Advanced Abstract Exploration - Level 1

Service Description

To add your name to the Wait List, email BToddArts@gmail.com. You'll also be asked to submit your portfolio for review. Application closed February 15. The workshop is designed for artists with prior experience and working knowledge of abstract painting principles, and who want to explore new techniques, methods and materials, and move deeper into their practice. You’ll be exposed to new ways of seeing and connecting with what inspires and calls you to create. Advance writing assignments will help you and Krista both know more about your practice, goals, strengths, and fears. Workshop focuses on: • Who you are, what you do, and why you do it. • Creating an environment for interactive conversations, experimentation, growth, and deep connection with your practice. • Daily exercises to loosen up, help you focus, and utilize all your senses. • Afternoons for individual painting time. • Honest feedback and sharing with peers. • Discussions on materials, tools, techniques, and the roles they play in developing and defining your work. • Critiques, and a one-on-one session with Krista. Participants will receive materials and assignments in advance to prepare for the workshop. Work in acrylic and water-based mediums. No oil. June 23, 3 - 5 PM -- Meet & Greet June 24 - 27, Studio opens at 9 AM. Workshop begins at 9:30 AM. Ends at 4:30 PM $1830 + 7.124% tax. Registration includes lunch & welcome reception. Invoiced after selection. Limited to 8 students. Students are responsible for their lodging & transportation. See Student Info page for: - Lodging & transportation info. - Location - Supply List & Shipping Krista Harris www.kristaharris.com A career-level artist whose gestural, abstract painting are richly layered with mark and medium, sharing a love of both drawing and painting. She thinks of her work as maps or environments, exploring the imperfect, fleeting changes between the natural and the man-made worlds. There is nothing frugal about her paintings; instead, they are richly layered, sensually manipulated surfaces which seem to live and breathe. Concealing as much as they reveal, and weaving together gestural, energetic marks and fields of color, the opposing forces lure you in.