Art & Photography

Flame On! | Two Smart Dogs

Make sparks fly at the Women’s Welding Workshop at The Crucible in Oakland, where women teach women how to create welded sculpture by arc welding and oxyacetylene torch welding. Your instructor Carla provides all your equipment and nurtures female creativity in this traditionally male medium.
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Dean’s List | Christian Chensvold

Photo by Julia Dean student Will Cole.

There’s an artist inside you, you just don’t know it.

It may require a natural gift to become a Mozart or Rembrandt, but photography is one art form that anybody can do with a little training. “I tell my beginning students that one of the many reasons I love photography is that you don’t have to be born with an innate talent,” says Julia Dean. “It can become a learned skill. It took me seven years to create my first good photo.” More

Casting Call | Two Smart Dogs

Preserve your unique shape by casting it at The Compleat Sculptor. Students will first mold and cast their hands, then, while their hands set, have molds made of their face or torso. Later, observe a body-safe silicon head mold demonstration, also knows as the Extreme Facial.

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Life in Black & White | Rose Ors

Photo by Julia Dean

I love photography, especially black & white. I find black & white photography intimate and beautiful.

1. Book - Women in the Mirror: 1945-2004 by Anne Hollander.
Photos of women through the eyes of Richard Avedon, one of the great photographers.

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Hunk of Art | Two Smart Dogs

Keeping alive the spirit of Finnish erotic artist Touko Laaksonen (a.k.a. Tom of Finland), the Tom of Finland Foundation offers monthly nude figure drawing and painting classes. Tom would have appreciated the live models who pose for these “friendly and positive” sessions.

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