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Drawing & Painting
Graphic Design: Where to Start to Never Stop Ana Montenegro 12 sessions: Saturdays, September 12 – December 5 1 – 4 pm | $530 Learn to use digital-imaging software like Adobe Illustrator, Photoshop, and InDesign to create practical and personal projects that broaden your perception of visual culture.
Build Your Drawing and Painting Skills
Further Adventures in Drawing and Painting
Introduction to Drawing Katherine Vetne 12 sessions: Tuesdays, September 8 – November 24 7:30 – 10:30 pm | $530 Address the fundamental properties of drawing as you explore a variety of media, techniques, and subject matter aimed at helping you develop your own idiosyncratic methods of mark-marking.
Lines, Grids, Stains, Words: A Practice in Abstract Painting Jaimie Healy 12 sessions: Thursdays, September 10 – December 3 7:30 – 10:30 pm | $530 Explore the expressive movement of the brushstroke and the visual language of painting while you create your own abstract works on paper.
Introduction to Oil Painting Ingrid V. Wells 12 sessions: Mondays, September 14 – December 7 7:30 – 10:30 pm | $530 Develop basic skills in oil painting as demonstrations, assignments, and critical feedback equip you to excel in a professional context.
Irene Carvajal Collective Labor, 2015 Screen print, intaglio, and collograph monoprint 63 x 24 inches Courtesy of the artist
Introduction to Life Drawing Michelle Ramin 10 sessions: Wednesdays, September 16 – November 18 7:30 – 10:30 pm | $440 Gain a heightened understanding of the relationships between the body’s various parts and features through focused observation to inform, investigate, and grow your studio practice.
Intermediate Oil Painting Robert Xavier Burden 12 sessions: Tuesdays, September 8 – November 24 7:30 – 10:30 pm | $530 Advance your skills in oil painting through both traditional and contemporary projects as discussions, demonstrations, exercises, and readings foster and further your practice. Re-Calling Home in Painting Felicita Norris 10 sessions: Saturdays, September 12 – November 21 10 am – 1 pm | $440 Explore ideas of domesticity, “home,” and family as a theme while you use memory and photography to connect your paintings to personal experience.
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The Art of the Gesture: Painting and Dance Katie Humphries 12 sessions: Thursdays, September 10 – December 3 7:30 – 10:30 pm | $530 Use models in motion as the inspiration for paintings and drawings that convey dynamic gestural movement. Intermediate and Advanced Painting Glenn Hirsch 12 sessions: Wednesdays, September 9 – December 2 7:30 – 10:30 pm | $530 Explore the content of your work through the lens of irony, humor, narrative, and mood. Individual instruction, technical assignments, and the use of unusual materials will guide you though various styles to become more independent by painting in series.
Photography, Printmaking & Film Image-Making Skills and Concepts Photoshop and Printing: Taking Your Photographs to the Next Level Victoria Mara Heilweil 12 sessions: Wednesdays, September 9 – December 2 7:30 – 10:30 pm | $530 Learn the building blocks of Adobe Photoshop, digital workflow, resolution, tonal and color correction, retouching, and more in this course designed on the professional output of your photographs. Natural Light Workshop Marisa Aragona 6 sessions: Thursdays, October 8 – November 13 7:30 – 10:30 pm | $275 Experiment with conditions that create varied qualities of light— and use natural light to reveal the complexities of emotion and time in photographs.
Jamil Hellu Found Photography, 2014 Digital pigment print 20 x 20 inches Courtesy of the artist
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Lipstick and Leather: Queer Experiments in Film and History Malic Amalya 6 sessions | Tuesdays, September 8 – October 13 7:30 – 10:30 pm | $275 Study queer experimental filmmaking through weekly screenings, lectures, and readings while developing your own short film or critical essay inspired by standard-defying filmmakers. Hand-Held Half-Truths: The Home and the Home Movie Malic Amalya 6 sessions | Tuesdays, October 20 – November 24 7:30 – 10:30 pm | $275 Use the home movie as a point of departure to explore the construction of family and identity while learning technical skills of camera operation, video editing, cinematography, and film structure to create your own hand-held half-truth. Drawing and Painting to Print Irene Carvajal 10 sessions | Saturdays, September 12 – November 21 10 am – 1 pm | $440 Turn drawing and painting into printmaking as you explore drypoint, monotypes, digital printing, and collagraphs through traditional and experimental processes.
Sculpture Constructing Objects Irene Carvajal Pensamiento, Palabra, Obra y Omission, 2014 Intaglio, collograph, and monoprint on paper 24 x 72 inches Courtesy of the artist
Transformative Image-Making in Photography The Walk: Photography and the Structuring of Serendipity Brian Dean 10 sessions | Saturdays, September 12 – November 14 10 am – 1 pm | $440 Visualize the art and act of walking through photography. Group walks will inspire you to think critically about psychogeography, protest marches, bourgeois strolling, and mapping. Figurative Photography Maciej Makalowski 12 sessions | Mondays, September 14 – December 7 7:30 – 10:30 pm | $530 Gain an understanding of the technical and conceptual aspects of figurative photography as you practice through staged model shoots, demonstration, studio practice, lecture, and discussion.
Advanced Photography Critique Seminar Jamil Hellu 12 sessions | Wednesdays, September 9 – December 2 7:30 – 10:30 pm | $530 Develop and further your individual photographic projects through an atmosphere of cooperative learning, discussion, and critique in this course aimed at broadening your cognitive and artistic processes. Advanced Digital Printing and Critique Seminar Chris Grunder 12 sessions | Thursdays, September 10 – December 3 7:30 – 10:30 pm | $530 Get practice and feedback in digital fine art printing in this course aimed at building your skills through hands-on printing, structured critiques, and experimentation.
Making Multiples: Mold-Making and Slip-Casting in Ceramics Cathy Lu 8 Sessions | Tuesdays, October 6 – November 24 7:30 – 10:30 pm | $350 Make multiples out of ceramics and design your own prototypes for mass production as you learn basic mold-making techniques.
New Genres Environmental Installation Raheleh Minoosh Zomorodinia 12 Sessions | Tuesdays, September 8 – November 24 7:30 – 10:30 pm | $530 Create large-scale installations inspired by nature using natural and recycled materials as you address environmental and cultural issues in your art. Homework: Domesticity in Contemporary Art Jennie Lennick 6 Sessions | Thursdays, October 8 – November 12 7:30 – 10:30 pm | $275 Examine the work of contemporary artists who utilize and subvert handicraft traditions as you learn the basics of embroidery, fiber arts, quilting, and sculpture, and integrate these techniques into your own practice.
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Marisa Aragona Untitled, 2015 Photograph 20 x 24 inches Courtesy of the artist
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Cover: Marisa Aragona Untitled, 2015 Photograph 20 x 24 inches Courtesy of the artist
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