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Summer 2008 Visiting Artist Program

The South Shore Art Center is pleased to offer its tenth series of visiting artist workshops. These intensive programs led by noted guest artists with outstanding experience in their media will provide a challenging and in-depth opportunity for participants to be nurtured and inspired. Students will work in our studios and on location taking advantage of our beautiful coastal landscape. Register online www.ssac.org or call 781-383-2787. Professional Development Points Available.

JULY

Josette Urso
521 Collage to Painting
Friday, July 11 through Sunday, July 13 10:00–4:00
$275M $300NM

Don't Bug Me, Flying Around, Josette Urso

This course takes a lively approach to exploring the interrelationship between collage and painting. Students will employ the historically unstructured medium of collage as a means of sketching and as a springboard for ideas in painting. Work will begin simply then become progressively more complex as students are urged to push the limits of the mediums and their ideas. As the work done in one medium assists and influences one’s vision in the other, the collaboration between process and concept will encourage the production of less planned and more unexpected images.

New York artist Josette Urso has exhibited her work extensively including Von Liebig Art Center, Naples, FL; DFN Gallery, New York; Center for Maine Contemporary Art, Rockport, ME; and Weir Farm Trust, Wilton, CT among many others. She is the recipient of numerous grants and awards including a Pollack-Krasner Foundation grant, Vermont Studio School full fellowship, and American Artists Abroad program. She currently teaches at Cooper Union in New York. www.josetteurso.com

Member $275

Non Member $300

Peter Schroth
522 Landscape Painting—The Plein Air Sketch—Oil/Acrylic
Friday, July 11 through Sunday, July13 10:00–4:00
$275M $300NM

Light Forms and Running, Peter Schroth

This course is open to painters working in oil, acrylic and watercolor and is organized around the practice of the rapid study, in which participants will produce numerous works each day. A method of working with significant historical precedent, it remains vital today as a fundamental exercise for artists at all levels, as well as an essential means of advancing one’s understanding of both subject and medium. It is especially well suited to capturing the complex and elusive qualities of shape, light and color inherent in the landscape. www.peterschroth.com

Award-winning artist Peter Schroth has become well known for the lush landscape paintings he creates on site on excursions throughout New England, and Ireland. His solo exhibitions include the Miller Block Gallery, Boston; Hammond Harkins Gallery, Columbus, Ohio; and Sears Peyton Gallery, New York. His extensive teaching experience includes Art New England workshops, Bennington, VT; Cooper Union Extended Studies Dept, New York; School of Visual Arts, New York; and Savannah College of Art & Design.

Member $275

Catherine Kehoe
523 Color & Light— Oil
Friday, July 25 through Sunday, July 27 10:00–4:00
$275M $300NM

White Amaryllis and White Cup Red Plate, Catherine Kehoe

This intensive oil painting workshop will approach composition, color and light from a fundamental yet personal perspective. A large, colorful still life will be the source for our work; students may paint small sections or the whole setup. Small, quick studies will be encouraged, with the goal of seeing and stating clearly the essential form in terms of the basic elements of painting from observation: selection, angles, proportion, shape, and tonal and color relationships.

Catherine Kehoe has exhibited her work in Boston at the Howard Yezerski Gallery, the Sherman Gallery at Boston University, as well as galleries in Washington, DC, North Carolina, Dayton, OH, and New York. She is a grant recipient from the Pollack-Krasner Foundation, Berkshire Taconic Resource Trust, and was a painting finalist for a Massachusetts Cultural Council grant. She is an assistant professor at Mass College of Art. www.catherinekehoe.com

Member $275

Non Member $300

Rose Pellicano
505 Painting Plant Portraits—Botanical Workshop
Friday, July 25 through Sunday, July 27 10:00–4:00
$295M $320NM

Hellebore, Ranunculus, Rose Pellicano

In this workshop botanical artist Rose Pellicano, through demonstration and lecture, will focus on methods to achieve a realistic portrayal of a plant or flower. Special attention will be given to composition and light and shade in order to achieve exciting three dimensional qualities in the design as well as accurate color mixing. The instructor will work individually with the students. This course is designed for students who have some experience in botanical painting.

With four other botanical artists Rose Pellicano formed a group called Art Botanica. They collaborated in several collections of paintings: Native Flora of Long Island, Flora from the Bible, The Camellias of Planting Fields Arboretum – which were exhibited extensively in the United States. Some of their work from these collections was also exhibited in England at the Royal Horticultural Society and in Kobe, Japan with another botanical artists group Green Grass.

Rose Pellicano’s work was included in many American Society of Botanical Artists Exhibitions at the New York Horticultural Society , The Bruce Museum, Filoli Gardens Longwood Gardens, Chicago Botanic Garden, The US Botanic Garden, and most recently at the Weisman Art Museum in Minneapolis where her painting of a Pomegranate was used as the invitation and the catalog cover of the 2005 Fresh Cut Exhibition. She is a member of the Brooklyn Botanic Garden Florilegium Society and is collaborating on documenting the plants of the Botanic Garden. Her work has also been exhibited at the 10th International Exhibition of Botanical Illustration at the Hunt Institute for Botanical Documentation and is part of their permanent collection.

Member $295

Non Member $320

AUGUST

Kim Bernard
525 Encaustic Intensive Workshop
Friday, August 15 through Sunday, August 17 10:00–4:00
$295M $320NM ($60 encaustic materials fee – payable to instructor)

Encaustic works, Kim Bernard

Encaustic, meaning, "to burn in" in Greek, dates back to the 5th Century BC. Used as a contemporary medium it is a versatile method of painting with a beeswax based paint kept molten on a heated palette. Participants will learn to prepare supports, mix colors, apply wax, fuse, etch, layer, combine collage, transfer Xerox images and incorporate found objects.
Working with encaustic, both 2 dimensionally and sculpturally, Kim Bernard exhibits her work nationally. Intrigued with the phenomena that objects and places have the power to elicit an air of spirituality, her works are simultaneously archaic and contemporary, implementing contrasting materials such as wax, lead and ceramic. Bernard is represented by Arden Gallery in Boston, as well as Bowersock Gallery, Provincetown, MA; Fenn Gallery, Woodbury, CT; Hawthorn Gallery, Birmingham, AL and Lucky Street Gallery, Key West, FL. She teaches at the Maine College of Art, New Hampshire Institute of Art and regionally as a visiting artist. Bernard is the founding member of New England Wax, a professional association of artists working with encaustic. www.kbernard.com

Member $295

Non Member $320

Ron Pokrasso
542 Beyond Monotype Workshop
Monday, August 18 through Friday, August 22 10:00–4:00
$495M $520NM

Coloring Max's Pillar and Winging It, Ron Pokrasso

This workshop covers a wide range of techniques possible in the monotype process and continues through the use of collage, drawing, and multiple plate projects. Participants will be encouraged to pursue their artistic vision using monotype as a mark making tool in combination with whatever other techniques are efficient and available. The notion of the "artist as an inventor" will be stressed as mixed media techniques open the door to limitless opportunities. The approach is energetic and open, and each participant's individual style will help dictate the direction of the workshop.

Using Akua waterbased intaglio inks participants will be guided in how to modify, layer, and mix color. The use and abuse of mark-making tools, exploring the limits of paper, collage, chine colle and built up surface will all be discussed. Working with drawing materials to aid in resolving imagery and solving issues after printing are also aspects of the workshop. Participants who have experience with intaglio are encouraged to bring completed Solarplates, ImageOn, and other matrices to be integrated into compositions. Some monotype and/or other printmaking experience is helpful.

Ron Pokrasso has been an exhibiting mixed-media artist and printmaker for more than 25 years. He received his MFA degree from Pratt Institute. For 11 years Pokrasso owned and directed Graphics Workshop (gifted to The College of Santa Fe in 1993). He is an originator of the printmaking event “Monothon”, as well as a winner of the Mayor’s Award for Excellence in Visual Art in 2000. His teaching experience includes universities, museums, public schools and private workshops, as well as artist in residences in the U.S., Scotland, Ireland and Italy. www.ronpokrasso.com

Member $495

Non Member $520

Call 781-383-2787 to register or e-mail us for more info!  

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