New workshop with Ruudt Peters: Dream Now

[Brigitte Martin]

A jewellery course by Ruudt Peters
assisted by Kerianne Quick


After the successes of the last years, this year Ruudt Peters is beginning his workshop in springtime under the title DREAM NOW. Peters has been connected as professor at two of the most prestigious universities in Europe, the Gerrit Rietveld Academie in Amsterdam 1990-2000 and Konstfack University of Arts and Crafts in Stockholm 2004-2009 At the moment he is professor at Alchimia Jewellery school in Florence, Through his Summer School he follows up his teaching with a private program intended for students or graduates of art academies and artists/designers who seek to deepen their work. Every year an international group of artists / jewellery makers participate in his workshops.

Theme: The workshop DREAM NOW is being held in the countryside of the southern Netherlands. DREAM NOW is a workshop where you learn to discover the freedom and flair of creativity. Most of the people forget to dream. Dreaming is an estention force to get in touch with. Not all human beings are aware of the qualities of dreaming. Dreaming offers us a lot of freedom, spirit, view and creativity.

When we operate from the movements of the dream we generate strength and energy that leads to your form language. It is essential for an artist to draw from this inner force. Together we will search for your personal dream. This means that you will get in contact with yourself, and learn to focus on your personal freedom and drive.
We will guide you to your basic experience, teach you to formulate your own positions, and support you in translating this into making art and art jewellery.
DREAM NOW is about taking another space at our contemporary experience of making, a statement about how you can relate to your own inner force. Artists and students are stimulated to produce work around this idea. By doing so, it is important that not only rational reflection, but also the subconscious enters into the work process. Ultimately, jewellery remains a frame of reference.

The DREAM NOW course is built on step-by-step education in which the end product is not the most important goal. "The goal is the means and the means is the goal" (M. Gandhi).
The emphasis lies on personal guidance and development. The participants are given the tools with which to continue this process on their own. By means of direct action people learn to take steps. During the course the group will cook together, and there will be group discussions.

Dates: April 30 till May 6, 2012. 9.00-20.00 hrs total 60 hrs teaching
The course starts: Monday 30st April 2012, 10.00 hrs.
The course ends: Sunday 6th May 2012, after breakfast.
Departure: Sunday 6th May 2012, 10.00 hrs.

Place: Summer studio, Ravenstein.
Accommodations: 2 / 4 person rooms, St. Laurenshoeve, Ravenstein.

Price: Including accommodation, meals and insurance.
Inclusive 19 % VAT Tax: € 1990,--

Registration: Please mail to: [e-mail]
- application form
- 6 images of your work, only in 72dpi.
- passport photo of yourself
- curriculum vitae

Number: ±12 persons can participate in the course

Language: English, German, Dutch,

Registration closes: April 15, 2012

Participation: Registrations are processed in the order in which they arrive.

Deposit: Upon acceptance the participant will make a deposit of € 990,-before 1st of March 2012

This sum confirms the participation and is not returnable.
Please transfer to: ABN AMRO Bank, Dam 2, Amsterdam.
M.P. Peters, Amsterdam 59.04.58.841 (We don't accept checks)
IBAN NL 12ABNA0590458841- BIC ABN ANL 2A

Discount: If we receive your application and total payment before the 1st of March 2012
a discount on the price will be given of 10% discount price: 1791,-- Euro

Total payment: The total workshop fee has to be paid at April 15, 2012 before the workshop starts

Information and registration: Ruudt Peters, Berenstraat 17, 1016 GG Amsterdam, Netherlands [e-mail]

Phone Ruudt Peters: [phone] mobile: [phone]

For more information about Ruudt Peters see: www.ruudtpeters.nl

We would be very grateful if you would pass on this information to other interested artist & jewellery makers.