West Dean Short Course Season
West Dean College, near Chichester, has announced its programme of inspiring courses running from June to October 2008. With familiar favourites nestling alongside innovative new ones, there is much to absorb.
Each year, West Dean programmes over 700 short courses in arts, crafts, gardening, photography, creative writing, music performance and music appreciation.
They are taught by over 250 tutors, all of whom are practicing professionals both creating and selling work, many nationally and internationally renowned
New Tutors to West Dean this season are:
For those who can’t decide on a course, there are a series of Taster Days, which offer the chance to discover a new subject and open up the opportunity to develop new skills. They are ideal for complete beginners and cover 26 different subject areas.
The creative and social highlight of the year are West Dean’s popular Summer Schools, held over three weeks in July and August. Offering opportunities to escape the hustle and bustle of daily lives whilst exploring a chosen subject in depth. These six-day courses allow time for intensive study, sharing ideas and participating in social activities both at West Dean and at other local arts organisations. 20 courses are offered across the three week period. Highlights include Willow Workshops with Jackie Binns, Mosaic Projects with Emma Biggs, Blacksmithing with Peter Parkinson and Andrew Smith and Woodturning with Dave Regester.
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Each year, West Dean programmes over 700 short courses in arts, crafts, gardening, photography, creative writing, music performance and music appreciation.
They are taught by over 250 tutors, all of whom are practicing professionals both creating and selling work, many nationally and internationally renowned
New Tutors to West Dean this season are:
- Susan Cross, a Jerwood Applied Arts Prize winner for contemporary jewellery
- Hiroshi Suzuki, world-renowned silversmith creating dramatic large scale vessels and smaller scale beakers and boxes
- Garrett Hack, a furniture maker from Vermont specialising in contemporary interpretations of Federal style furniture
- Brian Boggs, from Kentucky, whose beautiful handmade chairs are not only a work of art, but comfortable and built to last a lifetime
- Jo Budd, a textile artist and writer, who focuses on evoking the landscape through textile and quilting
- Michael Brennand-Wood, a textile artist with a national and
international reputation for innovative and imaginative combinations of
ideas and media.
For those who can’t decide on a course, there are a series of Taster Days, which offer the chance to discover a new subject and open up the opportunity to develop new skills. They are ideal for complete beginners and cover 26 different subject areas.
The creative and social highlight of the year are West Dean’s popular Summer Schools, held over three weeks in July and August. Offering opportunities to escape the hustle and bustle of daily lives whilst exploring a chosen subject in depth. These six-day courses allow time for intensive study, sharing ideas and participating in social activities both at West Dean and at other local arts organisations. 20 courses are offered across the three week period. Highlights include Willow Workshops with Jackie Binns, Mosaic Projects with Emma Biggs, Blacksmithing with Peter Parkinson and Andrew Smith and Woodturning with Dave Regester.
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