Anderson Ranch Arts Center Workshop Catalogs 2000-2009 | Page 15

Performance Practices 
Tania Bruguera   
Tuition: $765  Studio Fee: $50
Code: D0610  Enrollment Limit 8

include public murals for New York’s Grand Central Terminal
and the Whitman College’s Paul G. Allen Reading Room. He
has been awarded a commission to paint murals for both Fort
Pierce Federal Courthouse (GSA), and Miami Dade County,
New Children’s Courthouse (Art in Public Places). He won
the Prix de Rome in 1997, and was a Guggenheim Fellow
in 2001-2002. He has exhibited with Robert Miller Gallery
for over 20 years and his most recent exhibitions are with
Charles Cowles Gallery, New York.

July 21 - August 1

Pebble, Plant, View: abstraction
sources in nature

Holly Hughes   
Tuition: $995  Studio Fee: $50
Code: D0815  Enrollment Limit 10

July 21 - 25

Beginning Drawing 

2d painting and drawing

July 7 - 11

E.W. Ross   
Tania Bruguera, El Susurro de Tatlin III (performance art)

CONCEPT: We will be discussing, and demonstrating through
performance pieces, some of the pressing needs that beleaguer contemporary social structures. We will identify and
direct selected personal frustrations with aspects of contemporary society into creating new, virtual “jobs”. These performance “tasks” will be designed to work to resolve these
ignored social needs. The final project will be a group or individual performance piece.
MEDIA & TECHNIQUES: Media and techniques will be guided
by the content of the projects and could include our bodies, interactivity, sound and video. Some wood, cardboard,
cord, paint, tape, fabric and other materials as the project
unfolds.
ACTIVITIES: Public and private spaces will be activated. Students will be reading Bourriaud, Ranciere, Auge, Boudrillard, Bourdieu and Certau to set a context.
PREREQUISITES: An interest and commitment to art as a powerful means for communicating social issues.
FACULTY:  Tania Bruguera produces political artwork through
installations and performances. She graduated from the Instituto Superior de Arte in Havana and has an MFA from the
School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Her work has been
shown at several international exhibitions including Documenta 11 and the 49th and 51st Venice Bienalle, the Havana
V and VII Bienniel, the 23rd Sao Paolo Bienalle. Solo shows
include at the Kunsthalle Wien, Casa de las Americas, and
Museo de Bellas Artes. In 1998 she was a Guggenheim fellow and in 2000 was awarded the Prince Claus Prize.

Tuition: $765  Studio Fee: $50
Code: D0814  Enrollment Limit 10

E.W. Ross, Abstract Landscape in Red and Green (detail)

CONCEPT: Students will be introduced to the fundamentals of
drawing while working with a variety of dry media. Moving from
black & white to color, and through perceptual and imaginativebased drawing problems, students will explore line, shape, tone,
color and composition. Content and meaning of drawings will be
considered as well as formal issues. The week will culminate
with students creating a final series of drawings.
MEDIA & TECHNIQUES: Drawing materials include graphite,
conté crayon and oil pastels, and various types of papers.
ACTIVITIES:  Mornings will be spent generating numerous
studies that will then be developed into larger drawings in
the afternoon. Slide presentations, demonstrations and critiques are included.
PREREQUISITES:  For the beginning artist as well as the individual with more experience who desires the inspiration to
develop a personal studio practice.
FACULTY: E.W. Ross is a practicing and exhibiting artist from
Chicago. He is Dean of Continuing Studies at the School of
the Art Institute of Chicago, where he teaches drawing.

July 7 - 18

Paint & Collage: from small canvas

to large canvas

Holly Hughes, Modas Y Mas (detail)

CONCEPT: Open doors to personal expression and meaning.
This workshop uses natural objects, landscape, historical,
20th-century and contemporary art to glean information,
ideas, and strategies that will lead to explorations in the studio. Begin a custom image bank drawn from the natural world
and your responses to it. Choose from a menu of classic and
innovative projects and create abstractions and semi-abstract
landscapes in varied media. Share results of experiments
with color, form, composition and surface that will come from
fresh sources. Formulate research tools, gain hands-on skills,
investigate new terrain, and crack the nut of abstraction while
infusing your art with the vigor of actual visual experience.
MEDIA & TECHNIQUES: Various materials for drawing, works
on paper, paintings, mixed media. Students will choose paper
(primed, unprimed, sheets, rolls), canvas or panel. Experimental approaches and traditional mediums encouraged.
Large sketchbooks needed. Oil, acrylic, gouache.
ACTIVITIES:  Focused studio time and supportive group critiques, sharing discoveries within a “think tank” mindset, and
working indoors and outside with lots of one-on-one with the
instructor. Two or three off-site outings.
PREREQUISITES: Intermediate to advanced students with painting, drawing and/or mixed-media experience. Must posess a
desire to challenge oneself and to expand one’s artistic range.
Previous work need not be abstract.
FACULTY: Holly Hughes is a professor at Rhode Island School
of Design. Recent shows include those at Lenore Gray Gallery in Providence, Rhode Island, and Joyce Goldstien Gallery,
Chatham in New York. Her works can be found in collections
at Citibank, Pepsico, the Davis Musem at Wellesley, the Benziger Winery Collections, and elsewhere. Her work has been
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