BODECKER FOUNDATION HYBRID & VIRTUAL WORKSHOPS
February
Workshop: JOURNALISM: INTRO TO CREATIVE NONFICTION WITH BRUCE POINSETTE
February 1, 2022 @ 5:00 PMThis writing workshop builds skills for effective storytelling with an emphasis on professional applications. Each session focuses on a different journalistic skill, including interviewing, research, and developing your tone of voice as a writer. At the end of the term, students will have developed and completed a nonfiction article for…
Leader: Bruce Poinsette
Workshop: PHOTOGRAPHY: EXPLORING VISUAL NARRATIVES WITH MIKE VOS
February 7, 2022 @ 5:00 PMIn this dynamic workshop, Portland photographer Mike Vos will work with students to create visual narratives using photography and writing. We’ll begin by learning about photography as a form of creative exploration. Students will use digital or cell phone cameras to create collections of images for arrangement and layout. The…
Leader: Mike Vos
Workshop: ILLUSTRATION: DRAWING AND PAINTING TECHNIQUES WITH JENNA GIBSON
February 8, 2022 @ 5:00 PMIllustration is the art of telling a visual story. In this six-week virtual workshop, we will start with building a drawing practice, then move into expanding our technical skills with pen and ink, watercolors, and rendering with pencil. Once these foundations are established, we will create three illustrations: one based…
Leader: Jenna Gibson
Workshop: SONGWRITING: THE MC WORKSHOP WITH VURSATYL
February 21, 2022 @ 5:00 PMThe MC Workshop was created to support lyric writing, delivery, and performance for Hip Hop music enthusiasts. Students will work on wordplay exercises and techniques to elevate their lyrical style and skills, then collaborate to write and record an original track in Halfling Studio, our state-of-the-art recording facility. With first-hand…
Leader: Vursatyl
Workshop: INDUSTRIAL DESIGN WITH CIA MOONEY
February 28, 2022 @ 5:00 PMIn this hands-on workshop, you are a design adventurer looking 10 years out to the year 2032. To respond to human needs and the realities of climate change, we will create forward-looking product ideas. Today, it’s not about adding more to an already overwhelmed world. We have to make use…
Leader: Cia Mooney
March
Workshop: GAME DESIGN: CREATING EXPERIENCES WITH WILL HINDMARCH
March 1, 2022 @ 5:00 PMIn this virtual workshop we’ll look at how games combine different kinds of skills and media into singular, playable experiences. By talking with working game designers, developers, and artists, we’ll learn not only how games are made today but imagine what can be created in the future. As part of…
Leader: Will Hindmarch