Summer 2024
Dates: 8 classes from June 11th - July 30th (+ optional end-of-class trip to the Met in August)
Time: Tuesdays from 6:30 - 9:30 pm
Location: 608 80th St, Brooklyn NY 11209
Tuition: Sliding scale from $200 - $1,200 (more information below)
Max Number of Students: 8
Because there are a limited number of seats, please fill out the application below by May 25th. You will receive a notification of acceptance by June 8th.
The materials of painting include both the physical medium (paint, surface, and ground) and the history of painting as a concept throughout time. This course aims to develop both the technical hand skills needed to manipulate the medium and a working knowledge of the rich tradition of painting to give painters and lovers of painting the foundation to make, criticize, and appreciate historical and contemporary artworks.
The progression of this course is organized around a Western historical narrative of art. This is by no means the correct or the only place to start, but I begin teaching here because knowing this narrative makes the contemporary art environment intelligible and gives us the tools to take a critical attitude toward it, should we so choose. That being said, the goal of this course is to create a community to discuss both the practical and theoretical aspects of art, so alternative definitions, functions, and narratives of art are welcome!
No prior painting experience is required–––only a love of painting and a desire to engage in rigorous but playful practice and discussion.
Lectures covering theoretical and historical information
Practice in the form of exercises and projects that develop hand skills
Encouraged Independent Practice that reinforces techniques and concepts learned in class