Anderson Ranch Arts Center Workshop Catalogs 2000-2009 | Page 20
2d painting and drawing
July 6 - 10
FACULTY: John Hull has taught studio art at Yale University,
the University of Colorado Denver, and currently at the College of Charleston. A graduate of University of Illinois (MFA,
1981), he’s received four National Endowment for the Arts
Individual Artist Fellowships, the Thomas Benedict Clarke
Prize for Painting from the National Academy of Design, and
the Achievement Award for Acrylic Painting from American
Artist Magazine. His work may be found in public collections
including the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Denver Art
Museum, the Israel Museum, the New Museum of Contemporary Art, the Edwin A. Ulrich Museum, the Yellowstone Art
Museum, the Greenville County Art Museum and the Yale
University Art Gallery.
Image, Surface & Narrative
Duane Slick
Tuition: $840 ARAC Actual Cost: $1040 Studio Fee: $50
Code: D0609 Enrollment Limit 10
July 6 - 10
Duane Slick, Red Coyote for Fred Kabotie (detail)
CONCEPT: One of painting’s first tasks is to tell cultural and
personal narratives as a means of interpreting and channeling
the zeitgeist of their time. These narrative structures utilize
formal devices that that help us tell out stories: scale, texture,
time and hierarchy. We will examine and discuss the work of
narrative and allegorical artists such as Neo Rauch, Martin
Ramirez and Faith Ringold to clarify the importance of narrative in contemporary art. The media used will include paint,
drawing, photography and simple monotype techniques.
Workshop participants are encouraged to bring sketchbooks,
works-in-progress and 10-15 slides/digital images of previous
works for discussion.
MEDIA & TECHNIQUES: Oil and acrylic painting, trace monotype,
Wintergreen xerox transfer, drawing and digital photography.
ACTIVITIES: There will be one-on-one instruction, lectures and
seminars where students will discuss readings and showcase their work, and group critiques.
SKILL LEVEL: Level III – See page 18 for skill level descriptions.
FACULTY: Duane Slick is a painter and book artist, and is currently a professor of painting and printmaking at the Rhode
Island School of Design. He has exhibited extensively nationally and internationally with exhibitions including: “No Reservations: Native American History” and “Culture in Contemporary Art” at the the Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum,
Ridgefield, Connecticut, as well as, “Visual Power: 21st Century Native American Artists/Intellectuals”, through the US
State Department.
Wall-Relief Sculpture:form and color
John Hull
Tuition: $1355 ARAC Actual Cost: $1755 Studio Fee: $75
Code: D0610 Enrollment Limit 10
Julie Heffernan, Self Portrait as Booty
Isa Catto Shaw
Large-Scale Watercolor
T uition: $840 ARAC Actual Cost: $1040 Studio Fee: $50
Code: D0711 Enrollment Limit 9
ACTIVITIES: There will be a concentration on painting outdoors.
The first day, everyone will begin three or four paintings, working from several locations. Students will return to those sites
over the course of the week and focus more closely on one
or two paintings. The painting process will be accompanied
by investigations into the correspondences between nature
and language that will include readings, lectures, discussions,
and exercises.
SKILL LEVEL: Level IV – See page 18 for skill level descriptions.
ACTIVITIES: Students will be exposed to refining their watercolor technique and composition, slides and art history.
SKILL LEVEL: Level II – See page 18 for skill level descriptions.
CONCEPT: Paintings will be developed through direct observation of the figure in the landscape. The task for the artist is to
define an experience of living matter, to actually apprehend
the weight, the twist, the stance of a human figure anchored
by gravity, and to produce a souvenir of that experience.
There will be intensive study through use of scale, figureground relationships, color-formed pictorial space and expressive mark-making systems. Emphasis will be placed on composition, creation of pictorial space, and the development of
opportunities for creative, visual expression. Practical application of theoretical models explores pictorial structure, value,
tone, texture, touch and color.
Tuition: $970 ARAC Actual Cost: $1170 Studio Fee: $50
Code: D0812 Enrollment Limit 10
MEDIA & TECHNIQUES: Oil on canvas; collage elements are
acceptable.
*See page 40 for a full workshop description
MEDIA & TECHNIQUES: Watercolor and mixed media.
John Hull, Devil’s Canyon (detail)
Julie Heffernan & Annice Jacoby
July 13 - 17
Jeffrey Brosk, Garden Poem (detail)
CONCEPT: This intermediate water-media workshop will focus
on working in a large-scale format. Students will bring images
and an idea of the composition they want to work with and
then translate it to a large watercolor format.
Figure in the Landscape
Site & Story
CONCEPT: The aim of this workshop is to observe and paint
the landscape with an intense personal and conceptual focus.
Students will concentrate on the correspondence of place
and personal narrative, exploring the relationship between
a chosen point of observation and its deeper residence in
psyche and memory. Painting outdoors everyday from a
chosen vantage point, students will return to those places
throughout the week to coax a deeper story into being. In
the spirit of Gauguin, students will look to landscape for an
expression of personal myth. Each painter will consider what
aspects of their chosen motif in the landscape describes a
narrative of deeper observation. With additional readings, discussion and critique, the class will explore how landscape
reveals narrative; story as composition; place and purpose;
art and literature’s response to the harmony; and upheaval of
the natural world.
Jeffrey Brosk
Isa Catto Shaw, Of All the Stars (detail)
July 6 - 17
July 20 - 24
FACULTY: Isa Catto Shaw’s work has been widely exhibited
throughout the US and abroad. She has spent the last 13
years working in watercolor and mixed media and teaching workshops at art centers worldwide. She received her
BA from Williams College and studied at Parsons School of
Design in New York; the University of Colorado, Boulder; and
Anderson Ranch Arts Center.
FACULTY: Julie Heffernan is a painter based in New York City.
She exhibits her work internationally and is represented by
PPOW in New York, Catharine Clark in San Francisco, Mark
Moore in Los Angeles, Megumi Ogita in Tokyo, and Lisa Sette
in Scottsdale, Arizona. She is the recipient of many grants
including a National Academy Museum Grant, a New York
Foundation for the Arts Fellowship, a National Endowment
for the Arts Grant and a Fullbright Hayes Grant.
Annice Jacoby is a writer and artist. A major theme in her
work is the place of art in public life. This includes City of
Poets for the San Francisco Public Library, Watershed; and
River of Words, national campaigns celebrating writers and
the environment with Robert Hass. Formerly the public relations director for the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
and director of performing arts at the University of California,
Santa Cruz, Annice has created the opening performance at
the United Nations’ Hague Appeal for Peace. With support
from the National Endowment for the Arts and the California Arts Council, she has developed a collection of scholarly,
poetic, testimonial essays on muralism and artist activism.
July 20 - 24
Making Art:the fundamentals
Fo Wilson
MEDIA & TECHNIQUES: Oil or acrylic media. There will be an
emphasis on sketching, creating a structured palette, mixing
color and controlling the tonal structure of the painting.
ACTIVITIES: Students will create studies from painting the
figure in the landscape. These initial paintings may be
expanded in the landscape or developed into larger studio
works. Individual critiques, as well as lectures, will occur
during each class.
SKILL LEVEL: Level II – See page 18 for skill level descriptions.
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*See page 44 for a full workshop description