This course for High School-aged artists will give you the opportunity to explore painting in a studio setting.

Learning Outcomes:

• understand critical approaches to painting throughout history and pinpoint what is meaningful to my own artwork
• mix colors to create a color palette beyond what comes in the tube
• use underpaintings to establish value within my composition

The outcomes will be more structured in the opening weeks of class (ie. the creation of color wheels, gradient studies, simple still life studies, etc) with more self-directed projects making up the latter weeks. Ultimately, students will leave this class with 1-3 works that can be applied to a college portfolio.

10/5-11/23 (8 sessions) 9 am - 12 pm Saturday

Tuition: $300 + $20 Studio Fee

CEUs: n/a

522 Congress St. Room 402

Who is this class for? 
High School Students who wish to explore painting, potentially to assist in their college portfolio.

Faculty:

Matt Tanzi is a career educator and animator working in Portland, ME. After earning his Master of Fine Arts degree from MECA&D in 2015, he dedicated his career to creative problem solving and how artwork can be a medium for storytelling. Tanzi's goals as an educator lie in empowering the voices of the next generation, while his artwork explores the various interpretations of the present.

This will be a student-centered workshop. In a typical three-hour session, about half an hour is given to talks and demonstration. Two hours are dedicated to hands-on studio time, and the final half hour is a class-wide conversation about the artwork made during that session. My role as an instructor is to help exercise our own creative problem solving skills while providing feedback to build upon skills and successes.

Supplies:
mixed media sketchbook