Painting Workshops - Summer 2012
Landscape Painting on Location - Mary J. Arthur
June 18 - 22
Mon – Fri
9am – Noon
5 Sessions
$380
Learn, discover and develop your own direction while building technical and compositional skills with regard to painting outdoors! Explore and experience a unique landscape setting while improving your painting skills and knowledge. Each class will begin with an early morning demonstration before painting. The course focuses on understanding painting on location, planning and executing smart compositions in changing light, observing nature quickly and with confidence, as well as materials and techniques for successful outdoor painting. Any medium welcome, demonstrations will be in oil. A portable easel is necessary.
Mary J. Arthur has a BA from Marywood University, a BFA from Kansas City Art Institute, and an MFA from the Graduate School of Figurative Art at the New York Academy of Art. She has received numerous awards and fellowships in the visual arts and education including the Prince of Wales Fellowship in Normandy, France; the Alfred & Trafford Klots Artist Fellowship, Brittany, France; a National Arts Club Award, New York City; and an Excellence in Teaching Award sponsored by the Mid-America Arts Alliance. She is a 2004 and 2006 recipient of an Individual Artist Award in the Visual Arts with the Maryland State Arts Council. Mary currently teaches life drawing, anatomy, portraiture and painting at the Maryland Institute College of Art in Baltimore and St. John’s College in Annapolis. She has been published in New American Paintings as well as The Artist’s Magazine. She has exhibited nationally and internationally.
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.
Watercolor - Elizabeth Pratt
June 25 - 29
9 - Noon
Mon – Fri
5 Sessions
Castle Hill
$380
Painting with watercolor can be exciting if you use creativity and imagination and learn to let your painting evolve by building deeper color, dramatic light and interesting form and line. Different methods to achieve this and texture will be demonstrated each day. Some experience with the watercolor medium will be needed.
Elizabeth Pratt is a Copley master and long-time member of the New England Watercolor Society. She has had sixty one-woman shows including a recent one at the Cape Cod Museum of Art. She is an elected member of Audubon Artists of New York City with work appearing in twelve books on watercolor. She is represented locally by Addison Gallery in Orleans.
Painting Provincetown - Lisbeth Firmin
June 25 - 29
Mon - Fri
9 - 12
$380
Off Site
This class will follow a long tradition of plein air painting in Provincetown. Students will paint outdoors in America's oldest artists' colony, working quickly with big brushes to describe what they see: cars, houses, the monument, the breakwater, tourists, and the occasional dog. These paintings will concentrate on capturing the unique light and energy of a moment. On the first day, the class will paint at the monument following a demonstration by the instructor. There will be a critique at the end of each session. Structured for beginners and advanced painters who want to expand their skills.
Lisbeth Firmin is a contemporary American realist known for her urban landscapes. For over four decades her work has been in hundreds of solo and group shows across the country and internationally. Awards include first prize in WSKG Public Radio’s annual 2010 Art in Motion Competition in Binghamton, NY, 2010 People’s Choice Award, Woodstock Regional at the Woodstock Museum, a 2007 NY Foundation for the Arts Fellowship for printmaking, a Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant, the New York Print Club Emerging Artist Award, the CCVA Award at the Chautauqua Center for the Visual Arts, and first prize in the LANA International Arts Competition awarded by Wayne Thiebaud. She has been awarded full fellowships to the MacDowell Colony, National Seashore Residency, the Vermont Studio Center and Saltonstall Arts Colony. Her paintings and prints are in several public and corporate collections. Lisbeth is a full-time painter working in an old storefront studio in upstate New York, and is represented in Provincetown by the Rice-Polak Gallery.
Still Life Beyond Still Life - Richard Baker
June 25 - 29
Mon - Fri
1 - 4
5 Sessions
$380
This is a workshop for painters with a keen interest in still life painting and a strong desire to push past conventional still life setups. We will begin painting a quick "traditional" arrangement and then collectively explore various ways of extending the tradition into unknown territory. We will consider issues of composition (Can still life move vertically? Can it expand into interior space?) and of subject matter (Are there ways of including representations of the human form? What sorts of objects are not usually common to still life painting?). A serious interest in open-ended, playful exploration is necessary.
Richard Baker attended the Maryland Institute, College of Art and the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. His work has been exhibited in group shows nationally and he has had numerous solo exhibitions at the Tibor de Nagy Gallery, and the Joan T. Washburn Gallery in New York and the Albert Merola Gallery in Provincetown as well as shows in New Orleans, San Francisco, Los Angeles and elsewhere. Awards include those from the NY Foundation for the Arts, the New England Foundation for the Arts and the Pollock-Krasner Foundation.
He has taught or been a visiting artist at the University of Iowa, Boston University, Fine Arts Work Center, the Rhode Island School of Design, the School of Visual Arts in NY, and others. He currently teaches at the Mason Gross School of the Arts, Rutgers University. He is currently represented by the Tibor de Nagy Gallery in New York and the Albert Merola Gallery in Provincetown, and appears on the cover of Provincetown Arts for 2011.
Summer Light and Paint: Simplifying the Complex Environment -
Nancy McCarthy
June 25 – July 1
1 - 4pm
Mon – Fri
5 Sessions
Off Site
$380
The natural world has remained a potent source for artists throughout history. The long hours of light in summer provide sustained time to see and paint the complex, no-name colors that make up the landscape. The focus of this workshop is simplifying complex vistas into shapes that depend on accurately seeing and recording tonal and color-temperature relationships. A series of exercises with large brushes and palette knives will encourage this process. We'll begin with viewing contemporary and historical landscape painters and discussion of the issues, tools and procedures unique to painting outdoors. Each day a one-sitting painting will be completed. Some painting experience is required; those who have painted outdoors many times or those doing so for the first time are welcome to join this intense workshop meant to energize your painting practice. Water based or oil paint may be used.
Nancy McCarthy is represented by the William-Scott Gallery in Provincetown. Exhibitions include: Washington Art Association, Washington Depot, CT; Post Office Gallery, Truro, MA; The Abbey, Brooklyn NY; Manifest Drawing and Painting Center, Cincinnati, OH; Simmons College, Boston; Bromfield Gallery, Boston; MFA Circle Gallery, Annapolis, MD; First Street Gallery, NY; among others. Awards include: a 2009 St. Botolph Foundation Award, Artist’s Grant, Vermont Studio Center and a Ragdale Foundation Fellowship. She teaches at Massachusetts College of Art and Design and has taught at Assumption College in Worcester, MA. www.nancymccarthy.net
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.
Interpreting the Landscape - Cammie Watson
July 2 – 6
Mon – Fri
9 – 12
5 Sessions
Castle Hill
$380
A landscape painting develops depth and meaning as data from the outside world is filtered through the artist. The painting becomes a visual expression of the artist’s feelings in response to the subject, rather than a rendering of what the eye alone can see. In this workshop we will alternate between collecting data through sketches, notes, and memory in the field on one day, and the next day creating a landscape in the studio by allowing that data to expand and refine through our work. Students may work in their medium of choice.
N. Cameron Watson is an award-winning third generation painter, author, and illustrator whose work has received honors from Kirkus Reviews, the Golden Book Club, Reading Rainbow, the Society of Illustrators, and Provincetown Art Association & Museum. Cammie's work was presented in a solo show at the Cape Cod Museum of Art, has appeared in many juried shows, including at the Cape Cod Museum of Art and the Provincetown Art Association & Museum, and is in the Cape Cod Museum of Art's permanent collection and numerous private collections. Early artistic training was largely from family and self-study. She completed a three-year apprenticeship in Germany and graduated from Yale College. She is a member of the Provincetown Art Association and the Society of Children’s Book Writers and Illustrators, and has taught classes at Castle Hill and the Academy for the Performing Arts in Orleans. Cammie grew up in Putney, Vermont and Truro, Massachusetts. Her father, Aldren Auld Watson, is a painter, illustrator, designer, and author. Her mother, Nancy Dingman Watson, was a poet and children’s book author. Her paternal grandparents, Ernest and Eva Watson, were painters and pioneer color block print makers.
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.
Landscape and Architecture in Aquamedia - Kathryn Myers
July 9 – 13
Monday-Friday
1 – 4 pm
5 sessions
Castle Hill
$380
This course will utilize the opaque qualities of gouache and the transparency of watercolor to create intimately scaled paintings of landscape and architecture derived from both observation and invention. A particular focus of this class will focus on how space, decorative elements, and saturated color have been used in Indian miniature painting to create paintings that shift between two and three-dimensional space. Students may work from life as well as from photographic sources.
Kathryn Myers has been teaching painting and drawing at the University of Connecticut since 1984. She received an MFA in painting from the University of Wisconsin, Madison and a BA in art from St. Xavier College in Chicago. For the past decade her paintings have been inspired and informed by her immersion in the art and culture of India. She has been the recipient of two Fulbright Fellowships to India in 2002 and 2011. Other awards include The Marie Walsh Sharpe Foundation, and The Connecticut Commission on the Arts. She has exhibited her work widely in the United States and India.
ELLA JACKSON CHAIR HONORS: Deborah Dancy
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.
Deborah Dancy, Jan 2012 from Gorky's Granddaughter on Vimeo.
Beginning and Intermediate Oil Painting - Peter Chepus
July 16-20
Monday-Friday
9am-12pm
5 Sessions
Castle Hill
$380
This is a workshop for beginner and intermediate painters who would like to learn or review the basics of oil painting. We’ll start by exploring the materials available and how to use them properly. Then we’ll study subjects like composition, value, color, techniques; how to paint from live and photographs; and how to begin and finish a painting. Each day, after a short lecture, the students will create a new painting applying what was learned. The small size of the class allows for plenty of individual attention.
Peter Chepus studied art at the Cape Cod School of Arts and at the Armory Art Center in Florida. For the past eleven years he has been conducting painting workshops in Florida and on Cape Cod. He is a native of Cuba and has been painting professionally for the past 25 years. His solo exhibits include the Palm Beach Hibel Museum of Art, Palm Beach Council on the Arts, and the Truro Public Library. He is represented by Cortile Gallery in Provincetown, Massachusetts. www.peterchepus.com.
Landscape Painting - Don Beal
July 16 – 20
Monday – Friday
9am -12 pm
5 Sessions
Off Site
$380
Class will meet outdoors at pre-arranged sites nearby, and possibly in Provincetown and Wellfleet. Participants should come prepared to work in all weather conditions, except rain, and should consider equipping themselves with hats, bug repellant, sunscreen, and umbrellas. A new painting will be done each day of class. Recommended canvas size is from 9"x12" up to 16"x20". Gessoed masonite, heavy weight paper or panel are also suitable painting surfaces, as is canvas boards. Oil paint is the preferred medium, though acrylics are fine.
Donald Beal studied painting at the Swain School of Design in New Bedford, Massachusetts, Brooklyn College in Brooklyn, New York, and received an MFA from Parsons School of Design in 1983. Beal has been a Professor of Fine Arts at the University of Massachusetts in North Dartmouth since 1999. He continues to live and paint in Provincetown. He is currently represented by the Berta Walker Gallery in Provincetown, Massachusetts. In 1985 he moved to Provincetown, Massachusetts, where he married photographer Khristine Hopkins. They have a son, Max.
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.
Excavating Encaustic - Laura Moriarty
July 23 – 27
Mon –Fri
9am-12pm (Instruction)
1-4pm (Open Studio)
5 sessions
Castle Hill
$450
Dig into encaustic, the fun and luminous medium of pigmented beeswax. This workshop is designed for artists who are interested in taking an archaeological approach to the medium, considering the painting as an environment of color, texture and image that can be excavated to tell a story. We will approach encaustic paint as matter that can be built up, layered, scraped, carved, cut, pushed, poured, eroded and stressed. The class will work in two and/or three dimensions. For the first half of each day, the studio will function as a laboratory, where we conduct daily 'experiments' presented as demonstrations. Students will then have the afternoon to work on independent projects that they will develop throughout the week. Group discussions and one-on-one critiques will help deepen our practice. We will review all the most basic best practices for encaustic painting at the beginning of the workshop, so prior experience with encaustic is not required, but those with some experience should not shy away, because there will be plenty to explore at a more advanced level as well.
Laura Moriarty has exhibited extensively throughout the U.S., Canada and Europe. She has participated in residencies at the NOCCA Institute in New Orleans, Women’s Studio Workshop, the Frans Masereel Center in Belgium, Oberpfälzer Künstlerhaus in Germany, Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, and the Ucross Foundation in Wyoming. She has been awarded two Pollock-Krasner Foundation grants (1997 and 2007), as well as grants from the New York Foundation for the Arts, and the Craft Alliance of New York State. Moriarty has been conducting encaustic painting workshops for over ten years, both through R&F Handmade Paints and as a visiting artist in schools and art centers nation-wide. She is based in New York's Hudson River Valley and is Director of the Gallery at R&F Handmade Paints. More info available at www.lauramoriarty.com
Pigment Stick Workshop - Wayne Montecalvo
July 23 – 27
Monday –Friday
9 am– 12pm
5 sessions
Castle Hill
$380
Register
Anyone who has picked up a pen or pencil to write already has an idea of how pigment sticks can be used. They are a quick medium for working out ideas, combining painting and drawing at the same time. Pigment sticks are perfect for working outdoors as they do not require any paint thinner, solvent, or even brushes depending on how one prefers to work. For those who already are painters, they can be mixed with tube oil paint and used with a brush. They can also have immediacy for anyone who likes to work with a dry medium such as pencil, charcoal, or pastel. They can also be used on a surprising amount of surfaces such as canvas, paper, glass, and even more dimensional surfaces such as plaster, ceramics, or concrete. Pigment sticks can also be combined with encaustic and used in printmaking, with or without a press. One of the techniques we will explore is using pigment sticks for making monotypes. The class will address working on different grounds and prepared surfaces, and to find ways to use the medium in making art regardless of one’s style or technique.
Wayne Montecalvo grew up in Edison, NJ and graduated from the School of Visual Arts in New York. Although his art making practice spans several disciplines, he has always had a fondness for including cheap, easily accumulated, and found materials in his work. Wayne has taught workshops at Women’s Studio Workshop, Bard College, R&F Handmade Paints, Essex Art Center, and the Center for Contemporary Printmaking. He has taken part in residencies at Vermont Studio Center, Frans Masereel Center, and the John Michael Kohler Arts/Industry Artist-In-Residence. Wayne currently maintains a studio in Rosendale, NY, and works for the Fine & Performing Art Department at SUNY, New Paltz, NY.
Plein Air Landscape Painting on the Outer Cape - Amy Wynne Derry
July 23-26
Monday-Thursday
8am-12pm
5 Sessions
Off Site
$380
Come paint the inspiring landscape of Truro and Provincetown. Embrace the exciting challenge of painting and drawing outdoors, catching the fleeting, changing light in all its subtle and elusive immediacy. As our planet degrades, there is an increasing need to be out in the elements making beautiful paintings; perhaps this will awaken people to save what we are quickly destroying. Simple hikes will take us to tidal marshes, ocean and bay beaches and the Provinceland dunes to visually explore the landscape at various times of day. Initially, there will be an emphasis on drawing the inner structure of the landscape and its compositional dynamics to accumulate sketches and visual data. We will then explore the varied topography of surface, building the paintings from the ground up, respecting the anatomy of the painting. We will allow the layering and the process to create subtleties that imbue the work with a spirit of place. Students of all levels are welcome; however, a basic knowledge of oil paint is preferable.
Amy Wynne-Derry is a third generation Truro summer resident. The artist received her MFA in Painting and Drawing from the New York 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.
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.
Experimental Drawing: Bringing Drawings to Life Through Photography
Zehra Khan & Tim Winn
July 30 – August 3
Monday-Friday
1 – 4 pm
5 Sessions
Castle Hill
$380
In this workshop, we will explore the use of drawing within multi-media projects. We will bring drawings to life by placing them in real world environments and capturing the results through photography. This is an opportunity to expand the scale, scope and meaning of drawing and to reconsider how to represent the drawn image - possibly pushing it beyond the confines of a two-dimensional piece of paper. There are many exciting ways to ‘activate’ a drawing. Potential techniques include changes in scale, the creation of dioramas and maquettes, mask-making and costuming, or the use of simple video and animation. This workshop is suitable for all skill levels and is ideal for artists who wish to push beyond traditional ideas of what a drawing can do. Participants should bring digital cameras that they are comfortable using (SLR not necessary).
Tim Winn and Zehra Khan create collaborative art installations and performances, and consider drawing to be their primary medium. In the past two years, they have exhibited together at UMass Amherst, UMass Lowell, Worcester State University, Cape Cod Community College, the Chazan Gallery in Providence, RI and Gallery Ehva in Provincetown. Tim was featured in a 2011 Northeast edition of New American Paintings and is part of the Boston Drawing Project. Zehra is currently included in the NYC Drawing Center’s Viewing Program and the deCordova Museum Corporate Lending Program. They both received their Master of Fine Arts at the Massachusetts College of Art and Design at the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown and are represented by Gallery Ehva. To see Tim’s artwork visit www.folkdevils.com. To see Zehra’s artwork visit www.zehrakhan.com.
Portrait Painting - Salvatore Del Deo
August 6-9
Monday-Thursday
9am-12pm
4 Sessions
Castle Hill
$380
Come learn to paint from the real masters of Cape Cod. Del Deo’s strong, individualistic approach to the portrait and the figure is rooted in the realist tradition of his early training with Charles Hawthorne, Henry Hensche, and Edwin Dickinson. His skill springs from this tradition, which he has maintained throughout his long painting career in a variety of media, but especially oil painting. Speaking about the art of portrait painting, he 
emphasizes the necessity to establish a dialogue with the sitter in order to create the essence of the model on the canvas.
Salvatore Del Deo was born in Providence, RI, and received his first artistic training at the Rhode Island School of Design. He later graduated from the Vesper George School of Art in Boston and went on to study with Henry Hensche at the Cape School of Art and with Edwin Dickinson at the Art Students’ League in New York. He has been an active member of the art community in Provincetown for more than 50 years and was one of the founders of the Fine Arts Work Center. He has exhibited widely in the United States and is in several public and many private collections. He is represented in Provincetown by the Berta Walker Gallery.
Color Light and Landscape - William Papaleo
August 1 - 4
Mon – Thurs
1 - 4
4 sessions
Castle Hill
$380
The focus of this workshop will be on using color as a vehicle to heighten perception of nature and create a personal vision of it. With a richer understanding of light and mass, it becomes easier for students to use color to produce original, intuitive reactions to landscape. It also allows them to improve their drawing skills with a painter’s sensitivity, and avoid conventional rendering. Students may choose to work with pastel, watercolor and/or oils for their studies. We will work in various parts of the Truro landscape and from memory. Students will be encouraged to use different grounds and papers to gain knowledge and proficiency in their preferred medium.
William Papaleo has been teaching and painting in Italy over the past 20 years, while creating a bridge to the United States through his workshops and galleries in New York, Washington DC, Rhode Island and Provincetown. Robert Beverly Hale at the Art Students League and Henry Hensche at the Cape School were influential in his artistic formation in America. In Italy, he studied and practiced in ancient and modern oil and fresco techniques with Antonio Montagna in various churches in Piemonte and Lombardy and figure and etching at the Accademia di Belle Arti in Naples. Synthesizing classical and modern techniques, his goal is to give students solid technique to free them to discover their individual voice. www.williampapaleo.it
Painting the Figure - Antonia Ramis Miguel
August 6-9
Monday-Thursday
1-4pm
4 Sessions
Castle Hill
$380
This class will be an exploration of painting the figure; working with models to capture the essence of every pose, as well as achieve an accurate representation of it if desired. We'll work from the model, and from sketches done from the model, and use our creativity to make our painting unique. We'll be analyzing images of figures from great masters to determine what makes them so wonderful and lasting. There will be individual attention as well as direction for the class as a whole. All levels are welcome.
Antonia Ramis Miguel was trained in Europe and has been painting for more than 20 years. Her work has been shown in her native Spain, Vienna, Washington, D.C. and London. You can view her work at www.antoniaramismiguel.com
Drawing into Painting - Megan Hinton
August 13-17
Monday-Friday
9am-12pm
5 Sessions
Castle Hill
$380
Historically drawing has always informed and been the precursor to the practice of painting. In today’s contemporary art world drawing is often the main focus of artistic practice. Drawing and painting continually cross over. Much argument of the differences or similarities between painting and drawing exists in current artistic discourse and studio practice. This class will explore the differences and similarities between drawing and painting concepts and media. The workshop will use of a variety of drawing materials and methods merge with the practice of painting. This approach of considering drawing as a path to painting will help participants achieve a repertoire of painterly mark-making approaches that may open up doors to more imaginative, abstract, or experimental work.
Megan Hinton’s paintings and works on paper have been exhibited throughout North America. She shows her work at the William Scott Gallery in Provincetown, MA, the Old Spouter Gallery on Nantucket, and the Munson Gallery in Chatham, MA. Hinton holds degrees from Ohio Wesleyan University, the School of the Museum of Fine Arts Boston, and New York University. She has been awarded the Dorothy Getz fellowship from Ohio Wesleyan, the C-Scape Dune Shack artist residency from the Provincetown Compact, and twice a print studio fellowship from the Women’s Studio Workshop in New York. Hinton’s work is included in the permanent collections of the Cape Cod Museum of Art and the Provincetown Art Association and Museum. In 2012 her work will be included in a three person exhibition at the Krause Gallery of the Moses Brown School in Providence, RI, followed by a solo show of her work at the Carver Hill Gallery in Rockland, ME. Megan is an avid traveler and admirer of the ocean, both of which inform her work.
Landscape Painting: Observation and Concept - Charles Basham
August 13-17
Monday-Friday
9am-12pm
5 Sessions
Off Site
$380
The purpose of this class is multifold: to paint from the landscape as a means of investigating exterior space, color and light; to incorporate into these paintings your comprehensive understanding of art historical styles; and to develop a contemporaneous manner in utilizing the landscape motif within your own work. In the first case, you should develop an understanding and appreciation of space, light, color and tone by painting the landscape from life and becoming fluent in recording natural phenomena through observation. Secondly, by looking at paintings and reading about them, you can utilize ideas that can inform your own work. Learn to see better first; think about what you are saying next. We will go out to different spots to paint for the first three day with the purpose of completing individual paintings each day. The last two days will be devoted to a single painting from the same spot in order to have more time for a fully realized work. Each day will start with a demonstration and usually end with a short critique in order to get necessary feedback and to establish a better student/instructor understanding.
Charles Basham received his B.F.A. and M.F.A. from Kent State University in his native state of Ohio, where he still resides on the family farm where he grew up. He has been making art for thirty years, and, as a result, has enjoyed much acclaim for his visually stimulating and emotionally charged landscapes. Throughout his career, Basham has become more and more attuned to the subtle changes in weather and atmosphere. In his pastels and oil paintings, the energy and impact of light is realized in harmonized color whose saturation and temperature have been pushed and raised beyond previous limits. In doing so, he has captured dramatic and compelling moments of morning and evening light over the ocean and bay of Cape Cod, the farmlands of Ohio, the mountains of North Carolina and the marshes of the low country in South Carolina.
Painting Secrets of the Old Masters - Dina Brodsky
August 13-17
Monday-Friday
1-4pm
5 Sessions
Castle Hill
$380
This is a class designed to introduce students to painting techniques used throughout the history of European oil painting. Through a variety of in-class exercises and demonstrations we will cover indirect painting methods like grisaille, glazing and velatura, breaking down into elements the techniques used in order to create the effects of light and shade, as well as composition and design used by the old masters in order to create the paintings we now associate with them.
Dina Brodsky was born in Minsk, Belarus, and immigrated to the U.S. in 1990. She received her BFA from the University of Massachusetts at Amherst, and her MFA from the New York Academy of Art. Her painting reflects a desire to combine traditional painting sensibility with contemporary subject manner. She has exhibited extensively through Boston and New York, and her paintings are in many private collections both in the United States and abroad. Dina is currently a post-graduate teaching fellow at the New York Academy of Art, and an instructor at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. www.dinabrodsky.com
Painting the Portrait - Antonia Ramis Miguel
August 13-17
Monday-Friday
1-4pm
5 Sessions
Castle Hill
$395
In this portrait class we'll work on a wide range or portraiture: from realistic to a more experimental approach. We'll paint from models and also make quick sketches to discover the fundamental lines that form a face. During the week, we'll also have the opportunity to practice self-portrait. To achieve realism and likeness, students will observe skin tone, volume, and proportions; to create a more abstract effect, we'll use bolder colors, brushwork and other effects. There will be individual attention as well as direction for the class as a whole; all levels are welcome.
Antonia Ramis Miguel was trained in Europe and has been painting for more than 20 years. Her work has been shown in her native Spain, Vienna, Washington, D.C. and London. You can view her work at www.antoniaramismiguel.com
Using Mixed Media to Discover Your Voice - Lisa Pressman
August 20 – 24
9 – 12 pm, open studio till 4:00
Mon – Friday
5 Sessions
Castle Hill
$450
In this workshop you will be introduced to the wonderful possibilities of pigment sticks. Pigment sticks are oil paint combined with wax to hold together into a stick form. They can be used in a spontaneous way right on a surface without the need for brushes. Through various exercises students will explore how to develop their own vocabulary to use in their studio practice. They will be encouraged to work in a series, while revisiting the painting process. Edge, line, texture, mark making, color and the concept of editing will be addressed. Along with the pigment sticks we will experiment with graphite, ink, cold wax, collage, oil paint and encaustic. Working on multiple panels helps to free the creative spirit so that a personal language and vision can develop into a new series of work. Activities will include exercises, informal group discussion and individual support.
Lisa Pressman received her M.F.A. in painting from Bard College and B.A. from Douglass College, Rutgers University. Her work incorporates oils, collage, wax and other mixed media. She has been teaching encaustic painting and painting with R&F Pigments for the past 5 years. Lisa has led classes privately at the Center for Visual Arts, Summit, NJ, the Printmaking Council of NJ, Peter’s Valley Arts and Craft Center, Layton, NJ and the Newark Museum, Newark, NJ. Upcoming workshops are scheduled at R&F Encaustics, Kingston, NY, Snow Farm in Massachusetts and in Cortona, Italy. Lisa lives and works in West Orange, NJ.
Creative Color Workshop - Peter Chepus
August 20 – 24
Monday-Friday
1 – 4pm
5 Sessions
Castle Hill
$380
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One of the most important factors in a successful painting is the use of color. The purpose of this workshop is to help students develop their eye for color by learning how to choose, mix, and apply colors. The class will explore and apply basic terms and concepts like hue, value, intensity, and color temperature. We will study why some colors seem to advance while others seem to retreat into the painting; the use of primary, secondary and complementary colors; and the color wheel. Students will create a painting every day, and there will be ample time for individual attention. Participants are encouraged to use their media of choice. Beginners and intermediate students are welcome.
Peter Chepus studied art at the Cape Cod School of Arts and at the Armory Art Center in Florida. For the past eleven years he has been conducting painting workshops in Florida and on Cape Cod. He is a native of Cuba and has been painting professionally for the past 25 years. His solo exhibits include the Palm Beach Hibel Museum of Art, Palm Beach Council on the Arts, and the Truro Public Library. He is represented by Cortile Gallery in Provincetown, Massachusetts. www.peterchepus.com.
Patterned Effects with Mixed Media & Encaustic - Gregory Wright
August 27 – 31
Monday – Friday
9 - 12pm (Instruction)
1-4pm (Open Studio)
5 Sessions
Castle Hill
$450
This workshop is a mixed media extravaganza for artists working in encaustic. Participants will explore varied innovative techniques to bring their encaustic experience to the next level. The primary focus will be working with an array of pigments, including graphite, charcoal, and metallics, in combination with various solvents and the addition of fire. We will also work with different types of shellacs to achieve beautiful dramatic effects on top of encaustic surfaces. We will then incorporate oil paint and oil stick to add more dimension. Experimentation is key, as we explore other unlikely media such as watercolors and gouache. Students who wish to use collage, transfer, found objects and varied substrates will be encouraged to do so. We will work toward integrating these techniques into each artist’s personal painting style. Be prepared to push the limits and work the surface!
Gregory Wright creates aquatic, cosmic, and microscopic fantasy worlds in his paintings that incorporate mixed media embellishments with encaustic. Gregory has been a presenter at the Fourth, Fifth and Sixth International Encaustic Conferences, held in Provincetown. He exhibits nationally, as well as in the Boston area. Recently, his Microcosm/Macrocosm series was the highlight of a May 2011 solo exhibition at Galatea Fine Art in Boston’s South End. This past year, Gregory’s focus has been on his curatorial project, Pollination: Beyond The Garden, a thematic group exhibition of works in encaustic, which debuted at the Brush Gallery in Lowell, Mass. in November 2011 and will travel to Art Current Gallery in Provincetown in June 2012. Gregory is a featured artist in Embracing Encaustic by Linda Womack, and appears in Studio Visit Magazine Spring 2012 and Encaustic Works 2012 of R & F Handmade Paints.
Watercolor and Inventive Thinking - Vico Fabbris
August 27 – 31
Monday – Friday
9 – 12
5 Sessions
Castle Hill
$380
This course will allow you to experiment, invent and create new combinations of figurative or abstract images with watercolor or acrylic wash. Using visualization, imagination and your own intuition this course will assist you to unlock your “inventive thinking”. You will be able to develop an image that does not exist in the real world. Also, you will experiment with combinations of techniques that can be used to create works of art that appear complex, yet easy to produce. All the elements of painting are introduced in guided exercises that will be held inside the studio and taken outdoors. Works can be done in any scale with watercolor or Acrylic wash on Aquabord or preferred watercolor paper. Flexibility and open-mindedness are essential to reach your full potential ability to paint without restriction. This course is appropriate for beginners as well as more advanced students.
Vico Fabbris was born in Northern Italy. From an early age he copied works by Leonardo, Raphael, and Caravaggio. In Florence, he became a Maestro d’Arte completing a MFA painting curriculum at the Accademia di Belle Arti. Vico's accomplishments include: a major one-person show at Forum Gallery in Los Angeles; a two-time recipient of the Massachusetts Cultural Council Grant in painting; twice finalist of the Blanche Coleman Award; selected by Beth Venn of the Whitney Museum for the Northeast catalogue of New American Painting and commissioned to do a lithograph for Muka Print Project in Auckland, New Zealand. His work has been exhibited at the Provincetown Art Association & Museum, the Cape Museum of Fine Arts, Giardino Botanico, Florence, Italy, and many galleries in Florida, New York and Los Angeles. Articles on his work have appeared in the Boston Globe, The Nation, Art New England, artsMEDIA, and featured on HGTV Network. Vico is currently Senior Lecturer at the New England School of Art and Design at Suffolk University, Boston where he has enjoyed teaching drawing and painting since 1995. His work is in the many private and corporate collections. Currently, Vico is represented by Gurari Collections, Boston, Rice Polak Gallery, Provincetown and Graficas Gallery, Nantucket.
Still Life Workshop - Joan Hopkins Coughlin
August 27 – 31
Monday - Friday
1 – 4 pm
5 Sessions
Castle Hill
$380
Still life has, for many centuries, expressed our visual relationship to the material world. In this workshop, students work from still-life arrangements using oil paint, acrylic, watercolor or pastel with the goal of achieving a composition with a resolved balance of color and form. Each student receives personal attention in this workshop in order to develop an expressive still life practice and to make images that exceed the sum of their components.
Joan Hopkins Coughlin was born in Jamaica and received her BFA in illustration from RISD and MFA in painting from UMass, Amherst. Her painting practice in still life and landscape is rooted in family and personal history, in the experience of place, in evoking memory through the expressive potential of objects. Her work is in numerous private and museum collections and can be seen each summer in the Golden Cod Gallery, Wellfleet.
Master Painting Demonstrations - Nancy Ellen Craig
September 5 & 6
Wednesday 9am-11pm
Thursday 1-3pm
2 Sessions
$100
Come and watch Nancy Ellen Craig paint two large canvases. She will be in the zone of her work and you the viewer will be able to ask questions! This will be an exciting experience to watch. The first day she will create a composition from her imaginary trove of figures, animals and landscapes. The second day Craig will paint from a model.
Nancy Ellen Craig has painted professionally for more than forty years, both in Europe and America. She is considered an outstanding portraitist. According to Frederic Tauber, eminent 20h Century classicist, "Craig's work approaches the best American portrait painter, Thomas Eakins…Few of our portraitists today can do such work." As a young artist (in her twenties) living near New York, she received numerous awards from the large juried exhibitions she entered. In her thirties, she left New York and settled in Truro with her husband, a poet. When she wasn't away on a portrait commission (which often took her for extended periods to Europe and the Caribbean), she started doing larger paintings – mural-size canvasses in her barn-studio. The inspiration for these canvasses comes from mythology, the Bible, political subjects and her own imagination. www.nancyellencraig.com
The Perceptual Moment - Stuart Shils
September 21-23
Friday-Sunday
8:30 - 4:30
September 20, Thursday evening lecture
3 Sessions
Castle Hill
$900
This class will focus on cultivating perceptual discrimination and visual clarity by taking a close, critical looking at nature and examining its relation to constructing a drawing or painting. We’re asking ourselves exactly what we are seeing, how we are seeing, and then what to make of it on paper, panel or canvas. In the tradition of “first strike” or alla prima, emphasis will be placed on 1) examining the perceptual processes in front of nature; 2) the editorial response that follows in the head of the painter and how that takes form graphically; 3) and perhaps most importantly, on shaking up and/or questioning what is meant by “finish”. We’re not concerned here with making anything “pretty”, saleable or “trophy” like. With painting, one never really gets a trophy anyway – it’s always a work in progress. On the evening before the first day there will be a 90 minute slide talk presenting paintings and drawings made by past and modern masters, to lay out a foundation of visual themes for the next three days. Within those slides we’ll discuss how, via graphic organization, we look at/and or make sense of construction, paint and drawing language, and how different artists have used the processes of working outside (both directly and in the studio) to achieve visual unity in their responses.
Stuart Shils was born in Philadelphia and studied at the Pennsylvania Academy, Philadelphia College of Art and Temple University. Shils is represented in NY by Tibor de Nagy and has shown with Fenton Gallery in Cork, Ireland; Davis and Langdale, NY; Gallery 33, Tel Aviv; Hackett Freedman, San Francisco, and Bernard Toale Gallery, Boston, among others. Awards include an Independence Foundation Grant, NEA Fellowship, an Academy Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, a Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant.
Drawing & Painting - Mary Frank
September 29 & 30
Saturday & Sunday
10 – 3
2 Sessions
$300
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: One of America's leading contemporary sculptors, painters, printmakers and illustrators, Mary Frank moved from London to New York at the age of eight. Her first interest in the arts was dance and in this field she studied under Martha Graham, Jose Limon and others for a period of five years. By the age of twenty, however, Frank shifted her focus to the visual arts and studied life drawing, under Hans Hoffman, and drawing techniques with Max Beckman at the American Art School, New York. Concentrating first upon sculpture Mary Frank's first exhibited works date from the mid 1950's. Her initial one woman exhibition took place in New York in 1961 and since that time her art has been the subject of exhibitions throughout the United States and in France and Germany.
Whatever the medium, Mary Frank's influential art is based upon consistent, almost archetypal, imagery. Horses, shrouded figures, wheels, hands, birds and, above all, the female figure, occupy prominent positions, always evoking states of feeling and emotion. Hayden Herrera writes, "Frank's work is constantly constructing and reconstructing new meaning and feeling from an arcane, preexisting language of visible words. Functioning like the vocabulary of a mysterious, forgotten language, they (the images) work to create new significations in new juxtapositions."
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Castle Hill at Studio Borgo in Italy
Artists and/or students of all skills levels have the opportunity to learn and create at Studio Borgo. Your instructor will help you reach your next level in one of the truly great inspirational environments on earth.
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In the early 16th Century, Michelangelo and Leonardo Da Vinci faced off in a competitive commission that resulted in amazing drawing studies for the Council Hall at the Palazzo Vecchio. Those great works helped to elevate drawing as a true art form, rather than merely a prelude to painting and sculpture.
At Studio Borgo, we will cover drawing subjects such as still-life, the figure and working from the Old Masters, a respected tradition since the earliest days of academic art training.
All drawing supplies are provided by Studio Borgo.
At the end of your workshop, keep your drawing pad not only for the great memories, but to motivate and inspire you to continue drawing.
An award winning artist and educator, Tom Ruggio's artwork has been exhibited in galleries and museums throughout the United States, Italy, Germany and Mexico. His work has also been added to public and private collections in America and Europe.
Tom received an MFA and BA at Queens College, New York and also studied at the New York Studio School of Drawing, Painting and Sculpture in New York City.
For the More Experienced Artist
Even though the Studio Borgo schedule is the same for everyone, more experienced artists can pursue their own vision and create a body of work by that is more of a departure from the curriculum. The surroundings, culture and atmosphere in this region of Italy can certainly stimulate a renewed creative process.
Pricing & Booking
1 week of instruction at Studio Borgo (Monday through Friday):
$850.00 USD.
2 weeks of instruction:
$1,700.00 USD.
Students who continue with our program for two or more weeks, will keep the same schedule, as they progress with new challenges. Of course, the Excursion Schedule may be altered slightly due to uncooperative weather conditions, but in most cases the Excursion Schedule will remain completely unaffected.
The cost for instruction at Studio Borgo does not include hotel accommodations, airfare or other travel expenses. Students are responsible for booking both airfare and hotel. The city of Lucca provides a variety of affordable hotels in the perfect location for our students. Although, we do recommend 2 locations which provide discounts only for Studio Borgo students. See the accommodations page for details on where to stay.
Just Bring Your Brushes.
Schedule at Studio Borgo
The artist workshop week begins on a Monday and ends on a Friday.
Ideally, Studio Borgo students will arrive at Lucca (by way of Pisa Galileo Galilei International Airport or by train) at least one day before the start of a week.
Starting on a Monday is not mandatory but it is encouraged. For maximum flexibility, students can join us for less than a week (four days or less).
Monday
In the studio at Borgo a Mozzano-
Drawing the Still life and Working From the Old Masters: Class begins at 9:15 am in the studio and ends at 2:00 pm (45 minute lunch).
Tuesday
In the studio at Borgo a Mozzano- Painting the Still Life: Class begins at 9:15 in the studio and ends at 2:00 (45 minute lunch).
Wednesday
Lucca Excursion- Drawing at Palazzo Pfanner: At 10:00 am, we meet in Lucca in front of Hotel Universo in Piazza Giglio and walk towards Palazzo Pfanner. We will start the day looking at and discussing important sites and artwork. Once we arrive at Palazzo Pfanner, we will draw in the gardens. Our day ends at 3:00 (1 hour lunch).
Thursday
Lucca Excursion- Painting From the Top of the Wall: At 10:00 am we will meet in Lucca at Piazza San Martino. We will start the day by looking at and discussing important sites and artwork. We will arrive at our painting location on top of the wall to begin our plein air landscape. Our day ends at 3:00 (1 hour lunch).
Friday
Florence Excursion- Drawing at Piazza della Signoria: At 8:10 we will meet in front of the Lucca Train Station, which is a short walk from Hotel Universo. Together we will take the 8:31 train and arrive in Florence at around 9:50. Our day begins with looking at and discussing important sites and artwork. Once we are at Piazza Della Signoria, we will begin our drawings from historical sculpture. Our day ends at 3:00 (1 hour lunch).
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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.