MAKING MULES

one to three week workshop
Maximum # of students: 10

MAKING MULES

Gaza has successfully taught her MAKING MULES course as a one, two, or three week workshop at schools and universities around the country, including California College of Arts and Crafts in Oakland, Oregon College of Arts and Crafts in Portland, Penland Craft School in North Carolina and University of Wisconsin at Madison.

Read a description of the class under MAKING MULES.

AUTOBIOGRAPHY

half-day workshop
 Maximum # of students: 25-30

AUTOBIOGRAPHY - Telling Your Story With Shoes

This is a quick, exciting, can't fail project that has a lot of potential despite its simple appearance. The project uses an existing pair of shoes as a positive mold around which to build a sculpture. The shoes are not harmed in any way and do not become part of the sculpture.
We will start by choosing shoes that have some meaning in our lives. We will incorporate photos, poems, sewing notions, flowers, leaves or any collage-able material onto the surface of the sculpture. By juxtaposing the type of shoes with the message in the surface materials the sculpture can be humorous, personally poignant, socially relevant or just plain gorgeous.

TURNING STRAW
INTO GOLD

two day workshop
Maximum # of students: 20

STRAW INTO GOLD - Revamp Your Footware

Explore both simple and complex methods of modifying your shoes to your own style. This two day workshop opens up the possibilities of customizing or contemporizing your footwear.
Working with your pair of suede or fabric shoes or boots, we will reshape the heel, totally change the look of the upper fabric and construct vamp ornaments which will redefine the shoe's topline. Existing shoes will be used as a base upon which to build shoes of your own design. Using readily available tools and materials you will learn how to change the shape, color and texture of the heel, to cut and use stencils and paints to repattern the shoe fabric and to visually recontour the silhouette of your shoes.
You can update a comfortable but out of style pump, create shoes to compliment a specific outfit, or change the look of conventional everyday shoes into the shoes of your dreams.

RESTYLING EXISTING
FOOTWARE FOR
THEATER

two day workshop
 Maximum # of students: 20

RESTYLING EXISTING FOOTWARE FOR THEATER

This two day workshop opens up the possibilities of using an existing shoe as an armature on which to build a new shoe with a totally different look. Participants learn both simple and complex methods of modifying the look of existing shoes. Working with suede or fabric shoes or boots, we will reshape the heel, change the look of the upper fabric and redefine the shoe's topline. You can change the look of a conventional everyday shoe into a classic 1910 court shoe, a 1940's spectator or a shoe of your own design.
Included is a lecture on the evolution of shoe fashion with emphasis on silhouette, toe shape, and topline.

Contact Gaza to schedule a lecture or workshop for your class or group.

See student work in the Gallery.