The Asheville Art Museum is pleased to present four workshops for adults during the summer of 2018. Workshops are open to skills of all levels and take place at the Asheville Art Museum On the Slope at 175 Biltmore Ave.
The instructor for each workshop is Pamela Lanza, who has an MFA from the San Francisco Art Institute. Before relocating to Asheville, Lanza taught at UC Berkeley Extension’s Post-Baccalaureate Art Studio program and San Francisco Art Institute for 20 years. Her artwork has been exhibited at the Graduate Theological Union (Berkeley), UNC Asheville, Florida State University, California Institute of Integral Studies, and Stanford University.
For more information and to register for the workshops, visitwww.ashevilleart.org or call 828.253.3227.
Not Flat: Assemblage
Saturday, May 19, 10:30 a.m. – 3:00 p.m.
$80 Museum Members, $90 non-members (includes materials)
Register by May 14
Collage meets assemblage in this workshop! Create highly textured, dimensional surfaces that can be painted, sanded or glazed. Challenge your imagination and creative potential by using almost – but not quite – flat materials objects and materials provided, such as fabrics, small wood shapes, letters, metal found objects, corrugated paper and ephemera, string, etc. Use stronger materials to break up and alter the common rectangular shape of your artwork, and layer materials for added depth. Let your imagination run wild with the potential of unusual materials to inform your painting and mixed-media practices.
Transparent Challenge: How To Draw Glass
Saturday, June 16, 10:30 a.m. – 3:00 p.m.
$75 Museum Members, $85 non-members (includes materials)
Register by June 11
Drawing glass can seem like a daunting challenge; since we know it’s “invisible,” what is there to draw? The correct approach is to draw what we see, not what we think is there. This workshop not only teaches techniques for drawing transparent or shiny objects, but provides a lesson on learning to see like an artist. Create drawings in user-friendly pencil, one of the most beautiful drawing media known. Practice techniques in the classroom the first half of the workshop, then venture into the gallery to draw glass artworks on view in the Museum’s exhibition Red Hot in the Blue Ridge.
Alchemy: Image Transfers
Saturday, July 14, 10:30 a.m. – 3:00 p.m.
$80 Museum Members, $90 non-members (includes materials)
Register by July 9
Turn found imagery and unusual ephemera into artistic gold in this highly experimental workshop that explores three different techniques for image transfer. Explore textured, collaged and limited palette backgrounds with unusual images applied in multiple transparent layers on top. Learn the advantages of working with acrylic media to create substrates receptive to all sorts of drawing and painting tools, and techniques that easily translate to larger surfaces including canvas and paper. Each student takes home three original, “alchemical” mixed-media works: two on wood panels and one on paper.
Delicious Ambiguity: An Uncertainty Workshop for Uncertain Times
Saturday, August 11, 10:30 a.m. – 3:00 p.m.
$80 Museum Members, $90 non-members (includes materials)
Register by August 6
Embrace uncertainty and spontaneity! Let your artwork change in mid-course, and create dissonance between the end product and how it began. Instead of documenting a certain concept or subject, play with materials to create abstract images that explore the potential of working reductively to hide and then expose underlying layers using sanding, scraping and scratching. Experiment with tension, suggestiveness, psychological space, contradiction and layered meanings that open all manner of possibilities for future work. Work with a variety of media to discover methods and techniques for generating and grappling with ambiguous images that say the unsaid and augment the meaning of the visual experience.