Instructor: Traci Harmon-Hay
Tuesday - Friday
September 2 - 5
9am - 1pm
4 sessions

Rendered with watercolor for intermediate to advanced students 

Inanimate objects are not endowed with life or spirit, lacking consciousness or the power of motion. However, they do have the ability to move us emotionally, evoking memory, wonder and sense of hope and reflection. What objects in your life move you? What relics bring a sense of joy or even unease? In this class, students will be asked to bring in an object or objects that spark a sense of meaning, along with a background (patterned tablecloth, wallpaper, swatch of material, piece of clothing, etc.) in which they will be displayed. Perhaps there is a correspondence between the object and background. Color, pattern and meaning will all converge into a watercolor painting that portrays a personal narrative giving the artist a greater sense of finality and reflection.  

Traci Harmon-Hay received her BFA in illustration and painting from the Maryland Institute of Art and studied with Fritz Briggs of the Schuler School of Fine Arts in Baltimore. Represented by New York's Creative Freelancers, Harmon-Hay co-founded Studio Six, an illustration co-op. Her clients included the Washington Times, Baltimore Sun, Nation's Business Magazine, Yankee Publishing and Cambell's. To escape the commercial aspect of art she moved to Wellfleet, Cape Cod in 1996 to pursue her visual art studies. She owned the Harmon Gallery in Wellfleet from 2000 until 2014, and continued to exhibit her work there along with many other local and nationally renowned artists until it closed in January 2021. She has exhibited her work at the Left Bank Gallery, Bromfield Gallery, Fountain Street Gallery, WHEN Studio and FARM Projects. She currently is represented by Carver Hill Gallery in Camden, Maine. She lives in Wellfleet with her husband and two daughters.

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