Trust Your Gut: Intuitive Drawing
Trust Your Gut: Intuitive Drawing
With Chuck Holtzman
2 days: Monday & Tuesday
September 15th & 16th, 1PM - 3 PM
Cost: $175
8 participants maximum
Drawing is the process of creative thinking and discovery. When you are engaged in the process of transforming materials, you’re also opening new pathways by changing how you see and know as a person and an artist. We will explore abstraction and what it can reveal through the manipulation of a range of materials on paper. Together, we’ll examine how each of you can construct the individual framework by which exploration gives way to examining and growing ideas. As a group, we’ll question and challenge commonly held beliefs and assumptions about drawing, and how to direct a process in less known territory to make discoveries. Trusting in your intuitive powers forms a map of possibilities for you to follow. The idea of questions without the pressure of necessarily seeking answers, basically living in the questions will be considered.
MATERIALS LIST:
Paper, compressed charcoal, straight edge, box cutter, tape, any other drawing tools you have on hand.
Chuck Holtzman is an artist and teacher living and working in Boston, He trained as a sculptor and graduated from The School of The Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, eventually putting sculpture aside he turned his focus exclusively to works on paper. His career in teaching began at The Visual and Environmental Studies Department at Harvard University and continued at The School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston; The MFA Program at the Art Institute of Boston; Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH; Lesley University, Cambridge; The New Art Center, Newton, MA and online private classes.
Chuck has exhibited widely in numerous one person and group exhibitions locally and nationally. He has been awarded A National Endowment for the Arts Grant; A Massachusetts Cultural Council Grant for Drawing; The Ingram Merrill Foundation Award; The New England Foundation for the Arts Grant; The Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant, and The National Academy Prize in Graphics Award, NY, and among others.
Chuck’s work has been acquired by numerous public and private collections, including The Museum of Fine Arts, Boston; The Whitney Museum of American Art, NY; The Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge; The Worcester Art Museum; The Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas,TX; The Addison Gallery of American Art, Andover, MA and others.
Shepherd & Maudsleigh Studio
27 Dunstan Street, West Newton, MA 02465
Free parking is provided.
Image 1: Credit to Chuck Holtzman
Image 2: Credit to Annie Miller (student of Chuck's)
Image 3: Credit to Carol Trager (student of Chuck's)