Visions and Voices: The Arts and Humanities Initiative

Get Your Hands Dirty with the Arts!
Saturday, January 30 University Park Campus Learn how to make animated digital collages, write a play, swing dance, design skyscrapers from paper, create ceramic musical instruments, draw a portrait, play guitar or play the drums! These are just a few of the exciting activities that will be offered when USC’s world-class arts schools present workshops in art, architecture, cinematic arts, interactive media, theatre, music and dance. Get your hands dirty and experience the creativity and thrill of making art with USC’s distinguished faculty. Admission is free. You must be at least 18 years of age OR a registered USC student to participate (valid ID required). To RSVP, click on the individual workshop links below beginning Monday, January 11, at 9 a.m. Please note that you may not sign up or be on the waitlist for more than one workshop scheduled at the same time.
For a map of workshop locations, please click here.

9:30 a.m. to 11:30 a.m.
Shoebox Gallery Verle Annis Gallery, Harris Hall Instructor: Victoria Behner Art=fun . . . architecture=fun . . . art+architecture=REALLY FUN! This workshop will help you understand how designers think about light, scale, contrast, hierarchy and color when designing a context for experiencing art and objects. Using a shoebox as a gallery space, participants will learn about art exhibition design, human perception and how to create a more meaningful and aesthetically controlled environment. USC STUDENTS, FACULTY AND STAFF: MAKE A RESERVATION GENERAL PUBLIC: MAKE A RESERVATION

9:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m.
Altered Plates The Galen Ceramics Studio, Watt Hall 107 Instructor: Ryan Logan Each student will create a unique piece of art by cutting and arranging decals onto a glazed plate. The USC Roski School of Fine Arts Ceramics Area will provide all materials. Students will sort through a variety of interesting images and combine them onto a plate’s surface to create a scene or abstract pattern. The decals will then be applied to the plate and fired in the kiln so that they become permanent. Each participant will be able to keep his or her own creation. USC STUDENTS, FACULTY AND STAFF: MAKE A RESERVATION GENERAL PUBLIC: MAKE A RESERVATION Digital Collage Animation Carson Sound Stage G136 Instructor: Shelly Wattenberger In this workshop, students will create a collage animation using digital image files and Adobe After Effects. Come discover the magic of animation and witness the power of After Effects as you manipulate images digitally. USC STUDENTS, FACULTY AND STAFF: MAKE A RESERVATION GENERAL PUBLIC: MAKE A RESERVATION Ink Drawing Workshop Watt Hall 118 Instructor: Jenny Phelps India Ink is an incredibly versatile medium that allows users to create textured drawings, subtle washes and luminous representations. Using brushes, sticks and pens, participants will learn a wide range of ink drawing techniques and make powerful, bold drawings from dramatic still life set-ups. USC STUDENTS, FACULTY AND STAFF: MAKE A RESERVATION GENERAL PUBLIC: MAKE A RESERVATION Interactive Video Design School of Cinematic Arts 255 Instructor: Steve Anderson New forms of storytelling, both fictional and documentary, are appearing all around us, including interactive narratives that allow users to choose their own paths through the story. In this workshop, participants will use an easy-to-learn tool called the Korsakow System to create an interactive story or documentary video. USC STUDENTS, FACULTY AND STAFF: MAKE A RESERVATION GENERAL PUBLIC: MAKE A RESERVATION Video Self-Portraiture Taper Hall B-6 Instructor: Matt Williams Video self-portraits are powerful, evocative and have the potential to convey nuances of personality and subjectivity unavailable in any other medium. Come learn about the visual poetics of video and how to apply them to create a compelling self-portrait. USC STUDENTS, FACULTY AND STAFF: MAKE A RESERVATION GENERAL PUBLIC: MAKE A RESERVATION

11:00 a.m. to 12:15 p.m.
Getting to Know the Guitar Music Practice and Instructional Center 137 Instructor: Keegan Anglim If you have always dreamed of playing the guitar, this is the class for you. Learn some basic riffs to impress your friends and find out if you have a knack for playing. No experience necessary, just borrow a guitar and show up! NOTE: Students must bring a guitar to participate. USC STUDENTS, FACULTY AND STAFF: MAKE A RESERVATION GENERAL PUBLIC: MAKE A RESERVATION Play Drums in the Roland Drum Lab Music Practice and Instructional Center 203 Instructor: Peter Erskine Today’s music is defined as much by its rhythm as anything else. And what better way to learn about rhythm than to experience it behind a drumset? The Roland/USC Drum Lab allows for the simultaneous instruction of eight individual students while providing an unlimited variety of drumset sounds and settings by way of the drumkit headsets. This class will introduce drumming techniques and the basic beats to get any student started in learning the drums. USC STUDENTS, FACULTY AND STAFF: MAKE A RESERVATION GENERAL PUBLIC: MAKE A RESERVATION Playing Pop Piano (Despite Years of Lessons) Music Practice and Instructional Center 141 Instructor: Anne Farnsworth You took lessons as a kid, but you still can’t play the pop music you love. This class will help by providing a guide to 12 bar blues and basic pop progressions and an introduction to the elementals of chord voicings and rhythms. USC STUDENTS, FACULTY AND STAFF: MAKE A RESERVATION GENERAL PUBLIC: MAKE A RESERVATION Secrets of Jazz Singing Music Practice and Instructional Center 100 Instructor: Kathleen Grace Have you always dreamed of being a jazz singer? If so, this class is for you. Explore the tunes of the great American songbook and learn how to make a song your own. Participants will also dive into the basics of improvisation that make jazz so much fun. No experience necessary, just a love of singing! USC STUDENTS, FACULTY AND STAFF: MAKE A RESERVATION GENERAL PUBLIC: MAKE A RESERVATION Stomp Physical Education Building 208 Instructor: Joseph Lettery Can’t dance? No worries. Stomping is a combination of foot stomping and choreography with patting, slapping, clapping and playing rhythms on various items ranging from pie plates to hubcaps. USC STUDENTS, FACULTY AND STAFF: MAKE A RESERVATION GENERAL PUBLIC: MAKE A RESERVATION Swing Dancing McClintock 107 Instructor: Jay Fuentes Learn how to swing and sway to the syncopated rhythms of classic jazz music made famous during the Big Band era. USC STUDENTS, FACULTY AND STAFF: MAKE A RESERVATION GENERAL PUBLIC: MAKE A RESERVATION

12:30 p.m. to 1:15 p.m.
LUNCH Queen's Courtyard Open to workshop participants only.

1:30 p.m. to 2:45 p.m.
Getting to Know the Guitar Music Practice and Instructional Center 137 Instructor: Keegan Anglim If you have always dreamed of playing the guitar, this is the class for you. Learn some basic riffs to impress your friends and find out if you have a knack for playing. No experience necessary, just borrow a guitar and show up! NOTE: Students must bring a guitar to participate. USC STUDENTS, FACULTY AND STAFF: MAKE A RESERVATION GENERAL PUBLIC: MAKE A RESERVATION Improvisation and Theatre Games McClintock 106 Instructor: Debra Deliso Do you ever feel like making it up as you go along? Then come play some entertaining improv games! It’s like playwriting on your feet while you costume your characters with your imagination. These exercises will free you physically and emotionally and stimulate creativity and self-expression. Warning: There may be wild laughter during the workshop! USC STUDENTS, FACULTY AND STAFF: MAKE A RESERVATION GENERAL PUBLIC: MAKE A RESERVATION Play Drums in the Roland Drum Lab Music Practice and Instructional Center 203 Instructor: Peter Erskine Today’s music is defined as much by its rhythm as anything else. And what better way to learn about rhythm than to experience it behind a drumset? The Roland/USC Drum Lab allows for the simultaneous instruction of eight individual students while providing an unlimited variety of drumset sounds and settings by way of the drumkit headsets. This class will introduce drumming techniques and the basic beats to get any student started in learning the drums. USC STUDENTS, FACULTY AND STAFF: MAKE A RESERVATION GENERAL PUBLIC: MAKE A RESERVATION Playing Pop Piano (Despite Years of Lessons) Music Practice and Instructional Center 141 Instructor: Anne Farnsworth You took lessons as a kid, but you still can’t play the pop music you love. This class will help by providing a guide to 12 bar blues and basic pop progressions and an introduction to the elementals of chord voicings and rhythms. USC STUDENTS, FACULTY AND STAFF: MAKE A RESERVATION GENERAL PUBLIC: MAKE A RESERVATION Salsa Dancing McClintock 107 Instructor: Jay Fuentes Be the hit at your next party. Salsa is an upbeat Latin dance that’s easy and fun to learn. A mix of Mambo with the exciting and quick turning patterns of the Hustle, this energetic Salsa workshop will teach you the basic movements required to heat up the dance floor. Leave your “can’t-do attitude” at the door and come have some fun! USC STUDENTS, FACULTY AND STAFF: MAKE A RESERVATION GENERAL PUBLIC: MAKE A RESERVATION So You Think You Can Sing! Music Practice and Instructional Center 100 Instructor: Magen Solomon This is the “American Idol” opportunity for those of you who think you can sing! We will provide an accompanist who can read anything you throw at them. We’ll judge those who wish to sing and announce a winner. Several some small ensembles will also sing for you, demonstrating another side of the music business. USC STUDENTS, FACULTY AND STAFF: MAKE A RESERVATION GENERAL PUBLIC: MAKE A RESERVATION

1:30 p.m. to 4:30 p.m.
Ceramic Wind Instruments The Galen Ceramics Studio, Watt Hall 107 Instructor: Karen Koblitz This workshop will provide a brief introduction of the multicultural history of handmade ceramic instruments and the traditional, ritual and avant-garde music they produce. Participants will make and decorate a simple whistle and ocarina using pinched and extruded clay shapes. The instruments will be fired and students will be able to keep their instruments. USC STUDENTS, FACULTY AND STAFF: MAKE A RESERVATION GENERAL PUBLIC: MAKE A RESERVATION Create a TV Show! School of Cinematic Arts 342 Instructor: Pam Douglas Choose a concept, create characters, establish the “world” and plan the pilot for an original television series working in a vibrant writer’s room setting. In this lively workshop, participants will mimic the collaborative process that is at the heart of contemporary television screenwriting. USC STUDENTS, FACULTY AND STAFF: MAKE A RESERVATION GENERAL PUBLIC: MAKE A RESERVATION Design Like You Give a Damn Watt One, Watt Hall Instructor: Jessica Varner Small architecture can make a big difference. Architects work at many scales, including the scale of products. Using recycled building materials, participants will create variations of waterproof bags to hold care packages for the Los Angeles homeless population that will be distributed by the Downtown Mission in Skid Row. Design variation is encouraged, but the overall goal is to create small architecture that can make a big difference. USC STUDENTS, FACULTY AND STAFF: MAKE A RESERVATION GENERAL PUBLIC: MAKE A RESERVATION Interactive Slideshows with VuVox Taper Hall B-4 Instructor: Virginia Kuhn Participants will learn to create and animate mixed media slideshows using VuVox, an open source Web 2.0 tool. Choosing from a wealth of images, video and audio, participants will leave the workshop with their own visually stunning mixed media projects. USC STUDENTS, FACULTY AND STAFF: MAKE A RESERVATION GENERAL PUBLIC: MAKE A RESERVATION Portrait Drawing Watt Hall 118 Instructor: Karen Liebowitz Learn how to use various charcoal-based drawing media and methods of translating onto paper what you see in life. Participants will draw from the model, study the human skull and use viewfinders to understand the picture plane and to translate three dimensions into two. USC STUDENTS, FACULTY AND STAFF: MAKE A RESERVATION GENERAL PUBLIC: MAKE A RESERVATION Vertical Paper Skyscraper Harris Hall 115 Instructor: Goetz Scheirle Can you build a vertical structure out of regular sheets of 8.5 x 11-inch paper? You can if you reshape the sheets by folding, rolling or bending them. Designers have always used simple materials and reshaped or combined them to form tools, artwork, machines and structures. Build a vertical structure from paper, taped or glued together to reach the maximum height without any other supports. USC STUDENTS, FACULTY AND STAFF: MAKE A RESERVATION GENERAL PUBLIC: MAKE A RESERVATION

3 to 4:30 p.m.
Improvisation and Theatre Games McClintock 106 Instructor: Julie Welch Do you ever feel like making it up as you go along? Then come play some entertaining improv games! It’s like playwriting on your feet while you costume your characters with your imagination. These exercises will free you physically and emotionally and stimulate creativity and self-expression. Warning: There may be wild laughter during the workshop! USC STUDENTS, FACULTY AND STAFF: MAKE A RESERVATION GENERAL PUBLIC: MAKE A RESERVATION Playwriting McClintock 109 Instructor: Paula Cizmar Everyone has a story and finding the right way to tell it is one of the joys and challenges of every writer. This workshop is loaded with exercises that will jar some memories, poke around for emotions and allow participants the opportunity to explore the craft of dramatic writing in a safe and fun environment. Bring some paper, a pen, as well as your passion, and find the extraordinary poetry in our everyday lives. USC STUDENTS, FACULTY AND STAFF: MAKE A RESERVATION GENERAL PUBLIC: MAKE A RESERVATION Soft Shoe Physical Education Building 208 Instructor: Joseph Lettery How do you tap dance without tap shoes? You do “soft shoe.” Learn basic tap steps that will help you put together a complete soft shoe routine. This workshop will be fun even if you have two left feet! USC STUDENTS, FACULTY AND STAFF: MAKE A RESERVATION GENERAL PUBLIC: MAKE A RESERVATION

Organized by the USC Arts Schools: the USC Roski School of Fine Arts, USC School of Architecture, USC School of Cinematic Arts, USC School of Theatre and USC Thornton School of Music.
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