Painting Surface as Metaphor Anne Flash

August 31 - Sept 4
Mon – Fri
9am - noon
5 Sessions
$375 +$15 materials fee

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In this process-oriented drawing/ mixed media workshop, we will explore various methods and meanings connected to surface - both practically and conceptually. Nonlinear narratives will be developed through selective procedures such as marking, rubbing, layering, erasing, scratching, smudging, staining, blotting, etc. Chance operations and time-mapping will be used as ways to generate composition. All sorts of 2-D images, including photographic and copier images will be considered fair game. A scanner and printer will be provided during the workshop, as well as various other toys and tools. Each participant can expect to take away an exciting set of work that pushes beyond his/her own conventions into new creative territory.

Anne Flash has been on the Cape for ten years. Before that, she lived in New York City, and Hartford, CT., where she was on the faculty of Trinity College. She is currently teaches at Cape Cod Community College. Her BFA is from Massachusetts College of Art and Design, and her MFA is from Hunter College in New York City. She was awarded painting residencies at Yaddo and at The Millay Colony for the Arts. Her work has been exhibited in New York City, and around New England. She was featured in 2008 as part of an online gallery for WCAI's radio series "Fresh Water-Salt Water". Many of her drawings and paintings have been acquired by private and corporate collections throughout the Northeast.

Heart of All Art-Making: Landscape Painting Rosalie Nadeau
August 31 - Sept 4
Mon – Fri
9am - noon
5 Sessions
$375
off -site first session meet at Pamet Crossing

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Enjoy honing your artist's eye and sharpening your painting skills by expanding your visual organization! With detailed demonstrations and one-on-one instruction, Rosalie will guide participants in balancing intuition and intellect while embracing the painting process. In oil and in pastel, Rosalie will share her approach to color and students will learn to interpret light as it changes the value and temperature relationships, thus helping students to better paint the brilliance and drama in the landscape.

Rosalie Nadeau balances powerful color with classical form, painting in oil and pastel. An enthusiastic instructor, Rosalie approaches teaching as a coach, generously offering avenues to improve and strengthen paintings in progress. Her vibrant paintings illustrate feature articles in magazines and books. She has earned prestigious signature memberships in several Pastel Societies. She is a founding member of Cape Cod Plein Air Painters. She has painted in Truro en plein air since 1969. Nadeau exhibits on Cape Cod at Abba and Tree's Place, Orleans, Left Bank Gallery, Wellfleet, and Stony Creek Gallery, Stony Creek, CT, and Beauregard Fine Art, Rumson, NJ.

Finding Your Voice Bonney Goldstein
September 12 & 13
Sat & Sun
10am - 3pm
2 Sessions
$355 + materials

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"Our head is round so that our thinking can change directions" --Francis Picabia
This class is an exploration of the rules and voices of authority that we as painters traditionally try to follow to create art. The aim is to try on the styles of our favorite painters and then move on to develop our own methods and personal vocabulary that expresses our own message. Everyone can work in his or her chosen medium, but try different surfaces and different techniques in hopes of overcoming that little voice in your head that is always pointing out right from wrong. We will work on many small pieces over short periods of time and to develop our own approaches that mark our work as unique and individualistic.

Bonney Goldstein has been a painter for 42 years working in oil on canvas, wood and paper. She studied at the Arts Student League in New York and Denver. She now works full time after running a corporate art consulting firm in Texas and taking time off to work on her MFA in creative writing at Goddard. Bonney shows in many galleries including ones in New York, Iowa, Maine and Massachusetts. She recently had a show at UMASS, Lowell, and the Whistler House Museum in MA. To view Bonney's work please visit www.bonneygoldstein.com

This Years’ Mary Lou Friedman Chair
Drawing & Painting Mary Frank

September 14 - 18
Mon - Fri
9 - 12 (instruction, open studio 1 - 4)
5 Sessions
$475

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In this class we will work with drawing and painting materials and discover the possibilities of these materials through learning about them and improvising.

Mary Frank is a visual artist known primarily as a sculptor. She has also produced many paintings and works in various other media (especially printmaking). Her works are in New York's Whitney Museum, Boston's Museum of Fine Arts, the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, and many others. She is represented by DC Moore Gallery in New York where she had her most recent show in January 2008.

Painting Provincetown Lisbeth Firmin
October 3 & 4
Saturday & Sunday
10 – 2 pm 2 Sessions $250

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Working within the long tradition of plein aire painting on Cape Cod, students will be outside painting in the streets of Provincetown. They will be concentrating on depicting what they see; including cars, boats, houses, people and the occasional dog, working rapidly & using big brushes. These paintings will concentrate on capturing the unique light and energy of a moment in a Provincetown morning. This workshop is structured for beginners to advanced painters who want to expand their painting skills. Students will receive locations for each day with registration. Firmin will give a demonstration at the beginning of class and will be working closely with students throughout each session.

Lisbeth Firmin is a contemporary American realist known for her urban landscapes. For over three decades Firmin's work has been exhibited at numerous galleries and institutions across the country and internationally. Recent work will appear in the 2009 winter issue of the Stone Canoe Review (Syracuse Univ.). Awards include a 2007 New York Foundation Fellowship (Lily Auchincloss Fellow) for printmaking, a 2007 New York State Council on the Arts Grant, a Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant, the CCVA Award at the Chautauqua Center for the Visual Arts, and first prize in the LANA International Arts Competition.

Introduction to Encaustics Cid Bolduc
October 5, 12, 19, 26
Mondays, 1- 4 pm
$250

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Encaustic is a paint medium composed of beeswax infused with damar resin and ground pigments. Layers are fused with heat and can range from transparent to opaque, wispy thin to thick and dimensional. Encaustic is luminous, forgiving and versatile. This class is a beginner level workshop which will focus on current methods, materials and artists. After a brief history, we will explore studio safety, tools and materials, supports, heat sources, paints and mediums, mark making, transfers, collage and embedding. One-on-one discussions between the instructor and students will focus on working concepts and problem solving. This workshop is appropriate for painters of all kinds, sculptors, printmakers, photographers, paper, fiber and mixed media artists. No prior encaustic painting experience is necessary to participate.

Cid Bolduc attended Boston University and the Museum School of the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston. She has exhibited in New York, Florida, North Carolina and Massachusetts. Bolduc has been on staff at the Provincetown Art Association and Museum, executive director of several galleries and worked in the publishing and printing fields. She currently is head studio manager at Castle Hill. www.cidbolduc.com

Painting the Still Life in Color Heather Bruce
October 2, 9, 16, 23
Fridays, 1 – 4 pm
$250

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This class will explore color relationships with an emphasis on light and shadow and the creation of luminosity through the use of juxtaposing colors. Simple organic forms of fruits and vegetables will be studied under dramatic, controlled light set-ups for optimum observation. Oils are the preferred medium. (Water-mixable oils are excellent for those with sensitivity to oil paints). All levels welcome.

Heather Bruce received her BFA at the San Francisco Art Institute. She later studied with Henry Hensche in Provincetown. Her work has been shown in galleries in California and Provincetown. She is represented by the Julie Heller Gallery in Provincetown.

Color and Composition Suzanne Packer
October 29, Nov.5, 12, 19
Thursdays
9 – 12 pm
4 sessions $250

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Still life paintings that move, paintings that draw the viewer's eye move across and around the work, creating movement: this will be the focus. This class will use the still-life set up as the starting point to develop a composition that works within the plane of the canvas. The use of color harmonies and color temperatures, as well a textures and composition will be taught as ways to make the still life painting create visual interest. Paintings will induce a mood, inspire an emotion, invite the viewer to linger. Using oil paints, students will explore ways to make their work come alive, whether they work in FAVOR representational or abstract styles.

Suzanne Packer, daughter of New York Illustrator A. S. Packer, has spent most of her life painting. Her paintings have been influenced by her years living in Mexico, London and Cape Cod. Her formal training was at the Art Students League and the Rhode Island School of Design. She was the first Director of the Cape Museum of Fine Arts, and has been a member of 21 In Truro since 1999. Her paintings are in numerous private and museum collections. She has had one-person exhibitions at The Cape Cod Museum of Art, the Cahoon Museum of American Art, and the Sparrow House Museum. She has taught at the Star Gallery, the Cultural Center of Cape Cod and in her studio. She frequently gives painting demos and gallery talks.

Painting & Tile Making Trip to Southern Coast of Italy
April (exact dates to be determined) 10 days
$2,500 (not including air fare)
Gail Browne
This includes instruction, accommodations & ground transportation

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The beauty of Southern Italy and the Amalfi Coast are a sensual blend of elements that are perfectly suited for the making of art: culture, history, mythology. Under the tutelage of Gail Browne, week-long workshops are offered among the hazelnut and olives groves of Terraveccia and the villages of the Amalfi Coast. This year we will spend the early part of the week painting tiles and seeing how tiles are made in a beautiful studio in Vietre, where they create 15 & 16th Century designs. Each morning, students meet with their instructor for a short talk and demo before beginning their own work. Critiques and support are interspersed. After a 2 hour lunch, students reconvene for a late afternoon session. Usually the group dines together (not a requirement) at a local restaurant. One day is set aside for a boat trip to Positano to work,. Workshops are individually tailored to meet the needs of the group. Often students choose to stay on for a few more days to explore other riches the area has to offer: Pompeii, Capri, and Paestum.

Artist Gail Browne is known primarily for her watercolors, which reflect her unique vision of light and color. She is a third generation artist and has been formally trained at the Cleveland Institute of Art (BFA) and the Cape School of Art with Henry Hensche.

William Papaleo has been teaching and painting in Italy over the past twenty years, while creating a bridge to the states through his workshops and galleries in New York, Washington DC, Rhode Island and Provincetown. Synthesizing classical and modern techniques, his goal is to give students solid technique to free them to arrive at their own individual voice. www.williampapaleo.it

Ceramica Vietri Scotto’s collection of tile is characterized by the use of shiny glazes, traditional Neapolitan and Vietrese decorations from the 15th and 16th centuries, solar motifs and colors influenced by the Arab and Moorish cultures…all of which are part of the history of Amalfi Coast. The collection includes tiles with religious motifs and scenes inspired by the sea. Like in the past, Daria Scotto and her husband Danilo Mariani prepare, press, add detail and finish off each product by hand. The next step is to let the products dry naturally to preserve the brilliant colors and glazes. Their products come in multiple formats and colors - allowing for countless creative solutions.

Castle Hill Print Cooperative

The Truro Center for the Arts at Castle Hill has a Print Co-op at Pamet Crossing, and is open year round. This gives us the opportunity to offer Cape artists a space to create and produce prints in a fully equipped print shop. It is our hope that opening this cooperative space will build community and open an artistic dialogue.

Our print shop houses 3 intaglio/relief presses and we offer a wide array of standard print shop equipment for your use. Additionally, we have a Vandercook SP20, and a diverse collection of assorted lead and wooden type available for use. An additional benefit of membership is a 10% discount on printmaking workshops at Castle Hill. Call for details.

Papermaking and Printmaking Erin Woodbrey
October 14, 21, 28, Nov. 4th
Wednesdays, 3- 5:30 pm
$225

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This class will provide an in-depth introduction to papermaking and an exploration of alternative printmaking methods. Most of the techniques learned in this class can be used in home studio set-ups, without the need for much equipment. The first two classes will cover papermaking methods, allowing students to create both large and small, multi layered sheets. Students will learn firsthand how to process and prepare fiber as well as utilizing papermaking as a way to generate imagery and develop ideas. The last two classes will move to the Print Shop where we will learn quick and easy printmaking processes which utilize the one of a kind sheets made in the previous classes. This class will allow students to develop, build and collage rich and intricate prints on the paper they create.

Erin Woodbrey is a visual artist from Sebago Lake, Maine. She received her BFA from The School of the Museum of Fine Arts, focusing primarily on printmaking and papermaking. Additionally, she has studied at The California College of Art and Tufts University, as well as held internships at the Women’s Studio Workshop and The Carriage House Paper Research Institute. Erin's work has been exhibited nationally and internationally. Currently Erin is working on a deck of Tarot cards and a series screen prints on vellum, which are influenced by divining from the migratory patterns of animals. With these projects she is developing a visual system of symbols and signs, drawing information from obscure religious practices, historical images and icons from popular culture and contemporary media.

Exploring Monotype Vicky Tomayko
November 14 & 15
Saturday & Sunday
10 - 2
$225

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A very hands-on workshop making one-of-a-kind-prints. The studio is equipped with 3 etching presses, a good selection of large format rollers, oil inks, and, paper to purchase. Come with a few brushes, and make a series of works on paper with a variety of monotype techniques. Perfect for Painters!

Vicky Tomayko has an MFA in Printmaking from Western Michigan University. She taught at Connecticut College and was a fellow at the Fine Arts Work Center. She was an artsist-in-residence at the Lighthouse Charter School in Orleans for 10 years. Tomayko teaches printmaking widely on the Cape. Her work can be seen at the Schoolhouse Gallery in Provincetown.

The Ceramics classes maybe take for College Credit through the Cape Cod Community College. If you are interested in getting college credit please let the registrar know when registering.

Sculptural Clay Flutes Susan Rawcliffe
Aug 31 - Sept 4
Mon - Fri
10am - 2pm
5 sessions
$425

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If it's hollow, it can be made to play! Join master craftswoman and flute maker Susan Rawcliffe. Explore the possibilities of hand building through creating sculptural clay flutes & whistles. Make ocarinas shaped like feet, fruit, or abstract follies; use your plumbing skills to make big harmonic flutes or didjeridus; stick whistles like birds on tree forms; combine hollow forms with whistles to make double chambered whistling bottles. Come, pucker up & blow with us.

For over 25 years, Susan Rawcliffe has been making, playing and researching ceramic flutes, pipes, ocarinas, whistles, trumpets and sound sculptures. Her work evolves through a circular process of making acoustical studies of ancient and contemporary instruments, learning to play them, which then leads to the next generation of instruments and music. Ms. Rawcliffe has performed in countless venues in the United States and internationally. Her work is featured in the book, From Mud to Music, Baird & Hall, American Ceramic Society, 2006.

This Year’s fall Clay intensive
A week of Pottery - Wood, Kilns, and Firing Dan Finnegan

September 7 - 11
9 – 4pm
$450

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Join Dan Finnegan for an intensive one week workshop firing the new wood burning train kiln at Castle Hill this fall. We will glaze, load and fire over the course of the first three days. While the kiln cools Dan will show slides and give demonstrations on wheel throwing and raw glazing. At the end of the week we will unload the kiln and take time to discuss the results. Students should expect to work hard and assist in all phases of the firing process. Wood firing is a true communal effort.

Dan Finnegan trained with Ray Finch at the Winchcombe Pottery in Gloucestershire, England in the late 1970s. He has run his own pottery in Fredericksburg, Virginia since 1980, making functional stoneware pots. Dan has led numerous workshops including the British Museum, the Penland School of Crafts, Savannah College of Art and Design, the Potters Council and the Cape Cod Potters Association. He served on the faculty of the Art League at the Torpedo Factory in Alexandria, Virginia. He is the founder and director of Liberty Town Arts Workshop in Fredericksburg, Virginia. His bourrey box kiln is featured in an article in the fall 2007 issue of the Log Book.

Soda Firing -- Pots and Process Paul Wisotzky
September 15, 22, 29, Oct. 6, 13, 20
Tuesday 9 – 12pm
6 Sessions
$325

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This workshop explores soda-firing from production through firing. We will spend four sessions making wheel-based forms to be soda-fired. Production classes will focus on producing porcelain pots best suited to soda-firing with an emphasis on alteration, texture and surface design. Intermediate throwing skills required. The fifth session will be spent glazing and loading the kiln. We will use a variety of glazes and flashing slips, and students will learn how to effectively load a soda kiln. The final session is the firing where participants will work the sprayer and soda the kiln! Glazing and firing sessions will be longer than the production classes and will be held at the Blueberry Lane Pottery studios in Truro.

Paul Wisotzky has been working in clay for nearly thirty years and began his early ceramic arts education at Castle Hill as a teenager. Paul's ceramics studio is Blueberry Lane Pottery in Truro. He also has a seasonal working studio and exhibition space on MacMillan Pier in Provincetown. Paul works primarily in porcelain and stoneware firing to cone 10 in reduction and salt/soda. Most of his work begins on the wheel and often includes altering, surface decoration, and hand-built elements.
www.blueberrylanepottery.com.

Throwing for All Linden Gray
September 17, 24, October 1, 8, 15, 22
Thursdays 9 – 12pm
6 Sessions
$ 325

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This is a pottery course for beginners and intermediate or for those who would like to refresh their skills. We will cover the basic throwing techniques for creating functional forms like bowls, cups and vases. Work produced in class will be bisque fired only. An optional High firing will be available.

Linden Gray has been one of our studio managers here for the past few years and has been very involved in the building and firing of our new wood kiln. She has been throwing pots for 9 years and holds her BFA for Alfred University. In her work, Linden is interested in the material nature of clay, which is often reflected in her wet altered work. Primarily working with functional forms she is interested in further exploring notions of use.

Evening Ceramics Linden Gray
September 29 , 30, Oct. 6, 7, 13, 14, 20, 21
6 – 8:30pm
Tuesday & Wednesday
$350

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This class will focus on individual instruction, along with group demos in throwing, handbuilding and sculptural forms. The class will end in finished work.

See bio above

Handle It Ryan J Greenheck
October 17 & 18
Saturday & Sunday 10 – 4
2 Sessions
$275

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This workshop will focus on wheel thrown forms that incorporate a handle. An emphasis will be placed on the mug form, while lidded jars, pitchers, and teapots will also be presented. Various wheel throwing and trimming techniques will be demonstrated during the making process. Placement of the handle in each piece will be a consideration from the start. Several handle making techniques will be presented pulled, slab, and coiled. With a concentration towards several pulled handle skills. Every aspect of the handled vessel will be meticulously investigated.

Ryan J. Greenheck received his MFA from SUNY College of Ceramics at Alfred University, along with a BFA from The University of Wisconsin-Stout. In the summer of 2004, he spent three months in the Peoples Republic of China as the visiting Artist at Shanghai University. Ryan has been in numerous national juried exhibitions since 2000. His work is represented in many galleries throughout the country. Ryan is a practicing studio potter, Lecturer at the University of Pennsylvania, and an instructor at several art centers in the Philadelphia area.

High Fire Glaze Day
November 2
Monday, 10 – 2pm, $150 or $100 if you are enrolled in a c lass.

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A chance to get stoneware prepared for the finish, this workshop will cover the essentials of selecting and applying cone 10 reduction glazes and the loading of the big gas kiln. Whatever fits in the load will be fired next day, so come with bisqued pots and be prepared to work hard and fast!.

SPECIAL STUDIO:
Preserving Memories in Paper Clay / Incorporation of Multi Media into Ceramics – Steel, Copper, Aluminum and Fiberglass with Lisa Merida-Paytes
November 7 & 8
Saturday & Sunday
10 – 4pm
$275

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This workshop will explore the characteristics/ possibilities of paperclay. Each participant will learn to mix paperclay using cellulose insulation. Paperclay combines clay with paper fibers to create a new kind of material, making it possible to build large, thin and intricate objects without cracking. This remarkable material has many advantages including; increased pre-firing strength, reduction in warping, increased joining capacity in both wet-to-wet joints and dry-to-dry joining. Paper clay is also self healing.

Lisa Merida-Paytes holds an M.F.A. from the University of Cincinnati and a B.F.A. from the Art Academy of Cincinnati. Her work has been featured in exhibitions and publications, regionally, nationally and internationally for the past 10 years. Recently, her work was featured at The Bentley Projects Gallery during the NCECA Conference in Phoenix, Arizona, the “Endangered” Exhibition, at Gloria Kennedy Gallery in New York, NY, Lillstreet Art Center, in Chicago, IL, and Weston Art Gallery, in Cincinnati, OH. Merida-Paytes’ was appointed Gallery Director at FUNKe FIRED ARTS in 2007.

The Reclining Figure in Clay Joyce Johnson
Sept. 23, 30, Oct. 7, 14
Wednesdays, 1 – 4pm
$250

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The focus will be on the reclining figure in clay. Students will evaluate proportions and forms of the human figure. Students may choose to do a full figure, torso, or portrait of the model. Clay will be sold in class.

Joyce Johnson is a graduate, cum laude, from the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston and the Escuela de Artes Tecnicos y Oficios, Madrid. She is the founder of the Nauset School of Sculpture in North Eastham in 1968 that evolved into Truro Center for the Arts. She also co-founded the Outer Cape Artists Residency Consortium and is on the board for the Highland Center Inc. and Campus Provincetown. She was named a "Living Treasure" by Cape Women Creating in 1997.

Wood Firing at Highland Center Linden Gray
November 13, 14, 15
Friday, Saturday, Sunday
$350

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Glaze your pots and then be part of the exhilarating firing of Castle Hill’s Wood Fired Train Kiln. The wood-fired kiln is a great way to build community.
Firings are typically 42 hours long and use 2 to 3 cords of a mixture of hard and soft wood.

Ceramics Cooperative
Open: September - May
Located at Castle Hill’s 10 Meetinghouse Road (main campus)
You are invited to become a member of Castle Hill’s NEW Ceramics Studio Cooperative. The ceramics studio is available to all levels, including…inquisitive beginners to experienced potters. With your support and participation we expect the New Ceramics Studio to develop into a dynamic place for students and co-op members to pursue their personal growth, while continuing to inspire and promote excellence in Castle Hill’s Ceramics Department. We encourage artists to work and learn together and what better way than through a cooperative environment?

The Castle Hill Ceramics Studio houses 13 wheels (including 3 kick wheels), a slab roller, banding wheels, plaster molds, hand-building equipment & an extruder. Additionally, we have 3 electric kilns, a large gas kiln, 2 raku kilns and a newly built salt kiln.
Ceramic Cooperative members also receive a 10% discount on ceramic workshops at Castle Hill (please remind the registrar when you sign up for a class).

WRITING
Poetry Master Class Maxine Kumin
September 12 & 13
Sat & Sun
10am - 2pm
2 sessions
$275

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Participants will be asked to read other's poems, as well as their own work, aloud. This will give each poet the opportunity to "hear" the poem without prejudice, and provides others the chance to interpret what the poet intended. Discussions will then focus on the content, diction, and intent of the poem.

Maxine Kumin sixteenth poetry collection, Still to Mow, appeared in 2007 in her 82nd year, following Jack and Other New Poems, The Long Marriage, and Selected Poems 19860-1990. She is also the author of Always Beginning: Essays on a Life in Poetry, and a memoir, Inside the Halo and Beyond: Anatomy of a Recovery. Her awards include the Ruth E. Lilly Poetry Prize, the Pulitzer Prize, the Harvard Arts and the Robert Frost Medals. She served as Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress (now titled Poet Laureate) in 1980-81. She and her husband live with their dogs and horses on a farm in New Hampshire, where for many years they bred and raised Arabians and competed in distance rides and drives.

Maxine will be giving a reading on Friday September 11 at 7pm at the Wellfleet Public Library.

To see the Campus Provincetown Catalog click here as a pdf

The Ceramics classes maybe take for College Credit through the Cape Cod Community College. If you are interested in getting college credit please let the registrar know when registering.