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Seeking Meaning: Stories of Dauntless Resiliency work by Sandra Mayo
October 9 - November 2, 2018 Reception: Thursday, October 11, 6:00 - 8:00 pm I consider my art work a practicing in storytelling. I am interested in people, in families and their journey through generations: how families evolve, thrive or collapse; how extreme circumstances can affect them leaving rich stories behind. To tell my stories I use the aesthetic language of genograms. Genograms are pictorial family trees commonly used in medicine, psychiatry, psychology, social work, genetic research and education. They…
Find out more »Sampler Series: Contact Earth
Adult / Teen 5 Thursdays, 6 - 8:30 pm October 11th - November 8, 2018 How will you shape your clay? Shape a lump of clay to an elegant form using the wheel, or construct your artwork using hand-building processes such as coils, slabs, pinching. This class will cover a variety of basics, where you take it from there is up to your artistic vision. Studio Sampler Series offers five-week classes that introduce topics in studio art. Designed to inspire without a huge commitment,…
Find out more »Drawing with Thread
Drawing with Thread Workshop Joetta Maue October 20th & 21st | 10am-3pm This workshop explores embroidery as drawing and mark making with a specific focus on how to translate drawing into a stitched work. Through direct drawing, transfer and projection students will build technical skills and conceptual idea development. Traditional drawing techniques such as contour, gesture and hatching are addressed and considered in terms of application with embroidery. Students will learn embroidery techniques, including various stitches, appliqué techniques, and staining of…
Find out more »Data Collection: Work by Cindy Lu
Small Works Salon Winner’s Science-Driven Sculptures Tackle Data & Privacy October 29 - November 23, 2018 Reception: Thursday, November 8, 6:00 - 8:00 pm First, picture the human body. Then, as if a camera were zooming in closer, go through all layers of skin, muscle, and bone right down to the tiniest molecule. What once appeared simple has a new level of complexity, of many small parts working together on a larger scale. That describes both the intricacy of molecular/cellular…
Find out more »Monotype with Model
November 10 & 11, 2018 10 am to 4 pm Adult / Teen Workshop Come explore printmaking as a drawing medium. With a nude model as the observational focus, work directly and spontaneously on printing plates with an "all in one" approach and simple monotype techniques that seamlessly integrate printmaking and drawing. This will be an intensive, fun workshop in a supportive and encouraging environment. Be prepared for challenges, and surprises. No experience in printmaking, figurative work, or drawing is necessary.
Find out more »Drawn From Within 2018
December 4 – January 4, 2019 “Drawn From Within” is a group show featuring a rather unusual group. Group shows often display the work of contest winners or artists represented by a single gallery, but the common thread that bonds these exhibition participants is their connection to a neighborhood non-profit. The Agassiz Baldwin Community is mounting its fifth annual all-agency exhibition in which employees—including teachers, accountants, administrative assistants, program directors and professional artists—display their artistic endeavors.
Find out more »Wheelworks: Another Spin
Grades 6 - 8 10 Tuesdays, 3:30 - 5:30 pm January 8 - March 19, 2019 Excludes February 19, 2019 Work on a potter's wheel. Learn to advance the skills of throwing pots on a potter’s wheel, from salt cellars to floor vases, and everything in between, from functional to sculptural. Hand-glaze your work and experience the surprises when the kiln is unloaded.
Find out more »Sampler Series: Develop Your Sketchbook
Adult/Teen 5 Wednesdays, 6:30 - 8:30 pm January 9 - February 6, 2019 This 5 week class will focus on exploring variety of materials from micron pens, markers, watercolor, acrylic paints and collage. Each week will focus on a different exercise that will allow students to enjoy the process of art making while working with color, line, shapes and found images. Students are encouraged to work in their sketchbooks to create vibrant, “messy” and experimental spreads without the pressure of creating…
Find out more »The Beast and Me: Leslie Schomp, Mary Kenny, Andrea Olmstead
January 14 - February 8, 2019 Reception: January 24, 6:00 - 8:00 pm Collaborative Show Blends Work of Three Artists To Explore Human/Animal Connection “The Beast and Me,” the upcoming show at the Chandler Gallery, is replete with scenes of a child’s imagination. In their execution, the sculptures and drawings by Leslie Schomp, Andrea Scofield Olmstead and Mary Kenny feel lifelike, but their subjects are touched with the whimsy, curiosity and tenderness common in childhood fantasies. In one sculpture, a…
Find out more »Heidi Whitman: Gray Matter
February 19 - March 15, 2019 Reception: Thursday, February 21, 6:00 - 8:00 pm Artist Talk: Thursday, March 14, 6:00 - 7:00 pm Thoughts and dreams don’t simply appear in our heads, though they often feel sudden and random. Instead, they travel from one part of our brains to another, creating a path of neurons and reactions that ends in our consciousness. In her upcoming show at the Chandler Gallery, “Gray Matter,” Heidi Whitman creatively maps these journeys in sculptures…
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