CARLOS FERGUSON
Stop-Motion Animation
August 15-20
9am–12N
Tuition: $650
Open to all
Stop-motion animation blends the visual
arts, narrative form, and filmmaking.
We’ll delve into this exciting medium in
which inanimate objects, drawings, or
even bodies are moved little by little to
tell a story. Stop-motion is a process
with a short learning curve—we will
explore a broad range of possibilities for
making animations. Over the week, we’ll
experiment with various ways to create
our own personal animations using digital
cameras and laptops. We’ll also discuss
artistic collaboration and then brainstorm a
story and construct an animation together
to become part of the Tiny Circus show,
The Other Histories of The World (check
out some of the animations at www.
youtube.com/tinycircus). At the end of the
week, the animations will be projected
outdoors from a tiny Airstream trailer
equipped with projection screen and sound.
Please bring a digital camera and a laptop.
BIOGRAPHY
Carlos Ferguson lives in a 1962 Airstream trailer
equipped with solar panels, a woodstove, and a
disco ball. He was educated in Iowa at Grinnell
College and the University of Iowa. A Fellow at
the Fine Arts Work Center in 2001-02, he has
also been a fellow at the MacDowell Colony, The
Tyrone Guthrie Center in Ireland, The Sacatar
Foundation in Brazil, and Sculpture Space in Utica,
NY. Currently, he directs Tiny Circus—a community-based
stop-motion animation extravaganza. Tiny
Circus is a collaborative project whose members
engage communities to develop a show entitled The
Other Histories of the World, a series of short, stop-motion
animated films presenting fanciful imagined
histories of a variety of subjects like rain, smiles, or
constellations. Animations are projected in public
spaces from a vintage Airstream trailer. To view
animations go to: www.tinycircus.org.
BARKLEY HENDRICKS
Representational Painting and Drawing
July 18 — 23
9am—12N
Tuition: $650 + $30 studio fee
Open to all
Open to all
Critics in the art world would have us
believe that realism, or representational
painting, is the poor cousin to abstraction
and post-modernism. This course will
dispute that construct. We will focus
on the figure, the portrait and the self-portrait
from the realist/representational
style and format. Participants will be
encouraged to work from live models
as well as photographs. During the self-portraiture
component, participants will be
encouraged to work from mirrors as well.
The creativity and initial work presentation
of the students will inform the direction of
the class and my instruction.
Materials: Oil, watercolor, pencil, ink,
pastel and/or conté crayon on canvas,
board or paper.
BIOGRAPHY
Barkley L. Hendricks's work is uniquely situated
at the crossing of American realism and postmodernism,
walking a path between figurative
artists such as Chuck Close and Alex Katz, and the
conceptualism of African American artists like David
Hammons and Adrian Piper. Best known for his
striking, life-sized canvasses portraying people from
the urban northeast, Hendricks explores the cultural
complexity of identity in the contemporary world. He
has exhibited widely in solo and group shows, most
recently at the Contemporary Arts Museum Houston
in Houston, TX; Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts,
Philadelphia, PA; Studio Museum in Harlem, New
York; and Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University
in Durham, NC. His works are held in major museum
collections, including the Chrysler Museum, Norfolk,
VA; The National Afro-American Museum and
Cultural Center, Wilberforce, OH; The National
Gallery of Art in Washington, DC; and Yale University
Art Gallery in New Haven, CT. The recipient of many
awards and fellowships, he has been a Professor of
Art at Connecticut College since 1972.
ROBERT HENRY
Put it On, Take it Off, Move it Around:
Figure Painting
July 11 — 16
9am—12N
Tuition: $650 + $40 studio fee
Open to all
Open to all
This course will take a lively approach
to painting the figure. Working from
the model, we'll explore ways of using
materials to create figurative paintings
that integrate the expressive possibilities
of the artist, model and painting. There is
an emphasis on composition as a tool to
create the painting from the beginning,
rather than as a criticism applied toward
the end of the process. We will experiment
with various methods of applying, moving,
and removing paint in order to develop
convincing images that have emotional
resonance. The aim is for the artist to
acquire techniques, attitudes, and methods
of working that will serve as resources for
his or her future development.
BIOGRAPHY
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 Fine Arts, Columbia University, Pace
University, and many others. He is Professor
Emeritus at Brooklyn College.
JOEL JANOWITZ
Painting Light: A Watercolor Workshop
June 27 — July 2
9am—12N
Tuition: $650 + $20 studio fee
Open to all
This workshop will explore the renowned
ability of watercolor to convey the
experience of light, as well as form
and space. Through a close look at
watercolor's unique characteristics, we
will develop strategies for painting with
this remarkable and challenging medium.
Progressive exercises and projects will
focus on a variety of working methods and
on increasing one's awareness of color
and value relationships—two key factors in
capturing a convincing sense of light. The
class will work primarily from observation
of still life, the model, and also landscape.
This workshop is intended both for
students new to watercolor and for those
more experienced with the medium. Good
drawing skills will be helpful.
BIOGRAPHY
Joel Janowitz has exhibited widely, with over 30
solo shows. In 2009, he exhibited at Regis College
in Weston, MA and Victoria Munroe Fine Art,
Boston. His work has been collected by numerous
museums including the Metropolitan Museum of
Art, the Whitney Museum of American Art, the
Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, and the Fogg
Museum at Harvard. In 2008 he received his third
individual Artist's Fellowship from the state of
Massachusetts. Other awards and honors include
an Artist Fellowship from the New York Foundation
for the Arts, and two artist grants from the National
Endowment for the Arts. He taught painting and
drawing at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts in
Boston, at Wellesley College, and continues on the
faculty of the MassArt at the Fine Arts Work Center
in Provincetown low-residency MFA program.
ROBERTO JUAREZ
Collage and Paint on Coventry Paper
July 25 — 30
9am—12N
Tuition: $650 + $15 studio fee
Open to all
In this weeklong workshop, we will be
working to create artworks on coventry
paper with rice paper, mixed media
and water-based paints. Images from
the internet, catalogs, old books (but
not art books) and magazines will be
combined with paint to develop ideas and
compositions. Instruction in techniques
using rice paper and found materials will be
explored to help students develop their own
personal images and ideas. Students will be
involved in group and individual critiques.
BIOGRAPHY
Roberto Juarez studied at the San Francisco Art
Institute and UCLA, and teaches at the School of
Visual Arts/NYC. Past highlights of his career include
public murals commissioned for the Grand Central
Terminal in NYC and for Whitman College's Paul G.
Allen Reading Room. He won the Prix de Rome in
1997, and was a Guggenheim Fellow in 2001-2002.
He has shown consistently in New York City since the
early 1980's. His most recent solo exhibition was at
the Charles Cowles Gallery, NYC, in May 2008.
TOM KNECHTEL
Growing Creativity
June 20 — 25
9am—12N
Tuition: $650
Open to all
BIOGRAPHY
Linda Bond is a former Fellow of the Fine Arts Work
Center and the recipient of grants from the Artists
Resource Trust, the Massachusetts Cultural Council,
the Massachusetts Foundation for Humanities &
Public Policy, and from the Massachusetts Council
on the Arts and Humanities. Her work has been
exhibited throughout the Northeast, including
recent shows at the Brattleboro Museum, the Art
Complex Museum and the Fitchburg Art Museum,
and is in numerous collections including those
of Boston University, IBM, Nokia and Fidelity
Investments. In Provincetown, she is represented
by the Schoolhouse Gallery. Linda teaches at the
Massachusetts College of Art and Design in Boston
and is a mentor for the MassArt at the Fine Arts Work
Center in Provincetown low-residency MFA program.
BIOGRAPHY
Born in Wales, Paul Bowen first came to the U.S.
as a graduate student at the Maryland Institute in
Baltimore in 1972. A Fellow at the Fine Arts Work
Center in 1977-79, he has been the recipient of
fellowships and grants from the Pollock-Krasner
Foundation, the New England Foundation for the
Arts, the Massachusetts Artists Foundation and
the Welsh Arts Council. His work is included in the
permanent collections of museums both here and
abroad, including the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston,
the Solomon Guggenheim Museum in New York,
and the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis. In 2007
he was a recipient of an Adolph and Esther Gottlieb
Foundation grant. He currently teaches sculpture and
drawing at Dartmouth College, and is represented by
artSTRAND in Provincetown.
BIOGRAPHY
Emily Eveleth’s work has been widely shown in
museums, most recently at the Fresno Metropolitan
Museum; the Katonah Museum of Art, Katonah, NY;
and the Parrish Art Museum in Southampton, NY. It
can also be found in private and public collections
including the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston. Her
work has been written about in Bomb magazine,
Art in America, The New Yorker, and The New
York Times. In 2002 she was a Visiting Artist at the
American Academy in Rome. Her most recent gallery
shows were at Danese in New York, and her next
solo shows will be at the Smith College Museum of
Art in Northampton, MA, and the Howard Yezerski
Gallery in Boston.
BIOGRAPHY
Lauren Ewing is a sculptor who lives in New York
City and Provincetown. Her work has been featured
in many museum exhibitions and private collections,
including the MoMA, Hirshorn Museum, The National
Museum of Women in the Arts, and the Metropolitan
Museum of Art. She has had solo exhibitions in
Germany, Denmark, Australia, and Austria. The first
woman to head the Sculpture and 3-Dimensional
Arts Department at RISD, she has received two
NEA fellowships, and has lectured and taught at
Columbia, Yale, and the Architectural Association in
London. She is currently on the faculty at Rutgers
enjoying a research leave.
BIOGRAPHY
A survey of Tom Knechtel's art, "On Wanting
To Grow Horns," traveled the country in 2002.
His work is in the collections of many museums,
including the Museum of Modern Art, The Museum
of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles and the Los
Angeles County Museum of Art. He is represented
by Marc Selwyn Fine Art.
BIOGRAPHY
M P Landis's current work is a palimpsest of the
processes, materials and emotions of his existence. He
has collaborated with many, including musician Tom
Abbs, visual artists Paul Bowen and Bert Yarborough,
and poet Nick Flynn. His work is represented in
many private and public collections, including the
Butler Institute of American Art, the Bowdoin College
Museum of Art, the DeCordova Museum, the New
York Public Library, the Peabody Essex Museum,
the Naples Museum of Art and the Provincetown Art
Association and Museum. He is the Creative Consultant
for the mentoring program Project Eye-To-Eye, and a
consultant at ESP-Disk' Records. He exhibits at Gallery
Ehva in Provincetown, MA, and with the international
traveling artists' group VERN, among others.
BIOGRAPHY
Susan Lyman is a sculptor and painter who has
exhibited her work in numerous solo and group
exhibitions for over 30 years in the United States,
Japan, and New Zealand. Her work is held in
corporate and museum collections including
Champion International Paper Co., Saks Fifth
Avenue, Arkansas Art Center and Museum, and
Provincetown Art Association and Museum. She is
the recipient of grants from Rhode Island School of
Design, the National Endowment for the Arts, the
Pollock-Krasner Foundation, the Artists' Foundation
of Boston, and a Fellowship at the Fine Arts Work
Center. She has taught at Rhode Island School of
Design, Massachusetts College of Art, Hamilton
College, and University of Michigan School of Art;
she currently teaches sculpture at Providence
College. In Provincetown she exhibits her sculpture
and paintings at Schoolhouse Gallery.
BIOGRAPHY
Educated at the U.S. Naval Academy and M.I.T.,
Jim Peters earned his MS in Nuclear Engineering in
1969. He began painting while serving on the aircraft
carrier John F. Kennedy, and in 1977 received his
MFA in painting from the Maryland Institute College
of Art. He has been awarded three Massachusetts
Individual Artist Grants, an Adolf and Esther Gottlieb
Foundation Fellowship, and was a Fellow at the Fine
Arts Work Center from 1982 to 1984. Best known
for his large mixed media figurative paintings and
constructions, he exhibits his work at the CDS Gallery
in New York, Pierre Menard Gallery in Cambridge,
and the artSTRAND Gallery in Provincetown.
His work is also represented in many private and
public collections, including the Guggenheim
Museum in New York and Centro Cultural de Arte
Contemporaneo in Mexico City.
BIOGRAPHY
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, the 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.
BIOGRAPHY
Bert Yarborough has a degree in Architecture
from Clemson University and an MA and MFA
in Photography from the University of Iowa. He
is currently an Associate Professor of Fine and
Performing Arts at Colby Sawyer College in New
London, NH, and has taught Painting and Drawing
at Harvard University, Plymouth State College and
several other institutions. Twice a Fellow at the Fine
Arts Work Center, he also served as Visual Arts
Coordinator for four years and is currently Chair of
FAWC's Visual Arts Committee. He has received
two New Hampshire State Arts Council Grants in
Painting, an NEA Fellowship in Sculpture, and a
Fulbright Fellowship to Nigeria, also in Sculpture. He
is represented by artSTRAND in Provincetown, and
McGowan Fine Arts in Concord, NH.
BIOGRAPHY
Penn Young has been working with abstraction in
painting since 1996. He has had solo shows with the
Clifford Smith Gallery in Boston, and his work has
been in museum and gallery group shows in New
York, Virginia, Maine, and Massachusetts. In 2002
he was a visiting artist at the American Academy
in Rome. Over the past several years he's added
abstract sculpture to his work. Prior to becoming a
visual artist, he was a playwright and filmmaker.