Massachusetts College of Art and Design | Continuing Education | Summer 2008 Courses

DESCRIPTION
Begin painting in this exploration of new and traditional directions and techniques, primarily in oil. The basis of the course is studio work (including use of models), supported by lectures and demonstrations. Attention is given to color and composition theory, and the study of form, space and light. Previous experience with drawing helpful.

INSTRUCTOR
Christopher Chippendale is Associate Professor of Painting at MassArt. He holds a BA from Marlboro College; a BFA from MassArt, and an MFA, Boston University School of Visual Arts. His awards include: Saint Botolph Club Foundation Grant, 2000; Blanche E. Colman Award, 1997. Recent exhibitions include: "Prevailing Tides", South Shore Art Center, Cohasset, MA, Gallery Sopafina, Boston, and "Artists for the 21st Century", Concord Art Association, Concord, MA.

DESCRIPTION
This painting studio is for the student who wants an intensive day long studio experience. The class provides individual instruction at all levels of experience and knowledge. Students work within a continuum from realism to abstraction. Formal concerns are emphasized and tied to personal expression. Also includes use of model. Class critiques, slide talks and field trips enrich the painting experience. Pre-requisite: Some painting and drawing experience is helpful.

INSTRUCTOR
Sharon Dunn is Professor of Studio Foundation at MassArt. She holds a BFA from Boston University and a MSVS from MIT. Solo and group exhibitions include: Mobius, "Women’s Work" Banyon Gallery, North Carolina, and "Caribbean and West African Influences," Own/ Patrick Gallery, Philadelphia, among others.

DESCRIPTION
This painting studio is for the student who wants an intensive day long studio experience. The class provides individual instruction at all levels of experience and knowledge. Students work within a continuum from realism to abstraction. Formal concerns are emphasized and tied to personal expression. Also includes use of model. Class critiques, slide talks and field trips enrich the painting experience. Pre-requisite: Some painting and drawing experience is helpful.

INSTRUCTOR
Sharon Dunn is Professor of Studio Foundation at MassArt. She holds a BFA from Boston University and a MSVS from MIT. Solo and group exhibitions include: Mobius, "Women’s Work" Banyon Gallery, North Carolina, and "Caribbean and West African Influences," Own/ Patrick Gallery, Philadelphia, among others.

DESCRIPTION
This painting studio is for the student who wants an intensive day long studio experience. The class provides individual instruction at all levels of experience and knowledge. Students work within a continuum from realism to abstraction. Formal concerns are emphasized and tied to personal expression. Also includes use of model. Class critiques, slide talks and field trips enrich the painting experience. Pre-requisite: Some painting and drawing experience is helpful.

INSTRUCTOR
Sharon Dunn is Professor of Studio Foundation at MassArt. She holds a BFA from Boston University and a MSVS from MIT. Solo and group exhibitions include: Mobius, "Women’s Work" Banyon Gallery, North Carolina, and "Caribbean and West African Influences," Own/ Patrick Gallery, Philadelphia, among others.

DESCRIPTION
The figure is one of the most meaningful and compelling subjects in art. In this course we will look at the body in all its complexity and subtlety and search for simple, yet accurate means to state it in paint. Examining fundamental ways of getting angles and proportions correct provides a structure for individual and personal approaches to paint handling. We will seek to relate the figure to the space it occupies, primarily by being truthful to the tonal and color relationships that are the building blocks of painting from observation. One painting per week done outside of class is required. Oil paint is the suggested medium.

INSTRUCTOR
Catherine Kehoe’s work is represented by the Howard Yezerski Gallery in Boston. Kehoe studied in the Yale Norfolk program and holds a BFA in painting from MassArt and an MFA in painting from Boston University. She is the recipient of a Pollock-Krasner grant, two Blanche Colman awards, a Berkshire Taconic ART grant, a St. Botolph Club Foundation grant and a Golden Foundation grant. www.catherinekehoe.com

DESCRIPTION
This course is a study of the process of making luminous painting in the style of the Flemish masters (Hugo Vander Goes, the Van Eycks & Dirk Bouts). The first half is devoted to exercises for understanding stages of the technique underpainting on a gesso ground; methods of applying layers of egg tempera; oil resin glazes. Thereafter, students apply Renaissance techniques to their own subjects. No prerequisites.

INSTRUCTOR
David Small is a painter who holds a BFA from University of Massachusetts, Amherst, and an MFA from MassArt. His work has been exhibited internationally including: Mills Gallery, Boston Center for the Arts, Brockton Art Museum Triennial, Castle Scholz-Reichenau, Austria, Franklin Silverstone Gallery, Montreal, 1990; and Vanderbilt University.

DESCRIPTION
This mixed media course focuses on integrating texture and sculptural relief in painting. Students will experiment with traditional and nontraditional materials (plaster, sand, paper mache, found objects, etc.) to build tactile two-dimensional surfaces. Each student will choose a theme and develop it by experimenting with a variety of paint applications and formulas.

INSTRUCTOR
Jessica Held is a mixed media painter who received her BFA from the UMass/Amherst, and an MFA from Indiana University. Her recent painting awards include: a NASL Visual Arts Competition Finalist Award and Rosemary Fraser Merit Award. She studied painting in Italy and France. Exhibitions include "Build-Up" Indiana University Art Museum, Bloomington, IA, "Vibrations" Merwin Gallery, Wesleyan University, Bloomington, IL. jessheld.com

SPECIAL SCHEDULE
Jun 12 & 26: Th, 6:30-9:30p at MassArt;
Jun 14, 15, 21, 22: Sa/Su, 1-7p at the Arboretum

DESCRIPTION
In this intensive landscape painting class, we will take advantage of the long days to paint in natural light. We will concentrate on simplifying complex vistas into shapes, paying attention to tonal and color-temperature relationships. Students will be encouraged to work rapidly with large brushes and palette knives. During the evening sessions we will look at contemporary and historical landscape painters, and discuss tools and procedures unique to painting outdoors. In the second evening we will review the paintings produced and discuss future projects and directions for each student. We will paint in the Arnold Arboretum in Jamaica Plain. Evening classes will be held at MassArt.

INSTRUCTOR
Nancy McCarthy’s work is represented by the William-Scott Gallery in Provincetown. She holds a BFA from MassArt and an MFA from the Art Institute of Boston. Exhibitions include Simmons College, Boston, Bromfield Gallery, Boston, MFA Circle Gallery, Annapolis, MD, First Street Gallery, NY, NY, Bowery Gallery, NY. Awards include: Artist’s Grant, Vermont Studio Center and a Ragdale Foundation Fellowship. Her work can be viewed at: www.nancymccarthy.net.

DESCRIPTION
This course explores the fundamental techniques of transparent watercolor media, such as wet on wet, drybrush, glazing and knowledge of painting tools. Emphasis is on color vocabulary development, exploring composition, and the history of watercolor painting.

INSTRUCTOR
Kofi Kayiga is Professor of Painting at MassArt. He holds a BFA from Jamaica School of Art and an MFA from the Royal College of Art. His exhibitions include Dallas Museum of Art, Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston; Museum of the National Center of Afro-American Artists; High Museum; Milwaukee Art Museum; Museum of Fine Art, Richmond, VA; and Fuller Art Museum.

DESCRIPTION
This course explores the essence of painting, sorting out the meaning and language of abstraction, and the techniques which give rise to original ideas. The understanding of the meaning of abstraction gives strength and energy to all other types of media, from computer art to design. The class is designed for all levels of ability and experience. Acrylics are preferred for their versatility and adaptability to different application techniques and surfaces.

INSTRUCTOR
David Tandy holds a BA from Chelsea School of Art, London, and an MFA from MassArt. He has had numerous solo exhibitions in Boston, New York, London, Europe and most recently in Cyprus, 2006. View his work at http://tandy.gdsconnect.com

DESCRIPTION
This two-day workshop emphasizes the practice of landscape painting within a continuum from realism to abstraction. After an introductory group meeting, students paint on their own in watercolor or oil at any of the many beautiful sites in the Cape Neddick-York area of Southern Maine. A lively group critique at the end of each day thoroughly examines every painting. Participants should bring a folding chair and/or easel along with art supplies. Obtain directions and information about reasonable off-season rates from Continuing Education. Contact the instructor for clarification and advice. Students wishing to obtain credit may use the hours of this workshop toward an independent study arranged with the instructor. Class begins at 10:30am on Saturday.

INSTRUCTOR
Jeremy Foss is Professor Emeritus of Painting and Drawing at MassArt, where he taught painting majors along with electives in drawing and landscape painting. He holds a BA from Middlebury College and a CFA from the Ruskin School of Art at Oxford University. Exhibitions of his work include one-person shows at Tibor DeNagy , NY, and Victoria Munroe in Boston. Group exhibitions include "Landscape as Metaphor" at the Fitchburg Art Museum; "Landscape Today," Molly Barnes Gallery; NY; "Landscape from Memory, Imagination or Reality," Ruth Siegel Gallery, NY, and "In the Spirit of Landscape, " Nielsen Gallery, Boston.

DESCRIPTION
This painting studio is for the student who wants an intensive day long studio experience. The class provides individual instruction at all levels of experience and knowledge. Students work within a continuum from realism to abstraction. Formal concerns are emphasized and tied to personal expression. Also includes use of model. Class critiques, slide talks and field trips enrich the painting experience. Pre-requisite: Some painting and drawing experience is helpful.

INSTRUCTOR
Sharon Dunn is Professor of Studio Foundation at MassArt. She holds a BFA from Boston University and a MSVS from MIT. Solo and group exhibitions include: Mobius, "Women’s Work" Banyon Gallery, North Carolina, and "Caribbean and West African Influences," Own/ Patrick Gallery, Philadelphia, among others.

DESCRIPTION
This painting studio is for the student who wants an intensive day long studio experience. The class provides individual instruction at all levels of experience and knowledge. Students work within a continuum from realism to abstraction. Formal concerns are emphasized and tied to personal expression. Also includes use of model. Class critiques, slide talks and field trips enrich the painting experience. Pre-requisite: Some painting and drawing experience is helpful.

INSTRUCTOR
Sharon Dunn is Professor of Studio Foundation at MassArt. She holds a BFA from Boston University and a MSVS from MIT. Solo and group exhibitions include: Mobius, "Women’s Work" Banyon Gallery, North Carolina, and "Caribbean and West African Influences," Own/ Patrick Gallery, Philadelphia, among others.

DESCRIPTION
The figure is one of the most meaningful and compelling subjects in art. In this course we will look at the body in all its complexity and subtlety and search for simple, yet accurate means to state it in paint. Examining fundamental ways of getting angles and proportions correct provides a structure for individual and personal approaches to paint handling. We will seek to relate the figure to the space it occupies, primarily by being truthful to the tonal and color relationships that are the building blocks of painting from observation. One painting per week done outside of class is required. Oil paint is the suggested medium.

INSTRUCTOR
Catherine Kehoe’s work is represented by the Howard Yezerski Gallery in Boston. Kehoe studied in the Yale Norfolk program and holds a BFA in painting from MassArt and an MFA in painting from Boston University. She is the recipient of a Pollock-Krasner grant, two Blanche Colman awards, a Berkshire Taconic ART grant, a St. Botolph Club Foundation grant and a Golden Foundation grant. www.catherinekehoe.com

DESCRIPTION
This mixed media course focuses on integrating texture and sculptural relief in painting. Students will experiment with traditional and nontraditional materials (plaster, sand, paper mache, found objects, etc.) to build tactile two-dimensional surfaces. Each student will choose a theme and develop it by experimenting with a variety of paint applications and formulas.

INSTRUCTOR
Jessica Held is a mixed media painter who received her BFA from the UMass/Amherst, and an MFA from Indiana University. Her recent painting awards include: a NASL Visual Arts Competition Finalist Award and Rosemary Fraser Merit Award. She studied painting in Italy and France. Exhibitions include "Build-Up" Indiana University Art Museum, Bloomington, IA, "Vibrations" Merwin Gallery, Wesleyan University, Bloomington, IL. jessheld.com