Wednesday, October 20

Time

Activity

Location

Description

6:30-7:30 PM

Social Mixer to Welcome and Meet New Attendees Featuring Pumpkin Carving

Inn on the Park

Meet new friends and catch up with old friends while sipping cider.  The pumpkin carving competition rises again, last seen in 1997 at AIP 13 in Atlanta.

7:30 - ?

Dinner on Own

Local Restaurants

Break into small groups to sample food and talk illustration at one of the more than 30 restaurants within walking distance of the hotel, or strike off on your own.

Thursday, October 21

Time

Activity

Location

Description

Hands-On Workshops

8:00-9:45 Session
9:45-10:15 Snack Break
10:15-12:00 Session

Robert Frank: Advanced Photoshop Hands-on Digital Painting Workshop

Pyle Center

Robert Frank leads a hands-on workshop for illustrators who already have knowledge of Photoshop basics such as layers, tools and selection sets.  Participants will each create an illustration in the workshop’s computer lab, using digital painting and overlay techniques.  Robert is an award winning illustrator whose 24 career has followed an arc that has included ink, watercolor, charcoal, and pencil.  He has been working primarily with digital tools for over ten years, creating digitally painted illustrations that marry the future to the past, and he has been featured in Adobe Magazine. Robert is an experienced teacher, currently teaching a number of classes at San Francisco’s Academy of Art University.
About Robert Frank
Robert Frank on the Adobe Web Site

8:00-9:45 Session
9:45-10:15 Snack Break
10:15-12:00 Session

Paul Stevenson Oles FAIA: Beginning SketchUp Hands-on Digital Rendering Workshop

Pyle Center

Paul Stevenson “Steve” Oles FAIA leads a hands-on workshop for illustrators who have little or no experience using SketchUp or other digital modeling and rendering software.  Participants will each create a basic model, apply materials and lighting, and render images in the workshop’s computer lab.  One of three ASAI cofounders, Steve is a past winner of the Hugh Ferriss Prize, is the author of two major books on drawing, and has taught at RISD, Yale, MIT and Harvard.  He has had a long career as an illustrator, know especially for his colored pencil imagery, and for several years now has “gone digital,” creating digital illustrations and conducting workshops in hybrid imaging and SketchUp software. About Steve Oles

8:00-9:45 Session
9:45-10:15 Break
10:15-12:00 Session

Wei Dong: Chinese Brush Painting Workshop

Pyle Center

Wei Dong leads a hands-on workshop in Chinese brush painting for people at all skill levels.  Participants will gain an understanding of the basic principles of Chinese brush painting, which follows ancient traditions that diverge sharply from Western drawing and painting traditions.  Included as part of the workshop, each person will receive special rice paper, ink, brushes and other supplies needed to participate.  Professor Wei Dong, originally from China, is on the faculty at University of Wisconsin-Madison and teaches hybrid, digital and manual design visualization as well as Chinese brush painting.  He is the author of two books, one on marker rendering and one on digital visualization.

12:00-1:30

Lunch on Own

Local Food Carts or Restaurants

Presentations:
The Future Meets the Past

These four presenting  illustrators, who are working professionals used to dealing with deadlines and client requirements, have each developed creative methods that integrate the tools of the future with the lessons of the past, sometimes making it difficult to detect their methods and processes when looking at the finished work.  Whether you are a tried and true watercolorist, a high powered digital processor or someone in between, this series presents concrete solutions to timeless illustration challenges.  Collectively, their work suggests that it is creativity and skill rather than media that sets an illustrator apart.

1:30-3:05

Robert Frank,
Elizabeth Day

Pyle Center

Robert Frank’s work is a delicate meeting of the future and the past.  Robert has spent over ten years using primarily digital tools to create illustrations that have the qualities of a watercolor or pencil drawing, influenced by the 15 years he spent honing his traditional rendering skills.  Robert will discuss the relationship between the tools he uses and what his eye wants to see in the finished product. About Robert Frank

Elizabeth Day is known primarily for her work over two decades as an award winning watercolor illustrator, and continues to rely on ancient but tried and true brush techniques as her primary tools.  However, Elizabeth has also integrated digital tools into her technique as a way to better serve her clients for things such as revisions and tight deadlines.  Elizabeth will discuss creative ways that digital tools can enhance illustration practice, as well as the ideas that drive her illustration.  About Elizabeth Day/

3:05-3:25

Break

Pyle Center

Coffee, Tea, Water, Soda, Chips

3:25-5:00

Ana Carolina Monnaco,
Paul Stevenson Oles, FAIA

Pyle Center

Ana Carolina Monnaco is a Hugh Ferriss Prize winner and multidisciplinary artist and architect who continually works back and forth between the future and the past.  Ana’s practice includes architectural illustration, conceptual architectural design, book illustration, graphic design and photography.  For architectural illustrations, she commonly creates a traditional ink drawing and then adds color digitally.  Ana will discuss her workflow as well as the common threads that tie her practice together. About Ana Carolina Monnaco

Paul “Steve” Stevenson Oles FAIA is a Hugh Ferriss Prize winner and cofounder of the ASAI who has been called the “dean of architectural illustrators.”  He is a practicing illustrator, architect and educator whose career has spanned almost five decades.  Steve is best know for his highly faithful colored pencil illustration, but in recent years has began focusing on hybrid techniques that build on the strengths of digital modeling while at the same time utilizing Steve’s emphasis on observed and studied reality.  Steve will discuss his hybrid methods as well as the motivations, pitfalls and joys that accompany the creative illustration process. About Steve Oles

Symposium:
Visualizing Intangible Realities

The name change from the American Society of Architectural Perspectivists to the American Society of Architectural Illustrators did not only mark the passing of a memorable acronym; it also inadvertently marked the passing of the guild-like secrets of perspective from the architectural illustrator to the general public by way of digital technology.  Just as the advent of photography forced visual artists to ponder their role in society, the advent of digital modeling and rendering forces professional architectural illustrators to ponder their value in the marketplace.  While one standard response is that a skilled illustrator adds intangible elements that others cannot, it is difficult to find a book or resource that focuses on what those intangibles are or on ways to add them to an illustration.  This session begins to fill that gap as presenters discuss the way that intangible realities have been foregrounded in their work.  Each person has at one time or another had multiple roles as an artist, designer, photographer and/or illustrator, and all use the same tools as architectural illustrators, but with somewhat different goals.

1:30-3:05

Mark Nelson,
Michael Jablonski

Pyle Center

Mark Nelson has had multiple careers as an illustrator, an artist, an architect, and interior designer, and is currently an Associate Professor in the Design Studies Department at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.  Mark has received numerous AIP awards for both commercial and self commissioned illustrations, began working professionally as an illustrator in 1985 with pen and ink and more recently with digital media, and for several years now has also been showing his work in galleries.  He will discuss the transition of the illustrator’s role from that of perspective expert to visualizer of intangibles, focusing on ways that illustrators have historically addressed those intangibles.

Michael Jablonski has been a professional industrial designer for over 30 years, and for over ten years has also focused on creating fine art, in the process earning an MFA.  Illustration is an important part of Michael’s industrial design work, and he has made the transition from tradition to digital media while maintaining a high level of expertise.  Most recently, Michael’s fine art work has included large scale (over 5’ square) charcoal and pastel drawings that address intangible feelings while exploring the tension between reality and imagination.  Michael will discuss the relationship between his industrial design work, his illustration work and his fine art work, and the way that he makes his images communicate intangibles.

3:05-3:25

Break

Pyle Center

Coffee, Tea, Water, Soda, Chips

3:25-5:00

Stephen Hilyard,
Willem van den Hoed

Pyle Center

Stephen Hilyard has had multiple career roles that include an artist, an architect, a fabricator and design engineer for artists such as Jeff Koons, and an architectural model builder.  Stephen is currently Associate Professor, Digital Arts, in the Art Department at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.  Stephen’s current work is art that is directly focused on intangible realities, translating the nature of the 19th Century concept of The Sublime to the context of today’s world.  Consisting of digital animation, digitally processed video, digitally processed photography, and installation, Stephen’s work among other things explores the tension between the “lie” of the image and our willingness to accept a digital reality as truth.  Stephen will discuss his work and his visually driven concepts.
About Stephen Hilyard

Willem van den Hoed has had multiple careers as an artist, an architect, an architectural illustrator and as an educator.  Willem has received numerous AIP awards for his illustrations, and taught most recently at the Willem de Kooning Academy and the Academy of Architecture in Rotterdam in his native Netherlands.  Willem’s work since 2000 has been primarily fine art photography that explores the intangible qualities of natural landscapes, buildings and spaces as well as the relationships between and with the people who inhabit them.  He moves back and forth fluidly between traditional ink sketching and digitally processed realities, pursuing studies of reality and our perceptions that transcend media.
About Willem van den Hoed

6:00-8:00

President’s Reception

“Top of the Park” Room,
Inn on the Park

Meet, greet and mingle with ASAI people from all over the world and enjoy stunning night views of the State Capital and the downtown Madison skyline.  Hors d’Oeuvres and Cash Bar.

8:00-?

Dinner on your own at Local Restaurants, Followed by
Music and Entertainment.

Within Walking Distance

Group sign up sheets with restaurant descriptions at a variety of price levels and cuisine types will be posted earlier so that small group reservations can be made.  After dining, sample live music in a range of styles from dueling pianos to techno.

Friday,   October 22

Time

Activity

Location

Description

7:00-8:00

Breakfast on Own

Hotel or Local Restaurants

8:00-11:00

House on the Rock Tour (Includes one hour travel to location.)

The House on the Rock has become an American icon, is like an illustrator’s fantasy come to life, and can only be truly understood through a visit.  An ASAI sketch tour could spend a week there without anyone running out of things to draw. About House on the Rock

11:00-12:30

Sightseeing and Lunch on own in Mineral Point

Mineral Point

Mineral Point is a historally interesting 19th Century town that now is the home of numerous artists. Originally settled by Cornish miners who worked underground in the surrounding area, the downtown area has been restored and includes galleries and restaurants.

12:30-1:00

Travel to Taliesin

Wisconsin’s rolling hills provide a glimpse of America’s rural heartland.

1:00-5:00

Taliesin Tour, Tea, and Sketching

Frank Lloyd Wright’s Taliesin

An opportunity to do more than just take the standard tours, this afternoon event includes tea and refreshments in Frank Lloyd Wright’s studio as well as the opportunity to study Frank Lloyd Wright’s architecture while sketching or photographing at your own pace on the Taliesin grounds.-
About Taliesin/

5:00-7:00

Architecture in Perspective 25 Opening Reception

Taliesin Visitor’s Center

After the afternoon tour, admire the award winning illustrations in the environment of the Frank Lloyd Wright designed Visitor’s Center.  The event includes hors d’oeuvres and a cash bar.

7:00-8:00

Travel to Madison

8:00-?

Dinner at Local Restaurants.

None

Group sign up sheets with restaurant descriptions at a variety of price levels and cuisine types will be posted earlier so that small group reservations can be made.  After dining, sample live music in a range of styles from dueling pianos to techno.

Saturday, October 23

Time

Activity

Location

Description

8:00-9:00

Breakfast on own

Hotel or Local Restaurants

9:00-12:00

Sketch/Photo Tour

Walking or City/Campus Bus

Step out of the Inn on the Park with your sketchbook or camera and find yourself in the middle of the fall Farmer's Market on Capital Square.  Tour the Wisconsin State Capitol, and see buildings from the Madison of the past, including the University of Wisconsin Student Union, the Wisconsin Historical Society, the historic houses in the Edgewater area, and notable architectural works including buildings by Sullivan and Wright.  Follow the lead of Jim Faecke, Madison illustrator, architect and dedicated sketcher, or take the self guided tour using a handout with map and directions.  About Jim Faecke

12:00-1:30

Lunch at Student Union or on State Street

Touch bases with your fellow illustrators in the Rathskeller, a German beer hall transplanted to Wisconsin, while looking out over Lake Mendota.  Or strike out on your own to explore area restaurants.

1:30-5:00

Sketch/Photo Tour

Walking or City/Campus Bus

Take a guided tour of Frank Lloyd Wright's Unitarian Church as well as Monona Terrace. See a variety of Prairie Style buildings, experience State Street (including Cesar Pelli’s Overture Center, familiar to ASAI members from the Costantino illustrations in past AIP shows) Or take the self guided tour using a handout with map and directions.

6:30-7:30

Silent Auction and Cocktail Reception

Main Lounge
University of Wisconsin Memorial Union

The Main Lounge is a beautifully restored historical setting for recounting the day's insights as well as looking at some of the sketch tour results.  Members and conference attendees are invited to bring small pieces of work from the sketch tour or from home to be auctioned off during this popular AIP convention tradition.  In addition to providing the opportunity to acquire original art from our distinguished membership, the event serves as a fund raiser for the organization.  This year, we hope to include photos from the sketch tours for auction as well, since so many of our members are accomplished photographers.
A View of the Main Lounge

7:30-9:30

Awards Banquet

Main Lounge
University of Wisconsin Memorial Union

Celebrate the AIP awards after good food and company.

Sunday, October 24

Time

Activity

Location

Description

8:00-10:00

Members’ Breakfast and Annual Business Meeting

Inn on the Park

A chance to have your voice heard and shape the future of the organization. Hear updates on some of the things happening with the ASAI.

10:15-11:30

Board Meeting

Inn on the Park

Focus on the coming year.

12:00

Checkout and Depart for Airport

Complimentary Hotel Shuttle

Allow about a half hour travel time. Make arrangements with hotel ahead of time.

Retreat

12:00

Checkout and Travel to Milwaukee

12:30-1:30

Lunch on the Road

1:30-2:45

Travel to Milwaukee

2:45-4:00

Check in and Unwind

Intercontinental Hotel
(To be Confirmed)

The Intercontinental Hotel is in the heart of Milwaukee’s historic downtown, within walking distance of most of the places listed below.
About Milwaukee Intercontinental Hotel Web

4:30-7:30 (Est.)

Milwaukee Old World 3rd Street and Downtown Riverwalk

3rd Street
Milwaukee Downtown Riverwalk

Explore Milwaukee’s Old World 3rd Street, a window into the German-American 19th Century, and sample one of its many restaurants.  For a larger meal of fine German dining, Mader’s restaurant has been serving food for 105 years.  In Wisconsin, the whole family might go to a bar for dinner, as bars often serve great food, and there are many of those within a one block stretch.  Restored buildings, restaurants and stores, including treats such as the Usinger Sausage factory and store, make for an interesting evening two blocks from the hotel.  Afterwards, follow the Downtown Riverwalk to get a feel for the lay of the land and see the night lights reflected in the water.
About 3rd Street Bars/Food
About Mader's Restaurant
About the Old German Beer Hall
About the Riverwalk
About Usinger's/

Monday, October 25

Time

Activity

Location

Description

9:00-12:00

Milwaukee City Hall, Pabst Mansion, Historic Plankinton Arcade, Milwaukee County Historical Society

Milwaukee City Hall, located a few steps from the hotel, has been restored and was the tallest habitable building in the United States when it was completed in 1895.  The interior is especially interesting with its atrium.    About Milwaukee City Hall
Pabst Mansion About the Pabst Mansion Photo Tour of the Pabst Mansion
Plankinton Arcade Historical Photo of Plankinton Arcade
Milwaukee County Historical Society About Milwaukee County Historical Society
More information:
More About Milwaukee
About Downtown Shopping

12:00-1:30

Lunch in the Third Ward

A cluster of microbreweries on the river can be a great place to stop for lunch and enjoy the atmosphere.  A great place to sketch as well.
About the Water Street Brewery
If enough people are interested, there are also custom food tours that visit a series of restaurants.

1:30-5:00

Third Ward, Milwaukee Institute of Art and Design and the Lakefront

Milwaukee’s historic Third Ward was an industrial area until a few years ago, but since then has become a haven for shops, galleries and food. About the Historic Third Ward/
The Milwaukee Institute of Art and Design features the Brooks Stevens Gallery of Industrial Design as well as the Frederick Layton Gallery. About Milwaukee Institute of Art and Design
Milwaukee’s Lakefront, on Lake Michigan, provides endless opportunities for sketching and photography.

Additional option that are not within walking (but are a cab ride away) distance include:

Charles Allis and Villa Terrace Museums About Charles Allis and Villa Terrace Museums/
The Harley Davidson Museum  About Harley Davidson Museum
A 3:00 brewery tour at the Lakefront Brewery: About Lakefront Brewery

Other food options if enough people are interested:
About another Microbrewery
About Milwaukee Food Tours
About More Milwaukee Tours
And of course the multiple trendy Milwaukee Street restaurants: About a Few Milwaukee Restaurants

6:30

Dinner

Historic Third Ward or Water Street

In the midst of all the historic buildings, there are plenty of up to the minute restaurants with great contemporary designs and food.  Swig is always a favorite in the Third Ward. About Swig Restaurant/

Tuesday, October 26

Time

Activity

Location

Description

10:00-11:00

Burke Brise Soleil Opening
Niedecken/Prairie School Archives, Milwaukee Art Museum

Option to check bags beforehand and stay to see Milwaukee Art Museum for those with later flights.

The Milwaukee Art Museum is a world class Modern architectural treasure.  The original building was design by Saarinen, and the most recent addition by Santiago Calatrava is both beautiful and unique. The Burke Bris Soleil opens Tuesday through Sunday at 10:00 am, closes/opens at noon and closes again at 5:00 PM  About the Burke Bris Soleil
The Niedecken/Prairie School Archives contain a treasure trove of original  architectural renderings for projects in the Prairie Style.

12:00

Checkout, Travel to Airport or Stay Longer

Schedule a shuttle to the Milwaukee’s Mitchell Field.