OUR MISSION

To foster the arts and crafts by providing a wide range of instruction for adults and children. Castle Hill holds exhibitions, lectures, forums, concerts and other similar activities in order to promote social interaction among artists, craftsmen, laymen, and the community at large.

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SUMMER 2009 WORKSHOPS - PAINTING

Summer 2009

Painting

Drawing

Clay

Printmaking/
Book Arts

Performance - Yoga - Music

Teens

Kids

Robert Cardinal

The Castle Hill Painting Studio

Come "Paint the Town" during the
Provincetown Schooner Regatta Race, September 7, 2008

On board the Portuguese Princess - 10 - 2 pm FREE to the Public

Painting & Drawing Summer 2009

Landscapes from the Heart N. Cameron Watson

June 15 - 19
Mon – Fri
9am – Noon
$375
off-site and caslte hill - first session meet at castle hill
For academic
credit $425

A landscape painting develops depth and meaning as data from the outside world is filtered through the artist's heart. Workshop studetns will alternate between collecting data through sketches, notes, and memory in the field on one day, and the next day creating a landscape in the studio by expanding and refining field data. Cammie paints mainly in oils, but students may work in any medium.

N. Cameron Watson’s early training was in her family, and through self study. After high school she completed an apprenticeship in Germany with artist and master marionette maker Fritz Herbert Bross. She graduated cum laude from Yale College, where she studied philosophy, drawing, color theory, and sculpture. Her father, Aldren Auld Watson, is a painter, illustrator, and author. Her mother, Nancy Dingman Watson, was a poet and children's book author. Her grandparents, Ernest and Eva Watson, were painters and pioneer color block printers, and Ernest was founder of American Artist magazine and co-founder of Watson-Guptill Publications. Her work can be seen at www.ncameronwatson.

Landscape: Color, Light, Shade: John Clayton

June 22 - 26
Mon – Fri
9am - noon
5 sessions $375
off-site
first session meet at pamet crossing
For academic
credit $450

Students will learn how to paint out of doors, including the set-up of paints and equipment. Instruction will focus on developing techniques to examine the visual components of landscape painting, including basic color relationships, patterns, and the understanding of light and shade. Each class will begin with a short demonstration by the instructor; students will also be given individual instruction within the group to address specific needs and levels of experience. Open to all levels-first-time painters welcome.

John Clayton is a plein air painter in Provincetown. He studied in New York at the Art Students League and the National Academy of Design School of Fine Arts, where he won two competitive scholarships, and an honorable mention from the Academy of Fine Art exhibition in 1998. He also studied at the Cape Cod School of Art. In 2000 he was featured in the Provincetown Art Association and Museum's Emerging Artist exhibition. Clayton's work can be seen in Provincetown at the Ergeli Gallery, and The Fan Gallery in Philadelphia. www.johnclaytonstudio.com

This year's Artist in Residence

Painting with a Palette Knife TJ Walton

June 22 - 26
Mon – Fri
9am - Noon
5 sessions
$375
castle hill
For academic
credit $430 + lab fee

What do you see when you close your eyes? What are the things you find worthwhile? Do you know your comfort zone? In this course we will venture from the norm and work strictly with a palette knife learning its various techniques and capabilities while challenging our memory and our intuitions to cultivate spontaneity and balance. Artistic self respect can be achieved if you understand the importance of trusting your instincts and acting upon them in the face of doubt and uncertainty.

TJ Walton is self taught. She is the winner of the 2000 PAAM National competition, and runner up of the 1999 PAAM National Competition. She shows regularly at Kiddersmith Gallery, Newbury St. Boston, Christopher Cerra Space, Dallas. She is the owner of TJ Walton Gallery in Provincetown. In 2006 she showed at Art Basil in Miami. For more information visit www.tjwalton.com

Working the Surface: Bonney Goldstein

June 29 - July 3
Mon - Fri
9am - noon (instruction)
Noon - 4pm
(open studio)
5 Sessions $475
For academic
credit $525

This will be a very experimental exploringsurface creation. Students will work on the same 4 paintings for the complete week by creating different surface techniques that allow for a build-up of layers. Once the surface is created we will score into and create finished paintings. We will work on larger sized canvases and explore different mediums that include wax, marble dust, tar, collage, oil primer, alkyds, and enamels. We will work on wood, paper and canvas using oil paint and paintstick as the main medium.

Bonney Goldstein has been a painter for 42 years working in oil on canvas, wood and paper. She studied at the Arts Student League in New York and Denver. She now works full time after running a corporate art consulting firm in Texas and taking time off to work on her MFA in creative writing at Goddard. Bonney shows in many galleries including ones in New York, Iowa, Maine and Massachusetts. She recently had a show at UMASS, Lowell, and the Whistler House Museum in MA. To view Bonney's work please visit www.bonneygoldstein.com

Encaustic Painting: Laura Moriarty

July 6 - 10
Mon – Fri
9am – Noon (Instruction)
Noon - 4pm
open studio,
5 sessions $475 + $90 Materials (Instructor
provides paints)
Castle Hill
For academic
credit $550

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Experience the richness of encaustic, a beeswax-based paint that is worked hot. Encaustic is a versatile medium that can be used traditionally and not-so-traditionally. It can add a new layer to drawings, prints, sculpture, photography, and installation projects. The workshop will begin with a thorough introduction to equipment, tools, materials and technique, and will address temperature and ventilation for a healthy studio environment. One-on-one discussions between the instructor and students will focus on working concepts and problem solving. This workshop is appropriate for painters of all kinds, sculptors, printmakers, photographers, paper, fiber and mixed media artists. No prior encaustic painting experience is necessary to participate. painters and mixed media artists - No prior painting experience is necessary to participate.

Laura Moriarty is a studio artist based in the Hudson Valley Region of New York. Her work is exhibited widely and featured in many collections, including the Progressive Art Collection in Cleveland and the New York Public Library. She has been the recipient of two Pollock-Krasner Grants and has received fellowships from the Ucross Foundation, Virginia Center for Creative Arts, Women's Studio Workshop and Zentrum Frans Masereel in Belgium, among others. Laura has been conducting encaustic painting workshops for the past ten years, both through R&F Handmade Paints and as a visiting artist in schools and art centers across the country. www.lauramoriarty.com

Painting Provincetown Lisbeth Firmin

July 6 - 10
Mon – Fri
9am - noon Sessions $375
Castle Hill
For academic
credit $450

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Working within the long tradition of plein aire painting on Cape Cod, students will be outside painting in the streets of Provincetown. They will be concentrateing on depicting what they see; including cars, boats, houses, people and the occasional dog, working rapidly & using big brushes. These paintings will concentrate on capturing the unique light and energy of a moment in a Provincetown morning. This workshop is structured for beginners to advanced painters who want to expand their painting skills. Students will receive locations for each day with registration. Firmin will give a demonstration at the beginning of class and will be working closely with students throughout each session.

Lisbeth Firmin is a contemporary American realist known for her urban landscapes. For over three decades Firmin's work has been exhibited at numerous galleries and institutions across the country and internationally. Recent work will appear in the 2009 winter issue of the Stone Canoe Review (Syracuse Univ.). She was the featured artist for the summer 2008 Gettysburg Review and cover artist for Epoch Review (2008, Cornell). Awards include a 2007 New York Foundation Fellowship (Lily Auchincloss Fellow) for printmaking, a 2007 New York State Council on the Arts Grant, a Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant, the CCVA Award at the Chautauqua Center for the Visual Arts, first prize in the LANA International Arts Competition along with full fellowships to the MacDowell Colony, a National Seashore Residency, the Vermont Studio Center and the Saltonstall Arts Colony.

Collage as Structure for Painting Richard Baker

July 6 - 10
Mon – Fri
1 - 4 pm
5 Sessions $375
castle hill
For academic
credit $450

This is an experimental workshop designed to explore the possibilities of developing paintings based on collage-based images, structures and principles. Students will learn to combine disparate images to create lively, cohesive, thought provoking compositions for their paintings.

Richard Baker attended the Maryland Institute, College of Art and the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. His work has been exhibited in groups 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 others. 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, the School of Visual Arts in NY, and others. He is currently represented by the Tibor de Nagy Gallery in NY and the Albert Merola Gallery in Provincetown.

Landscape Painting Arthur Cohen

July 11 & 12
Sat & Sun
10am - 3pm
off-site, first class meet at pamet crossing
2 sessions, $250

This landscape class is open to people with all levels of experience, using oils or acrylics. There will be discussion and demonstration of the fundamentals of painting and particularly those relating to painting outdoors, materials, and the "sketch" versus a more developed painting. We will examine how proportion, drawing and color interact to give a physical experience of the landscape before us. The emphasis will be on exploration and freeing our senses to actually see more clearly, rather than on creating a finished product.

Arthur Cohen’s sweeping panoramas of Provincetown Harbor are developed from storied layering and scraping - thin levels of paint built up over a day, week or even over several years, referred to by Cohen as the "ghost" in his painting. It is this "buried" sense of time and continuity that evokes a sense of timelessness and spatial infinity. Working with a focused palette of blues and grays, occasionally some pink and green, Cohen repeatedly brings the viewer a synthesis of light from different moments; his landscape paintings possess an inherent monumentality that is eternally, classically Provincetown. He shows locally at Berta Walker Gallery And Gail Browne Gallery in Provincetown. www.arthurcohen.org

Mixed Media Master Class Alison Saar

July 13 - 17
Mon - Fri. 9 - 12,
Studio open 12 - 4 pm
(no instruction)
5 Sessions $475

Exploring my personal interest in the power of materials, this course will focus on the choice of medium, the nature of materials and the role they play in creating content. For artists working with mixed media, this will be a weeklong master class, where participants will work independently on their art in the studio. At the beginning of each day the class will investigate the work of artist that utilize unorthodox materials to address ideas and issues in their work. For the remainder of the class, I will meet with the participants individually. Culminating at the end of the week, the class participants will present their work for group critique. Students should bring to class a variety of materials with which they have a personal affinity and an interest in incorporating into their work.

Alison Saar was born in 1956 in Los Angeles, California. She studied art and art history at Scripps College and received an MFA from the Otis Art Institute. She has been awarded a John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship and two National Endowment Fellowships. Alison has exhibited at many galleries and museums, including the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden and the Whitney Museum of American Art, Her art is represented in the collections of the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Whitney Museum of American Art.. She currently resides in Los Angeles With her husband Tom Leeser and her two children Maddy and Kyle.

Beginner/Intermediate Oil Painting : Peter Chepus

July 13 - 17
Mon – Fri
1 - 4pm
5 sessions $375
Castle hill
For academic
credit $430

This is a workshop for beginner and intermediate painters who would like to learn the basics of oil painting. We'll start by exploring the materials available and how to use them properly. Then we'll study painting techniques; composition; value; color; how to paint from life and from photographs; and how to begin and finish a painting. Each session consists of a 30-minute lecture, two hours creating a new painting each day, and a 30-minute critique of the day's work.

Peter Chepus studied art at the Cape Cod School of Arts and at the Armory Art Center in Florida. For the past eight years he has been conducting painting workshops in Florida and in Cape Cod. He is a native of Cuba and has been painting professionally for the past 23 years. His solo exhibits include the Palm Beach Hibel Museum of Art, Palm Beach Council on the Arts, and the Truro Public Library. He is represented by Cortile Gallery in Provincetown, and by Covent Garden Fine Arts Gallery in Ontario, Canada. You can see Peter's work at www.peterchepus.com.

Imaginary Landscape Carolyn Evans

July 20 - 24
Mon – Fri
9am - noon
5 sessions $375
castle hill
For academic
credit $430

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Please bring two primed and stretched canvases, one with a dimension of at least 36", and the other with a dimension of no less than 12". We will attack the larger canvas using landscape as our subject and your imagination as your inspiration. Please bring your sense of color, design and composition with you and we will compare and contrast our large painting at the end of the session with the smaller one.

Carolyn Evans grew up in New Orleans Louisiana. She holds a BFA from Boston University. She has shown her work in throughout the United States, and is many national and international collections including The New Orleans Museum of Art, Allan Stone, Art Enterprises, Wellington Management, Mrs. Walter B. Ford, Meridian Printing, and many private collections. She has had nearly 50 solo exhibitions, including the De Cordova Museum and the Danforth Museum of Art, and numerous group and invitational exhibitions.

Landscape Painting Eileen Wagner

July 20 - 24
Mon – Fri
9am - noon
5 sessions $375
off-site, first class meet at pamet crossing
For academic
credit $430

This landscape painting class will work outdoors in various natural locations in Wellfleet and Truro. It is open to students of all levels, working in oil, acrylic or watercolor. Basic painting techniques will be discussed and demonstrated - observing the landscape, selecting a subject/composition and focus, choosing and mixing a color palette, various kinds of paint applications and the building of layers. Approaches for creating atmosphere, light, space and mood will be shown. Development of personal expression and style will be encouraged through individual methods of interpretation of the natural world.
Bio on following page.

Eileen Wagner is an art educator, painter and printmaker who works both from the landscape and abstractly. She has been working in this manner for a number of years, and travels widely to seek in nature new shapes, forms, color and atmosphere. She has attended artist residencies in many places including California, Massachusetts, Vermont, Ireland, Austria and Italy. She has a BFA in Painting from Massachusetts College of Art and is currently working on her MSAE (Masters of Science of Art Education) there. She has exhibited widely in the New England area, and is represented by Rice/Polak Gallery in Provincetown, MA. You can view her work at www.eileenwagner.com.

Color and Composition Suzanne Packer

July 20 - 24
Mon – Fri
1 - 4pm
5 sessions $375
Castle Hill
for academic
credit $450
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Still life paintings that move, paintings that draw the viewer's eye move across and around the work, creating movement: this will be the focus. This class will use the still-life set up as the starting point to develop a composition that works within the plane of the canvas. The use of color harmonies and color temperatures, as well a textures and composition will be taught as ways to make the still life painting create visual interest. Paintings will induce a mood, inspire an emotion, invite the viewer to linger. Using oil paints, students will explore ways to make their work come alive, whether they work in FAVOR representational or abstract styles.

Suzanne Packer, daughter of the New York Illustrator, A. S. Packer, has spent most of her life painting. Her paintings have been influenced by her years living in Mexico, London and Cape Cod. Her formal training was at the Art Students League and the Rhode Island School of Design. She was the first Director of the Cape Museum of Fine Arts, and has been a member of 21 In Truro since 1999. Her paintings are in numerous private and museum collections. She has had one-person exhibitions at The Cape Cod Museum of Art, the Cahoon Museum of American Art, and the Sparrow House Museum. She has taught at the Star Gallery, the Cultural Center of Cape Cod and in her studio. She frequently gives painting demos and gallery talks.

Painting Portraits in the Studio
Antonia Ramis Miguel

July 27 - 31
Mon – Fri
9am - noon
5 sessions $390
Castle Hill
For academic
credit $400

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This class offers the excitment of working with three different styles of portraiture: abstract, expressionism, and realism. Students will work initially from photographs and finish with models. We'll make quick sketches breaking down features to get the fundamental lines that form a face, using them for our abstract work. We'll use bold colors and brushwork to experiment with expressionism. And we'll work in a style of realism in which we'll observe skin tones, volume, proportions, light and shadow to get a true likeness of our model. All levels are welcome.

Antonia Ramis Miguel was trained in Europe and has been painting for more than 20 years. Her work has been shown in her native Spain, in Vienna, Washington, D.C. and in London. www.antoniaramismiguel.com

Landscape Painting Charles Basham

July 27 - 31
Mon - Fri
9am - noon
5 sessions $375
off-site, first class meet at pamet
crossing
for academic
credit $450

The purpose of this class is to paint from the landscape as a means of investigating exterior space, color and light; to incorporate into these paintings a comprehensive understanding of art-historical styles; and to develop a contemporaneous manner in utilizing the landscape motif within your own work. In the first case, you should develop an understanding and appreciation of space, light, color and tone by painting the landscape from life and becoming fluent in recording natural phenomena through observation. Secondly, by looking at paintings and reading about them, you can utilize ideas behind them that can inform your own work. Finally, painting the sublime and iconic landscape of Cape Cod will connect you to a long line of painters who have discovered how its beauty affected their work.

Charles Basham received his B.F.A. and M.F.A. from Kent State University in his native state of Ohio, where he still resides on the family farm where he grew up. He has been making art for thirty years, and, as a result, has enjoyed much acclaim for his visually stimulating and emotionally charged landscapes. Throughout his career, Basham has become more and more attuned to the subtle changes in weather and atmosphere. In his pastels and oil paintings, the energy and impact of light is realized in harmonized color whose saturation and temperature have been pushed and raised beyond previous limits. In doing so, he has captured dramatic and compelling moments of morning and evening light over the ocean and bay of Cape Cod, the farmlands of Ohio, the mountains of North Carolina and the marshes of the low country in South Carolina.

Encaustic: Beyond 2-D and into the 3-D Dimension Kim Bernard

July 30 & 31
T hurs & Fri
10am - 4pm
2 sessions $360 + $65 in materials
castle hill
For academic
credit $435

Participants will embed and "fossilize" materials into wax, build texture and create relief surfaces using clay impressions, and work 3 dimensionally using clay and plaster casting methods to create dimensional surfaces and wax multiples. Prerequisite: Basic understanding of the encaustic medium and working methods.

kim bernard is represented by Arden Gallery in Boston, Boston Sculptors, McGowan Fine Art, Concord, NH.Hawthorn Gallery, Birmingham, AL, Lucky Street Gallery, Key West, FL and Bowersock Gallery, Provincetown, MA. She teaches at the Maine College of Art, Montserrat College of Art and regionally as a visiting artist. Bernard is the founding member of New England Wax, a professional association of artists working with encaustic and has offered numerous presentations on encaustic and sculpture, acted as an invited juror and guest lecturer. www.kbernard.com.

Painting The Figure Antonia Ramis Miguel

August 3 - 6
Mon – Thurs
9am - 1pm
4 Sessions $390
castle hill
For academic
credit $465
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This class will explore more than simply painting a model. Students will be encouraged to experiemnt and develop previously untapped skills.
We will work with a model the first and last day of the class; for the rest of the time, we'll work from our sketches, giving us more possibilities and forcing us to create an original work. We'll look at Master's figures and try to pin down what it is we see; what makes them so wonderful. All levels welcome.

Opening Eyes to Light William Papaleo

August 1 & 2
Sat & Sun
9am - 1pm
2 sessions $225
off-site, meet at pamet crossing

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Increasing your awareness of light, colour and atmosphere will improve your painting whether you work in oils, pastels or watercolour. We will paint in the most beautiful areas of Truro. Beginners will learn how drawing as a painter can resolve many technical problems that can free you to see the big picture. More advanced students may widen their visual vocabulary concentrating on the light key, expanding their range of colour and seeing how light creates form in the landscape and the figure. Individual instruction and demonstrations will be given to each student in whichever medium is chosen. Students may choose to paint in pastels, in which case a box of 60 or 90 Rembrandt pastels are recommended. They may work on Canson Mi-Tientes paper or hand made Amalfi watercolour paper. Students working in oils should bring a portable easel,a hat or a visor and an impressionist range of colours. Any level of student from beginner to advanced is welcome.

William Papaleo has been teaching and painting in Italy over the past twenty years, while creating a bridge to the states through his workshops and galleries in New York, Washington DC, Rhode Island and Provincetown. Robert Beverly Hale at the Art Students League and Henry Hensche at the Cape School were influential in his artistic formation in America. In Italy he studied and practiced in ancient and modern oil and fresco techniques with Antonio Montagna in various churches in Piemonte and Lombardy and figure and etching at the Accademia di Belle Arti in Naples. Synthesizing classical and modern techniques, his goal is to give students solid technique to free them to arrive at their own individual voice. www.williampapaleo.it

Plein Air Pastel Bernadette Waystack

August 3 - 7
Mon – Thurs
9am - noon
4 Sessions $375 + $10 material fee
Castle Hill
For academic
credit $450

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This course will deal with aspects of painting landscapes as a subject and the use of soft pastels as a painting medium. Participants will work both in studio and "en plein air" when possible. Working from photographs, sketchbooks and working from imagination are all encouraged as well as working directly from nature. The course will delve into the formal aspects of composition, value, color and form. in our work. It will also specific techniques, surfaces, mediums, and supports that pastelists use to achieve a wide variety of painterly effects.

B ernadette Waystack works primarily in pastels featuring landscapes. She also works in textiles creating art quilts and fiber collages. Her favorite subject matter of landscapes is inspired by living on Cape Cod. She is currently a candidate in the Masters of Painting program at Savannah College of Art and Design, holds a B.F.A from the University of Massachusetts at Amherst and has over 20 years of teaching experience. Her work has been exhibited Cape-wide, including Provincetown Art Association & Museum, Cape Cod Museum of Art and at Higgins Art Gallery at Cape Cod Community College. She is co-owner of Inner Pearl Studio in Hyannis. www.bernadettewaystack.com

Painting at the Heritage Museum & Gardens
Jan Lhormer

August 3 - 7
9am – Noon
5 sessions $375
THIS CLASS WILL MEET AT HERITAGE MUSEUM AND GARDENS AT 67 Grove Street, Sandwich, MA
For academic
credit $450

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Students will embellish black and white pencil and charcoal studies with rich color inspired by the magical surroundings at Heritage Museums and Gardens . This course will address simplifying complex landscape forms and emphasize how to achieve poetic rhythms of lights and darks throughout the canvas. This class also draws wisdom from the works of Master Artists such as Sargeant, Corot, and Matisse. heritagemuseumsandgardens.org

Jan Lhormer holds an MFA from Boston University. She also earned a Bachelor's degree in Art History from Colorado College. Currently she is a visiting Lecturer at Bridgewater State College, and has taught drawing, painting, and design at various Boston area Colleges and Art Centers since 1988. Ms. Lhormer's Oil Paintings are represented by Lyman Eyer Gallery in Provincetown, and Gallery 333 in North Falmouth. This Spring, her work is featured at the Trustman Gallery at Simmons College in Boston. Her work can be seen at: www.jlmfa.com

Plein Air Portraiture Rob Longley

August 10 - 14
Mon – Fri
9am - noon
5 sessions, $390
off-site
Pamet Crossing
For academic
credit $465

While plein-air painting usually focuses on the landscape, the portrait painted outdoors is an equally compelling subject. Taking Charles Hawthorne and his "mudheads" as a starting point, this class will concentrate on seeing and painting the beauty of "flesh notes" outdoors. Not only is the portrait painted outdoors exciting on its own, but the lessons learned from "simply putting one spot of color next to another" (as Hawthorne used to say) are also applicable to any type of painting. Oils, applied with a palette knife, are traditional for this sort of "Cape School" painting, but other media may be employed.

Rob Longley first came to Provincetown in 1971 to study painting with Henry Hensche at the Cape School. Previously he had studied with two of Hensche's protégés, Dick Goetz and Betty Warren, and he graduated from Boston University with a BFA in 1973. After studying with Hensche for a number of years, Rob realized that Provincetown and the Lower Cape provided both the subject matter and the community atmosphere that he wanted for continuing his career as a painter, so he has returned every summer since then to paint and to teach the Cape School methods. Rob currently shows his work at the Wohlfarth Gallery in Provincetown, and the Arts Exclusive Gallery in Simsbury, CT. Rob has won numerous awards for his work, including, most recently, an award from the Connecticut Plein Aire Painters Society, as well as grants from the State of New York and a Greenshields Foundation grant (awarded to promising young artists). He lives near Albany, NY during the winter months.

The Painted Sketch: Painting at the Sphor Gardens
Jan Lhormer

August 10 - 14
4 - 7 pm
5 sessions $375
THIS CLASS WILL MEET AT the SPHOR GARDENS in Falmouth

For academic
credit $450

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Students will embellish black and white pencil and charcoal studies with rich color inspired by the magical surroundings and Gardens . This course will address simplifying complex landscape forms and emphasize how to achieve poetic rhythms of lights and darks throughout the canvas. This class also draws wisdom from the works of Master Artists such as Sargeant, Corot, and Matisse. www.highfieldhall.org

Painting Master Class: Mira Schor

August 10 - 14
mon - fri
9am - noon (instruction)
Noon - 4pm
(open studio)
5 Sessions $475
castle hill
For academic
credit $550

For our first day, try to bring in 2 or 3 paintings that you've done recently - no slides please. Individual assignments will be given according to each individual's needs and there will be a few class assignments as well, tailored to the needs and interest of the group. Participants will, however, have time to just paint. Individual critiques will be given throughout the sessions and there will be one full class critique towards the end of the week. Focus will be on thinking and talking about the building blocks of painting: form, content, color, surface, and methods to grow your work in unexpected ways.

Mira Schor is a painter and writer whose work has explored written language as image. In recent paintings, Schor moves beyond language to the depiction of the form of broken political and painterly thought in the form of empty thought balloons. Schor received her MFA in painting from CalArts in 1973. Her honors include awards from the Guggenheim, Rockefeller, and the Pollock-Krasner Foundations. In 1999 she was awarded the College Art Association's Frank Jewett Mather Award for Art Criticism. Schor's work has been exhibited at Edward Thorp Gallery and Horodner Romley Gallery and in exhibitions at the Santa Monica Museum, the Armand Hammer Museum, P.S.1, the Neuberger Museum, and the Aldrich Museum. Schor is the author of Wet: On Painting, Feminism and Art Culture. In 2009 Schor will exhibit recent works in a one-person show at Momenta Art in Brooklyn. Two major books will be published in 2009. She teaches in the Fine Arts Department at Parsons The New School for Design. . www.miraschor.com

Drawing for those who Can’t Draw a Straight Line: Peter Chepus

August 10 - 14
Mon – Fri
1 - 4pm
5 Sessions $375
Castle Hill
For academic
credit $450

If you are not happy with your drawing, here is your chance to improve your skills. All you need for this workshop is a pad of newsprint paper and a stick of charcoal. We will start with basic shapes and work our way up. We may even try drawing with a brush! Each session begins with a 30-minute lecture- the rest of the time is spent drawing. We will learn the basic steps; how to draw with lines and points; how to represent value, texture, perspective, depth; and even learn a little about color. There will be plenty of time for individual attention and for a class critique at the end of each day.

Egg Tempera: Fred Wessel

August 17 - 21
Mon – Fri
9am – Noon,
5 Sessions $375 + $65 materials fee
castle hill
For Academic
credit $450 + $65 materials fee

This course is an investigation of the art of tempera painting as it was practiced in the 14th and 15th Century, based on the writings of Cennino Cennini. The student will learn technical and aesthetic aspects of this medium including wash drawing with India ink, correct tempering of pigment mixtures, the traditional method of modeling form, methods of glazing, traditional method of painting flesh tones in portraits, and gilding if time (and interest) permits.

Fred Wessel received his B.F.A. from Syracuse University and his M.F.A. from The University of Massachusetts. He began teaching at the Hartford Art School in 1977. His work is represented by the Arden Gallery in Boston. Since 1985 he has had 17 solo exhibitions, including two at the Sherry French Gallery in NYC and seven at the Arden Gallery in Boston, and a retrospective exhibition at the Evansville Museum, IN. During this time period his work has also been exhibited in over 70 invitational shows including shows at The Southern Alleghenies Museum, PA; The Arnot Art Museum Elmira, NY; Jenkins-Johnson Gallery, San Francisco, CA; The Evansville Museum of Art, IN; Sangre de Cristo Art Center, Pueblo, CO; The Korean Culture and Arts Foundation Seoul, Korea; The Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Art, Japan, and elsewhere. www.fredwessel.com

Quirks and Oddities in Nature: Joyce Zavorskas

August 17 - 21
Mon – Fri
9am – Noon,
5 Sessions $375
off-site, first class meet at pamet
crossing
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Using a limited or full spectrum palette, students will investigate random visual quirks and oddities arranged by natural forces that document fragments of time. The complexity and diversity of a narrow land surrounded and shaped by water, wind, rain and gravity will be explored, with emphasis on form, content, composition and paint application. Students will paint from direct observation at specific sites in Truro and Wellfleet, seeking unusual and evocative moments in the natural world that identify both painter and place. There will be demos and individual discussion as the week progresses., all ALL levels are welcome. See bio on next page.

Joyce Zavorskas has painted en plein air since 1987, when she had the opportunity to stay in a Peaked Hills Trust dune shack, and experienced the fragility and beauty of coastal Cape Cod from dawn to dusk. She continues that experience with annual stays at the Sladeville cabins with the 21 in Truro painting group, as well as independent painting projects in Maine and Martha's Vineyard, Colorado, California, Hawaii, Greece and France. Born in Weymouth, MA and spending childhood summers in Eastham, she has lived on the lower Cape year round since 1983. She is currently on the faculty of CCCC and has taught at many art centers, schools and museums, including PAAM, Castle Hill, Simmons College, Bridgewater College, MassArt Summer Program, and Copley Masters Program, as well as privately in her Orleans studio. She has a BFA from Syracuse University, MAT from Bridgewater College and received her MFA in Painting/Printmaking from MassArt. She exhibits widely and has received various awards including Adrian Tinsley Award for Achievement in the Arts, First Prize in Painting at Copley Society, Boston and an Arts Lottery Grant. Her work may be seen at Boston Art, Left Bank Gallery in Wellfleet. www.joycezavorskas.com

The Art of Collage
Karen Coill

August 17 - 21
Mon – Fri
1 - 4pm
5 sessions $375 + materials fee
castle hill
For academic
credit $475

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Collage is a layering of thoughts and ideas as well as of paper, printed materials, graphite and paint. To the collagist, the very gathering of materials adds yet another layer of meaning. This workshop will introduce basic materials and techniques used in collage and mixed media pieces. The emphasis will be on ways to incorporate a variety of techniques into a mixed media collage while developing your own personal style. Demonstrations and discussions will encourage participants to rediscover or develop new methods of layering images, paper, paint, and glue. There will be assignments provided for those looking for more direction, or help in breaking through creative blocks. Students may work independently on their own projects. Bring materials to class that inspire, or that you would like to work with. Some additional adhesives, paper and vintage materials will be made available for further exploration. A materials list is available for those not familiar with the medium.

karen coill studied fine art and graphic design at the Museum School in Boston, and at the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown. Coill's paintings and mixed media work are exhibited in galleries and museums throughout the United States and Europe. Her work is in various private and corporate collections. Karen's most recent paintings can be seen locally at The Schoolhouse Gallery where she has been represented since 2002. She is a longtime summer resident of Provincetown. Karen Coill studied fine art and graphic design at the Museum School in Boston, and at the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown. Coill's paintings and mixed media work are exhibited in galleries and museums throughout the United States and Europe. Her work is in various private and corporate collections. Karen's most recent paintings can be seen locally at The Schoolhouse Gallery where she has been represented since 2002. She is a longtime summer resident of Provincetown. www.karencoill.com

So, You Wanna Paint? Cid Bolduc

August 24 - 28
Mon – Fri
9am - noon
5 Sessions $375
castle hill
For academic
credit $450

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Whether you've never picked up a brush, it's been awhile or you want to experiment with something new, this low pressure workshop is for you. Participant's will have the opportunity to participate in discussions covering color, compostion and technique. Optional exercises and assignments will be offered with everyone working on an independant project of their own design. During the week, Bolduc will present a slide lecture on Provincetown Art History, do several demonstrations and work one-on-one with students. Oil mediums are preferred, but all are welcome.

Cid Bolduc attended Boston University and the Museum School of the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston. She has exhibited in New York, Florida, North Carolina and Massachusetts.Bolduc has been on staff at the Provincetown Art Association and Museum, executive director of several galleries and worked in the publishing and printing fields. She currently is head studio manager at Castle Hill. www.cidbolduc.com

Watercolor Landscape MJ dickson

August 24 - 28
9am – Noon
off-site, first class meet at pamet
crossing
5 sessions $375
Castle Hill
For academic
credit $450

Students will learn to use watercolor while painting outdoors. The first class of this workshop will be an introduction to watercolor through considering materials such as paper, pigment, brushes, sponges, where to find them, and how to set up for working outside and maximizing time in the field. The coursewill look at artwork done in the watercolor medium in a variety of cultures and styles. Painters from Nolde, Marin, Homer, and O'Keefe to Asian cultures, and Icelandic painters, and Egyptian art and so forth. While working outside, a variety approaches and techniques will be discussed. The beaches, pine forests, and cape cod architecture will lend themselves to exploring the unique qualities of the medium. By looking at what has been done before and through their immediate observation of natur, students will have the opportunity to develop their own sense of color and imagery.

MJ Dickson works in a variety of mediums, but chooses watercolor when trying to create a harmonious tension(unclear) between mood and subject. While in the Diploma program at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston she studied with Jan Cox, has a BFA from Tufts University, and an MFA in Art Education from Boston University. She has taught at MIT, the Boston Architectural Center, Lesley University, as well as the Nantucket Island School of Design and the Arts. She has worked privately with all age groups and has most recently been Artist-in-Residence in Tangier. She has exhibited in Iceland as well as Morocco and is part of the Artist Registry at the Drawing Center in New York. She is represented in many public and private collections and is currently working on a project for the Trustees of Reservations.

Abstract Painting Budd Hopkins

August 24 - 28
Mon – Fri
1 - 4pm
5 Sessions $375
castle hill
For academic
credit $450

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Different approaches to abstract art including spontaneous gestural painting, color field simplification, and the complexities of collages will be covered in this class which emphasizes the balance between free expression and formal discipline. There will be frequent studio demonstrations and general class critiques. Students should bring to the first class examples of their recent work, in whatever style, and materials for the painterly medium in which they feel most proficient.

Budd Hopkins has been exhibiting on Cape Cod since 1956. He was an original member of Long Point Gallery in Provincetown. His paintings, prints, and sculptures are in many major collections including MoMA, the Guggenheim, the Whitney, the Corcoran Gallery, and the Hirshhorn Museum among others. Also a well known lecturer, he has given talks on painting and sculpture at such places as MoMA, the Whitney, Rhode Island School of Design, and Carnegie-Mellon.

Surface as Metaphor Anne Flash

August 31 - Sept 4
Mon – fri
9am - noon
5 Sessions $375 +$15 materials fee
castle hill
For academic
credit $450

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In this process-oriented drawing/ mixed media workshop, we will explore various methods and meanings connected to surface - both practically and conceptually. Nonlinear narratives will be developed through selective procedures such as marking, rubbing, layering, erasing, scratching, smudging, staining, blotting, etc. Chance operations and time-mapping will be used as ways to generate composition. All sorts of 2-D images, including photographic and copier images will be considered fair game. A scanner and printer will be provided during the workshop, as well as various other toys and tools. Each participant can expect to take away an exciting set of work that pushes beyond his/her own conventions into new creative territory.

Anne Flash has been on the Cape for ten years. Before that, she lived in New York City, and Hartford, CT., where she was on the faculty of Trinity College. She is currently teaching at Cape Cod Community College, where she was also the 2008 Artist-in-Residence, with a one-person show at the Higgins Gallery. Her BFA is from Massachusetts College of Art and Design, and her MFA is from Hunter College in New York City. She was awarded painting residencies at Yaddo and at The Millay Colony for the Arts. Her work has been exhibited in New York City, and around New England. In 2007, National Public Radio produced a profile of one of Flash's drawing classes at the Provincetown Art Association and Museum for a series called 'The Price of Paradise'. She was also featured in 2008 as part of an online gallery for WCAI's radio series "Fresh Water-Salt Water". Many of her drawings and paintings have been acquired by private and corporate collections throughout the Northeast. Her belief, both as an artist and a teacher, is that the practice of drawing lies at the

Heart of all art-making: Landscape Painting Roslaie Nadeau

August 31 - Sept 4
Mon – fri
9am - noon
5 Sessions $375 off -site - first session meet at
Pamet Crossing
For academic
credit $450

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Enjoy honing your artist's eye and sharpening your painting skills by expanding your visual organization! With detailed demonstrations and one-on-one instruction, Rosalie will guide participants in balancing intuition and intellect while embracing the painting process. In oil and in pastel, Rosalie will share her approach to color and students will learn to interpret light as it changes the value and temperature relationships, thus helping students to better paint the brilliance and drama in the landscape.

Rosalie Nadeau balances powerful color with classical form, painting in oil and pastel. An enthusiastic instructor, Rosalie approaches teaching as a coach, generously offering avenues to improve and strengthen paintings in progress. Her vibrant paintings illustrate feature articles in magazines and books. She has earned prestigious signature memberships in several Pastel Societies. She is a founding member of Cape Cod Plein Air Painters. She has painted in Truro en plein air since 1969. Nadeau exhibits on Cape Cod at Abba and Tree's Place, Orleans, Left Bank Gallery, Wellfleet, and Stony Creek Gallery, Stony Creek, CT, and Beauregard Fine Art, Rumson, NJ.

Finding Your Voice Bonney Goldstein

September 12 & 13
Sat & Sun
10am - 3pm
2 Sessions $355 + materials
castle hill
for academic
credit $430 + materials
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"Our head is round so that our thinking can change directions"
Francis Picabia
This class is an exploration of the rules and voices of authority that we as painters traditionally try to follow to create art. The aim is to try on the styles of our favorite painters and then move on to develop our own methods and personal vocabulary that expresses our own message. Everyone can work in his or her chosen medium,but try different surfaces and different techniques in hopes of overcoming that little voice in your head that is always pointing out right from wrong. We will work on many small pieces over short periods of time and to develop our own approaches that mark our work as unique and individualistic.

This Years’ Mary Lou Friedman Chair

Drawing & Painting
Mary Frank

September 14 - 18
Mon - Fri,
9 - 12 (instruction, open studio 1 - 4)
5 Sessions
$475
Castle Hill

For academic credit: $525

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In this class we will work with drawing and painting materials and discover the possibilities of these materials through learning about them and improvising.

Mary Frank is a visual artist known primarily as a sculptor. She has also produced many paintings and works in various other media (especially printmaking). Her works are in New York's Whitney Museum, Boston's Museum of Fine Arts, the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, and many others. She is represented by DC Moore Gallery in New York where she had her most recent show in January 2008.

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