Studio Sessions
This summer the 2-week Sessions and the Advanced Academy will complement the artistic questions raised by Humanism and Enigma: The Art of Honoré Sharrer, a figurative artist who embellishes her portraits and paintings with wonderful images that come from her imagination. Students are faced everyday with a related concern over where the line is drawn in using their computers to enhance their own compositions, written or visual.The artists and educators will help them recognize the differences in and possibilities of reality, myth and fiction.
June 19-30 | Session I
Why We Create
A Film, An Artist, Taking it Personally
Students will begin their exploration of the Sharrer
exhibition and get training in how to relate to the
topics of borrowing images (appropriation) changing
images (embellishing), and telling the whole truth
(no name for this as it so rarely happens). Artists
Beatrix Ost, Stacey Evans, and John Bylander will
lead these studio sessions and show the students
how to access successful images that resemble the
real thing.
July 10-21 | Session II
Resolving the Conundrum
We will continue the exploration of where the lines
are drawn between truth and fiction, delving deeper
into the heart of the matter, while exploring the
boundaries in appropriating images, which Robert
Rauchenberg and Marcel Duchamp made popular,
and reinventing themselves like Madonna and
photographer Cindy Sherman. Such experiences
will help the students formulate strategies to
navigate between contemporary technological
advances and traditional modes of creativity.
We will using be different methods of addressing
the issues from the first session.
July 31-Aug.4 | Advanced Academy
This one week session is open to any student who has previously attended Summer Arts and wants to explore in depth an aspect of image making, such as portrait painting, photography or printmaking, resulting in several portfolio pieces