Instructor: Bert Yarborough
Monday - Friday
Aug 26 - 30
9am - 12pm
5 sessions
Open studio: Mon - Thur, 1 - 4 pm

This drawing and mixed-media class will use the figure and various environments, both interior and exterior, as a starting point and vehicle to explore each participant’s personal visual language and modes of expression. We will use a variety of materials, techniques, and exercises to develop and expand one’s connection to their work. Critiques and individual/group discussions will supplement studio work.  

Students of all skill levels are welcome. Rather than focusing on product, we hope to create an environment in the studio and utilize specific setups and sites that will allow participants to engage in investigation, risk-taking and play.  There is a basic list of materials that you will need to bring with you to the class. Studio work clothes are suggested and, as weather permits, we may work outside for a few sessions.

Bert Yarborough has a degree in Architecture from Clemson University and an MA and MFA in Photography from the University of Iowa.  He held the Sonia C. Davidow ’56 Endowed Chair in the Fine and Performing Arts at Colby-Sawyer College, New London, NH, where he also served as the Director of the William and Sonja Carlson Davidow ’56 and Marian Graves Mugar Art Galleries and taught Drawing and Painting. A former two-year Resident Fellow at the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown, MA, he served as Visual Arts Program Coordinator for four years and as Chairman of the Visual Committee and member of the Board of Trustees. He has received two NH State Arts Council Grants in Painting, an NEA Fellowship in Sculpture, a Fulbright Fellowship to Nigeria, also in Sculpture and, most recently, an Adolph and Esther Gottlieb Individual Artist Support Grant. He is currently represented by the Berta Walker Gallery, Provincetown, MA and resides in Truro, MA.