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DIVA Summer Classes. Summer is a great time for exploring your artistic interest and the DIVA Center is offering a number of exciting courses to help you get the creative energy flowing. This summer you'll find classes in photography, painting, illustration, drawing, and book making.      A listing of Center classes is available below or download the complete DIVA Center Course Schedule (PDF). Online registration makes taking a class at DIVA easy.     So, come downtown and enjoy discovering the artist in you. DIVA is located in the heart of Eugene's Cultural district at 110 W. Broadway. On street parking available in front of the Center or in near by City Parking Garages. DIVA - Where Art Is Happening!

Eugene NoiseFest brings unexpected sounds to DIVA Center. "Car horns and alarms, ringing cellphones, barking dogs, music blaring from car windows: Noise permeates our urban lives." writes Brett Campbell in the latest issue of the Eugene Weekly. Which raises the question,"Why would you pay money — not much money, to be sure, but still — to hear ... more noise?" To find out the answer come downtown Eugene this weekend June 16-18, when DIVA will host the Second Annual Eugene NoiseFest. Campbell notes, "Noise music has found a Eugene home at DIVA over the past year or so, and this month's festival will include more than a dozen artists from Los Angeles, Vancouver and points betwixt (including Eugene's Warning Broken Machine and more), as well as video art." The Eugene NoiseFest is a DIVA Center Media Arts event bringing the cutting edge in visual arts and sound to the Cultural District downtown. Read Full Article.

Keep DIVA Strong. We’ve mailed our Spring fundraiser requests -- and if we have your snail mail address you should have received it by now.  Help us continue to provide the quantity and quality of art experience you’ve come to enjoy at DIVA.  Please give from your heart to keep art in the heart of Eugene! Give generously. You can donate online by sending payments through PayPal to .

Become A DIVA Member. The DIVA Board has revised the Center's membership categories. Consider becoming a participant in the growth and development of the visual and media arts in our city. The membership categories are:

Artist Member - $60 Family - $120 Student - $30 Supporter - $75 to $99 Sustainer - $100 - $249 Patron - $250 - $499 Benefactor - $500 - $999 Medici - $1000 or more Business Sponsor - $1000 or more

Maude Kerns Young Adult Art Camps at DIVA. Three fun-filled classes for youth ages 13-19 will be held at DIVA this summer. Registration for these sessions is done through Maude Kerns Art Center . See the Maude Kerns class schedule for more information. The classes being offered include: Drawing FUNdamentals, Horses! Horses! Horses!, and Comic Book Camp.

Creative Conversation meeting with City Cultural Policy Review consultant. Join a first meeting with the consultant chosen for the City's Cultural Policy Review process on 15 June at 1:15 PM. This event is hosted the by Lane Arts Council. Previously participation in a Creative Conversation session is not a prerequisite. The meeting will be held in the Sloat Conference Room, Atrium Building, Ground Floor, 99 West 10th (at Olive) across from the Eugene LTD Station.

DIVA Participates in City Sponsored People Powered Festival. The City of Eugene is celebrating July-in-Motion and DIVA is joining the festivities. The month-long emphasis on alternative transportation concludes with a People Powered Festival on July 27th. Meanwhile DIVA is presenting a Bike Film Festival on July 15th-16th featuring Portland's "Filmed By Bike 2006" and the film "16,000 feet on a Friday" by Lynette Chiang.    "Filmed By Bike 2006" is a rescreening of the recent Portland festival that includes 20 short films by international filmmakers. These are fun, informative, and thought provoking films focusing on bike themes ranging from NYC women messengers to an outlaw street race across Los Angeles.     In October, 2004, author and bicycle traveler Galfromdownunder (Lynette Chiang) biked the World's Highest Paved Road in Peru on a 500-mile, 12-day expedition following the barren hills of Lima over the 16,000 foot Ticlo mountain pass, descending into spectacular terraced valleys to reach Satipo, a remote, inland jungle town. Her film "16,000 feet on a Friday" will have a special screening during DIVA's Bike Fest.

LCC Student Art and Media Exhibits. This year's evening of student media work is scheduled on Thursday, June 15, on the LCC Main campus in Forum room 111 from 6:00-8:00 p.m.     The show will feature student projects in interactive multimedia, photography, drawing, illustration, digital arts, video and audio production. Refreshments will be served. More Information: .    As of Summer 2003, the Multimedia Design program has been offered by the Art Department at Lane Community College. This program offers an outstanding faculty, labs prepared with advanced equipment and software, a full video production studio, photographic film developing and printing facilities, a professional-style recording studio, a lavishly equipped MIDI lab, and more.    The Multimedia Design program at Lane brings together the concepts of design and learned technological skills and translates them to the real world experience of hands-on production classes and Cooperative Education opportunities. To see what Multimedia Arts students at Lane have created, check out the Student Gallery. Source: LLC Multimedia Design Web Site.

Teaching Opportunities at Emerald Art Center. The Emerald Art Center's new children's art Program, TEACH Arts, is seeking experienced, creative, energetic and dynamic art instructors. Beginning this fall, we will be offering classes for five age groups 2-3, 4-5, 6-7, 8-9 and 10-12. Please email to receive application materials. Deadline: 31 July.      The Center is also seeking qualified art instructors for adult classes and is now scheduling for the Fall 2006 through Summer 2007. Please email to receive application materials. Deadline: 31 July.

Jordan Schnitzer Museum Exhibits Roy Lichtenstein: Prints 1956-97. Roy Lichtenstein’s long career covered a wide range of subject matter and style, all represented in his commitment to printmaking. For more than four decades, he explored every printmaking medium, producing more than 300 print editions. This exhibition of 77 lithographs, screen prints, etchings, woodblocks, and mixed-media prints offers an accessible and spirited survey of his work. A companion exhibition on the art of Comics will be showing in the museum’s Focus Gallery that illustrates Lichtenstein’s thorough knowledge of the comic book. The exhibit runs June 15 – August 27, 2006.

THIS WEEK AT DIVA GALLERY EXHIBITS

MEDIA ARTS: Screenings and Performances

June 16-17-18, Eugene Noisefest 2006. More than just a "noise" event. This special 3-day event includes many music fringe genres and sub-genres; drawing artists from as far as LA and BC. Also exciting video art will be featured every night. See the Media Arts Calendar for full lists of visiting artists or click on the Eugene Noise Fest graphic to access the event's poster. ALSO IN JUNE! June 23, CARTUNE XPREZ - A multimedia performance art collective. Click For Details Time: 8:30 PM Admission: $5.00 General - $3.00 Student with School I.D. June 28 Emily Hay & Marcos Fernandes Summer 2006 West Coast Tour. Click For Details Time: 8:00 PM General Admission: $5.00. Student with School I.D. Card: $3.00.

proscenia.net/openlens/ Details about entering the 2007 OpenLens Video Festival are online

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WEB SITE ART EXPLORATIONS

Feeding Desire: Design and the Tools of the Table, 1. To the millions of individuals with harried lifestyles, the artistic flourish or design of a fork or knife may escape notice. However, the Cooper-Hewitt Design Museum in New York is intimately concerned with such matters, and they have created this delightful online exhibit that explores the design of various table tools and accessories from 1500 to 2005. As its focal point, the website is primarily concerned with the “Big Three” of the table: the fork, the knife, and the spoon. Visitors can browse through the interactive timeline offered here that traces through each utensil’s respective evolution, as well as read three short “biographies” of each. Along the way, visitors are treated to images of a ponderous spoon from 17th century Germany and a dagger-like knife from 16th century France. The site also contains a number of specialized thematic offerings, such as short essays and images that address the ergonomics of the table, flatware for children, and the naturalism movement in tableware design. Visit Site. Source: Scout Report.

The DIVA Center is please to offer an array of courses this summer taught by some of the best artists in their respective fields of photography, painting, illustration, and book arts. Come and enjoy a summer class with our outstanding artist-instructors. PHOTOGRAPHY: Lorin Edmonds was trained as a photojournalist at the U of O and holds a degree from Brooks Institute of Photography.  He has been a commercial and wedding photographer for most of his life.  He has also worked in San Francisco in the advertising world, as well as having his work shown in galleries across three states.     Edmonds has taught at the University of California, and as a guest lecturer at the San Francisco College of Fine Arts, and for ASMP in San Francisco, as well as for the Emerald Photographic Society. He is also a frequent contributor to Nikonians on the net.  His training includes many manufacturers schools open only to chosen students. Sheila Hart is a talented artist trained at a well-known Seattle school of art.  She has worked as a graphic artist and designer at a local TV station for years. She applied her artist bent to wedding photography for the last 2 years with Edmonds, strengthening their combined skills. She has exhibited locally and international in Costa Rico, She was EPS runner up for photographer of the year. PAINTING, DRAWING, and ILLUSTRATION: John Holdway trained at the Maryland Institute College of Art and currently exhibits his still life paintings at Opus6ix Gallery in Eugene and at Bell Peria Gallery in Portland. Web Site. Monique Janssen-Belitz is currently an art instructor at LCC. She has taught landscape painting classes at MKAC for many years, as well as outdoor painting and sketching classes at the Aspen Art Museum in Aspen,Colorado. She regularly shows her work in Oregon, as well as in her home country Germany. Rich Klopfer, a locally based artist, has exhibited his painting and sculpture in solo shows across the U.S.  His work has been featured in quARTerly and on exhibit at Gunnar Nordstrom Fine Arts in Kirkland WA. Craig Lasha holds a B.F.A. from the San Francisco Art Academy College, and is a past participant of the California Arts Council, (three years).  He is a cofounder and Director of the Reality Arts Workshop (California), and the Lasha Art Gallery/Studio (Toledo, OR).  Lasha is also a past and present instructor and contributor to DIVA, Maude Kerns Art Center, The Oasis Program, The Emerald Art Center, The New Zone Arts Cooperative, and a 4j charter school. Susan Lehman is a mixed media artist, living and working in Bandon, OR.  Her artwork has been exhibited extensively in galleries and art centers in Northern California and Southern Oregon.  Susan’s formal art training was at the California College of Arts and Crafts in the San Francisco Bay Area. Post-graduate work was at the University of the Pacific.  She served as a committee member for the Sacramento Metropolitan Arts Commission for three years and as an active board member for the non-profit Center for Contemporary Art, Sacramento for five years. Susan has taught collage for adults and teens at the Bandon Art Supply and has a workshop scheduled at the Coos Art Museum in August 2006. BOOK ARTS: Andrew Huot has been binding books and making artists books since 1990. In addition to working in book repair and restoration he has taught workshops and classes throughout the Northwest for organizations such as the Independent Publishing Resource Center in Portland, Portland State University, and the University of Oregon Craft Center. Andrew is the former Chair, and is a current board member, of the Northwest chapter of the Guild of Bookworkers.

PHOTOGRAPHY CLASSES

Learn to use your digital camera. Lorin Edmunds, Instructor. Thursdays, June 29 - August 3 (6 weeks) Time: 7:00pm - 9:00pm Cost: $110. Registration deadline June 23rd      Want to know how to make the most out of your digital camera? In this class you will learn how to improve your images and understanding of digital photography. We will discuss megapixels, downloading, resolution, optical and real zoom, contrast control and basic editing. Environmental Photography with Models. Lorin Edmonds, Instructor Wednesdays, July 5- Aug 2 (6 weeks) Time: 6:00pm-8:00pm Cost $100 + $5-10 model fee per session, depending on class size. Registration deadline: June 30.      In this class you will learn techniques for photographing people in a natural or man-made environment -downtown Eugene or Alton Baker Park, for example. The class will meet at DIVA and then go on location and take part in a photo shoot. How to photograph a wedding. Lorin Edmonds Instructor/ Susan Lehman Assistant Sunday, July 9, and July 16 Time: 12:00pm-4:00pm Cost: $150. Registration deadline: July 12.     In this two session class you will learn how to photograph and control a wedding photography job. Lorin Edmonds has photographed and interviewed over 50 brides and grooms in Eugene, and photographed over 200 in two states. Download the DIVA Center Course Schedule (PDF) for full details and registration.

PAINTING AND DRAWING

Mixed Media Collage, Susan Lehman, Instructor. Thursday, June 29. Time: 1:00 - 5:00pm Cost: $40 + $5 materials fee. Registration deadline: June 23    An exciting exploration, mixed media collage incorporates bits and pieces of printed matter, handmade papers, and found objects, with layers of paint and texture, to create a diversity personal visual statement. All materials provided by the instructor. Landscape Painting in oil or acrylics. Monique Janssen-Belitz, Instructor. Tuesdays June 27 - August 8, (8 weeks) Time: Noon-3pm. Cost: $120 Registration deadline: June 23      This landscape painting class will focus on strong composition and layered painting techniques with lots of individual attention. Students are encouraged to bring sketches, or photos, to class, which will then be transformed into strong compositions. The instructor will discuss with each student how to best start the layering process and the sequencing of colors. Students will be expected to work on several pieces at a time (so layers can dry in between). Regular class critiques will be part of the instruction. The class will cater to beginning and advanced students, so there are no prerequisites. Paint an Expressionist landscape - Outdoors! Rich Klopfer, Instructor Saturday July 15, Time: 9:30am - 4:00pm Cost $30 + $3 materials fee. Registration deadline: July 8     Students will meet at DIVA and then head out to a scenic location. We will draw first, and then begin to paint. Learn to simplify and stylize landscape forms and electrify the surface with color and passion! Plein Air Workshop. Craig Lasha, Instructor Wednesdays, June 28, July 26, and August 23, Time: 10:00am – 2:00pm, 6/28 & 7/26; 10:00am-6:00pm, 8/23. Cost: $80 for all 3 sessions; or $25 for 6/28 or 7/26 & $50 for 8/23.      Prerequisite: A passion to paint or draw and a willingness to have fun. Registration deadline: June 21. Registration deadline: June 21st Come together with other artists and instructor Craig Lasha to learn the ins and outs of outdoor painting and drawing here in Lane County. The Delta Ponds, 5th. St Market, Hendrix Park, and Mt Pisgah, are just some of the choices for the first two sessions. Lasha will critique your work on a group level, and work with you one-on-one, during the four-hour session. Drop-in Figure Drawing. John Holdway, Instructor. Wednesdays, ongoing. Time: 6:00 - 9:00 pm. Cost: $10.00 per session, 10 % discount for purchasing block of 5 or 10 sessions. Working from models, this class will help the figure drawer learn techniques to improve. Instructor John Holdway will be on had to assist and coach. Download the DIVA Center Course Schedule (PDF) for full details and registration.

BOOK ARTS

Introduction to Bookbinding. Andrew Huot, Instructor Wednesday, July 19. Time: 6:30 - 9:30 pm Cost: $30. + $5. materials fee. Registration deadline: July 14    Never made a book before but always wanted to try? This one-day workshop will teach you the skills and techniques to start making your own books and pamphlets. We will make six different book structures that you can use for gifts, small notebooks, journals, or art projects. No experience is necessary, an all are encouraged to join in. Long Stitch Book. Andrew Huot, Instructor Wednesday, August 9. Time 6:30 - 9:30 pm Cost: $30 + $10. materials fee. Registration deadline: August 4    In this workshop we will construct a book using the long stitch bookbinding structure with multiple sections to allow more pages. Based on 16the Century models, this method has rows of sewing on the spine that serve as a decorative elements. Prerequisite: Intro to Bookbinding class or some bookbinding experience. Book Boxes and Enclosures. Andrew Huot, Instructor Saturday & Sunday, August 19 & 20. Time 9:00 am - 4:00 pm Cost: $50 + $20 materials fee Registration deadlines: August 11    Looking for a way to protect a fragile book or store a collection of small items? Conservation boxes and enclosures are the best ways to protect and house our collections and fragile objects. In this class, we will construct a number of boxes, slipcases, and enclosures to protect and display treasured items. Prerequisite: Intro to Bookbinding class or some bookbinding experience. Download the DIVA Center Course Schedule (PDF) for full details and registration.

DIVA - Where Art Is Happening!

OTHER CLASSES OF INTEREST

UO Summer Film Study Courses. If you love the art of film you may want to learn more by taking a summer course at the University of Oregon. Many departments are offering film courses related to a specific areas of interest such as ethnic studies, history, language, and music. There is a wide range of classes from which to select. Pick up a Summer Catalog and Schedule at the UO Bookstore. ES 399 Native Americans and Film (4) June 26–July 21. Examines representations of Native Americans in the cinema, on television, and in popular culture as they evolve over time HIST 399 The American West in Film (4) June 26–July 21. Considers the American West as depicted in film over the course of the 20th century, placing several western films in historical context and analyzing thematic changes and continuities. Ostler JPN 199 Tokyo Cyberpunk (4) June 19–23. Explores the urban dreams and nightmares that constitute cyberpunk’s posthumanist vision of the city through the lens of contemporary Japanese anime and film. Brown MUS 380 Film: Drama, Photography, Music (4) July 24–August 18. Understanding the ways drama, photography, and music work together to form the whole; developing an appreciation of art versus entertainment. MUS 381 Art Film (4) July 24–August 18. Study of the ways music contributes to the whole in a selection of art films from various periods, traditions, and countries. Prereq: MUS 380. Trombley. PS 399 Film and Politics (4) July 24–August 18. Examines the role of film in shaping the modern American political culture, including its treatment of the development of civil society, issues of law and order, class and race, and international relations and war. R. Smith. RUSS 350 Russian Cinema (4) June 26–July 21. Introduction to major Russian and Soviet filmmakers and their works. O. Kripkov SCAN 315 Cinematic Traditions in Scandinavia (4) June 26–July 21. Examines the early history and development of the Scandinavian cinematic culture, analyzing the work of individual directors and observing key stylistic elements through the decades. Conducted in English; films subtitled.

OPPORTUNITIES (New and Continued Listings)

Deadline: June 30 - Call Artists. Jewelry and art work will be featured in this years Food for Lane County’s Auction/Fundraising Dinner in September will feature jewelry in the silent auction. Deadline for submissions: June 30, 2006. An option in lieu of full donation of art is a split 40% to FOOD for Lane County, 60% to the artist. Of course your donation of showcase jewelry would be tremendously appreciated as well. Your work will be featured at our invitation-only fundraising dinner/live auction in September. This is the largest fund raising event in Eugene. Your submissions may be taken either to FOOD for Lane County, 770 Bailey Hill Rd., Eugene. Or please contact Susan Klein at 513.5314 for a pickup of your piece or pieces. Please include your name and suggested prices for your jewelry. Questions? Call Terry Kirby at , email: for details. Or e-mail

Deadline: June 30 - Film Submissions. The Portland International Short Short Film Festival is currently seeking submissions for its 2006 festival. Now in its fifth year, PISS Fest! showcases films from around the globe that run the gamut of themes and styles—from the dark and avant-garde to the hilariously absurd—with the only common thread among them being running time: ten minutes or less.The deadline for entry is June 30, 2006, late entry deadline is July 14, 2006. Entry form and more details can be found at http://zonkerfilms.com.

Deadline: July 1 - Annual Artists' guidebook sees applications. Oregon Crafted, a nonprofit organization promoting cultural tourism, has issued a call to artists wishing to be included in the second edition of the group's annual guidebook. Artists should contact Oregon crafted at or to request an application packet.

Deadline: July 14- Call for Submissions. The Portland International Short Short Film Festival is currently seeking submissions for its 2006 festival. Now in its fifth year, PISS Fest! showcases films from around the globe that run the gamut of themes and styles—from the dark and avant-garde to the hilariously absurd—with the only common thread among them being running time: ten minutes or less. The deadline for entry is June 30, 2006, late entry deadline is July 14, 2006. Entry form and more details can be found at http://zonkerfilms.com.

Deadline: July 15 - Call to Artists 2 Exhibit Maud Kerns. Maude Kerns Art Center is proud to announce its 2007 - 2008 Call to Artists. Our center is Eugene's original non-profit community center for the visual arts. The Center has over 50 years of history in Oregon. We are a member-driven organization with over 500 members. The gallery offers 8 juried exhibitions annually, drawn from national and international submissions.

Deadline: July 31 - Call To Artists. Artists are invited to donate artwork to the Eugene Glass School's 7th Annual Art Glass Auction & Benefit, 7 October.  This is the school's largest and most prestigious fundraising event of the year, catering to hundreds of local, national, and international glass artists and collectors.  With the publication of a full-color auction catalog, an artist's work will be seen by over 2,000 artists and collectors. More Information.

Deadline: August 1 - Call For Articles. "Music, Sound, and the Moving Image" will be the first international scholarly journal devoted to the study of the interaction between music and sound with the entirety of moving image media film, television, music video, advertising, computer games, mixed-media installation, digital art, live cinema, et alia. To be published by Liverpool University Press and co-edited by Anahid Kassabian (Liverpool University) and Ian Gardiner (Goldsmiths College), the journal will be truly interdisciplinary, inviting contributions across a range of critical methodologies, to include musicology and music analysis, film studies, popular music studies, cultural theory, aesthetics, semiotics, sociology, marketing, sound studies, and music psychology. It is hoped that the journal also will provide an important focus for the similarly diverse and expanding community of media music scholars.
      The journal will be published twice a year, beginning January 2007, and its first issues will be open, embracing this diversity of topics and approaches. As it progresses it is intended that themed issues, under a guest editor, will alternate with open issues,
perhaps encouraging writers to explore areas under-represented in current literature. The editors welcome contributions offering the broadest interpretation of the journal's title, not only seeking to build upon the existing scholarship on film music and film sound, but also to challenge its theoretical assumptions, and to extend its boundaries to include the full variety of moving image media and traditions. Submissions for the inaugural issue should be e-mailed, by 1 August 2006, as Microsoft Word documents to: Enquiries or requests for style guidelines should also be directed to this address.

Deadline: October 2 - Call for Oregon Bluebook Photographs. The State Archives, which publishes the Oregon Blue Book, is seeking color photos that represent some aspect of the state to grace the cover of the 2 edition. The contest is open to all amateur photographers who are Oregon residents, and photographs must be taken in Oregon. For full details go to the Blue Book web site.

Deadline: October 31 - Call to Artists: Lane Community College is accepting submissions from sculptors to participate in the 2006 Pacific Northwest Outdoor Sculpture Exhibition. Fifteen works will be selected for exhibition to take place throughout the 2007 spring term, showcasing the Eugene Oregon campus. Lane Community College may use this exhibition to select or commission a sculpture for purchase. More Information

Deadline: May, 2007 - Community Arts Grants are available each year for individuals and groups producing arts projects and programs that benefit the City of Eugene and its residents. These grants are made possible with funds from the City of Eugene Room Tax Fund. More Information.

OPPORTUNITIES AT DIVA (New and Continuing Listings)

Drop-In Figure Drawing At DIVA. There are weekly drop-in figure drawing sessions at the DIVA Center. Working from models, these sessions help the individual improve drawing techniques. Instructor John Holdway will be on hand to assist and coach. Warm up exercises will include gesture drawing. The sessions meet on Wednesdays from 6-9 PM. The cost is $10.00 per session. Next session, June 7.

Drop-In Art Skill Shop At DIVA. The Free, drop-in art skill shop for downtown street youth now meets on Tuesday from 4-7:00 PM. DIVA and the Lane Arts Council is pleased to co-sponsor these free activities for street youth in downtown Eugene. Projects include bookmaking, block printing, zinemaking, collage, and more. This skill shop is offered as a collaborative project of DIVA, the Downtown Initiative for the Visual Arts, Lane Arts Council, and Looking Glass Youth and Family Services, with support from Lane County Department of Health and Human Services, Eugene Rotary Club and the City of Eugene. The project partners intend for these skill shops to offer alternative activities and social opportunities for youth.