Visiting Artist Workshop: Back to Basics: Deeper Seeing and Thinking

Careful seeing, creativity, and analytical thinking are all vital aspects of making art. This workshop will engage you in several key design projects that develop these skills, applicable to all media and forms of visual art. Like a good Pilates class, the most basic exercises can be done at a very deep level for new revelations. We will work with simple materials and share our discoveries with each other.  Visit jjbruns.com/class-notes/ to see the class syllabus and supply list or email Jordan at jjordanbruns@gmail.com with any questions. Minimum age 14. 2 sessions.

Instructor

Elaine S. Wilson has 40+ years of teaching experience at the college level and at community art programs, including University of Michigan School of Art and Design, College for Creative Studies, Washtenaw Community College, and Rhode Island School of Design.   Her teaching is influenced by her teachers who studied with Josef Albers, as well as her close friendship with Fred Horowitz, author of the definitive work on Albers’s teaching, To Open Eyes.   She is the winner of the 2025 Bethesda Painting Prize among other awards and accomplishments.

Materials:  

self-Healing cutting mat,

x-acto knife and #11 blades, scissors,

rubber cement, (glue stick possible if you can’t use rubber cement),

H or 2H pencil, eraser,

12” or 18” cork backed metal ruler,

pad of 11” x 14” White Bristol paper

All other materials supplied by instructor.