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SPRING 2008 PAINTING & DRAWING

Encaustic Painting Workshop: Carol Odell
March 4, 11, 18, 25
Tuesdays, 10 – 1pm
4 Sessions
$225

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During this 4 day introductory workshop, we will discuss the encaustic medium, related materials and suppliers and demonstrate some basic techniques. Artists will build their own supports, make their own encaustic medium and explore various application and manipulation techniques. Encaustic may be a combined with other media or used alone as a permanent painting or sculptural medium. Artists are encouraged to take what they learn and experiment on their own as the limitless possibilities allow for numerous artistic styles. Used properly with caution, the medium is non-toxic, permanent and flexible enough to accommodate a variety of artistic styles.

Carol Odell was trained as an oil painter at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, and has worked in commercial design, textiles and photography. Her improvisational, non-objective, color expressive works are created in oil, encaustic (beeswax medium) or monotype. Beginning with a non-representational structure, her paintings are built with an eye to creating an imagined space with non-specific references to the natural world. She is a member and exhibits with the Printmaker’s of Cape Cod and the Monotype Guild of New England. She and her husband, artist Tom Odell, have owned and operated Odell Studios Gallery in Chatham for over 30 years. Her works are in private, corporate and museum collections. www.odellarts.com

Drawing the Figure Cyndi Walker
March 5, 12, 19, 26
Wednesdays, 2 – 4 pm
4 Sessions
$200

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Frightened of hands and feet? Terrified of faces? Does the thought of foreshortening make you sweat? This course is ideal for beginners to figure drawing, or for those who want a refresher on ways of approaching drawing the figure. Each session will cover a variety of methods for rendering the figurative form, while addressing formal elements which make a successful drawing. Students will leave with a fully stocked tool kit of ways to address any problem they might encounter while drawing the figure.

Cyndi Walker is an artist who lives and has a studio in Provincetown. She holds a Master of Visual Arts degree from the University of Sydney and has exhibited widely; her most recent solo show was at Gallery 451 in Sydney. She has been drawing the figure for over ten years, and has taught drawing to private students in Chicago and at the University of Wisconsin.

Painting the Portrait: Tom Hébert
April 26, 27
Saturday, Sunday 9 – 1
2 Sessions
$200

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In this two-day workshop we will look and discuss the photo-realism process used in painting a portrait. We will continue using that process with other works. The grid system will also be demonstrated. Please bring an 8" X 10" black and white or color photograph or photo copy to work from. The second class will have the students solidly working on their portraits.

Hébert earned his BFA at the University of Connecticut School of Fine Arts and his MS in Art Education from Central Connecticut State University. He has had numerous one-man shows in New England and at the O. K. Harris galleries in New York City and Scottsdale, Arizona; his work has been included in many group exhibitions in the United States and Germany. Among his awards are an Individual Artist Grant in Painting from the Pollock-Krasner Foundation and Artist in Residence at Gesamthochschule Universitat in Kassel, Germany. His work is included in a number of private collections and including those of Mobil Oil Corporation, Aetna Insurance, and the Joel Meisner Foundry. He lives and works in Willimantic, CT., and teaches Studio Art and Drawing at Eastern Connecticut State University.

Painting: Color & More Denny Camino

May 1, 8, 15, 22
Thursdays, 2 - 5
4 Sessions, $225

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Please leave your cell phones, i-pods, beepers, faxes, computers and digital cameras at home. Instead we will be working with the beauty and mystery of age old materials such as oil paint, pencil, paper, canvas, cold wax, wood panels and charcoal. Be prepared to explore the full range of human emotions and how this is translated into color, surface and abstract images.

Provincetown painter Denny Camino was born in Pennsylvania and studied fashion design at the Fashion Institute of Technology in New York City. After working in the fashion industry, he left Manhattan for Provincetown, discovering painting when a friend gave him some oils.

A self-taught painter, Mr. Camino has enjoyed immediate success, nearly selling out his shows. His work has been described as abstract minimalism; the palette of blues, greens and whites a direct influence from his surroundings on Cape Cod. Mr. Camino has been in several group and one-man exhibitions, and his work is in private collections throughout the US as well as international locations.

CLAY

The Ceramics classes maybe take for College Credit through the Cape Cod Community College. If you are interested in getting college credit please let the registrar know when registering.

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SPRING 2008 CLAY

Diane Heart: Raku Firing
April 7, 14, 21, 28
Mon, 1 - 4, last session 9 - 5
5 Sessions, $325
1 Credit

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This is a fun and spontaneous way of working in clay. Raku Pottery is an ancient Japanese firing technique that has its roots in Zen Tea Ceremonies. There is no thrill like peering into a glowing kiln and witnessing the pots transform. Reaching with tongs and removing the pots into barrels of seaweed and sawdust results in one-of-a-kind pieces every time. The first 3 sessions will be spent creating pieces on and off the wheel in special low fire clay. These pots will be dried and bisqued, the last few sessions will be spent firing.

Diane Heart has been working in clay since 1976. She worked at two large production potteries, and was studio assistant at Haystack School of Crafts. She taught pottery for Cape Cod Community College at her studio, and also at the Chatham Creative Arts Center.

Throwing Pots for Wood: Keith Kreeger
May 10, 10 – 4 pm
One day demos / Master class

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In this ONE day workshop Keith Kreeger will demonstrate a variety of his forms that highlight the effects of atmospheric firing. During the workshop we will discuss the different slip and glaze options that these kilns can open up to us as potters. We will also look closely at the use of textures and other surface decoration techniques that one can use to get the most out of a wood-kiln. Students will then work in the studio on their own as they apply these techniques to their own body of work as they get ready to fire the new wood-kiln at Castle Hill.

Keith Kreeger owns and operates Kreeger Pottery, a working studio and gallery in Harwichport, where he shows his own range of work, utilitarian and beyond, as well as that of guest artists from all over the country.

Hand Made Brushes with Ceramic Handles Glenn Grishkoff
May 16, 17 & 18
Friday, Saturday, Sunday
Fri. 1 – 4, Sat, 10 – 4, Sun, 10 – 4
$300
Material fee

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Brush making workshops have been combined with lectures & demonstrations detailing brush making techniques from Japan, the West and techniques developed during the exploration of the hand made brush both as a work of art and a functional tool.

The materials and techniques are unique and the quality of a handmade brush depends upon choice materials used. A wide variety of deer hair, horse hair, moose hair and cat hair are used to create individual brushes as well as aged bamboo sections, quality glues and knot tying threads The hand made brushes constructed in workshops function on two primary levels as functional brushes and tools to paint with on ceramic, paper, cloth and a variety of other surfaces and as works of art to enjoy apart from function. The detailed brush making workshop description gives added details of both the format and agenda of the workshop variations that can be combined.

Glenn Grishkoff has been given the honor of sharing first place for receiving this years 2005 American Bamboo Society Annual Craft Award. Glenn was recently one of the first invited Artists in Residence at the LH Ceramic Residency in Joseph, Oregon and a senior artist in residence, summer of 2005, at the Oregon College of Art and Craft in Portland, Oregon. He earned a MFA from Claremont Graduate University in California and a BFA from California State University, Fullerton. His work was shown at the Paris Gibson Square Museum of Art in Great Falls, MT in a show entitled, Art Equinox 2003: A Regional Survey of Contemporary art and Glenn received the jurors award for the best in show for sculpture.
Glenn developed a national and international reputation as a brush maker and ceramic artist. His sculptural brush-like forms are functional works of art. He produces these brushes from various hairs such as deer hair, horse hair, and other natural materials and these brushes are used for mark making on various mix media surfaces.

Intermediate Throwing: Paul Wisotzky

May 1, 8, 15, 22, 29, 3 – 6 pm
Thursdays, 5 Sessions
1 credit
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This class is geared towards clay artists who want to take their skills and pots beyond the basics. We will learn more advanced technical skills for functional pottery including covered jars, handles and spouts, as well as learning basic altering, surface decorating and construction techniques. In addition, we will spend time each day looking at and talking about the pots you create fine tuning your own visual and aesthetic sensibilities. You will leave the workshop with enhanced skills, a developed eye and inspiration to guide your work in the months to come. Lastly, plan to have fun!

Paul Wisotzky has been working in clay for nearly thirty years and began his early ceramic arts education at Castle Hill as a teenager. Paul recently returned to Truro to live and establish his studio. Prior to that he lived in San Francisco where he worked, taught and exhibited. Paul works primarily in porcelain and stoneware firing to cone 10 in reduction and salt/soda. Most of his work begins on the wheel and often includes altering, surface decoration and hand-built elements. In 2006, Paul studied with Cynthia Bringle in a two-month concentration at the Penland School of Crafts.

Donavan Palmquist: Wood Kiln – Building and Firing Workshop at Highlands Center

September 15 - 26, 2008
Monday – Friday, 10 – 4 pm
10 Sessions
$500

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During this hands-on workshop, participants will build and fire a train kiln. There will be discussion of various styles of wood kilns, designing, building and firing techniques. Participants are encouraged to bring bisqueware, but will also have an opportunity to make work for the kiln during the two-week session.

Donovan Palmquist has been making pots for over 30 years. While in graduate school at the University of Minnesota, his emphasis was on low-fire sculpture, but his primary interest is high-fire functional work. His current focus is on vessels in atmospheric firings. Donovan built his first kiln while a college student in Wisconsin, and has since built nearly 200 kilns. More than 20 of those kilns have been custom-designed wood kilns. He has led workshops in both kiln building and pottery making throughout the US.

Castle Hill Print Cooperative
The Truro Center for the Arts at Castle Hill has a Print Co-op at Pamet Crossing, and is open year round. This gives us the opportunity to offer Cape artists a space to create and produce prints in a fully equipped print shop. It is our hope that opening this cooperative space will build community and open an artistic dialogue.

Our print shop houses 3 intaglio/relief presses and we offer a wide array of standard print shop equipment for your use. Additionally, we have a Vandercook SP20, and a diverse collection of assorted lead and wooden type available for use. An additional benefit of membership is a 10% discount on printmaking workshops at Castle Hill. Call for details.

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Alternative Printmaking Techniques or Experimental Printmaking Victoria Jutras Kniering
March 28, 29, and 30
Friday, Saturday, Sunday
10 – 4 pm, Sunday, 10 - 2
$250

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A course designed to answer all those “what-if-I-do-this-or-that-to-the-plate-how-will-it-print?” questions that may have plagued your printmaking experiences and some innovative approaches to creating ''prints''. You will learn a variety of printmaking techniques, both additive and reductive. By using combinations of the processes and an etching press and/or letterpress you will push the boundaries of traditional printmaking. From paper plates to solar plates, and carborundum prints, as well as the combination of intaglio and relief printing techniques, a number of methods will be covered and added to your printmaking vocabulary. We will mix colors using etching inks and additives to create prints that range from very transparent, delicate images to very dark, rich, layered images. There will be something for everyone to take back to their studio to work with, regardless of one’s level of printmaking experience.

Victoria Jutras Kniering is a three time recipient of Individual Artist Fellowship grants from the Connecticut Commission on the Arts for her large sculpture installations. She has shown her work widely in one-person and group shows throughout the United States. In 1995, Victoria founded Pleiades Press, a private press that specializes in one-of-a-kind artist books and small edition prints, and she is also a member and treasurer of the Printmaker’s Network of Southern New England. She has taught art at a variety of colleges, and is currently teaching sculpture and drawing at Central Connecticut State University. She maintains her private studio in an old ax factory located in Collinsville, Connecticut

Monoprint & Drypoint Vicky Tomayko
March 6, 13, 20, 27
Thursdays, 1 – 4 pm
4 Sessions
$225

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This class will introduce a variety of techniques for creating one-of-a-kind prints with oil inks and watercolor in a low toxicity environment (vegetable oil and water cleanup). Daily demonstrations will include a painterly approach using films of transparent color, drypoint, chine collé, stencils, watercolor, and registration methods. Students will be encouraged to develop a series of prints through experimentation. Students should bring Plexiglas plates, chine collé papers (thin absorbent collage papers), watercolors and brushes, also a stylus if they can.

Vicky Tomayko is an artist whose recent work explores an intensely colored world of cakes, creatures and animated junk. She was an assistant professor at Connecticut College before coming to the Cape as a Fellow at the Fine Arts Work Center. She lives in Truro with her husband, Jim Peters, and her two children. In the winter, she teaches painting and printmaking at the Museum School at PAAM and at the Lighthouse Charter School in Orleans. Vicky shows her work locally at the Schoolhouse Gallery in Provincetown.

SCULPTURE & MIXED MEDIA

Relief in Clay Joyce Johnson
April 2, 9, 16, 23
Wednesday, 3:30 – 6 pm
$225

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Students will create a relief in clay (a design of their own choosing) and make a mold in plaster of paris for multiple copies. Bring your own materials or clay will be sold in class.

Joyce Johnson is a graduate, cum laude, from the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston and the Escuela de Artes Tecnicos y Oficios, Madrid. She is the founder of the Nauset School of Sculpture in North Eastham in 1968 that evolved into Truro Center for the Arts. She also co-founded the Outer Cape Artists Residency Consortium and is on the board for the Highland Center Inc. and Campus Provincetown. She was named a “Living Treasure” by Cape Women Creating in 1997.

Hand Made Brushes with Ceramic Handles Glenn Grishkoff
May 16, 17 & 18
Friday, Saturday, Sunday
Fri. 1 – 4, Sat, 10 – 4, Sun, 10 – 4
$300
+ Material fee

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Brush making workshops have been combined with lectures & demonstrations detailing brush making techniques from Japan, the West and techniques developed during the exploration of the handmade brush both as a work of art and a functional tool. The materials and techniques are unique and the quality of a handmade brush depends upon choice materials used. A wide variety of deer hair, horse hair, moose hair and cat hair are used to create individual brushes as well as aged bamboo sections, quality glues and knot tying threads. The handmade brushes constructed function on two primary levels: as tools to paint with on ceramic, paper, cloth and a variety of other surfaces, and as works of art to enjoy apart from function.

Glenn Grishkoff has been given the honor of sharing first place for the 2005 American Bamboo Society Annual Craft Award. Glenn was recently one of the first invited Artists in Residence at the LH Ceramic Residency in Joseph, Oregon and a senior artist in residence, summer of 2005, at the Oregon College of Art and Craft in Portland, Oregon. He earned an MFA from Claremont Graduate University in California and a BFA from California State University, Fullerton. Glenn has developed a national and international reputation as a brush maker and ceramic artist. His sculptural brush-like forms are functional works of art.

Figure in Clay Heather Blume
May 6, 13, 20, 27
Tuesdays, 1 – 4
4 Sessions
$225

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This class will teach basic approaches to creating ceramic figure sculpture. The first two classes will involve creating clay studies, maquettes, from a live model. Students will work from a variety of poses and will learn some anatomy, proportion, and various methods of armature support to facilitate their work. For the last two classes students will focus on creating a sculpture based on one or more of their maquettes. There will be in class presentations and discussions pertaining to the execution and styles of contemporary ceramic figure sculpture.

Heather Blume’s Figurative Sculptures and Mixed Medium Works present a highly original art form in which archetype, metaphor, and metamorphosis are the defining themes. Blume holds a B.F.A. summa cum laude in Painting from the University of North Florida, and M.F.A. cum laude in Sculpture from the New York Academy of Art. Her work has been featured in exhibitions in New York, Chicago, Miami, Philadelphia, and at the Cape Museum of Fine Arts in Dennis, Massachusetts, as well as throughout Europe (most recently in Spain and Portugal). She is the recipient of numerous awards. She lives in Harwich Port, MA and works in her adjacent Studio Barn facility which is open to the public by appointment. www.heatherblume.com

Collage in a Box: Amy Heller
May 17 & 18
Saturday & Sunday, 1 – 4 pm
2 Sessions,
$200

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In this workshop we will create collages in a box out of personal photos, magazines, newspapers, found objects, etc. Using found images we will make collages that are representational, abstract and personal. Time will be set aside to critique what work was created.

Amy Heller is an award-winning photographer and her photos have been exhibited and published internationally. She received her MFA in Photography from George Washington University in Washington, DC and a BFA in Studio Art/Design from Hampshire College in Amherst, MA. Amy is a freelance Photo Editor/Researcher and has worked for Microsoft, The Discovery Channel, The Washington Post, National Geographic and U.S. News & World Report.

ACTING & POETRY

Voice & Speech: Mark Enright
May 3 & 4
Saturday & Sunday, 10 – 1 pm
$200

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This voice class has been developed to awaken participants to the expressive range of the human voice. A thorough warm-up is employed to bring power, flexibility and subtlety to the actor's, and non-actor's, voice. Among many topics of focus are the structure of the actor's breath, the fostering of vocal resonance, and increased awareness of articulatory options. Exercises originally taught by Jones, Fitzmaurice, Knight, Rodenburg, Linklater, and Berry are explored with the goal of uniting body, breath, voice, and speech into an expressive whole.

Mark Enright is a professional voice and speech teacher and coach. He has coached voice on Broadway (Patrick Marber's Tony-nominated play CLOSER), Off-Broadway, and Off-Off Broadway. Mr. Enright has also coached and taught Shakespeare text work at the American Repertory Theatre, Brandeis University, Providence College, Manhattan Marymount College, and the American Music and Dramatic Academy. He is also an actor who has worked in New York City and regionally. Mr. Enright holds an MFA degree from Brandeis University and has studied with Patsy Rodenberg of the Royal National Theatre of Great Britain and Catherine Fitzmaurice.
WRITING

Poetry Workshop Keith Althaus
April 1, 8, 15, 22
Tuesdays, 2 – 4 pm
4 Sessions
$225

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This workshop aims at expanding our own definition of what is possible while remaining true to ourselves. We all seek approval for our work but in the long run admitting new critical insights will prove more useful and fulfilling. I strongly believe in being supportive of the poet’s voice and manner. What good does it do us to “workshop” a poem into a kind of perfection until it no longer represents the poet’s thought or feeling. I see no reason why we can’t learn craft, pick up hints, and new viewpoints, without altering our essential approach. I often find the most “hopeless” poems can elicit the greatest general insights, and the most “perfect “ poems seem only to have built a wall impervious to criticism around themselves. That same wall often doesn’t allow much flow of light or wisdom. This workshop is open to those at all levels of development.

Keith Althaus has published two books of poetry: Ladder of Hours (Ausable Press, 2005) and Rival Heavens (Provincetown Arts Press, 1993). He has been a Fellow at the Fine Arts Work Center, and has received grants from the NEA and the Massachusetts Foundation for the Arts. His poems have appeared in The American Poetry Review, The New Yorker, Poetry, Grand Street, and other magazines.

Poetry: Searching for the Muse June Beisch
May 7 , 14, 21, 28
Wednesdays, 2 – 4
5 Sessions
$225

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If you love poetry, does that mean you should be able to write it? Many poets started writing poems because they read a poem they liked and said: "I can do that!" Does this mean that the Muse is really other poets? In this class, we will try to uncover the impetus behind the writing of the poem, whether it is a life experience or a reading one. We will read great poems of our time to see if we are moved to respond or to imitate them and we will bring in our favorite poems. Weekly poems written by class members will be discussed in class and there will be short in-class assignments.

June Beisch is an adjunct lecturer at Emerson College and works as a Poet in the Schools in Stoneham & Belmont. A former journalist and interviewer for WGBH, her essays and literary criticism appeared widely in numerous publications. Her most recent book is Fatherless Woman, the winner of the Cape Cod Literary Press award for poetry. Her poems have been published in the Harvard Review, the Virginia Quarterly Review, the Florida Review, Tendril and many others. She is the recipient of two fellowships from the Virginia Center for the Arts..

Kids’ Workshops

April 4, 11, 18
fridays
3:15 - 5pm
3 sessions, $60

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This is a collage class based on the work of the French artist, Matisse. During the first class we'll look at some examples of his collages and then will create our own designs using beautiful colored papers. All you need to bring is your imagination!

Eve Aspinwall is a professional painter with over 25 years experience teaching children and adults in the Boston area and Puerto Rico. For the past 15 years she was the director of Casa Vieja Gallery in Vieques, Puerto Rico, representing local and international artists. She now lives and works on Cape Cod.

Handbuilding ceramics Caitlin Nesbit

May 2, 9, 16
fridays
3:15 - 5pm
3 sessions, $60

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Children between the ages of 7 and 11 will enjoy this opportunity to explore different methods of creating objects out of clay. We will investigate the power of our hands as manipulation tools, making expressive sculptures and functional pots. Kids will learn various hand-building techniques, and discover the multitude of possibilities that clay has to offer. At the end of the class, we'll discuss the work we've accomplished and celebrate our achievements!

Caitlin Nesbit is a Cape Cod native who works at Castle Hill as the Head Ceramics Studio Manager. She obtained her BFA from UMASS Amherst after spending two semesters at UNM Albuquerque. She has been working with clay for ten years, making sculptural work and pottery. Caitlin has been teaching art classes for all ages at Cotuit Center for the Arts in a variety of mediums. She also spent seven years working for the Town of Barnstable Recreation Division, where she ran a swim program and supervised creative after-school programs.

To see the full Campus Provincetown Catalog click here for the pdf.

The Ceramics classes maybe take for College Credit through the Cape Cod Community College. If you are interested in getting college credit please let the registrar know when registering.