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THE HOFMANN APPROACH
ROBERT HENRYSELINA TRIEFF
Selina Trieff and Robert Henry will be sharing their insights into the teaching of Hans Hofmann. As in the Hofmann school itself, both drawing and painting will be utilized to further an understanding of the plastic components of pictorial art. The participants will be making paintings and drawings derived directly from observation of reality. The five-day session will be divided into two segments. In the first, students will be drawing in charcoal from the model; in the second, painting in oil from still lifes. Hofmann taught the syntax of painting. His students, using that training, each developed their own methods and styles of working. Trieff has her own figurative style, but thinks of herself as an abstract painter. Henry works both figuratively and abstractly in a wide variety of manners. They both studied with Hofmann in the 1950s, and will be joining in a unique attempt to pass on to others what they learned there.Biography
Robert Henry's numerous one-person exhibitions include the Cortland Jessup Gallery and Barbara Inger Gallery in New York, the Janus Avivson Gallery in London, and the Berta Walker Gallery in Provincetown. His work hangs in the permanent collections of Brooklyn College, the Cape Cod Museum of Fine Arts, Columbia University, Pace University, and many others. He is Professor Emeritus at Brooklyn College.
Selina Trieff studied with Hans Hofmann in New York and Provincetown. She received a BA from Brooklyn College where she studied with Ad Reinhardt and Mark Rothko. She is represented by the Berta Walker Gallery in Provincetown, the George Billis Gallery in New York, and the Ruth Bachofner Gallery in California. She has shown extensively in the United States and in Europe. Her work is represented in many public and private collections, and she has taught at various colleges and art schools.
List of students in this class (click on a name to see their work):
Michele Souda
Eileen Tavolacci
Iva Liebert
Clarissa Jakobsons
Signe Rogalski
Mimi Jigarjian
Richard Neal
Orfeo Fabbri
John Crouse
Cameron Wilder
Rik "Wave" Kapler
Richard Neal
ATTENDING THE LIVING WORLD/WORD
MARK ADAMS
ELIZABETH BRADFIELD
We want to dedicate this week to cultivating the art of being present in a journey through the specific world of Provincetown’s dunes, forest and beaches, bringing together the arts of writing and drawing in response to the natural world. You do not need to know how to draw and you don’t need to be an experienced poet to come along on this journey -- you only need to want to walk through the forest, the sand and maybe a little bit of water, and be receptive to new possibilities.
We’ll write in relation to what we hear, touch, smell, taste and see using the building blocks of metaphor, sound and imagery. Poetry will be the foundation of our writing and reading, but all genres are deepened by close attention to world and word. We’ll learn drawing techniques adapted to outdoor field settings (such as blind contour and gesture drawings, drawing with ink and brush, and watercolor wash drawing) rooted in observation and learn field-based drawing techniques, keeping a journal for sketches and writing. Both Mark and Elizabeth are naturalists as well as artists and, as residents of the Cape's tip, bring deep knowledge and love of this place.Biography
Mark Adams studied drawing, scientific illustration, ecology, and landscape architecture at the University of California, Berkeley and California College of the Arts. He has worked as a cartographer with the National Park Service on Cape Cod since 1992. A painter and videographer, he shows his work at the Schoolhouse Gallery in Provincetown and elsewhere in New England, and teaches at the Provincetown Art Association Museum School, Truro Center for the Arts at Castle Hill and for the Provincetown High School Academy Mentor Program.
Elizabeth Bradfield is the author of two poetry collections, Approaching Ice and Interpretive Work. Her poems have been published in The Atlantic Monthly, Poetry, The Believer, Orion and in numerous anthologies. A believer in the power of literature and art in conversation, she is editor-in-chief of Broadsided Press (broadsidedpress.org), which publishes monthly original collaborations. She works as a naturalist in Alaska, the Arctic, the Antarctic and locally on Cape Cod, where she lives.
List of students in this class (click on a name to see their work):
Elizabeth Heide
Diana Faissler
Angela Malchionno
Katherine Arnup
UNLOCKING THE STORY: FICTION AND MEMOIR
JOAN WICKERSHAM
What is my story and how do I tell it? Any writer – no matter how seasoned – has to grapple with these questions, day after day, project after project. This intensive workshop for fiction and memoir writers will focus on the challenge of finding the story and telling it in the most frank, compelling way possible. We will look at different techniques used by writers, as well as working from prompts suggested by our own lives and experiences, all with the goal of unlocking the stories that most urgently need to be told. We will also spend time each day discussing student works-in-progress. By the end of the week we each will have found rich new resources to draw upon for future work.Biography
Joan Wickersham is the author of The News from Spain: Seven Variations on a Love Story. Her memoir, The Suicide Index: Putting My Father’s Death in Order, was a National Book Award Finalist and has appeared on “best books of the year” lists including the Boston Globe, the Los Angeles Times, New York Magazine, Salon, and the Washington Post. She is also the author of a novel, The Paper Anniversary, and her work has appeared in The Best American Short Stories and The Best American Nonrequired Reading. Joan writes a regular op-ed column for the Boston Globe and has contributed on-air essays to the NPR shows On Point and Morning Edition. She has been awarded fellowships by the National Endowment for the Arts, the Massachusetts Cultural Council, the MacDowell Colony, and Yaddo.
List of students in this class (click on a name to see their work):
Cindy Cross
Michael Geisser
Liz D. Gray
Liz Janik
Barbara Strauss
Holly Hartman
Gail Eisenberg
Mary Keenan
Jonathan Marks
INVESTIGATING MONOPRINT
VICKY TOMAYKO
The experimental and sometimes accidental nature of monoprint creates the perfect laboratory for artistic growth and change. This workshop will facilitate a series of prints on paper and fabric, combining a variety of approaches. Demonstrations will include basic techniques with brayers and brushes, and the use of other printmaking methods like drypoint, simple paper plate lithography, and water-based silkscreening. Bring a portfolio or examples of work for discussion if you would like. You will have unlimited access to the print studio and a more private workspace. I'll be around every day after demos to work with participants individually or in groups.Biography
Vicky Tomayko is an artist and printmaker. She manages the print studio at FAWC during the Fellowship program and for the Massachusetts College of Art at the Fine Arts Work Center Low-Residency MFA program. She also teaches printmaking and textile arts at Cape Cod Community College. Her awards include a Fellowship at the Fine Arts Work Center, and two Ford Foundation Grants. She is represented by the Schoolhouse Gallery in Provincetown, and has been included in exhibitions in New York, Boston, Miami, Los Angeles, Basel, Venice, Istanbul, and Melbourne.
List of students in this class (click on a name to see their work):
Sherry Autor
Ellyn Weiss
Philip Spinks
Nancy Marks
Linda Ziegler
Bill Fitts
Larry McKim
INTENSIVE REVISION WORKSHOP: POETRY
CLEOPATRA MATHIS
So you have a working draft—what now? How do you open up the poem to its full possibilities? What is a true revision, not just a good editing job? Bring drafts of poems whose mysteries have eluded you. We will talk about key moments in your poem, often wildly associative ways of making your way back into its genesis, or using those lines or images to find the path of the poem you didn’t know you were writing. Pragmatic suggestions based on structure and movement of the poem, as well as a focus on syntax and line, will be a large part of our discussion. The direction your poem takes will be our main concern: how to revise toward the imaginative and surprising.Biography
Cleopatra Mathis' seventh collection, Book of Dog, was published in January 2012 by Sarabande. Her work has appeared widely in anthologies, textbooks, magazines and journals, including The Best American Poetry, 2009, The New Yorker, Poetry, Ploughshares, Three Penny Review, Tri-Quarterly, The Southern Review, The Georgia Review, The Extraordinary Tide: Poetry by American Women, and The Practice of Poetry. Prizes for her work include two National Endowment for the Arts grants; the Jane Kenyon Award for Outstanding Book of Poems in 2001 for What to Tip the Boatman?, the Peter Lavin Award for Younger Poets from the Academy of American Poets; two Pushcart Prizes; The Robert Frost Resident Poet Award; and four Individual Artist Fellowships in Poetry from the New Hampshire State Council on the Arts and the New Jersey State Arts Council. She was a Poetry Fellow at the Fine Arts Work Center in 1981-82.
List of students in this class (click on a name to see their work):
Carol DeFelice
Charles Cantrell
Alana Sherman
Kathleen Hirsch
Madeleine Crouse
Tomasa Lane
WRITING THE MIDDLE GRADE AND YOUNG ADULT NOVEL
ELLEN WITTLINGER
Maybe you’ve heard that YA novels are hot right now and you want to get in on the action. Or maybe you’ve always hoped to be the next Judy Blume. In this workshop we’ll talk about the rules, challenges, and rewards of writing fiction for early readers to teenagers. You’ll be expected to read several novels and be ready to discuss them. As in any fiction workshop, we’ll be concerned with character, structure and setting, as well as such issues as understanding your young audience, and knowing the age group for whom your idea might be most appropriate. We’ll also talk about breaking into the children’s publishing world.Biography
Ellen Wittlinger is the author of 2 middle-grade novels and 12 young adult novels, among them Hard Love which won both a Printz Honor Award from the American Library Association and the Lambda Literary Award. Her novels have been Junior Library Guild selections and are on numerous state awards lists. She’s been translated internationally from Croatia to Korea. A graduate of the Iowa Writer’s Workshop, Ellen was twice a Fellow at the Fine Arts Work Center. She’s taught writing at Emerson College in Boston and in the Simmons College MFA in Writing for Children and YA program in Amherst, MA.
List of students in this class (click on a name to see their work):
Emily Scudder
Susan Jo Russell
Mary Battenfield
Mariellen Langworthy
Lynne Anderson
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