PAST CLASSES:
Surface as Metaphor with Anne Flash
April 28-29, 9-4pm, $250 plus a $10 materials fee
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In this process-oriented drawing/mixed media workshop, we will explore various methods and meanings connected to SURFACE ---- both practically and conceptually. Nonlinear narratives will be developed through selective procedures such as marking, rubbing, layering, erasing, scratching, smudging, staining, blotting, etc. Chance operations and time-mapping will be used as ways to generate composition. All sorts of 2-D images, including photographic and photocopier images will be considered fair game. A scanner and printer will be provided during the workshop, as well as various other toys and tools. Each participant can expect to take away an exciting set of work that pushes beyond his/her own conventions into new creative territory.
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| Anne Flash received her MFA in painting from Hunter College in New York City and her BFA from the Massachusetts College of Art in Boston. She taught at Trinity College in Hartford for four years, before moving to Cape Cod. In the 1990's, she was granted two residencies at Yaddo and one at the Millay Colony for the Arts.
Flash has been teaching drawing at Cape Cod Community College for the past six years, and was an artist -in-residence at the college in 2008. Her work has been exhibited in New York, Boston, Connecticut, and Provincetown and is in private and corporate collections throughout New England. She believes, as an artist and as a teacher, that drawing exists at the core of all art, and is therefore an essential practice for artists.
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Cuts and Folds: Explorations with Paper Workshop with Heather Blume
Mondays, April 16 & 23, 9:30-12:30pm, $125
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A multicultural art form, cut paper has practically unlimited possibilities in both 2 and 3 dimensions. This workshop will cover some basic Old World cutting methods and Contemporary pop-up.
Students can look forward to creating unique work using variety of these combinations.
Instruction will include demonstrations accompanied by information on and images of other contemporary paper artists. Students are encouraged to use their imagination and bring any paper materials they would like to try including recycles, scraps, and old drawings or rejects that need a new life. This workshop includes studio access until 4pm.
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A native of Cape Cod, Massachusetts, Heather Blume graduated with a BFA summa cum laude in Painting from the University of North Florida in 1992 and an MFA cum laude in Sculpture from the New York Academy of Art in 1994. She focuses on creating metaphorical and archetypal figurative drawings, paintings, and sculptures in mixed mediums. These works represent her concern with the human story. Blume’s work has been exhibited nationally in New York, Chicago, and San Francisco, as well as internationally in London, England, Paris, France, and Weimar, Germany. She is the recipient of several art awards and grants including a Florida State Grant, a Massachusetts Cultural Council Grant, and three Arts Foundation of Cape Cod grants. Several of her works are included in the permanent collection of the British Museum and most recently The Royal Coin Cabinet of Sweden in Stockholm.
Of this class, one student remarked on “Her patience, her experience, her talent!”
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Image Making with Rosalind Pace and Marcia Simon
April 17-20, 10-2pm, $275
Play with letters, words, papers, inks and found objects – and discover your own unique images. Through a series of parallel visual and verbal activities including book-design, poem-making, monoprinting, lettering and collage, students generate the materials from which to create a handmade book. The form and content of the book are not pre-conceived, but discovered as students construct their books on the space of each page and in the sequence of time. The books will be filled with beautiful images and surprising revelations.
This workshop is for experienced artists and writers, as well as for beginners. It’s a wonderful class for family members to take together. Children must be at least eight. Its methodology also makes it eye-opening for teachers. |
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Rosalind Pace, poet, artist, teacher, has been Writer-in-Residence at the Cape Cod Lighthouse Charter School since the school was founded in 1995. She worked with Poets-in-the-Schools in Pennsylvania and New Jersey for many years, exhibited her collages at the original Provincetown Group Gallery; has been on the faculty at Truro Center for the Arts at Castle Hill since 1976; and was the director of Long Point Gallery in Provincetown from 1994-1997. Her poems have appeared in several literary journals, including American Poetry Review, Ontario Review, Ploughshares, Poetry East, The Iowa Review, and others. Her collages and handmade books are in public and private collections. She lives in Truro.
Marcia Simon, writer, psychotherapist, artist and teacher, works in the Clarkstown Central School District, Rockland County, NY, and in private practice. Her novel, A Special Gift (Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1978) was made into an ABC After-School Special, which won a Peabody Award and was re-issued on DVD in 2005. She graduated from Brown University and took classes at RISD as part of her concentration in Art. She has an MA in History of Art from Yale, studied book arts with Marian Parry at the Radcliffe Institute, and received an MS in Clinical Social Work from Columbia University. She lives in West Nyack, NY, and Truro.
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Marcia and Rosalind met when they were undergraduates at Brown University. They developed Image-Making in 1976 and have been teaching it ever since.
Of this class, one student wrote, “In Image-Making the integration of the visual and the verbal happens as if by magic. In this class you are in the hands of experts.”
The Art of Collage with Karen Cappotto
April 10-12, 12:30-4:30, $300 plus a $15 materials fee
| Collage is a layering of thoughts and ideas as well as of paper, printed materials, graphite and paint. To the collagist, the very gathering of materials adds yet another layer of meaning. This workshop will explore basic materials and techniques used in collage and mixed media pieces. The emphasis will be on ways to apply a variety of techniques to mixed-media collage while developing a personal style. Demonstrations and discussions will encourage participants to rediscover or develop methods of layering images, paper, paint, and glue. There will be assignments provided for those seeking direction or help in overcoming creative blocks; other students may work independently on their own projects. Bring materials to class that inspire or that you would like to work with. Some additional materials will be made available for further exploration. A materials list is available for those not familiar with the medium. |
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Karen Cappotto studied fine art and graphic design at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, and at the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown. A longtime summer resident and now year round resident of Provincetown, she exhibits regularly at The Schoolhouse Gallery, in Provincetown; Palm Beach, FL; and Ireland. Cappotto’s paintings and collages can be found in various private and corporate collections. In 2010, Karen has launched her own company, PEG+DICK specializing in cards, decoupage, and accessories. She is a 2011 recipient of The Lillian Orlowsky and William Freed Foundation Grant, which includes a three-person exhibition at the Provincetown Art Association and Museum in 2012. Visit www.karencappotto.com for more info about the artist and her work.
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Discover Creative Expression through Collage and Monotype with Diane Brinker
January 30-31, 9:30-2:30pm, $195 plus a $45 materials fee
February 6-7, 9:30-2:30pm, $195 plus a $45 materials fee
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It’s Winter – time to come inside and Play!
Want to think outside the box? Maybe you’re an artist who needs loosening up, or maybe you want to discover something new. Either way this 2 day session at the Museum will give you a new appreciation for your creative self! Diane is well-known for her enthusiasm in making novices feel comfortable while giving fellow artists the encouragement to try something new. The session begins the basics of Monotype including some printing tricks, but the focus is on creative experiment, using everything from cemetery rubbings (a local field trip weather permitting), primitive self portraits, and design elements of all kinds. Come learn how Monotype and Collage can stimulate and transform your approach. You’ll go away with new parameters regarding creativity, revived old discarded works, intriguing self portraits or simply some captivating Valentines, but you will be stimulated and have new ideas to go ‘play’ with. |
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Diane Brinker spent 30 years designing and leading workshops in San Francisco and the Napa Valley, and in 2009 brought her creative measures full time to the Cape. As primarily a printmaker and experimenter, she brings to her workshops an energy and freshness Her classes are known for the passion and enthusiasm she shows for artists of all ages and abilities. A staunch arts advocate and organizer, she has served as appointee on the Napa Mayor’s Round Table for the Arts, as well as chaired the Napa Valley Arts and Culture Alliance. On Cape, she has taught classes at the Chatham Fine Arts Center, The Cultural Center of Cape Cod, and provided Artist Studio workshops for PAAM. Educated at Miami University in Oxford, Ohio with a degree in Marketing (Art minor), her design creations and products have been widely marketed to the National Parks in the US and Canada since1984. Commissioned memoir pieces, photography, and abstract painting experiments round out her playful and successful approach to art. www.dianebrinker.com
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One student wrote, Diane is an “excellent teacher, really helped me to learn the medium, very inspiring!! She was wonderful – very well versed and generous and supportive. I learned a lot about possibilities of the medium. She taught me to play and explore, not get caught up in trying for a specific effect, like perfection. Creative spirit – helped me with process but allowed me to use my own ideas and compositions.”
Assemblage: A Mixed Media Workshop with Mike Wright
February 11, 9-3pm, $125
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Here’s your chance to loosen up, subscribe to the recycling aesthetic, and take pleasure in the visceral quality of non-traditional, found materials. We will scavenge Provincetown’s recycling center, and assemble the remains of objects into witty, ironic and surprising objets d’art. We will also consider the history of assemblage from the Dadaists to Rauschenberg.
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Sculptor Mike Wright uses found, painted wood and scavenged materials in her assemblages. She was the Cape Cod Community College’s "Artist in Residence" in 2009; was awarded a full fellowship to the Vermont Studio Center; won the Michael E. Deluty Outstanding Sculpture Prize at the 2007 CAA National Competition; as well as the 1999 National Competition at PAAM, which resulted in a solo exhibition. Her work has been in numerous solo and juried exhibitions in Japan; New York City; East Hampton, NY; Boston, MA; Maryland; Montana; and Provincetown. Her work is in the collection of PAAM and many private collections. She is represented by Kobalt Gallery in Provincetown and Williams McCall Gallery in Miami.
One past student wrote, the class had a “very relaxed atmosphere but also very professional. Environment was collaborative yet we worked independently. Mike was approachable and very helpful to all. Excellent instructor.”
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