MARCH 12, 2009 ISSUE
Gallery News
Turchin Center Spring 2009 Community Art School Schedule
ASU’s Turchin Center for the Visual Arts (TCVA) announces its schedule for children’s, teen and adult programs at The Community Art School. Offered in the Community Art School studio classroom housed on the top floor of the Turchin Center’s Arnold P. Rosen Family Education wing, children, teens and adults can try their hands at anything from drawing to map making to recycling. Preregistration and payment are required, and enrollment is limited. Turchin Center members are eligible for discounted registration fees. Register online at www.tcva.org/register. For more info, call 828-262-3017.
After School Art Program (ages 6 to 9)
This program is designed to encourage creativity and stimulate imagination through museum activities, art appreciation, environmental awareness and exposure to ancient cultures. Participants will use the current exhibits to learn about contemporary artists and their media in order to create works of art in a similar manner.
The class is 3:15 to 4:30 p.m. on Wednesdays, March 13 and 25, April 1, 8, 15, 22 and 29 and May 6 and 13. Diane Adkins is the instructor. Cost is $75 for TCVA members and $100 for nonmembers.
Going Green (and red and purple and … (ages 5 to 9)
During this two-day workshop, participants will be environmentally conscious by making their own paper from recycled materials. These incredibly textured papers will then be ready for musings or to express the written word inspired by the abstract paintings of Ray Kass.
The class is from 10:00 a.m. to noon on Saturdays, March 21 and 28. Dr. Lisa Mitchell’s ART 3021 students will lead the class. Cost is $15 for TCVA members and $25 for nonmembers.
Trees of Hope (ages 5 to 10)
Students will view Charlie Brouwer’s work and then create their own artwork dealing with trees, ladders and hope. After looking at trees around the world and reflecting on personal hopes for the future, the workshop ends with planting a real tree at the TCVA.
The class is from 10:00 a.m. to noon on Saturday, April 4. Dr. Gayle Weitz’s ART 3021 students will lead the class. Cost is $10 for TCVA members and $20 for nonmembers.
Plotting Personal Cartographies: The Art of Map Making and Interpreting (ages 9 to 12)
Children will explore the idea of maps and see how they have been used to create worlds in two dimensions. Students will use drawing, painting and collage to enhance a map of Boone or Watauga County with their personal histories, experiences and wishes for the future.
The class is from 10:00 a.m. to noon on Saturday, April 25. Dr. Janet Montgomery’s ART 3021 students lead the class. Cost is $10 for TCVA members and $20 for nonmembers.
Drawing for Teens and Adults
Students will draw from direct observation using the still life, landscape and human figure as subject matter. Media used include graphite, charcoal, chamois, erasers, ink and watercolor. All materials are included, but participants are welcome to bring their own.
The course takes place from 9:00 a.m. to noon on Saturdays, March 21 and 28 and April 4, 11, 18 and 25. Tim Ford is the instructor. Cost is $150 for TCVA members and $175 for nonmembers.
Appalachian Pastel Society Show Through March 22
The Appalachian Pastel Society show at the Capehart Beck Gallery in Blowing Rock began on March 2 and continues through Sunday, March 22. Published and nationally known artists are represented in this show. The show contains pastel paintings of portraits, animals and landscapes. This group is concentrated in the mountains of Western North Carolina, Tennessee, Virginia, northern Georgia and South Carolina. For more information about the Pastel Society, contact Karen Chambers at 828-665-8538 or karenpaints@hotmail.com.
Dynamic Color in Landscapes with Braitman and Antonaccio at Carlton Gallery
Bass Lake by Andrew Braitman
Artists Andrew Braitman and Egidio Antonaccio are slated to conduct painting workshops in June as part of Carlton Gallery’s 9th annual Workshop Series.
Braitman’s unique textured style in his landscape oil paintings are created by an impasto technique featuring aggressive brushstrokes, a wide palette and subtle details. As a dynamic teacher and professional exhibiting artist of national stature, Braitman’s art is featured in galleries as well as individual and group shows in cities in the United States, Holland and Brazil. In his Color Theory Workshop June 10 to 12, he will teach participants to minimize their color and maximize their color potential. Methods with be taught to control color and mix paint on the artist’s palette, along with color games to make better paintings and to realize the relationship between color and value.
Egidio Antonaccio uses a palette knife to apply acrylic paint strokes.
Born in Castelluccio, Italy, Antonaccio earned his art degree from the Institute of Fine Art in Castrovillan, Italy, and the Academy of Fine Arts in Florence. A resident more than 20 years, Antonaccio finds the mountains of the High Country the source of inspiration for his loose flowing style of painting. His feelings about nature are expressed in his bright, strong colors and loose courageous strokes.
This vitality is expressed in his acrylic paintings applied with a palette knife instead of a brush. Antonaccio’s workshop on June 29 and 30 and July 1 will instruct aspiring artists to divide the light using loose strokes of color with pallet knives. Participants will experience color and the music of life through landscapes as they loosen their style and develop new techniques in painting skills.
For more information, click to www.carltonartgallery.com or call 828-963-4288.
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