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Instructor Name: Mike Berlinski Date(s): June 11th Time(s): 10:00 – 4:00 Workshop Description: This workshop will go over the basics of painting outdoors. Including composition, values and color theory. It will cover the importance of proper observation, lighting and learning to identify key elements in a landscape. In addition color mixing, application and personal expression will […]
Instructor Name: Krista Narciso Date: June 20, 2022 Time: 9:30-12:30 Workshop Description Students will be introduced to the basics of bookbinding in this one-day workshop. Various styles of pamphlet binding will be demonstrated, including simple book structures for making handmade journals and sketchbooks and more decorative sewing patterns that can be used for artists' books. […]
Instructor Name: Brandon Brownlee Date(s): June 20, 2022 Time(s): 9:30-4:30 In this workshop students will walk through the process of recognizing and designing compositions using a large still-life set-up. This workshop will cover the preliminary sketching process as well as the preliminary color study or “poster study” done before a final painting. Geared toward beginners […]
Instructor Name: Sophia DeJesus-Sabella Date: June 22, 2022 Time: 1:00 – 5:00 Ages: 18+ This workshop will introduce students to the process of tapestry weaving, starting with building a frame loom and ending with a finished tapestry piece. Students will explore color, texture, and image making by working with a variety of tapestry weaving techniques. […]
West Gallery: Balam Soto & Mary Anne McCarthy Balam Soto and Mary Ann McCarthy are both inspired by the Greek word dendrites, which refers to trees found in nature and also to neurons in the human brain that resemble trees; however, their approaches to artmaking are vastly different. McCarthy’s intricate silverpoint drawings of nature and […]
East Gallery Kasey Ramirez - Red Sky In Morning Kasey Ramirez’s drawings and prints explore the tension between stability and impermanence. Ramirez states, “In my drawings and prints, buildings become a stand-in for humans, a metaphor for man-made efforts to create shelters that are ultimately vulnerable to environmental extremes.” Ramirez’s charcoal drawings depict skeletal structures […]
TDP Gallery Gene Gort - Drawn To Code Gene Gort utilizes computer programming as a means to produce “drawings”. The images generated from computer code create animations, data visualizations, and digital prints. Gort writes, “I am drawn to the concepts of interactivity, repetition, variability, and unpredictability that the process allows.” The exhibition will feature both […]
Five Points Arts Center is hosting its first-ever Artist’s Residency from June 26 - July 3, 2022. On Friday, July 1st from 1 pm - 4 pm, the artists will be conducting an open house for visitors. Come see the results of the Water Women collective's residency at Five Points (855 University Drive). Three of […]
Join Five Points Gallery on Friday, July 8th at 6:30 PM for this Virtual Artist Talk and learn more about the artists and artwork from two of our three current exhibitions. Click Here to Register: https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_aiUuKC_lRPm4CWqEzLE-XQ Moderated by Matthew Best. Kasey Ramirez’s drawings and prints explore the tension between stability and impermanence. Ramirez states, “In […]
Instructor Name: Stephen Maine Date: July 9, 2022 Time: 10:00 – 5:00 A truly democratic art form, collage requires few technical skills, yet its conceptual reach is boundless. Collage employs spatial disruption as an organizing principle, its interplay of fragmentation and continuity accommodating and even celebrating contingencies of concept, process, and form. Suited to artists […]