Mixed Media - Summer 2012
Painting the Figure in Mixed Media - Julie Snyder
June 18 - 22
9 – 12
Mon– Fri
5 Sessions
Castle Hill
$395
Expand your art skills and enhance your painting in this 2-part workshop for those who want to improve their skills painting portraits and figures. You will work from life and also spend time developing your studies, then using mixed media, develop and create finished work. The first part of the workshop demystifies color when painting figures or portraits indoors and outdoors under different light. There will be daily demonstrations and plenty of individual instruction. You will learn to reinforce basic techniques while incorporating design, rhythm and edge quality into your work. We include such topics such as setting up color palettes for various lighting conditions, painting the figure with confidence, capturing gesture and likeness, and four rules for competent painting. Then using mixed media we explore how you can expand your techniques, developing freedom and self-expression that will set your work apart.
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Julie Snyder is a well-known figure painter whose excellent use of color has brought her work to national recognition. She was trained at the Glasgow School of Art in Scotland and went on to live in Spain and California where she studied contemporary impressionism. She is represented by galleries in California, Florida and by the Addison Art Gallery in Orleans, Cape Cod. She holds workshops at her studio in Los Angeles and in Europe. Her work has been featured in the American Art Collector and Southwest Art magazines and she has work hanging in the National Art Museum of Sport, Indiana. Julie Snyder is used to working with artists of all levels, getting them to identify and emphasize their strengths while mastering those skills that will vastly improve their artwork.
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.
The Figure in Mixed Media - Amy Wynne Derry
July 2 – 5
9 – 1 pm
Mon – Thur
4 Sessions
Castle Hill
$395
Experimenting with new approaches to your figure drawings can be daunting, especially if you have settled into a certain style. Come be inspired out of your comfort zone through the act of combining media old and new, to perhaps say something more unique and personal with your work. With the human form as your focus, you will be encouraged to explore methods and techniques working with a variety of media such as (and not restricted to) inks, graphite, colored pencil, pen, pastel, and collage. This media will manifest not only on paper but also on clear plastic overlays, wood panels, fabric and other surfaces students wish to use. The live model will be available for reference and some basic anatomical instruction will be given in constructing the figure. Reference will be made to artists who have use multimedia in their figurative work. Through the fusion of the figure, new media/surfaces and what each artist brings to the practice, you will deepen and develop your own narrative and process.
Amy Wynne-Derry is a third generation Truro summer resident. She received her MFA in Painting and Drawing from the NY Academy of Art in Manhattan, and has a BA from Smith College. She also studied at the New York Studio School and the Instituto Allende in San Miguel d’Allende, Mexico. She has been teaching landscape and figurative painting and drawing for over 20 years. For 10 years, she has been teaching full time at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts Boston, and teaches part time at the Rhode Island School of Design. She has had exhibitions across New England and her paintings are in several corporate collections. She has been awarded numerous grants including one from the Rhode Island State Council for the Arts and a recent fellowship to the Vermont Studio Center.
Photo and Encaustic - Elena De La Ville
July 9 -13
Monday-Friday
9am-12pm (Instruction)
1-4pm (Open Studio)
5 Sessions
Castle Hill
$450
This workshop is geared to artists wanting to incorporate photographic imagery in encaustic. Participants will learn techniques such as layering, pouring, transfers and painting. Instructor will discuss safety, techniques, adhering photographic images onto supports, mark making and enhancing with paint and oil sticks. There will be ample time devoted to experimentation as well as an in-depth discussion of printing options, papers, inks, and best archival methods. There will be a Photoshop demo concerning the necessary adjustments settings for proven digital image manipulation. Come prepared to take your photographs to the next level!
Elena De La Ville is adjunct faculty at Ringling College of Art & Design in Sarasota Florida. She teaches at Featherstone Center for the Arts on MV, Wildacres Retreat in North Carolina and has been a presenter at four of the last Encaustic Conferences. Her work has taken on many forms over the years including textile design, photography, metals and encaustic. She has shown internationally and is part of the collection of the Museo de Arte Contemporaneo, and Museo Acarigua, Araure, Venezuela.
The World in Your Studio - Mike Carroll
July 9-13
Monday-Friday
9am-12pm
5 Sessions
Castle Hill
$380
This workshop explores how you operate in your studio and the how your studio operates in the world. It is a painting class that uses discussion, group and individual critique, class assignments, and meditation to examine your process as it occurs, to articulate that process, to determine your relationship to your own personal and career goals and to reach further into your own satisfaction. We’ll discuss whether your viewers experience what you’d like them to experience, and work to match the intuition and intention contained in your work to destinations outside the studio in the public, private, free, personal, protected, accidental and intended places in which artwork is encountered. Your work is visible; are you? Students are asked to come with work, prepared to work, and to set an intention for the class.
Mike Carroll is an artist who also writes and speaks on art and exhibition spaces. He is the owner and director of the Schoolhouse Gallery in Provincetown. He attended Emerson College and the Museum School in Boston. Later he ran the live performance and video section at the Boston Film Video Foundation, when video was in its black and white reel-to-reel infancy. He opened his first gallery, The 11th Hour, near Boston’s South Station and has presented art for 30 years. He exhibits his artwork regularly throughout the US.
Mixed-Media Printmaking - Sarah Riley
July 9-13
Monday-Friday
9am-12pm
5 Sessions
Pamet Crossing
$380
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Experiment with mat-board collagraphs, Plexi-plate drypoints, monoprinting from plastic sheets, using stencils and chine collé. Add whatever (watercolor, colored pencil, India ink, etc.) to complete your exploration. This workshop will use inexpensive materials for plates and get into viscosity printing and simple registration techniques for multiple plates. Prior printmaking experience is helpful but not required.
Sarah Riley, an internationally exhibited printmaker and painter, creates artwork drawn from myth, literature and personal history. Her printmaking studies began at Virginia Commonwealth University with British printmaker, Norman Ackroyd. She studied painting with Theresa Pollock, a student of Hans Hoffman. Sarah has taught printmaking, drawing, design and painting at colleges and universities for over 25 years. She is a professor of art and head of printmaking at Southeast Missouri State University. Her recent book on printmaking, Practical Mixed-Media Printmaking (Dec. 2011), was published by A&C Black, London. Recent exhibitions include a 2012 group show at Viridian Artists, NYC. On Cape Cod she has shown mixed and new media prints at Cove Gallery in Wellfleet and in the 2010 New Media Exhibition at PAAM. Her work is represented in numerous corporate, private and public collections.
Book signing will take place at Castle Hill on June 21, 2012 4 – 6 in conjunction with the members show.
Storytelling & Artist’s Book - Frances Jetter
July 9 – 13
Monday – Friday
1 – 4pm
5 Sessions
Pamet Crossing
$380
Your images (and text, if any) will be made into a bound artist’s book to tell a story, which could be based on a memory from long ago, a short piece from a favorite author, or a retelling of a nursery rhyme. Three book forms will be demonstrated. We will review basics of making a book, from rough sketches through book dummy, finished drawings or prints, to completed book. You will be involved in making each of your 6-10 images function as a separate piece of art, as well as part of a cohesive whole. Work will consist of development of characters, mood, color, texture, pacing and overall design and layout. Use of reference will be discussed, as well as what kind of book structure would work best with your story. The aim will be to produce an object with drama, individuality, and wit. Please bring numerous rough sketches with you, and your preferred materials for making your pictures.
Frances Jetter’s relief prints focus on pPlitical and social subjects. Since 1976, her prints have illustrated articles in publications including the New York Times, the Washington Post, Time, the Village Voice, and books for the Franklin Library, ads for Audubon, and book jackets for Knopf, Macmillan and others. A solo exhibit of her recent artist’s book on torture, “Cry Uncle,” was shown at NYU Langone Medical Center’s Smilow Gallery, and Parsons School of Design before traveling to City College of New York. Her relief prints are included in the permanent collections of the Fogg Art Museum at Harvard University, Detroit Institute of Arts and the New York Public Library Print Collection. Her artist’s books are in libraries including the University of Washington Library, in Seattle, the New York Public Library’s Spencer Collection, Fleet Library at Rhode Island School of Design in Providence, Charles E. Young Research Library, UCLA, California, Stanford University, Art and Architecture Library, Stanford, California, and Williams College’s Chapin Library in Williamstown, MA and other special collections. She has received many grants and fellowships and has taught at the School of Visual Arts since 1979. Her work can be viewed at www.francesjetter.com
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.
This years's Ella Jackson Chair honors:
Process: Making and Meaning - Deborah Dancy
July 16 – 20
Monday – Friday
9 -12 pm (Instruction)
1 -4pm (Open Studio)
5 Sessions
Castle Hill
$450
This is a mixed media painting/drawing workshop that encourages process as a strategy toward discovering personal and conceptual iconography and meaning. Using a range and variety of tools, materials and references, individuals will examine how chance and accident can inform content whether through representation, invention or abstraction.
Deborah Dancy is on the faculty at the University of Connecticut. She has received numerous awards and honors including: Guggenheim Fellowship, Connecticut Commission of the Arts Artist Grant, New England Foundation for the Arts/NEA Individual Artist Grant, Nexus Press Artist Book Project Award, Visual Studies Artist Book Project Residency Grant, The American Antiquarian Society’s William Randolph Hearst Fellowship, and a Women’s Studio Workshop Residency Grant. Her work has been exhibited at: Purdue University, The Housatonic Museum, The College of Saint Rose, The University of Rhode Island, Hobart and William Smith Colleges, The Spencer Museum, Mobius, The Mead Art Museum and The DeCordova Museum. Her work is included in the permanent collections of: The Boston Museum of Fine, The Birmingham Museum of Art, The Baltimore Museum of Art, The Montgomery Museum of Art, The Spencer Museum of Art, The Hunter Museum of Art, Vanderbilt University, Grinnell College, Oberlin College Museum of Art, Davidson Art Center, The Detroit Museum of Art, General Electric Company, Chemical Bank, and the United States Embassy in Cameroon. She is represented by, Sears-Peyton Gallery, New York, G.R.N’Namdi Gallery, Chicago and Charles Young Fine Prints and Drawings, Connecticut.
Animate Your Art: Make it Move (Animation for Artists) - Jennifer Moller
July 16-20
Monday – Friday
9am -12pm
5 Sessions
Pamet Crossing
$380
ReThis is an interdisciplinary class that is designed to stimulate your relationship to your artwork by making it move. Animation is a contemporary fine art medium and any art can be used in the making of animation. Designers, graphic artists, musicians, painters, performers, photographers, printers, and sculptors will be given the opportunity to explore the possibilities of bringing new life to their chosen traditional mediums. Experienced animators and filmmakers will gain the opportunity of collaborating with artists from a variety of other artistic disciplines. We will be working in Photoshop and will explore some other relevant programs. Some basic animation, film, video, or computer skills are suggested but not required.
Jennifer Moller is an accomplished artist who has worked as a freelance editorial and advertising photographer and videographer. Her education includes an MFA from Maine College of Art in 2003. She has spent many hours creating and teaching in two very magical places, Cape Cod, MA and Santa Fe, NM. She taught for six years at the Art Institute of Boston and has conducted photography workshops at the Santa Fe Photographic Workshops, Cape Cod Photographic Workshops, and Castle Hill. Most recently she was chosen to spend a year as an artist in residence by the New Media department at the Institute of American Indian Art for the Fall 2010-Spring 2011 in Santa Fe. Her video installation, “seas” and handmade book is in the collection of the Hood Museum at Dartmouth. She is currently on staff at Castle Hill. For more about Jennifer and her work visit www.jennmoller.com and her blog: jmoller.wordpress.com.
Sketch Journey Through Time and Space on the Pamet River - Mark Adams
July 21 & 22
Saturday & Sunday
1-5pm
Castle Hill
$250
Less than three miles long, Truro’s Pamet River occupies a valley hollowed out by the sudden draining of Cape Cod Lake in glacial times (or so geologists speculate). The setting offers the opportunity to journey with sketchbook in hand from Bay to Ocean and in a few hours to observe vast salt marshes, historic vistas, overgrown channels and a barrier ocean beach. The class will offer a variety of methods for quick sketching with pencil, pen and ink, washes and watercolor, as well as descriptive exercises to sharpen observation. All levels are welcome provided participants bring a willingness to experiment and observe. Cameras are also welcome as an additional means to capture details and landscapes. Brief discussions of geology, wetland ecology, and natural/cultural history will be interspersed with drawing sessions. Weather permitting, a kayak session is planned for Sunday, and waterproof sketch journals will be available for a nominal fee. Participants must be capable of paddling their own kayak. Kayaks can be provided at local rental rates or bring your own for the Sunday session.
Mark Adams is a landscape painter (Schoolhouse Gallery, Provincetown; The Fireplace Project, Easthampton) and has been a cartographer/geographer with the National Park Service for 15 years.
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.
The Transferred Image: Printmaking and Beyond - Dorothy Cochran
July 30 – August 3
Monday-Friday
9am - 12pm
5 Sessions
Pamet Crossing
$380
This is an experimental media and print class for artists to explore transferring ink and paint from one surface to another. Beginning with gelatin plates used as a matrix for monoprints, participants will cumulatively build a repertoire of techniques to be used in mixed media art works with a printmaking basis. Learn to transfer digital inkjet and laser images with acrylic gels and gesso, explore gampi silk tissue for photographic transfers, experiment with various papers, boards and substrates and these are just a few of the possibilities. Strategies for moving beyond technique to practice will be discussed and critiqued. Artists interested in printmaking, collage, book arts, and encaustic painting are welcome. Individual projects will be encouraged.
Dorothy Cochran has an M.F.A. from Columbia University's School of the Arts, and exhibits her prints nationally. A two-time recipient of a NJ State Council on the Arts fellowship, she has taught at Columbia University, CUNY and is a faculty member at The Montclair Art Museum. She is a popular workshop teacher in printmaking and artist books acknowledged for her expertise and broad command of multiple print methods. Her work is in the collections of the Museum of Modern Art (MOMA), the National Gallery in Washington, D.C., the New York Public Library and represented in both corporate and private collections.. Recent exhibitions include the Center for Contemporary Printmaking, Norwalk, CT, the Art Museum of Southwest University in Minnesota and Franklin54 Gallery in New York City. In June of 2011 she was a panelist at the Fifth International Encaustic Conference in Provincetown, MA. For further information, see www.dorothycochran.com.
Print Projects - Anne Gilman
Aug 6 – 9
Monday – Thursday
9am – 1pm
4 Sessions
Pamet Crossing
$380
Printmaking offers an opportunity to have an image created and then re-worked and printed as a variation. Picasso made many prints by changing and redrawing on his plates to make new images. Each different "state" became its own finished image. In this class you will learn how to use etching to create many related images and explore variations on a theme. You will end up with a suite of related prints! (The instructor will give you several themes to choose from or you can choose your own.) This class is suitable for students at any level of experience from beginner to advanced. Techniques will include line etching, open bite, soft ground, dry point, chine colle, and experimental techniques with litho crayon and wash.
Anne Gilman is a Brooklyn based artist who does large installation drawings and artist book projects. Her work has been exhibited in solo and group shows in Latin America, Europe and the United States including Mexico, Havana, Berlin, Paris, Chicago and New York. Publications include Gilman’s artist book, Bordes deshilachados/Frayed Edges, released by Ediciones Vigia, in Matanzas, Cuba, and the zines Nishtugadacht, Contra el mal de ojo and Don’t Lose Heart. Her work is in public and private collections in London, Spain, Australia, Cuba, Mexico, and the United States and she has been the subject of interviews on Cuban national television during a solo exhibition in Havana. A survey of her work from the last ten years, Observations, errors, and corrections, was held this past fall at Mansfield University. She will be an upcoming, featured artist at the Center For Book Arts with her project The Jolly Balance in April and her next solo show, Paper Line Edit opens March 3rd at University of the Arts in Philadelphia. Anne was a recipient of a 2010 Fellowship from the Edward Albee Foundation and she was awarded a MacDowell Fellowship for December 2011 – January 2012.
Woody English Chair - Judy Pfaff
July 30- August 3
Monday-Friday
9am-12pm (Instruction) 1-4pm (Open Studio)
5 Sessions
Castle Hill
$550
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.
Drawing, Mixed Media, and Collage - Susan Lyman
July 30 - August 3
Monday – Friday
9am-12pm
5 Sessions
Castle Hill
$380
In this exploratory workshop we will use drawing, collage methods and mixed media as means to elucidate ideas, develop content, and move our work forward. Students at any level are welcome and both two- and three-dimensional directions in a variety of media are possible. Initial assignments on paper will be given to help the class break through creative blocks (samples or images of previous work may be helpful); additional assignments can be given for those looking for more direction. Bring conventional and unconventional drawing and painting tools and materials/supports that you are already using and/or new materials that inspire you. Collected collage materials and resource images, including photographs, will also be useful. A suggested materials and tools list will also be available well before the start of the workshop.
Susan Lyman is a sculptor and painter who has lived year-round in Provincetown since 1981 when she was awarded a Visual Arts Fellowship at the Fine Arts Work Center. She is also the recipient of grants from Rhode Island School of Design, the National Endowment for the Arts, the Pollock-Krasner Foundation, and the Artists’ Foundation of Boston. Lyman has exhibited her work in numerous solo and group exhibitions for over 30 years in the United States, Japan, and New Zealand. Her work is held in corporate and museum collections. In 2009 Lyman’s work was featured in the exhibition "Second Nature: Vico Fabbris, Susan Lyman, Michael Mazur, Nathalie Miebach" at PAAM. In Provincetown she is represented by Schoolhouse Gallery. Lyman has taught at RISD, Massachusetts College of Art, Hamilton College, Fine Arts Work Center, and University of Michigan School of Art, where she received her BFA and MFA. Presently she teaches sculpture, drawing, and three-dimensional design at Providence College.
Textured Metal Jewelry with Found Objects – Jill Baker Gower
Aug. 6-9
Monday-Thursday
1-4 pm
4 Sessions
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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
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
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.