Lectures and Events

By Joy Wolfe of Fine Art Advocates

This class includes a lecture and hands-on workshop. Joy's lecture will discuss how to present your art professionally on an artist's budget, designing an efficient workspace, and the basic tools of the trade needed to repurpose and craft beautiful one-of-a-kind frames. She will give a demonstration on constructing a frame, glass cutting, and assembling a framed piece of art with basic framing tools. You will walk away with a list of tools and knowledge to create your own winning combinations.

Joy Wolfe had a custom framing business for many years and also worked as an interior designer helping her clients with art and framing selections. Many of her past clients were established painters in Minnesota. She is well versed in creating beautiful and stimulating aesthetics with fine art as the focus. She has had the pleasure of working alongside artists at every level and now chooses to work with emerging artists who are looking to grow their art into a business.

Length: 1 day
Tuition: $95

With David Ginsberg

This two-day workshop includes a lecture and demonstration on the use of controlled lighting for a consistent light source resembling natural light. The hands-on portion of the workshop will be a day and a half of working together on still-life setups using various artificial lighting techniques. We will go through a series of steps that will demonstrate some of the various lighting options, as well as using light and shadow as part of the compositional element. Once a satisfactory setup has been established with both the still life and the lighting, participants will be given the option to paint a color sketch of the still life from their setup or continue by working with different light and or setups. If painting, this will enable you to work through the process of painting with and from artificial light.

Full lecture, demonstration and workshop
Length: 2 days
Tuition: $250
Limit: 10 students

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Lecture and demonstration only
Length: 1 day
Tuition: $75
Limit: 30 students

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We're looking forward to hosting another Part-Time Student show! Any student who has taken a class at The Atelier is invited to participate with their student work. Students may bring in artwork to display in the exhibition.

Please submit entry form by Friday, November 29.

Entry Form and Submission Guidelines

Please invite your friends and family to the exhibition. It's a great time to show off your talents and educate friends and family about your artwork and training at The Atelier! Also, we do need volunteers to make this a great show! If you are available to help hang the show, we will begin to hang in the figure room on Friday, Dec. 4, at noon. We also gladly accept any food and drink donations for the show. We will have a sign-up sheet in the kitchen. Please ask your instructor if you have any additional questions about your submissions or volunteering.

Fine art created by instructors of The Atelier Studio Program of Fine Arts and works of art from The Atelier's private collection

Original oils, works on paper, and reproductions

Enjoy and purchase prints, drawings, watercolors, oil paintings, and sculptures of figurative, still life, landscape, and imaginative artwork created by artists and instructors of The Atelier Studio Program of Fine Arts. 30% of each sale goes towards supporting our educational programs.

Give the Gift of Art!

With Steven Assael

Steven will discuss both an analytical and emotive approach to painting the human figure with an emphasis on color and value relationships in a related atmosphere. The class will consist of a model pose in both cool and warm light. The development of form through observation and interpretation of plane shifts projecting and receding from the eye will be stressed.

Aspects of anatomy, proportion, and movement will be discussed along with the development of an Alla Prima technique that involves both scumbling and glazing. Learning to see is a selective endeavor. Understanding is an extension of our mind's eye. We will look at color as value and temperature as form.

There will be two models in one long pose. Steven will set up one in cool light and the other in warm light and discuss different lighting situations. Students will be able to choose to paint the portrait or the clothed figure.

The course will involve lectures, discussion of materials demos and critiques, on a daily basis. The artist talk or lecture will run in tandem with workshop and will be focused on the same subject matter as workshop.

Workshop supply list

Full lecture, demonstration and workshop
Length: 3 days
Tuition: $700
Limit: 12 students

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Lecture and demonstration only
Length: 1 day
Tuition: $75
Limit: 50 students

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Bring More Expressive Energy into Your Work

With Mary Pettis

Good paintings always exude an energy that flows from a harmonious balance of contrasts.

What is it that gives great paintings their startling impact—their “Chi”? The energy in master paintings flows from the artist's understanding of instinct and exaggeration. Exaggeration is personal and intuitive, and can be a frightening idea for a classically trained painter. Yet this elusive, instinctive Chi is intimately tied to the quality of experience we artists offer our viewers!

As an artist who also teaches, Mary has felt compelled to understand and explain this phenomenon. This search has led her to study with Chinese master artists, Zhang WenXin and Jove Wang; to excursions with Jove to China, Europe, and Russia. Jove introduced her to the idea of “Chi” in great paintings. It is he who convinced her we cannot “get there” through technique and reason alone; we must understand, develop, and employ our intuitive, inward vision.

In this demonstration and lecture Mary will share her journey and takeaways thus far as she moves closer to understanding what actually makes a masterpiece.

All levels welcome.

Lecture and demonstration
Length: 1 days
Tuition: $175
Limit: 40 students

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