Monday, February 6

Improv Workshop

Chip Conrad, Capitol City Theatre
7 p.m.
Emitte Center

Workshop Description:  This workshop is built specifically for people at an intermediate performance level. It walks through the importance of positivity and challenges spontaneity. Students will be pushed to think differently and taught how to exercise their improv muscles. Dress for movement and be ready to let yourself fail, for success lies on the edge of failure.

Bio:  An 18 year veteran of improvisation comedy, Chip Conrad has taught, performed and directed his students with outstanding results. Now as a theater owner in Salem, Oregon, Chip has realized a life long dream of running Capitol City Theater, a theater dedicated solely to improvisation work.

To register for this workshop please email jhopkins@corban.edu

Workshop Limit:  20

Tuesday, February 7

Marketing Your Talent

John Doan
12 noon
Psalm Center

Topic:  Music as a Business, Non-Traditional Entrepreneurship, Or How Does A Person Pay Their Bills When They Don't Have A Regular Job?

Workshop Description:  John will discuss Identifying one's uniqueness and expressing it through music, finding ways to communicate this to others, and developing persistence and a sense that life is an adventure.  He will refer to the production of his Emmy Nominated television special and various award winning and critically acclaimed recordings and concerts.

No registration required

Student Recital

7:30 p.m.
Psalm Center

A variety of seasoned student musicians will perform as part of Corban Arts Week. The concert will feature solos and original compositions, artwork and poetry.

Wednesday, February 8

R-rated Creativity

Mark W. McIntire  
10 a.m. during Chapel
Psalm Center

Topic: The arts are a channel of the Holy Spirit’s transformative works of Redemption and Regeneration allowing people to make sense of the world through exploring all facets of beauty, goodness, and truth.

Bio: Mark writes for magazines and literary reviews. In 2011, three of his poems were included in Gold Man Review. He is an active member of Oregon Christian Writers, American Christian Fiction Writers and Willamette Writers. He is currently working on a suspense novel and a screenplay. He enjoys life with his family and friends while fitting in speaking engagements to advocate for the arts in public life, intercultural issues, and faith.

Introduction to Mosaic Process  

Mary P. D. Heintzman
7 p.m.
Emitte Center

Workshop Description:  This introduction class will expose the beginner to the options and potentials of the mosaic process. The student will decorate a mosaic flower pot using the direct method. The indirect method will be discussed along with handmade tile forms.

Bio:  Mary P. D. Heintzman’s community artistic projects include mosaic murals at Washington and Anderson Pools in Kenosha, Wisconsin, the A.C. Gilbert Wall Mural and Eco-Earth Globe at Salem Riverfront Park in Salem, Oregon. She created the musical mosaic “Jammin’ Salmon” for a citywide fundraising project. 

While mosaic, pottery, and photography are Mary’s current artistic focus, her background is in sculpture and printmaking. She received her MFA from Bradley University in Peoria, Illinois. She taught drawing for ten years at ICC in East Peoria. Mary currently teaches art at Blanchet Catholic High School in Salem, Oregon where she was awarded Distinguished Educator Award in 2008, and was a Salem Keizer Education Foundation 2011 Crystal Apple Award recipient.

To register for this workshop please email jhopkins@corban.edu

Workshop Limit:  15

Beginning English Country Dancing

Sonia Arp
7 p.m.
Psalm Center

Workshop Description:  Remember the elegance of Pride and Prejudice dance scenes and the folksy fiddling fun of the Civil War dances? This class will offer instruction in a fun selection of those bygone group dances. You will learn the patterns for several easy dances and interact with the whole group (most formal hold required is a handshake style position for men and women). No experience necessary. No partner necessary. Please wear comfortable shoes (ladies, we're moving fast. Leave the heels at home!). Modest dresses/skirts for ladies and slacks for gentlemen encouraged.

Bio:  Sonia Arp has always dabbled with dancing, but 5 years ago she discovered her passion for ECD at a homeschool graduate get-together. Not long after she joined the Set To Music dance group she began learning the art of calling for the dances. Now she is calling and sharing her passion for good clean fun all across the nation. Her vision for ECD is to encourage Christian fellowship with edifying interaction and lively fun. You can find her locally calling and dancing at Laura Plett's Set To Music Group Balls.

No registration required.

Thursday, February 9

Building Visual Perception through Drawing

Andrew Dickson
7 p.m.
Emitte Center

Workshop Description:  Students will use basic drawing media to examine their immediate visual experiences in order to discover and reveal the unique aesthetic characteristics of their subject.

Bio: At an early age, Andrew Dickson was involved in art and spent hours drawing from imagination. He was influenced by the artwork of his mother, Annette Dickson, and through her became familiar with California watercolorist Milford Zornes and southwest artist Joella Mahoney. Later, while pursuing another vocation, he attended a painting workshop with Zornes. This experience inspired Andrew and challenged him to pursue a career in art with conviction. With little formal training, he began a daily routine of painting outdoors along the coastline of the Monterey Peninsula where he grew up. During that time he benefited from the critical feedback and encouragement of professional painter and filmmaker Rick Harper. Not long after, Andrew was accepted in the graduate program at California State University Long Beach where he completed his MFA.  At Long Beach, Andrew had the unique privilege of studying drawing and painting with Domenic Cretara and graduate committee chair Yu Ji. Andrew’s aesthetic ideas and studio practice were profoundly influenced by Yu Ji’s teaching, which emphasized the significance of the drawing process and the use of the structural line to articulate immediate visual experiences.  Since then, Andrew’s work has been featured in American Artist and has been exhibited nationally.  He is an artist member of the California Art Club.  Andrew has taught drawing and painting at California State University, Long Beach, The Palos Verdes Art Center, and Huntington University in Indiana. Andrew currently works as an Assistant Professor of Foundation Painting at California State University Fullerton.

To register for this workshop please email jhopkins@corban.edu

Workshop Limit:  15

Photography Workshop

Sheldon Traver
7:00 p.m.
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Workshop Description: It’s not the size of the camera, but who is behind the lens that matters.  During this photography workshop, students will learn how to decipher terms such as ISO, aperture,  and shutter speed and how they work together in digital cameras. Additionally, we will learn the basics of photo composition in portraits and photojournalism, how to use light to our advantage and how to shoot at night  to capture amazing images.  Participants should bring a camera or share one with a friend, a tripod if available and warm clothing. Participants will be required to share at least three photos they take during the evening course.

Bio: Sheldon Traver graduated with a degree in journalism and communication from the University of Oregon in 2005. He has worked as staff writer and photographer for the Statesman Journal in Salem and as a freelance photojournalist for newspapers and magazines across the United States and in Ireland.  In addition to photojournalism, his work has been produced commercially for homebuilders, hotels, travel guides, websites. Sheldon also works in portrait and wedding photography. Sheldon currently serves as Corban’s writer, photographer and videographer, but considers himself the university’s historian.

To register for this workshop please email jhopkins@corban.edu

Workshop limit:  20

Friday, February 10

A Path into the Visual Arts

Andrew Dickson
10 a.m. during Chapel
Psalm Center

Visual Dynamics in Painting - Lecture/Image Presentation

Andrew Dickson
4 p.m.
Emitte Center

Workshop Description:  Topics such as composition and content and aesthetic treatments of subject matter will be discussed thorough an image presentation of historic and contemporary works of art.

No registration required.

Celtic Pilgrimage (tickets required)

John Doan
8 p.m.
Psalm Center

Tickets available in the Bookstore and at the door. 
Corban Students, Faculty and Staff - Free
Non-Corban Community - $10
Non-Corban Students and 60+ - $7

Bio: The concert will feature music from John’s award winning recording “Eire—Isle of the Saints” (Winner of “Best Celtic Album of the Year”) and Wayfarer (also nominated for the same title). John’s playing of the 20-string harp guitar takes audiences on a Celtic pilgrimage to the sites made famous by St. Patrick and others during the Golden Age of Ireland.  John Doan traveled to the British Isles where he made these musical sketches that he expresses through his harp guitar. He has starred in two-much loved television specials produced by Oregon Public Broadcasting: A Christmas to Remember with John Doan (seen on PBS) and A Victorian Christmas with John Doan, which was nominated for an Emmy. John is an Associate Professor of Music at Willamette University in Salem, Oregon.