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2008 ESSA Staff

Executive Director
Peggy Kjelgaard, Ph.D.
Eureka Springs

Assistant Director
Patt Carmichael
Eureka Springs

Program Coordinator
Sabina Miller
Holiday Island

2008 Board Members

President - Eleanor Lux
Eureka Springs

Vice President - Ron Morrison
Eureka Springs

Secretary - Mary Springer
Eureka Springs

Treasurer - Bobbie Foster
Eureka Springs

LeRoy Gorrell
Eureka Springs

Dana Jones
Tulsa, Oklahoma

Sandra Lockhart
Rogers

Elise Roenigk
Eureka Springs

Doug Stowe
Eureka Springs

Dick Trammel
Rogers

Larry Wagner
Cassville, Missouri

Jan Wallace
Eureka Springs

Session Two/June 11-15

Mark Blaney
Clay Sculpture

All Levels
Studio
5 Day Class (9am-4pm)
Tuition: $265 (includes lab fee)
Materials: $50

This course will explore classical and post impressionistic methods of direct observation and motor skill response in recording the visual world. The student will learn the relationship between line and form, by means of direct observation of nature and the human figure. Beginning with the eye-to-hand skill of classic drawing methods using outdoor motifs as well as the live model, the student will transfer this approach to clay modeling of the human figure. The class will draw in the morning and sculpt in the afternoon.

Mark has been drawing, painting, and sculpting his entire life. He recently completed commissions for Duke University, Donald W. Reynolds Campus of the Arkansas Sheriff’s Youth Ranch in Alma, Arkansas; and an oil mural installed in the new College of Public Health at the University of Arkansas Medical Sciences.

For more information about Mark's work, click here: Mark Blaney