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 Juno award winning artist coming to AUC |
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By Donna Woldanski
SooToday.com
Saturday, May 01, 2004  Algoma University College is launching this year’s Summer School of the Arts with Juno Award Winning Artist Michael Wrycraft. Wrycraft will be at Algoma U on Wednesday, May 12 to work with Fine Arts students. That evening, Wrycraft will present a free public workshop, “Making Music Look As Good As It Sounds”. The workshop begins at 8pm in the Algoma U Auditorium. Wrycraft is encouraging the public to bring questions, drawings, ideas, artwork/or CD covers and he will personally assist in making art work sing.
During his visit, Wrycraft will also work with Sault Ste. Marie high school students, sharing his expertise and experiences as a professional artist.
Michael Wrycraft has designed well over 300 CD covers, most of them for Canadian and U.S. music artists, and holds one Juno Award and five nominations. In addition, Wrycraft moonlights as an Executive Producer of albums. His work has earned him three Best Recording and Best Producer nominations from the Maple Blues Awards. In the US, his work has been nominated twice for Independent Music Awards (the Indies), for Best Blues Album & Best Album Design.
“It’s been an amazing trip,” says Wrycraft. “Music is my passion. In art school, I’d listen to music while I worked. Now, I’m designing album covers for many of the artists I listened to back in art school.”
Wrycraft’s résumé includes Gordon Lightfoot’s new album “Harmony” (2004), “Johnny’s Blues” by Johnny Cash, two Bruce Cockburn albums, including “You’ve Never Seen Everything” for which Michael received a Juno nomination, as well as the design and layout for “The Story of Harmelodia” by Rheostatics, an illustrated book and CD for young people.
Wrycraft offers this advice to aspiring artists: “Stick to what you love.” “I hope this workshop will inspire students to produce commercial art, to know that there are ways to turn their art into a career,” he says.
Algoma University’s Summer School of the Arts Continues . . .
From June 16 to 25, Algoma University will host Dana Whittle, Creative Director of VIZOU, a multi-media artist consortium. Whittle has been involved in art and music all her life; she earned a B.F.A. in printmaking at Rochester Institute of Technology in New York. She went on to study in the Masters Program in Arts Administration at Harvard’s Lesley College.
Her passion remains divided between music, writing and design, making her a versatile resource for the development of effective promotional tools within the cultural milieu. In addition, she serves on the board of Folk Alliance Canada and is a former member of the board of Festival Memoire et Racines. She has also served on the Juno jury for traditional/roots music and the jury of the Prix Cultural Desjardin.
The Vizou Promo camp is an eight-day intensive session that runs June 16-25, Monday – Friday, 10:00am-4:00pm. Participants will learn how to develop effective marketing and self-promotion techniques, including the use of digital imaging and audio technologies in website design. Students will be encouraged to develop online portfolios, electronic presskits, websites with audio/video samples, online historic exhibits, sites for cultural organization, and online promotion for a theatre or film productions. At the end of the five-day course, student projects will be brought home on CD and published to the Vizou website (www.vizou.com) for an electronic exhibit that will remain online until August 31, 2004.
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