SoCA ‘Shops is a new initiative designed to provide workshops that focus on new skills, knowledge, career training, or artist talks.
All workshops are open to all students across SoCA.
Undergraduate students in SoCA programs who attend at least 4 SoCA ‘Shops are eligible to get a 3% bonus credit for their final grade in their choice of one qualifying course.You may not qualify for extra credit for SoCA'Shops happening during a course in which you are already registed.
Fall 2024 SoCA 'Shops Schedule
Chris Rabideau - The Art of RENT: Through vision, staging, and innovative technology - COMPLETED
Meet the Maestro - Geoffrey Larson - COMPLETED
Robert Franz - Score study and preparation - COMPLETED
Kat Singer is SoCA’s Artist in Residence from Monday, Oct. 7 to Friday, Oct. 11
Kat Singer (they/them) is a multidisciplinary artist, educator, and mental health professional. Their work spans an ever-expanding range of media, including photography, street art, painting, textile, sculpture, drawing, printmaking, and performance.
ARTIST TALKS
Monday, Oct. 7, 4pm – 5pm, Performance Hall
Be Fruitful and Multiply: The Art of Creating Editions
Reflections on creating multiples for fun and profit.
Tuesday, Oct. 8, 4pm – 5pm, FW107
The Spark of Creation: How Artists Get Ideas
Where do ideas come from? Let’s find out!
Wednesday, Oct. 9, 2:30 – 3:30 pm, FW107
Recollections: Intersection of Art and Memory
Kat Singer will present a range of their works that connect to the theme of memory and share how their relationship to these works has changed over time.
Friday, Oct. 11, “Artist’s Health”, 10:30 – 11:15
Flourishing as an Artist: Nurturing Wellness in Creative Practice
Musings of a mental health service provider on maintaining physical and mental wellness in the face of the occupational hazards of being an artist.
WORKSHOPS
Felting Explorations with SoCA Artist in Residence, Kat Singer
Get a taste of felting, an ancient textile art that involves compacting fibers to make fabric or objects. Explore how this highly tactile medium can be used in artistic settings and beyond.
Tuesday, Oct. 8, 10 am – 11:30 am
2D Needle Felting
Explore “painting” on felt with wool and a barbed needle. Create a colourful, abstract design, portrait, or landscape.
Thursday, Oct. 10, 10 am – 11:30 am
Wet Felting
Create an abstract 2D design using wool, soap, warm water, and a lot of elbow grease.
Thursday, Oct. 10, 3:30 pm – 5:00pm
3D Needle Felting
Learn basic skills for constructing 3D needle felted objects. Make a cute mushroom to learn about how different elements are created and combined.
Thursday, Oct. 10, 5:30 pm – 7 pm
Three-dimensional Needle Felting
Learn basic skills for constructing 3-dimensional needle felted objects. Make a cute mushroom to learn about how different elements are created and combined.
Workshops are free, and all materials and tools are provided.
Spaces are limited to 15 students per workshop.
Workshop Registration: Email Catherine Heard with the title, date, and time of the workshop you wish to attend.
Marco Cian - Music Mastering Workshop with Stock Plugins in Logic Pro
This hands-on workshop is designed to introduce participants to the art of mastering music using only the stock plugins available in Logic Pro. Tailored for producers, engineers, and artists looking to refine their skills, the course covers the key concepts, techniques, and workflows involved in creating professional-quality masters without the need for expensive third-party plugins. Over the course of the workshop, students will learn how to balance, enhance, and finalize their tracks for various listening environments and streaming platforms. Facilitating this session is University of Windsor Music Production instructor Marco Cian; a GRAMMY Voting Member and accomplished music producer with an impressive portfolio that includes musical credits with CBS, CNN, ESPN, Mansuki, the MLB, NBC, Netflix, the NFL, the Olympics, Oprah Winfrey Network, GRAMMY-nominated rapper Twista, and many more!
Friday, October 11, 2024, 2:00pm, Armouries, Room B32 Digital Lab
Carali McCall - Artist Talk
Carali McCall – b. Canada, 1981; living and working in London UK.
An artist whose practice is focused on performance and drawing, yet spans sculpture, video/photography, sound and writing. In exploring the role of the body, McCall is interested in physicality and the thresholds of materials. Artworks have been made by either carving through the landscape while running, drawing a continuous line with graphite on paper, or holding a bit of the landscape (a rock) as an act of endurance as a performance. Through movement and stillness, the work aims to address what it might mean to be human and expand conceptual-based art practices. Awarded MFA at Slade School of Art UCL, PhD at Central Saint Martin’s UAL;
McCall is co-author of the Bloomsbury publication, Performance Drawing: New Practices since 1945; recent exhibitions and projects include ‘Circle Drawing’ and ‘Performing Rock’ performances at J.B Blunk Space in California US and Guggenheim in Bilbao Spain, CLOSE Ltd Gallery in Somerset UK, Lines of Empathy at Patrick Heide Contemporary Art in London UK, i miss the Land but does the Land miss me? Art Seen Gallery in Cyprus (2022); and solo exhibitions at Gryder Gallery in New Orleans US, Intervals of Jupiter, and CLOSE Gallery.
For McCall the search for the known and unknown provides a driving force – the search for oneself in landscape bestows a yearning and longing. For the ‘Artist Talk’ at the School of Creative Arts at the University of Windsor, McCall will introduce and describe new artworks from the recently opened solo exhibition INFINITE: body, alchemy, landscape and the Cosmos, and include images and videos from both past and current interests and investigations.
All welcome.
https://www.caralimccall.com/bio
https://www.caralimccall.com/work-no-1-circle-drawing
Wednesday, October 23, 2024, 10:00am, MultiMedia Studio, Room 107 Wildeman
Trevor Pittman - Introduction to microphones, acoustics and soundboards
Join Trevor Pittman to learn the fundamentals of live sound.
Effective selection and use of microphones, active and passive speakers and analog soundboards.
Learn to set up a basic PA system and how to set gain and faders for the best sound.
Wednesday, October 30, 2025, 12:00pm, Multimedia Studio, Room 107 Wildeman building
Steve Wood - The business of music: Turning your talent into Dollars
This workshop will help students determine what forms of employment they are interested in (products and services), who will pay them for these services (customers), how they will inform customers about their services (marketing), and what materials they will need to promote themselves. Examples will be used from the presenter's experience, and students will have an opportunity to work through this process using the skills they've developed at SOCA.
Friday, November 8, 2024, 10:30am, Performance Hall, Room 132 Armouries
Nick Hector - The Poetics of Process: The Art of the Documentary Editorial Method
Monday, November 11, 2024, 2:30pm
Deanna Bowen - They Tried to Destroy Us - Disproving Myths About Black Absence in Canada
Bowen will talk about her decades-long research-creation practice, an anti-Black petition from 1911, and recent projects that make critical/historical links between Bowen’s family history of enslavement in the US and migration to Canada, Creek Negroes & the Trail of Tears, British Imperialism under Queen Victoria and the white supremacist ambitions of the National Gallery of Canada’s collection circa 1888-1943.
Thursday, November 21, 2024, 2:30pm, Performance Hall, Room 132 Armouries
Carmen Bradford - Jazz Vocal Workshop
Prominent jazz performer and MSU faculty member Carmen Bradford comes to work with SoCA Jazz students. Read more about Caremn Bradford's career and listen to her performances on her website.
Thursday, November 21, 2024, Multimedia Studio, Room 107 Wildeman Building.
Dr. Nicholas Papador - Unsilent Night
TBA
Winter 2025 SoCA 'Shop teaser:
Jonathan Bayley - Applying to graduate Schools - TBA
Trevor Pittman - Intermediate live sound - EQing a channel and creating a mix - TBA
Dr. Thomas Green - Marie-Aimée Varro
Lee Rodney
Do you have a idea or request for a SoCA 'Shops topic? Email tpittman@uwindsor.ca to request a new 'Shop.
Extra Credit
If a SoCA student attends four or more SoCA 'Shops, they qualify for receiving 3% extra credit added to their final grade in any single course taught by one of the following instructors:
Any music private lessons course
Sally Bick
Nick Hector
Robert Fazecash
Bruce Kotowich
Catherine Heard
Jennifer Willet
Karen Engle
Bernadette Berthelotte
Lisa Baggio
Kim Nelson
Lee Rodney
Mike Seguin
Jason Grossi
Mike Stasko
Alejandro Tamayo
Thomas Green
Steve Wood
Matthew Hawtin
If you arrive more than 15 minutes late for a workshop, that workshop will not count towards your total number attended for extra credit.