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Non-Degree Programs
The Brehm Center invites you to join us in this quarter as we explore these exciting art forms. Labs are open to everyone. Register for all labs with the Brehm Center at 626-304-3789 or .
FALL 2008 Labs
Brehm Lab: Worship Planning Resources
Instructor: Ed Wilmington
When: Fridays, 1:30-3:00pm - Nov. 7, 14, 21
Where: Media Lab
Cost: $25 student/staff/alumni, $50 all others (LIMITED ENROLLMENT)
Pollsters are finding that many church attenders are not "connecting" with God in their times of corporate worship. These statistics provide worship planners with a unique opportunity to creatively discover the heart and resources that can work toward helping people find a sense of connecting, and enable a change in these statistics. This three session lab will begin with a prayerful approach to worship, and journey through some of the resources available to meet the needs of creative planning.
This lab is being taught by Ed Willmingtion. Dr. Willmington is the Director of the Fred Bock Institute of Music, an active institute in the Brehm Center. His professional career has included serving as Worship Pastor, Professor of Music at Point Loma University, Editor/Writer at Good Life Publications, and creator of Shepherd's Staff Worship Music®. Ed is the composer/arranger of more than 100 published works, served on the Advisory Board for The Hymnal for Worship and Celebration, and has been the recipient of several ASCAP awards.
Creativity in Clay: Sculpting Lab
Instructor: Christopher Slatoff
When: Thursdays, 3:00-5:00pm, October 23, 30; November 6, 13, 20
Where: TBA
Cost: $30 student/staff/alumni, $60 all others (LIMITED ENROLLMENT)
Experience the act of creation in its purest form. This is an opportunity to study natural forms and to think, shape, and communicate with your hands. This LAB will teach creative and classic approaches to sculpting. During one session, we will visit the Norton Simon Museum to study master sculptures' works up close. The lab projects will include sculpting a natural object, sculpting a portrait from a live model, and creating an individually designed final project with the newly learned skills.
This lab is being taught by Christopher Slatoff. Christopher Slatoff was launched into the art world at an early age; his father was a painter and an art professor. Christopher studied both here and in France, ultimately obtaining his BFA in Sculpture from Cal State Long Beach.
He has had several solo exhibitions, including one at the San Diego Art Institute, and participated in many group shows at galleries, museums and universities in Southern California, Arizona and New York. Christopher's San Diego work also includes working with the Ilan Lael Foundation and exhibiting in the "Sculpture San Diego" exhibitions. He was recently invited to join the California Art Club in Pasadena, and is showing in their annual juried show. Christopher has also completed international sculpture projects in Japan, Holland and the Canary Islands.
Christopher has been very involved in bringing art into the community His public art commissions range from "Sheltering Wings" for the San Diego Port Commission at Shoreline Park in Coronado, to seven life-size commissions for churches in both California and Texas.
In 1986 Christopher had a California Artist in Residence Grant to work with special needs children in the Vista School System. He has worked in his community to establish both expanded in-classroom and after-school art programs. Currently he is serving as a guest artist facilitator in sculpture for children at the Metropolitan State Hospital in Norwalk, a state mental institution
Christopher is the artist behind the bronze sculpture of Jesus being nailed to the cross, located at the center of Fuller's campus.
If you are interested in teaching a LAB, please send a resume, work samples, and a curriculum proposal to Nate Risdon at .