GERRY BERGSTEIN
Form, Content, Controversy
June 21–June 26
9am–noon
Open to all

In this workshop we will examine the approach and goals of each student with particular attention to the struggle/marriage between form and content. Discussions will center on images, ideologies, and methodologies relevant to contemporary art practice, and the many ways painting can be experienced: esthetic, political, personal, historical, spiritual, etc. What does it mean for you to be painter in the 21st Century? What is your relationship to the long history of painting as well as to its contemporary manifestations? We will explore, on an individualized basis, ways of synthesizing and juxtaposing images, processes, historical references, and compositional strategies. The goal is to help students delve deeper into the implications and possibilities of their own visions. Technical demonstrations, slide talks and group critiques will augment studio work. All painting media, as well as collage, assemblage and hybrids of painting with other media are welcome.

BIOGRAPHY

Gerry Bergstein's work contrasts the awesome and the trivial, the high and the low, the manic and the melancholic using sources from Brueghel to The Simpsons. He is the recipient of an Artadia grant, a career achievement award from the St. Botolph Club, and a 4-week residency at the Liguria Study Center in Genoa, Italy. His solo shows include Gallery NAGA, The Danforth Museum, and the Howard Yezerski Gallery in Boston; Stephan Stux Gallery in NY; Galerie Bonnier in Geneva, Switzerland; Zolla Lieberman Gallery, Chicago; and the DeCordova Museum, Lincoln, MA. He is represented in the collections of The Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, MIT, DeCordova Museum, Rose Museum, Davis Museum at Wellesley College, IBM, and many others. His work has been reviewed widely in the local press as well as in Temma Celeste, ARTnews, Art in America, and Artforum. He has been on the faculty of The School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston for over two decades.

LINDA BOND
Color & Light
August 16 - August 21
9am-noon
Open to all

Provincetown glistens in the summer, its light defining the form, texture and color of the Outer Cape. Working from direct observation, students will record the architecture and landscape, as well as the smaller details we come across during outings on the beach and in town. Back in the studio, the information will be used to develop finished representational and abstract paintings inspired by the local environment. This technique of “note taking” is a useful way to capture visual reference, collect information when traveling, to awaken new inspiration for studio work, and to generate ideas quickly.

Through the use of planned exercises and free investigations, we will examine the expansive potential of watercolor as we look at the way other artists have approached this truly versatile medium. Students will be encouraged to pursue individual interests in their work while expanding technical skills. This class is open to those with or without experience in watercolor. Some drawing experience would be helpful.

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 Schoolhouse Gallery in Provincetown, and Carroll and Sons in Boston. Linda teaches at the Massachusetts College of Art in Boston and is a mentor for the low residency MFAWC MFA program.

PAUL BOWEN & IRÉN HANDSCHUH
The Wood Experience in Sculpture
July 19–July 24
9am-noon
Open to all

This workshop will survey the essential elements necessary to build sculptures with confidence, providing a foundation in simple woodworking techniques with demonstrations in the safe use of hand and small power tools. There will be time to discuss how we think and speak about our work processes, addressing questions about space, gravity and the use of materials, enabling students to build structures that are adventurous and that reflect their unique sensibilities and explorations.

Please bring work shoes and your sense of humor.

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. 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. In the 1980’s she moved away from the high precision of cabinetwork and began working as a sculptor. During frequent travels to her home country, Handschuh has acquired some traditional glass-working skills that she has begun to integrate into her sculpture. She has exhibited in galleries in Wellfleet, Provincetown, Nantucket, New York and Japan, and her sculptures are in the collections of the DeCordova Museum, and private collections.

EMILY EVELETH
The Painted Object: Transformation Through Presentation
August 9 - August 14
9am-noon
Open to All

How can you take an ordinary object, one right in front of you, and make it extraordinary? Starting with the fundamentals of observational painting (subject selection, composition, color choice and paint handling) we’ll create the unexpected. The week will begin with fast, loose, one-sitting oil sketches and exploratory drawings to investigate conceptual ideas. We’ll then move on to more sustained paintings. This workshop will be both conceptually provocative and technically informative, as we try to push the boundaries of the conventional still life. Throughout the class there will be demonstrations, group discussions and one-on-one critiques.

BIOGRAPHY

Emily Eveleth’s work has been widely shown in museums, such as, most recently, the Parrish Art Museum in Southampton, NY and Katonah Museum of Art, Katonah, NY. It can also be found in many private and public collections including the Museum of Fine Arts, 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 Gallery Hangil in South Korea and Danese in New York and her next solo show will be at the Howard Yezerski Gallery in Boston.

LAUREN EWING
Objects of Affection: Beginning Stone Carving
June 21 – June 26
9am–noon
Open to All

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, 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.

Prerequisites: a beach umbrella, healthy hands, energetic patience and an interest in working outside on the beach.

Studio Fee: $75 for necessary tools, finishing papers and choice of stones

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
July 5 – July 10
9am–12 noon
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.

Studio Fee: $20

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 28 – July 3
9am–noon
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.

Studio Fee: $20

BIOGRAPHY

Joel Janowitz has exhibited widely with over 30 one-person exhibitions. In April of 2009 he had a solo showing of his paintings at Victoria Munroe Fine Art, Boston. In January 2009, he exhibited his monotypes and paintings at Regis College in Weston, MA. 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. In 2008, he received a Massachusetts Cultural Council fellowship; he has also received fellowships from the New York Foundation for the Arts, the Massachusetts Artists Foundation, and the NEA. He has taught at Princeton University, the School of the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston and, since 2003, at Wellesley College.

ROBERTO JUAREZ
Collage and Paint on Small Canvas
August 2 - August 7
9am-noon
Open to all

In this weeklong workshop, we will be working to create artworks on paper 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 College¹s 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.

SUSAN LYMAN
Imagining Nature: Drawing Workshop
July 26 – July 31
9am-noon
Open to all

How does the natural world meditate on human nature, emotions, the self? On history and sense of place? This drawing workshop will push you beyond the limits of “still-life” and “landscape” to the personal, metaphoric possibilities of expressing what you perceive. You will explore how you meet this physical world -- seen or unseen, from the microscopic to the macroscopic – through the act of drawing. Any media is possible. Resources might include memory, found natural objects, observation, experience and drawing in the surrounding natural environment, digital and photo documentation, and borrowed or collected images.

Please bring: any variety of drawing papers/supports and drawing media (wet and dry, black and white/color) you may already have; basic tools such as exacto knife, glue, scissors, push pins, etc; portfolio/drawing board and tote for carrying supplies outdoors. A digital camera may be useful. Large drawing paper will be available at cost.

BIOGRAPHY

Susan Lyman is a sculptor and painter who has lived year-round in Provincetown since 1981, when she was awarded a Visual Arts Fellowship at the Fine Arts Work Center. She is the recipient of grants from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Pollock-Krasner Foundation, and the Artists’ Foundation of Boston. She currently teaches sculpture at Rhode Island School of Design, where she was awarded a Research Development Grant in 2007-08. She 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, museum, and private collections including Champion International Paper Co., Saks Fifth Avenue, Arkansas Art Center and Museum, and Provincetown Art Association and Museum. In Provincetown she exhibits her sculpture and drawings at Schoolhouse Gallery.

PETER MADDEN
Book Arts
July 5 – July 10
9am-noon
Open to all

Visual artists, writers, and anyone with an interest in creating and experimenting with new materials and formats are welcome in this introduction to the tools and methods of bookbinding. We’ll begin with simple structures and traditional materials (paper, binder’s board and book cloth) and then, based on what we've accomplished, move on to more complex bindings incorporating your own interests and experiments. Daily demonstrations and guided, hands-on studio time will leave participants with at least a dozen handmade books and the knowledge, skill and inspiration to create countless others. 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.

Studio Fee: $25

BIOGRAPHY

Peter Madden's one-of-a-kind, handmade books have been exhibited and collected by Boston’s Museum of Fine Arts, Institute of Contemporary Art, Harvard University, The Center for Book Arts in New York and Bowdoin College to name a few. His work and technique have been featured in many publications about artists’ books and alternative photography, 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 including Massachusetts College of Art, The San Francisco Center for the Book, The Guild of Book Workers, Brigham Young University, Wellesley College ,Harvard University and Brandeis University.

JIM PETERS
Painting The Figure: An Extended Workshop (weekend course)
June 13 – June 14
9:30am–1:30pm
Open to all

Painting The Figure: An Extended Workshop (weeklong course)
June 14 – June 19
9am–noon
Open to all

An opportunity for a seven day figure workshop: a two part course beginning Saturday and Sunday, June 13 and 14, and continuing on the following week, June 15 through 19. Each course can be taken separately, however the two courses will build on each other.

The weekend sessions will emphasize the "figure in space," that is, how we utilize or activate the picture plane within which the figure(s) exists. This investigation includes composition, perspective, narrative, color, and any of your own crazy visual ideas. We will particularly look at the work of Munch, Dumas, Bonnard, Matisse, Neel, and Freud.

The weeklong session will continue our work with the figure with emphasis on the language or methods of painting (over-painting, wet-in-wet, glazing, dry brush, etc.).

Materials will be discussed and demonstrated with the concern for our painting surfaces (glossy or matte, smooth or textured, thin or thick, or any or all of the above). The week’s work will consist of several one- or two-day paintings and at least one five-day long piece. The paintings of Matisse, Picasso, Neel, Dumas, Manet, Spero et al will be analyzed.

Models will be present on all class days. Working the figure from photographic/digital sources is also encouraged for those who desire; we will explore the possibilities and intricacies of working from sources other than the live model.

All mediums are permissible.

Studio/Modeling fee, weekend course $25, weeklong course $50

BIOGRAPHY

Educated at the U.S. Naval Academy and M.I.T., 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. A Fellow at the Fine Arts Work Center from 1982 to 1984, Jim 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.

SELINA TRIEFF
Drawing from the Figure
June 13 – June 14
9:30am–1:30pm
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.

Studio Fee: $20

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.

PENN YOUNG
Expressive Abstractiont
July 12 – July 17
9am-noon
Open to all

How do we say things with abstract painting? How do we express our meaning without symbols or imagery? All of the elements of representational painting — line, gesture, composition, and color -- are found in abstract work. The difference is the way these are used to create meaning in a work. This will be a workshop for those who want to explore, understand, and develop a greater facility with the vocabulary of abstract painting. The course will first focus on expressing intent through technique, with learning through problem-solving and exploratory exercises. We’ll then look at making fully-realized paintings with an emphasis on one-on-one critiques. Whether you are an experienced abstract painter or would like to work abstractly for the first time, the class should expand the size of your “painter’s toolbox.”

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 two years he’s added abstract sculpture to his work. Prior to becoming a visual artist, he was a playwright and filmmaker.