PAUL BOWEN & IRÉN HANDSCHUH
Connecting with Wood:
Sculpture Workshop
AUGUST 17—22
9am–12N
Type: Sculpture
Price: $650 + $25 studio fee
Open to all
Open to beginners and to those who are
more experienced, this class will explore
simple techniques in working with wood,
using both hand and power tools. With
time set aside for demonstrations of the
appropriate and safe use of tools, we will
build adventurous structures, considering
the integrity of materials and the possibilities
of space and gravity, while integrating
personal sensibilities. There will also be time
for critiques and the discussion of the how,
when and why of sculpture today.
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, and in
2008 he is teaching sculpture and drawing
at Dartmouth College. He is represented by
artStrand in Provincetown.
Born and educated in Paris, Irén Handschuh
emigrated to the United States in 1971.
Trained as a fine woodworker, she spent
the next 20 years working in general
construction, cabinet and furniture
making in the Boston area, Cape Cod
and the Islands. Moving away from the
high precision of cabinetwork, she began
working as a sculptor in the 1980's. She
has exhibited in galleries in Wellfleet,
Provincetown, Nantucket, New York and
Japan. Her sculptures are in the collections
of the DeCordova Museum, and private
collections. Handschuh is represented by
the Berta Walker Gallery in Provincetown.
LAUREN EWING
Objects of Affection:
Beginning Stone Carving
JUNE 29—JULY 4
9am–12N
Type: Sculpture
Price: $650 + $125 studio fee for
necessary tools, finishing papers and
choice of stones
This is a beginning stone carving class.
We will be carving on the beach (with
sun protection), weather permitting. We'll
use native alabaster, which is perfect
for beginning projects. Emphasis will be
placed on how to create an object that
produces affection, that attracts touch and
is memorable. This course will be taught
on the beach, weather permitting, and
in Lauren's Provincetown studio. A kit of
necessary tools and a choice of stones will
be available.
What to bring: a beach umbrella, healthy
hands, energetic patience and an interest in
working outside on the beach.
BIOGRAPHY
Lauren Ewing is a sculptor who lives in New
York City and summers in 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. She has
received two NEA fellowships and was the
first woman to head the Sculpture and 3-
Dimensional Arts Department at RISD. She
has lectured and taught at Columbia, Yale,
and the Architectural Association in London,
and is currently on the faculty at Rutgers
enjoying a research leave.
ROBERT HENRY
Put It On, Take It Off, Move It Around:
Figure Painting
JUNE 15—20
9am–12N
Type: Figure Painting
Price: $650 + $40 studio/model fee
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
JULY 6—11
9am–12N
Type: Watercolor
Price: $650 + $20 studio fee
Open to all
This workshop will explore watercolor's
renowned ability 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 mix of
working methods and on increasing one's
awareness of color and value relationships,
key components in capturing a convincing
sense of light. The class will work primarily
from observation—still life, the model, and
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 and
has had over 30 one-person shows. In
2007, he had two solo exhibitions of his
paintings and monotypes at Victoria Munroe
Fine Art, Boston. In 2005 he exhibited
at the Highpoint Center for Printmaking
in Minneapolis and was also included in
"Extended Boundaries" at the Davis Museum
in Wellesley, MA. Joel's 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. His honors include fellowships
from the New York Foundation for the Arts,
the Massachusetts Artists Foundation, and
the National Endowment for the Arts. He has
taught at Princeton University, the School
of the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston and,
since 2003, at Wellesley College.
JO ANN JONES
Working Small, Thinking Big:
Narrative Practices in Small Scale
Painting and Drawing
AUGUST 17—22
9am–12N
Type: Painting and Drawing
Price: $650 + $20 studio fee
Open to all
In this course, students will explore the
many possibilities of creating a visual
dialogue through narrative paintings and
drawings. Students are encouraged to
bring materials they are most comfortable
working with. The dimension of the
canvas or paper used in this course is not
to exceed 18" x 20." Along with a vivid
imagination, students are expected to bring
journals, diaries and/or any record of ideas,
stories, dreams and information that will
serve as the catalyst for the narrative work
created in this course. This is not a course
in illustration, but in illumination.
BIOGRAPHY
Jo Ann Jones's work has been exhibited in
numerous solo and group shows nationwide.
She received her BFA from the University
of Illinois at Chicago and her MFA from Yale
University. Most recently, Jo Ann completed
work for a solo show in New York and
finished a one-year residency at the Roswell
Artist-in- Residence Program in Roswell,
New Mexico. Other residences include
The McDowell Colony, Yaddo, Skowhegan
School of Painting and Sculpture, and the
Yale Norfolk Program of Music and Art.
ROBERTO JUAREZ
Collage and Paint on Small Canvas
AUGUST 3—8
9am–12N
Type: Mixed media
Price: $650 + $20 studio fee
Open to all
In this weeklong workshop, we will be
working on small stretched canvases
(smaller than 16" X 30") with 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 for larger paintings or other
media works. Instruction in the preparation
of canvas and 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. His most
recent solo exhibition was at the Charles
Cowles Gallery, NYC, in May 2008.
TOM KNECHTEL
Personalized Drawing
AUGUST 10—15
9am–12N
Type: Drawing
Price: $650 + $20 studio fee
Open to all
How do we find those qualities in our art
that make our work specific to us? How
does our work allow us to describe what
it's like to be in our own bodies? How do
we use our work to converse with others?
A different project each day will address
these questions using drawing, an intimate
medium particularly suited to exploring our
individuality. This class is open to all levels
of experience and to a wide range of media.
BIOGRAPHY
Tom Knechtel's work was the subject of a
traveling mid-career survey "On Wanting
To Grow Horns: The Little Theatre of Tom
Knechtel," organized by the Otis College
of Art and Design in 2002. His work has
received a Joan Mitchell Fellowship, a Getty
Fellowship and a Djerassi Fellowship, and is
represented in numerous museums both in
the US and Europe. He received a BFA and
MFA from the California Institute of the Arts.
He is represented by Marc Selwyn Fine Art,
where he had a show in May 2007.
PETER MADDEN
Book Arts
JULY 6—11
9am–12N
Type: Studio Arts
Price: $650 + $25 studio fee
Open to all
Artists, writers, and anyone with a passion
for creating and experimenting with new
materials are welcome to this introduction
to the tools and methods of bookbinding.
We will work together through detailed
demonstrations and guided, hands-on studio
time. We'll start with simple structures and
traditional materials (paper, binder's board
and book cloth) then move into areas of your
own interest and experimentation. During our
week of work and play, you will complete at
least six handmade books, derived largely
of your own imagining and creative spirit,
and you'll leave with the knowledge and
skill to create dozens more. No unusual
or expensive tools are required, and all
the techniques presented can be easily
continued and expanded in your own studio
or at home.
BIOGRAPHY
Peter Madden's one-of-a-kind, handmade
books are exhibited and collected throughout
the world, including Boston's Museum of
Fine Arts, Institute of Contemporary Art,
Harvard University, the Center for Book Arts
in New York and the Library of Congress.
His work and technique have been featured
in many publications including Penland
Book of Handmade Books, Teachers and
Writers Magazine, Structure of the Visual
Book and The Body of the Book in the 20th
Century. He's received an Artists' Foundation
Fellowship, a Saint Botolph Club Foundation
Grant and a Massachusetts Cultural Council
Award. Peter is on the faculty of the School
of the Museum of Fine Arts and is a frequent
teacher, lecturer and workshop leader around
the country.
SUE MILLER
Painting Matters: A Painting and
Mixed-media Workshop
JULY 20—25
9am–12N
Type: Painting/Mixed media
Price: $650 + $20 studio fee
Intermediate to advanced
This intensive painting workshop is designed
for the student who has studied painting and
is ready to move beyond formal exercises to
create paintings conveying personal vision
and emotional resonance. Come prepared
with ideas for paintings using your own
sources, drawings, setups, etc. Through
tutorial format and occasional group critiques,
you'll be shown how to recognize those
components that define your unique voice.
Techniques will be taught for integrating
a variety of matter and mixed media. This
process enables the artist to experience a
fresh response to the act of painting which,
in turn, increases the visual excitement of
the work itself. Those wishing to combine
paint and other matter should use acrylics
and acrylic bonding media rather than oils.
A list of relatively inexpensive supplies will
be sent upon enrollment.
BIOGRAPHY
Sue Miller has been represented by the
Allan Stone Gallery, NYC, for 28 years of
solo and group exhibitions. In Boston, Sue
is represented by the Nielsen Gallery. In
addition, she has had solo shows at The
Hudson River Museum, Yonkers, NY; Jeremy
Stone Gallery, San Francisco; Central Hall
Gallery, Port Washington, NY; and Women in
the Arts, NYC. Her work has been included
in group shows across the country and has
been widely reviewed. She has received
awards from the New York Foundation for
the Arts, and the New England Foundation
for the Arts. She currently teaches at The
Cambridge Center for Adult Education and
the New Art Center in Newton, MA.
JIM PETERS
The Figure: A Mixed-media Workshop
JULY 27—August 1
9am–12N
Type: Mixed media
Price: $650 + $50 model and studio fee
Open to all
We will explore the Figure in various
mediums: painting, digital photography, wax,
wood, etc. While painting may be the primary
theater of investigation, students can pursue
the combination of paint and photography
and 3D solutions. These various materials
can be used to inform the development
of your painting, or can be incorporated
together into mixed medium artwork. All
students are critiqued daily on an individual
basis, and may therefore be working on quite
different projects. We will analyze the work of
artists Anselm Kiefer, Robert Rauschenberg,
Kiki Smith, Louise Bourgeois, and others
who have attempted to include different
processes in their work.
Special instructions: For those who wish
to incorporate 3D or photographic ideas into
their pieces, please see Materials List. Wax
can be purchased from instructor; some
tools and wood will be available in the class.
Models will be present during all sessions.
BIOGRAPHY
A Fellow at the Fine Arts Work Center from
1982 to 1984, Jim Peters is currently the
Chair of FAWC's Visual Arts Committee. He
has been awarded three Massachusetts
Individual Artists Grants and an Adolf and
Esther Gottlieb Foundation Fellowship. 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, MA, 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.
MARJORIE PORTNOW
Landscape Painting
JULY 20—25
9am–12N
Type: Outdoor Painting
Price: $650 + $20 studio fee
Intermediate to advanced
In this on-site, outdoor landscape painting
class, we will go out every morning and
paint directly from nature. Going to several
different sites, we will respond to the
individual locations. The emphasis will be on
both the intense observation of nature and
your personal visual response. There will be
individual attention and group critiques.
BIOGRAPHY
The paintings of Marjorie Portnow have
been exhibited in numerous galleries,
including Fishbach Gallery (NYC), Harcus-
Krakow (Boston), and Contemporary Realist
Gallery (San Francisco), and have been
included in exhibitions at the Metropolitan
Museum, Boston Museum of Fine Arts,
American Academy of Arts and Letters, and
the Corcoran Gallery of Art. Her paintings
are in the permanent collections of the
Metropolitan, the Boston Museum of Fine
Arts, and Middlebury College, Vermont.
She has received two NEA grants, two
Ingram Merrill grants, two Radcliffe Bunting
Institute grants and two Tiffany grants. In
2005 she won a Henry Ward Ranger prize
in the National Academy of Design Annual
show. She currently teaches at Western
Connecticut State University.
STUART SHILS
The Perceptual Moment
JUNE 22—27
9am–12N
Type: Outdoor Painting
Price: $650 + $20 studio fee
Intermediate to advanced
Student limit: 12
This week is designed to throw the mid to
advanced painter further into the pleasures
and vigor of painting out of doors under
the sun with loaded brushes in hand. In
the tradition of alla prima or "first strike,"
emphasis will be placed on examining:
1) the perceptual process in front of nature,
2) the editorial response that follows in the
head of the painter, and 3) how that takes
form in two dimensions as paint and drawing.
And maybe most importantly, on shaking
up and/or questioning what is meant by
"finish." Participants should not expect to
take home finished or saleable trophies – with
painting we assume one never really gets the
trophy anyway. We are more concerned with
perceptual understanding and the process of
how to think about what a painting is without
reference to the market place.
As part of the workshop, Stuart will
give a talk titled "The Perception of
Nature and the Nature of Perception"
on Sunday, June 22, at 8:00pm.
BIOGRAPHY
Stuart Shils has been painting out of doors
and/or through open windows in the city, in
the countryside and by the sea for 23 years.
Currently, his paintings are represented by
the Tibor de Nagy Gallery and Davis and
Langdale in New York, and over the years
his paintings have been reviewed in many
publications. Shils has spent 12 summers
working near a remote village on the wet
and windy northwest coast of Ireland, and
last summer baking in the heat of Umbria.
SELINA TRIEFF
Drawing from the Figure
JUNE 15—20
9am–12N
Type: Figure Drawing
Price: $650 + $40 studio/model fee
Open to all
In this workshop we will draw from
the model, exploring form and space,
considering the interconnection between
abstraction and reality. Drawing is the
basis on which everything else we do
is dependent. Working from the model
presents particular challenges. It is
demanding and wonderful and an endless
activity. Without discussing style, the
process of understanding space and form is
the very crux of what art is about. Thinking
of drawing as the foundation, we will use the
model to understand how we translate our
three-dimensional surface. Through this
process we can understand the abstraction
in representational art and, conversely,
understand the representation in abstraction.
We will also talk of line and mark-making,
and explore a variety of media.
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.
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BIOGRAPHY
Richard Baker's work has been exhibited
in group shows nationally, and he has had
numerous solo exhibitions at the Joan T.
Washburn Gallery in New York and the
Albert Merola Gallery in Provincetown,
as well as shows in San Francisco, Los
Angeles and other places. Awards include
those from the New England Foundation
for the Arts and the Pollock-Krasner
Foundation. He has taught or been a visiting
artist at the University of Iowa, Boston
University, the Fine Arts Work Center in
Provincetown, the Rhode Island School of
Design, and the School of Visual Arts in NY.
He is currently represented by the Tibor de
Nagy Gallery in NY and the Albert Merola
Gallery in Provincetown.
BIOGRAPHY
Linda Bond is a former Fellow of the Fine
Arts Work Center and is 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
Art Complex Museum and the Fitchburg Art
Museum, and is in numerous collections
including those of IBM, Nokia and Fidelity
Investments. She is represented by the
Ernden Gallery in Provincetown, and the
Drawing Project at the Bernard Toale
Gallery in Boston. Linda teaches at the
Massachusetts College of Art in Boston and
is a mentor for the low residency MFAWC
MFA program.