Advanced Abstract Exploration - Level 2

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 April 10. This intensive workshop is designed for artists with experience and knowledge of abstract painting practices, and who have maintained a regular painting practice for at least 5 years. Emphasis is on awareness and intention for your work, knowing you are creating the work you are meant to create but with curiosity about what might also be calling to you. Group discussion will explore difficult questions and allow for proactive exchanges of ideas. There will be some advance writing assignments to prepare you for the workshop. 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. September 1, 3-5 PM - Welcome reception & set up. September 2-5, 9:30 AM to 4:30 PM - Workshop. Studio open 9 AM - 5 PM. $1900 + 7.124%. Registration includes lunch, refreshments & welcome reception. Upon selection, you’ll receive payment information from Santa Fe Artist Getaway. 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.