Academic Year 2007 - 2008 | School Calendar | 183rd session First quarter: September 10, 2007-November 3, 2007 Priority registration for students enrolled in the summer or previous year Saturday, August 18, 2007: in-person only August 20-24, 2007: in-person, telephone, faxed and mailed registrations Open registration Monday, August 27, 2007: begins in-person, telephone, faxed and mailed registrations Last Day for Full Refund: Saturday, September 1, 2007 Second quarter: November 5, 2007-January 19, 2008 Priority registration for enrolled students Monday, October 15, 2007: in-person, telephone, faxed and mailed registrations Open registration Monday, October 22, 2007: begins in-person, telephone, faxed and mailed registrations Last Day for Full Refund: Saturday, Oct. 27, 2007 Third Quarter: Monday, January 21, 2008-March 15, 2008 Priority registration for enrolled students Saturday, December 8, 2007: in-person only Monday, December 10-14, 2007: in-person, telephone, faxed and mailed registrations Open registration Monday, December 17, 2007: begins in-person, telephone, faxed and mailed registrations Last Day for Full Refund: Saturday, Jan. 12, 2008 Fourth quarter: March 24, 2008-May 17, 2008 Priority registration for enrolled students Monday, February 25-March 1, 2008: in-person, telephone, faxed, and mailed registrations Open registration Monday, March 3, 2008: begins in-person, telephone, faxed and mailed registrations Last Day for Full Refund: Saturday, March 15, 2008 HOLIDAYS Classes will not be held on the following holidays; however, during recesses, the school office will remain open, please call to confirm office hours: Columbus Day, Monday, October 8, 2007 Thanksgiving Recess (one week), Monday, November 19 - Sunday, November 25, 2007 (Except for Serge Hollerbach Workshop) Winter Recess (two weeks), Monday, December 24, 2007 - Sunday, January 6, 2008 Spring Recess (one week), Monday, March 17, 2007 - Sunday, March 23, 2007 (Classes not held due to holidays will be rescheduled at the instructor's request.) National Academy classes will be cancelled due to inclement weather, if the New York City Public School System cancels classes. REGISTRATION INFORMATION Registration Dates Students may register for classes by the quarter, the semester, or the year. Students enrolled during the 182nd school session (2006-2007 academic year), and the summer of 2007 have priority enrollment privileges and may register for any class during the priority registration for the first quarter. See registration dates listed. Saturday Registration Due to the high volume of registration for many classes, and to be as fair as possible to all students, the school will hold Saturday walk-in registrations during the first and third quarter registration in August and January. For registration dates check the calendar. Students may register themselves and one other person. In-Person Registration Students may register in person at the school Monday through Thursday, 9:00-7:00 pm. Friday and Saturday, 9:00-4:00 pm. Summer hours differ slightly; please call the office to verify hours. Telephone/Fax Registration Students may also register by telephone or fax with a credit card. Registration by telephone, fax or by mail with a credit card includes a $6 service fee. To register by telephone call the School office at (212) 996-1908 or fax your completed registration form with your credit card information to (212) 426-1711.* Registration by Mail Students who register by mail must complete the registration form and return with payment of a check, money order or credit card (Mastercard or Visa only) to: Registrar National Academy School of Fine Arts 5 East 89th Street New York, New York 10128 (All credit card registrations made by mail, telephone, or fax will incur a non-refundable $6 service fee)** Tuition Payment Tuition must be paid in full. The National Academy School of Fine Arts accepts payment by check, money order, or credit card (Mastercard or Visa only). Checks drawn on foreign banks will not be accepted. There is a $25 fee for returned checks. Discount Policy Students registering for an entire semester receive a discount of 5%. Those registering for the entire year receive a discount of 10%. All discounts are reflected in the tuition fees listed in the schedule of classes. Students who withdraw or transfer out of a discounted class will lose that discount. Registration Fee All students enrolling for the first time are required to pay a one-time only registration fee of $50.00. The registration fee is non-refundable. Refunds Students withdrawing from a class or workshop through the published full refund deadline date (See registration calendar for exact full refund dates.) will receive a full refund of tuition and lab fees. Students withdrawing from a class or workshop during the week before the beginning of the quarter will receive an 85% refund of tuition and lab fees. Workshops: No refunds will be made after a workshop begins. Classes: Students withdrawing from a class after instruction has begun and before the beginning of the second class will receive a 75% refund of tuition and lab fees. No refunds will be made after this period, unless there is a documented medical excuse. Students must notify the school office in order to receive a refund; ceasing to attend class without notifying the school does not constitute withdrawal from class. Refunds with a medical excuse will be given only during the quarter in which the student missed class. The student must request the refund during that quarter. Refunds are issued in the same form as payment. Money order and check payments are issued within thirty days from request in the form of a check. Registration and service fees are non-refundable. Transfer policy Students may transfer once per registered class per quarter into any class with available seats. Transferring out of a class constitutes forfeiting any discounts that applied to that class. A transfer fee of $10.00 will be charged. Workshops: Transfers into any workshop, either from another workshop or class, are not permitted. Classes: Transfers from one class to another must be requested at the end of the first day of the original class. Late Registration Students who register anytime after the first week of class must pay the tuition and lab fee for the entire quarter. No pro-rating is permitted. *Any faxed registrations received before 9:00 a.m. on the applicable registration date will be processed on the second day of that registration. **Any mail registration postmarked prior to three days before the applicable registration date will be processed on the second day of that registration. Download Registration Form (Printer Friendly PDF Version) FEES and TIMES CHART To view the FEES and TIMES CHART, please click here for a pdf file. COURSE DESCRIPTIONS AND COSTS MASTER CLASSES MASTER CLASSES PAINTING Paul Weingarten Painting Life MMP183 Quarter 1 Monday-Thursday 9:00am-12:00pm Class Limit 15 Tuition: $803 + $48 Lab Fee for the Quarter The intention is to provide an environment for enthusiastic self discovery within the context of those universal values that have been a consistent foundation for fine artists throughout history. Students will unlock the potential of paint and will explore means of expression, enhancement of craft, and the underlying elements related to color composition, form and drawing. The attempt will be to demystify the process, while gaining an understanding of the open-ended challenge that fine art presents. Figure, landscape, portrait, and still life will be pursued. In addition, the aesthetic ideas expressed by a selection of ten modern masters will be explored through their own writings and pictures. Sonia Gechtoff, NA Abstract Painting MMP2183 Quarters 2 & 3 Monday-Thursday 9:00am-12:00pm Class Limit 14 Tuition: $803 + $48 Lab Fee for the Quarter $1526 + $96 Lab Fee for the Semester Pursuing the idea of inventive painting, this course will emphasize abstract imagery. Students may use oil or acrylic and work with a brush, stick, and knife on any surface suitable for painting. Large formats will be encouraged. Tom Ferrara Abstract Painting Workshop MPW3183 April 21 - May 15, 2008 Monday - Thursday 9:00am-12:00pm Tuition: $402 + $24 Lab Fee In this course we will explore the expressive possibilities of paint in order to reflect the depth and complexity of our world through a language that encompasses conceptual, emotional and spiritual concerns. Great art is made of those three elements, ideas, passion and intuition, and our goal is to manage the interaction of those forces in a way that is fluid. Morton Kaish, NA Power Painting: Making the Most of Your Palette Knife MMPK183 March 24 - 27, 2008 Monday - Thursday 9:00am-12:00pm Tuition: $200 + $6 Lab Fee Many artists have been struck with vivid, richly textured images created or enhanced employing the palette knife - and yet remain uncertain in their own approach to the technique. For beginners and advanced students, the workshop offers and opportunity for imagination to join with discipline of drawing and freedom of color. Working from the model with brush and knife, in a simple step-by-step approach, the emphasis will be on experimentation to create images both dramatic and personal. Henry Finkelstein, NA Light and Color Master Workshop MWLC183 March 31-April 17, 2008 Monday - Thursday 9:00am-12:00pm Tuition: $350 + $18 Lab Fee This workshop will explore that aspect of painting which gives precedence to color. Since surprisingly few painters really do this, the area is ripe for personal discovery. Students will work in daylight from still life set-ups or out of doors weather permitting, as an excuse to find relationships of space, light, and air. In the end one may come to understand what "drawing with color" can mean. Oil paint is preferred. The instructor will be present for two of the four days per week. MASTER CLASSES DRAWING Sonia Gechtoff, NA & Costa Vavagiakis Respecting the Edge AMD183 Quarter 1 Monday -Friday 1:00pm-4:00pm Class Limit: 14 Tuition: $1347 + $48 Lab Fee for the Quarter In abstraction and figuration, the action is at the edge. This class will explore the many possibilities of the edge in drawing. The two instructors will each approach drawing from their individual concepts - drawing from the figure and drawing from the abstract. Each instructor will meet once a week and will meet together for a critique four times in the quarter. Deborah Remington, NA Abstract Drawing AMD2183 Quarter 2 Monday- Friday 1:00pm-4:00pm Class Limit: 15 Tuition: $1004 + $60 Lab Fee for the Quarter Emphasis is on work from imagination to sharpen perceptual and inventive skills. There will be no model. Ideas and techniques are explored and developed by each student on an individual basis. Various media, including powdered graphite, ink stick, as well as the more traditional black and white drawing media will be examined. The student may choose to work on oversize paper, or not. Through the large dimension, the student will shatter her/his comfortable relationship with drawing on the more familiar smaller scale, in order to form new ideas and solutions within the boundaries of drawing. Exploration of the visual and intellectual aspects of form and other elements of abstraction, designed to challenge and extend the student's creative experience. Students may work from a sketchbook. Problem solving and self-reliance are stressed. There will be individual and group critiques and discussions. Intermediate and advanced students only. Instructor's approval required for registration. Colleen Randall Three Week Drawing Workshop MDW183 January 21-February 8, 2008 Monday-Friday 1:00pm -4:00pm Tuition: $375 Ms. Randall returns to our visiting artist master workshop series, from her position as Chair of the Dartmouth College Art Department. Her course will focus on drawing as a record of the imaginative consciousness. Drawing on personal experience, the students will explore his or her own vision through a dynamic interaction with the "structural" or "formal" elements on drawing. The importance of scale, and rhythm of line, density of mark, and quality of light will be emphasized in establishing a textured, fully realized drawing that captures both internal and external realities. We will examine various approaches to pictorial composition and the handling of different media in the context of examples taken from both historical and contemporary sources. Ying Li Two Week Abstract Drawing Workshop MDW2183 February 11-February 22, 2008 Monday - Friday 1:00pm - 4:00pm Tuition: $250 Visiting instructor, Ying Li, is a well known abstract artist and Chair of the Haverford College Art Department. See the website for her complete biography. The course will be devoted to the process of drawing. A live model will be used as a starting point and students will learn how a drawing develops and transforms through the physical process by using different materials. Students will focus on the formal issues of space, geometric shape, contrast and proportion. To create different emotional effects, students will experiment using a variety of textures. A museum visit will be included. Andrea Packard Two Week Master Drawing with Collage Workshop MDW3183 March 3 - 14, 2008 Monday - Friday 1:00pm-4:00pm Tuition: $250 Building on the fundamental elements of drawing, such as the expressive use of rhythm, proportion, and value, this course will allow participants to explore collage processes as a way of developing a personal visual language. A variety of experimental processes and techniques will be introduced. Students will be encouraged to question habits of drawing and to discover a personal visual language. Demonstrations, visual analysis of masterworks, individual consultation, and a group round-up will focus our goals and broaden our scope. Whether working from direct observation, abstract improvisation, or a synthesis of approaches, participants will use experimental processes to enhance creative growth. Sonia Gechtoff, NA Abstract Drawing AMD3183 Quarter 4 Monday-Friday 1:00pm-4:00pm Class limit 14 Tuition: $1004 + $60 Lab Fee for the Quarter This course will explore the many possibilities of drawing emphasizing abstract concepts. Students will work with graphite, charcoal, ink, and other combinations. The primary objective will be black and white imagery, but color may also be introduced. Large formats will be encouraged. DRAWING Daniel Atyim Drawing MD183 Monday-Friday 9:00am-12:00pm Class Limit 10 Tuition: $1004 + $60 Lab Fee for the Quarter $1908 + $120 Lab Fee for the Semester $3615 + $240 Lab Fee for the Year Using a variety of mediums and supports, students work with in a specific range of subject matter. Graphite, charcoal, ballpoint pen, and chalk pastel, will be introduced or further examined, depending on the level of the student. The human figure and architectural interior will be our daily focus. Assignments outside of class incorporate still life, and landscape that afford opportunities to further develop individual interests and projects. Lisa Dinhofer Exploring Still Life DSL183 Tuesday 7:00-10:00 pm Class limit 15 Tuition: $235 + $15 Lab Fee for the Quarter $446 + $30 Lab Fee for the Semester $846 + $60 Lab Fee for the Year To capture a moment, to enter unique environs, to turn the intimate into the monumental and finally to transpose the ordinary into the beautiful, this is the art of still life drawing. This course will explore all aspects of creating a still life, from beginning construction to completing a cohesive picture. Students will learn how to put objects together, render them realistically, and tell a story. Composition, color and draftsmanship will be stressed. Using charcoal, graphite and colored pencil, ink and watercolor each student will experiment with different materials. This class is open to all levels of experience, from the beginner who wants to start to draw, to the advanced artist who wants to hone a skill or experiment with different ideas. Drawing SMD183 Saturday 9:00am-12:00 pm Class limit 15 Tuition: $235 + $15 Lab Fee for the Quarter $446 + $30 Lab Fee for the Semester $846 + $60 Lab Fee for the Year The knowledge and experience gained from learning to draw accurately from the live model becomes the springboard to painting, sculpture, and all personal explorations in art. Drawing the figure develops a base of confidence from which students can develop their own interests and perceptions. This course will explore these ideas in a formal study of structure, gesture, and likeness. Ellen Eagle Figure Drawing LAD183 Tuesday 4:00pm-7:00pm Class Limit 15 Tuition: $235 + $15 Lab Fee for the Quarter $446 + $30 Lab Fee for the Semester $846 + $60 Lab Fee for the Year Students will be encouraged to explore the individual characteristics of the model. Our goal is to grasp action and character by constructing the simplest possible relationships of mass and detail, with tone and line. This class is open to students of all levels. Henry Finkelstein, NA Drawing LAD2183 Monday & Wednesdays 4:00-7:00 pm Class limit 15 Tuition: $400 + $24 Lab Fee for the Quarter $760 + $48 Lab Fee for the Semester $1440 + $96 Lab Fee for the Year This course will present drawing as a way of understanding plasticity and discovering visual form. Concepts such as rhythm, plane, shift, space and volume will be offered, always grounded in how they affect the whole page. Work will largely be done from the human figure, but will include some observation of other situations as well. Historical examples will be presented and discussed throughout the class. Dan Gheno Figure Drawing Eds183 Wednesday 7:00-10:00pm Class Limit 15 Tuition: $235 + $15 Lab Fee for the Quarter $446 + $30 Lab Fee for the Semester $846 + $60 Lab Fee for the Year Working from the live model students will explore the human figure while using their choice of materials, i.e. charcoal, graphite, conte, colored pencil, pastel, and other dry drawing media. Wet media, pen, ink, or watercolor may also be used. Designed for all levels this class will incorporate a diversity of model types and a variety of long and short poses. Students will develop an understanding of proportion, anatomy, planes, and optical principles of light and dark and they will investigate rhythmic manipulation of line as it is used to describe form, impart expressiveness and the evocative gesture of the figure. The instructor will work individually with students of all levels. Susan Grossman Drawing ED183 Thursday 7:00pm-10:00pm Quarter 4 Class Limit 15 Tuition: $235 + $15 Lab Fee for the Quarter This course is designed to explore the fundamental techniques of drawing and to challenge the student to create work that explores individual expression. Instruction on the use of charcoal and pastels and their effects on the creative process will be ongoing. Students will use these materials to create drawings that are large in scale and complexity. The class will have a choice of subject matter working from models, still life or the use of photographs or images that inspire the student. Individual and group critiques will be given. Current museum and gallery exhibitions relative to the course will also be discussed. Michele LiCalsi Beginning Drawing EBD183 Wednesday, 7:00-10:00pm Class limit 12 Tuition: $235 + $15 Lab Fee for the Quarter $446 + $30 Lab Fee for the Semester $846 + $60 Lab Fee for the Year This course is designed to give students a solid foundation in the fundamentals of drawing. The skills necessary to render a subject three-dimensionally will be taught through a variety of exercises using still life and eventually the model. Observational techniques, composition and different artistic approaches will be explored as students use a variety of mediums to render the subject. This course is for beginners with little or no previous drawing experience and is an excellent refresher for the artist who wants to review basic principles or improve their skill level with a particular drawing medium. Nicki Orbach Figure Drawing ED2183 Monday 7:00-10:00 pm Class limit 15 Tuition: $235 + $15 Lab Fee for the Quarter $446 + $30 Lab Fee for the Semester $846 + $60 Lab Fee for the Year This class is designed to allow students to draw or paint with acrylic water based paint using the model for inspiration. The course will explore perceptual and compositional elements needed to organize a work of art. Lectures and individual instruction will be oriented towards helping students develop a better understanding of visual imagery. Students of all levels are welcome. Drawing SAD183 Saturday 1:00-4:00pm Class limit 20 Tuition: $235 + $15 Lab Fee for the Quarter $446 + $30 Lab Fee for the Semester $846 + $60 Lab Fee for the Year This course will explore the perceptual elements needed to organize a work of art together with aspects of anatomy. Exercises and lectures will be oriented towards helping students develop a deeper understanding of visual imagery. Individual instruction is stressed and students of all levels are welcome. Viviane Silvera Portrait Drawing EPD183 (Q1 & Q2) EPD2182 (Q3) Thursday 7:00pm-10:00pm Quarter 1, 2 & 3 Class Limit 15 Tuition: $235 + $15 Lab Fee for the Quarter $446 + $30 Lab Fee for the Semester This course encourages individuality of expression through an analysis of the fundamentals of portrait drawing: structure of the head, composition, line, and value relationships. Drawing principles are demonstrated in individual critiques, reference to the model and by means of studio-lecture demonstrations. Students will gain an understanding of the underlying structures influencing surface anatomy, learn how to measure and check proportions, use a combination of massing and contour techniques to build the portrait and render tone texture, and gesture. Uninstructed sketch class USK183 Thursday, 7:00-10:00 pm The school offers all interested artists an opportunity for open drawing class with a model. A monitor will time and set the poses. The group will begin with short poses leading up to longer ones, culminating in several twenty-five minute poses. Students register daily per class. PAINTING Sam Adoquei Painting CAAC183 Monday-Thursday 1:00-7:00 pm Class limit 25 Tuition: $1524 + $96 Lab Fee for the Quarter $2895 + $192 Lab Fee for the Semester $5486 + $384 Lab Fee for the Year An Academic Atelier approach is for students interested in pursuing art intensively and constructively. The studio will be divided in several groups with beginning students working on the basics of figure drawing and the fundamentals of oil painting; more advanced students will work on figure painting, portraiture, color composition and design. One group of students will focus on basic artistic anatomy, construction of the figure, and still life as an introduction to oil painting and the understanding of color. Another area of the studio will have more advanced students painting long poses from the model, improving their skill, sense of composition and design, color, the figure, portraiture, and the art and craft of oil painting, while concentrating on a finished work. Within this framework students will be taught a direct approach beginning with broad strokes, blocking masses of form, value and tones. Working fast, students will learn how to resolve problems towards a completed painting, while gaining control of the medium and skillful command of the materials. Degas' approach to composition and Sargent's use of paint will be emphasized. Sam Adoquei Figure and Still Life Painting EP183 Monday and Tuesday 7:00-10:00pm Class limit 25 Tuition: $400 + $24 Lab Fee for the Quarter $760 + $48 Lab Fee for the Semester $1440 + $96 Lab Fee for the Year Students will be taught a direct approach to painting, in a manner leading to the confident control of the medium and skillful command of the materials. Attention will be given to judging relationships between shapes, and the importance of color and design. Working fast, students will learn how to resolve problems, and develop their paintings to completion. Beginners will draw for part of the two week pose in order to learn the basics of drawing and after, the fundamentals of painting. Henry Finkelstein, NA Painting EP2183 Monday-Wednesday 7:00-10:00 pm Class limit 25 Tuition: $604 + $36 Lab Fee for the Quarter $1147 + $72 Lab Fee for the Semester $2174 + $144 Lab Fee for the Year Working from still life and the figure, students will explore different ways of approaching a whole canvas, and how each part of a painting affects the whole. Issues of color, space, and volume will be discussed along with historical examples from Piero della Francesca through Willem DeKooning. In this way students will develop skills at establishing a picture plane and sensing a unified intention to it. Cornelia Foss The Fundamentals of Painting LAP2183 Wednesday and Thursday 4:00pm-7:00pm Class limit 20 Tuition: $400 + $30 Lab Fee for the Quarter $760 + $60 Lab Fee for the Semester $1440 + $120 Lab Fee for the Yea This course will focus on the fundamentals of painting. The emphasis will be on structure, composition, as well as color. Mixing colors is an important aspect of this course, as is the understanding of what makes a painting. The historical aspects of painting will be explored, allowing students to gain an insight into contemporary painting. Both models and still-life will be used, and class discussion will be encouraged. Dan Gheno Painting SMP2183 Saturday 9:00am-12:00pm Class limit 20 Tuition: $235 + $15 Lab Fee for the Quarter $446 + $30 Lab Fee for the Semester $846 + $60 Lab Fee for the Year Painting SAP183 Saturday 1:00-4:00pm Class limit 20 Tuition: $235 + $15 Lab Fee for the Quarter $446 + $30 Lab Fee for the Semester $846 + $60 Lab Fee for the Year Designed for all levels, this class uses the figure and surrounding environment to investigate the potentials and challenges of light and shade, color theory, composition, anatomy, and perspective. Students may work in any media. The development of each student's personal style and aesthetic sensibility is encouraged. Students are given individual instruction appropriate to their level of experience. Michele LiCalsi The Art of the Portrait EPP183 Thursday, 7:00-10:00pm Class limit 18 Tuition: $235 + $15 Lab Fee for the Quarter $446 + $30 Lab Fee for the Semester $846 + $60 Lab Fee for the Year Interpreting the essence of an individual is one of the most rewarding aspects of portrait painting. In this course, students will be given the technical and interpretive tools that will allow them to grow and achieve artistic success in the field of portraiture. Technical topics will include posing the model, choosing a background, props and clothing, lighting the subject, composing the image and the importance of gesture. Interpretive techniques will include creating a likeness, the expressive use of color and the use of abstract elements within a representational image. Throughout the course a variety of oil painting techniques will be taught, reviewed and critiqued. Students will develop a strong technical and creative foundation for further work and a clear understanding of where they fit within the history of portrait painting. James McElhinney Secrets of American Landscape Painting SLP183 Tuesday-Thursday 1:00-4:00pm Sept. 11-27, 2007 Tuition: $264 New students will explore the painting and drawing methods of the Hudson River School and Luminist artists. Touching on how they were trained, students will learn how working in the field shaped artists' studio practices through technical demonstrations, discussion and hands on experience. Continuing students (who took the spring session) will explore methods related to Luminism and Tonalism. The instructor will be present each day. Mary Beth McKenzie, NA Figure Painting AP183 Monday-Friday 1:00-4:00pm Class limit 25 Tuition: $1004 + $60 Lab Fee for the Quarter $1908 + $120 Lab Fee for the Semester $3615 + $240 Lab Fee for the Year Students may work in oil or pastel from a live model. Special emphasis will be placed on color, structure, value, and composition. Figurative painting will be approached in a broad, abstract way. Students will be encouraged to deal with the entire canvas, not just parts of it, developing each painting as a whole. Students will be taught to think in terms of color, form, and relationship, relying less on drawing, particularly in the early stages. Individual attention is given to students at all levels, from beginners to advanced. Figure Painting with Experimental Approaches LAP183 Monday-Tuesday 4:00-7:00pm Class limit 25 Tuition: $400 + $30 Lab Fee for the Quarter $760 + $60 Lab Fee for the Semester $1440 + $120 Lab Fee for the Year The curriculum will be made up of short one and two day poses. Experimenting with different approaches, ie. palette knife, working with monochromatic and two color palettes, monotypes etc. Beginning and advanced students will work in oil from a live model. Nicki Orbach Painting & Drawing SMP183 Saturday 9:00-12:00pm Class limit 20 Tuition: $235 + $15 Lab Fee for the Quarter $446 + $30 Lab Fee for the Semester $846 + $60 Lab Fee for the Year This class will explore many aspects of figure painting: structure of the figure, composition, visual space, and color relationships. Oil paint is preferred but other materials are acceptable including drawing. A critique will be held during the first class and students should bring two examples of work and a written description of their artistic goals and interests. Painting EP3183 Wednesday & Thursday- 7:00pm-10:00pm Class Limit: 20 Tuition: $400 + $24 Lab Fee for the Quarter $760 + $48 Lab Fee for the Semester $1440 + $96 Lab Fee for the Year This class will explore many aspects of figure painting and painting in general. Students will study composition, visual space, perception and color relationships. Oil painting is preferred but other materials are acceptable. A model will be present but students are encouraged to do other types of subject matter such as abstract or still life. Individual instruction is stressed. Sharon Sprung Painting MP183 Monday-Friday 9:00 am-12:00pm Class limit 25 Tuition: $1004 + $60 Lab Fee for the Quarter $1908 + $120 Lab Fee for the Semester $3615 + $240 Lab Fee for the Year The class will paint in oil from the model, still life, and landscape. Elements of structure, value, color, and composition will be emphasized as necessary components to creating an expressive work of art. Lectures and demonstrations will stress preparation, materials, procedures, and techniques. There will be an emphasis on the study of light, drawing, value relationships, and discussion of the history of figurative painting. PASTEL Ellen Eagle Portrait & Figure in Pastel & Pencil Monday and Tuesday 10:00am-1:00pm Quarter 1 -MPP183 Quarter 4 -MPP2183 The Stone Room Class limit 12 Tuition: $468 + $48 Lab Fee for the Quarter By observing the figure's form, color and value relationships with a clear eye, students will distill complex information into a simply expressed, harmonious image. Students may work in pastel or pencil. Beginning and experienced students are welcome. Instruction will adapt to meet each student's level. The instructor is present both days. PRINTMAKING Martha Bloom Collage and Monotype EC183 Thursday 7:00-10:00pm Class limit 12 Tuition: $235 + $15 Lab Fee for the Quarter $446 + $30 Lab Fee for the Semester $846 + $60 Lab Fee for the Year Newcomers and experienced students will be supported in their personal path of artistic growth. Practicing both inventive and classical techniques in collage and printmaking, students will use a variety of materials, and different processes will be addressed. Kathleen Caraccio Printmaking MPR183 Monday-Friday 10:00 am-1:00pm Class limit 12 Tuition: $1004 + $60 Lab Fee for the Quarter $1908 + $120 Lab Fee for the Semester $3615 + $240 Lab Fee for the Year Printmaking EPR183 Monday-Wednesday 7:00-10:00pm Class limit 12 Tuition: $604 + $36 Lab Fee for the Quarter $1147 + $72 Lab Fee for the Semester $2175 + $144 Lab Fee for the Year Advanced and beginning students can collaborate with a master printer using both conventional and experimental materials to create prints: drypoint, etching, woodcut, monotype and plastic media. Students will be able to explore a print solution using tactility and process as a creative resource. Uninstructed Printmaking Workshop UPR183 The print studio is open in the late afternoons, Monday-Thursday,1:00-7:00 pm, and Saturdays 9:00 am-4:00 pm for independent work. SCULPTURE Anthony Antonios Sculpture MS183 Monday-Friday 9:00am-12:00pm Class limit 12 Tuition: $1004 + $75 Lab Fee for the Quarter $1908 + $150 Lab Fee for the Semester $3615 + $300 Lab Fee for the Year This class presents an in-depth exploration of human form through modeling in clay. It will include anatomy, form, concepts, proportion, structure, composition, and design through individual attention to each student. There will be demonstrations and lectures on the human figure. Students get a thorough foundation in figurative sculpture that will give them the tools necessary for developing personal expression and for becoming sculptors. Barney Hodes Sculpture AS183 Monday-Friday 1:00-4:00pm Class limit 10 Tuition: $1004 + $75 Lab Fee for the Quarter $1908 + $150 Lab Fee for the Semester $3615 + $300 Lab Fee for the Year To be able to understand three dimensionality, a student needs to learn how to do it the traditional way - sculpting the nude figure. This is what Mr. Hodes has taught generations of art students, particularly beginners. Whether the student wants to work life-size, or on a smaller scale, these lessons will last a lifetime. Portrait Sculpture LAPS183 Monday & Wednesday 4:30-7:30pm Class limit 8 Tuition: $400 + $30 Lab Fee for the Quarter $760 + $60 Lab Fee for the Semester $1440 + $120 Lab Fee for the Year Instruction in the basic planar structure of the skull as a counterpoint to, and foundation for, the study of physiognomy - the particulars of individual character that make up what is called "a face." Vincent Baldassano Mixed Media MMWS183 Friday 9:00am-4:00pm Class limit 15 Tuition: $468 + $48 Lab Fee for the Quarter $889 + $96 Lab Fee for the Semester $1685 + $192 Lab Fee for the Year The focus of this course will be to develop ideas and conceptualize personal projects. Using collage, assemblage, construction, drawing, painting and sculpture techniques, students will explore a variety of image-making approaches. Projects involving composition, color, and experimentation with new media and technologies will expand the visual vocabulary. Creative thinking is encouraged. All levels of experience are welcome. WATERCOLOR Roy Fowler Fundamentals of Watercolor FOW183 Monday 7:00-10:00pm Quarter 1 & 2 Class Limit 12 Tuition: $235 + $15 Lab Fee for the Quarter $446 + $30 Lab Fee for the Semester Students will learn the fundamentals of watercolor in this class. Focus will be on mastering drawing and compositional skill with the medium, as well as finding out the expressive possibilities of watercolor pigment, brushes and paper. Concentration will be on gesture light and shadow and composing the picture plane. Still life, imagination and other works of art will provide our reference. John Goodrich Fundamentals of Watercolor FOW2183 Monday 7:00-10:00pm Quarter 3 & 4 Class Limit 12 Tuition: $235 + $15 Lab Fee for the Quarter $446 + $30 Lab Fee for the Semester Students will learn the fundamentals of watercolor in this class. Focus will be on mastering drawing and compositional skill with the medium, as well as color mixing and exploring the expressive possibilities of watercolor pigment, brushes and paper. Concentration will be on gesture, light and shadow and composing the picture plane. Still life, imagination and other works of art will provide our reference. John Goodrich Watercolor SAW183 Saturday 1:00-4:00pm Class limit 15 Tuition: $235 + $15 Lab Fee for the Quarter $446 + $30 Lab Fee for the Semester $846 + $60 Lab Fee for the Year In this watercolor class, students will explore a range of watercolor and gouache techniques, including resists and drybrush. The emphasis will be on direct observation using still life, models and, when weather permits, going to Central Park. Students will investigate structures of color in nature and strive for an overall sense of space and weight, paying special attention to the rhythms of details against masses. The goal will be a personal elaboration of nature's complexities while preserving the vital first impression. Arthur Kvarnstrom Watercolor EW2183 Tuesday 7:00-10:00pm Quarter 3 & 4 Tuition: $235 + $15 Lab Fee for the Quarter $446 + $30 Lab Fee for the Semester Watercolor lends itself to a wide variety of approaches. These can range from full scale, finished paintings to immediate, highly intuitive works with brushwork as individual as a signature. Regardless of which approach is adapted, the formal elements of painting must be addressed. Through direct observation of still life and model the student will learn to translate observed data into compelling images. Reeve Schley, III, NA Watercolor Out of Doors AWO183 Monday-Thursday 1:00-4:00pm Quarter 4 Meet in the Student Lounge Tuition: $1004 Students work directly from nature. Subjects will include 5th Avenue, Grand Central Station and Central Park. Classes will begin with a critique at the school. A model may also be used. Susan Shatter, PNA Watercolor AW183 Monday-Friday 1:00-4:00pm Class limit 12 Tuition: $1004 + $60 Lab Fee for the Quarter $1908 + $120 Lab Fee for the Semester $3615 + $240 Lab Fee for the Year The course will focus on traditional techniques of layering transparent washes, working wet on dry and wet into wet. Instruction will include discussion of brushes, paper and paper preparation, color mixing, pigments, under-drawing, lights and the history of watercolor painting. Students will go out of doors, weather permitting in late April and May. Students will be encouraged to attempt open-ended and ambitious approaches to the medium. There will be demonstrations and critiques. Kamilla Talbot Watercolor EW183 Tuesday 7:00-10:00pm Quarter 1 & 2 Tuition: $235 + $15 Lab Fee for the Quarter $446 + $30 Lab Fee for the Semester The making of poetic images in watercolor requires a solid understanding of formal concerns, as well as a personal and expressive focus. Discussions will include the relational aspect of watercolor, and other advanced formal considerations. Working from the direct observation of still life and model, students will strive for complete and memorable images. Watercolor Law183 Monday 4:00-7:00pm Class limit 12 Tuition: $235 + $15 Lab Fee for the Quarter $446 + $30 Lab Fee for the Semester $846 + $60 Lab Fee for the Year Students will explore the process of turning perceptual observation into images. Formal concepts such as composition, space, form, color temperature and color intensity will be addressed, while maintaining an appreciation for the immediacy of the medium. Students will work from the model and still-life, and also from the landscape of Central Park, weather permitting in Quarter 4. Watercolor on Governors Island GIN183 Tuesday, Wednesday & Thursday 1:00pm-5:00pm Quarter 1 Class Limit: 12 Tuition: $800 In this special workshop students will be painting on Governor's Island with spectacular city views. Ferries leave Battery Park at 1:00pm and return at 5:00pm. The island has painting storage available. Weiqing Yuan Watercolor MW183 Monday-Friday 9:00am-12:00pm Class limit 15 Tuition: $1004 + $60 Lab Fee for the Quarter $1908 + $120 Lab Fee for the Semester $3615 + $240 Lab Fee for the Year This course will give the student an understanding of traditional watercolor techniques - wet into wet, layering of transparent washes, and experimentation with various papers. Mr. Yuan will bring his classical training in the portrait, figure, cityscape and landscape, to demonstrate both loose and controlled watercolor techniques. His teaching will be individually adapted to the direction and level of each student. TWO DAY MASTER WORKSHOPS Wolf Kahn, NA Using Pastel PWS183 Winter 2007 - Dates TBA Workshop limit 25 Tuition: $500 Exploring the art of pastel, this workshop includes demonstration of the medium by Mr. Kahn, class exercises and abstract color projects as well as painting the model will be part of the workshop experience. Students are asked to bring a work or photo to be translated into pastel for the first session. Students enrolled in this workshop previously are ineligible. Everett Raymond Kinstler, NA Painting from Life KWS183 Saturday, November 10 & Sunday, November 11, 2007 Class limit 15 Tuition: $500 In this workshop on painting from life Mr. Kinstler will give demonstrations, instruction, and personal attention to workshop participants during this two day weekend workshop. Students who have enrolled in this workshop previously are ineligible. Prior painting experience is required. Registration for all students begins October 15th. Serge Hollerbach NA People in the City Workshop PCW183 Monday, November 19 & Tuesday, November 20, 2007 9:00am - 4:00pm Class limit 15 Tuition: $200 People, cars, traffic lights and signs make a fascinating pattern to be explored, and made into an expressive painting. Mr. Hollerbach will do one demonstration each day, and show samples of his recent work through a slide presentation. Students should bring in their work the first day for critiques. Rick Brosen Watercolor Workshop Series: Components of the Landscape I. Anatomy of Landscape AL183 Saturday, November 3 & Sunday, November 4, 2007 Class limit 15 Tuition: $200 A comprehensive approach to landscape painting using transparent watercolor over graphite. Cloud formations, tree structure and atmospheric perspective will be addressed through lectures and demonstrations. Students are encouraged to bring in landscape subjects to explore in their own paintings (photos or reproductions). II. Anatomy of Cityscape AC183 Dates TBA Class limit 15 Tuition: $200 A complete technique for creating cityscapes in transparent watercolor will be taught. Perspective, rendering and creating light and shade will be covered through lectures and demonstrations. Students should bring in their choice of cityscape subjects to work on (photos or reproductions). Karen Kunc Color Woodcut Printmaking Workshop CWP183 October 19, 6:00pm-9:00pm and October 20 & 21, 9:am-4:00pm Tuition: $300 This intensive, exciting workshop will awaken the possibilities of the woodcut printing process for the beginning and advanced printmaker. This approach is not technically tradition-bound...but inventive, with contemporary, creative methods, that can be spontaneous, simple and direct. This expressive medium will be introduced and explored through demonstrations and discussions of cutting techniques, oil-base ink and modifiers, and printing by hand as well as using the press. Participants will go from designing their images and cutting blocks, to printing several projects using a variety of methods and individual discoveries. Media: Relief printing from plywood blocks on paper with oil-base inks. Techniques: This workshop covers hand carving techniques, use of oil-base inks and modifiers, printing by hand as well as etching press, and safe use of tools and clean up. Clean up will be done with alternative solvents - Soysolv or vegetable oil for no fumes. Activities: Demonstrations, discussion, individual sketch review and on-going problem solving for insights into techniques and creative decisions. Michele LiCalsi Fresco painting workshop FW183 Workshop dates: Friday, October 12, 7:00-10:00pm, Saturday, October 13, 9:00am-4:00pm, Sunday, October 14, 9:00am-12:00pm, and Saturday, October 20, 9:00am-4:00pm Tuition: $300 In this workshop, students learn the ancient technique of fresco painting. Beginning with the creation of the *image and ending with the final embellishments, students learn the technique favored by the ancient artists of Pompeii, the Renaissance masters Michelangelo and Raphael, and the Baroque master, Tiepolo. Students will learn to prepare the painting support, grind pigments, make a cartoon ready for transfer and paint an image. Methods of embellishments such as relief, polishing, gilding and secco painting will be discussed. ONE WEEK WORKSHOPS IN MARCH (March 18-22, 2008) Elizabeth O'Reilly Watercolor Workshop MWW183 March 19, 20 & 21, 2008, 9:00am-4:00pm Tuition: $300 Working from still life and the model students will focus on the elements of composition and the special properties of watercolor. Personal attention and group critiques of work done in class and at home will be important components of each painting session to encourage students to look for practical ways to solve problems in their paintings. The paintings will be analyzed for value relationships, linear movement, unity, variety and contrast. We will examine practical color issues specific to watercolor, to become familiar with the properties of particular pigments in order to bring out the best in the medium. Alicia Rothman Historical Techniques of Drawing HTD183 9:00am-4:00pm Tuition: $415 Organic materials available to the Renaissance artist: for example red chalk, goose quills, hid glue, can be supplemented with materials available today. The drawing techniques used to produce tones and delineate form used by Renaissance and medieval draftsmen will be explored. Basic principles of translating visual perception to paper will be emphasized to help the student achieve their personal artistic goals. Students will learn methods of preparing tinted paper, the use of acrylic or traditional gesso grounds, gold and other metal leaf, silverpoint, stencils, stamping and transfer techniques. Students will also learn how to make a chiaroscuro drawing and explore the use of the cartoon to develop a large wall size work. Lorraine Shemesh, NA The Architecture of the Figure AOF183 Monday, March 17 & Tuesday, March 18, 2008, 10:00am-4:00pm Tuition: $200 This drawing workshop will deal with the figure from the inside out, exploring the skeletal structure through exercises with the model, demonstration, and instruction. Students will construct the foundation of the human form with an emphasis on gestural movement and sculptural three-dimensionality. Participants are asked to bring conte crayon sticks (sepia, sanguin, or black), and an 18 x 24" newsprint pad to the first class. James Toogood Intensive Watercolor Workshop IWW183 9:00am-4:00pm Tuition: $415 This workshop is designed for anyone who wishes to develop realistic watercolor skills. Topics will include everything from design and composition, the use of materials and the techniques involved in painting landscape, still life, portrait and figure in watercolor. Attention will be devoted toward the use of paint and pigment, attaining a feeling of light and achieving realistic textures. Models and still life set-ups will be provided. Students are also encouraged to develop their own ideas and should be prepared to bring their own source material for landscape. Students are encouraged to bring examples of their work for helpful critique. Alex Zwarenstein Perspective Drawing PD183 Monday-Friday 9:00am-4:00pm Stone Room Class Limit 10 Tuition: $415 With a combination of instructor demonstrations, and hands on studio projects, students will systematically be exposed to everything that is required to understand and deploy perspective in their own work. Measuring strategies, rotating, and correcting perspective techniques will be taught. Group critiques will help to reinforce the concepts. Outside work in other interior spaces will be part of the assignments. Time will also be spent in discussion of professional work practices and approaches to perspective use. MUSEUM VISITS and CRITIQUES Michele LiCalsi Looking at Painting LPMM183 Quarter 4 Fridays 6:30-8:30pm On Location at the Metropolitan Museum of Art Tuition: $235 The collection of paintings in the Metropolitan Museum of Art is diverse and extensive. This course provides students with a forum for informal discussion in front of a work of art while gaining an understanding of color, composition, painting techniques, supports, pigments, and varnishes. Students will present observations about a painting of their choice on the last night of the course. Year Long Master Critiques with Reeve Schley, III, NA YMC2183 Monthly critiques sessions with Reeve Schley, III, NA, will allow students to have their work evaluated on a monthly basis throughout the academic year. This series is particularly useful for three year certificate students. Students may register for all 8 sessions or register for an individual session depending on availability. Fee: $225.00 for the 8 sessions, $35.00 for individual session depending on availability. Dates: Thursdays, October 11, November 8, December 13, January 10, Feb. 14th, March 13, April 10 and May 8 Time: 4:00-6:00pm Location: Student Lounge or Huntington Room if available Master Critiques with Eight National Academicians MC183 A must class for intermediate and advanced students held in the second semester. Dates and times to be announced. Quarter 3 & 4 Tuition: $235 YOUNG PEOPLE'S CLASSES Martha Bloom Mixed Media Class for ages 6-9 years Tuesday (LMYT182) or Thursday (LMYR182) 4:15-6:15pm Class limit 12 Tuition: $235 + $15 Lab Fee for the Quarter $446 + $30 Lab Fee for the Semester $846 + $60 Lab Fee for the Year The naturally imaginative youth here are allowed to follow their unique artistic voice, heart and mind in a supportive environment. Young students are exposed to techniques and ideas of many fine art mediums. There will be weekly exhibitions. Lotus Do Brooks Painting & Drawing for ages 13-16 LYP183 Thursday 4:15-6:30pm Class limit 15 Tuition: $235 + $15 Lab Fee for the Quarter $446 + $30 Lab Fee for the Semester $846 + $60 Lab Fee for the Year Students will develop technical and perceptual skills in drawing, painting and art appreciation. Based on traditional studio methods, classes will incorporate the fundamental techniques for charcoal, colored pencil and ink drawing, and watercolor. Hannah Frassinelli Painting & Drawing for ages 9-12 SYP183 Saturday 10:00am-12:00pm Class limit 10 Tuition: $235 + $15 Lab Fee for the Quarter $446 + $30 Lab Fee for the Semester $846 + $60 Lab Fee for the Year Painting & Drawing for ages 9-12 SAYP183 Saturday 1:00am-3:00pm Class limit 10 Tuition: $235 + $15 Lab Fee for the Quarter $446 + $30 Lab Fee for the Semester $846 + $60 Lab Fee for the Year Painting & Drawing for ages 9-12 Quarter 2 -LYP2183 Quarter 3 -LYP3183 Wednesday 4:15-6:15pm Tuition: $235 + $15 Lab Fee for the Quarter In this course, students will acquire basic drawing skills and knowledge about the human figure by drawing from a model. There will also be the option of working from a still life set-up, plaster casts and the imagination. A brief introductory demonstration by the instructor will include gesture drawing, basic principles of human proportion, light and shadow, as well as materials techniques. Doris Staal Portfolio Class for ages 13-16 LYPP183 Wednesday 4:15-6:15pm Quarter 1-September-November Class limit 12 Tuition: $235 + $15 Lab Fee for the Quarter The portfolio class will prepare students for entrance requirements for specialized art programs in New York City's school system. Students will work from the figure, still life, memory, and imagination to enhance portfolio pieces. The date of the first class in September will be dictated by the schedule of the public schools. Call the office for dates. Studio Class for ages 13-16<br> LSC183 Quarter 4 Wednesday 4:15-6:15pm Class limit 12 Tuition: $235 + $15 Lab Fee for the Quarter This course will be a studio class for high school students who enjoy drawing and painting or are building a portfolio. We will work with a variety of materials focusing on live models, still life and studio set-ups.