Lillian Orlowsky / William Freed Museum School at PAAM

This course will introduce and explore the single-block method of color printmaking, developed in Provincetown in 1916 and known as the “Provincetown Print.” Image transfer, cutting techniques, printing techniques and the hand-printing process will be included. Open to all levels. This five day course includes afternoon access to the print studio during the workshop week.

Kathryn Smith studied painting and printmaking at the University of Maryland, receiving a BA in Fine Arts, with further studies at Maryland Institute of Art, University of Northern Colorado, Colorado State University, and University of Colorado, Boulder. In 1981, Ms. Smith returned to Provincetown to resume studies with her grandmother, Ferol Sibley Warthen, the renowned artist and a practitioner of the single block, multicolor print developed in Provincetown in 1916. Since 1981, Smith has continued to produce traditional white-line prints professionally. She has been a year-round resident of Provincetown since 1988, teaching at the Museum School since 1991 and at Provincetown International Art Institute (PIAI) from 1999-2002. She has lectured extensively on the history of the Provincetown print, teaching workshops in the U.S. and Japan.  Ms. Smith's work is represented in museum and private collections nationally and internationally.

Join this class in creating unique sculpture out of found materials. Pre-requisite is thinking OUTside of the box. No experience with tools necessary! Bring your own collection of stuff and any tools you want to use. Materials and a variety of tools will be provided.

Conny Hatch is an artist who had the great fortune of having her dad teach her how to use all kinds of hand and power tools from a very young age. After studying art with a concentration on ceramics at the Maine College of Art and Haystack Mountain School of Crafts, she moved to Provincetown in 1998. A 1999 Castle Hill sculpture workshop with Paul Bowen turned her interest towards working with found and reclaimed materials to create lively and unique sculptures. She has created over 180 sculptures to date which are in collections in the US and England. In 2007 Conny was awarded a Pollock-Krasner Foundation grant in support of her pursuit of her art. Conny's work can be seen at the Kobalt Gallery in Provincetown. www.connyhatch.com

This workshop will focus on the fundamentals of drawing out of doors.  By simplifying our palettes and focusing on form, light and shadow, and compositional structure, we’ll develop a graphic sense of the landscape. Participants will work primarily with monochromatic media, including graphite, charcoal and Conté crayons. 

Joan Hopkins is co-owner of Golden Cod Gallery in Wellfleet, MA. She is a graduate of the Rhode Island School of Design. Throughout her career she has often worked on a large scale, painting expressive landscapes based on many different places: Cape dunes and marshes; Western Massachusetts farmland; Scottish mountains; and Florida wetlands. The figure in the landscape, as well as the still life, have been prominent in her work. It wasn’t until she first returned to Jamaica in 1980 that she began painting specifically Caribbean themes, starting with large images based on memories of her grandmother’s garden at Blue Mountain. Rather than providing a simple tourist point of view, her paintings describe intimately familiar, material qualities of daily life in the tropics.

Using Henry Hensche’s approach, we’ll work with basic shapes and still-life materials to study color relationships, light, shadow, tone and the creation of volume, depth and pictorial space. Ways to take what you’ve learned out into the wide world will be discussed. Perfect for beginners who want to learn the basics or for intermediate painters interested in fine-tuning your skills.

John Clayton is a plein air painter based in Provincetown. He studied in New York at the Art Students League and the National Academy of Design School of Fine Arts, where he won the Mrs. Roberts Forbes Scholarship, The Arthur & Melville Phillips Scholarship, and an honorable mention from the Academy of Fine Art exhibition in 1998. He has also studied at the Cape Cod School of Art, where he developed an appreciation for the work and teaching of Charles Hawthorne. In 2000 he was featured in the Provincetown Art Association and Museum’s Emerging Artist exhibition, juried by Elisabeth Pearl. Clayton’s work can be found in Provincetown at the Egeli Gallery. For more examples of his work, please visit his website johnclaytonstudio.com.

In this concentrated course for beginners and advanced students we will be drawing from the live nude model and learning the basics skills needed to produce successful traditional figure studies. Our goal will be the objective representation of the figure rather than exploring its expressive possibilities. Basic drawing skills will be presented, geared to produce the illusion of three-dimensional form, such as the use of overlapping contours, diminution of size, convergence of parallels, modeling in light and shade, measuring, analyzing diagonals, drawing cylinders, conceptualizing the forms of the body, basic proportions, foreshortening, composition, gesture, and logical procedures. We will learn how to overcome the common pitfalls that discourage and frustrate legions of artists who draw the figure. In addition, an introduction to basic artistic anatomy will be presented.

Larry Collins is a painter and photographer living and working in Provincetown. He studied painting at the University of Oklahoma (BFA), Indiana University, and the Massachusetts College of Art (MFA). He was an infantryman and combat artist for the U. S. Army in Vietnam in 1968-1969. He has been a Professor of Art at the Massachusetts College of Art, the University of New Hampshire, and Montserrat College of Art. He has collaborated on books of poetry and art with Allen Ginsberg, Lawrence Ferlinghetti and Eileen Myles. His work has been exhibited widely in the U. S. and Europe and is in many private and institutional permanent collections including the Worcester Art Museum, New York Public Library, Provincetown Art Association and Museum, and the Boston Public Library. He has received artist’s grants from the New Hampshire Council on the Arts and a Creative Arts Studies Fellowship for travel in Italy. He is the former Director of the Driskel Gallery at the Schoolhouse Center in Provincetown and the current Director of Larry Collins Fine Art.

Schools of Thought/Creative Legacies: Master Classes at PAAM

Experience the rich Provincetown tradition of accomplished artists teaching emerging artists in the Museum School’s Master Class Series: connect with the teaching of Hans Hofmann, Mark Rothko, Robert Motherwell and La Force Bailey through the 21st century approaches of gifted teaching-artists Carmen Cicero, Peter Watts, Robert Henry and Selina Trieff. These intensive classes are offered only in October, 2009. Most workshops include additional access to studios to allow for creative development during non-class time.

Participants will be guided to retrieve and apply visual memory in the creation of landscape painting. Artist and educator Peter Watts will present examples of his work and discuss the ways he has utilized this approach in his creative practice. The workshop will provide a supportive environment for exploration; Watts will work alongside participants to demonstrate the rich possibilities of creating from the personal filter of memory and “internalized landscapes.” All levels of experience welcome; participants may bring visual references—photographs, works create by admired artists, or personal sketches—to facilitate their creative processes. Includes afternoon access to painting studio.

We are seeking to understand and translate our 3D world to the 2D surface of the canvas or paper. As we work to accomplish this we will study and sketch from the model. The goal will be to explore various ways of drawing without stressing any particular style. Any drawing material, pencils, pen, crayon, charcoal, etc. can be used. The work of known artists will be utilized to illustrate a variety of issues and approaches during our sessions together.

Selina Trieff studied with Hans Hofmann in New York and Provincetown. She received a BA from Brooklyn College where she studied with Ad Reinhardt and Mark Rothko. She is represented by the Berta Walker Gallery in Provincetown represented by George Billis Gallery in New York, and the Ruth Bachofner Gallery in California. She has shown extensively in the United States and in Europe. Her work is represented in many public and private collections, and she has taught at various colleges and art schools.

This course will focus on oil painting using abstract principles based on the teachings of Hans Hofmann that start with the flattening of perspectival space in order to create a more active space in the painting. Students will be developing compositional skills, stressing the relationship of forms and colors. The goal is to create paintings that seem to breathe, paintings in which the forms and colors seem to push and pull forward and back in relation to each other in order to establish a monumental scale.

Participants will be encouraged to work quickly and actively, to use paint generously and make radical changes in the structure of the painting at any stage in the development of the painting. Includes morning access to the painting studio. Above are two works by Hofmann.

Robert Henry’s numerous one-person exhibitions include the Cortland Jessup Gallery and Barbara Inger Gallery in New York, the Janus Avivson Gallery in London, and the Berta Walker Gallery in Provincetown. His work hangs in the permanent collections of Brooklyn College, the Cape Cod Museum of Art, Columbia University, Pace University, and many others. He is Professor Emeritus at Brooklyn College. Henry was a student of Hans Hofmann from 1952-53.

PRINTMAKING

Kathryn Smith studied painting and printmaking at the University of Maryland, receiving a BA in Fine Arts, with further studies at Maryland Institute of Art, University of Northern Colorado, Colorado State University, and University of Colorado, Boulder. In 1981, Ms. Smith returned to Provincetown to resume studies with her grandmother, Ferol Sibley Warthen, the renowned artist and a practitioner of the single block, multicolor print developed in Provincetown in 1916. Since 1981, Smith has continued to produce traditional white-line prints professionally. She has been a year-round resident of Provincetown since 1988, teaching at the Museum School since 1991 and at Provincetown International Art Institute (PIAI) from 1999-2002. She has lectured extensively on the history of the Provincetown print, teaching workshops in the U.S. and Japan.  Ms. Smith's work is represented in museum and private collections nationally and internationally.