Internships

HANDICRAFT

At the Handicraft Center of Rhodes (EUROCRAFT), students have the opportunity to learn Woodcarving, Ceramics, Painting, Goldsmith, and Textiles.

Eurocraft is under the Municipality of the City of Rhodes. Students attend seminars, work in fully equipped facilities with synchronous electromechanical and electronic machineries but also with age old Greek Art tools.

The seminars and practical work will be at the EUROCRAFT facilities from Monday to Thursday 6.00 to 9.00 pm but also at the facilities of the instructors.

The minimum contact between students and instructors are:
1. For textiles 70 hours.
2. For Woodcarving 90 hours.
3. For Painting with tempera 120 hours.

Instructors are well known Artists accepted by the City of Rhodes.
For more information please go at: www.eurocraft.gr

Students are responsible to buy/pay their own materials.

SCULPTURE

Students will have the opportunity to have an introduction to the History of Greek Art, Drawing, Prototypes in Wax, Making of Molds, Casting in Different Media, Carving in Marble, and Sculpting. Also the student will be introduced to the Art of Vase Manufacturing on the Wheel with Clay And Printing as per B.C. Classical Period of Greece.

Students are responsible to buy/pay their own materials.

Instructor: IOANNIS (JOHN) BARIANOS

Mr. Barianos has performed work at Capitol of the United States Capitol building in the field of gilding, restoration of ornamental decorations and art work.
Mr. Barianos is the restoration superstar of the Union Station in Washington, DC, a $160 million sensitive historic restoration project, the largest in United States. The New York Times on July 8, 1986 calls Mr. Barianos “a Repairer of Historic Catastrophes”. Mr. Barianos has received from Washington Building Congress the “1989 Craftsmanship Award”. He is a genial Greek American whose dazzling work has made him the Capital’s preservation darling. After his retirement , he continuous to work at the city of Rhodes, Greece.

Rhodes Photography Program 2005
Nikos Kasseris - Ari Hatzis

Students will have the opportunity to meet and observe the life of a professional working photographer. Depending on current photographic jobs, they may have the opportunity to assist on photo shoots and experience ?rst-hand the professional photographic world. In addition, they will be able to gain experience within the of?ce environment of a photographer and publisher and learn methods of digital output, digital capture, and traditional black and white photography.

General (overview)
-Photographic assisting
-Small, Medium and Large format photography
-Digital photography
-Slide ?lm/negative ?lm, colour/black and white
-Film processing, printing, scanning
-Digital use of images
-Editing, layout, design
-Digital working environment, editing, retouching, web, ?le preparation.
Digital Output
-Film scanning
-Image retouching/?nishing
-Image manipulation
-Preparation for print
-Digital ?le management/archiving
Digital Photography
-Digital capture
-Digital ?le formats
-File handling/colour management and correction
-Batch processing
-Print preparation
-Image stitching, Quicktime VR
-Web galleries
Black and white photography
-Basic photography – SLR cameras
-Film processing
-Darkroom printing

Nikos Kasseris was born in Rhodes, Greece in 1951. He graduated from the University of Economics in Pireaus. Self trained in the discipline since 1970, he became a professional photographer in 1980. Using Rhodes as his base, he became active in various ?elds of applied photography. Journalism, tourism, commercial art and archaeological photography are the main objects of his professional activity.

In 1985 he established the Photographic workshop of the Municipality of Rhodes, where he was a lecturer for several years until 1990. He founded RODOS IMAGE in 1992, specializing in advertising and particularly in the publication of books on one-art photography. To date, he has published a number of high quality editions, including albums on Rhodes, the Dodecanese, Thrace and the Asia Minor coastlline. Nikos Kasseris’ photographic work has been widely shown in both
individual and group exhibitions, and his “Multi-Vision” presentations have been shown in Rhodes, Athens and other major Greek and European cities, as well as two tours in the USA in 1996 1nd 1997, where he was invited by various Universities and the Greek Community. In his most recent publication, “Rhodes - Four photographers discuss a city”, his photographic work appeared alongside the work of three Magnum photographers, For his contribution to photography and ?ne-art publishing, Nikos Kasseris was honoured by the Academy of Athens in 1996.

Publications:
Rodos, Rodos Image 1992
Dodecanese, A Journey in Space and Time, Rodos Image 1995, 2000
Thrace, Terra Incognita, with Tassos Vrettos and Nikos Economopoulos, Rodos Image
1997
Rodos, Nymph of the Sun, Rodos Image 1997
Rhodes, Four photographers discuss a city, Rodos Image, 2003
Ari Hatzis graduated from the internationally renowned photography department
of RMIT University in Melbourne, Australia. Before this he had completed a Bachelor
of Arts at Melbourne University, where he also taught black and white photography
as President of the Melbourne University Photographic Society. His ?rst published
work “When Fish had Feathers” entailed a series of black and white portraits and also
exists in a permanant exhibition in Collingwood, Melbourne. His work has since been
exhibited and awarded numerous times in Australia. He works commercially as a
freelance photographer in many different areas, and his knowledge of the digital
aspect of the industry has allowed him to work as a Mac operator and digital
retoucher for leading professionals. He is presently living in Rhodes.