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The Museum School at PAAM - Summer 2008
Through a painting we can see the whole world. – Hans Hofmann
The Ultimate Critique: For the Intermediate to Advanced Artist with Franny Golden. August 18-22, 1-4pm, $275

Half of making art entails the ability to look at and assess what one has created. Through the practice of looking and looking again, each artist can learn to cultivate new ways of seeing and to develop visual problem-solving skills.

In this workshop, participants are asked to bring three to five, two or three-dimensional works of art to the studio. Artist/professor Franny Golden, well-known for her lively, insightful and straight-forward critiques, will facilitate a series of critical discussions in the spirit of disciplined and rigorous inquiry.

Participants should bring work that feels unresolved, unfinished, and/or work that is ripe for critical assessment. Class time will be divided between discussions of submitted work and hands-on time to re-enter each work of art and respond to critiques. Participants should bring art materials appropriate to their individual processes. Art should not exceed 30” in any direction.
Franny Golden is a recipient of an NEA Fellowship (London, England), several Ragdale Foundation awards and scores of international prizes, and she holds three university degrees. For four years she lived, painted and taught in Istanbul, Turkey (which has had an indelible influence on her work) and has also lived and painted in Mexico, Santa Monica, Cornwall; she currently divides her teaching and painting time between Cape Cod and France. Her numerous solo shows include such cities as Istanbul, Chicago, Boston, Detroit, Ann Arbor, and Saratoga, CA, and a one woman show at Cape Museum of Fine Art, 2003. In addition, she is a published writer, a 25-year adjunct faculty member at Cape Cod Community College, and has taught painting in the accredited program at the Museum School at PAAM, the Massachusetts College of Art, the Cape Cod Museum of Art, and Castle Hill Center for the Arts in Truro, MA. Her work is in numerous private and museum collections throughout the world.