Anderson Ranch Arts Center Workshop Catalogs 2000-2009 | Page 22
2d painting and drawing
CORE
class
Bureau Museum (Amsterdam), the Brooklyn Museum, the
Drawing Center (New York), Williams College Museum, PS1,
the Derek Eller Gallery (New York), the Luggage Store Gallery
and Gregory Lind Gallery (San Francisco). Schnell teaches at
the San Francisco Art Institute, California College of the Arts,
and UC Berkeley. She received her BFA from the San Francisco Art Institute, as well as attended a two-year fellowship
at De Ateliers, Amsterdam. In 2002, she was the recipient of
the Pollock-Krasner Foundation award for painting.
August 10 - 14
Drawing for Beginners
Gina Ruggeri
Tuition: $880 ARAC Actual Cost: $1080 Studio Fee: $50
Code: D1117 Enrollment Limit 9
August 17 - 21
Book Arts:rock, paper, wood
Daniel Essig
August 24 - 28
Book Arts:volumes, relics and curiosity
Daniel Essig
Daniel Essig, N’kisi BricolageTrout (detail)
*See page 44 for a full workshop description
Gina Ruggeri, Mossmound
CONCEPT: This course provides an introduction to drawing
fundamentals. Working in a variety of media, students will
explore the elements of drawing through subjects including
landscape, still-life and the human figure. Emphasis is placed
on a perceptual approach to drawing, with the aim of improving the student’s ability to expressively translate the visible
world onto the page.
August 24 - 28
Web Design for Artists
Pamela Beverly-Quigley
Daniel Essig, Chained Book (detail)
MEDIA & TECHNIQUES: We will use a variety of dry and wet
media including charcoal, graphite and ink.
*See page 44 for a full workshop description
ACTIVITIES: We will draw from life outdoors. In the studio,
we will participate in group critiques of our work and study
examples of artists’ drawings that relate to the curriculum.
August 24 - 28
SKILL LEVEL: Level I – See page 18 for skill level descriptions.
FACULTY: Gina Ruggeri lives and works in New York City. She
has an MFA from the Yale School of Art and a BFA from the
Maryland Institute College of Art. Gina teaches drawing at
Vassar College, and has shown her work in several solo and
group exhibitions in the US and abroad.
CORE
class
Encaustic Painting: layering collage
and content
Pamela Beverly-Quigley, Alphabet for Tolerance (detail)
*See page 17 for a full workshop description
K Rhynus Cesark
Tuition: $840 ARAC Actual Cost: $1040 Studio Fee: $100
Code: D1320 Enrollment Limit 14
September 7 - 18
Studio Intensive: painting and critique
Harmony Hammond
Tuition: $1320 ARAC Actual Cost: $1720 Studio Fee: $50
Code: D1521 Enrollment Limit 14
August 17 - 21
Color Meets 2D & 3D Collage
Jovi Schnell
Tuition: $905 ARAC Actual Cost: $1105 Studio Fee: $50
Code: D1219 Enrollment Limit 9
K Rhynus Cesark, Untitled
CONCEPT: This workshop will survey both current and historical techniques in encaustic painting. Students will be encouraged to experiment using encaustic on a variety of 2D and/or
3D surfaces utilizing mixed media and collage. Through demonstrations, individual and group critiques, students will have
an opportunity to track the development of their art practice.
The use of narrative within encaustic painting will be explored
in conjunction with the technical approaches introduced. Students are invited to invent, explore, expand and layer their
ideas through this versatile and seductive medium.
Jovi Schnell, Ode to Pluto-Fuge in Minor Planet #134340 (detail)
CONCEPT: With a focus on color and collage that extends into
experiments with 3D constructions, this workshop concentrates on the development of works where color forms content. Exploring the fundamentals of color theory, its terminologies and key concepts, this workshop will survey approaches
to color via the work of artists from the Impressionist era
to the present. Technical guidance will serve to meet each
individual’s practice and aspirations. The primary goal of this
workshop is to promote confidence towards experimentation
with new materials. Students are encouraged to combine
non-traditional approaches to the traditional concepts of landscape, fig