Instructor: Bert Yarborough
Monday - Friday
August 11 - 15
9am - 12pm
Open studio: Mon - Thurs, 1pm - 4pm
5 sessions

This drawing & mixed-media class will use the figure and its environment as a vehicle and starting point to explore everyone’s personal visual language and modes of expression.  We will use a variety of materials, techniques and exercise to develop and expand the participants connection to drawing and making art.  Critiques and individual/group discussions will supplement studio work.  Class participants are encouraged to bring past work for discussion.

Students of all skill levels are welcome.  Rather than focusing on product, we will create an environment in the studio and inside each class member for investigation, risk-taking and play.  There is a basic list of materials that you will need to bring with you to the class.

Bert Yarborough has a degree in Architecture from Clemson University and an MA and MFA in Photography from the University of Iowa.  He held the Sonia C. Davidow ’56 Endowed Chair in the Fine and Performing Arts at Colby-Sawyer College, New London, NH, where he also served as the Director of the William and Sonja Carlson Davidow ’56 and Marian Graves Mugar Art Galleries and taught Drawing and Painting.   A former two-year Resident Fellow at the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown, MA, he served as Visual Arts Program Coordinator for four years and as Chairman of the Visual Committee and member of the Board of Trustees.  He has received two NH State Arts Council Grants in Painting, an NEA Fellowship in Sculpture, a Fulbright Fellowship to Nigeria, also in Sculpture and most recently, an Adolph and Esther Gottlieb Individual Artist Support Grant.    He is  currently represented by the Berta Walker Gallery, Provincetown, MA and resides in Truro, MA. 

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