Bios & Art Education Workshop Info

Instructors	Instructor Bios	Media Group Descriptions
Ms. Felecia Carlisle Instructor, Digital Media:	Felecia joined the UWF faculty two years ago. In her artist statement, she writes, “My process is like mixing and sampling. I take bits and pieces from life and rearrange them in a personal way. I am attracted to newness, fashion commercial advertising, digital technology and the internet as sources for ideas and aesthetics.”	Digital Media, Media Group Description: This workshop will cover a variety of creative options that are available in a digital art studio. Topics of discussion will include current theories regarding art in the digital age. References to web-based resources, books on this specific subject matter, and examples of artworks will be covered as well as some practical learning assignments. Basic techniques in animation and digital printmaking will be covered. Basic Mac skills and knowledge of Photoshop is recommended, but not required.
Ms. Lyda Toy Instructor, Printmaking	After receiving my MFA in studio arts at the Florida State University, School of Visual Arts and Dance, I went on to experience many areas in art services in addition to teaching college art courses since 1997. I taught at Florida State University in Tallahassee for four years, and have been teaching at the University of West Florida since 2002. For two years I was artist in residence at the 621 Gallery, a non-profit community gallery in Tallahassee, Florida, which resulted in a show of new paintings in February of 2001. I have also worked as a gallery assistant, master printer for Professor Emeritus William Walmsley for four years, and have had numerous collaborations with other artists, writers, musicians and a physician. My paintings appear to fall on the cusp between representation and abstraction. I have a strong background in printmaking, but painting has been my passion for the past ten years. Being in the landscape (and the sea more recently with an idea or technique is my way of critical thinking; it is a process of solving problems in constant flux, resulting in art-making. My interest in printmaking, the artist book, and photography have strongly influenced my paintings manifesting my obsession with light and space, and the problem of viewing more than one image at a time. My work is about the landscape and the sea where I live. Because this space is so overwhelming and cannot be contained in single images, I intuitively developed a system that allows me to see the land as fragments, similar to the way I view my photographs spread out in rows before me, the fragments adding up to the full experience of the landscape or the seascape.	Printmaking Media Group Description: A Portfolio of Prints: image and word color and concept: The printmaking media group will concentrate on intaglio, and gum transfer process conceptually as well as monoprints. The prints are to be related with concept. This means that an idea that is developed and sustained through four or five images. The sustenance of a basic concept will provide room for experimentation aesthetically and technically. Teachers are encouraged to bring sketches, collages, self-authored writings, a favorite poem or essay or a newspaper item that especially irritated you. Emphasis will be on experimentation and concept development.
Mr. Stephen Haworth Instructor, Ceramics	Steve has been teaching ceramics at UWF for over three decades. He is vice president of the board of directors of the Kiln Walk Society, which experiments in building and firing kilns from all over the world. Most recently, Steve has been working with the Japan-American Society and Master Potter Mr. Shimizu to fire a specialized tunnel kiln, known as Anagama.	Ceramics Media Group Description: The ceramic media group will deal with combination throwing and handbuilding techniques, multiple techniques for making lids, handles and plates.
Mr. Dan Kelleher Instructor, Drawing	Dan Kelleher is Professor Emeritus from Mass Art where he served as Chair of painting and drawing. UWF has been extremely fortunate to have an instructor of his caliber for the past four years. Dan’s young students enthusiastically sing his praises, “Kelleher is very passionate about the process that goes into drawing. His excitement raises my ambitions, and inspires me to improve.” Another simply said, “Kelleher is awesome!”	Drawing Media Group Description: Why is the figure central to Western Art? This drawing course addresses this question. We use the figure model as subject for drawing. A short slide review of masters drawings begins the course; but the emphasis is on doing alot of drawing. A review and discussion of class drawings closes the course. All materials are provided.

Instructors

Instructor Bios

Media Group Descriptions

Ms. Felecia Carlisle

Instructor, Digital Media:

Felecia joined the UWF faculty two years ago. In her artist statement, she writes, “My process is like mixing and sampling. I take bits and pieces from life and rearrange them in a personal way. I am attracted to newness, fashion commercial advertising, digital technology and the internet as sources for ideas and aesthetics.”

Digital Media, Media Group Description:

This workshop will cover a variety of creative options that are available in a digital art studio. Topics of discussion will include current theories regarding art in the digital age. References to web-based resources, books on this specific subject matter, and examples of artworks will be covered as well as some practical learning assignments. Basic techniques in animation and digital printmaking will be covered. Basic Mac skills and knowledge of Photoshop is recommended, but not required.

lyda

Ms. Lyda Toy

Instructor, Printmaking

After receiving my MFA in studio arts at the Florida State University, School of Visual Arts and Dance, I went on to experience many areas in art services in addition to teaching college art courses since 1997.

I taught at Florida State University in Tallahassee for four years, and have been teaching at the University of West Florida since 2002. For two years I was artist in residence at the 621 Gallery, a non-profit community gallery in Tallahassee, Florida, which resulted in a show of new paintings in February of 2001. I have also worked as a gallery assistant, master printer for Professor Emeritus William Walmsley for four years, and have had numerous collaborations with other artists, writers, musicians and a physician. My paintings appear to fall on the cusp between representation and abstraction. I have a strong background in printmaking, but painting has been my passion for the past ten years. Being in the landscape (and the sea more recently with an idea or technique is my way of critical thinking; it is a process of solving problems in constant flux, resulting in art-making. My interest in printmaking, the artist book, and photography have strongly influenced my paintings manifesting my obsession with light and space, and the problem of viewing more than one image at a time. My work is about the landscape and the sea where I live.

Because this space is so overwhelming and cannot be contained in single images, I intuitively developed a system that allows me to see the land as fragments, similar to the way I view my photographs spread out in rows before me, the fragments adding up to the full experience of the landscape or the seascape.

Printmaking Media Group Description:

A Portfolio of Prints: image and word color and concept:

The printmaking media group will concentrate on intaglio, and gum transfer process conceptually as well as monoprints.

The prints are to be related with concept. This means that an idea that is developed and sustained through four or five images. The sustenance of a basic concept will provide room for experimentation aesthetically and technically.

Teachers are encouraged to bring sketches, collages, self-authored writings, a favorite poem or essay or a newspaper item that especially irritated you.

Emphasis will be on experimentation and concept development.

steve

Mr. Stephen Haworth

Instructor, Ceramics

Steve has been teaching ceramics at UWF for over three decades. He is vice president of the board of directors of the Kiln Walk Society, which experiments in building and firing kilns from all over the world. Most recently, Steve has been working with the Japan-American Society and Master Potter Mr. Shimizu to fire a specialized tunnel kiln, known as Anagama.

Ceramics Media Group Description:

The ceramic media group will deal with combination throwing and handbuilding techniques, multiple techniques for making lids, handles and plates.

Mr. Kelleher

Mr. Dan Kelleher

Instructor, Drawing

Dan Kelleher is Professor Emeritus from
Mass Art where he served as Chair of painting and drawing. UWF has been extremely fortunate to have an instructor of his caliber for the past four years. Dan’s young students enthusiastically sing his praises, “Kelleher is very passionate about the process that goes into drawing. His excitement raises my ambitions, and inspires me to improve.” Another simply said, “Kelleher is awesome!”

Drawing Media Group Description:

Why is the figure central to Western Art?

This drawing course addresses this question. We use the figure model as subject for drawing. A short slide review of masters drawings begins the course; but the emphasis is on doing alot of drawing. A review and discussion of class drawings closes the course. All materials are provided.