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Short Courses

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Whitecliffe College of Arts and Design, New Zealand's leading private arts and design institution, is proud to offer evening classes to our community.

Courses provide quality teaching, an exposure to the world of contemporary art practice, and individualised tuition in a positive learning environment. Our aim is to make art and design accessible to any individual who is willing to develop their skills, explore their creativity, encounter new ideas and ways of working, and revitalise their practice.

Terms at Whitecliffe run over a seven week period, but evening courses consist of six classes which run from 6p.m. - 9p.m. on Wednesday evenings. Each class will therefore have a one week break in the fourth week of classes when Whitecliffe Undergraduate Workshops are run. If a class needs to be cancelled, it will run on the next available day or by arrangement between the tutors and students.

Materials

A material list will be provided upon confirmation of the course.

Eligibility

All Short Courses are non-credit and are open to all ages. However, some courses are challenging, therefore we recommend that applicants under the age of 18 years contact the office if uncertain about their eligibility. No qualifications are necessary unless experience is specified in the course description.

Location

All classes take place at our main Campus, located at 24 Balfour Rd in Parnell off Gladstone Rd, one block from the Parnell Rose Gardens. On-street parking is available on Balfour Rd.

Building Access

For your security, the Whitecliffe Balfour Road Campus is protected by a swipe card access system. As part of your fees, you will be allocated a swipe card on the first night of course, granting you access during your scheduled classes. Should a student require a replacement card, or fail to return this swipe card at the end of the course, a replacement fee of $25 will be incurred.

Refunds

You may request to withdraw from a course up to 3 working days prior to the commencement of a course and gain a full refund. Refunds will not be given to students withdrawing after the commencement of a course. Fees cannot be transferred to future bookings.

Booking and Course Cancellation

In order to confirm your place, full payment is required at the time of booking - no deposits taken. Whitecliffe reserves the right to cancel or postpone any course that does not reach a viable number of enrolments. In this case you will receive a full refund. Whitecliffe reserves the right to amend any course, schedule, location or tutor listed in the brochure before or during the course.

Students

Please note that on the enrolment form you are required to notify Whitecliffe of any existing medical condition or disability that may affect your participation in a course. The information supplied to Whitecliffe is required to manage your enrolment and participation. No personal information will be disclosed outside Whitecliffe without your expressed consent, except where required by law.

FASHION DESIGN - ONE

This course introduces students to the general aspects of fashion design. Students will develop knowledge of the fashion industry and foster their creativity through experimentation within the discipline.

Students will be introduced to the process of creating their own design and will be shown how to translate that concept to a completed garment by learning pattern drafting and garment construction. During the garment construction process students will use industrial machines, experiment with surface design and embellishment, and learn how to employ different fabric manipulation techniques.

This course is suitable for beginners and for those with some experience.

Wednesday 6 - 9 pm

Term 1: 3 March - 7 April

Term 2: 5 May - 16 June (no class 26 May)

Cost: $250.00 per term


FASHION DESIGN - TWO

Students that have already completed the Wednesday course or are sufficiently experienced will be taught further skills in basic pattern making. Students will design and complete a garment in calico and using industrial machines they will learn garment construction elements such as darts, cuffs, collars, facing, button stand, patch pocket and insertion of zips. This course will expand on the techniques of surface design, embellishment and fabric manipulation that were taught in Fashion Design One.

This course is suitable for intermediate students.

Thursday 6 - 9 p.m.

Term 1: 4 March - 8 April

Term 2: 6 May - 17 June (no class 27 May)

Cost: $250.00 per term

Tutor: Marigona Xharra currently teaches Fashion Design at Whitecliffe, where she graduated in 2006 with a Bachelor of Fine Arts. majoring in Fashion Design. In her fashion design practice Marigona combines elements from historical traditional costumes with modern silhouettes.

IMPRESSIONIST LANDSCAPE PAINTING

This course is offered to beginner or intermediate level students who would like to learn to paint representational landscapes in an impressionist style. Students are free to utilise and adapt this painting style for other preferred subject matters.

Students will be taught the fundamental principles of paint application to achieve atmospheric perspective and dimension and will be shown how warm and cool colours are used by professional artists to create depth in a painting and also how to mix colour to change tonal values. Most importantly, Steve will show students the four key things you need to know about composing and creating a successful landscape painting.

The preferred medium is oils but students may also use acrylics.

Wednesday 6 - 9 pm

Term 1: 3 March - 7 April

Term 2: 5 May - 16 June (no class 26 May)

Cost: $250.00 per term

Tutor: Steve Marsh has a Diploma in Figurative Studies from Whitecliffe College Of Arts and Design 1986 and has been an exhibiting artist for over 20 years. He teaches part time and has paintings in private collections in New Zealand, Australia, Sweden and Wales. His current works explore the way light appears in nature as he takes life as his inspiration.

FIGURATIVE DRAWING: FASHION or ILLUSTRATION

Students in this course will be taught the basic skills of figurative drawing either for the purpose of Fashion Design or for Illustration. The class will be adapted to your strengths and whichever of these two disciplines you wish to develop.

Fashion Illustration: students will be shown how to structure the figure as a coat hanger for fashion drapery where the figure is elongated to create the desired elegance and beauty that best presents a design concept.

Figure Illustration: students will be shown the skills required to accurately and sensitively draw a life figure using personally selected photographic images for the subject matter.

Wednesday 6 - 9 pm

Term 1: 3 March - 7 April

Term 2: 5 May - 16 June (no class 26 May)

Cost: $250.00 per term

Tutor: Paul Hooker lectures at Whitecliffe in the fashion design department, at AUT, UNITEC and also at South Seas where he teaches life figure drawing

BEGINNER DIGITAL PHOTOGRAPHY

This introductory course enables students to explore their digital camera functions through lots of hands on experimentation. The digital process will be examined including down loading, archiving and printing methods. Using Photoshop® students will learn to manipulate and enhance their images as well as utilise tools for more creative applications. The photographic lighting studio will be used for commercial lighting demonstrations

Wednesday 6 - 9 pm

Term 1: 3 March - 7 April

Term 2: 5 May - 16 June (no class 26 May)

Cost: $250.00 per term

INTERMEDIATE DIGITAL PHOTOGRAPHY

A course designed as a follow on extension of the Introduction to Digital Photography class. Suitable to those with a sound knowledge of manual SLR camera functions and that have used Photoshop CS4 previously.

Through your expanding image library we will fine tune your area of interest. Complimenting this will be more in depth Photoshop® activities including High Dynamic Range Photography. The photographic studio will also be utilised to aid you with your weekly independent creative image capturing tasks.

Thursday 6 - 9 pm

Term 1: 4 March - 8 April

Term 2: 6 May - 17 June (no class 27 May)

Cost: $250.00 per term

Tutor: Treve Dromgool graduated from Whitecliffe in 2002 with a Bachelor of Fine Arts Degree majoring in Photography. She has since been immersed in the photographic industry, practicing as a medical photographer, working freelance, exhibiting, and teaching.

ABSTRACT PAINTING

James Lawrence is a well known painter and tutor and one of New Zealand's great modern artists. Students will have the opportunity to improve current painting skills or learn from scratch functional, original, resourceful acrylic techniques. The classes will cover design, colour and texture, utilising demonstrations and practical creative exercises. Students will be able to develop their own style with individual direction from James.

This workshop is suitable for beginners and advanced artists

Thursday 6 - 9 pm

Term 1: 4 March - 8 April

Term 2: 6 May - 17 June (no class 27 May)

Cost: $250.00 per term

Tutor: James Lawrence completed his BFA and MFA at the Otis College of Art and Design in Los Angeles. He has been based in New Zealand since 1992 where he has been a very respected and successful exhibiting artist and lecturer. James has taught BFA and Foundation students at Whitecliffe and has conducted workshops and classes throughout New Zealand.

STREET ART PAINTING

Learn to create your own "Street Art" inspired paintings based on stencil and spray paint processes. The class will initially focus on developing technical skills, and on experimentation with paint and spraying effects. Students will be guided by the tutor in a structured class environment which is designed to ensure each student is taught the necessary skills to complete a number of works of their own design. Students will be able to work at their own pace, according to their own skill level.

Suitable for beginners. Students with limited drawing skills will be able to base their designs on traced images.

Wednesday 6 - 9 pm

Term 1: 3 March - 7 April

Term 2: 5 May - 16 June (no class 26 May)

Cost: $270.00 per term. (includes tracing and transparency paper).

Tutor: Matt Dowman currently lectures in the Fine Arts Department at Whitecliffe, and has his own Street Art inspired work practice. Matt graduated from Elam with a MFA in 2004

SCREEN PRINTING

This beginners course will introduce students to the basic skills of screen printing, paper stenciling and photoscreen imaging. The techniques taught will enable students to develop their own style of images which they can print on to material of their own choice including paper, fabric, or clothing.

Wednesday 6 - 9 pm

Term 1: 3 March - 7 April

Term 2: 5 May - 16 June (no class 26 May)

Cost: $300.00 per term. (includes the supply of a screen valued at $40, which students can keep and all ink and paint used for the duration of the course).

Tutor: John Horner is a well established, exhibiting artist who has been a lecturer at Whitecliffe for 26 years His current focus at Whitecliffe is screen printing, etching and painting. John graduated from Elam with a BFA in 1965 and from Whitecliffe with a MFA in 2003. This course will be taught by John with support from Whitecliife tutors who have expertise in screen printing.

INTRODUCTION TO ADOBE PHOTOSHOP CS4

This in depth introductory course will teach students how to perform a number of image-manipulation techniques using Adobe Photoshop CS4. The focus will be on learning the necessary skills required for selecting parts of images, creating layers, layer effects, filters, colour modification, painting and blending.

Prerequisites: Before enrolling on this course, participants should have basic computer skills including mouse operation, creating folders, creating files and savings files into folders.

Thursday 6 - 9 pm

Term 1: 4 March - 8 April

Term 2: 6 May - 17 June (no class 27 May)

Cost: $375.00 per term

Tutor: Christina Read has a BFA from Kent Institute of Art and Design (UK) and graduated with a MFA from Elam in 2007. She currently lectures in the Digital Media, Fine Art & Photo Film Video Departments at Whitecliffe College of Arts and Design

EXPRESSIVE PAINTING

An expressive painting class for beginners which incorporates mixed media, symbolism, and a focus on contemporary culture. Students will have the freedom to explore this genre under the assured guidance of the tutor. An opportunity to be really creative with a variety of mediums.

Wednesday 6 - 9 pm

Term 1: 3 March - 7 April

Term 2: 5 May - 16 June (no class 26 May)

Cost: $250.00 per term

Tutor: Alissa West currently lectures at Whitecliffe. Alissa has a BFA and will graduate with her MFA from Whitecliffe in January 2010. Her art practice is informed by European art history and she use these works in dialogue with contemporary culture

INTRODUCTION TO DRAWING

This course explores three dimensional drawing. Students will learn a range of technical drawing techniques to concisely and clearly transform an idea into physical form, such as perspective, isometric, and orthographic drawing. It will then move to more improvisational methods using a range of materials to address the fundamental issues of working sculpturally and spatially gaining an understanding of form, scale, balance and space with reference to the body and its surroundings.

Thursday 6 - 9 pm

Term 1: 4 March - 8 April

Term 2: 6 May - 17 June (no class 27 May)

Cost: $250.00 per term

Tutor: Sarah Rose graduated from Elam School of Fine Arts, University of Auckland in 2007 with a Bachelor of Fine Arts. Recent exhibitions include "To Say the Least" ­ Newcall Gallery,Auckland, "New Artists Show 2009" ­ Artspace,Auckland, "Leading to Form" ­ Enjoy Public Art Gallery,Wellington. Sarah is currently a co-director of the artist-run-space Newcall Gallery.