under any artists belt and I look forward to see you all at GOA 2020. Additional Materials Fee: $10 |
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Restoring & Expanding My Creative Ability
Time Frame: Saturday, 9-4 pm Facilitator: Jim & Pat Banks Skill Level: All Levels Welcome For an artist not being able to operate creatively on a consistent basis is extra-ordinarily important and is always something that gets and keeps your attention. Even if you only create on a part-time basis, you need to be able to do it on a demand basis. Often, we find that we are stuck, in a rut, feeling blank, directionless, no ideas, and consequently wonder if we’ll ever be able to create freely again … along with, why is this happening? We may have had glimpses of the future, but have no idea how to get there, which leaves us feeling inadequate and hopeless. In the past 17 years of full-time personal ministry and in the ten years we have been working with GOA artisans we’ve also learned a lot about what stifles or even kills creativity, along with how to deal with it; traumas from childhood physical and sexual abuse, over protective or overbearing parents, being a child of addicted parents, codependence, performance, perfectionism, premature deaths and divorces, the myriad dysfunctional belief systems taught to us by the system of the world, the challenges of navigating strained and broken relationships, along with a number of other equally difficult emotional and spiritual elements. We recognize it most often when we realize the enormity of the struggle in deciding if our work is good enough considering what everyone else is doing, answering the question of “When is it finished?”, wrestling with the task of trying to put a price tag on it, or deciding whether the work will ever make it out of the back of the closet into the daylight where someone can actually see it and finally, Can I handle it if no one likes it? We’ve been able to break the workshop down into very practical, yet very profound pieces that help restore creativity, provides insight to answer some of the above noted questions, but also ushers you into a more vibrant life, one that enables you to live and create as you’ve always wanted to. Many former attendees have found out who they are and why they were created as a direct result of attending this workshop. This workshop is interactive, instructive, and it provides some concrete tools for personal development and discipline that allows you to discover things about yourself you didn’t know were missing and provides a plan to help them mature rapidly. The thing that we are the proudest of is that this workshop will bring you closer to the one who created you, which is always reflected in your own creativity. Additional Materials Fee: $40 |
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Make Your Mark in Collage
Timeframe: Saturday, 9-4pm Facilitators: Mary Martin Skill Level: All Levels Welcome Are you looking for a way to make your work stand out as uniquely your own? Do you want to incorporate Spirit inspired symbols into the layers of your work? In this workshop you will bring your personal brand to your work by designing and making your own stamps to create beautiful hand printed papers for collage. Working with your own images, designs and symbols, you will hand carve stamps with lino cutting tools and rubber stamp carving blocks, and hand cut stamps using adhesive “fun-foam”. You will use your stamps to create layers and depth in hand printed papers using a Gel Printing Plate and other textural materials. Once you have made a supply of hand printed papers, you will create a series of small collages with your personal mark. Additional Materials Fee: $25 |
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Enamel Glass Beadmaking & Jewelry Design
Time Frame: Saturday, 9-4 pm Facilitator: Jami Rains Skill Level: All Levels Welcome Experience a world where fire meets glass by making your own glass beads. Enameling is the art of applying glass to metal (copper). There are a number of enameling methods. The technique you will use to make an enamel bead is called torch enameling. The glass you will be using is a soft glass. Its melting point is relatively low compared to other types of glass. This makes it easy to melt in the flame of a small propane torch. Making enamel glass beads is easy and fun for anyone. Watching the glass melt and the beautiful colors run together in the flame is relaxing, even meditative and can be addicting! So join the fun and learn how to make your own glass “beauties”. In this class you will make 6-8, one-of-a-kind, beads, using various colors of glass and techniques. The beads will cool during lunch break. Following lunch, you will use the beads you created to make a finished piece of jewelry, or two. The basics of crimping, stringing, using headpins to make pendants and earrings will be covered. Supplies will be provided such as clasps, seed and accent beads. You are welcome to bring your own charms, beads or findings that may be meaningful to you to add to your jewelry. This is a great opportunity to design a beautiful piece of jewelry that speaks from the heart, for a keepsake or to bless someone with. Students will receive a basic kit with instructional book and supply resource list. Additional Material Fee: $35 |
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Confidence in Plein Air Oil Painting
Time Frame: Saturday, 9-4 pm Facilitator: Robin Popp Skill Level: Intermediate This class is designed to equip the students with knowledge needed of how to approach the daunting task of painting on location. We will be working in oils. The class will focus on how to create depth, how to narrow down the subject matter for a good composition, how to set up outside with ease, and how to streamline your pallet for maximum mixing capabilities. We will be working outside on the grounds of Ridgecrest Conference Center, and in the town of Black Mountain. This class is for intermediate to advanced skill levels. We will be working with a limited pallet, I will demonstrate on site, then students will work independently with assistance. Additional Materials Fee: $30 |
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Tour to 4 Asheville Artist Studios
Time Frame: Saturday, 9-4 pm Facilitator: Sherry Masters Skill Level: All Levels Welcome So many professional artists live and work in the Asheville area! We'll go see four art studios in home, industrial or commercial settings; and hear from a variety of artisans who've been successful in growing their businesses. Sherry will select artists in a range of mediums and approaches, to give you insight that will inspire and hopefully give you new ideas. We'll learn about career successes and challenges; current projects; how they run their business; and enjoy demo time. I hope you'll take this opportunity to see more of the Western NC region and meet some local skilled artisans! Group transportation for the tour is provided. |
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Personalizing/Customizing Jewelry through Stamping
Time Frame: Saturday, 9-4 pm Facilitator: Frances Syverson Skill Level: Beginner You will be learning where to shop for sterling silver ring blanks (no soldering involved); how to stamp lettering/numbers on rings, pendants, etc.; darkening the letters, polishing the rings/pendants, and assembling pendant for a necklace. We will PRACTICE, PRACTICE, and PRACTICE some more. I will teach you tricks I have learned, and you will leave with several pieces of jewelry personalized by you. So bring your favorite verse (Phil 4:6-7 for me), favorite saying, children's names, or dog's name. Do realize, though, those six beautiful children you have probably won't fit on a size 7 ring. However, you will learn the skills you need to know so you can put them on a bracelet!!! Additional Materials Fee: $40 |
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Prayer, Paint & Purpose
Time Frame: Saturday, 9-4 pm Facilitator: Sandy Hall Skill Level: Beginner We will spend our class day in 3 parts. (1) Prayer: A Biblical Meditation Model. Using this very simple model, we will engage in God's word that helps the text to come alive. This exercise is helpful in creating communication with God and encouraging your prayer/devotion time. It can become a part of your art and an expression of His love. (2) Paint: We will explore the beauty realm of God together as we worship in color with freedom, movement, music and paint! You don't need to be an experienced artist to participate in this non-rushed activity. Come and allow God's Spirit to work through your hands to create a masterpiece that only the two of you can create. (3) Purpose: Together, we will do a hands on exercise in learning to hear God's voice, receive fresh vision, and how to create without distraction. There will be paint, paper and a 'surprise' element to orchestrate the exercise. There will also be an opportunity for me to sow into you with personal prayer and impartation. I believe that by the end of our day together, you will be encouraged and equipped with new tools to move forward in your journey as part of God's army of artist's. I look forward to meeting you and coming alongside you to open up new areas of creativity and inspiration. God Bless! Additional Materials Fee: $10 |
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Embracing the Four Seasons and Activating Your Five Senses in Your Creative Journey
Time Frame: Saturday, 9-4 pm Facilitator: Sara Thurman Skill Level: All Levels Welcome God created the four seasons within nature for us to learn from in our own creative journey. The morning session will include painting scenes from each season with reflections on our own personal creative journeys in a metaphorical analysis. In this workshop we will explore our personal creative seasons in relation to the strengths, challenges, and joy of each season of the year:
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Portrait Painting From Photographs
Time Frame: Saturday, 9-4 pm Facilitator: Luann Smith Skill Level: Intermediate People are precious to God’s heart, and to those who love them. We have a wonderful opportunity as artists to bless someone with an artistic likeness of someone special. In this class, I hope to teach how to capture that “spark” of someone’s personality in your artwork, even though you may never meet that person. God knows them. I believe that as we paint and tune in to that still small voice of the Holy Spirit, He is able to fill in that gap. As you work on painting a portrait from a photo that you bring, I will share what I have learned from many years of experience painting both candid and formal commissioned portraits. Questions will be answered as they come up while you work, and I will also talk about adjusting color and perspective, some color theory and mixing colors, how a photograph can distort color, and most importantly—what to leave out. This is an intermediate level class, students should be able to draw a person and paint in color. You are welcome to work in whatever painting medium you are most comfortable with, and should bring your own supplies. |
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No Really, Get Over It!
Time Frame: Saturday, 9-4 pm Facilitator: Lisa Kidd Skill Level: All Levels Welcome You will laugh, cry and dance in this class! You will be re-minded of your names and promises from God. Through prophetic acts and excellence in dance and dramatic direction and instruction, you will get over things that have kept you stuck for so long and you will get on with your destiny and purpose! Really? Yes - it is time to get over it and get back to who you were created to be! Classical Ballet as Worship, Dance of Israel, Prophetic Acts, Inner Healing and MORE! |
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