Technique Week Workshops
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Sam Allerton Green
Painting the Landscape
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March 25-27, Monday-Wednesday
9am-4pm
Painting the Landscape:
Sam Allerton Green
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In this workshop Sam will show students how to capture what it feels like to be in the landscape, rather than simply replicating what we see in life or in a photo. Students will seek to answer one of the most important questions, “Why is it paint?” This is a question so many painters rarely consider, but must in order to truly achieve a strong sense of captivation within a painting. Students will use photos and drawings to create their own original works of art.
Through a series of lectures, demonstrations, painting prompts, and encouraging critiques, students will learn more effective ways to paint alluring landscapes. This workshop will focus specifically on oil painting as a medium but Sam welcomes students to use acrylic paints as well.
Students should bring rags, a variety of brushes and a couple flat edge pallet knives. In addition students should bring a bunch cheap surfaces to work on. (5-10 at various sizes. Gessoed watercolor paper is a great solution for this).
Location: 3rd Floor Masiello Studio
Medium: Oil or Acrylic
Class Size Limited to 15
Members: $200
Nonmembers: $300
SOLD OUT
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Sam Allerton Green
paints often, both inside and outside. The majority of his work is done plein air, on site, in a single session. This forces him to focus on capturing what it feels like to be there, rather than simply replicating what he sees.
Sam grew up in Providence, and studied painting at the Maryland Institute College of art. He has been an artist in residence at The Creative Alliance at the Patterson in Baltimore, MD, and the Vermont Studio Center in Johnson, VT. He is currently the director of the Rhode Island Watercolor Society in Pawtucket, Rhode Island.
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Ron Rosenstock
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Mat Cutting & Framing
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March 23, Saturday
10am-4pm
Mat Cutting & Framing:
Ron Rosenstock
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Ron Rosenstock
, internationally known photographer, is conducting a one-day workshop on how to prepare your art work for an exhibition. Learn how to cut mats and frame your art work to museum standards. Everyone will have a hands-on experience with a 32-inch, classic Logan mat cutter. All materials needed will be supplied. The workshop is limited to ten participants.
Topics to be covered include: choosing a theme for your exhibit, effective editing, pricing your work, and finding a venue in which to exhibit.
Location: 3rd Floor Masiello Studio.
Class size limited to 10
Members: $60
Nonmembers: $100
Materials Fee: $25
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Known internationally for his teaching,
Ron Rosenstock
has exhibited his photographs in over one hundred group and solo exhibitions world-wide. He studied with noted photographers Paul Caponigro and Minor White. He has published six books of his work, written numerous articles, and produced a number of portfolios. He is a member of the U.S. State Department’s Art for Embassies program.
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Laurie Klein
The Joy of Self Expression
Using Your Smart Phone
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March 28, Thursday
9am-4pm
The Joy of Self Expression Using
Your Smart Phone:
Laurie Klein
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Come play with
Laurie Klein
and learn how to tap into your creative juices! Everyone has a smart phone these days - one of the most accessible creative tools we have at our fingertips. Through a series of fun exercises, you will realize how taking photographs can be transformative, healing, and fun.
Bring your Smart Phone, fully charged. Download the free app "Snapseed" from the app store, before or during class.
Location: 3rd Floor Masiello Studio.
Class Size Limited to 12
Members: $60
Nonmembers: $100
Only 2 Spots Available
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Laurie Klein
has her MFA from Ohio U. and BFA from RIT. She studied with Ansel Adams. She is the author of
Infrared Photography: Artistic Techniques for Brilliant Images
and
Photographing The Female Form with Digital Infrared
both published by Amherst Media.
Hand Coloring Black and White Photography
published by Rockport Publishers, and is published in numerous magazines.Canon, Skylum, Digital Silver Imaging, Kodak, Fuji, Prismacolor, White House Color, Lensbaby have been her sponsors. Her Images have been exhibited nationally and internationally.
Laurie Klein
is recognized worldwide for photographing in the infrared spectrum. Her work embodies a soft passionate style that often depicts the feminine experience, relationships and landscapes.
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Nancy Gaucher-Thomas
Charcoal on Mylar — A Sensual Medium
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Monday & Tuesday, April 1 & 2
9am-4pm
Charcoal on Mylar —
A Sensual Medium:
Nancy Gaucher-Thomas
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In this class we will work with a variety of charcoal on a mylar surface. This translucent film allows light to pass through all untouched and erased areas of the drawing that reveals a subtle luminosity. My process involves constantly changing the marks, values, and movements until I arrive at a pleasing and dynamic result. We will concentrate on a single subject (you may work from your own photographs or still life objects) working in a small format.
Materials to Bring:
Range of charcoal pencils (hard to soft), powdered charcoal, kneaded eraser, tortillons (stumps), natural chamois, x-acto knife and sandpaper sharpener, drawing board. Mylar will be supplied.
Location: 3rd Floor Masiello Studio
Members: $120
Nonmembers: $240
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Nancy Gaucher-Thomas:
As an artist, arts consultant and administrator, she has long served the community on non-profit boards of directors and has participated in public arts programs such as the IonaFest, a celebration in memory of long-time arts advocate, Iona Dobbins. She currently serves as Acting President on the Board of Directors of the Providence Art Club. For more about Nancy, click
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Frances Middendorf
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The Capriccio
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Wednesday-Friday, April 3-5
9am-4pm
The Capriccio:
Frances Middendorf
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Create original compositions using art historical references
and the model
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Frances Middendorf
is a painter who lives in Italy and teaches drawing at the Rome Art Program in Rome. Born in New York, Frances attended the Rhode Island School of Design (BFA), School of Visual Arts, NYC (MFA) and the New York Studio School. She is represented by the Denise Bibro Gallery in New York City.
Following a 15 year commercial art career working for clients such as the New York Times, Newsweek and the Vivian Beaumont Theater at Lincoln Center, Frances Middendorf continued her learning at the New York Studio School. She moved to Italy in 1997 to study with Nicolas Carone and decided to stay. Nicolas Carone (1917-2010) was an articulate describer of the teachings and tenants of Hans Hoffman as well as a friend to many Italian painters particularly Giorgio Morandi. By emphasizing “plasticity” or the link between surface tension and three dimensionality (Hoffman’s push-pull), Carone guided Frances’ painting from the narrative to the poetic.
Medium: graphite
Location: 3rd Floor Masiello Studio
Members: $200
Nonmembers: $300
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Frances
has lived in Florence, has a studio in Umbria and now resides in Rome and Rhode Island. Frances has exhibited her paintings and drawings in France, New York and Italy with recent solo shows at the Museum Casa Natale di Cesare Pavese in Piedmont, the National Arts Club where she won first place at their annual exhibiting artist member show in 2016, and the Downing Yudain Gallery in Stamford Connecticut. Frances credits her knowledge of drawing to her artist and art collector father and to New York Sculptor/Painter Bruce Gagnier who illuminated Carone’s teachings with his love of art history, anatomy and pictorial movement.
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Margaux Siegel
Image Transfer Techniques —
Personal Narratives
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Monday-Wednesday, April 1-3
9am-12:30pm
Image Transfer Techniques — Personal Narratives:
Margaux Siegel
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Image transfers have the same customizable and complex possibilities as collage. Explore your unique voice utilizing materials such as Wintergreen oil, Gel Medium, transfer markers, and Graphite / Carbon paper. Experimentation is encouraged! We will explore transferring hand drawn images as well as photocopies, inkjet prints, and laser
printed images. The selected transfer methods are compatible with a variety of
substrates such as wooden panels and rag papers ( BFK, Stonehenge). Each
transferred image will be resolved in a unique way. Compose your compositions by layering processes. Combine hand drawn elements into the transferred compositions or add texture with collaged elements.
Location: Garden Level Print Studio
Class Size Limited to 8
Members: $90
Nonmembers: $180
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Margaux Siegel
was born in West Virginia. She received a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree Summa Cum Laude in Painting and Printmaking from Maryland Institute College of Art (MICA) in 2015. She completed residencies in Venice and Sorrento through MICA and in New York through the School of Visual Arts and MICA. She has studied jewelry design, papermaking and digital fabrication through Rhode Island School of Design. She maintains a studio practice in Providence, Rhode Island.
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Michael Rose
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Pricing and Selling Your Art
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Thursday, April 4
9am-4pm
Pricing and Selling Your Art:
Michael Rose
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Pricing work is often a difficult exercise for artists, regardless of their experience level. In this one day intensive workshop with Providence Art Club Gallery Manager
Michael Rose
a variety of pricing strategies will be explored. Michael will cover methods that can be employed to accurately price and more successfully sell works of fine art. He will additionally look at the positives and negatives of discounting, limited edition print running, as well as how sales platforms and venues can influence the price of work. Practical aspects of pricing methodologies such as framing, materials, and labor costs will also be discussed.
Location: Garden Level Print Studio
Class Size Limited to 10
Members: $60
Nonmembers: $100
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Michael Rose
has served as the Gallery Manager at the Art Club since 2014. Over his five years at the Club he has worked with hundreds of artists and handled thousands of works of art ranging in price from $50 to $25,000. As a gallerist, Michael has worked with collectors from diverse backgrounds with equally diverse budgets and has helped to place work in collections throughout the Northeast as well as around the United States. Michael earned his Bachelor's Degree in Art History from Providence College and obtained his Certificate in Appraisal Studies in Fine and Decorative Arts from New York University, where he studied the international art market with some of the nation's leading gallery, auction, and appraisal professionals.
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FitzSimonds & McIntyre-Hannon
The Print Portfolio
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Friday, April 5
9:30am-Noon
The Print Portfolio:
Carol FitzSimonds and Christine McIntyre-Hannon
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Carol has been involved in many original print collaborations - from the Washington Printmakers Original Print Calendars to 8 themed portfolios and a 3-book print and poetry collection. View several of these projects and learn what’s involved with putting a portfolio together. Carol and Christine will also explain/demo several relief and intaglio printmaking techniques.
Location: Garden Level Print Studio
This is a
Free
presentation.
Reservations are requested.
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Carol FitzSimonds, Iona Dobbins (RIP),
and James Goff with the 2007 PAC Portfolio
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Amy Wynne
Figure Drawing —
Essential Structure & Proportion
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Saturday & Sunday, April 6 & 7
9am-4pm
Figure Drawing — Essential Structure & Proportion:
Amy Wynne
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Essential to any successful figure drawing practice is an understanding of the proportional structure of the body. In this two day intensive, students will be introduced to the key subcutaneous landmarks of the body. Initially we will make multiple drawings of the skeleton in increasingly dynamic positions practicing sighting the angle of limbs and basic proportional relationships. These simplified studies will allow students to practice emphasizing the key structural forms essential for artistic anatomy. Once the figure’s structure is established, we will create quick sketches of the model driven by sighting the angles of limbs and plotting the axis points of the joints. After these reactive warm-up drawings, we will work from the model creating translucent overlays of the body’s volumes over our skeletal drawings. This fusion of structure, proportion and volume is essential to strengthening any figure drawing practice.
Location: 3rd Floor Masiello Studio
Class Size Limited to 12
Members: $200
Nonmembers: $300
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Amy Wynne
is a painter living and working in Pawtucket, RI. She holds an MFA in Painting from The New York Academy of Art in New York City and a dual BA in Art History and Cultural Anthropology from Smith College. She has been teaching college-level painting and drawing for 25 years formerly at The School of the Museum of Fine Arts Boston and currently a Professor of Practice at Clark University. She received the 2015 CE Teacher of Excellence Award from the Rhode Island School of Design.
In addition to college teaching, Amy leads on-location Plein Air Painting workshops in New England and Southern Tuscany as well as workshops in her local mill studio. Amy is an author of many on-line art courses through CreativeLive and LinkedIn Learning platforms. She writes a BLOG called “Meanderings on Process and Creativity” published through her website.
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Class Enrollment
Workshop size is limited and enrollment is on a first-come, first-served basis. Providence Art Club members will have the first opportunity to enroll. If enrollment maximum is reached, your may add your name to a wait list. We will open enrollment to nonmembers (if space allows) after PAC Members have had a little time to enroll. If an enrolled student cancels, the Art Club will notify the first person on the wait list. Unfortunately, the Providence Art Club is unable to prorate students for missed workshops that they registered for but do not attend. The Art Club strives to provide the highest quality art classes with various media for all members.
- Members will be billed for each class they register for.
- Workshops must have a minimum of 6-8 students enrolled to run.
- Please review our guidelines for STUDIO ETIQUETTE and for ORIENTATION.
Cancelation Policy
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Canceling a registration 15+ days prior to workshop = 100% refund
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Canceling a registration 10-14 days prior to workshop = 50% refund
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Except for a medical or family emergency, there is no refund for registration cancellations made less than 9 days before the first day of the workshop or class.
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The Providence Art Club may find it necessary to cancel a workshop due to low enrollment or other scheduling conflicts. If this occurs, registered students will be contacted and refunded the full course fee.
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Providence Art Club 11 Thomas Street Providence RI 02903 (401) 331-1114
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