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 2008 WORKSHOPS - SCULPTURE

Summer 2008

Painting

Drawing

Clay

Printmaking/
Book Arts

Performance - Yoga - Music

Teens

Kids

Heather Blume

Nancy Bowen

Sculpture 08

Feltmaking: Rebecca Welsh

July 8, 9, 10
Tues, Weds, Thurs.
1 - 4pm
3 sessions $300
Castle Hill
materials will be sold in class
for academic
credit $375

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Come explore feltmaking as an art form. This exciting class will take you through feltmaking basics and on to advanced techniques. Feltmaking is an ancient, lo-tech process which involves layering natural fibers such as wool and silk and rubbing them together with hot, soapy water on a glass washboard. Bring your imagination and discover the endless possibilities of feltmaking.

Rebecca Welsh is co-owner of Hansard Welsh Design with her business partner Lesley Hansard. They have been in business ten years, won various awards, been on the Martha Stewart show and have exhibited at the Smithsonian Craft Show, Philadelphia Museum of Art craft show, Crafts at the Castle and various other exhibitions.

Carving a Wooden Spoon: Anna Poor

July 14 - 18
Mon – Fri
9am – Noon
5 Sessions $355
+ $15 Materials Fee
castle hill
For academic
credit $430 + Materials fee

Spoons! All the skills needed for carving subtractive sculpture are hidden within this ancient and deceptively simple utensil. The spoons we create in this workshop will be personal works of art. Whatever your design, large, small, sleek, decorative, functional or not, we will transform a block of wood with traditional chisels and a mallet.
This workshop is open to beginning to advanced students, wood and many tools will be provided.

Anna Poor’s figurative sculptures fuse the age-old sensual rituals of working in wood and bronze with her own vocabulary for contemporary narrative. She is represented by James Graham & Sons in NYC and ArtStrand Gallery in Provincetown. She was awarded a 2001 Mass Cultural Council Artist Grant and serves as Visiting Associate Professor in Fine Arts at the Art Institute of Boston. You can see Anna's work at www.annapoor.com

Building Kinetic Sculpture Irén Handschuh

July 21 - 25
Mon - fri
1 - 4pm
5 sessions $355 + $15 materials fee
Castle Hill
For academic
credit $430 + Materials fee

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Gravity and levity of materials are aspects of sculpture and mobile construction that we will investigate in this week-long course. A survey in the safe use of hand and small power tools will provide a basic vocabulary for each participant to develop a series of works that manifest individual points of view, narrative or memoir. Gravity without gravitas, we will work with wood, wire and other modest materials of choice that we will transform to spin our stories and mobiles. Bring tools, pliers, if you have them, gleaned wood and materials that you would like to work with and share. This course is open to all levels of experience.

Born and educated in Paris Irén Handschuh emigrated to the United States in 1971 where she began working in a women's carpentry collective. In the 80's she worked in general construction, cabinet and furniture making in the Boston area, Cape Cod and the Islands. Moving away from the high precision of cabinet-work, she began working as a sculptor in the late 1980's. Utilizing the simplest of natural elements (wood,stone,sticks,bones,pits,etc ) in her mobiles and stabiles, Handschuh treats movement as an artistic element. Her philosophical sensibility is based in ironic, punlike, metaphoric humor. She has exhibited her works in galleries in Wellfleet, Provincetown, Nantucket, New York and Japan. Handschuh is represented by The Berta Walker Gallery in Provincetown.

Bronze Casting an Open Faced Mold:
David Boyajian

July 28 - August 2
Mon – Fri
1 – 4pm
5 Sessions $355 + $125 materials fee
Castle Hill
For academic credit $430 + materials

Bronze casting is made quick and easy in this course, an introduction to foundry techniques on a basic level. Soft fire brick will be used as a mold material. Low relief will be carved into the brick using files and sandpaper. Molten bronze will then be poured into the mold, cooled and released. Each student will create a series of bronze castings that will then be assembled by mig-welding. Patina and mounting techniques will also be covered.

David Boyajian was born and raised in Connecticut. After receiving his BFA in 1980 from Alfred University, David attended the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture and in 1982 completed his MFA from Maryland Institute, Rinehart School of Sculpture. Between 1986-2006, David taught metal sculpture, introduction to foundry, stone and wood carving at the Silvermine School of Art in New Canaan, CT. In 1993, he became the Director of Sculpture Studies and continues to be an artist member of the Silvermine Guild. In 2003 David co-founded Sculpture Barn Art Center in New Fairfield, CT which houses a 3000 sq-ft fine art gallery, studios for metal sculpture classes and a 4-acre sculpture park. Sculpture Barn is dedicated to fostering dialogue between artist and collectors through exhibitions, classes, and performance events.

Portraiture in Clay: Joyce johnson

August 4 - 7
Mon – Thurs
9am – Noon
4 Sessions $355
Castle Hill
For academic
credit $430

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Students will examine the models' facial Structure including proportions and elements that make each face unique. All levels of experience are welcome. Students can work in earth clay or pasticine.

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.

Introduction to Idea Building Seminar: Romolo Del Deo

August 11 - 15
Mon - Fri
1 - 4pm
5 sessions $360
Castle Hill
For academic
credit $435
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The objective of this course is to explore the creative transition from working with the observed world to working from the 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, 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 year's Mary Lou Friedman Chair

Found Object Construction Michael Burbank

August 18 - 22
Mon - Fri
9am – noon
5 Sessions $355
Castle Hill
For academic
credit $430

Students who attend this workshop should bring some materials that they would like to include in an assemblage. We will review some assemblage art history from masters to maniacs to pique our interest in the varieties of form and materials available. We will explore local options for collecting materials. We will review "gluing and screwing" choices. We will work on one piece intensively - both in class and at home - for the week of the course.

Michael Burbank is a self-taught artist and "junk" collector. He's been scouring beaches, bottle dumps, and rust farms for years looking for the odds 'n sods that spark his imagination. Burbank has exhibited his shadow boxes and assemblages at the Perrin Gallery in Boston, the Concord (MA) Art Association, the Cherrystone gallery in Wellfleet, and at PAAM in Provincetown. He has installed commissioned works of assemblage in private collections in Boston, North Carolina, San Francisco, and Wellfleet.

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 $435

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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.

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