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.

Letter from Presidents | Letter from Executive Director

SUMMER 2008 WORKSHOPS - PAINTING

Joanne Mattera

Her book, The Art of Encaustic Painting: Contemporary Expression in the Ancient Medium of Pigmented Wax, has become the standard reference, and she lectures widely on the topic. She is organizing the 2nd Conference of Encaustic Painting,” at Montserrat College of Art this June.

Summer 2008

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 2008

Working the Surface: Bonney Goldstein

June 23 - 27
Monday – Friday, 9am - Noon (Instruction)
Noon - 4pm,
open studio,

5 Sessions, $450
Castle Hill

For Academic Credit: $525

SOLD OUT

This will be a very experimental exploration of surface creation. We 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.

Landscape: Rob Dutoit

June 30 - July 4
Mon – Fri
9am - noon
5 sessions
$355
Meet off-site
first session at Pamet Crossing
For academic
credit $430

Register
This landscape class is open to people with all levels of experience, using oils, acrylics or watercolor. 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.

Robert DuToit was born in Boston Massachusetts, January 9, 1956. He began painting with oils and drawing with ink at the age of 8. He received his BFA from the University of New Hampshire and an MFA from Parsons School of Design in New York City. He has studied for extended periods in France and Italy. An active Cape Artist since the 1980's, he has been involved in numerous solo and group shows in Boston, New York and the Outer Cape. His most recent shows have been at Maurice Arlos Gallery in New York and the Schoolhouse Gallery in Provincetown. He now resides in North Truro with his wife Janice Redman, a sculptor.

Wood, Paper, Scanner: Anne Flash

June 30 - July 4
Mon – Fri
1 - 4pm
5 sessions
$355 + $15 lab fee

For academic
credit $430 + lab fee

This workshop will be an exploration of the surface and the substance of our own images-through manipulation and transformation. PLAY will be the operative approach. We will utilize media ranging from low (beach-fire charcoal and sea-grass reed pens) to high-tech (scanner-printing) in order to create individual series related to the notion of "automatic drawing". We'll be working on variously treated papers with such processes as: rubbing, sanding, tracing, erasing, painting, blotting, altering, printing, reproducing, enlarging and creating multiples. Two scanners, a printer and a laptop equipped with Photo Shop and Flash (excuse the pun) technology will be available to all workshop members, but computer skills are not necessary. Anyone who wants to shake things up art-wise will benefit from this workshop.

Anne flash has been living and drawing on Cape Cod for twelve years. Her BFA degree is from MassArt in Boston and her MFA from Hunter College in New York City. She is a past recipient of two painting residencies at Yaddo and one at The Millay Colony for the Arts. Her drawings, paintings and installations have been exhibited in New York City, Boston, Hartford, and Provincetown. National Public Radio and WGBH recently broadcast a profile of one of her drawing field trips as part of WCAI's series called 'The Price of Paradise'. 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.

Painting Provincetown: Lisbeth Firmin

July 7 - 11
Mon - Fri
9am - Noon
5 Sessions $355
off-site - 1st
session meet at Pamet crossing

For academic
credit $430

SOLD OUT

Working within the long tradition of plein aire painting on Cape Cod, in this class students will be painting the streets of Provincetown. Students will be concentrating on depicting what they see; including cars, 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. The first day the class will meet and paint at Pamet Crossing. Firmin will be giving a demonstration at the beginning of class, and there will be a critique at the end of the first session. The next four days students will meet at assigned locations in Provincetown.

Lisbeth Firmin is a contemporary American impressionist painter/printmaker 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. Awards include a 2007 New York Foundation Fellowship (Lily Auchincloss Fellow) in 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. Her next show of new paintings opens at the Rice-Polak Gallery this summer in Provincetown.

Encaustic Painting: Laura Moriarty

July 7 - 11
Monday – Friday, 9am - Noon (instruction)
12 - 4pm - open studio
5 Sessions, $450 + materials
Castle Hill

For Academic Credit: $525

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This course is designed to help participants experience the richness and depth that encaustic, a beeswax-based paint, can bring to drawings, prints, sculpture, photography, traditional and not-so-traditional painting, and installation projects. We will begin with a thorough introduction to equipment and materials, techniques and safety issues. Demonstrations will include: basic preparation; fusing for smoothness or texture; layering; working with opacity and transparency, creating clean lines; collage & assemblage; image transfers; encaustic monotype; dipping and mixed media. One-on-one discussions between the instructor and students will focus on individual ideas and problem solving. Ideal for 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 a Pollack-Krasner Grant and has received fellowships from the Ucross Foundation, Virginia Center for Creative Arts, and Zentrum Frans Masereel in Belgium. Laura's encaustic work appears in Joanne Mattera's book, The Art of Encaustic Painting: Contemporary Expression in the Ancient Medium of Pigmented Wax. She has been conducting encaustic painting workshops for the past eight years, both through R&F Handmade Paints and as a visiting artist in schools and art centers across the country. More info on Laura at www.lauramoriarty.com

Elements of Painting: Doug Ritter

July 14 - 18
Mon – Fri
9am - noon
5 Sessions $355
Castle Hill
For academic
credit $430

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Painting is unique in its ability to communicate a wide range of nuance and form. What qualities are introduced by one's approach and how do intentions, processes, and materials influence the making a painting? This workshop will develop a student's ability to create a unified body of work that moves beyond a common engagement to find the forms and practices that support an organized growth within one's interests. Starting from directed exercises in response to the visual field, as well as from a student's existing body of work, the activity of "bringing up a painting" will be emphasized. Individual instruction and class discussions will support the ideas within our workshop. This workshop will offer practical instruction on all levels and serve as a sounding board for direct discussion of issues inherent to any level of practice.

Doug Ritter has been a year round resident of the Outer Cape since 1997. He first came to the Cape with a 1987 fellowship in painting from the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown. He has taught painting, design, drawing and color theory within the BFA Programs of the Corcoran School of Art, Rhode Island School of Design, and the Savannah College of Art and Design, and currently serves on the faculty of the Museum School of the Provincetown Art Association, and the Visual Arts Program Committee of the Fine Arts Work Center. Doug is represented by Schoolhouse Gallery in Provincetown. www.projectarts.org

Collage as Structure for Painting: Richard Baker

July 14 - 18
Mon – Fri
1 - 4PM
5 Sessions $355
Castle Hill

For Academic
Credit $430

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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.

Working Towards a Solo Exhibition: Nan Hass Feldman

July 21 - 25
Mon – Fri
9am - noon
5 Sessions
$355
Castle Hill

For Academic
Credit $430
Register

Students will focus on a substantial series of related works that will be coherent and strong as a whole. Individual attention, direction, and support along with group critiques will be an important aspect of learning and growth in this community centered class. Information and guidance on planning, preparation, and finding space for your exhibition will be covered.

Nan Hass Feldman's works are vibrantly colorful, playful, and upbeat. She has had over 30 solo exhibitions, been included in 28 museum exhibits and has been in over 50 group shows in her 34 year career as an artist. Her work is in numerous public and private collections. Since 1973, Nan has taught art at several institutions including the Worcester Art Museum, the DeCordova Museum, Framingham State College, and the Danforth Museum of Art. Since 1999, Nan has run a painting museum in France. See Nan’s work at www.nanhassfeldman.com.

Landscape: Joan Hopkins Coughlin

July 21 - 25
Mon – Fri
9am – Noon
5 Sessions $355
Off-Site – first
session and in case of rain meet at pamet
crossing
For academic
credit
$430

Register

The class will work outside and explore the natural variety of Truro and Wellfleet landscapes, including the sea, bay, meadow, woodland and marsh. Individual expression is encouraged with emphasis on composition, drawing, and the use of color in oil, watercolor, and acrylics.

Joan Hopkins Coughlin’s bold and abundantly colored studies of landscapes read both as highly subjective impressions and as immediately recognizable place portraits. She holds a BFA from RISD, and an MFA fromthe University of Massachusetts. She has run the Golden Cod Gallery in Wellfleet with her husband Jack since 1964, and has been curator of the Wellfleet historical Society Museum since 1990. Her work can be seen at The Golden Cod Gallery, Wellfleet.

Ddrawing for Those Who Can't Even Draw a Straight Line: Peter Chepus

July 21 - 25
Mon – Fri
1 – 4PM
5 Sessions $355
Castle Hill
For academic
credit $430

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.

Peter Chepus studied art at the Cape Cod School of Arts and at the Armory Art Center in Florida. For the past seven years he has been conducting painting workshops in Jupiter, Fl. He is a native of Cuba and has been painting professionally for the past 22 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 Creation Gallery in Florida.

Mark Making & Painting: Denny Camino

July 28 - August 1
Mon – Fri
9am – Noon
5 sessions
$355
Castle Hill
For academic
credit $430

SOLD OUT

July on the Cape is an intense place to be, so we will be utilizing this energy to create a series of abstract paintings using basic mathematics and numbers as a guide. In this course we will start and finish one canvas a day for five days at 25" x 25" utilizing painting, drawing, scratching or any mark making technique that totals 55 marks per canvas. We will interact with all 5 canvas' a total of 275 times. Each student is allowed to use 4 oil colors of their choice with the addition of white. Charcoal and woodless graphite pencils will also be utilized.

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.

Color and Still Life: Suzanne Packer

July 28 - August 1
Mon – Fri
1 - 4pm
5 sessions
$355
Castle Hill
For academic
credit $430

Have you ever questioned why some art holds peoples' attention? Or perhaps, you have wondered what makes a composition such that the viewer's eye moves across and around the art work, attends to what it sees and enjoys the sensation? This class will use still-life set ups as the starting point to develop a composition that works within the plane of the canvas. Using oils, color harmonies and color temperatures, textures and composition will be taught as ways to make the paintings have movement and visual interest. Students will explore ways to make their work come alive, whether they work in 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 the Figure: Antonia Ramis Miguel

August 4 - 7
Mon – Thurs
9am - 1pm
4 sessions $375
Castle Hill
For academic
credit $450

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In this workshop, we will work on different approaches to painting the figure, exploring the space around the figure, and resolving issues with negative space. We'll pay close attention to proportion, line, and texture, remembering that it is not just what we paint, but how we paint it, that makes a painting successful. Throughout the week, we'll discuss those painters who inspire us and their specific techniques. There will be considerable individual attention as well as formal critiques.

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. You can view her work at www.antoniaramismiguel.com

To Infinity & Beyond! Creating Comic Books and Storyboards:
Tracey Anderson

August 4 - 7
Mon –Thurs
1 – 4pm
4 sessions $325
Castle Hill
For academic
credit $400

Do you love comic books? Do you like to draw? Are there a million stories in that souped up brain of yours just bursting to get out? Want to sit around drinking coffee, riffing on plot-lines and cliff-hangers for hours on end? If the answer is a resounding YES!, then this is the class you've been waiting for!! Come with a sackload of ideas, some good jokes, and as much ego as you can fit in your backpack. Group discussion, one on one instruction and an exploration of comic book and storyboarding styles will be the order of the day. Bring examples of your favorites and plenty of pens, pencils, erasers and anything else* you like to work with……Would be Nerds and Beginners welcome, the only requirement is an enthusiasm for comics…..
* no fissile materials, please.

Tracey Anderson has an ego the size of Texas and an unending passion for Marvel Comics. She barely graduated in Drawing & Painting from Edinburgh College of Art and then had the cheek to go on to Post Graduate Studies at the Royal College of Art in London. I suppose she must have shown her work somewhere. Grudgingly represented by the Julie Heller Gallery in Provincetown, she calls herself an artist and web/print designer via her get radical design alter ego and is a certifiable blogger and neo-podcaster. She is co-founder of Project Edge, a group of artists working collaboratively on the Outer Cape, and is also the current chair of the Artist Advisory Council at Castle Hill Center for the Arts in Truro. She is an active member of the Education Committee at PAAM. Her so called 'work' and teaching schedule can be found at www.traceysandfordanderson.com

Expressive Color in Landscape: Brenda Horowitz

August 11 - 15
M onday - Friday
9am - noon
5 sessions $355
Castle Hill
For academic
credit $430

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Intense study of color mixing and analogous colors in unique interrelationships. For landscape compositional ideas, original works, photographs, or reproductions may be used. Methods and use of materials will be emphasized. Individual expression and creativity encouraged through positive reinforcement.

Brenda Horowitz has taught painting, drawing, monotype and two-dimensional design after earning her Master's from CUNY in Art Education. She has shown in New York, Chicago, California, New Jersey and Massachusetts. Her work is in many corporate and private collections. She currently exhibits at Berta Walker Gallery in Provincetown.

Plein Air Portraiture Rob Longley

August 11 - 15
Mon – Fri
9am – noon
5 sessions $375
off-site, First class meet at Pamet Crossing
For academic
credit $450

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.

Introduction to Idea Building: Romolo Del Deo

August 11 - 15
Mon – Fri
1 - 4pm
5 Sessions $360
Castle Hill
For academic
credit $430
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The objective of this course is to explore the creative transition form working with the observed world to working from their internal creative one. Using time tested techniques that have allowed artists for generations to find answers within themselves to expression they did not know they possessed various media, the class will utilize methods of drawing in charcoal, modeling in clay and journaling to find pathways to develop ideas to express artistic vision. Drawing: We will work with the figure as a starting point, using charcoal on large format paper to develop confidence and a basic visual calligraphy. Modeling: Developing from our work in drawing, we will expand ideas into the realm of three dimensions, creating observations form our linear work as well as non linear deductions and artistic directions. Journaling: Using in class lectures and discussions, each participant will develop an artists journal, building from the in-class art work and developing the ideas and visual conclusions outside of class, through drawing and writing.

Romolo Del Deo Deo is a New York artist who is native of Provincetown. He has studied sculpture extensively in Pietrasanta and Florence, Italy as well as pursue scholarships to Harvard College where he both took a degree and taught. His sculpture has won numerous awards and grants; including from the New York Foundation for the Arts, Gottleib Foundation, Sugarman Foundation, National Sculpture Society. His work is included in many private and public collections. Romolo is currently working on a group of new sculptures for a traveling exhibition in Arabia that explores the conflict nexus of that ancient culture's idioms and contemporary realities. Locally, Romolo has exhibited continuously with the Berta Walker Gallery in Provincetown since it opened seventeen years ago and will be featured there this Summer. www.studioromolo.com

This Years’ Ella Jackson Chair

Drawing & Painting
Mary Frank

August 18 - 22
Mon - Fri,
9 - 12 (instruction, open studio 1 - 4)
5 Sessions
$450
Castle Hill

For academic credit: $525

Register SOLD OUT

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.

Landscape Painting into Monotype: Eileen Wagner

August 18 - 22
Mon – Fri
9am - noon
5 sessions, $355
$35 Lab Fee
Pamet Crossing
For academic
credit $430

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In this class, students begin by painting outside in the landscape, "plein aire". Concepts such as composition, color, layering paint and atmospheric perspective will be discussed. After 2 days outside, students will then bring their visual ideas from the landscape into the studio to work on monoprints. The landscapes will be a starting point from which to work on the immediate and spontaneous medium of monoprinting. Several monoprinting techniques will be introduced, and students will be encouraged to experiment with the medium. They can work with the landscape subject matter developed outside, or create new imagery altogether. Group and individual critiques of work in progress will aid students in learning techniques and developing their own visual vocabulary. This intensive 5 day workshop is suitable for both the beginner as well as the advanced art student and will culminate in creating a range of work.

Eileen Wagner is an art educator, painter and printmaker who works abstractly and from the landscape. 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

Paint and Collage: Karen Coill

August 18 - 22
Mon – Fri
1 - 4pm
5 Sessions $355
Castle Hill
For academic
credit $430
+ materials

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. Demonstrations and discussions will encourage participants to rediscover or develop new personal methods of layering paper, paint, and glue. A materials list is available for those not familiar with the medium. There will be assignments provided for those looking for more direction, or students may work independently on their own projects. Bring materials to class that inspire, or that you would like to work with.

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. For more info: www.karencoill.com

Intermediate/Advanced Observed and Inventive Idea Building:
Romolo Del Deo

August 25 - 29
Mon – Fri
9am – Noon,
5 Sessions $360
Castle Hill
For academic
credit $475

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The course is intended as a follow up to "Introduction to Idea Building" but is not required. Methods explored in the course will involve the various uses of drawing on paper, sculpting with clay and journaling, but students are welcome to bring in other media. We will use existing work and rapid studies in drawing, modeling and jottings to find creative connections. Developing from our idea building we will focus on a method and a medium to complete an artistic project. Using in class projects and discussions, each participant will develop an artists journal, building from the in-class art work and developing the ideas and visual conclusions outside of class, through drawing, writing and any other medium that can be introduced into a notebook.

Drawing and Painting with Light: William Papaleo

August 25 - 29
Mon – Fri
9am – Noon,
5 Sessions $355
off - site - 1st class and in case of rain meet at pamet crossing
For Academic
credit $430

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Whether you work in oils, pastels or watercolors, increasing your awareness of light, color and atmosphere will improve your painting. This five day workshop will concentrate on expanding our vision of light, color and atmosphere using pastels, watercolor or oils. Beginning with simple exercises in perception of mass through light, shade and colour values, we will proceed towards sensitizing our eyes to the light key of nature. We will paint in the most beautiful areas of Truro. Painting the figure in the landscape may also be explored. Pastel/watercolor students may choose to use hand made Amalfi watercolor paper or canson mi-tientes paper of varying tones. A Rembrandt box of 60 or 90 pastels is recommended. Students working in oils should bring a portable easel, a hat or visor and an impressionist range of oil colors. 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 his study and practice 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 were important. Synthesizing classical and modern techniques, his goal is to give students solid technique to free them to arrive at their own individual voice.

So, You Wanna Paint?: Cid Bolduc

August 25 - 29
Mon – Fri
9am - noon
5 Sessions $355
Castle Hill
For academic
credit $430

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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

Abstract Painting Budd Hopkins

August 25 - 29
Mon – Fri
1 - 4pm
5 sessions $355
Castle Hill
For academic
credit $430

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.

Landscape Joan Pereira

August 25 - 29
Mon – Fri
1 - 4pm
5 Sessions $355
off -site - first class meet at
Pamet crossing
For academic
credit $430

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This painting workshop, held outside in a variety of locations between Wellfleet and Truro, seeks to provide an opportunity for drawing and painting the landscape. Individual expression is encouraged with emphasis on composition, drawing and the use of color in oil, watercolor or acrylic.

Joan Pereira, a long time North Truro resident, studied with Edwin Dickinson, Myron Stout, Henry Hensche, Jim Forsberg, and Phillip Malicoat. Her work is in the collections of the towns of Truro, Provincetown and Bethlehem, PA, Cape Air, Merlin-Fairchild Express, and the Indian Museum in Anchorage, Alaska. Six of her pastels were featured on the Daniel Smith website for August 1998.

Beyond “The Art of Encaustic Painting” Masterclass: Joanne Mattera

September 1 - 5
9am – Noon (Instruction)
Noon - 4pm,
stay and paint,
open studio,
5 sessions, $450
Castle Hill
For academic
credit $525

This workshop begins where the book leaves off. There are three twined components: Individually focused Q&A's, a workshop, and a studio crit. Joanne will also share with you information she didn't have room for in the first edition, including the issue of working on plexiglass; new grounds; and material that will make its way into the second edition: more studio tips; more on safety; archival issues; the best ways to prepare paintings for transportation, exhibition and storage; and a discussion of how to identify and create a market for your work. This Master Class is not for beginners. It is for painters who have experience with encaustic and who wish to expand the parameters of their studio practice. You should come to the workshop with the palette, brushes and tools you normally use, several small panels prepared for painting, and at least two cradled panels that you will prepare in the workshop with a ground you don't normally use.

Joanne Mattera is a studio painter who works primarily in encaustic. Her focus is saturated color and a sumptuous surface played against a reductive geometric composition. She calls her work "lush minimalism." Mattera is a nationally acknowledged master of encaustic. Her book, The Art of Encaustic Painting: Contemporary Expression in the Ancient Medium of Pigmented Wax, has become the standard reference, and she lectures widely on the topic. She is the founder of the annual National Conference of Encaustic Painting, which takes at Montserrat College of Art in June. She exhibits regularly throughout the United States. In New York City she has shown with the Stephen Haller Gallery, Thatcher Projects, the Heidi Cho Gallery, and at OK Harris, where her second solo show with the gallery took place last May. She is represented in Boston by the Arden Gallery, in Atlanta by Marcia Wood, and in Scottsdale at Cervini Haas. Her work is in institutional, corporate and private collections here and abroad. She invites you to visit her website, www.joannemattera.com, and her blog, www.joannemattera.blogspot.com

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