Sculpture - Summer 2012
Found Object Construction - Michael Burbank
July 2- 6
Monday-Friday
1 – 4pm
5 Sessions
Castle Hill
$380
Students who attend this workshop should bring some materials that they would like to include in an assemblage. We will review some assemblage art history from masters to maniacs to pique our interest in the varieties of forms and materials available. We will explore local options for collecting materials. We will review “gluing and screwing” choices. We will work on one piece intensively—both in class and at home—for the week of the course.
Michael Burbank is a self-taught artist and “junk” collector. He’s been scouring beaches, bottle dumps, and rust farms for years looking for the odds ‘n sods that spark his imagination. Burbank has exhibited his shadow boxes and assemblages at the Perrin Gallery in Boston, the Concord (MA) Art Association, the Cherrystone Gallery in Wellfleet, and at PAAM in Provincetown. His assemblages and constructions are in collections in Montréal, Toronto, Boston, Chapel Hill, New York, San Francisco, and Wellfleet.
Glass: Kiln Forming - Megan Biddle
July 2 - 5
Monday - Thursday
1pm-4pm
1 Week
4 Sessions
Castle Hill
$360
Fusing is the heat bonding of sheet glass. Sluping is the shaping or bending of glass into or over a mold. In this workshop participants will learn how to design, cut, layer, and fire glass in the kiln using the kiln forming process. Explore the possibilitesis of using htis method through demonstraiton, hands on experience, and looking at images of other artists work. You will be given instruction on safety, glass compatibility, and firing schedules, During this hands-on workshop, you will learn ot cut glass, design, compose, and fire two fused and slumped plates.
Stone Carving - Tor Hansen
July 17-19 & 24-26
Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday
9am-12pm
2 Weeks
6 Sessions
Castle Hill
$395
Carving marble and/or other stones will encompass learning carving techniques and gaining proficiency in basic skills using hand tools namely hammer and chisels, files, and emory cloth. Castle Hill will provide stones** and a set of tools, or you may bring your own tools. Express your art defining forms and energizing ideas while exploring stone integrity.
Tor Hansen studied clay sculpture with Turner and bronze casting with Don Haskin at the University of Arizona, '64 to '68. He studied graphics (etchings & engravings with Andy Rush, Arizona, and Ed Cassarella. NJ. Much impressed with the works of Michaelangelo, Rodin, and Matisse, Tor has since worked in various clays making a series of clay musicians, and made a series of Native American Indian pieces, 1970s to 1990s. He studied marble carving in Carrara, Italy in 1970. Completing a major work in marble, "Earth Song for Two Flutists", he then took a Master of Fine Arts at City College, New York, 1971 to '74. He carved figurative sculpture in wood and limestone as well with Bob Borgotta, and graphics with Sion Moi. Hansen first studied clay modeling with Joyce Johnson at Castle Hill in the '70s. Tor carved more marble in the late '70s, and was preoccupied with pen & ink illustrations of marine life for Woods Hole "Oceanus" and fish for the Cape Cod Museum of Natural History, Brewster, for "The Cape Naturalist", and nature writing as well.
Jewelry One - Mary Beth Rozkewicz
July 16-20
Monday-Friday
8:30am-12:30pm
5 Sessions
Castle Hill
$395
In this intensive one week course students will learn in practice the essential processes for jewelry making – sawing, filing, soldering, surface embellishment, bezel setting stones and finishing. Materials will be sold in class.
Mary Beth Rozkewicz is a studio jeweler living and working in Brooklyn NY. She is an adjunct associate professor of Fine Arts Jewelry at the Pratt Institute in Brooklyn, and teaches workshops throughout the year at the Westchester Center for the Arts in White Plains, NY and at the 92 Street Y in Manhattan. Her work can be seen in museum stores and galleries internationally.
Creative Clay Figure Sculpture - Romolo Del Deo
July 16-20
Monday-Friday
1-4pm
5 Sessions
Castle Hill
$395
The figure has always fascinated humanity and been a core source for the creative communication of our existence since the dawn of prehistoric times. Working in clay from a live model, this course will explore the figure, and methods for creating from it. Students will work both short and long process studies, learning how to develop ideas about the figure. The course is open to all levels of experience. Classes will also feature practical technical instruction as well as individual and group crit.
Romolo Del Deo is part of a family tradition that is an artistic legacy in Provincetown. His own training began in the studio of his father, Salvatore Del Deo, and led him at 18 to apprentice as a stone sculptor in Pietrasanta, Italy as well as attend the Academy of Fine Arts in Florence. Upon returning to the US, he published his thesis on sculpture at Harvard University, where he also worked with the sculptor Dimitri Hadzi. He subsequently served on the faculty of Harvard and as an Artist in Residence at the college. Committed to vanishing artisanal methods of sculpture, Del Deo has worked to invigorate traditional materials throughout his career in Italy and the US. His unusual familiarity with both ancient techniques and new ideas informs all his work. He teaches and lectures on the intersection of creative sculpting, ancient methods and contemporary art theory both here and abroad. Del Deo has exhibited widely in the U.S. and in Europe and is represented internationally in many private and public collections. Locally, he is represented by the Berta Walker Gallery, where he is a featured artist.
Mixed Media and Concrete - Tom O'Connell
July 16 – 20
Monday-Friday
1-4pm
5 Sessions
Castle Hill
$380
This class will focus on learning to work in concrete. Students may make an artwork for the garden, backyard, or above a fireplace. Emphasis will be on the ease of use of the materials, on mold making and casting techniques, on using mixed-media inlay, and on coloring and staining.
Tom O'Connell has been working with concrete for over 25 years. A graduate of the Massachusetts College of Art, he has used concrete as an art material in numerous private and public commissions, including his recent mosaic at the North End Branch Library in Boston. This work is now part of the Boston Public Artwalk. Tom also continues to maintain his work as a designer and fabricator of custom cast concrete countertops, fireplace facades, fountains, benches and pools.
Jewelry Two - Mary Beth Rozkewicz
July 23-27
Monday-Friday
8:30am-12:30pm
5 Sessions
Castle Hill
$395
In Jewelry 2, begin to expand your skills with advanced techniques. Learn processes such as linkage, hollow forming, etching and tube-setting a facetted stone. Materials will be sold in class.
Mary Beth Rozkewicz is a studio jeweler living and working in Brooklyn NY. She is an adjunct associate professor of Fine Arts Jewelry at the Pratt Institute in Brooklyn, and teaches workshops throughout the year at the Westchester Center for the Arts in White Plains, NY and at the 92 Street Y in Manhattan. Her work can be seen in museum stores and galleries internationally.
Innovating with Three Dimensional Construction - Heather Blume
July 23-27
Monday- Friday
1-4pm
5 Sessions
Castle Hill
$380
This class explores additive construction techniques for sculpture less than 24 inches in height. Using wire and branches as the primary form provides spontaneity and pure line quality. Focus is not only on the structure of the armature itself, but also on the successive layers of construction. Cover and surface materials such as paper, cardboard, plaster, and organic material will be altered through a variety of drawing and painting processes and then attached to the armatures. Students are welcome to bring found objects, photo copies, paper scraps, recycled materials, or memorabilia that have personal significance or are reminiscent of past life experiences. They are encouraged to bring a sketchbook/ journal for the class. Experimentation and attention to ones constantly changing environment are emphasized.
Heather Blume, a native of Cape Cod,, graduated with a BFA summa cum laude in Painting from the University of North Florida in 1992 and an MFA cum laude in Sculpture from the New York Academy of Art in 1994. Blume focuses on creating metaphorical and archetypal figurative drawings, paintings, and sculptures in mixed mediums. Her work has been exhibited nationally in New York, Chicago, and San Francisco, as well as internationally in London, England, Paris, France, and Weimar, Germany. She is the recipient of several art awards and grants including a Florida State Grant, a Massachusetts Cultural Council Grant, and three Arts Foundation of Cape Cod Grants. Regionally, her work has been exhibited at and collected by the Cape Museum of Fine Arts and the Provincetown Art Association and Museum. Nationally, her works are included in the permanent collection of the British Museum, and the Royal Coin Cabinet of Sweden in Stockholm. Presently, her sculpture has been selected to be included in the international FIDEM exhibition at the Huntarian Museum in Glasgow, Scotland. Blume maintains a teaching career in tandem with her studio practice.
Woody English Distinguished Artist & Writers Chair honors: Judy Pfaff
Thinking, Working, Space - Judy Pfaff
July 30- August 3
Monday-Friday
9am-12pm (Instruction) 1-4pm (Open Studio)
5 Sessions
Castle Hill
$600
This workshop is for advanced artists. I will work one on one to offer options and strategies to expand in concept or in physical space your particular work. Site should influence your decisions....come with ideas and strong work ethic, anything can happen.
Pfaff creates installations, sculptures, and drawings that explore the possibilities of line in space using materials that range from tree roots to steel, plastics, fiberglass, and plaster. Through a distinguished career that stretches back to the 1970s, she has exhibited internationally and received many prestigious awards. Pfaff is a MacArthur, NEA and Guggenheim Fellow whose installation pieces, sculptures, drawings and prints have been exhibited in some of the most prestigious museums and galleries in the world.
Pfaff's art is featured in such publications as After the Revolution: Women Who Transformed Contemporary Art and Judy Pfaff, a monograph by critic and art historian Irving Sandler. Her work is in collections including the Albright-Knox Art Gallery, the Brooklyn Museum, the Detroit Institute of Art, the High Museum of Art, the Museum of Modern Art, the National Museum of Women in the Arts, and the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York. Pfaff is currently Professor of Art and Co-Chair of the Art Department, Bard College.
Casting in Glass - Megan Biddle
July 30- August 3
Monday- Friday
1-4pm
5 Sessions
Castle Hill
$380
This course provides a relatively simple and direct introduction to kilncasting glass. As a student, you will create a thick glass block featuring reverse-relief imagery. The process will involve making refractory-plaster design elements, securing them in an open-faced mold, filling the mold with pieces of glass billet, and firing the mold in the kiln until the glass flows and covers the design elements. The course will cover safety, firing schedule, mold materials, and different types of glass.
Megan Biddle received her BFA from the Rhode Island School of Design in 2000 and her MFA from the Virginia Commonwealth University School of the Arts in Richmond in 2005. She has attended residencies at The Macdowell Colony, The Jentel Foundation, The Creative Glass Center of America, Sculpture Space, The Virginia Center for Creative Arts and most recently was an emerging artist in residence at Pilchuck Glass School. In 2006 she was awarded the A.I.R. Gallery Fellowship in New York City. Biddle has exhibited nationally and internationally at various venues including the A.I.R. Gallery, XO Projects INC., Side Show, The Islip Art Museum in New York; the Reynolds Gallery Richmond, VA.; Space 1026 Philadelphia, PA.; Urban Arts Space Columbus OH.; Galerie VSUP in the Czech Republic; and the 700IS Experimental Film Festival in Iceland. Her work has been published in New Glass Review and was recently added to the American Embassy’s permanent collection in Riga, Latvia.
Carving Alabaster – Anna Poor
August 6 – 9
Monday-Thursday
9am – 12pm
5 Sessions
Castle Hill
$350
Alabaster is a seductive stone, a wonderful material for both the beginner and advanced sculptor. It is easy to work and ranges from translucent to opaque in many different colors.
We will use animals (real or imagined) as our starting point and work realistically or abstractly. Each student will have a unique piece of alabaster and working subtractively we will find the sculpture hidden within.
Anna Poor is a sculptor with deep roots to the Cape. She is a founder and owner of ArtStrand Gallery in Provincetown. She has had numerous one person and group shows and awards, including a mid-career survey in 2010 at Provincetown Art Association and Museum and a Massachusetts Artist fellowship in 2001. She has been on the board of Castle Hill since 1988 and currently teaches at The Art Institute of Boston/Lesley University.
Textured Metal Jewelry with Found Objects – Jill Baker Gower
Aug. 6-9
Monday-Thursday
1-4 pm
4 Sessions
Register
Learn to create unique textured metal jewelry incorporating interesting found objects of your choice! Demonstrations will include piercing/sawing with a jeweler’s saw and texturing of sheet metal using hammers, stamping tools, as well as acid etching techniques. Acid etching allows the artist to create intricate imagery and designs on sheet metal while using resists and the corrosive action of etching solution. Designs can be hand drawn or appropriated and transferred to the metal from found black and white high contrast imagery. Various cold connections such as riveting, tab and turtle settings will be taught to allow you to incorporate a variety of found materials into your pieces. Basic patinas and metal finishes will be demonstrated as well. No prior metals experience necessary.
Jill Baker Gower, a metalsmith originally from the Chicago area, received her bachelor’s degree in Art Education with an emphasis in metals from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and her Master’s of Fine Arts in Metals from Arizona State University. Jill’s work has been in many juried and invitational exhibitions nationwide and her work has been published in books and periodicals such as 500 Enameled Objects, 500 Plastic Jewelry Designs, and Metalsmith magazine. She is currently an Assistant Professor of Art at Rowan University in southern New Jersey where she teaches all levels of Metals and Jewelry. www.jillbakergower.com
Figure Sculpture in Clay – Joyce Johnson
August 13-17
Monday-Friday
9am-12pm
5 Sessions
Castle Hill
$395
A single pose for at least four sessions will allow participants to execute a comprehensive study of the human figure or a number of sketches - i.e. portrait, torso, full figure, etc. Clay may be purchased in class (includes a bisque firing) or bring your own. No previous figure study experience necessary; all levels of expertise welcome.
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. Cape Women Creating named her a “Living Treasure” in 1997.
Joyce Johnson Chair honors: David Boyajian
Bronze Casting in the Open Face Mold – David Boyajian
August 13-17
Monday-Friday
1-4pm
5 Sessions
Castle Hill
$380
Bronze casting is made quick and easy in this basic introduction to foundry techniques. Soft fire brick will be used as a mold material. Low relief will be carved into the brick using files and sandpaper. Molten bronze will then be poured into the mold, cooled, and released. Each student will create a series of bronze castings that will then be assembled by mig-welding. Patina and mounting techniques will also be covered.
David Boyajian was born and raised in Connecticut. After receiving his BFA in 1980 from Alfred University, he attended the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture and in 1982 completed his MFA at the Maryland Institute, Rinehart School of Sculpture. Since 1986 he has been teaching metal sculpture, introduction to foundry, stone and wood carving at the Silvermine School of Art in New Canaan, CT. David teaches drawing and sculpture at Western Ct. state University and Norwalk community college and teaches metal sculpture classes from his studio in CT.
Eco-Friendly Patinas on Copper and Brass – Sarah Groves
August 13-17
Monday-Friday
1-4 pm
5 sessions
Castle Hill
$380
Explore ways to use some common substances (vinegar, garlic, horseradish, aspirin, cat urine, etc.) from the kitchen, backyard and grocery store to create colorful, eco-friendly patinas on copper and brass. Workshop participants will use hand tools (instruction and tools provided) to make original pieces of jewelry or decorative objects in copper and/or brass and then experiment with applying eco-friendly patinas to these objects. (Patinas can also be applied to copper and brass objects brought from home or a thrift store.) Bring your imagination and willingness to experiment with patinas! All levels of experience in metalsmithing are welcome.
At the end of the workshop, participants will have samples of patinas on copper and brass, some finished pieces with patinas, and a manual with information on techniques and patinas based on ten years of research by the instructor. Note: Artists of all ages are welcome in the workshop. (Children under 12 should be accompanied by an adult.)
Sarah Groves is a metalsmith/jeweler who creates jewelry and sculptural objects using copper, brass, silver, gold and natural gemstones. Since 2001 she has been experimenting with eco-friendly ways to color copper and brass using over 80 substances from the kitchen, backyard and grocery store. She is a full-time studio artist and teaches introductory and intermediate jewelry techniques at Vancouver Community College in Vancouver, BC.
Website: http://blueboxdesign.ca
Glass: Flameworking-Megan Biddle
August 28, 29
Tuesday, Wednesday
1 – 4pm
2 Sessions
Castle Hill
$250
This is an introductory workshop to flame working, which uses a torch to melt colored rods of glass into the desired shape. This class covers the basics of bead making, including tools, safety and studio setup. Techniques include hot glass manipulation, stringers, making basic bead shapes, marvering, dot application, and annealing. Learn to work with hot glass on this small scale.
Megan Biddle received her BFA from the Rhode Island School of Design in 2000 and her MFA from the Virginia Commonwealth University School of the Arts in Richmond in 2005. She has attended residencies at The Macdowell Colony, The Jentel Foundation, The Creative Glass Center of America, Sculpture Space, The Virginia Center for Creative Arts and most recently was an emerging artist in residence at Pilchuck Glass School. In 2006 she was awarded the A.I.R. Gallery Fellowship in New York City. Biddle has exhibited nationally and internationally at various venues including the A.I.R. Gallery, XO Projects INC., Side Show, The Islip Art Museum in New York; the Reynolds Gallery Richmond, VA.; Space 1026 Philadelphia, PA.; Urban Arts Space Columbus OH.; Galerie VSUP in the Czech Republic; and the 700IS Experimental Film Festival in Iceland. Her work has been published in New Glass Review and was recently added to the American Embassy’s permanent collection in Riga, Latvia.
Mixed Media with Resin – Deb Mell
August 27 - 31
Monday - Friday
1 – 4pm
5 Sessions
Castle Hill
$380
This class will focus on learning to use resin. Students will be using the instructor’s own process of mosaic, found objects, sculpture, and resin to make mythological and animal inspired sculpture. Students will be using an array of collected materials and are encouraged to bring their own interesting objects. At the end of the class participants will have a completed small sculpture with completed resined process.
Deb Mell is a Truro resident who graduated from Illinois State University with a BFA. Mell has been a two-time recipient of the Dodge Foundation, a Max Beckman Scholar at the Brooklyn Museum, At LIer Garrigues printmaking fellow, and has shown at the New Museum, Montclair Art Museum, Noyes Museum, and was awarded the Mid-Atlantic Artist Grant.
Workshops Summer 2012
This year over a hundred workshops are being offered in all disciplines.
About Us
A location, nestled in the dunes of Truro and within walking distance to Cape Cod bay, provides an inspirational and meditative backdrop that enhances the workshop experience.
A distinguished faculty that consists of prominent artists in the fields of painting, photography, printmaking, sculpture, ceramics, photography, jewelry and writing.
A student body consists of both working artists and art students who hail from all over the US and Canada. Today Castle Hill celebrates its 40th year Anniversary.