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(Listed alphabetically by last name; to see class descriptions, click on the class title.)
Imagination Art Group for Children,
Ongoing Class; Tuesdays
Copper Foil Technique Stained Glass Workshop; January 19–26, 2012; Thursdays
Marian Berg is a professional artist and educator licensed to teach art in New Mexico for grades K through 12. Her educational background includes a M.A. in art education. She is also a registered nurse, with several years experience in pediatrics. Marian has been creating art since childhood, and has worked in a variety of mediums including painting, pastels, glass and ceramics. She has an extensive teaching experience, including arts instruction to children as well as adults.
In February 2010, she traveled to Haiti where she volunteered with a medical relief team after that country’s devastating earthquake. In addition to her work with the medical team, she also held impromptu art classes with Haitian children. Marian firmly believes the arts play an essential role in the social, emotional and mental development of children; specifically, that the act of making art is a healing and life affirming process.
Tom Blazier is an award-winning landscape painter. His oil paintings are represented by Huey's Fine Art in Santa Fe. He has a BFA in studio painting and has attended workshops with Irving Shapiro, Ted Goebrschner, Ned Jacobs, Matt Smith, Cody DeLong and Peter Nisbet. Tom is the paint-out coordinator for Plein Air Painters of New Mexico.
www.tomblazier.com and www.tomblazier.blogspot.com
Painting Tundra Swans in Watercolor, May 5-6, 2012
Burdette (Burt) Calkins is a longtime watercolor painter and teacher. He loves birds, especially the large, elegant ones. In the fall in his beloved Northern Great Plains, the Tundra Swans migrate south through what the American Indians call "The North Hole in the Sky." Burt has studied and painted them for years.
Watercolor Painting, April 3–May 22, 2012; Tuesdays
Watercolor Painting, April 5–May 24, 2012; Thursdays
Carol Carpenter is a professional artist with over 25 years experience. She comes from a family of artists. Her interest in painting emerged at an early age when her mother took her along to painting classes. Carol attended Foothill College in Los Altos, California and graduated from The University of New Mexico where she studied art and art history. Carol’s latest watercolor awards include first place in the large painting division and 1st place in the miniature division of Masterworks of New Mexico 2011.
www.carolcarpenterwatercolors.com
Short Pose Figure Painting in Oils; July 6–8, 2012
Michelle Chrisman believes in painting from life, whether it be the landscape, the model or the still-life. She believes that this is where real growth happens, as the artist learns to see. She considers herself a contempory colorist and modernist, but her work is firmly grounded in the principals of impressionism—how light works in the world. Michelle calls this "The Language of the Visual World."
"I always strive to move my students quickly from level 1 to level 2 painting, where they are no longer painting things, (much like a camera), but they are painting the Language of the Visual World—shapes, values, color notes, temperature, etc. This is when painting moves to a higher level and becomes very exciting for the artist and the viewer!"
Michelle has studied with California colorist Camille Przewodek, Kim English and Quang Ho. She is a Signature Member of Plein Air Painters of New Mexico, and has been featured in Southwest Art Magazine, New Mexico Magazine, and Cowboys and Indians Magazine. She is represented by six galleries, including Joe Wade Fine Art in Santa Fe, NM.
Beginning Drawing Class, March 12–April 30, 2012; Mondays
Oil Painting for Beginners, March 14–May 2, 2011; Wednesdays
Maria C. Cole is a graduate of Rutgers University and also completed studies at the Art Students League of New York City. During her student years she was fortunate to enjoy the guidance of master pastelist Albert Handell, and renowned drawing and anatomy instructor Michael Burban. Since moving to New Mexico in 1999, she has concentrated on drawing and painting the beauty of the local landscape as well as its people.
Painting Still Life, April 9–13, 2012
Cary Ennis works in a classical realist style, primarily painting in oils but also working in watercolor and various drawing media. Though her main focus has been still life, she also works on portraits, figurative work and landscapes. She studied painting and drawing at the Art Students League in New York City, has a M.A. in Art from the University of New Mexico, and is a Master Signature Member of American Women Artists. She has had numerous one-person shows and been featured in many magazine articles. A longtime resident of New Mexico, she has more recently lived in California and British Columbia. Her longtime interest in meditation and awareness has been an essential part of her approach to painting and to life. Southwest Art magazine says her paintings "combine a powerful sense of clarity and solidity with a feeling of deep and penetrating quiet."
An illustrator for more than 25 years, Julie Ford Oliver returned to fine art after her last child graduated from college. She currently paints in a variety of media allowing the subject matter to guide her choices. Working out of a spacious studio situated in Las Cruces, New Mexico, Oliver relates that she is happiest when she is at the easel.
In addition to a one-woman show at the Americana Museum, El Paso, Texas, her work has been exhibited internationally and nationally in many shows, including Desert Echo Woman’s Museum (aslo published in the book of the same name), Dallas, Texas, and Along The Rio Grande at the Chamizal National Memorial, El Paso, and The Museum of the Department of the Interior, Washington, DC.
Ming Franz specializes in Chinese brush painting, western watercolor and splashed ink painting, which combines watercolor techniques with Chinese brush. She received her basic art training in Taiwan since 1956 and has continued her art in the United States. She teaches workshops and conducts demonstrations at the New Mexico Art League, UNM Osher Life Long Learning Center and the New Mexico Watercolor Society as well as in her studio in Edgewood, New Mexico. She also teaches annually at Artists’s Expo, Houston, Texas, Silicon Valley Asian Art Center, California, and many other art organizations in New Mexico and California.
Ming is the author of Splash Ink with Watercolor and has had her work published in North Light Magazine, Artist’s Magazine, Studio Visit Magazine, Kennedy Publishing Magazine, Albuquerque Journal, Mountain Valley Telegraph newspaper, San Jose Mercury, Asian World Journal and Rainbow Magazine (Taiwan).
She is a Signature Member of the New Mexico Watercolor Society, and is a member of the American Watercolor Society, the Rio Grande Art Association, Sumi-e Society of America, Chinese American Art Development Foundation, and the American Society Association of Chinese Art .
Watercolor Portrait Class, March 19–May 7, 2012; Mondays
A native of the Pacific Northwest, he studied architecture and art at the University of New Mexico. As a registered architect, he has worked throughout the U.S. and China. Frank is equally at home with watercolors and oils. His landscapes, still-lifes and portraits reflect the places and people where he has lived and traveled. His paintings are in private collections throughout the western U.S. and have been in many juried shows, including the Western Federation of Watercolor Societies, New Mexico Watercolor Society, Masterworks, New Mexico State Fair and the Los Alamos Art Center.
Bridging the Gap, April 5–June 14, 2012; Thursdays
Deborah Gavel has been an artist and educator in Albuquerque for twenty years. Her teaching and art-making focus on creativity as a sacred practice. In the studio, her work is an effort to communicate awareness about our ever-changing environment though painting.
She says, “Nature is a theatre of textures and colors, all of it medicinal, every flower, every substance has the potential to be healing. I am interested in the connection between creativity, our instinctive animal nature and our evolution.”
Painting the Landscape in Oils, March 14–May 2, 2012; Wednesdays
Painting the Landscape in Oils, March 16–May 4, 2012; Fridays
Mad Dogs and Englishmen—7th Anual Plein Air Workshop, June 4–8, 2012
J. Waid Griffin has painted the mountains and deserts of the southwest for over twenty years. He is a Signature Member of the Oil Painters of America and a member of Rocky Mounatin Plein Air Painters, New Mexico Plein Air Painters and the Rio Grande Art Association. He holds a BFA in Painting and has studied with Michael Lynch, Mark Daily, and Kevin MacPherson. He also holds a Master of Music in Theory and Composition, and in addition to his painting and teaching of adult art classes and workshops, Waid teaches music and art to middle and high school students in the Albuquerque area.
Waid has received numerous awards for his paintings, most recently, the "Outstanding Achievement Award," for the 2008 New Mexico Masterworks art show. His work is represented in New Mexico by Desert Intasia Gallery, Old Town, Albuquerque, Benson Gallery, San Patricio, and Framing Concepts, Albuquerque. His paintings are in numerous public and private collections.
Fall in the Foothills, November 14–16, 2012
Bill Gallen grew up along the shores of Lake Michigan. He graduated from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in history and german and spent a year studying in Freiburg, Germany. Nurturing a life-long interest in art, Gallen studied painting and drawing in his free time with local instructors as well as workshops in Taos, NM and the Scottsdale Artists School. He counts Michael Lynch, David Ballew, Ned Jacob and Matt Smith amongst his most influential teachers.The eye for beauty and harmony in nature which he developed as a child in the Midwest informs his work with freshness and sensitivity. Gallen's paintings are included in private, corporate and museum collections nationwide.
Albert Handell was born in Brooklyn, New York in 1937. At an early age, a favorite activity of his was drawing with chalks on the city streets. He began formal studies of drawing and anatomy at the age of sixteen. In 1954, he enrolled at the Art Students League of New York City to study drawing and anatomy with the late Louis Priscilla and the late Robert Ward Johnson, and later studied painting for two years with Frank Mason. From 1961 to 1965, Mr. Handell lived and traveled in Europe. In Paris, he painted independently in his own studio, working from the model at L'Ecole de la Grande Chaumiere and at the Louvre, copying the old masters.
Since 1961, he has had over thirty one-man shows and has received over seventy prizes and awards. He now exhibits with the Ventana Fine Art Gallery in Santa Fe, New Mexico, where, since 1987, he has had annual one-man shows. Albert Handell lives and paints in Santa Fe, New Mexico, and teaches nationally and internationally.
Paint the Dramatic New Mexico Sky, August 24–26, 2012
Following a successful career as a graphic and exhibit designer, in 1996 Liz Haywood-Sullivan turned her artistic focus to fine art and the pastel medium. A landscape painter based along coastal Massachusetts, she finds inspiration for her award-winning paintings wherever she travels and teaches. She conducts workshops on pastel painting and the business of art, and is a sought-after judge. Her paintings are collected worldwide and are represented by Vose Galleries of Boston and Montana Trails Gallery in Bozeman, Montana.
Dedicated to education in the arts, she currently serves as the Vice President of the International Association of Pastel Societies and is the IAPS representative to ASTM (American Society of Testing and Materials). She is has been a Signature Member of the Pastel Society of America since 1998, and holds Signature memberships in the Connecticut Pastel Society, and the Pastel Painters Society of Cape Cod. She is also a member of the Salmagundi Club and the Academic Artists Association. Her paintings have appeared in the books Painting Sunlight and Shadow with Pastel, by Maggie Price and Art Journey America: Landscapes (both North Light Books, 2011). Her three DVD’s for The Artist’s Network on painting skies, water, and greens were released in early 2012 and she is currently working on a pastel book about painting skies and water scheduled for release in early 2013 by North Light Books.
Seduced by Color: Painting the Still Life in Oils, May 14–18, 2012
Painting Light: The Joy and Challenge of the Still Life Oil Painter, November 5–9, 2012
Wendy comes from a strong family background in the arts. Her father is a professional landscape watercolorist and her stepmother and brother also paint. She has been involved with art since childhood. She began drawing in grade school and took her first oil painting class in high school. Wendy went on to paint and study art in college taking a fine arts degree. In addition to still life paintings, Wendy paints some plein air landscapes. Wendy is a Signature Member of Oil Painters of America and American Women Artists. Her work has received numerous awards.
Strategies for Brilliant Watercolors, September 17–18, 2012
Contemporary “Glass-less” Watercolors, September 19–20, 2012
Jeanne Hyland holds a BFA degree from UNH in figurative sculpture and studied at École des Beaux Arts, France. Commercial design in Colorado preceded a return to Fine Art participating in Loveland Sculpture Invitational, Sedona Sculpture Walk. Jeanne adopted watercolor after moving to California where she instructed at the Los Angeles Academy of Figurative Art, Learning & Product Expo, Brand Library Studios. Jeanne now teaches in Santa Fe, Artisan’s ART Spot & Expo, the New Mexico Art League, and other locations nationally.
Jeanne is a past member of the Board of Directors, National Watercolor Society, a member of American Watercolor Society, NWS, Portrait Society of America, New Mexico Watercolor Society, a juried member of Watercolor West, and signature member of Women Artists of the West. Her work has been exhibited in NWS, Watercolor West, San Diego Watercolor Society (2006 Ana Drobnies Award), Valley Watercolor Society, New Mexico Watercolor Society. In addition, her work is included in How Did You Paint That? 100 Ways to Paint Still Lifes and Florals Vol. II.
www.jeannehyland.com/Art/indexA.htm
Children's Class, Drawing and Painting; Ongoing, Wednesdays
Children's Class, Drawing and Painting; Ongoing, Saturdays
Joan Irey has taught children at the New Mexico Art League for over 15 years. She began her training at the Siegfried Hahn–Howard Wexler School of Drawing and Painting, studying the techniques of 18th century watercolorists and the oil painting techniques of the old masters, especially those of noted expert Jacques Maroger. Hahn and Wexler used the principles of 19th century French artist, Lecoq De Boisbaudran, who taught many well known artists, including James McNeil Whistler. Joan now applies the same techniques and principles to her own work and to a whole new generation of young artists.
Floral Painting in Pastel, March 19–May 7, 2012; Mondays
Vasili studied at the American Academy of Art, the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and has taught at Chicago's Columbia College. A member of Group 64 and a Signature Member of the Pastel Society of New Mexico. He currently teaches artist's workshops and critiques at UNM's School of Architecture. He has painted all his life and the effects of light and nature have been a constant fascination for him. With a photographic eye for detail and a creative zest for color, his work has the ability to capture nuances unseen by the human eye but perceived by the human spirit. A first generation Greek-American, his appreciation for classical forms and design have distinguished his work in the art community. His botanicals are both soft and powerful. His use of light brings a luminescence to his work that has become a trademark of his talent. “I use all of my senses to perceive as they collectively reveal subtleties that simple observation may overlook.” Vasili has had two successful careers, however his first love has always been painting.
Exploring Watercolor Techniques, April 2–May 21, 2012; Mondays
Tricia is an award winning artist and teacher of children and adults, who has juried into major art shows throughout the southwest for more than 30 years, including the NM Arts and Craft Fair, Weems Artfest, Masterworks, and the NM State Fair Gallery. Tricia enjoys painting with vivid colors and many of her realistic paintings have been made into Limited Edition Prints.
Tricia has a Bachelor of Fine Art degree from the University of New Mexico. She studied classical drawing and painting in Germany. At the other end of the spectrum she has studied commercial art, illustration and design. She is a signature member of the New Mexico Watercolor Society and a member of the National League of American Pen Women. Tricia’s paintings can be seen at Nob Hill Art Gallery in Albuquerque and at The Old School House Gallery in Sandia Park, NM.
Components of Compositions in Pastel (Spring/Summer Session);
May 19–July 14; Saturdays
Maggie is a Signature Member of the Pastel Society of America, Pastel Society of New Mexico (Distinguished Pastelist), and Plein Air Painters of New Mexico; a member of the IAPS Master Circle and the Salmagundi Club of New York City. She is a member of the Board of Directors and the President of the International Association of Pastel Societies, and serves on the advisory boards of The Pastel Journal and The Artist’s Magazine.
Maggie was co-founder and former editor of The Pastel Journal magazine, and has written over a hundred articles on pastel art and artists. She is the author of Painting with Pastels (North Light, 2007), and Painting Sunlight & Shadow with Pastels (North Light, spring 2011). Two new instructional DVDs covering painting with pastels have just been released by North Light Shop. She is working on a third book, to be released in 2012.
Her work has been included in numerous exhibitions and is in private collections worldwide. Her paintings have been featured in magazines in the US and Britain, and are included in several books: Pure Color: The Best of Pastel, A Painters Guide to Design and Composition (both North Light Books), and Plein Air New Mexico (Vol. 1 of the Jack Richeson Fine Art Series), as well as in her own books. She teaches US and foreign workshops each year, and joined the NMAL board in January 2011, focusing on publicity and promotion for the League as well as redesigning and maintaining its web site.
Painting the Portrait in Oil, July 27–29, 2012
Roberta Remy is an award-winning artist whose representational paintings and drawings of still life, portrait, and the figure can be found in private and corporate collections in the U.S., Brazil, Africa, and Europe. She attended the Art Students’ League of New York, of which she is a life member, Parsons School of Design, and the School of Visual Arts in New York. She is a member of the Oil Painters of America and has been repeatedly invited to show in the Albuquerque Museum of Fine Art’s Miniature Show. Roberta has had numerous one-woman shows. She has taught still life and portrait painting and drawing for over 25 years in Santa Fe and across the country. She has been the subject of articles in Southwest Art and American Art Collector magazines. Remy’s work is also featured in International Artist’s book, How Did You Paint That? 100 Ways to Paint Still Life and Florals. She is currently represented by Edward Dare Galleries, Charleston, SC; and the Sandpiper Gallery, Sullivan’s Island, SC.
Rosalyn Roembke was born in 1935 in Indianapolis. She studied Philosophy along with a liberal arts curriculum and was graduated from the University of Michigan in 1957. She came to Albuquerque in 1958 and worked in various administrative positions at the University of New Mexico until 1970. Her interest and pursuit of the study of art has been life-long; she began painting nearly full time in 1985. Her education in painting, apart from formal classes, has been an on-going process because of exposure to many fine artists over the nearly forty years she was married to the late Wilson Hurley, an exacting mentor and supporter. She uses painting knives for her still life work, choosing arrangements of materials that relate to each other in casual or formal compositions. Her work has been in the Albuquerque Museum Miniature Show since 1993, and has been represented in Nedra Matteucci Fine Art, Santa Fe, and The Grapevine Gallery, Oklahoma City.
Portrait Painting Workshop, October 22–26, 2012
Figure Painting, August 29–September 2, 2012
Cynthia Rowland graduated with a degree in Fine Arts, Texas Tech University. After slipping her toes into the warm waters of Hawaii, she was off to an exhilarating dozen years in New York, where she founded her own graphic design business.
In 1993 Cynthia returned to New Mexico to pursue sculpture in the medium of cast bronze. This developed into major public and private commissioned projects with her partner and husband, Mark. By 2005, they had completed over 40 projects, including several large-scale works, such as the award-winning Senator Dennis Chavez Memorial at Civic Plaza and Lion’s Share at the Albuquerque International Airport.
For several years Cynthia’s focus has been oil painting — enjoying the tutelage of Wilson Hurley and David Leffel. Influenced by these contemporary and other historical masters, she has developed her own style and metaphor, and has been invited to several competitions and exhibitions, including several gallery venues in Santa Fe, the Albuquerque Museum Miniatures Show and was Featured Artist for the New Mexico Symphony Benefit.
Jordan Wolfson received his MFA from Yale University School of Art. Jordan has exhibited extensively thoughout the U.S. and abroad and has received numerous awards including the Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant, the Ingram Merrill Foundation Grant and a Purchase Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. He was a fellow of the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown, Massachusetts and the Ballinglen Art Foundation in Ireland. Jordan is represented by the DFN Gallery in New York City, Michele Mosko Fine Art in Denver, and Rothschild Fine Arts in Tel Aviv. Along with his career as a professional artist, Jordan finds great inspiration from his work as a teacher. He currently teaches privately in Bolder, Colorado, and the Art Students League in Denver.