“No person has the right to dictate what other people should perceive, create or produce. Everyone should be encouraged to reveal themselves, their perceptions and emotions, and to build confidence in the creative spirit.” - Ansel Adams Drawing and painting teacher Ascha Drake, like Ansel Adams, believes that “it’s important to hook students on a …
Experiences: Ascha Drake on “Chuck Close Face Book”
Update - Tuesday, Nov. 6: "Chuck Close Face Book” made Publishers Weekly's Best Books of 2012 for Children's Nonfiction! Ascha Drake, a teacher of art at The Bay School, talks about the process of co-authoring "Chuck Close Face Book," a vivid peek into the work and world of the enormously popular contemporary painter, printmaker and photographer. Who …
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Visual Verse : Poetry meets Painting
Painters and poets experience a similar process. Something internally or externally sparks an idea. The idea threads through materials or words. The materials or words are edited, revised, and worked through a journey of additions and subtractions. A composition is generated. The composition is then interpreted and reinterpreted by an audience. It felt like a …
Artistic Representation Intersession
"Process is more important than outcome. When the outcome drives the process we will only ever go to where we have been. If process drives outcome, we may not know where we are going, but we will know we want to be there." - Bruce Mau The 13 artists in the Artistic Representation Intersession …
Inside the painting studio
“The experience of making art is a play between control over the materials, and an open and permissive attitude toward technique, allowing the process to mold the image as it will.“ - Jay deFeo The last term of the school year has started out strong in the painting …
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