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 Mixed Media

Dennis Peabody, teaching a Photo Etched Glass Mosaic Workshop - From his African Series

Summer 2008

Painting

Drawing

Clay

Printmaking/
Book Arts

Performance - Yoga - Music

Teens

Kids

MIXED MEDIA 08

Working the Surface: Bonney Goldstein

June 23 - 27
Monday – Friday, 9am - Noon (Instruction)
Noon - 4pm,
stay and paint,
open studio,

5 Sessions, $450
Castle Hill

This will be a very experimental exploration of surface creation. We will work on the same 4 paintings for the complete week by creating different surface techniques that allow for a build up of layers. Once the surface is created we will score into and create finished paintings. We will work on larger sized canvases and explore different mediums that include wax, marble dust, tar, collage, oil primer, alkyds, and enamels. We will work on wood, paper and canvas using oil paint and paintstick as the main medium.

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

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.

Mixed Media Monoprints Jana Harper

June 30 - July 4
Mon – Fri
9am - noon
5 Sessions $355 + $40 Lab Fee
Pamet Crossing
For academic
credit $430 + lab fee

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In this course we will use a variety of non-traditional methods in order to create a variable edition of monoprints. Techniques will include pronto and sintra plates, stencils, relief, chine collé, and pressure prints on the Vandercook. Students will be encouraged to develop a palette of plates to experiment with. By arranging and rearranging the order in which they are printed and playing with varying layers of transparency we will come away with a suite of 15-30 finished prints. (Students should bring previously developed plates, unfinished prints, and Xeroxes of images they want to work with.)

Jana Harper teaches at Washington University in St. Louis. She received her MFA in Printmaking and Book Arts from Arizona State University and was in the Core Student Fellowship Program at the Penland School of Crafts. Jana's prints and book works have been shown locally, nationally, and internationally. She likes piña coladas and getting caught in the rain.

Mixed Media Intaglio Printmaking Anne Gilman

July 7 - 11
Mon – Fri
9am - noon
5 Sessions $355 + $35 lab fee
Pamet Crossing
for academic
credit $430 + lab fee

This workshop offers artists a variety of ways to explore printmaking including editioned, one-of-a-kind and mixed media prints. Techniques covered will range from line etching, and dry-point to the painterly possibilities of prints made from lift-ground and toner wash drawings. Experimentation will be encouraged along with discussions on using technique to strengthen each artist's vision. Group and individualized instruction allow for all levels of experience from beginner to the more advanced printmaker. Optional techniques may include crayon resist drawing, soft ground etching, transfer printmaking processes, chine collé, and surface rubbings. Examples of all processes will be shown to help students decide which technique best suits their way of working.

Anne Gilman has had her work exhibited in the United States, Europe, and Latin America. Recent exhibitions include "(un)Contained Vessels" at the Center For Book Arts in NYC (2007), "Action/Interaction" at Columbia College in Chicago (2007), "Art that matters: When politics gets personal" at the Lubeznik Center in Michigan City, Indiana (2006), "La Huella Multiple" in Havana (2006), "New York/Paris DIALOGUE Paris/New York" in Paris and New York (2005), "The Missing Link" in Berlin (2005), and "Insufficient Protection" (one-person show) in Havana (2004). Current and upcoming exhibitions include "Play" at Proteus Gowanus in Brooklyn (2007-2008), and a two-person show in Utica, NY (2008). Publications include Gilman's artist book, Bordes deshilachados/Frayed Edges, released by Ediciones Vigia, in Mantazas, Cuba (2001), and the zines Nishtugadacht, Contra el mal de ojo and Don't Lose Heart released by ISCA as part of their book-works series. Her work has been included in Monoprinting, Printmaking For Beginners, and Handmade Prints, all published by A & C Black Ltd, London, and reviewed in Printmaking Today, the New York Times, La Jiribilla, Mural, Público, and El Infomador. Anne Gilman's installations "War ad infinitum" and "All George Bush's horses and all George Bush's men couldn't put the world back together again" were discussed in an interview on Cuban national television following her exhibition in Havana in 2004. In April 2006 she was the subject of an interview, "Artists on Writers," appearing in KGBBarLit online.

Collage as Structure for Painting Richard Baker

July 14 - 18
Mon – Fri
1 - 4PM
5 Sessions $355
Castle Hill
For academic
credit $430

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This is an experimental workshop designed to explore the possibilities of developing paintings based on collage-based images, structures and principles. Students will learn to combine disparate images to create lively, cohesive, thought provoking compositions for their paintings.

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 groups shows nationally and he has had numerous solo exhibitions at the Joan T. Washburn Gallery in New York and the Albert Merola Gallery in Provincetown as well as shows in San Francisco, Los Angeles and others. Awards include those from 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, the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown, the Rhode Island School of Design, the School of Visual Arts in NY, and others. He is currently represented by the Tibor de Nagy Gallery in NY and the Albert Merola Gallery in Provincetown.

Introduction to Idea Building Romolo Del Deo

August 11 - 15
Mon – Fri
1 - 4pm
5 Sessions $355
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

Paint and Collage Karen Coill

August 18 - 22
Mon – Fri
1 - 4pm
5 Sessions $355
castle hill
For academic
credit $430
+ materials

Collage is a layering of thoughts and ideas as well as of paper, printed materials, graphite and paint. To the collagist, the very gathering of materials adds yet another layer of meaning. This workshop will introduce basic materials and techniques used in collage and mixed media pieces. Demonstrations and discussions will encourage participants to rediscover or develop new personal methods of layering paper, paint, and glue. A materials list is available for those not familiar with the medium. There will be assignments provided for those looking for more direction, or students may work independently on their own projects. Bring materials to class that inspire, or that you would like to work with.

Karen Coill studied fine art and graphic design at the Museum School in Boston, and at the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown. Coill's paintings and mixed media work are exhibited in galleries and museums throughout the United States and Europe. Her work is in various private and corporate collections. Karen's most recent paintings can be seen locally at The Schoolhouse Gallery where she has been represented since 2002. She is a longtime summer resident of Provincetown. For more info: www.karencoill.com

Mary Lou Friendman Chair

Found Object Construction Michael Burbank

August 18 - 22
Mon - Fri
9am – noon
5 Sessions $355
Castle Hill
For academic
credit $430

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 form 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. He has installed commissioned works of assemblage in private collections in Boston, North Carolina, San Francisco, and Wellfleet.

Intermediate/Advanced Observed and Inventive Idea Building
Romolo Del Deo

August 25 - 29
Mon – Fri
9am – Noon,
5 Sessions $370
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.

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