Painting Life/Painting Your Life Syllabus
This is a practice-based workshop, intended to help painters of all levels to develop, advance or renew a painting practice while building a significant body of work. It will ask the question, “what is a painting life?” while encouraging the development a bodies of work that reflect our everyday experience, relationships, and gesture. Participants will be encouraged to think of this process through a number of lenses, including exploring painting as a process of memoir, creating a documentary archive of the months we work together, and/or considering the relationship between our bodies/gestures and our paintings. Painters with pre-existing projects are encouraged to bring those projects to the workshop. There will not be specific assignments, but there will be optional prompts. We will alternate between discussing our works in progress and the works of artists whose practice aligns with the themes that emerge from our work and conversations. Participants will be asked to develop a learning/working plan for the duration of the workshop. The instructor will be available to meet with participants one-to-one in the development of the learning plan.
While this workshop is open to painters of all experience levels, the curriculum is based on my twenty-years of experience working with graduate students in Goddard College’s MFA in Interdisciplinary Arts program. Our work together will be individualized to each participants’ level of experience and learning aspirations. And it will be super fun!
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Schedule of Group Sessions
October 14: Welcome
Overview of the workshop.
Short Introductions
Discussion of Individualized Learning Plans.
Set-up first one-to-one session
FIRST INDIVIDUAL MEETING
October 28: Introductions
Longer introductions by showing recent work
November 11: Slide Presentation & Discussion
Sharing highlights of Individual Learning Plans
November 25: Work in Progress
Looking at current work from each participant
SECOND INDIVIDUAL MEETING
December 9: Slide Presentation & Discussion
December 23: Work in Progress
Looking at current work from each participant
January 6: Slide Presentation & Discussion
January 20: Work in Progress
Looking at current work from each participant
February 3: Slide Presentation & Discussion
February 17: Work in Progress
Looking at current work from each participant
March 3: Slide Presentation & Discussion
THIRD INDIVIDUAL MEETING
March 17: Work in Progress
Looking at current work from each participant
March 31: Slide Presentation & Discussion
April 14: Work in Progress
Looking at current work from each participant
April 28: Slide Presentation & Discussion
May 12: Work in Progress
Looking at current work from each participant
May 26: Slide Presentation & Discussion
June 9: Final Presentation of Work Produced in Workshop