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 2010 WORKSHOPS - PAINTING & Mixed Media

Summer 2010

Painting

Drawing

Clay

Printmaking/
Book Arts

Robert Cardinal

The Castle Hill Painting Studio

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Painting Summer 2010

Working the Surface Bonney Goldstein
June 14 – June 18
Monday – Friday, 9am – Noon (Instruction)
Noon – 4 (Open Studio, stay and paint!)
Castle Hill

$495 - materials fee $40

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Members of this class will experiment with surface. Working on many paintings over the week students will use different surface techniques that allow for layering. Work will be created on various surfaces including wood, paper and canvas. Students will work relatively large using various surfaces and mediums, including wax, marble dust, tar, and enamels. Oil paint and paint stick will be the main mediums.

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 in Denver. She has also managed a corporate art consulting firm and studied for an MFA in creative writing not clear weather she earned an mfa?. She shows in in New York, Iowa, Maine and Massachusetts. She recently had a show at UMASS, Lowell, and the Whistler House Museum in MA. To see her work, visit www.bonneygoldstein.com

Essence of Landscape N. Cameron Watson

June 14 - 18
Mon – Fri
9am – Noon
$380
off-site - first session meet at Pamet Crossing

A landscape painting can be seen as both a representation and an abstract composition. In this class we will separate those elements into different paintings. Students will start by painting a plein air landscape, then work in the studio on a companion piece, paring the same landscape down to its bare abstraction. We will cover some basic color theory and guidelines of composition. Cammie paints mainly in oils, but students may work in any medium.

N. Cameron Watson’s early training was through her family and self study. After high school she completed an apprenticeship in Germany with artist and master marionette maker Fritz Herbert Bross. She graduated cum laude from Yale College, where she studied philosophy, drawing, color theory, and sculpture. She has studied with Jim Peters, Don Stone, and Naoto Nakagawa. Her father, Aldren Auld Watson, is a painter, illustrator, and author. Her mother, Nancy Dingman Watson, was a poet and children's book author. Her grandparents, Ernest and Eva Watson, were painters and pioneer color block printers, and Ernest was founder of American Artist magazine and co-founder of Watson-Guptill Publications. Her work can be seen at www.ncameronwatson.

Painting Provincetown Lisbeth Firmin
June 21 – 25
Monday – Friday,
9 am – 12 noon
5 Sessions
$380

This class will follow a long tradition of plein air painting in Provincetown. Students will be painting outdoors in America's oldest artists' colony, working quickly and using 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 in a Provincetown morning. On the first day, the class will meet and paint at the monument following a demonstration by the instructor. There will be an critique at the end of each painting session. Structured for beginners and advanced painters who want to expand their skills.

Lisbeth Firmin is a contemporary American impressionist painter/printmaker known for her urban landscapes. Her paintings and prints have been exhibited at numerous galleries and institutions across the country and internationally for more than 30 years. Her work is included in the 2009 winter issue of Stone Canoe Review, Syracuse University as well as several other journals. She has received a 2007 New York Foundation Fellowship, a 2007 New York State Council on the Arts Grant, a Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant, the CCVA Award at the Chautauqua Center for the Visual Arts, first prize in the LANA International Arts Competition along with full fellowships to the MacDowell Colony, the National Seashore, the Vermont Studio Center, and the Saltonstall Arts Colony. She is represented in Provincetown by the Rice-Polak Gallery.

ABSTRACT PAINTING WORKSHOP Mike Carroll

June 21 - 25
Mon - Fri
1 - 4pm
$380

A workshop to explore non-objective and abstract painting. We will examine the Daisy Chain of decisions, the disparate and sensible choices, the mistakes and victories that result in non representational image making. Using meditation, discussion, class assignments, painting time and presentations we will look at the process of distilling influence and intention into meaning, meaning into content, and content to visual results.

Students are asked to bring examples of finished work and to set an intention for the class. We will use meditation to begin each day and end with a presentation from a visiting artist or participating student.

Mike Carroll is an artist who also writes and speaks on art and exhibition spaces. He is also the owner and Director of the Schoolhouse Gallery. Mike was born in New York and raised in Rhode Island. 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. When development displaced the performances held there Carroll opened his first gallery, The 11th Hour near Boston’s South Station. There he held early exhibitions by Mark Morrisroe and performances by Human Sexual Response, Jack Smith and The Clam Twins, among others.

The Dialog Between the Sitter and Painter Sal Del Deo
June 28 – July 2
Monday – Friday
9 am – 12 noon
$395

Salvatore Del Deo’s strong, individualistic approach to painting the portrait and the figure is deeply rooted in the realist tradition if his early training with Charles Hawthorne, Henry Hensche, and Edwin Dickinson. His skill in both portraiture and figure painting springs from this tradition, which he has maintained with vigor and sensitivity throughout his painting career in a variety of media, especially in that of 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 a very active member of the art community in Provincetown for more than fifty years and was one of the founders of the Fine Arts Work Center. He has exhibited widely in American and is in several public and many private collections. He is represented in Provincetown by the Berta Walker Gallery.

Brushes with a Flare: The Art of Creating Custom Handmade Brushes
Glen Grishkoff
June 28 – July 2
Mon – Fri
9 – 12
5 Sessions
$380

Learn how to make gorgeous handmade brushes that are works of art and functional tools. This course is open to all levels with in-depth step- by- step instruction of beginning and advanced brush making and painting techniques. Several types of brushes will be introduced each day of the workshop utilizing a different hair and construction methods. Brushes created may be used to decorate ceramics as well as watercolor, sumi mark making, calligraphy, acrylic and oil painting surfaces. There will be slide lectures and in-depth demonstrations illustrating the technical construction methods involved in making brushes, including knot-tying, epoxy mixing, cutting and wrapping hairs and methods to create brush handles. Students will work with a variety of hairs, including buck tail hair, moose hair, horse hair, rooster hackle, broom corn straw and additional types of hairs.

Glenn Grishkoff has developed a national and international reputation as a brush maker and ceramic artist. He earned a BFA from California State Fullerton and an MFA from Claremont Graduate University. He has recently been awarded the 2008 Idaho Commission on the Arts fellowship Award. In addition, he has traveled extensively to Japan and South Africa with a recent two-month 2008 artists residency to make his brushes among the hill tribe people and painting elephants in northern Thailand. Grishkoff has been the recipient of many solo, invitational and juried shows and has taught full time as an Assistant Professor in 3-D studio arts both at Westminster College in New Wilmington, PA and at the University of Idaho.

Still Life Beyond Still Life Richard Baker

June 28 - July 2
Mon – Fri
1 - 4 pm
5 Sessions $380

This is a workshop for painters with a keen interest in still life painting but a strong desire to push past conventional still life setups. We will begin painting a very quick "traditional" arrangement and then we will collectively explore various ways of extending the tradition into unknown territory. We will explore 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 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.

Landscape: Color, Light, Shade: John Clayton

June 28 - July 2
Mon – Fri
9am - noon
5 sessions $380
off-site
first session meet at pamet crossing

In Clayton’s landscape painting class, which is open to all levels, participants will set up outside and paint daily, exploring composition, light, shade and mass. There will be a brief demonstration each session. All good landscape painting is constructed through the large mass shapes. The aim will be to work from big flat shapes and build to the smaller shapes of color and value.

John Clayton is a plein air painter in Provincetown. He studied in New York at the Art Students League and the National Academy of Design School of Fine Arts, where he won two competitive scholarships. He also studied at the Cape Cod School of Art. In 2000 he was featured in the Provincetown Art Association and Museum's Emerging Artist exhibition. His work can be seen in Provincetown at the Egeli Gallery, and at The Fan Gallery in Philadelphia. For more information and to see his work, go to: www.johnclaytonstudio.com

Installation: Mixed Media Exploration of Place
Adam Lowenbein
July 5 – 9
Mon – Fri, 9am – Noon
(open Studio all day)
Castle Hill
$495

Students will focus on creating a work that explores a personal place: real, imagined, or abstract. Using materials of the students’ choice, the class will focus on how artists create a sense of place. Students are encouraged to explore traditional techniques for creating illusionary space --using painting, drawing, photography. Works can be as small, in a little box or on a panel, or large, taking up a wall or outdoor space, as required by each student's concept. Students are asked to bring the materials they would like to work with.

Adam Lowenbein lives and works in New York City and upstate in the town of Pond Eddy. He has a BFA in painting from The Rhode Island School of Design and an MFA in painting from Indiana University. He is also an alumnus of Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture. He recently exhibited in shows in NYC at Caren Golden Fine Arts and The Center for Book Arts, and contributed to Dreams and Possibilities, a work by Praxis at The Whitney Museum of American Art. He also exhibited along with the work of his late father, painter Michael Lowenbein, in a show in Milford, PA in 2009.

Encaustic Painting: Laura Moriarty

July 5 – 9
Mon – Fri
9am – Noon (Instruction)
Noon - 4pm
open studio,
5 sessions $495 + $90 Materials (Instructor
provides paints)
Castle Hill

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Experience the richness of encaustic, a beeswax-based paint that is worked hot. Encaustic is a versatile medium that can be used traditionally and not-so-traditionally; it can add a new layer to drawings, prints, sculpture, photography, even installation projects. The class begins with an introduction to tools, materials and technique. Demonstrations will address: fusing for texture; working with opacity and transparency; wax inlay; collage and assemblage; image transfer techniques; and encaustic monotype. The workshop, which will include one-on-one discussions, is appropriate for painters, printmakers, photographers, paper, fiber and mixed media artists; and sculptors are welcome, too. No prior encaustic painting experience required.

Laura Moriarty is a studio artist based in the Hudson Valley Region of New York. Her work is exhibited widely and featured in many collections, including the Progressive Art Collection in Cleveland and the New York Public Library. She has been the recipient of two Pollock-Krasner Grants and fellowships from the Ucross Foundation, Virginia Center for Creative Arts, Women's Studio Workshop, and Zentrum Frans Masereel. She has been conducting encaustic painting workshops for ten years, both through R&F Handmade Paints and as a visiting artist in schools and art centers nation-wide. More info on Laura at www.lauramoriarty.com

Egg Tempera & Panel Painting Patricia Miranda
July 5 – 9
Mon – Fri
1 – 4 pm
$380

Traditional panel paintings maintain a wonderful luminosity and strength over time. Contemporary artists are rediscovering these venerable techniques and adapting them to their vision. This workshop covers basic to advanced techniques for preparing wood panels, including traditional gessoing; creating egg tempera paint from dry pigments and egg yolk; and both Eastern and Western methods of applying the medium; and historical background. This class is open to beginners as well as professional painters.

Patricia Miranda is founder and director of Miranda Fine Arts in Port Chester, NY, and co-founder of Loftarts, an affiliation of galleries, artists, curators and educators; and is on the Board of Trustees of The Society of Gilders. She has led programs at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, the Museum of Natural History, the African Museum, the Katonah Museum, and Wave Hill in NY. She has exhibited widely, including at Wave Hill; Pfizer Inc., Purchase, NY; and the Cape Museum of Fine Art in Dennis, MA. Her work is in the collection of the Bank of America.

Painting : Working from Life:
Dan Rupe

July 12 - 16
Mon - Fri
1 - 4 pm
$380

Working from life,making immediate decis ions on the course of the work of art,executed in the limited time given.The class will look at color,tone surfaces,preparing the painter not to be in his,or her own way. Understanding what draws us to create.

Dan Rupe paints the town he loves with expressive abandon and a high-keyed palette. Inspired by the animated summer energy, the rhythms of Commercial Street, the diverse architecture and color of the jumbled mix of historic and commercial and community landmarks, Dan likes to be out on the street first thing in the morning, taking in the sensations of town.

Mixed Media Master Class Alison Saar
July 19- 23
Mon -Fri
9am - noon (instruction)
Noon - 4pm
(open studio)
5 Sessions $495

Drawing on Saar’s deep interest in the power of materials, this course focuses on the choice of medium, the nature of materials and the role they play in creating content. In this weeklong master class, mixed-media artists work in the studio on independent projects. Each class day begins with an investigation of the work of artists using unorthodox materials. Saar then meets with participants individually. Class members present their work for a group critique at the end of the week. Students should bring a variety of materials with which they have a personal affinity and want to incorporate into their work.

Alison Saar was born in 1956 in Los Angeles, California. She studied art and art history at Scripps College and received an MFA from the Otis Art Institute. She has been awarded a John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship and two National Endowment Fellowships. She has exhibited at the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden and the Whitney Museum of American Art. Her art is represented in the collections of the Hirshhorn, the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Whitney. She lives in Los Angeles with her husband and children.

She will give a lecture on Tuesday July 20th at the Wellfleet Public Library.

Landscape Workshop Joan Hopkins Coughlin

July 19 - 23
Mon - Fri
9am - noon

$380

The class will work outside and explore the natural variety of Truro and Wellfleet, including the sea, bay, meadow, woodland and marsh. Individual expression is encouraged with emphasis on composition, drawing, and the use of color in oil, watercolor, and acrylics. Students should be comfortable painting en plein air environment.

Joan Hopkins Coughlin’s bold and abundantly colored studies of the landscapes of the Cape, Jamaica, Ireland, and the Connecticut River Valley read both as highly subjective impressions and as immediately recognizable place portraits. Her work can be seen at the Golden Cod Gallery, Wellfleet.

The Spiritual Side: Painting & Sculpture Nancy Azara
July 26 – 30
Monday – Friday, 9 – Noon
(Instruction 9 -12 - Noon - 4 open studio all day)
$495

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The Spiritual Side: Mirroring the Invisible: Artmaking as a Spiritual Practice
We are the mirror as well as the face in it.

When you look in a mirror you see yourself,
Not the state of the mirror. Who comes to a
Spring thirsty and sees the moon reflected in it?
-Jalaluddin Rumi, Islamic mystic and Sufi poet, 13th Century

Using artmaking as an outward instrument and themselves as a reflected image, and a mirror, participants will explore the spiritual side of their painting, sculpture and mixed media using various methods and materials. Bring some current work to class.

Nancy Azara is a sculptor whose work has been reviewed in such publications as the New York Times, Art In America, Art Forum, and Sculpture Magazine, and has been exhibited in the United States and Europe. She has traveled extensively and was an artist in residence in Kerala, India. She is the recipient of the Adolph and Esther Gottlieb Foundation Grant, the Susan B. Anthony Award, a Bogliasco Foundation Fellowship and, most recently, a Civitella Ranieri Fellowship in Umbria, Italy. She is the author of Spirit Taking Form: Making a Spiritual Practice of Making Art, (Red Wheel Weiser).

More than Mark: Painting Denny Camino

July 26 – 30
Mon – Fri
9 - 12
$380

Have you ever wanted to just paint? I mean paint without all the pressure that one can put themselves under when they are engaging in the creative process. Without the pressure of creating a Hans Hoffman, Jackson Pollack or Milton Avery? To paint for onself and not for a show, a friend, a loved one or the public. In this class we are going to enjoy and appreciate the process and materials used in creating an abstract painting. We will use shapes such as circles, squares, ovals, lines, rectangles, etc. to create this image. We will work over and over an image to see what will appear when one learns to let go and enjoy the act of painting.

Denny Camino graduated with a B.S. in Business Management with an emphasis on fashion merchandising at Point Park College and the Art Institute of Pittsburgh before going to New York to pursue fashion design at the Fashion Institute of Technology. He currently lives full time on the cape in Provincetown for the past ten years and has been in numerous group and one man exhibitions in Provincetown and NY. His work is included in many private and corporate collections throughout the world. He has operated his own studio/gallery here for the last 6 years. Mr. Camino has been teaching himself about art with the help of many local artists, business' owners and art lovers. His work is represented by William Scott Gallery in Provincetown.

Painting the Landscape
Rob DuToit
July 26 – 30
Mon – Fri, 9 - 12
$380

The great tradition of landscape painting goes back thousands of years. What inspired people to paint animals on cave walls still inspires us to depict a natural world that we hopefully can still exist in. How can we convey a summer's day with paint and brush? This workshop will focus on different aspects of landscape painting each day such as proportion, light, energy, tonal value and color. Participants will work on quick studies and longer more involved pictures. The emphasis will be on composing freely with light and color, rather than creating a "finished" work. There will be a short lecture each day on some old or modern master and what they can tell us about finding our own way with brush in hand, outdoors.

Robert DuToit, born in Boston Massachusetts in1956, began painting with oils and drawing with ink at the age of 10. He received a BFA from the University of New Hampshire and an MFA from Parsons School of Design in New York City, and has studied in France and Italy. A Cape artist since the 1980s, he has had numerous solo and group shows in Boston, New York and the Outer Cape, most recently at Maurice Arlos Gallery in New York and the DNA Gallery in Provincetown. His recent work consists of elemental landscapes as well as small, direct figure compositions. He lives in North Truro with his wife and son, and is currently showing at The Kiley Court gallery in Provincetown.

Painting the Figure
Antonia Ramis Miguel
August 2 – 5
Monday – Thursday, 9am – 1pm
4 sessions

Castle Hill
$395

Students will do more than just paint a model. Going beyond the figure to stretch the imagination and develop dormant skills is an important objective of the course. Models will be available the first and last day of class to serve as catalysts for original paintings with figure. The rest of the time, students will work from their sketches, allowing more creative and experimental possibilities. The class will focus on style, application of paint, space, and ways to use materials. The class will also look at figures by the great masters and consider what makes them so wonderful and lasting. There will be individual attention as well as direction for the class as a whole. All levels 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

Landscape Painting Charles Basham
August 9 – 13
Monday – Friday, 1 – 4pm
Castle Hill
$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 an understanding of art historical styles into the work; and to impart contemporary values to it as well. Students 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. And by looking at paintings and reading about them, they should draw on time-tested ideas to inform their own paintings.

Charles Basham received his B.F.A. and M.F.A. from Kent State University in Ohio, where he still resides on the family farm where he grew up. He has been making art for thirty years, receiving acclaim for his emotionally charged landscapes. Basham has over time become increasingly attuned to the subtle changes in weather and atmosphere in his pastels and oil paintings. As a result, he has captured dramatic 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.

Beginner/Intermediate Oil Painting Peter Chepus

August 9 – 13
Monday – Friday, 1 – 4pm
Castle Hill

$380

This workshop is for beginning and intermediate painters who would like to learn and/or review the basics of oil painting. Participants will explore appropriate materials and how to use them properly. They will study painting techniques, composition, value, and color; how to work from life and photographs; and how to begin and finish a painting.

Each session consists of a 30-minute lecture, two hours creating a new painting, and a 30-minute critique of the day’s work. The small class allows for ample individual attention.

PETER CHEPUS studied art at the Cape Cod School of Arts and the Armory Art Center in Florida. For nine years he has been conducting painting workshops in Florida and Cape Cod. A native of Cuba, he has been painting professionally for 24 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 Covent Garden Fine Arts Gallery in Ontario, Canada. www.peterchepus.com

Plein Air Portraiture Rob Longley

August 9 - 13
Mon – Fri
9am - noon
5 sessions, $395
off-site
Pamet Crossing

While plein-air painting usually focuses on the landscape, the portrait painted outdoors is an equally compelling subject. Taking Charles Hawthorne and his "mudheads" as a starting point, this class will concentrate on seeing and painting the beauty of "flesh notes" outdoors. Not only is the portrait painted outdoors exciting on its own, but the lessons learned from "simply putting one spot of color next to another" (as Hawthorne used to say) are also applicable to any type of painting. Oils, applied with a palette knife, are traditional for this sort of "Cape School" painting, but other media may be employed.

Rob Longley first came to Provincetown in 1971 to study painting with Henry Hensche at the Cape School. Previously he had studied with two of Hensche's protégés, Dick Goetz and Betty Warren, and he graduated from Boston University with a BFA in 1973. After studying with Hensche for a number of years, Rob realized that Provincetown and the Lower Cape provided both the subject matter and the community atmosphere that he wanted for continuing his career as a painter, so he has returned every summer since then to paint and to teach the Cape School methods. Rob currently shows his work at the Wohlfarth Gallery in Provincetown, and the Arts Exclusive Gallery in Simsbury, CT. Rob has won numerous awards for his work, including, most recently, an award from the Connecticut Plein Aire Painters Society, as well as grants from the State of New York and a Greenshields Foundation grant (awarded to promising young artists). He lives near Albany, NY during the winter months.

Portrait Painting Antonia Ramis Miguel
August 9 – 13
August 16 - 20
SPECIAL TWO WEEK WORKSHOP
Monday – Friday, 9am – Noon
Castle Hill

$750 for 2 weeks (or $395 per week)

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In this class, students will work with three distinct styles of portraiture: abstraction, expressionism, and realism. Participants begin the week painting from photographs and finish it working with models. Making quick sketches will help students discover the fundamental lines that form a face and will be used as the basis of the abstract work. The experiment with expressionism will call for bold colors and brushwork. To achieve realism, students will observe models’ skin tones, volume, proportions and the play of light and shadow to capture a likeness. There will be individual attention as well as directions 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

Translucent Photography: Fawn Potash
August 16 – 20,
Mon – Friday
9 – 12 pm

Made of purified bees wax and resin, encaustics are a favorite of photographers who want to create artworks using photographic elements in translucent layers. This medium can be used alone or as a way to integrate painting, drawing, photography and three-dimensional media. Five sessions offer hands-on demos and work time, emphasizing experimentation and discovery. Classes cover historical and contemporary uses, application basics, transfers, collage, dipping, pouring, combining oil and wax, photography with encaustics, assemblage, molds and specialized presentation ideas.

Fawn Potash is a studio artist based in the Hudson Valley Region of New York. Her work is exhibited widely and featured in many collections including McGraw Hill and Sony’s corporate collections, Sol Lewitt’s private collection, and the Centre Sheraton in Montreal, Canada. She has received three New York State Council on the Arts grants, and fellowships from International Residencies for Artists and the Catskill Center for Conservation. She has been teaching workshops in encaustic technique the past 5 years, through the Center for Photography at Woodstock, R&F Handmade Paints, Penland Crafts Center, Peters Valley Workshops and the Berkshire Art School. www.fawnpotash.com

Quirks and Oddities in Nature Joyce Zavorskas
SPECIAL TWO WEEK WORKSHOP
August 16-20, August 23-27
Mon – Fri., 9 - 12

$740 for 2 weeks or $380 per week

Using a full spectrum palette, students will investigate visual quirks and oddities arranged by natural forces that document fragments of time. The complexity and diversity of a narrow land surrounded and shaped by water, wind, rain and gravity will be explored, with emphasis on form, content, composition and paint application. Students will paint from direct observation at sites in Truro, Wellfleet and Provincetown, seeking unusual and evocative moments in the natural world. There will be demos and individual discussion, and all levels are welcome. The second week will continue the demos and discussion and provide time to further develop brushwork and a rhythm and flow to students’ work, at the same or different sites, and the option to enlarge a small study into a finished studio painting. Students can work in any media.

Joyce Zavorskas’ recent paintings of erosional landforms have been included in juried exhibitions at the Copley Society and the Provincetown Art Association and Museum, and group shows at Nave Gallery, Somerville, and Durand Gallery, MassArt. A solo exhibition at Cape Cod Museum of Art in August 2011 will feature new work focusing on the uncertainties and rhythmic oddities of natural forms. Zavorskas maintains painting and printmaking studios in Orleans, after 10 years at Fenway Studios in Boston, and has taught printmaking at numerous colleges, museums and art centers, including Simmons College, Provincetown Art Association and Museum, Castle Hill Center for the Arts and Cape Cod Community College.

Landscape Masterclass Mary J Arthur

Aug 18 - 21 SOLD OUT
Wed - Sat
9 - 12, 4 sessions
Pamet Crossing
$310

Painting on location; planning and executing compositions in changing light; observing and capturing nature; and materials and techniques for outdoor painting will be discussed.

Mary J. Arthur (BA, Marywood University, BFA Kansas City Art Institute, MFA Graduate School of Figurative Art at the New York Academy of Art) is a resident artist at Maryland Hall for the Creative Arts in Annapolis and a 2004 and 2006 recipient of an Individual Artist Award in the Visual Arts with the Maryland State Arts Council. 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 Fellowship in Brittany, France; a National Arts Club Award, New York City; and an Excellence in Teaching Award sponsored by the Mid-America Arts Alliance.

She currently teaches life drawing, anatomy, portraiture and painting at the Maryland Institute College of Art, St. John's College and Anne Arundel Community College. Her 20+ year career as an artist and educator has centered around the figure and landscape painting. She has been published in New American Paintings as well as The Artist's Magazine.

This workshop is a collaboration with Maryland Hall for the Creative Arts in Maryland.

The Art of Collage
Karen Coill

August 16 - 20
Mon – Fri, 1 - 4pm
5 sessions $380 + materials fee
castle hill

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. The emphasis will be On ways to incorporate a variety of techniques into a mixed media collage while developing your own Personal style. Demonstrations and discussions will encourage participants to rediscover or develop new Methods of layering images, paper, paint, and glue. There will be assignments provided for those looking For more direction, or help in breaking through creative blocks. Students may work independently on their Own projects. Bring materials to class that inspire, or that you would like to work with. Some additional Adhesives, paper and vintage materials will be made available for further exploration. A materials list is Available for those not familiar with the medium.

Karen Coill studied fine art and graphic design at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, And at the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown. Coill's paintings and collage can be found In various private and corporate collections. She exhibits regularly at The Schoolhouse Gallery, in Provincetown, Palm Beach, Fla, and Ireland. Please visit www.karencoill.com ; for more info.

Karen recently started her own company which specializes in cards and custom collage called
PEG+DICKC which will be launching in Spring 2010. Go to PEG+www.peganddick.com for more details.

Abstract Painting Budd Hopkins

August 23 - 27
Mon – Fri
1 - 4pm
5 Sessions $380
castle hill

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Different approaches to abstract art including spontaneous gestural painting, color field simplification, and the complexities of collages will be covered in this class which emphasizes the balance between free expression and formal discipline. There will be frequent studio demonstrations and general class critiques. Students should bring to the first class examples of their recent work, in whatever style, and materials for the painterly medium in which they feel most proficient.

Budd Hopkins has been exhibiting on Cape Cod since 1956. He was an original member of Long Point Gallery in Provincetown. His paintings, prints, and sculptures are in many major collections including MoMA, the Guggenheim, the Whitney, the Corcoran Gallery, and the Hirshhorn Museum among others. Also a well known lecturer, he has given talks on painting and sculpture at such places as MoMA, the Whitney, Rhode Island School of Design, and Carnegie-Mellon.

Painting the Figure in the Landscape William Papaleo

August 23 - 27
Mon - Fri
1 - 4 pm
5 sessions $395
off-site, meet at Pamet Crossing

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Light as movement, color changes as form changes and the rhythmic relationship of form can all be learned and add to the poetry and technique of your painting. In this five day course, we will paint the model in various, beautiful landscapes and light of Truro. Students may use pastels and/or watercolors or oils. There will be an emphasis on light, color, rhythm and form. Open to all students from beginners to advanced. Each student will be given personal instruction with respect to individual needs and experience. Demonstrations will be given by the instructor.
A hat or visor is recommended, as well as a portable easel for oil painters and something to sit on for pastel and watercolor students. A 60 or 90 Rembrandt Pastel box is suggested for those working in pastel. Students working in watercolor or oils should have an impressionist range of colors.

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 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 arrive at their own individual voice. www.williampapaleo.it

Healing Through the Transformative Power of the Arts Timothy Huber

Aug 23 - 27
Mon - Fri
1 - 4 pm
$380

For centuries, world cultures have utilized the arts as a natural part of healing. Whether psychological or physical, the creative process has transformed and transcended.

Through use of poetry, visual art, music and creative writing -- as well as visualization and trance exercises -- participants will journey deep into their energetic, creative and healing power. For some, exploring their spiritual nature will also take part.

Whether healing from physical illness (boosting your immune system, developing healthy habits) or in the process of exploring life transformations (“What career do I pursue? How can I release this grief? How do I prepare for a new relationship?”), this inspirational, expressive workshop will assist in finding your true, expansive, healed self and unlock barriers to your full creativity.

Dr. Timothy Huber is a Transpersonal Psychologist (Psy#20497), Homeopath, Creative Arts Therapist and Intuitive Healer who specializes in psychotherapy, retreats and trainings which serve to awaken to one’s true self. He assists individuals, couples and groups in private practice, hospitals and educational systems. www.DrTimothyHuber.com

Landscape Joan Pereira
August 30 - Sept 3
Monday – Friday
9 -12 pm
5 sessions

$380

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Off site – First class meet at Pamet Crossing. In case of rain, meet at Pamet Crossing.
This painting workshop, held outside in a variety of locations between Wellfleet and Truro, seeks to provide an opportunity for drawing and painting the landscape. Individual expression is encouraged with emphasis on composition, drawing and the use of color in oil, watercolor or acrylic.

Joan Pereira, a long time North Truro resident, studied with Edwin Dickinson, Myron Stout, Henry Hensche, Jim Forsberg, and Phillip Malicoat. Her work is in the collections of the towns of Truro, Provincetown and Bethlehem, PA, Cape Air, Merlin-Fairchild Express, and the Indian Museum in Anchorage, Alaska. Six of her pastels were featured on the Daniel Smith website for August 1998.

Surface as Metaphor Anne Flash

August 30 - Sept 3
Mon – fri
9am - noon
5 Sessions $380 +$15 materials fee
castle hill

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In this process-oriented drawing/ mixed media workshop, we will explore various methods and meanings connected to surface - both practically and conceptually. Nonlinear narratives will be developed through selective procedures such as marking, rubbing, layering, erasing, scratching, smudging, staining, blotting, etc. Chance operations and time-mapping will be used as ways to generate composition. All sorts of 2-D images, including photographic and copier images will be considered fair game. A scanner and printer will be provided during the workshop, as well as various other toys and tools. Each participant can expect to take away an exciting set of work that pushes beyond his/her own conventions into new creative territory.

Anne Flash has been on the Cape for ten years. Before that, she lived in New York City, and Hartford, CT., where she was on the faculty of Trinity College. She is currently teaching at Cape Cod Community College, where she was also the 2008 Artist-in-Residence, with a one-person show at the Higgins Gallery. Her BFA is from Massachusetts College of Art and Design, and her MFA is from Hunter College in New York City. She was awarded painting residencies at Yaddo and at The Millay Colony for the Arts. Her work has been exhibited in New York City, and around New England. In 2007, National Public Radio produced a profile of one of Flash's drawing classes at the Provincetown Art Association and Museum for a series called 'The Price of Paradise'. She was also featured in 2008 as part of an online gallery for WCAI's radio series "Fresh Water-Salt Water". Many of her drawings and paintings have been acquired by private and corporatecollections 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.

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