Inside Out: Daniel Kohn and Charlie Hunter

June 18 - June 22. 2008
Four-day workshop with one evening, limited to 12 participants
Tuition: $600
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As artists we strive to describe or explain the world, be it that which we see, hear, imagine or breathe. This workshop will focus on sight.
However, nature exists both as "Natural" and "Human-made" environment. To play fully with this 2 instructor ballet, we will be painting both* Inside* an old industrial space, and* Outside* in the landscape.

Participants will be encouraged to explore their own interests through painting,and that of their peers, through vision and discussion.
We will focus both on issues of representation and abstraction - the relation between the seen and the painted. We reach an understanding
of that which we observe through our individual powers of sight, but also with the hand that draws and the body which occupies its own
unique place in the landscape. The mind, as well, is a part of that.

So both practice and discussion are to be expected. Participants will be expected to use the time to push the envelope of their own work.
Work in the studio and outdoors will be punctuated with at least one
critique session a day.This is a place where we can put ourselves on the line; participant and instructor alike will learn from one another. We plan to work hard during the days, but also spend some evenings together as well, to strive to make our time together as rewarding and cohesive as possible. Meals are not included in the class price, but the instructors may spring for a bottle of wine or two.

Schedule:

Workdays will be 9:30am to 5pm.

We will kick off the workshop with a dinner on Wednesday evening to get to know each other a little (June 18).

Site visit and Drawing will take most of Thursday (June 19)

Friday will see a move to painting based on but not restricted to the previous day's drawing.

Friday evening we will enjoy a good meal together and have a slide show and discussion. Saturday, more painting. Sunday push the limits
and end with another meal for those who can hang around.

faculty

Before moving to New York, Daniel Kohn lived and worked in France. While there, he did several site specific projects, including an installation at the Church of Saint André in Montreuil, and several set designs for modern dance for the choreographer Christine Bastin. Since coming to New York he has done several monumental installations based on his experience of his residency at the World Trade Center, including one for the Metropolitan Transit Authority, exhibited in Grand Central Station in 2002, and for the Fiduciary Trust Company International headquarters in Rockefeller Center. He is the recipient grants from Yale, Hampshire College, the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, and the City of Montreuil. He is currently Artist in Residence at the Broad Institute of Harvard and Cambridge for genome research, for a project exploring links between art and science.

Charlie Hunter shows his work throughout the Northeast. When not painting, he runs transcontinental music and art trains and is active in local farmers markets. Hunter was raised in Weathersfield Center, Vermont, studied at Yale University, has designed over 50 CD covers and is winner of the Canson-Talens International Pastel Grand Prize. Samples of his work are visible at http://www.hunter-studio.com