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Here Is a quick reminder of all we did, tell us what you think! Those that did not attend, be jealous!
Sunday
* Field Trip: Fossil Collecting at Quarry
* Portfolio Sharing
Monday
* Keynote - Rich Slaughter, Director of the Geology Museum at the UW-Madison
* Business Meeting
* Lunch, catered in the HSLC Atrium
* Technique Showcase/ Group Photo
* Small Group Visits to the Ebling Library Historical Vault
* Illustrator's Resource Place
* Exhibit Reception in the HSLC Atrium
* Dinner on your own – Explore/Enjoy Madison!
Tuesday
* Exploring Vector Graphics with Adobe Illustrator - Rick Simonson
* Historical Highlights of Insect Illustration - Joel Floyd
* Snakes Alive! (Presentation) - Tom Kessenich
* Lightwave Art Aid - Mural - John Megahan
* Snakes Alive! (Sketching Opportunity) - Tom Kessenich
* The Restoration of Michelangelo's Last Judgment - John Cody
* Integrating Drawing Into The Biology Curriculum: A Two-Pronged Approach - William Gellman
* The Natural History of Southeast Wisconsin - Rick Bott
* Compositional Tips and Tricks for Illustrators - Louise Bodenheimer
* Lunch
* Science-Art.com: Be Prepared to Say YES! - Britt Griswold
* Basic Typography - Larry Lavendel
Paleo Sessions
* A Newly Discovered Transitional Fossil Sheds Light on the Origin of Our Limbs - Kalliopi Monoyois
* Fleshing-out a new Devonian Fish - Tyler Keillor
* Creating a Children's Book about the Silurian and Devonian - Hannah Bonner
* A Greenland Triassic Landscape Reconstruction, Part II: An Ecological Approach - Marlene Hill
* Paleogene Postcards: Reconstructing the White River Paleoenvironment - Russell J. Hawley
* Reconstructing Llanocetus: an Oligocene Whale from Antarctica - Mary Parrish
* Using CT Data to Restore and Reconstruct Cretaceous Pleurodires - Frank Ippolito
* From Illustrator to Communicator: Enlarging Your Vision - Robert Golder
* Assembly Line Illustration: Art & Life in Corporate America - Larry Lavendal
* Masters of Mineral Illustration - Bruce Paul Gaber & Catherine J. Gaber
* Seeing with our hands - Clara L. Richardson
* Promoting Botanical Art at a Gallery / ASBA - Mary Bauschelt
* Dinner on your own
* GNSI Annual Auction
Wednesday
* A Career in Commercial Illustration - Jean Probert
* Opening & Operating A Gallery - Karin Ketarkus
* Falling Prey to the Lure of Carnivorous Plants - Christine Elder
* Ghost in the Machine: the relationship between the artist and computer - Frank Ipolitto
* Nature Images in Illuminated Manuscripts- Carol Rogalski
* Business Roundtable - Elizabeth Morales, Jean Probert, Paul Mirocha, Consie Powell, Dorothia Rohner
* A book: insects, drawings and letters - Diana Marques
* Drawing on Our Senses - Kristine Kirkeby
* Lunch
* Perspective of Reflections and Shadows - Nancy Halliday
* Lawyers for the Creative Arts - William E. Rattner
* Thirty Years of Wildlife Health - The National Wildlife Health Center
* Siennas to Quinachridones: A Brief History of Pigments - Patricia Savage
* Chocolate in Art - Scott Rawlins
* Olbrich Botanical Garden - Annual Banquet & Awards Ceremony
Workshops
Thursday
* Pen & Ink or Pencil on Scratchboard - Trudy Nicholson
* Sculpting with Polymer Clay - Scott Rawlins
* 3D Techniques and Technologies in Digital Illustration (part1)- Jean Probert, Britt Griswold
* Basic Flash - Larry Lavendel
* Drawing Trees - Dick Rauh
* Photoshop Basics For Traditional Artists - Gail Guth
Friday
* Acrylic Techniques - Rhonda Nass
* The Business of Art - Dolores Santoliquido
* 3D Techniques and Technologies in Digital Illustration (part2) - Jean Probert, Britt Griswold
* Digital Drawing with Adobe Illustrator - Rick Simonson
* Make Your Own Hardcover Sketchbook - Gretchen Halpert
* Illumination - Carol Jean Rogalski
Saturday
* Mix and Match: How to Find and Mix a Color - Patricia Savage
Field Trips
Thursday
* Horicon Marsh Canoe Trip
* Devil's Lake Geology Tour
* Military Ridge Butterfly Tour
* Capitol Brewery Tour
Friday
* International Crane Foundation, Baraboo, WI
* Baraboo Hills with Rick Bott
* UW Museums Tour
Saturday
* Baraboo Hills with Rick Bott |