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Pop Up Gallery Collaboration
Collaboration with the Cambridge Art Association A short “pop-up” exhibition in the University Place Gallery of CAA follows. Dates: May 9 to 13, 2016 Print and Process: Master Printers / Master Class Instructor: Heddi Siebel / Catherine Kernan In a continuing collaboration with the Cambridge Art Association, MMA offers a weekend of workshops in which artists can print with the guidance of Master Printers at a scale and using techniques not available in many print studios. Works from this workshop…
Find out more »Sketching and Painting Cambridge
Sunday, May 22, 2016 10 am to 4 pm Adult / Teen Workshop Experience the intensity of looking anew at your familiar surroundings. Actually looking while drawing and painting is a profoundly different experience that just passing through. Alexandra will guide you in your explorations with pen and pencil, paper and paint. An exhibition will follow in the Chandler Gallery and the Foyer Gallery culled from the workshop.
Find out more »From The Studios: Artwork by ABC and MMA Students
From the Studios: Artwork by ABC and MMA Students Chandler Gallery Showcases Works by Young Local Artists These works remind adults what it means to have fun. Clay animals, wooden marble runs, and a robot who serves cups for water are the creations of students at Maud Morgan Arts and Agassiz Baldwin Afterschool. The artists, ranging in age from kindergarten through 8th grade, offer perspectives that older artists can mimic and aspire to, but can no longer truly possess. The…
Find out more »Screenprinting Intensive
Sunday, June 12, 2016 10 am to 5 pm In this one-day intensive workshop, students will be introduced to silkscreen basics. We will examine different ways of making a screen. We will employ traditional screen-printing techniques such as stencils and the use of drawing fluid and screen filler. In addition, students will be introduced to photo emulsion and the appropriate ways to generate film positives. Silkscreen is one of the most versatile printmaking processes. Students will be encouraged to print on…
Find out more »Intention and Chance: Evolving Images by Constance Jacobson, Eleanor Rubin, and Susan Schmidt
July 5 - August 5, 2016 Reception: Thursday, July 7, 6 - 8 pm POSTCARDS, BASKETS AND MICROSCOPIC MONSTERS Constance Jacobson, Eleanor Rubin, and Susan Schmidt Bring Evolving Images to the Chandler Gallery “We are all weavers of images above and below the surface,” says Eleanor Rubin, one of the three artists featured in the Chandler Gallery’s upcoming show, “Intention and Chance: Evolving Images by Constance Jacobson, Eleanor Rubin, and Susan Schmidt.” The exhibition title refers to the printmaking process—which…
Find out more »Another Dimension: Painting, Ceramics
July 5 - July 8, 2016 Monday - Friday 1:30 - 5:45 pm Painting: Beyond the Surface Whatever your sources, the slippery, scrumptious medium of paint and the morphic qualities of paper can bring your story alive. Paint and paper can allow you to create a universe where changes of scale, distortions of space, and illogical realities can coexist. Ceramics: Altered Pots Experience the thrill of shaping and forming earth into ceramic pieces both functional and decorative. Learn to throw a pot on the…
Find out more »Another Dimension: Sculpture, Ceramics
July 11 - July 15, 2016 Monday - Friday 1:30 - 5:45 pm Sculpture: Activating Space Work with materials that bend and fold, connect at joints, and reach out activate space. Ceramics: Altered Pots Experience the thrill of shaping and forming earth into ceramic pieces both functional and decorative. Learn to throw a pot on the potter’s wheel, and then transform it by considering the inside and the outside together. Add glazes and fire it up for a one-of-a-kind sculpture.
Find out more »Another Dimension: Screenprinting, Ceramics
July 18 - July 22, 2016 Monday - Friday 1:30 - 5:45 pm Screenprinting: Multiple Meanings Printmaking combines aspects of drawing, painting and collage, adds a little unpredictability and produces dazzling results…over and over again. Create an image and print enough multiples to flood the world. Or print a special design that is unique. Ceramics: Pots with a Purpose Experience the thrill of shaping and forming earth into ceramic pieces both functional and decorative. Learn to throw a pot on the potter’s wheel, and then…
Find out more »Another Dimension: Drawing, Ceramics
July 25 - July 29, 2016 Monday - Friday 1:30 - 5:45 pm Drawing: Beyond 2D Challenge the line and explore ways that drawing can explode into space and challenge our standard notions of drawing. Draw on the opposite side of the paper. Cut the paper and construct your drawing in space. Use physical materials that are linear and progressive in nature to extend your drawings to explore both scale and temporal dimensions. Ceramics: Pots with a Purpose Experience the thrill of shaping and forming earth…
Find out more »Ceramics Summer Series
Adult / Teen Wednesdays, 6 - 8:30 pm August 10 - September 14, 2016 The summer is what you make it. Students can focus on throwing and trimming on the wheel as well as hand-building construction processes such as coils, slabs, and pinching. This class will offer participants personalized instruction to develop their skills creating artwork in clay. Students will benefit from building and throwing demonstrations as well as instruction on decorative and finishing techniques using various glazing combinations. We will provide…
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