Category Archives: Workshops

Free Writing Workshop and Poetry Recording Session

Patricia and Vince Wixon will be teaching a free poetry workshop on Saturday, October 15.

The Oregon Poetic Voices Project (OPV) will host a free writing workshop, open to the public, at The Hoffman Center (594 Laneda Avenue) on Saturday, October 15, from 1-3 pm. There will also be a recording studio set up across the street in the Hoffman House Studios Classroom on Friday from 4:30 to 6:30 pm, and on Saturday from 3:30 to 5:30 pm. for members of the community to record original poetry. Poets may record up to four poems, at no expense, to be included in the OPV archive, which is hosted by Lewis & Clark College and available on the web at www.oregonpoeticvoices.org.

On Saturday, October 15, from 1 pm to 3 pm, Vince Wixon will facilitate a Poetry Workshop called “Getting Started and Keeping it Going”.

Vince is the author of two books of poetry, The Square Grove (2006) and Seed (1993), as well as a recent chapbook, Blue Moon, 29 poems developed from lines from the Chinese masters (Wordcraft of Oregon, 2010). He has poems in three anthologies, including From Here We Speak: An Anthology of Oregon Poetry. With Paul Merchant, Wixon co-edited William Stafford’s Crossing Unmarked Snow: Further Views on the Writer’s Vocation (Michigan, 1998) and The Answers Are Inside the Mountains (Michigan, 2003) and helped edit Stafford’s The Way It Is: New and Selected Poems (Graywolf, 1998). Wixon is also co-producer of two videos on William Stafford, What the River Says and The Life of the Poem, and one on Lawson Inada, What It Means to be Free. He and his wife Patricia are long-time poetry editors for “Jefferson Monthly,” the Jefferson Public Radio program guide. The couple has spent more than three decades bringing poets and poetry-related events to the Rogue Valley area and the past decade promoting the works of Oregon’s most famous poet, the late William Stafford. They live in Ashland, Oregon.

Oregon Poetic Voices will also have a recording studio set up on the premises, from 4:30 to 6:30 pm on October 14, and from 3:30 to 5:30 pm on October 15. All poets, published or not, are welcome to record. This will be a first-come, first-serve event and poets will have about fifteen-minutes allotted to them. Poets should consider these time constraints when deciding which works they want to record.

All participants must be prepared to sign a waiver to allow the recordings and texts to be displayed on the website (www.oregonpoeticvoices.org). Please also bring paper copies of the poems and a biographical statement. All participants will be mailed a CD of their readings at a later date.

Recognizing the need for poetry in our lives, the Oregon Poetic Voices Project (OPV) began in 2010, in order to create a comprehensive digital archive of poetry readings that will complement existing print collections of poetry across the state. This sound archive is available online to Oregonians of all ages and geographic locations at libraries, in schools, at home, or visiting the State Library Poetry Room. OPV is funded by the Library Services and Technology Act FFY2011.

For more information, please direct any questions to Poetry Project Fellow, Melissa Dalton at 503-768-8190 or mdalton@lclark.edu. All poets are also welcome to schedule an individual appointment to record in the OPV office, located on the Lewis & Clark campus in Portland, Oregon.

 

 

 

The Hoffman Center presents MONOTYPE MADNESS with Lynn Thomas

 

Local artist Lynn Thomas to teach monotype class in October

Monotypes are prints made using printer’s inks, painted directly on a plexiglass plate, and printed on a press. Water based inks are used in this process, and are not only easy to clean up, they are a fun and forgiving medium which encourages experimentation. NO EXPERIENCE NECESSARY.

The classes will be held on 3 consecutive Wednesdays, October 19, 26 & November 2 from 1:00 pm to 4:00 pm at Lynn’s studio at the Hoffman House, across the street from the Hoffman Center. The cost is $45 per session, or $120 for all three sessions.  To register, download this registration form and mail it in to the Hoffman Center at PO Box 678, Manzanita, 97130.

The first session will introduce the inks, the tools, and the press.

The second session will provide an opportunity to work in a painterly way with brushes.

The third session will explore the use of stencils, demonstrate the viscosity method, and discuss how to set up a home studio.

Please bring an image (photo, sketch) or an idea to the first class.

For additional information about the class, contact Lynn Thomas directly at 503.812.4240.

About the Instructor

Lynn received her BA in printmaking from Marylhurst University. She taught printmaking at Pacific Northwest College of Arts in Portland from 2004-2006 and in her Portland home studio from 2004-2007. She received a Gordon Gilkey Award from the Portland Art Museum for her printmaking in 2004. After moving to Nehalem permanently in 2008, Lynn opened “Green” Printmaking studio in Wheeler where she taught several one day workshops. In 2010 she moved into a studio in the Hoffman Center. In spring of 2010 she taught a printmaking class based on the figure.

Lynn derives ideas for her monotypes from feelings, thoughts, and experiences with nature and personal relationships. Many of her prints begin with one or two textural shapes or figures. A dialogue between forms is sometimes suggested, inviting the viewer to add their own thoughts and feelings to the composition. Lynn uses various plate surfaces to develop her subject matter, including wood veneer (Nehalem Valley) and textured plexiglass (Beyond the Surface). She also likes to work using a resist method and large rollers, which allows for a greater degree to movement and rhythm in her work (New Mexico Series). Ultimately, Lynn strives to create works on paper that are interesting, thought-provoking, and beautiful.

Workshop: Short Story Writing and Publishing September 17

Miriam Gershow leads short story workshop

Join us Saturday, September 17, 2011, from 11 to 130pm to learn how to write and publish short stories.

Spend the first half of the workshop using writing prompts to generate short story ideas. The second half will focus on how and where to place your short fiction. The fee for the workshop is $25.

Miriam Gershow is a novelist, short story writer and teacher. Her stories appear in The Georgia Review, Quarterly West, Black Warrior Review, Nimrod International Journal, The Journal, and Gulf Coast, among other journals. Miriam’s stories have been listed in the 100 Distinguished Stories of The Best American Short Stories 2007 and appeared in the 2008 Robert Olen Butler Prize Stories.

Miriam is the recipient of a Fiction Fellowship from the Wisconsin Institute for Creative Writing, as well as an Oregon Literary Fellowship.

She received her MFA from the University of Oregon. She taught fiction writing at the University of Wisconsin as well as descriptive writing to gifted high school students through Johns Hopkins University. She currently lives in Eugene with her husband and son, where she writes and teaches writing at the University of Oregon.

Saturday evening, Gershow will read from her new novel, The Local News, at 7pm at the Manzanita Writers’ Series at the Hoffman Center.

To register for the workshop, download the registration form here.

Click here for the 2011 Schedule.   If you’re planning to attend the workshop, contact vwildauer@gmail.com.  Contact Kathie Hightower at (503) 739-1505 or kathie@jumpintolife.net for more information.

 

Two Letterpress Workshops Scheduled

Announcing two letterpress workshops in August:

LETTERPRESS FUNDAMENTALS

THURSDAY, AUGUST 18 11-4

$60

prerequisites: none

By designing and printing a poster together, participants in this class will learn typesetting of both metal and wood moveable type, hand inking technique, shop procedure, and operation of the Vandercook no. 2 galley proof press (& the badass 26″ Chandler and Price lever paper cutter!). We will also cover basic typography, some printing history. & a little color theory. Participants will thereafter be qualified to use the proof press– perfect for printing linoleum and wood image blocks as well as type– on their own during open studio hours.

 

INTERMEDIATE LETTERPRESS

THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 8  (NEW DATE)

$80

prerequisites: Letterpress Fundamentals or instructor approval

This class is for those who have taken Letterpress Fundamentals (or ANY workshop from Sarah Archer in the past) and would like to learn to operate the Chandler and Price platen job press (or refresh their muscle memory). By designing and printing a postcard together, participants will advance their typesetting skills and learn to lock up the form, pack & ink the press, & troubleshoot until achieving ideal registration and impression. Participants will go home with an edition of at least 20 beautiful postcards and will thereafter be qualified to use the job press for their own projects during open studio hours.

To register or for more information, contact Sarah Archer

accidentalpress (at) gmail.com

(503) 739-1939

http://accidentalpress.com/peoplesprint

Hoffapalooza 2011 a Great Success

Our first  Hoffapalooza, held Saturday, July 23, 2011 was conceived as an opportunity to show off the wide variety of programs that go on at the Hoffman Center, and to show them off all at once. In a six-hour timespan we had hundreds of people come through the building. A frequent comment, even from full-locals, was, “I had no idea there was this much going on.” It was great to hear that. It meant we were successful.

Check the gallery for some photos of the big day.

 

Hoffman Center to Host Ceramics Classes

The Hoffman Center Ceramics Program will offer two special multi-week classes during the month of August.

“Sculpting” will be held on Tuesdays, beginning Aug. 2, from 4 to 7 p.m. The tuition will be $55, which includes clay and firing.

“Coil Drums and Other Musical Instruments” will be held on Thursdays, beginning Aug. 4, from 3 to 5 p.m. The tuition will be $55, and includes clay and firing.

Ilse Witterland will lead both classes. Witterland holds a degree in art and sculpture from Portland State University, and has shown her work in Portland and Lake Oswego galleries. She is also a member of the Portland Sculptors Guild.

Persons interested in attending either or both classes are asked to send an email hoffmanclaystudio@gmail.com.

The classes are limited to 10 students each.

Free Audio Book with Writing Workshop

Jennifer Lauck to lead scene writing workshop

Join us Saturday, June 18, 2011, from 10am to 3pm for a highly interactive workshop to learn scene writing in seven steps!

Learn the key ingredients to formulating the single most important aspect of good writing – the scene. Jennifer has created a recipe all writers can follow in order to create juicy, tactile, focused and depth-filled scenes. All levels and all genres welcome. Plus, all workshop participants will receive a free copy of Jennifer’s audio series Writing Life: How to Write a Memoir and Free Your Self, a $35 value. Find out more here–http://www.jenniferlauck.com/writing_life.php

To register for Scene Writing in Seven Steps, download the registration form. Simply bring along the completed form to the workshop with a check for $50. Important, please email vwildauer@gmail.com to let us know if you plan on coming.

Saturday evening, Lauck will read from her latest book, Found: A Memoir, at 7pm at the Hoffman Center.

Jennifer Lauck is an award winning journalist and the author of the New York Times Bestseller Blackbird. Featured on The Oprah Show, Winfrey told her audience, “this should have been a Book of the Month book. Read it now!”

Blackbird has been translated into twenty-two languages and made the bestseller list in London, Ireland and Spain. Lauck has traveled throughout England, Scotland, Ireland, Sweden, Denmark, Finland and Holland, to speak about her writing. Lauck was given the Book Sense 76 award and was featured in Newsweek, Harper’s Bazaar, Talk Magazine, People, Glamour and Writer’s Digest. She was a select USA Today pick and nominated for two Oregon Book Awards.

Her new book, Found: A Memoir, came out in March 2011. It is a sequel to Blackbird and is about the search and reunion with her birth mother.

For further information, contact Vera Wildauer at 971-344-5691 or email vwildauer@gmail.com).

Scene Writing Workshop Offered June 18

Jennifer Lauck to lead scene writing workshop

Join us Saturday, June 18, 2011, from 10am to 3pm to learn scene writing in seven steps!

Learn the key ingredients to formulating the single most important aspect of good writing – the scene. Jennifer has created a recipe all writers can follow in order to create juicy, tactile, focused and depth-filled scenes. All levels and all genres welcome.

Jennifer Lauck is an award winning journalist and the author of the New York Times Bestseller Blackbird. Featured on The Oprah Show, Winfrey told her audience, “this should have been a Book of the Month book. Read it now!”

Her new book, Found: A Memoir, came out in March 2011. It is a sequel to Blackbird and is about the search and reunion with her birth mother.

Click here to download the registration form for Scene Writing in Seven Steps. Tuition is $50.

Saturday evening, Lauck will read from her latest book, Found: A Memoir, at 7pm at the Manzanita Writers’ Series at the Hoffman Center.

The workshop and series are programs of the Hoffman Center and will be held at the Hoffman Center (across from Manzanita Library at 594 Laneda Avenue.) (Further information and the 2011 schedule are available at hoffmanblog.org <http://hoffmanblog.org> online or contact Vera Wildauer at 971-344-5691 or email vwildauer@gmail.com).

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Manzanita Writers’ Series Presents Jennifer Lauck on June 18

Jennifer Lauck to read from her new memoir on June 18th

Jennifer Lauck will read from her new book Found: A Memoir at the Manzanita Writers’ Series event at 7pm on Saturday, June 18, 2011 at the Hoffman Center.

Found is the long awaited sequel to the 2000 international bestseller Blackbird: A Childhood Lost & Found which was featured on Oprah and an international bestseller. Blackbird was translated into 22 languages and hit the bestseller lists in London, Ireland and Spain as well as in the United States.

Blackbird was written in the voice of a little girl who attempts to make sense of a world where parents die and children fall through the cracks and are left homeless. Found is written in the voice of a confident woman determined and thus destined to find inner peace, lasting happiness and sense of the familiar.

Jennifer Lauck, with humor, clarity and urgency takes her readers on a thrilling quest that leads her first into motherhood and then into the complex spiritual traditions of Tibetan Buddhism, where Lauck discovers great masters, great teachings and the great truth of who she is. Lauck finally ends her journey when she finds her natural mother—the one who gave her life and gave her away with the hope that she would have a better life.

Lauck has published two other memoirs, a novel and a book on writing memoir. She traveled throughout Northern Europe to speak about her writing. Lauck was given the Book Sense 76 award and was featured in Newsweek, Harper’s Bazaar, Talk Magazine, People, Glamour and Writer’s Digest. She was a select USA Today pick and nominated for two Oregon Book Awards.

Before becoming a memoir writer, speaker and teacher, Lauck worked for many years in television news for ABC affiliates from Montana to Oregon. Her investigative journalism reports appeared on CNN and the ABC Nightly News

During the day on Saturday, June 18, Lauck will teach a workshop on Scene Writing for all genres from 10-3 at the Hoffman Center.  Click here to download the registration form.

Geometric Origami Class on May 22nd

Geometric Origami: Folding Paper into Modular Shapes

Sunday, May 22
1:00 – 3:30 pm
Hoffman Center, 594 Laneda Ave., Manzanita
Price: $30

Please complete the registration form and return it with a check to PO Box 678, Manzanita, OR 97130

In this class, students will learn to make 5 geometric shapes :

-6 sided cube,

-6 sided polyhedron with window-like openings,

-12 piece gyroscope,

-12 piece “ring” made from recycled calendars or maps

-octahedron

Teaching will be primarily through demonstration. Students will also learn to follow written directions with origami folding symbols for each shape.

Students are asked to bring 36 sheets of 6″ by 6″ origami paper.

Recycled maps will be available for the 12 piece “ring”.

This class is appropriate for beginner and intermediate folders, ages 10 to adult.

Barbara Baum Freethy, M.Ed. is a private practice therapist in Portland, ME., working with children who are challenged by attention deficit and autism spectrum disorders. She frequently uses origami as an expressive therapy tool to enhance children’s self-esteem and creativity. Paper folding also has the added benefit of increasing learning skills such as sequencing, visual spatial perception, eye hand coordination and the ability to follow auditory and visual directions.

Barbara is also a paper artist who has been teaching paper folding to adults and children for the past 15 years.