ART & TECHNOLOGY EXPERIMENTAL DESIGN: WHERE TO START TO NEVER STOP Ana Montenegro 12 sessions: Tuesdays, January 26– April 19 6 – 9 pm | $530 Learn to use digital-image software programs such as Adobe Illustrator, Photoshop, InDesign, and Flash to create practical and personal projects that broaden your perception of visual culture.
DRAWING INTRODUCTION TO DRAWING Michelle Ramin 12 sessions: Wednesdays, January 27 – April 20 7:30 – 10:30 pm | $530 Focus on drawing fundamentals as a means of visual inquiry as you gain skills in translating the composition, line, perspective, and form of 3D objects into 2D drawings. FIGURE DRAWING: ILLUSIONS ON THE 2D SURFACE Michael Azgour 3 sessions: Saturdays, January 30 – February 13 12 – 6 pm | $275 Learn the basics of figure drawing and practice interpreting the subject in new ways. Value, light, form, gesture, proportion, movement, line, edge, and composition will be studied, with exercises from the live model.
PAINTING BETWEEN THOUGHT + THING: EXPRESSIVE WORKS ON PAPER Kara Maria 12 sessions: Saturdays, January 30 – April 23 11 am– 2 pm | $530 Explore water-based materials and the unique formal and technical possibilities of drawing and painting on paper. Try your hand at wet-on-wet, layering, tracing, transfer, collage, and masking techniques (among others) to enhance your artistic practice. INTERMEDIATE DRAWING Katherine Vetne 12 sessions: Thursdays, January 28 – April 21 7:30 – 10:30 pm | $530 Expand your technical drawing skills while deeply engaging with the personal, conceptual side of drawing as you complete group exercises, explore alternative approaches, and undertake longer-term projects. LARGE-SCALE DRAWING Pamela Lanza 12 sessions: Wednesdays, January 27– April 20 7:30 – 10:30 pm | $530 In this course, you’ll explore the meaning of scale and its impact on concept as you experiment with a variety of drawing techniques and approaches in large-format challenges.
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INTRODUCTION TO OIL PAINTING Robert Burden 12 sessions: Tuesdays, January 26 – April 19 7:30 – 10:30 pm | $530 Oil painting fundamentals, such as drawing, brushwork, color theory, and the technical manipulation of paint will further your technical skills, along with demonstrations and exercises designed to encourage new ideas in a positive atmosphere. NEW FIGURE PAINTING Felicita Norris 12 sessions: Thursdays, January 28 – April 21 7:30 – 10:30 pm | $530 Use models in motion as inspiration for paintings that convey dynamic gestural movement. INTERMEDIATE + ADVANCED PAINTING Glenn Hirsch 12 sessions: Wednesdays, January 27 – April 20 7:30 – 10:30 pm | $530 Explore the content of your work through the lenses of irony, humor, narrative, and mood. Individual instruction, technical assignments, and the use of unusual materials will guide you through various styles as you develop independence by painting in series. nce by painting in series.
PRINTMAKING AN ENCYCLOPEDIA OF BRUSHSTROKES Mel Prest 4 sessions: Saturdays, February 6– 27 10 am– 3 pm | $310 Concentrate on the language of acrylic painting through brushstrokes, using in-class exercises, experiments, and contemporary painting as a means to inspire your own work.
EXPLORING SPACE Victoria Mara Heilweil 5 sessions: Wednesdays, April 6–27 + Saturday, April 16 Wednesdays, 7:30–10:30 pm + Saturday, 2–5 pm | $230 Explore space photographically—whether it is personal, gendered, institutional, or intimate space—through weekly shooting assignments and a field trip to Headlands Center for the Arts.
THE STRUCTURED ACCIDENT: FIVE-DAY PAINTING INTENSIVE Allison Miller 5 sessions: Monday– Friday, March 14– 18 9 am– 5 pm | $750 A five-day, eight-hour-per-day intensive, this course provides you with the opportunity to open up your practice, push to experiment, and approach making paintings in new ways, using risk-taking and chance within a rigorous conceptual structure.
CONTEXT AS CONCEPT: PHOTOGRAPHIC SEQUENCING + NARRATIVE CONSTRUCTION Chris Grunder 12 sessions: Tuesdays, January 26– April 19 7:30– 10:30 pm | $530 Photographic sequencing has the power to build narrative, mood, and emotion. In this course, you will learn to create bodies of work that are stronger than their constituent images through discussion, hands-on tutorials, and group critiques.
PHOTOGRAPHY FOR THE LOVE OF LOOKING Dana Morrison 6 sessions: Saturdays, January 30–March 5 1– 4 pm | $275 Learn how to fully realize a photograph prior to the moment your shutter clicks, which will enable you to create intentional, well-composed images that engage your viewer.
THE PSYCHOLOGICAL PORTRAIT Christie Spillane 8 sessions: Thursdays, January 28– March 24 7:30– 10:30 pm | $370 Explore the history and techniques of portrait photography as you learn to reveal inner or psychological worlds. Study the practice from its early days to the work of contemporary photographers as you create in-camera, digital compositions, and self-portraits.
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PRINTED MATTER: HYBRID PROCESSES Rebecca Foster 10 sessions: Saturdays, January 30–April 16 10 am–1 pm | $460 Play with printmaking form, presentation, and variations by combining multiple techniques in this course dedicated to pushing the medium in new directions while embracing and integrating traditional approaches.
Allison Miller Detail of Sidewalk/Street, 2014 Acrylic, flashe, pencil, colored pencil, and collage on canvas, 48 x 48 inches Courtesy of the artist
FILM INTRODUCTION TO DSLR VIDEO Christina Kolozsvary 5 sessions: Mondays, March 21 – April 18 7:30 – 10:30 pm | $230 Learn the ins and outs of video production on your DSLR camera through demonstrations and in-class shooting, coupled with screenings of classic, contemporary, and independent video works.
TREE TO OBJECT: SIMPLIFIED WOODWORKING FOR SCULPTURE Marshall Elliott 12 sessions: Thursdays, January 28 – April 21 7:30 – 10:30 pm | $530 Develop the skills to work with wood as a contemporary sculptural medium as you learn the use of accessible hand tools and a range of wood types.
INTERMEDIATE TO ADVANCED VIDEO PRODUCTION Malic Amalya 8 sessions: Tuesdays, February 23– April 19 7:30 – 10:30 pm | $350 Write, film, and edit a short movie using dream logic and surrealist techniques in this course, which focuses on cinematic illusions, apparitions, fantastic tricks, treats, and magical feats.
PAPER + CLAY ALLIANCE: ADVENTUROUS CERAMIC SCULPTURE Carmen Lang 12 sessions: Tuesdays, January 26– April 19 7:30 – 10:30 pm | $530 Design light- and large-scale sculptures, and experiment with paperclay as a fired and nonfired material to explore the medium's range of possibilities.
SCULPTURE HANDBUILDING IN CERAMICS Matthew Goldberg 12 sessions: Wednesdays, February 3 – April 27 7:30 – 10:30 pm | $530 Examine clay as a sculptural material as you hone handbuilding techniques and create projects based on your personal style of making.
LOST + FOUND: RE-CREATING A REMEMBERED OBJECT Beth Krebs 3 sessions: Wednesdays, April 6 – 20 7:30 – 10:30 pm | $140 In this three-session course, participants will re-create a missing object from memory.
NEW GENRES THE MINIATURE Amy M. Ho 4 sessions: Tuesdays, February 16 – March 8 7:30 – 10:30 pm | $185 Explore the world in miniature as you create dioramas—and engage in critiques and lectures—based upon the work of artists who use minute scale in their own practice. Christie Spillane Detail of Fever Dream: Twin Traumas, 2014 Archival inkjet print, 30 x 38 inches Courtesy of the artist
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Elizabeth M Krebs Detail of Sky Lit, 2011 Vinyl sign film, tape, and existing skylight 240 x 240 inches Courtesy of Paige Critcher
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Cover: Kara Maria Detail of Head Over Heels, 2015 Acrylic on canvas, 48 x 60 x 2 inches Courtesy of the artist and Catharine Clark Gallery
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