Critters in Clay
Using basic handbuilding techniques and surface decoration, this workshop invites students to explore play, color, and curiosity in building functional forms.
Explore your relationship with the natural world through art and collaborative creation.
June 24 – June 28, 2024
One week session
18+
$1,470
$725
$65
$50
All levels
Enrollment is limited to 9 students.
Working individually and collaboratively, we will explore our relationship with the natural world through art. By utilizing different modalities such as site-specific sculpture, personal shrines, a collaborative mandala, and individual dwellings, we will have direct experience of symbiosis with natural systems.
The workshop will be divided between “fieldwork” and studio time, where we will process our time in the field, and learn about the theoretical underpinnings of what I call “symbiotic art”. In support of this, each participant is encouraged to document our time together in words and images. Although I have laid out the structural basis for the workshop, the way it evolves is, in large part, determined by the participants, and their willingness to engage and play together. Historically this has been one of the joys of teaching this workshop
David Reid-Marr graduated with an MFA in painting from RCA in London. He has studied with David Hockney, Francis Bacon and Lucien Freud. He works in various mediums, including drawing, painting, sculpture and performance. He taught at Idyllwild Arts for 22 years and was chair of the Visual Arts Department. He has exhibited extensively in the U.K. and the U.S. He is passionate about the relationship between Art, the natural world, and the communities they foster.
The lab fee includes a small sketchbook, gloves, 120 Ib. drawing paper, acrylic paint, and other shared material.
The week will begin with an all program mixer on Sunday, June 23rd, where you will have an opportunity to meet your classmates, as well as participants in other adult programs for the week.
Instruction begins on Monday at 9am with a lunch at noon and an afternoon workshop session that meets until 4pm or so.
Monday nights will feature an opening reception at the Parks Exhibition Gallery, featuring work from our very own summer faculty! Students can also attend readings and lectures hosted by our other programs on campus throughout the week.
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