Noncredit Workshop
Sticking With It Part I Only
Event ID: P09619
Info: Jul 7-10 • Mon-Thu • 2:00-6:00pm • 4 mtgs plus open studio through Jul 13 • UHM Art 320 • $250, includes parking, storage, and studio access • Check online for supply list
With: Pia Stern
Attend only the first week of `Sticking With It,` a workshop for intermediate and advanced students who are already well-versed in techniques and materials of painting. Using the Buddhist principle of non-attachment to investigate the possibilities of working and re-working the same canvas, participants create a new painting each day. Explore the balance between `sticking to` and `letting go` while working in a large format. Discussions, videos, and individual guidance are provided to facilitate this process.
MATERIALS: Bring to first class the following materials: pencil, writing paper or notebook, gesso, acrylic paint, basic painting supplies (palette & palette knives, water containers, a good variety of brush sizes, etc.), mixed media that you like (charcoal, pastels, ink, glue, etc.), paper towels (suggest Viva or Scott rag), combination lock for locker, and smock. (Or wear painting clothes.) One primed canvas, roughly 3`x4`, or 4`x 4`, or larger. Digital camera also suggested. If you buy supplies, save receipts in the event not everything is used.
The studios at UH are very spacious. Because most people have space constraints in their own studios, participants are encouraged to take advantage of this unique opportunity.
Pia Stern, BA, MA, and MFA, University of California, Berkeley, has had numerous solo and group exhibitions in San Francisco, Los Angeles, Chicago, Santa Fe, Monterey, and Honolulu over the past thirty years. Her work has been critically acclaimed in newspaper, book, and journal reviews; her paintings are held in galleries, museums, and public and private collections nationwide. She was a nominee for the prestigious Joan Mitchell Foundation Grant in 2007, and has received awards, including the Eisner Prize and Regent`s Scholarship at UC-Berkeley. Locally, she has served as a guest juror. She taught as an affiliate graduate faculty member at UHM from 1995 to 2005, when she moved to California to teach and make art.