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Mt. Washington Studio Classes
Arthur Gonzalez
WS2 Sculpting the Dynamics of Complex Facial Expressions
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Instructor: Arthur Gonzalez
Date/Time: Saturday and Sunday, February 18-19, 2012, 10am-4pm
FULL, please contact 410.578.1919 for waitlist
Anyone can sculpt a face that is happy or sad, but how do you sculpt complex expressions such as cleverness, skepticism or jealousy? This two day workshop will be a journey toward understanding the asymmetric expression and the maneuvering of clay through the categories of believable feelings and emotions with the addition of upper body language. The inside-out method will be used as well as lessons in color theory as a devise to fortify the visual communications of the human condition.
Bio:Arthur Gonzalez is an internationally exhibiting artist with over fifty one-person shows in the last thirty years, including seven in Manhattan, New York. He has received many awards including the Virginia Groot Foundation twice and is an unprecedented four-time recipient of the National Endowment of the Arts Fellowship within a ten-year period. He is a tenured Professor at the California College of the Arts (formerly CCAC) where he was chair of the ceramics program from 1995-2006. Gonzalez has been an artist-in-residence in many places including University of Georgia, Athens, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, Penland School of Craft, North Carolina, University of Akron in Ohio, Tainan National University in Taiwan, and Pilchuck Glass School in Washington.