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SCHEDULE OF EVENTS IS SUBJECT TO CHANGE! As you know, things usually change a little bit before the conference.

Evening Events

Field Trips

Sunday, July 30, 2006
9am-5pm Board Meeting, Gordon Commons, MSC Conference Room
8am-5pm Registration
1-4pm Field Trip: Fossil Collecting at Quarry, Departs from Witte Hall PROMPTLY at 1pm
7-9pm Portfolio Sharing, Gordon Commons B5
   
Monday, July 31, 2006

8–8:45 am

Witte Hall Lobby: A bus will pick up GNSI members at Witte Hall and drop them off at the Health Sciences Learning Center (HSLC) at 750 Highland Ave. The bus will pick people up every 15 minutes, last bus at 8:45 am.
The Ebling Library is inside the HSLC, and comprises the 2nd and 3rd floors. Auditorium 1335 is on the 1st floor of the HSLC.

9:15-9:30 am Welcome in Ebling Library, Auditorium 1335
9:30-10:30am Keynote - Rich Slaughter, Director of the Geology Museum at the University of Wisconsin, Madison
10:45am -noon Business Meeting
Noon-12:50pm

Lunch, catered in the HSLC Atrium

1-3:50pm

Technique Showcase

1-3:50pm
    Small Group Visits to the Ebling Library Historical Vault/Exhibit in Historical Reading Room - 3rd floor of Ebling Library
1-3:50pm

Illustrator’s Resource Place

4-6pm Exhibit Reception in the HSLC Atrium
5:30 – 6:15 pm

A bus will pick up GNSI members outside the HSLC and drop them off at Witte Hall. The bus will pick people up every 15 minutes, last bus at 6:15 pm. Dinner on your own and a night on the town!

   
Tuesday, August 1, 2006
NOTE: AMI CEUs for all presentations & workshops are noted in blue.
9-9:50am

Exploring Vector Graphics with Adobe Illustrator - Rick Simonson

9-9:50am

Historical Highlights of Insect Illustration - Joel Floyd

9-9:50am

Snakes Alive! (Presentation) - Tom Kessenich

10-10:50am
Lightwave Art Aid - Mural - John Megahan
0.1 Art
10-10:50am Snakes Alive! (Sketching Opportunity) - Tom Kessenich
10-10:50am The Restoration of Michelangelo’s Last Judgment - John Cody
0.1 Art
11am-11:50pm Integrating Drawing Into The Biology Curriculum: A Two-Pronged Approach - William Gellman
11am-11:50pm

The Natural History of Southeast Wisconsin - Rick Bott

11am-11:50pm Compositional Tips and Tricks for Illustrators - Keeping an Eye on the "Big Picture" - Louise Bodenheimer
Noon Lunch
1-1:50pm Science-Art.com: Be Prepared to Say YES! - Britt Griswold
0.1 Business
1-1:50 pm Basic Typography - Larry Lavendel
0.1 Art
1-1:50pm

Paleo Sessions, (ongoing until 4:30 pm)
0.35 Art
A Newly Discovered Transitional Fossil Sheds Light on the Origin of Our Limbs - Kalliopi Monoyois

Fleshing-out a new Devonian Fish - Tyler Keillor

2:00-2:50pm

From Illustrator to Communicator: Enlarging Your Vision - Robert Golder
0.1 Business

 

2:00-2:50pm

Paleo Sessions (ongoing until 4:30 pm)
Creating a Children's Book about the Silurian and Devonian - Hannah Bonner

A Greenland Triassic Landscape Reconstruction, Part II:  An Ecological Approach - Marlene Hill Donnelly

2:00-2:50pm Assembly Line Illustration: Art & Life in Corporate America - Larry Lavendal
0.1 Business
3:00-3:50pm Extraordinary Walls - Holly Butlett
0.1 Art
3:00-3:50pm

Paleo Sessions (ongoing until 4:30 pm)
Paleogene Postcards: the Art and Science of Reconstructing the White River Paleoenvironment - Russell J. Hawley

Reconstructing Llanocetus: an Oligocene Whale from Antarctica - Mary Parrish

3:00-3:50pm Masters of Mineral Illustration - Bruce Paul Gaber & Catherine J. Gaber
0.1 Art
4:00-4:50pm

'Our Living Bay': Mural for Save the Bay, Narragansett Bay - Amy Bartlett Wright

4:00-4:30pm

Paleo Sessions (ongoing until 4:30 pm)
Using CT Data to Restore and Reconstruct Cretaceous Pleurodires - Frank Ippolito

4:00-4:50pm Botanical Art / ASBA - Mary Bauschelt

Dinner on your own! Come back in time for the…

7-10pm

GNSI Annual Auction! Gordon Commons B5
   
Wednesday, August 2, 2006
9-9:50am A Career in Commercial Illustration - Jean Probert
0.1 Business
9-9:50am Opening & Operating A Gallery - Karin Ketarkus
9-9:50am

Falling Prey to the Lure of Carnivorous Plants - Christine Elder

10-10:50am

Ghost in the Machine: the developing relationship between the artist and computer - Frank Ipolitto

10-10:50am

Nature Images in Illuminated Manuscripts- Carol Rogalski
0.1 Art

10-11:50am

Business Roundtable (ongoing until 11:50 am) - Elizabeth Morales, Amy Bartlett-Wright, Jean Probert, Marjorie Leggitt, and John Norton
0.2 Business

11-11:50am

A book: insects, drawings and letters - Diana Marques
0.1 Art

11-11:50am

Business Roundtable (ongoing until 11:50 am) - Elizabeth Morales, Amy Bartlett-Wright, Jean Probert, and John Norton

11-11:50am

Drawing on Our Senses - Kristine Kirkeby
0.1 Art

Noon

Lunch

1-1:50pm

Seeing with our hands - Clara L. Richardson

1-1:50pm Perspective of Reflections and Shadows - Nancy Halliday
0.1 Art
1-3:50pm Lawyers for the Creative Arts (ongoing until 3:50 pm) - William E. Rattner
0.1 Business
2-2:50pm

The National Wildlife Health Center

2 – 3:50pm

Siennas to Quinachridones: A Brief History of Pigments (ongoing until 3:50 pm) - Patricia Savage
0.1 Art

3-3:50pm

Chocolate in Art - Scott Rawlins
0.1 Art

4:30-9:00pm

Head back to Witte Hall so you can get ready….

4:30 pm, Witte Hall Lobby Area
Buses will take all of us to the Olbrich Botanical Garden for the Annual Banquet & Awards Ceremony! Buses will return to Witte Hall from Olbrich at 9 pm.

   
Thursday, August 3, 2006
8am-4pm

Pen & Ink or Pencil on Scratchboard - Trudy Nicholson
Level:  General
Prerequisites:  None
AMI CEUs: 0.7 Art
Lab Room 1, Weeks Hall for Geological Science

8am-4pm

Sculpting with Polymer Clay - Scott Rawlins
Level:  General
Prerequisites:  None
AMI CEUs: 0.7 Art
Lab Room 3, Weeks Hall for Geological Science

8am-4pm

3D Techniques and Technologies in Digital Illustration (part1)
- Jean Probert, Assistant: Britt Griswold
Level: Beginner 3D, Intermediate Digital
Prerequisites: Some experience with computer graphics applications, especially Illustrator and Photoshop, will be very helpful.
AMI CEUs: 0.7 Art
Biology New Media Center, Genetics/Biotechnology Center

8am-4pm

Basic Flash - Larry Lavendel
Level: Beginner
AMI CEUs: 0.7 Art
Room B109, Computer Science

8am--noon

Drawing Trees - Dick Rauh
- Level: Beginner
Prerequisites: None.
AMI CEUs: 0.35 Art
Lab 2, Weeks Hall for Geological Sciences

1-5pm

Photoshop Basics For Traditional Artists - Gail Guth
- Level: Beginner
Prerequisites: basic computer skills; basic knowledge of Photoshop helpful, but not required.
AMI CEUs: 0.35 Art
Computer Lab, Weeks Hall for Geological Sciences

   
Field Trips
Field trips may leave earlier depending on the amount of time required to reach a destination.

All field trips leave from Witte Hall

8am–5pm Horicon Marsh Canoe Trip
8am–5pm Devil’s Lake Geology Tour
8am–noon

Military Ridge Butterfly Tour

1–5pm

Capitol Brewery Tour

   
Friday, August 4, 2006
8am-4pm

Acrylic Techniques - Rhonda Nass
Level: General
Prerequisites: none
AMI CEUs: 0.7 Art
Lab 3, Weeks Hall for Geological Science

8am-4pm

The Business of Art - Dolores Santoliquido
Level: General
Prerequisites: Bring in a portfolio of artwork and all available current promotional materials for sharing during the workshop.
AMI CEUs: 0.7 Business
Conference Room, Weeks Hall for Geological Science

8am-4pm

3D Techniques and Technologies in Digital Illustration (part2) - Jean Probert, Assistant: Britt Griswold
Level: Beginner 3D, Intermediate Digital
Prerequisites: Some experience with computer graphics applications, especially Illustrator and Photoshop, will be very helpful.
AMI CEUs: 0.7 Art
Biology New Media Center, Genetics/Biotechnology Center

8am-4pm

Digital Drawing with Adobe Illustrator - Rick Simonson
Level:  beginner
Prerequisites:  basic computer skills
AMI CEUs: 0.7 Art
Room B109, Computer Science

8am-noon

Make Your Own Hardcover Sketchbook - Gretchen Halpert
Level: General
Prerequisites: helps to be able to measure, cut straight lines and thread a needle
Lab 2, Weeks Hall for Geological Science

1-5pm

Illumination - Carol Jean Rogalski
Level: General
Prerequisites: none
AMI CEUs: 0.35 Art
Lab 2, Weeks Hall for Geological Science

   
Field Trips
Field trips may leave earlier depending on the amount of time required to reach a destination.
8am-5pm

International Crane Foundation, Baraboo, WI

8am-noon Baraboo Hills with Rick Bott
1-5pm UW Museums Tour
   
Friday, August 4 & Saturday, August 5, 2006
8am-4pm

Mix and Match: How to Find and Mix a Color - Patricia Savage
Level: Beginner
Prerequisites: none
AMI CEUs: 1.4 Art
Lab 1, Weeks Hall for Geological Science

   
Saturday, August 5, 2006
8am-5pm

Field Trip: Baraboo Hills with Rick Bott. Rick’s property borders Nature Conservancy lands and features orchids and caves. Moderate activity; hiking on uneven ground and some climbing. A separate group for less-physical touring may be formed if there is interest.