In this five-day workshop we begin by creating a cache of painted paper (matte acrylic on newsprint) in a broad range of colors. These swatches, when cut or torn to specific shapes, provide core material for the constructed compositions we will be making throughout the week. Combining them with drawing, painting, or transferred marks expands the process and stimulates invention. Through trial, error, and analysis, students explore the medium to discover visual preferences that reflect personal temperament.
The relaxed studio atmosphere promotes focus and productivity. We emphasize experimentation over competition and encourage risk taking without pressure of judgment. Students support each other’s efforts in group discussion and the instructor circulates to provide helpful one-on-one guidance throughout the sessions.
Studio work is supplemented with slide presentations of historic and contemporary work in the medium of collage.
Participants learn:
• How experimentation can take you beyond habit and expand your expressive range.
• How to give your work more formally specific and more personal.
• How both intention and chance animate the creative process.
• How collage developed as an art form historically.
• How artists are using collage today to make vital contemporary art.
About David Hornung
David Hornung is a painter and collage artist whose work has been widely exhibited in the US and UK. Across a long career as an art professor, he has served on the faculties of The Rhode Island School of Design, Indiana University, Skidmore College, Pratt Institute, Brooklyn College, and Adelphi University. He is the author of Color: A Workshop for Artists and Designers (Laurence King Pub Ltd.), a color theory and practice textbook that has been translated into six languages and is used in art schools and private studios around the world. His work is represented by the Elena Zang Gallery in Woodstock New York, Pulp Gallery in Holyoke Ma., Cynthia Winings Gallery at Blue Hill, Maine, and J.J. Murphy in New York, NY.
Rates & Enrollment
Day Student Tuition: $950.00
Full 5-Day Package*: $2,803.28 (double occupancy pp) or $3,017.12 (single occupancy)
*5-Day Workshop Package includes: Tuition for 5 full class days, 6 nights of dinner, lodging, breakfast, daily cookie and fruit breaks, unlimited coffee and tea, and welcoming wine and cheese reception. Your choice between a room to yourself (single occupancy) or bring a friend and split a room (double occupancy).
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