Cathryn R Leyland MFA
Workshops
WORKSHOPS
If you would like a workshop delivered at your community center or school, please describe what you need below, and I will respond via email. Workshop time includes planning, communication and promotion, materials and transportation.
Topic ideas:
I delivered over 150 courses on dozens of subjects at Rochester Institute of Technology, Roberts Wesleyan College, and American University in Kosovo.
Teaching began with art courses to fine art evening students, where students included professional artists and faculty-- some hoping to apply computer design to their existing work.
Computer graphics courses were needed as personal computers took off, so I developed courses and programs to meet changes. This continued into Web design with Flash and HTML, InDesign layout and typography, vector and raster design and illustration.
Team-teaching included an experimental program for provisionally-accepted freshmen.
I advised students and determined transfer credit for several programs at RIT, and served on the screening committee for a multidisciplinary degree program in its infancy. We ran one of the early distance learning programs.
During 2007-10, I taught overseas at the American University in Kosovo (RIT), helping expand a new concentration in media and visual communications.
So... .I don't sound like much fun, do I.
If you would like a workshop delivered at your community center or school, please describe what you need below, and I will respond via email. Workshop time includes planning, communication and promotion, materials and transportation.
Topic ideas:
- Fine Art and Illustration: Various media
- Surface Design for Fabric: Digital or painted, business aspects, layering patterns
- Photoshop: Digital painting, Retouching, tiled patterns, colorizing Comics
- Market Communications: Branding and style guides, social media,
- Print-on-Demand Publishing: Format, selecting distribution channels, editing and layout
- Copyright and ethics in art field, trend forecasts
- Instructional design and training materials
I delivered over 150 courses on dozens of subjects at Rochester Institute of Technology, Roberts Wesleyan College, and American University in Kosovo.
Teaching began with art courses to fine art evening students, where students included professional artists and faculty-- some hoping to apply computer design to their existing work.
Computer graphics courses were needed as personal computers took off, so I developed courses and programs to meet changes. This continued into Web design with Flash and HTML, InDesign layout and typography, vector and raster design and illustration.
Team-teaching included an experimental program for provisionally-accepted freshmen.
I advised students and determined transfer credit for several programs at RIT, and served on the screening committee for a multidisciplinary degree program in its infancy. We ran one of the early distance learning programs.
During 2007-10, I taught overseas at the American University in Kosovo (RIT), helping expand a new concentration in media and visual communications.
So... .I don't sound like much fun, do I.
Interested in Workshops?
Credit Courses Taught:
See list of courses taught, pdf download
- PhotoImaging I, II with graduate sections (developed online materials)
- Advanced Photoshop (developed online materials)
- Design for Print and Web (developed)
- Designing Web Graphics - (developed, online with graduate)
- Vector Illustration (developed online materials)
- Layout Design - InDesign (developed, with online materials)
- Eff Web Design I, II (Flash, HTML3, Dreamweaver.. developed online materials)
- Basic Computer Graphics (developed)
- Computer Graphics Portfolio (developed)
- Designing with CorelDraw (developed)
- University Program Student Seminar I, II (team-developed- study skills, learning theory, MBTI, with mentoring)
- Watercolor
- Illustration
- Basic Drawing & Media I-III
- Fine Arts
- Design
- Comic Book Illustration
- Book Illustration
- Computer Graphics
- Watercolor
- Yearbook Design
- Web Design
- Digital and Illustration Portfolio Preparation
I also have experience in writing and editing, curriculum design, training manual design, marketing communications, high-fire ceramics, low-fire metalcraft, silver casting, experimental sculpture.