OUR MISSION

To foster the arts and crafts by providing a wide range of instruction for adults and children. Castle Hill holds exhibitions, lectures, forums, concerts and other similar activities in order to promote social interaction among artists, craftsmen, laymen, and the community at large.

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SUMMER 2008 WORKSHOPS - DRAWING

Summer 2008

Painting

Drawing

Clay

Printmaking/
Book Arts

Performance - Yoga - Music

Teens

Kids

Mark Adams - Spring Workshop

Drawing 08

Open Figure Drawing

Wednesday evenings, 7-9
July 9, 16, 23, 30, August 6, 13, 20, 27
$10 per session
8 Sessions $60
Pamet Crossing
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Come draw, paint, sculpt on Wednesday evenings. We will supply the model, you supply everything else.

Wood, Paper, Scanner Anne Flash

June 30 - july 4
Mon – Fri
1 - 4pm
5 sessions
$355 + $15 lab fee
For academic
credit $430 + lab fee

This workshop will be an exploration of the surface and the substance of our own images-through manipulation and transformation. PLAY will be the operative approach. We will utilize media ranging from low (beach-fire charcoal and sea-grass reed pens) to high-tech (scanner-printing) in order to create individual series related to the notion of "automatic drawing". We'll be working on variously treated papers with such processes as: rubbing, sanding, tracing, erasing, painting, blotting, altering, printing, reproducing, enlarging and creating multiples. Two scanners, a printer and a laptop equipped with Photo Shop and Flash (excuse the pun) technology will be available to all workshop members, but computer skills are not necessary. Anyone who wants to shake things up art-wise will benefit from this workshop.

Anne flash has been living and drawing on Cape Cod for twelve years. Her BFA degree is from MassArt in Boston and her MFA from Hunter College in New York City. She is a past recipient of two painting residencies at Yaddo and one at The Millay Colony for the Arts. Her drawings, paintings and installations have been exhibited in New York City, Boston, Hartford, and Provincetown. National Public Radio and WGBH recently broadcast a profile of one of her drawing field trips as part of WCAI's series called 'The Price of Paradise'. Many of her drawings and paintings have been acquired by private and corporate collections throughout the Northeast. Her belief, both as an artist and a teacher, is that the practice of drawing lies at the heart of all art-making.

DRAWING FOR THOSE WHO CAN'T DRAW A STRAIGHT LINE Peter Chepus

July 21 - 25
Mon – fri
1 – 4PM
5 Sessions $355
Castle Hill
For academic
credit $430

If you are not happy with your drawing, here is your chance to improve your skills. All you need for this workshop is a pad of newsprint paper and a stick of charcoal. We will start with basic shapes and work our way up. We may even try drawing with a brush! Each session begins with a 30-minute lecture- the rest of the time is spent drawing. We will learn the basic steps; how to draw with lines and points; how to represent value, texture, perspective, depth; and even learn a little about color. There will be plenty of time for individual attention and for a class critique at the end of each day.

Peter Chepus studied art at the Cape Cod School of Arts and at the Armory Art Center in Florida. For the past seven years he has been conducting painting workshops in Jupiter, Fl. He is a native of Cuba and has been painting professionally for the past 22 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, and Creation Gallery in Florida.

Mark Making & Painting Denny Camino

July 28 - August 1
Mon – Fri
9am – Noon
5 sessions
$355
castle hill
For academic
credit $430

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July on the Cape is an intense place to be, so we will be utilizing this energy to create a series of abstract paintings using basic mathematics and numbers as a guide. In this course we will start and finish one canvas a day for five days at 25" x 25" utilizing painting, drawing, scratching or any mark making technique that totals 55 marks per canvas. We will interact with all 5 canvas' a total of 275 times. Each student is allowed to use 4 oil colors of their choice with the addition of white. Charcoal and woodless graphite pencils will also be utilized.

Provincetown painter Denny Camino was born in Pennsylvania and studied fashion design at the Fashion Institute of Technology in New York City. After working in the fashion industry, he left Manhattan for Provincetown, discovering painting when a friend gave him some oils. A self-taught painter, Mr. Camino has enjoyed immediate success, nearly selling out his shows. His work has been described as abstract minimalism; the palette of blues, greens and whites a direct influence from his surroundings on Cape Cod. Mr. Camino has been in several group and one-man exhibitions, and his work is in private collections throughout the US as well as international locations.

To Infinity & Beyond! Creating Comic Books and Storyboards Tracey Anderson

August 4 - 7
Mon – thurs
1 – 4pm
4 sessions $325
Castle Hill
For academic
credit $400

Do you love comic books? Do you like to draw? Are there a million stories in that souped up brain of yours just bursting to get out? Want to sit around drinking coffee, riffing on plot-lines and cliff-hangers for hours on end? If the answer is a resounding YES!, then this is the class you've been waiting for!! Come with a sackload of ideas, some good jokes, and as much ego as you can fit in your backpack. Group discussion, one on one instruction and an exploration of comic book and storyboarding styles will be the order of the day. Bring examples of your favorites and plenty of pens, pencils, erasers and anything else* you like to work with……Would be Nerds and Beginners welcome, the only requirement is an enthusiasm for comics…..
* no fissile materials, please.

Tracey Anderson has an ego the size of Texas and an unending passion for Marvel Comics. She barely graduated in Drawing & Painting from Edinburgh College of Art and then had the cheek to go on to Post Graduate Studies at the Royal College of Art in London. I suppose she must have shown her work somewhere. Grudgingly represented by the Julie Heller Gallery in Provincetown, she calls herself an artist and web/print designer via her get radical design alter ego and is a certifiable blogger and neo-podcaster. She is co-founder of Project Edge, a group of artists working collaboratively on the Outer Cape, and is also the current chair of the Artist Advisory Council at Castle Hill Center for the Arts in Truro. She is an active member of the Education Committee at PAAM. Her so called 'work' and teaching schedule can be found at www.traceysandfordanderson.com

Introduction to Idea Building Romolo Del Deo

August 11 - 15
Mon – Fri
1 - 4pm
5 Sessions $360
castle hill
For academic
credit $430
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The objective of this course is to explore the creative transition form working with the observed world to working from their internal creative one. Using time tested techniques that have allowed artists for generations to find answers within themselves to expression they did not know they possessed various media, the class will utilize methods of drawing in charcoal, modeling in clay and journaling to find pathways to develop ideas to express artistic vision. Drawing: We will work with the figure as a starting point, using charcoal on large format paper to develop confidence and a basic visual calligraphy. Modeling: Developing from our work in drawing, we will expand ideas into the realm of three dimensions, creating observations form our linear work as well as non linear deductions and artistic directions. Journaling: Using in class lectures and discussions, each participant will develop an artists journal, building from the in-class art work and developing the ideas and visual conclusions outside of class, through drawing and writing.

Romolo Del Deo Deo is a New York artist who is native of Provincetown. He has studied sculpture extensively in Pietrasanta and Florence, Italy as well as pursue scholarships to Harvard College where he both took a degree and taught. His sculpture has won numerous awards and grants; including from the New York Foundation for the Arts, Gottleib Foundation, Sugarman Foundation, National Sculpture Society. His work is included in many private and public collections. Romolo is currently working on a group of new sculptures for a traveling exhibition in Arabia that explores the conflict nexus of that ancient culture's idioms and contemporary realities. Locally, Romolo has exhibited continuously with the Berta Walker Gallery in Provincetown since it opened seventeen years ago and will be featured there this Summer. www.studioromolo.com

This Years’ Ella Jackson Chair

Drawing & Painting
Mary Frank

August 18 - 22
Mon - Fri,
9 - 12 (instruction, open studio 1 - 4)
5 Sessions
$450
Castle Hill

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

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

Intermediate/Advanced Observed and Inventive Idea Building
Romolo Del Deo

August 25 - 29
Mon – Fri
9am – Noon,
5 Sessions $360
Castle Hill
For academic
credit $475

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The course is intended as a follow up to "Introduction to Idea Building" but is not required. Methods explored in the course will involve the various uses of drawing on paper, sculpting with clay and journaling, but students are welcome to bring in other media. We will use existing work and rapid studies in drawing, modeling and jottings to find creative connections. Developing from our idea building we will focus on a method and a medium to complete an artistic project. Using in class projects and discussions, each participant will develop an artists journal, building from the in-class art work and developing the ideas and visual conclusions outside of class, through drawing, writing and any other medium that can be introduced into a notebook.

Drawing and Painting with Light William Papaleo

August 25 - 29
Mon – Fri
9am – Noon,
5 Sessions $355
off - site - 1st class and in case of rain meet at pamet crossing
For Academic
credit $430

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Whether you work in oils, pastels or watercolors, increasing your awareness of light, color and atmosphere will improve your painting. This five day workshop will concentrate on expanding our vision of light, color and atmosphere using pastels, watercolor or oils. Beginning with simple exercises in perception of mass through light, shade and colour values, we will proceed towards sensitizing our eyes to the light key of nature. We will paint in the most beautiful areas of Truro. Painting the figure in the landscape may also be explored. Pastel/watercolor students may choose to use hand made Amalfi watercolor paper or canson mi-tientes paper of varying tones. A Rembrandt box of 60 or 90 pastels is recommended. Students working in oils should bring a portable easel, a hat or visor and an impressionist range of oil colors. Any level of student from beginner to advanced is welcome.

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

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