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Saturday in the Studio/ Museum of Contemporary Art Summer Studio/Virginia Museum of Contemporary Art I have an on going love affair with young artists and the positively open, spontaneous and joyful willingness that allows them to be inventors and detectives continually discovering ways to express and playfully explore. Three semesters and a summer studio make up . . . → Read More: Saturday in the Studio The Four Directions, (detail) Drozda, 2004, White ink on black board 8×10" October is the Experience month of the year. Have you been noticing the way that the last 18 days have unfolded for you? It’s quite something to simply allow this to be a glimpse, a mini clip or trailer, of what 2011 . . . → Read More: Following the Moon: The Light Heart ‘Balinese Brahaman sculpture’ Journal page, Drozda Drozda photo I went to Bali for a month long retreat and while there I had the delightful pleasure of learning the phrase, “What’s your program?”On the days when a driver would arrive to take me to visit different places on the ‘Island of Artists’ he would ask . . . → Read More: What’s Your Program? It has been cranking in the ‘Saturday in the Studio’ as ten artists age 9-11 worked to accomplish their individiual projects. It’s such a treat to witness the process of concept to completion. It’s all up to them…no assignment…no one telling them how to solve their problems…it’s the creative nature plowing through the . . . → Read More: Creative Contrast On Saturday morning I invited my 6-8 year old artists at The Contemporary Art Center of Virginia to observe and draw ballet dancers who were posing for a group of artists who work from the live model. These aren’t the best documents of a charming sight but if you look closely you . . . → Read More: Tiny Little Dancers I enjoyed a delightful week creating with over 500 students at Thoroughgood Elementary in Virginia Beach. Each class K-5 had a different experience. Here are some wee ones in second grade enjoying some time ‘down at the river bank’ drawing with ‘paint in a stick’. it always brings a sense of wonder . . . → Read More: Springing Forward It’s trippy to have been in the studios at CACV for many years with some of my young artists. I’ve been working with, guiding and observing them since they were wee ones fascinated by nature and the animal world and now I get to see them turning the corner into their prepubescent . . . → Read More: It’s a Wrap I so appreciate that there surfaces a simple purity and magic when we discover that something is inside just waiting to show itself to us. The 7 year old here thought he was going to draw his first mountain goat. He had selected a photo to work from. Twenty minutes later the delight . . . → Read More: Joy of Discovery Last week it was warm enough for many of the artists to work outdoors…most likely that won’t be the case this week…no matter… the eleven 9-11 year old participants in Saturday in the Studio at The Contemporary Art Center of Virginia are deeply involved in their individual projects and eager to jump into . . . → Read More: Saturday in the Studio Week Four A bitter day but the eleven young artists in this semester’s Saturday in the Studio spread out around the grounds of the Contemporary Art Center and made additions to their working sketch books as they gather ideas for their own projects. The first three weeks they devote to research followed by four weeks of . . . → Read More: Dedicated |
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