Visiting Artist Workshops—Summer 2010
Jon Imber
522 Landscape into Art—Taking Risks and Letting Go
Thursday, June 10 through Saturday, June 12 10:00–4:00
$315M $355NM
In this class the instructor will first meet with the students and assess where they are with their artwork and where they would like to see their work go. They will then choose landscapes to paint that excite them and challenge them. Part of each day will be spent painting with individual critiques from the teacher and the latter part of each day we will have a group critique. The emphasis will be on expanding one’s visual vocabulary by taking risks and trying something new.
Jon Imber received an MFA from Boston University, and a BFA from Cornell. He has shown at Neilsen Gallery, Boston and Victoria Munroe Gallery, New York and presently at Alpha Gallery, Boston and Greenhut Gallery, Portland, ME. His work is in the collections of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, the Fogg Museum at Harvard, Rose Art Museum at Brandeis, and the Currier Gallery in Manchester, NH. Awards include an NEA Grant, AVA (National Award funded by the Rockefeller Foundation, Equitable Insurance Corporation, and the NEA), Massachusetts Council for the Arts Award, and an Engelhard Award.
| $315 Members | |
| $355 Non Members |
Carole Bolsey
520 Light and Movement
Friday, June 25 through Sunday, June 27 10:00–4:00
$295M $335NM
Inspired by light and movement, students will develop personal responses to nature, both indoors and out. Through painting, drawing, and collage, students will work in abstract and representational series, exploring shifting light and moving gesture. Using changing perspectives, scale, value, and line as dynamic devices, emphasis will be on light and changing conditions of color, perspective, and time to generate spatial and expressive strength .
Carole Bolsey works on a large scale in paint on canvas, installations, constructions, sculpture, and architectural design. Her work appears in public and private collections throughout the United States, Europe, and Japan. She taught painting, drawing, and visual studies at Harvard University, at the Carpenter Center for Visual and Environmental Studies, and at the Graduate School of Design, from 1983-1996; DeCordova Museum School; and recently at the Rhode Island School of Design.
Bolsey’s artwork centers on nature in highly simplified land- and waterscapes, interpreted through abstracted qualities of light, space, gesture, and scale. Barns and water shacks, rowboats and canoes, skiffs and workboats, open land, water, and skies reflect each other in brilliant contrasts of light and shadow, near and far, immensity and small scale. This artist is known for the dynamic energy and painterly expressiveness of her work. Bolsey uses large scale to "generate spaces that aren’t there, to physicalize the experience so it feels like stepping outdoors.”
A native of New York, Bolsey studied at the Academia di Belle Arti in Florence, Italy, at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts of Geneva, Switzerland, and graduated from Bennington College, in Vermont. She lives and works on the south shore of Massachusetts, in the United States.
| $295 Members | |
| $335 Non Members |
Sean Thomas
510 Watercolor
Friday, July 9 through Sunday, July 11 10:00–4:00
$295M $335NM
This workshop is a 3-day exploration of the watercolor medium. Working on site (weather permitting) with the landscape and summer as inspiration, we will focus on the expressive potential of watercolor and techniques to establish a sense of light and space. We will discuss color theory, design, and painting principles as ways to translate what we see into a successful piece. As it is understood that those registered for the course represent many levels of experience, I will gladly address technical use of watercolor as needed…I certainly know that it can be a tricky medium. Even though it is only a 3 day course, I would like everyone to gain a meaningful experience while honing their skills and taking risks. I also would like to encourage the introduction of other media to watercolor. We will have the opportunity to discuss the benefits and potential consequences of using a mixed-media approach to image making. After each session we will engage in a group critique.
Born in Pennsylvania, Sean has always used elements of form, space and color to search for his voice and comment on a small part of the world around him— an undertaking which he believes is a lifelong journey.
Sean graduated from the Delaware College of Art and Design in Wilmington, Delaware. He then continued his formal education in Providence, Rhode Island and graduated from the Rhode Island School of Design. For his final year at RISD, Sean was selected for the European Honors Program in which he was immersed in Italian culture, living in Rome for nine months and studying the Italian language as well as European artistic treasures firsthand.
Sean has been focused mainly on painting since, doing freelance commissions as well as showing work regularly in Boston at the Copley Society of Art. He currently lives in Providence. His work may be seen at www.seanthomasonline.com
| $295 Members | |
| $335 Non Members |
Dan Welden
541 Solarplate Printmaking Workshop
Wednesday July 21—Friday July 23, 2010 9:30–4:30
$425M $465NM
Solarplate etching is an alternative process that uses sunlight and water instead of traditional acids and grounds. This innovative approach is spontaneous and easy, yet produces exceptional results. The solarplate technique is ideal for all kinds of images: Artists may draw, paint, photograph or create digital images on transparencies. Painting directly on the plate is also possible. Prepared plates are ideal for printing many impressions. Plate size will be 8” x 10” although custom sizes can be ordered well ahead of time. Each person can create several plates during this exciting three-day workshop. Printmaking experience is preferred but not essential.
Dan Welden is a printmaker, painter, author and educator. He has had over 63 international solo exhibitions including galleries in Switzerland, Germany, Belgium, Australia, New Zealand, Peru and Japan. He has been the recipient of several grants including The New York State Council on the Arts, The Ministry of Dutch Culture in Belgium, The Amata Aboriginal Community in Australia and most recently a Vogelstein Foundation Grant to produce the film "Printmaking in the Sun." He is co-author, with Pauline Muir of the book with the same title.
As an educator, he has had his own school in Florence, Italy for 10 years, as well as having had workshops in Australia, New Zealand, Greece, Peru, Japan, Germany, Switzerland, Estonia, England, Scotland, Belgium, France, Poland and throughout the US. He has been the Keynote Speaker for both the New York State and Pennsylvania Art Teachers at their annual conventions. He is credited with being one of the original "Pioneers of non-toxic Printmaking" with his discovery and development of the "Solarplate" etching process
| $425 Members | |
| $465 Non Members |
Christopher Chippendale
521 Plein Air Painting
Friday, July 30 through Sunday, August 1 10:00–4:00
$295M $335NM
This is a three-day plein air workshop focusing on direct oil painting techniques and taking place along the beautiful waterfront and inlets near downtown Cohasset. It is a workshop in observational painting, concerned directly with the changing facts of light and color seen out-of-doors, and with techniques that help us paint those circumstances. Alla prima painting (painting in the here-and-now) is a unique art form with a distinguished history, employing techniques and a way of thinking about painting that can be useful also in our more sustained or studio works. In this three-day workshop, we will make a number of three-hour paintings. Some oil painting background required. Familiarity with working out-of-doors recommended.
Christopher Chippendale is an associate professor at Massachusetts College of Art and Design and teaches painting courses at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.
He is the recipient of a Blanche Coleman Award, a St. Botolph Club Foundation Grant, and has shown extensively throughout New England.
| $295 Members | |
| $355 Non Members |
Images shown above on header, Jon Imber, Sean Thomas, Christopher Chippendale. Images at left: Sean Thomas, Christopher Chippendale
Visiting Artist Workshops
Since 1999, South Shore Art Center has hosted master workshops with outstanding, nationally-recognized artists. The Visiting Artist program provides a challenging and in-depth opportunity for participants to be nurtured and inspired in our studios and on location—taking advantage of the stunning coastal landscape. Each summer/fall, hundreds of working artists and students from throughout New England participate in three-five day workshops. Artists for the 2010 Visiting Artist program will be announced in late winter.
Students work in our studios and on location in our beautiful coastal landscape. Register online www.ssac.org or call 781-383-2787. PDPs available.
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