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Paul Collins, Delancy Dudes

Jackie Gendel, In a Flurry (detail)

Dahlia Elsayed, Hermit (detail)

June 25 - 29

June 25 - 29

July 2 - 6

Color & Form in Oil 
Paul Collins
Skill Level:  I
Concept:  This workshop introduces the fundamentals of oil painting with particular focus
on seeing and depicting color and form. We
begin with a thorough overview of materials and techniques: color mixing, brush care,
palette maintenance, medium usage and studio safety. Students benefit from one-on-one
instruction as well as group demonstrations.
Through daily class discussions we continually address content strategies and concepts,
allowing beginners to find their voices through
this magnificent medium.
Media & Techniques:  Oil paint, oil media
and pencil; color-mixing, lighting and perception, plein air painting, equipment care and
selection.
Activities:  The first day is reserved for an
extensive technical overview of materials and
supplies available to the oil painter. The rest of
the week features limited assignments in the
morning, self-guided work in the afternoons,
and daily group discussion at 4 pm.

Experimental Narrative
Painting 
Jackie Gendel
Skill Level:  II
Concept:  This workshop explores painting
“unhinged” between abstraction and narrative.
Students create narrative content between different painting modalities, emphasizing palette,
chance procedures and notational language.
The class also covers many issues like intuition, chance/accident, control, reductive and
generative modes of abstraction and appropriating different narrative idioms (comic strips,
portraiture, collage and surrealist techniques).
Media & Techniques: Oil-based media.
Activities: Each student completes a series of
paintings and makes thumbnails and studies.
The group discusses narrative themes and provides critique and feedback.

Faculty: Paul Collins is a painter from Brooklyn,
New York. He has taught at the Rhode Island
School of Design and shown his work at various galleries in New York and San Francisco. A
graduate of Yale (MFA) and Skowhegan, Paul
currently teaches painting at the University of
Tennessee in Clarksville.

www.paulpaul.com

Faculty: Jackie Gendel has had solo exhibitions
in New York at Jeff Bailey Gallery, Moti Hasson
Gallery, Jessica Murray Projects. She has been
an artist-in-residence at the University of Tennessee, the Atlantic Center for the Arts and
the MacDowell Colony. In 2007 she received
an Award in Art from the American Academy
of Arts and Letters. Her work belongs to many
public and private collections including the
Wadsworth Athenaeum and the Progressive
Art Collection, and has been written about in
Art in America, Art Papers, The New Yorker,
The New York Sun and The New York Times.

www.bryanmillergallery.com/artists/jackie-gendel/

Tuition: $920 OR Tuition + Studio Support Donation: $1120
Studio Fee: $75 Code: D0407 Enrollment Limit 10

Tuition: $920 OR Tuition + Studio Support Donation: $1120
Studio Fee: $75 Code: D0408 Enrollment Limit 10

Text & Image 
Dahlia Elsayed
Skill Level:  Open to all
Concept: How does text augment a visual narrative? What are the best compositional strategies for a given work? Explore the fluid boundaries between visual art and writing, and discover
the power of the fusion of text and image. The
class experiments with the combined impact of
words alongside or integrated into image, from
the meaning of the words themselves to the
way they are visually depicted. Using personal
writing or found text, make work that incorporates text into visual art through painting, drawing or installation that moves deeper into the
possibilities of artistic practice.
Media & Techniques:  Painting and drawing
using diverse media.
Activities: The workshop begins with a look at
artists who use text, followed by group discussions. We concentrate on producing work with
daily critiques.
Faculty: Dahlia Elsayed’s paintings, prints and
artist’s books have been shown throughout
the US and internationally including solo exhibitions at Clementine Gallery and the Jersey City
Museum. Her work is in the public collections
of the US Department of State, Johnson &
Johnson Corporation, the Jersey City Museum
and the Newark Museum, among others. Dahlia
has received awards from the Joan Mitchell
Foundation, the Edward Albee Foundation,
Visual Studies Workshop, Women’s Studio
Workshop, Headlands Center for the Arts and
the New Jersey State Council on the Arts.

www.dahliaelsayed.com

Tuition: $920 OR Tuition + Studio Support Donation: $1120
Studio Fee: $75 Code: D0509 Enrollment Limit 10
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