Watercolor Illustration CoursePart of the Book Arts Program, this work came from Marilyn Reaves’s course on techniques of watercolor and illustration using watercolor.
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CE Arts Program Faculty
Book Arts
Marilyn Reaves
Marilyn Reaves did her undergraduate work at Lawrence University in Appleton, Wisconsin, and received an M.F.A. degree in visual design from the University of Oregon. As an adjunct UO assistant professor, she has taught classes in design, letterform, drawing, multimedia, and watercolor. She has also taught at Lane Community College, Portland Community College, and Portland State University. In her own artwork, areas of special interest and expertise are brush lettering and watercolor painting; she is co-author of a textbook, Brush Lettering, published by Design Press. Reaves teaches workshops in calligraphy and design throughout the U.S. and Canada and has been on the teaching faculty of several international Calligraphy Conferences.
Miriam Kley
Miriam Kley studied in Paris with Ossip Zadkine. In addition to her fine art she is an award winning sculptural illustrator having worked for companies including RCA, CBS, The New York Times, Random House, Playboy and Fortune. Originally from New York City, Kley has been teaching in the Art Department of the University of Oregon since 1990. She now lives and works in Eugene where she has her studio and is represented by the Karin Clarke Gallery. Kley is represented in New York by the Amos Eno Gallery.
Rebecca Childers
Rebecca Childers founded her press, The Seedbed of Irony Press, in 1993. Under this imprint, she’s produced hand-bound letterpress editions and one-of-a-kind sculptural books. Her work has been exhibited in a number of venues across the country. Before moving to Eugene in 2002, she taught letterpress printing, artist books, indie publishing, and zines at the Maryland Institute College of Art where she directed the Dolphin Press. She currently teaches creative writing for Johns Hopkins University’s Distance Writing Program, as well as a class called “Writing for Artists” at UO. She holds an MFA in creative writing from the University of Iowa.
Contact rebeccachilders@mac.com with any questions.
Gallery Management and Organization
Susan Detroy
Susan Detroy has over 35 years of experience in the visual arts as a photographer, painter, and exhibit designer. She has worked as an independent contractor for 20 years, including five years as exhibit designer for the Jacobs Gallery. Other clients include the Lane County Historical Museum, Peace Health (PRN Galleries, Oregon Imaging, and the Sleep Center), and Lane Community College (Art and Applied Design Department Gallery; David Joyce Gallery at the Center for Meeting and Learning).
Contact Susan at detroy@uoregon.edu
Interpretive Exhibits Studio
Alice Parman
With a background as a high school teacher and a Ph.D. in Education, Alice Parman began her nonprofit career as an educator and administrator at Chicago’s Field Museum of Natural History, 1972-78. After serving as director of two smaller museums in Eugene, Oregon (1978-88), Alice worked for nearly 15 years as senior planner/writer for an exhibit design firm, Formations Inc. In 2003 she launched an independent consulting practice. Alice’s client list for interpretive services includes The Museum at Warm Springs, The Lincoln Museum, the National Steinbeck Center, The Hermitage, Mt. Rainier National Park, Antique Powerland, Oregon Historical Society, and many others.
Alice has been an organizational coach in her community since the mid-1980s, specializing in funding strategy, grant-writing, and meeting facilitation. Among her nonprofit clients: Lord Leebrick Theatre Company, Friends of Buford Park, FOOD for Lane County, Committed Partners for Youth, Eugene Masonic Cemetery Association, University of Oregon Continuation Center, United Way of Lane County, Willamette Valley Babe Ruth Baseball, the Eugene Education Fund, Prevention and Recovery Northwest, and the Downtown Initiative for the Visual Arts (DIVA).
For more information, visit Alice Parman’s website: http://aparman.com/
Mary Dole
Mary Dole received her MFA from the University of Oregon in 1986. After working out of state for a number of years she has returned to Oregon. She was a faculty member at Central Michigan University, 1992-2001, and established the Michigan Association of Printmakers during that time. Mary taught at Savannah College of Art and Design from 2001-2002 and Bowling Green State University 2002-2004. She has taught all forms of printmaking and drawing and has also worked as a Gallery Director.
Mary has done workshops and been a Visiting Artist/Lecturer at the University of Kentucky at Lexington, Kettering University and at Washington Jefferson University in Pennsylvania. Her work is mixed media/printmaking.
Professional Tools for Digital Media (PTDM)
Skipper McFarlane
(InDesign, Flash, and Dreamweaver)
Skipper McFarlane has been an instructor with the University of Oregon since 1995. He has earned a B.F.A. (Visual Design) from UO in 1991 and a M.F.A. (Visual Design), also from UO, in 1998. During his time with the University, Skipper has taught a variety of courses related to design production process and theory for both print and web-based delivery. Skipper has also taught community short courses through Resource Assistance for Rural Environments (RARE) on web-based delivery as well as training courses for RARE participants.
Skipper has a background in graphic design, working with both print and web-based delivery items such as websites and printed publications.
To contact Skipper McFarlane directly please e-mail skipmcf@uoregon.edu.
Visit his website for more information:
http://darkwing.uoregon.edu/~skipmcf/courses
Robert Rolfe-Redding
(Photoshop workshops)
Born and raised in England, Robert Rolfe-Redding studied at the University of Durham’s Bede College and majored in Film Studies and Education. He earned graduate degrees at Pennsylvania State University, Washington University, and the University of Oregon in the United States. Currently he is an Adjunct Assistant Professor at the University of Oregon. The work he did while at these various universities was in the fields of education, television production, film studies, sculpture, and digital arts.
Using computers, digital photography and video, Robert’s concentration is in areas of exploration that are very abstract/non-representational; investigating ideas and themes found in oriental philosophy and occidental science. His work is screen, still and installation-based, which comes quite naturally since he is also a sculptor. He is, however, always open to forms of presentation as, and when, the need arises. His work has been exhibited in the United States, Greece, and China.
As an adjunct assistant professor at the University of Oregon, he has taught courses in:Digital Imaging. DVD Design. Motion Design. Digital Video and Audio. Experimental Animation. Time-based Digital Art (large Lecture format.) Multimedia Tools. Advance Visual Effects and Compositing.
To contact Robert directly please e-mail robertgr@uoregon.edu
Stone Sculpture
Tom Urban
Tom Urban is a retired Associate Professor from the University of Oregon and was the founding director of the University of Oregon EMU Craft Center. He has a courtesy appointment in the University of Oregon Art Department where he has taught sculpture classes over the past twelve years. He is also the co-founding instructor for the University of Oregon Stone Sculpture workshop. He teaches at numerous sculpture symposiums and shows his work in Northwest galleries. Tom has a M.F.A. from the University of Wisconsin, Madison.
Laura Alpert
Laura Alpert is a sculptor who investigates the relationship between human technology and the natural world. In her work, the distinctions between the fabricated and natural orders are presented as indefinite, variable and changeable. Ms. Alpert is a sculptor and a faculty member in the University of Oregon Department of Art. She has been an instructor at the MARBLE/marble Stone Carving Symposium in Colorado as well as at Northwest Stone Sculptor’s Association events in Washington and Oregon. She has been a co-founder and co-leader of the University of Oregon Stone Carving Workshop for nine years. She has exhibited in shows in Canada, Indiana, Illinois, Minnesota and Colorado. In Oregon, she has exhibited at the University or Oregon Museum of Art, Lane Community College, the Lawrence Galleries (Gleneden), Portland, Sunriver, the Jacobs Gallery (Eugene) and other venues.
Summer in the City
Anya Kivarkis
Anya Kivarkis received a BFA in Craft (Jewelry/Metalsmithing) from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, and an MFA in Metal from the State University of New York (SUNY), New Paltz.
Recent exhibitions include Sculptural Objects Functional Art (SOFA) Chicago 2005 with Sienna Gallery, Markers in Contemporary Metals II at the Samuel Dorsky Museum of Art, New York, and the Emerging Jewelers Exhibition at Sienna Gallery, Massachusetts. She has recently lectured at University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, and participated as a panel discussion member in the Art Jewelry Forum Symposium at the State University of New York in New Paltz. Her work is in the permanent collection of the Samuel Dorsky Museum of Art, NY.
Michael Salter
Michael Salter's work studies popular visual culture. He researches and analyzes all media and mass communication, and his creative study addresses the cognitive influence on people by these sources. Salter's research is sensitive to the vast technologies, sources and motivations that illustrate the world we live in. His work is the constant investigation of visual function. Throughout his career he has eagerly explored every media and application possible to better understand the visual language and its power. His installations include drawing, sculpture, kinetic sculpture, animation, video and a variety of digital processes. Salter's work has been exhibited internationally, including The Southeastern Center for Contemporary Art, Lump Gallery/Projects, Ambrosino Gallery, Black Market Gallery, The University of Texas, Arlington and Jeff Bailey Gallery. His work has been published in Pictoplasma2, Arkitip, Lodown Magazine, Hi Fructose Magazine and Grab Magazine among others.
Kartz Ucci
I am interested in the relentless pursuit of happiness.
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