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 - SCULPTURE

Summer 2010

Painting

Drawing

Clay

Printmaking/
Book Arts

Heather Blume

Connie Hatch

Sculpture 2010

Welding/Metal Essentials James Rhea

June 14 - 18
Mon - Fri
1 - 4 pm
$380 + $75 materials fee

This class is an introduction to welding, where students will learn the basics of the art of fabricating metal. We will learn how to cut, manipulate and weld steel. The class will consist of three small projects: the first is a small cube and the next are objects of your choosing. Each of these projects will build on the next. I teach classes with a loose, fun, and safe attitude. This class will be one of the most demanding but it will be one of the most satisfying to learn.

James “Jimmy” Rhea is recent graduate of the University of Massachusetts with an MFA in Sculpture. He worked at the Inferno Art Foundry for three years as a founder, and as a freelance carpenter after completing his BFA at the University of West Georgia. Jimmy is originally from Newnan, Georgia, where he developed skills in welding, casting, and throwing pottery. His work, which is mostly figurative steel, has been shown throughout the Eastern United States.

Stone Carving Dean Munroe

June 21 - 25
Mon - Fri
9 - 12
$380 + materials fee

The student will get an introduction to stones (limestone, alabaster, soapstone and marble) or wood. Mini-lectures will be given on buying a stone, picking the right subject, introduction to pneumatic , electric and hand tools and finishing, techniques. Critiques will be given on works in progress and finished. Hands-on experience carving a sculpture using hand tools and an introduction to pneumatic chisels. When the dust settles, the student will have created a sculpture.

Dean Munroe is a member of the International Sculpture Center, ISC. And currently, has been invited to sculpt with Master Sculptor, Petros Dellatolas in Greece. Dean is also an active member of both the Prince Edward County & Quinte Arts Councils and is a participant of The Arts Trail and the Prince Edward County Studio Tour through Covent Garden Fine Art Gallery. Born in Canada, he has lived across this country, the USA & in France and now resides in Wellington, Ontario. He apprenticed under the distinguished and internationally renowned Canadian bronze & stone sculptor, Frank De La Roche after studying art under well known water colourist Debbi Smith at George Brown College. And he was introduced to the sculpting medium at an early age by the Italian Master Sculptor Pietro Ellero, a personal family friend, which lead studying mixed media fine art at university.

Art for the Garden: Works in Cement, Mosaics, and Mixed Media

Tom O’Connell

June 28 – July 2
Monday – Friday
1 – 4 pm
$380

This class will focus on learning to work in concrete. Students may make an artwork for the garden, backyard, or above a fireplace. Emphasis will be on the ease of use of the materials, on mold making and casting techniques, on using mixed-media inlay, and on coloring and staining.

Tom O'Connell has been working with concrete for over 25 years. A graduate of the Massachusetts College of Art, he has used concrete as an art material in numerous private and public commissions including his most recent mosaic at the North End Branch Library in Boston. His new work is now part of the Boston Public Artwalk.

Beastly and Fowl: A Sculptural Exploration in Clay
Hannah Niswonger
July 5 – 9
Mon – Fri, 9 -12
$380

In this 5 day workshop we'll explore diverse approaches to building clay sculpture inspired by animals. We'll consider the building technique best suited to conveying an animal form in clay. Hannah will demonstrate a variety of strategies and techniques for approaching complex animal forms in clay, including 3-D tile building and slab-construction of forms with slender legs. The class will address animal gestures, anatomy and expression. Glazing and firing techniques will also be discussed.
Students should bring to class the images and/or drawings of animals they intend to incorporate into their work.

Hannah received an MFA in ceramic sculpture from Alfred University in Alfred, New York. As an undergraduate she attended Wesleyan University in Middletown, Connecticut where she received a BA in studio art. She has taught courses in ceramics at a number of schools, including Harvard University, MassArt in Boston, Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania and Georgia State University in Atlanta, Georgia. She regularly exhibits her work at galleries and craft shows nationwide. She lives in Winchester, Massachusetts with her husband, 3 kids and Elijah the dog. You can see her work at: www.hannahniswongerceramics.com

UNPretentious Structures
Wayne Montecalvo

July 5 – 9
Monday – Friday, 1 – 4 pm
$380 + materials fee

Students in this class will use cardboard to create a wide variety of sculptural forms: houses and buildings, vessels, abstract objects and shapes, props, wearable costumes, and high-relief wall-mounted pieces. The class will concentrate on making objects using lightweight and easily available, if not free, materials such as cardboard, which can be bent, cut, shaped, attached, stacked, tied, and twisted to do amazing things. It can be combined with glue, duct tape, paper mache, paint, plaster, fabric, string, and a host of other materials. Although cardboard can be textured and finished to look like a solid, heavy object, it can also stand on its own, or be the substrate for photo-based work, painting, drawing, and collage. The group will explore small and large-scale approaches, and work out ideas in both 3-dimensional sketches and complete finished pieces.

Wayne Montecalvo was born in Edison, NJ, holds a degree in sculpture from the School of Visual Arts, NYC, where he became interested in using readily available and discarded materials in his artwork. He has been Artist-in-Residence at the John Michael Kohler Arts In Industry program, Women’s Studio Workshop, the Vermont Studio Center, and the Frans Masereel Center in Belgium. He currently teaches at the State University of New York at New Paltz and lives in Rosendale, NY, where he maintains a studio.

Modeling a Portrait in Clay Elsa (Tina) Tarantal

July 12 – 16
Monday – Friday
9 am – 12 noon
$395

Students in this class will focus on the structure of the head and face of the model to create a sculpture that captures an individual likeness. The class will explore methods of seeing and translating the forms that are responsible for the unique appearance of each person. Working with traditional tools and materials, the group will use techniques that sculptors find indispensable when working from life.

Elsa (Tina) Tarantal is a graduate of the Cooper Union in NYC and the University of Pennsylvania, where she earned an MFA in sculpture. She is a Professor at the University of the Arts in Philadelphia, where she teaches Three-dimensional Design and Figure Modeling. She has also taught portraiture at the New York Academy of Figurative Art. Her sculptures and paintings can be seen at the Kendall Gallery in Wellfleet, where she has exhibited her work for over twenty-five years. She is a member of the National Sculpture Society.

Mosaic Workshop for All Ages Tony Silva

July 12 – 16
Monday – Friday
1 – 3:30 pm
$355

This class will explore the ancient art of mosaics, using regular household tiles to create beautiful enduring designs, patterns, and pictures with bright colors that will never fade. Finished with grout to seal them, these works will be suitable for hanging or permanent installation at home. Appropriate for all ages.

Tony Silva is the son of the world-renowned mosaic artist Pedro Silva, and has been working with mosaics since childhood. As foreman of his father’s crew of artists, he has helped create giant mosaic murals, cover cement sculptures with tiles, and restore the famous mosaic benches around Grant's Tomb in New York City. A musician, dancer, and mask maker, Silva brings a wide range of experience to his teaching. www.TonySilva.com

This year’s Ella Jackson Chair

Mixed Media Master Class Alison Saar

July 19 - 23
Mon - Fri
9am - noon (instruction)
Noon - 4pm
(open studio)
5 Sessions $495
castle hill

Exploring my personal interest in the power of materials, this course will focus on the choice of medium, the nature of materials and the role they play in creating content. For artists working with mixed media, this will be a weeklong master class where participants will work independently on their art in the studio. At the beginning of each day the class will investigate the work of artists that utilize unorthodox materials to address ideas and issues in their work. For the remainder of the class I will meet with the participants individually. At the end of the week the class participants will present their work for group critique. Students should bring to class a variety of materials with which they have a personal affinity and an interest in incorporating 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. Alison has exhibited at many galleries and museums, including the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden and the Whitney Museum of American Art. Her art is represented in the collections of the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Whitney Museum of American Art. She currently resides in Los Angeles with her husband Tom Leeser and her two children Maddy and Kyle.

Bronze Casting in the Open Face Mold David Boyajian

July 19 – 23
Mon– Fri
1 – 4 pm
$380 + materials fee

Bronze casting is made quick and easy in this basic introduction to foundry techniques. Soft fire brick will be used as a mold material. Low relief will be carved into the brick using files and sandpaper. Molten bronze will then be poured into the mold, cooled, and released. Each student will create a series of bronze castings that will then be assembled by mig-welding. Patina and mounting techniques will also be covered.

David Boyajian was born and raised in Connecticut. After receiving his BFA in 1980 from Alfred University, he attended the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture and in 1982 completed his MFA at the Maryland Institute, Rinehart School of Sculpture. Since 1986 he has been teaching metal sculpture, introduction to foundry, stone and wood carving at the Silvermine School of Art in New Canaan, CT. In 1993 he became the Director of Sculpture Studies and is an artist member of the Silvermine Guild.

The Spiritual Side: Painting & Sculpture Nancy Azara
July 26 – 30
Monday – Friday, 9 – Noon

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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).

Piecing It Together Conny Hatch

July 26 – 30
Mon – Fri
1 – 4 pm
5 sessions

$380

In this class students will work on sculpture and/or assemblage. Participants should bring any found, reclaimed, or re-useable objects that inspire them and have a potential for a new life. The only prerequisite is and ability to think and create OUTside the box! Tools and some materials will be provided.

Conny Hatch is an artist who had the great fortune of having her dad teach her how to use hand and power tools at a very young age. After studying art with a concentration on ceramics at the Maine College of Art and Haystack Mountain School of Crafts, she moved to Provincetown in 1998. A 1999 Castle Hill sculpture workshop with Paul Bowen turned her interest toward working with found and reclaimed materials to create lively and unique sculptures. She has created over 200 sculptures, which are in collections in the US and England. In 2007 she was awarded a Pollock-Krasner Foundation grant to pursue her art, which can be seen at the Kobalt Gallery in Provincetown. www.connyhatch.com

Color on Copper and Brass: Patinas from the Kitchen, Backyard, and Grocery Store Sarah Groves

August 9 - 13
Mon – Fri
1 - 4pm
5 Sessions $380 + materials fee
at castle hill

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A variety of substances commonly found in kitchens, backyards and grocery stores can be used to create interesting patinas on copper and brass. These substances offer safer alternatives to the industrial chemicals that are widely used for patinas on metal. Participants in this workshop will use hand tools to make original pieces of jewelry or decorative objects in copper and/or brass and then experiment with applying patinas to these objects. All levels of experience in metalsmithing are welcome. Bring your imagination and a willingness to explore and experiment with patinas! At the conclusion of the workshop, participants will have a sampler of patinas on copper and brass, some finished pieces with patinas, and recipes to use for further exploration of patinas.

Sarah Groves is a bench-trained metalsmith/jeweller, printmaker and ecologist who works with copper, silver, gold and natural gemstones. Many of her jewellery designs are shaped and textured by forging (hammering) metal and colored with patinas. She experiments with plants, fruits, veggies and commonly available substances to find relatively non-toxic patinas for coloring copper and brass. Her workshop is in Vancouver, BC where she works as a full-time studio artist and teacher of introductory and intermediate jewellery techniques.
www.blueboxdesign.ca

Figure Study From Life Joyce Johnson

August 23 – 27
Mon – Fri
9am - noon
5 Sessions $395 + materials fee

Using standing armatures, students will evaluate proportions and forms of the human figure. Students may choose to do a full figure, torso, or portrait of the model. Plastecine or natural clay will be used.

Joyce Johnson is a graduate, cum laude, from the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston and the Escuela de Artes Tecnicos y Oficios, Madrid. She is the founder of the Nauset School of Sculpture in North Eastham in 1968 that evolved into Truro Center for the Arts. She also co-founded the Outer Cape Artists Residency Consortium and is on the board for the Highland Center Inc. and Campus Provincetown. She was named a "Living Treasure" by Cape Women Creating in 1997.

Art for the Garden: Works in Cement, Mosaics, and Mixed Media
This workshop is for the whole family: Adults, kids and Teens
Tom O’Connell

Aug 23 - 27
Mon– Fri
1 – 4 pm

$380

Tom O'Connell has been working with concrete for over 25 years. A graduate of the Massachusetts College of Art, he has used concrete as an art material in numerous private and public commissions including his most recent mosaic at the North End Branch Library in Boston. His new work is now part of the Boston Public Artwalk.

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