Adult Classes
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Monday PM Clay Handbuilding- Mixed Level SOLD OUT
with Elizabeth BuccinoMondays, 6- 8 pm, January 11- February 22Monday PM Clay Handbuilding- Mixed Level SOLD OUT
with Elizabeth BuccinoMondays, 6- 8 pm, January 11- February 22Tuition: $350. Materials: $60
Materials Included
ALL LEVELS WELCOME. Elizabeth will introduce and demonstrate a variety of handbuilding techniques needed to create your own functional and/or sculptural ceramic works. Simple decorative techniques and glazing will also be explored. Experienced students will continue building their skills and developing ideas while exploring more challenging techniques. Bring your ideas and Elizabeth will help you reach your goal!
ELIZABETH BUCCINO graduated from Maryland Institute, College of Art in 1999 with a BFA in Sculptural Studies and Art Education. While in Baltimore, she volunteered with The Police Athletic League in their After School Outreach Program, interned with Baltimore Museum of Art’s education department, and worked as a studio assistant for a local sculptor. Since moving to the island in 2002, she joined the Artists Association as an exhibiting artist member, became involved as an instructor in the after school ceramics program, and currently runs multiple educational programs as the AAN’s Youth Programming Director & Ceramics Manager. www.elizabethbuccinoceramics.comThere are NO REFUNDS for cancellations made less than 14 days before the class/workshop begins, or for any classes the student does not attend.Tuition and fees are refundable less a $100 cancellation fee if the cancellation is made 14 days or more prior to the scheduled date of the class or workshop.There are no make-ups or refunds for missed classes.Refunds will be given for any class/workshop that is canceled by AAN or the instructor. -
Monday PM Wheelthrowing: Beginner SOLD OUT
with Jodi LevesqueMondays, 6-8 pm, January 11- February 22Monday PM Wheelthrowing: Beginner SOLD OUT
with Jodi LevesqueMondays, 6-8 pm, January 11- February 22Tuition: $350. Materials: $60
Explore the potter's wheel in this challenging, but fun class. Instructor, Jodi Levesque,will demonstrate all of the basic steps needed to create your own functional vessels on the pottery wheel. Wedging, centering, and throwing small forms will all be covered, as well as handle-making and simple decorative techniques for personalizing your work.
There are NO REFUNDS for cancellations made less than 14 days before the class/workshop begins, or for any classes the student does not attend.Tuition and fees are refundable less a $100 cancellation fee if the cancellation is made 14 days or more prior to the scheduled date of the class or workshop.There are no make-ups or refunds for missed classes.Refunds will be given for any class/workshop that is canceled by AAN or the instructor. -
Printmaking Open Studio
with Leyah Jensen MarshallMondays, 3 - 5pm, January 11 - February 8Printmaking Open Studio
with Leyah Jensen MarshallMondays, 3 - 5pm, January 11 - February 8Tuition: $250
All Materials Included ALL LEVELS WELCOME. Enjoy time in the printmaking studio creating new plates and prints, or developing existing work. Leyah shares her knowledge of classic printmaking techniques, while inviting the element of surprise to print unique monotypes. This art form is liberating for artists of all media and levels, to explore their art practice by producing the maximum amount of images with a minimum effort, printing series or variations. Printmaking techniques offered in this class are wood cut, lino block, jelly prints, intaglio-plexiglass, monoprints, and solar plate.LEYAH JENSEN MARSHALL holds a BFA Honors degree from the Rhode Island School of Design. Her fine art studies have taken her worldwide, from acclaimed institutions like the Danish Design School and Pacific Northwest College of Art, to artist residencies in India, Haiti, and Nepal. She is the recipient of distinguished honors including the National Gold Medal in Art & Design (VICA), New York Book Show 1st Place Winner, the New York Times #1 Bestselling Pop-Up Book, to the Chase Plein-Air Award. Locally, Leyah enjoys sharing her broad fluency in art mediums through teaching, while working as a fine artist and children's book creator in Nantucket.
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ONLINE: Luminous Pastels
with Dina GardnerTuesdays, 4- 6 pm, January 12- February 2ONLINE: Luminous Pastels
with Dina GardnerTuesdays, 4- 6 pm, January 12- February 2Tuition: $250 Dina Gardner is an award-winning pastelist who makes learning fun and easy. Sharing her love of the pastel medium, she teaches simple techniques to build pastel skills and help you achieve color harmony, aerial perspective, and luminosity. When you sign up, you will receive a pdf version of “101 Best Practice Fundamentals of Pastel Painting,” Dina’s compilation of the most important and valuable concepts she has learned during her pastel journey, and other printable handouts during the week that are designed to help you enhance your pastel practice and push through to your next level of mastery. Dina will demonstrate each of her methods, and include time for answering your questions and discussing all concepts. Whether you choose to paint along or simply watch and listen, you will enjoy joining this supportive and informative weekly class. Week 1: Dina teaches the essential concepts of aerial perspective, values, planes, composition and visual pathways, and will demonstrate her two different underpainting styles that serve to build a strong foundation for your pastel underpainting. Week 2: Dina focuses on color harmony, light logic, mark making. She will demonstrate effective techniques for overpainting, by showing you how to create values by working from dark to light to develop a distinct light source that conveys both form and cast shadows. Week 3: Dina leads a group discussion to analyze what did or didn’t work in your pastel painting from the previous weeks, and will answer all your questions about the under/overpainting process. She will share her comprehensive pastel painting checklist, before demonstrating the critical end stages of pastel painting: using more specific mark making, the importance of the final strokes, and how to apply fixatives to add texture. Week 4: Class concludes with a feedback session Dina has designed to share valuable insights for each of your pieces, while benefiting the whole group. She will also save time to address all your remaining pastel questions to help guide the success of your pastel painting practice. SUPPLY LIST: Paper: One pad has 10 sheets and is more than enough for this course.Pastels: If you are new to pastels you will need a set of hard Nupastels (either the 12 or 24 stick set.) You will also need a set of soft pastels. Terry Ludwig is the brand I use but you can also buy one of the Dick Blick brands below.Nupastels set of 12 or 24Soft Pastels: Terry Ludwig’s or Dick Blick brand:( or a more robust set if it fits into your budget. I am available for any questions students have on selection prior to purchasing.)(15 sticks)(30 sticks)Fixative (optional)https://www.dickblick.com/products/blair-spray-matte- fixative/ Cancellation and Refund Policy:
PROCESSING FEE: A nonrefundable $100 processing fee is included in each tuition.
ENROLLMENT CANCELLATION: If you need to cancel your enrollment, please notify the AAN Education Department 14 days prior to the class start date to receive your partial refund.
ABSENCE: Although we are not able to prorate programming or offer make up days, prior knowledge of your absence is extremely helpful to our instructors.
FULL REFUNDS: The AAN will issue full refunds when programming is cancelled due to low enrollments or state mandated business closure.
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Tuesday Evening Oil Painting I
with Elizabeth CongdonTuesdays, 6-8 pm, January 12 to February 9Tuesday Evening Oil Painting I
with Elizabeth CongdonTuesdays, 6-8 pm, January 12 to February 9Tuition: $200
Optional Material Fee: $50
All Levels Welcome
Paint whatever subject you like! Start something new, finish something old, develop your style, or challenge yourself to tackle a certain subject with Elizabeth as she shares over three decades of oil painting experience in this supportive studio class. This is your chance to create the class you want to take, and paint what you want to paint. While you pursue your interests, you will also benefit from a class setting where a wide range of oil painting’s nuts and bolts are discussed. You may work from photo references or abstraction, observing from life or copying a master work, have set goals or take things week by week. Along with one-on-one instruction, you will receive a weekly follow up email for artistic inspiration to help support your painting aspirations. ELIZABETH CONGDON is a painterly realist who earned her BA in Art at the University of California at Santa Cruz, and studied classical realism in Florence at Studio Cecil-Graves. She is a longtime AAN artist member, known for her floral still lifes and landscapes oil paintings. In Rhode Island, Congdon co-founded the Jamestown Arts Center and produced a documentary film on a site-specific Nutcracker Ballet. Recently, Congdon graduated from Laguna College of Art and Design’s MFA Program with honors and was awarded the teaching fellowship. Congdon is represented by Robert Foster Fine Art Gallery, and currently serves as AAN’s Director of Adult Programming. www.elizabethcongdonart.comCancellation and Refund Policy:
PROCESSING FEE: A nonrefundable $100 processing fee is included in each tuition.
ENROLLMENT CANCELLATION: If you need to cancel your enrollment, please notify the AAN Education Department 14 days prior to the class start date to receive your partial refund.
ABSENCE: Although we are not able to prorate programming or offer make up days, prior knowledge of your absence is extremely helpful to our instructors.
FULL REFUNDS: The AAN will issue full refunds when programming is cancelled due to low enrollments or state mandated business closure.
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Tuesday Evening Wheelthrowing: Intermediate/Advanced SOLD OUT
with Taylor CullenTuesdays, 6-8 pm, January 12- February 23Tuesday Evening Wheelthrowing: Intermediate/Advanced SOLD OUT
with Taylor CullenTuesdays, 6-8 pm, January 12- February 23Tuition: $350. Materials: $60
An Intermediate/Advanced level class, taught by Taylor Cullen, is catered to our experienced wheel throwers. Students should already be comfortable centering at least 3 lbs of clay, and able to throw cylinders and small bowls independently.
There are NO REFUNDS for cancellations made less than 14 days before the class/workshop begins, or for any classes the student does not attend.Tuition and fees are refundable less a $100 cancellation fee if the cancellation is made 14 days or more prior to the scheduled date of the class or workshop.There are no make-ups or refunds for missed classes.Refunds will be given for any class/workshop that is canceled by AAN or the instructor. -
Painting & Drawing Open Studio
with Elizabeth CongdonWednesdays, 3-5 pm, January 13-February 10Painting & Drawing Open Studio
with Elizabeth CongdonWednesdays, 3-5 pm, January 13-February 10Tuition: $200
optional material fee: $50 All Levels Welcome Join this Open Studio for inspiration, experimentation, and skill building. You may choose to bring your own materials or use our collection of drawing materials to work in whatever way suits you. Elizabeth will be on hand to teach painting and drawing fundamentals such as perspective, composition, light logic, and color mixing. Come and develop your skills and work on your own individual goals whether you are working from life or photo references, developing one work of art, or are interested in experimenting with a wide range of media. ELIZABETH CONGDON is a painterly realist who earned her BA in Art at the University of California at Santa Cruz, and studied classical realism in Florence at Studio Cecil-Graves. She is a longtime AAN artist member, known for her floral still lifes and landscapes oil paintings. In Rhode Island, Congdon co-founded the Jamestown Arts Center and produced a documentary film on a site-specific Nutcracker Ballet. Recently, Congdon graduated from Laguna College of Art and Design’s MFA Program with honors and was awarded the teaching fellowship. Congdon is represented by Robert Foster Fine Art Gallery, and currently serves as AAN’s Director of Adult Programming. www.elizabethcongdonart.comCancellation and Refund Policy:
PROCESSING FEE: A nonrefundable $100 processing fee is included in each tuition.
ENROLLMENT CANCELLATION: If you need to cancel your enrollment, please notify the AAN Education Department 14 days prior to the class start date to receive your partial refund.
ABSENCE: Although we are not able to prorate programming or offer make up days, prior knowledge of your absence is extremely helpful to our instructors.
FULL REFUNDS: The AAN will issue full refunds when programming is cancelled due to low enrollments or state mandated business closure.
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Thursday PM Wheelthrowing: Mixed Level SOLD OUT
with Taylor CullenThursdays 6- 8 pm, January 14- February 25Thursday PM Wheelthrowing: Mixed Level SOLD OUT
with Taylor CullenThursdays 6- 8 pm, January 14- February 25Tuition: $350. Materials: $60
Explore the potter's wheel in this challenging, but fun class. Instructor Taylor Cullen will demonstrate all of the basic steps needed to create your own functional vessels on the pottery wheel. Wedging, centering, and throwing small forms will all be covered, as well as handle-making and simple decorative techniques for personalizing your work.
There are NO REFUNDS for cancellations made less than 14 days before the class/workshop begins, or for any classes the student does not attend.Tuition and fees are refundable less a $100 cancellation fee if the cancellation is made 14 days or more prior to the scheduled date of the class or workshop.There are no make-ups or refunds for missed classes.Refunds will be given for any class/workshop that is canceled by AAN or the instructor. -
Thursday AM Wheelthrowing: Mixed Level
with Karol LindquistThursdays, 9:30-11:30am, January 14- February 25Thursday AM Wheelthrowing: Mixed Level
with Karol LindquistThursdays, 9:30-11:30am, January 14- February 25Tuition: $350. Materials: $60
All levels welcome. Explore the potter's wheel in this challenging but fun class. Instructor Karol Lindquist will demonstrate all of the basics steps needed to create your own functional vessels on the pottery wheel. Wedging, centering, and throwing small forms will all be covered, as well as handle-making and simple decorative techniques for personalizing your work. Intermediate and advanced levels students will continue building their skills while exploring more challenging techniques and troubleshooting.
There are NO REFUNDS for cancellations made less than 14 days before the class/workshop begins, or for any classes the student does not attend.Tuition and fees are refundable less a $100 cancellation fee if the cancellation is made 14 days or more prior to the scheduled date of the class or workshop.There are no make-ups or refunds for missed classes.Refunds will be given for any class/workshop that is canceled by AAN or the instructor. -
ONLINE: Thursday Crit
with Elizabeth CongdonThursday, January, 4 pm - 6 pmONLINE: Thursday Crit
with Elizabeth CongdonThursday, January, 4 pm - 6 pmSuggested drop-in fee: $20 to $10 donation
We ask that you pay what you can based on a sliding scale on registration page.
Your Zoom link for this meeting is: Artists Association of Nantucket is inviting you to a scheduled Zoom meeting for Thursday Crit. All levels and media Explore creative possibilities for your work in a supportive group setting. Our collective ponder seeks to give a fresh perspective to help artists develop their ideas and push through challenges. The two hour session is divided equally among artists. As a presenter, you may gear the discussion to meet your specific needs by sharing your artworks’ state of completion or “finish,” as well as your intentions, technical difficulties, and levels of satisfaction/dissatisfaction. Feedback is given in the spirit of curiosity by expressing optional actions with “could,” and avoiding narrow directives of “should.” The focus is on visual opportunity and developing various ways to look at your own work objectively. We will also share methods and materials. Issues like labelling, likeability, or saleability will not be addressed. We will embrace all possibilities to guide and inspire great art making with open and compassionate minds. We encourage artists of all levels and who work in any media to join us, especially if you are building a portfolio for artists membership at the AAN, gallery representation, or a special arts program. OUR ONLINE FORMAT: To efficiently navigate Zoom, our format will utilize the mute option. Participating artists are asked to raise their hands for questions and comments. Presenting artists may ask follow up questions. As crit leader, I will reserve most of my feedback for the conclusion of each presenting artist’s time and keep the conversation on track. After you sign up, send up to 4 images to elizabeth@nantucketarts.org by 3pm on Thursday, January 14th to receive the Zoom Meeting link. Please come on time, and stay for the duration of the session.ELIZABETH CONGDON is an oil painter best known for her floral still lifes and plein-air landscapes. She received her BA in Art at University of California at Santa Cruz, and her MFA with honors in Painting at Laguna College of Art and Design. She grew up in New York City, and later moved to Jamestown, RI, where she co-founded the Jamestown Arts Center. She has been a member of the AAN since 1998, and now is the Director of Adult Programming. She is represented on Nantucket by Robert Foster Fine Art.
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ONLINE: Support Class: Your Artwork is Our Guide
with Bernd HaussmannSaturdays, 10 am-12 pm, January 16 - February 20ONLINE: Support Class: Your Artwork is Our Guide
with Bernd HaussmannSaturdays, 10 am-12 pm, January 16 - February 20Tuition: $700
“Art is a powerful tool to help us connect with our true selves,
to learn and to practice what is meaningful to us
and to communicate our findings to others.” ~ Bernd Haussmann
Artists working in ALL media, forms, and levels WELCOME Join Bernd Haussmann for a workshop centered around your practice and your work, the work that you make and the work that you are. Bernd will address the story that you are compelled to explore and to share in your work, as he reviews and discusses works in progress, ideas to be tackled, finished work the artist is (not) satisfied with, making reference to art and culture, human history, philosophy and nature, and more with the group. Because this is a workshop open to artists of all levels and mediums, technical aspects and particular methods only will be focussed upon when the whole group will benefit. The work of each student will guide the sessions, providing a healthy environment and stimulating sanctuary for everyone’s thoughts, explorations, and investigations. Your work is the guide for our sessions. Everyone is an active equal participant in that process. You are invited to present finished or in progress work, and ideas to be tackled in work created right before the workshop begins, and throughout the full 6 weeks. Each of these 6 weeks, you will send medium resolution digital images to Bernd at least 2 days in advance of class and receive individual feedback via email. All images will be shared and discussed as a group in a 2 hour weekly meeting on Zoom, as the group practices mindful meditation exercises and creates a supportive space for learning and creating. BERND HAUSSMANN is a German-born abstract artist, now living as a US resident in the north shore of Boston and western Maine. Haussmann’s work is internationally exhibited, and hangs in numerous private, corporate, and museum collections around the world. He has also taught at several American universities and colleges, and teaches mindfulness workshops in Iceland, Germany, and the US. From 2012 to 2015, Haussmann engaged with scientists in a non-verbal dialogue, "Dialogues" as artist-in-residence at the Broad Institute of Harvard and MIT. He embraces his audience with environmental inclusionary, interactive projects and collaborations. Presently, Haussman is leading workshops from his home in Maine, where he where he also works with his wife Anne on a 450-acre nature project.Cancellation and Refund Policy:
PROCESSING FEE: A nonrefundable $100 processing fee is included in each tuition.
ENROLLMENT CANCELLATION: If you need to cancel your enrollment, please notify the AAN Education Department 14 days prior to the class start date to receive your partial refund.
ABSENCE: Although we are not able to prorate programming or offer make up days, prior knowledge of your absence is extremely helpful to our instructors.
FULL REFUNDS: The AAN will issue full refunds when programming is cancelled due to low enrollments or state mandated business closures.
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ONLINE: Bringing New Ideas to Your Work
with Lenny MoskowitzMondays, 6:30 - 9 pm, January 18 - February 8ONLINE: Bringing New Ideas to Your Work
with Lenny MoskowitzMondays, 6:30 - 9 pm, January 18 - February 8Tuition: $150 Levels: Beginner to Intermediate Invite new ideas into your art practice through a series of playful exercises designed to wake you up, consider new possibilities, and connect you with art that has resonated with you over years. Each week Lenny Moskowitz shares his processes of creative investigation, demonstrating his approach in a live 45 minute Zoom Meeting, takina an hour break to individually explore the concept, and returning to another 45 minute group Zoom discussion and feedback. Lenny’s assignments will include looking at how artists throughout history have been influenced by work outside their cultures or eras, including palette, mark making, dimensional space, and composition, and how you can use this concept to inform your creative choices. You will also use images and ideas of your own work as a departure point for new possibilities by searching out new resolutions and pushing abstractions. This playful class inspires curiosity by activates imagination as you work with Lenny, as well as individually in your studio and collectively as a group. 6:30 to 7:15pm - Zoom session: presentation and demonstration. 7:15 to 8:15pm - Off line: individual work session 8:15 to 9pm - Zoom session for discussion. Additional time when necessary for Q&A's. Supply List: A variety of drawing implements such as pencils, crayon, and water soluble crayons. Large drawing paper, scissors, glue, pencils, old magazines (preferably magazines that are colorful, like fashion, home, and garden, etc.), paint ( acrylic with matter medium or watercolor), a couple of brushes, a palette to mix paint on, a spray bottle to keep your acrylic from drying out, painting surfaces (such as canvas boards, a stretch canvas, or paper), and a water jar. LENNY MOSKOWITZ received his BFA from the Philadelphia College of Art and his MFA from Cranbrook Academy. He is a painterly figurative and abstract artist who embraces the creative spirit of the unexpected and unknown in order to develop a different vision of reality to emerge with order and smoothed edges. Lenny has exhibited his paintings and has been awarded several residencies nationwide. He teaches workshops in Connecticut, Block Island, and Nantucket and currently is an art professor at Quinnipiac University in Hamden, CT. http://www.lennymoskowitzart.com Cancellation and Refund Policy:
PROCESSING FEE: A nonrefundable $100 processing fee is included in each tuition.
ENROLLMENT CANCELLATION: If you need to cancel your enrollment, please notify the AAN Education Department 14 days prior to the class start date to receive your partial refund.
ABSENCE: Although we are not able to prorate programming or offer make up days, prior knowledge of your absence is extremely helpful to our instructors.
FULL REFUNDS: The AAN will issue full refunds when programming is cancelled due to low enrollments or state mandated business closure.
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Monday Mixed Media
with Maggie MurrayMondays, 6 - 8 pm, January 18- February 8Monday Mixed Media
with Maggie MurrayMondays, 6 - 8 pm, January 18- February 8Tuition: $200
Materials: $50
The rich artistic history of Nantucket is the inspiration for this mixed media course. We will study and borrow design from whaling era scrimshaw, historical photos, and interweave several art movements. Prepare for a trip back in time as past, present and future combine across a plethora of fun & dimensional media!Cancellation and Refund Policy:
PROCESSING FEE: A nonrefundable $100 processing fee is included in each tuition.
ENROLLMENT CANCELLATION: If you need to cancel your enrollment, please notify the AAN Education Department 14 days prior to the class start date to receive your partial refund.
ABSENCE: Although we are not able to prorate programming or offer make up days, prior knowledge of your absence is extremely helpful to our instructors.
FULL REFUNDS: The AAN will issue full refunds when programming is cancelled due to low enrollments or state mandated business closure.
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Wednesday Evening Pastel Painting
with Jenna DarkowWednesdays, 6 - 8 pm, January 20 - February 10Wednesday Evening Pastel Painting
with Jenna DarkowWednesdays, 6 - 8 pm, January 20 - February 10Tuition: $200
Materials: $50
Build your chalk pastel painting skills while exploring the unique autumn light in landscape and seascape. Through one-on-one instruction and class demonstration, Jenna shares her techniques for capturing light, color, and form using this fun, fast, and forgiving media. Returning students will strengthen their skills and newcomers will learn the basics and beyond. ALL LEVELS WELCOME.JENNA DARKOW earned her Occupational Therapy degree with a minor at Ithaca College in 2013. Returning home to Tiverton, RI, Jenna began studying weekly at Tiverton’s Bow House Studio Pastel group, and fell in love with pastels for their forgiving, blendable, immediate nature that allows her to create vibrant layered images. In 2016, Jenna moved to Nantucket, and soon after became an AAN artists member and began showing her work in local galleries. www.jennadarkow.com
Cancellation and Refund Policy:
PROCESSING FEE: A nonrefundable $100 processing fee is included in each tuition.
ENROLLMENT CANCELLATION: If you need to cancel your enrollment, please notify the AAN Education Department 14 days prior to the class start date to receive your partial refund.
ABSENCE: Although we are not able to prorate programming or offer make up days, prior knowledge of your absence is extremely helpful to our instructors.
FULL REFUNDS: The AAN will issue full refunds when programming is cancelled due to low enrollments or state mandated business closure.
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ONLINE: Painting Skies
with David DunlopThursday, 10 am - 12:30 pm, January 21ONLINE: Painting Skies
with David DunlopThursday, 10 am - 12:30 pm, January 21TUITION: $150 Media: oil, watercolor, acrylic Level : all Join David Dunlop as he demonstrates how to capture skies in the soft dawn, the pageant of sunset, the drama of approaching storms. David paints live in oil, acrylic, watercolor on aluminum panels, prepared paper, and canvas. He presents effective glazing, layering, and color mixing techniques for conveying moving clouds and their reflections in water. Through slide presentation, David will also illustrate how past masters, like Turner and the Impressionists, created luminous and dramatic skies, and how contemporary artists develop sparkle, radiance, and coronas built on these successive and simultaneous color contrast theories. This special webinar is designed to advance the kind of landscape painting skills that inspire you to explore a whole new level of artistic expression in your studio. BIO : DAVID DUNLOP is a modern-day old master whose luminous landscapes draw from both Renaissance techniques and contemporary science. After receiving his MFA at Pratt Institute of Art, David built his reputation as a painter who combines artistic skill, knowledge and enthusiasm. The Emmy winning PBS television series Landscapes Through Time with David Dunlop also earned him an invitation to lectured at The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City, as well as speaking, teaching, and exhibiting in many other museums and art institutions across the country and around the world. As a teacher, David is exceedingly well-read in pursuit of the underlying principles of art, exploring original sources and recent advances in neuroscience which he shares in his workshops, DVD’s, Youtube channel, and in his classes in home state of Connecticut at the Silvermine School of Art. PROCESSING FEE: A nonrefundable $100 processing fee is included in each tuition.
ENROLLMENT CANCELLATION: If you need to cancel your enrollment, please notify the AAN Education Department 14 days prior to the class start date to receive your partial refund.
ABSENCE: Although we are not able to prorate programming or offer make up days, prior knowledge of your absence is extremely helpful to our instructors.
FULL REFUNDS: The AAN will issue full refunds when programming is cancelled due to low enrollments or state mandated business closures.
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Thursday Silkscreening
with Leyah Jensen MarshallThursdays, 6 - 8 pm, January 21- February 11Thursday Silkscreening
with Leyah Jensen MarshallThursdays, 6 - 8 pm, January 21- February 11Tuition: $200
Materials: $50
Welcome to the wonderful world of Silkscreen, the most versatile medium on the planet for both fine art and business interests alike. From logos to t-shirts, posters to fashion design...it's all on the table! We'll start with the home-studio basics, creating one small image that will in fact go yards and yards: make actual wallpaper, by repeat-printing on paper; or choose fabric for upholstery and fashion applications, like the work of Mari Meko or Lilli Pultzer. Next we'll go free-style into fine art, taking inspiration from Andy Warhol in order to make our own unique imagery into a print-series of experimental color palettes. Finally we'll traverse from rubylith to simple-and-easy light exposure, creating a print run for any purpose you choose that will dazzle customers and art patrons alike. In the setting of our professional studio, you'll have every tool and color imaginable to make high quality work. Best of all though, you'll gain a new skill set that you can set up and continue at home.LEYAH JENSEN MARSHALL holds a BFA Honors degree from the Rhode Island School of Design. Studies in fine art have taken her worldwide, from acclaimed institutions like the Danish Design School and Pacific Northwest College of Art to Artist Residencies in India, Haiti, and Nepal. She is the recipient of distinguished awards ranging from a National Gold Medal in Art & Design (VICA) to New York Book Show 1st place winners and #1 bestselling pop-ups (New York Times). Locally she is a recipient of the Chase Plein-Air Award, and enjoys sharing her broad fluency in art mediums through teaching while working as a fine artist and children's book creator in Nantucket.
Cancellation and Refund Policy:
PROCESSING FEE: A nonrefundable $100 processing fee is included in each tuition.
ENROLLMENT CANCELLATION: If you need to cancel your enrollment, please notify the AAN Education Department 14 days prior to the class start date to receive your partial refund.
ABSENCE: Although we are not able to prorate programming or offer make up days, prior knowledge of your absence is extremely helpful to our instructors.
FULL REFUNDS: The AAN will issue full refunds when programming is cancelled due to low enrollments or state mandated business closure.
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ONLINE: Contemporary Painting, 1970 to 2020, Slide Talk
with Megan HintonWednesdays, 6-7 pm, January 27- February 24ONLINE: Contemporary Painting, 1970 to 2020, Slide Talk
with Megan HintonWednesdays, 6-7 pm, January 27- February 24Tuition : $250
40 mins slideshow + 20 minute discussion Join visual artist and educator Megan Hinton for five immersive evening slide talks discussing the trajectory of Contemporary Painting over the past 50 years. Starting with the 1970’s and ending with the current moment, Megan will present a decade each week, introducing a diverse group of artists to explore the innovations, shifts, and trends in Contemporary Painting. A question and answer discussion period will follow each slide talk. This diverse scope of Contemporary Painting will inspire and expand the artist and art lover’s understanding of art and culture in our current time. MEGAN HINTON is a visual artist based in Wellfleet, Massachusetts. Hinton assembles materials in painting, printmaking, sculpture, and photography to reassemble personal and public narratives. Megan is currently a Master of Fine Arts candidate in Interdisciplinary Studio Art at Mills College in Oakland, California where she has received a nomination by faculty for The Dedalus Foundation Fellowship in Painting and Sculpture. Megan has recently shown work at AMP Gallery in Provincetown, SOMArts Cultural Center in San Francisco and The State University of New York Adirondack Visual Art Gallery. In 2019 Hinton was awarded The Murphy Cadogan Scholarship from the San Francisco Foundation and an artist residency from 20 Summers in Provincetown. Additional residency fellowships have been awarded from The Women’s Studio Workshop, Les Amis De La Grande Vigne in Brittany, France, and Frans Masereel Centrum, an International Printmaking Center in Belgium. Megan is also an art writer, educator, curator and lecturer.Cancellation and Refund Policy:
PROCESSING FEE: A nonrefundable $100 processing fee is included in each tuition.
ENROLLMENT CANCELLATION: If you need to cancel your enrollment, please notify the AAN Education Department 14 days prior to the class start date to receive your partial refund.
ABSENCE: Although we are not able to prorate programming or offer make up days, prior knowledge of your absence is extremely helpful to our instructors.
FULL REFUNDS: The AAN will issue full refunds when programming is cancelled due to low enrollments or state mandated business closure
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ONLINE: Thursday Crit
with Elizabeth CongdonThursday, January 28, 4 pm - 6 pmONLINE: Thursday Crit
with Elizabeth CongdonThursday, January 28, 4 pm - 6 pmSuggested drop-in fee: $20 to $10 donation
We ask that you pay what you can based on a sliding scale on registration page.
Your Zoom link for this meeting is: Artists Association of Nantucket is inviting you to a scheduled Zoom meeting for Thursday Crit. All levels and media Explore creative possibilities for your work in a supportive group setting. Our collective ponder seeks to give a fresh perspective to help artists develop their ideas and push through challenges. The two hour session is divided equally among artists. As a presenter, you may gear the discussion to meet your specific needs by sharing your artworks’ state of completion or “finish,” as well as your intentions, technical difficulties, and levels of satisfaction/dissatisfaction. Feedback is given in the spirit of curiosity by expressing optional actions with “could,” and avoiding narrow directives of “should.” The focus is on visual opportunity and developing various ways to look at your own work objectively. We will also share methods and materials. Issues like labelling, likeability, or saleability will not be addressed. We will embrace all possibilities to guide and inspire great art making with open and compassionate minds. We encourage artists of all levels and who work in any media to join us, especially if you are building a portfolio for artists membership at the AAN, gallery representation, or a special arts program. OUR ONLINE FORMAT: To efficiently navigate Zoom, our format will utilize the mute option. Participating artists are asked to raise their hands for questions and comments. Presenting artists may ask follow up questions. As crit leader, I will reserve most of my feedback for the conclusion of each presenting artist’s time and keep the conversation on track. After you sign up, send up to 4 images to elizabeth@nantucketarts.org by 3pm on Thursday, January 14th to receive the Zoom Meeting link. Please come on time, and stay for the duration of the session.ELIZABETH CONGDON is an oil painter best known for her floral still lifes and plein-air landscapes. She received her BA in Art at University of California at Santa Cruz, and her MFA with honors in Painting at Laguna College of Art and Design. She grew up in New York City, and later moved to Jamestown, RI, where she co-founded the Jamestown Arts Center. She has been a member of the AAN since 1998, and now is the Director of Adult Programming. She is represented on Nantucket by Robert Foster Fine Art.
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ONLINE: FREE Slide Presentation "What I See When I Look at Jack Nicholson"
with Stuart ShilsMonday, 6-8:30 pm, February 1ONLINE: FREE Slide Presentation "What I See When I Look at Jack Nicholson"
with Stuart ShilsMonday, 6-8:30 pm, February 1FREE to the PUBLIC Please join us on Zoom for a Slide Presentation and Discussion with Stuart Shils. This slideshow is an introduction for Shils's drawing workshop which takes place the following Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday, but stands alone as an interesting window into his teaching practice and Contemporary Art. "This slide talk will be a foundational introduction to the class which is about drawing, but not drawing in a conventional way. I'm not thinking of 'drawing' as learning 'how to' copy the appearance of things, but in a much more essential way the process for addressing how to understand the larger choreography of form constantly in front of us. Paying attention is what we are after and much of what will be presented is about paying attention beyond words and beyond what we think we know. Imagine asking a question like, how do I see what I don't know is there and that is what the talk is going to explore: how to see and how to make sense of that seeing. And while this is the first chapter of the class, everyone is invited and there will not be anything obscure or academic. I'm offering it for anyone curious about expanding their own visual awareness." ~ Stuart Shils STUART SHILS is a contemporary American landscape painter who has exhibited and taught internationally. His works toe the line between formal abstraction and fidelity to the scene he is observing. Mainly known as a plein-air painter, he has recently incorporated working from his own photographs of urban scenes. Shils studied at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts under Seymour Remenick and Arthur De Costa. He was the recipient of a Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant, a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship, and an Academy Award in Art from the American Academy of Arts and Letters in New York. Currently Shils is represented by Steven Harvey Fine Art Projects in New York. https://stuartshils.com -
ONLINE: Reframing the Ordinary: Locating yourself graphically in the saturation of the visual moment
with Stuart ShilsFebruary 2 - 3; Tuesday 10 am - 1:30 pm, Wednesday & Thursday 10 am - 12:30 pm, Post workshop follow Up with Stuart Shils TBDONLINE: Reframing the Ordinary: Locating yourself graphically in the saturation of the visual moment
with Stuart ShilsFebruary 2 - 3; Tuesday 10 am - 1:30 pm, Wednesday & Thursday 10 am - 12:30 pm, Post workshop follow Up with Stuart Shils TBDTuition: $600
Day 1. Preliminary evening talk, Monday 6-8pm - Open to PublicDay 2. Tuesday Group Seminar 10am - 1:30pm
Days 3. and 4. Weds & Thursday 10am - 12:30
Day 5. Follow Up One on One Zoom Call on a day and time to be determined.
Experience the expansive saturation of the visual moment by reinvigorating your drawing practice as the essential thought engine behind your artistic thought. Stuart guides students through ways of deepening a comprehensive visual awareness by focusing on observation as the way we locate ourselves within the visual conversation. Through examination of what you see in front of you, by consideration of contemporary and past artwork, group discussion, and one-on-one feedback these three days will be very full.
An opening 90 minute slide talk (“What Happens When I Notice Jack Nicholson' - Free to the public) on the night before the first day presents the point of departure and illuminates a way of looking out onto the world with fresh eyes. Day 1 (3 1/2 hours) and will address an re examination of line following group introductions. Line and how we use line will explore ways of asking questions about not only what we see, but how we see it. will merge with collage by the end of our day. Day 2 (2 1/2 hours) will dive deeper into collage as a way of understanding drawing as a graphic choreography. And day three (2 1/2 hours) will feature an application of what we have learned during the first few days to expand your access to your own visual imagination.
As a backdrop to these days, Stuart will ask questions like, how do we see what we don't know is there? Is there a right and wrong in art? Is there such a thing as good and bad and if so, what is it? Do you have the confidence to follow your own inclinations or are you more comfortable following someone else's rules? If anything, this class is oriented to offering you the tools to stand straighter on your own two feet.
Following the 3 days, on Day 5, each participant will have a 30 min Zoom conversation with Stuart, on a date and time to be established by both teacher and student, to be used in whatever way you would to discuss your work or ideas. Materials will be simple. Pencils, black and white paper, tape, glue stick, a straight edge and something to observe, to look at, either out a window or in a room.“Drawing is the fundamental thought engine of all visual response yet most of us do not draw in a daily way to solve problems, open doors and pursue visual curiosity. We’re devoted to an idea of painting as the path forward but in the most elemental way, painting is drawing and is guided by the choreography of drawing, which at the end of the day is feeling. I can’t teach feeling but by way of close looking and paying attention we learn to feel our way through both looking and formulating our response.” ~ Stuart Shils
No matter what style or technique you work in, Stuart Shils will bring you closer to your eyes, inviting you to develop an intimate, ongoing relationship with drawing to serve as a driving force, finely tuning your graphic intuition in which risk and improvisational imagination are part of your decision making, to locate yourself graphically in the saturation of the visual moment.
STUART SHILS is a contemporary American landscape painter who has exhibited and taught internationally. His works toe the line between formal abstraction and fidelity to the scene he is observing. Mainly known as a plein-air painter, he has recently incorporated working from his own photographs of urban scenes. Shils studied at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts under Seymour Remenick and Arthur De Costa. He was the recipient of a Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant, a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship, and an Academy Award in Art from the American Academy of Arts and Letters in New York. https://stuartshils.comCancellation and Refund Policy:
PROCESSING FEE: A nonrefundable $100 processing fee is included in each tuition.
ENROLLMENT CANCELLATION: If you need to cancel your enrollment, please notify the AAN Education Department 14 days prior to the class start date to receive your partial refund.
ABSENCE: Although we are not able to prorate programming or offer make up days, prior knowledge of your absence is extremely helpful to our instructors.
FULL REFUNDS: The AAN will issue full refunds when programming is cancelled due to low enrollments or state mandated business closure
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Tuesday Evening Oil Painting II
with Elizabeth CongdonTuesdays, 6- 8 pm, March 2 to March 30Tuesday Evening Oil Painting II
with Elizabeth CongdonTuesdays, 6- 8 pm, March 2 to March 30Tuition: $200
Optional Material Fee: $50
All Levels Welcome
Paint whatever subject you like! Start something new, finish something old, develop your style, or challenge yourself to tackle a certain subject with Elizabeth as she shares over three decades of oil painting experience in this supportive studio class. This is your chance to create the class you want to take, and paint what you want to paint. While you pursue your interests, you will also benefit from a class setting where a wide range of oil painting’s nuts and bolts are discussed. You may work from photo references or abstraction, observing from life or copying a master work, have set goals or take things week by week, you will receive one-on-one instruction with a weekly follow up email of artistic inspiration to help support your painting aspirations. ELIZABETH CONGDON is a painterly realist who earned her BA in Art at the University of California at Santa Cruz, and studied classical realism in Florence at Studio Cecil-Graves. She is a longtime AAN artist member, known for her floral still lifes and landscapes oil paintings. In Rhode Island, Congdon co-founded the Jamestown Arts Center and produced a documentary film on a site-specific Nutcracker Ballet. Recently, Congdon graduated from Laguna College of Art and Design’s MFA Program with honors and was awarded the teaching fellowship. Congdon is represented by Robert Foster Fine Art Gallery, and currently serves as AAN’s Director of Adult Programming. www.elizabethcongdonart.comCancellation and Refund Policy:
PROCESSING FEE: A nonrefundable $100 processing fee is included in each tuition.
ENROLLMENT CANCELLATION: If you need to cancel your enrollment, please notify the AAN Education Department 14 days prior to the class start date to receive your partial refund.
ABSENCE: Although we are not able to prorate programming or offer make up days, prior knowledge of your absence is extremely helpful to our instructors.
FULL REFUNDS: The AAN will issue full refunds when programming is cancelled due to low enrollments or state mandated business closure.
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Experimental Realism in Landscape Painting
with David DunlopTuesday - Thursday, 9:30 am - 4:30 pm, July 13 - 15Experimental Realism in Landscape Painting
with David DunlopTuesday - Thursday, 9:30 am - 4:30 pm, July 13 - 15Tuition: $800
Break new ground in your painting practice by approaching traditional realism with innovative techniques. By experimenting with mixing oil, acrylic, ink, watercolor, and photographic materials on paper, plastics, and metal, David demonstrates how contemporary methods serve to develop persuasive imagery with an original visual voice. In his insightful slide presentations, David will discuss how artists throughout history have conveyed intimate panoramas, translucence, and nature in motion. These transformative methods, taught with a hands on instruction will inspire students to borrow methods from across time to access a new personal direction.
DAVID DUNLOP is a modern-day old master whose luminous landscapes draw from both Renaissance techniques and contemporary science. After receiving his MFA at Pratt Institute of Art, David built his reputation as a painter who combines artistic skill, knowledge and enthusiasm. The Emmy winning PBS television series Landscapes Through Time with David Dunlop also earned him an invitation to lectured at The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City, as well as speaking, teaching, and exhibiting in many other museums and art institutions across the country and around the world. As a teacher, David is exceedingly well-read in pursuit of the underlying principles of art, exploring original sources and recent advances in neuroscience which he shares in his workshops, DVD’s, Youtube channel, and in his classes in home state of Connecticut at the Silvermine School of Art.www.paintingclass.net
Cancellation and Refund Policy: PROCESSING FEE: A nonrefundable $100 processing fee is included in each tuition. ENROLLMENT CANCELLATION: If you need to cancel your enrollment, please notify the AAN Education Department 14 days prior to the class start date to receive your partial refund. ABSENCE: Although we are not able to prorate programming or offer make up days, prior knowledge of your absence is extremely helpful to our instructors. FULL REFUNDS: The AAN will issue full refunds when programming is cancelled due to low enrollments or state mandated business closures. -
Between Realism and Abstraction
with Chris GrovesTuesday-Thursday, 10 am-4 pm, July 20-22Between Realism and Abstraction
with Chris GrovesTuesday-Thursday, 10 am-4 pm, July 20-22Tuition: $1000
Oil with cold wax ALL LEVELS WELCOME Explore color as the foundation for abstraction in traditional painting with. Chris Groves shares his techniques for capturing “color notes” - the lyrical power of hue, value, and intensity that can infuse your canvases with a range of emotion. Demonstrating the sculptural and softening effects achieved with cold wax, Chris will discuss how to convey a definitive sense of time and place by choosing the correct colors for underpainting, and solid combinations of dominant and saturated colors. Weather permitting, part of Day 1 will include collecting color notes in the landscape. Day 2 will be spent in the studio, pushing compositional abstraction by re-defining traditional painting methods and re-thinking all elements of your painting. Day 3 Chris will discuss and demonstrate how to use line and edge to create depth through reductive simplifications and make adjustments in order to enhance all the important relationships and gestures in your painting, while maintaining your initial intention. This workshop will culminate with a critique of what works and does not work in these studies, why, and how to improve the final pieces. BIO After graduating from the University of Colorado at Boulder with a B.F.A. in Environmental Design, Chris Groves spent the next ten years as an art director for two large companies, all the while continuing to study and hone his fine art skills. He has studied at the Florence Academy of Art in Italy, the Colorado Academy of Art, the Loveland Art Academy, the Cottonwood Art Academy and the Denver Arts Student League. He also enjoyed a private, two-year mentorship with artist Jay Moore, which he considers a turning point in his artistic career. Most recently, Groves was chosen to paint full, life-size portraits of the 10th and 11th circuit Bishops of Colorado. www.cgroves.comCancellation and Refund Policy:
PROCESSING FEE: A nonrefundable $100 processing fee is included in each tuition.
ENROLLMENT CANCELLATION: If you need to cancel your enrollment, please notify the AAN Education Department 14 days prior to the class start date to receive your partial refund.
ABSENCE: Although we are not able to prorate programming or offer make up days, prior knowledge of your absence is extremely helpful to our instructors.
FULL REFUNDS: The AAN will issue full refunds when programming is cancelled due to low enrollments or state mandated business closures.
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Painting Sconset Plein-Air
with Dan GrazianoTuesday - Thursday, 9:30 am - 4:30 pm, August 10 - 12Painting Sconset Plein-Air
with Dan GrazianoTuesday - Thursday, 9:30 am - 4:30 pm, August 10 - 12Tuition: $720
Member Tuition: $648
Develop your skills of observation and simplification in the beautiful village of Sconset. Master landscape painter Dan Graziano teaches the “wet on wet” method of controlling brushwork to create strong “painterly” paintings. Oil painting basics, as well as color, value, edges, and perspective fundamentals will lead the discussion of what goes into making successful painting. Dan will explain his process with a short demo each day. One-on-one instruction will include a series of timed painting exercises, incorporating the techniques discussed. DAN GRAZIANO is an award winning, nationally exhibited artist who is a member of Oil Painters of America, California Art Club, Laguna Plein Air Painters Association-Signature Member, and American Impressionist Society. Inspired by painters like Hopper, Thiebaud, Diebenkorn, and the Wyeths, Dan paints with a deep appreciation for the time worn buildings, rugged coastlines, small rural towns, and forgotten roadside relics. His plein-air artists eye sifts through the landscape’s rich complexity to discover the unique fragments of geometry that are magically transformed by light. His formal training in advertising and illustration, and his early career in architecture and urban planning imbue his work with a powerful sense of composition and color that convey his love for the hidden beauty found in unexpected places and the fleeting moments of everyday life. www.dangrazianofineart.comCancellation and Refund Policy:
PROCESSING FEE: A nonrefundable $100 processing fee is included in each tuition.
ENROLLMENT CANCELLATION: If you need to cancel your enrollment, please notify the AAN Education Department 14 days prior to the class start date to receive your partial refund.
ABSENCE: Although we are not able to prorate programming or offer make up days, prior knowledge of your absence is extremely helpful to our instructors.
FULL REFUNDS: The AAN will issue full refunds when programming is cancelled due to low enrollments or state mandated business closures.
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Winter Classes meet from January–February. Registration typically begins in mid-December.
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Please email Director of Youth Programming, Elizabeth Buccino, at lizb@nantucketarts.org with any youth program questions.
All programs take place at AAN’s Visual Arts Center, 24 Amelia Drive, unless noted otherwise.
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