Workshops
2025 Workshops
Both Days: Drawing Workshop-Manga Making
Instructor: Alfred Dudley III
Location: Library Multipurpose Room 123
Times: Tuesday 10:00-11:00
Wednesday 9:00-10:00
In this workshop students will learn basic to advanced skills in how to draw, design, and illustrate manga. From character designing to learning how to compose a page, students will learn how to produce their own comics. Students will experience live demonstrations of manga special effects, linework, and narrative structure building. During this time students will also produce their own zines/comics.
Max: 25 students
Both Days: Drop-in Mandala Coloring
Location: Larson Student Center
Tuesday and Wednesday
Drop in 9am-1pm
Relax and let your creativity flow as you make colorful mandalas!
Both Days: Flash Back: Writing Short Memoir Pieces
Instructor: Anndee Hochman
Location: Grunin B127
Time: Tuesday 10:30-11:30
Wednesday 11:00-12:00
Max: 20 students
Capture a memorable experience–a triumph, a grief, a crossroads, an “aha”–in words that make a difference. In this hands-on workshop, you’ll read and talk about a few flash memoirs, brainstorm indelible moments from your own life and write about one of them, using all the tools in the memoir-writer’s box: truth-telling, perspective, images, pacing and voice.
Anndee Hochman is a journalist, essayist, storyteller and teaching artist. Her books include Anatomies: A Novella and Stories and Everyday Acts & Small Subversions: Women Reinventing Family, Community and Home. Her work has been published in The Philadelphia Inquirer, WebMD, Poets & Writers and many other venues. She is also a ten-time winner of Moth Story Slams. She lives in Philadelphia and is at work on draft #7 of a YA novel, My Plural Is People.
Both Days: How to Create a Winning Portfolio
Instructor: Donna Sinisgalli
Location: Library Multipurpose Room 123
Time: Tuesday and Wednesday, 11am-12pm
Max 25 students
This workshop will investigate the requirements of the top Eastern U.S. art colleges and help you to develop a portfolio suited for Art, Design, Architecture, Photography, Fashion, Art History, and Gaming majors. The workshop will introduce examples of student art that would be best suited for a portfolio and also work that should be avoided. Finally, the workshop will discuss how to photograph your art for a virtual portfolio and how writing will support your vision.
Here is what will be covered in the workshop:
- Define the term, “student voice” (which most schools are requiring)
- Identify the type of work schools are looking for in a portfolio
- Investigating the top eastern schools and their requirements
- Look at requirements for a standard visual art portfolio vs. a gaming portfolio
- Discuss the importance of using various mediums
- Discuss ideas of how to inspire creativity
- Discuss how student writing can help explain their work
- Identify examples of what to submit and what not to submit
- Explore ways to present student works in their best light.
Both Days: Instrumental Workshop
Instructor: Adam Hutcheson
Location: Gym (HPEC Building #29)
Tuesday 11:40am – 12:40pm
Wednesday 11am – 12pm
Students often are intimidated when they hear the word “improvisation.” In this workshop, you will find out that we are all natural-born improvisers and that beautiful solos can be crafted using the most simple musical ideas. OCC faculty member Adam Hutcheson will show you that improv can actually be fun and not scary and complex. Bring your instruments and come participate!
Both Days: Meet the Artists: Toms River Artist Community
Location: Larson Student Center
Tuesday & Wednesday
Drop in, 11am-1pm
Come to the Student Center to visit with members of the Toms River Artist Community- check out their artwork, and learn about opportunities for artists in our community!
Both Days: Open Mic
Instructor: Ocean County College Music Club
Location: Larson Student Center (Building 8)
Join the Music Club for an open mic! Take this opportunity to share your talents with your friends and others in the Larson Student Center. Be sure to bring your own instruments if needed. (60 minutes, drop in activity)
Max: 30
Tuesday: Noon-1pm
Wednesday: Noon-1pm
Both Days: Planetarium Sampler: Novins Planetarium Shows
Time: Tuesday 12-12:30
Wednesday 10:30-11 and 11:30-12
Drop into the Novins Planetarium for a fun sampler of what the Planetarium has to offer, including full dome shorts and a laser song!
Both Days: Theater & Improv Games
Instructor: OCC Theater Club
Location: Grunin B124
In this workshop, students will participate in improvisation games hosted by our OCC Theater Club. We’ll play deductive acting games such as “Confusion”, mind-benders like “Fortunately, Unfortunately”, and a lot of fun and quirky scenes from a hat! If you’ve ever watched “Whose Line is it Anyway?” and thought it looked easy, come test your improv abilities with thespian friends! (60 minutes)
Max: 30
Tuesday: 9:15am, 10:15am, 11:15am
Wednesday: 9:15am, 10:15am, 11:15am
Both Days: Transitioning from High School to College – A Visual Arts Student Perspective
Instructor: Gianna and Joananne with Professor Nat Bard
Location: Grunin B-126 (Building 11b)
Join Gianna and Joananne, current Visual Arts majors at OCC, as they discuss how they transitioned from high school to college, prepared their portfolios, adjusted to college level courses, and plan their post-graduation goals. (45 minutes)
Max: 16
Tuesday: 11:15am-12pm
Wednesday: 11:15am-12pm
Both Days: Vocal Workshop
Instructor: Sungji Kim
Location: Instructional Building Lobby
Time: Tuesday 11:00-12:00
Wednesday 11:00-12:00
Explore your voice by learning some basic singing tips and techniques. The workshop will introduce breathing exercises, vocal position for resonance, vocal blending, etc.
All levels are welcome!
Both Days: What’s Your Dream? Vision Board Workshop
Instructor: OCC Enrollment Services
Location: INST-115 (Building 5)
Time: Tuesday 9am, 10am, 11am
Wednesday 9am, 10am, 11am
What’s your plan after graduation? Are you interested in attending a post-secondary school, working in a particular field or discipline, or purchasing an ancient British castle on the moors? We can help! The purpose of this session is to encourage students to think about their academic & personal goals for the future, how they can reach them, and why college might be an important step for them to take. (60 minutes, drop in activity)
Max: 30
Wednesday Only: Artmaps Workshop-Life Mapping and Motivation Mapping
Instructor: Alfred Dudley III
Location: Library Multipurpose Room 123
Times: Wednesday 11:00-12:00
Money is important and serious, but your passion is the thing that keeps you going. In this session, students will learn through drawing/mapping how to organize all the things that propel and motivate them. They will also be walked through how to organize their life structurally for overall wellness and balance. i.e. How can you find opportunities in the arts that you enjoy that are also income opportunities?
Max: 25 students
Brief Bio
Alfred Roosevelt Dudley III is an interdisciplinary artist, poet, and educator based out of New Brunswick. Their interdisciplinary practice focuses on facilitating dialogue between the institutionalized Black American Body and modern Japanese manga sensibilities. They explore visual systems of mark-making and composition employed by dominant narratives through drawing, photography, zine-making, and sculpture. They received their BFA in Visual Arts from The Cooper Union and their MFA from Rutgers University. They’ve more recently received a New Jersey State Council for the Arts Individual Artist Fellowship Finalist Award for Poetry.
Wednesday Only: Theater Dance and Audition Techniques Workshop for Dancers, Actors and Singers Workshop
Instructor: Andrea Kron
Wednesday, 11am-12pm
Location: GPAA – OCC Dance Studio
Max: 20 students
Theater Dance and Audition Techniques Workshop for Dancers, Actors and Singers
Theater dance workshops cover a range or shows from “ Guys and Dolls” to “ A Chorus Line” to “ Bye Bye Birdie” and “Chicago”, etc. The workshop consists of a full warm-up, isolations of the body parts most emphasized in the choreographer’s style, and the time period from the show. It concludes with audition technique of what a real New York audition consist of. Show choreography will be given, broken down and then performed.
Bio: Andrea Kron is a graduate of The Ailey School, New York City. Andrea is a dancer, choreographer and coach.
Her performing credits “Hercules” on Broadway at The New Amsterdam Theater, regional theatre, Radio City Music Hall, Nutcrackers and movie and print work experience.
Andrea has been a guest teacher in New York, New Jersey, Connecticut, as well as Pennsylvania teaching ballet, theater dance, modern dance, as well as anatomy and injury prevention at performing arts high school, universities, and festivals.