Workshop
ABOUT THIS WORKSHOP:
Books are wonderful places to document and archive our creative ideas and growth. A wealth of information can be stored in a bound book, while collage is a flexible practice that allows for experimenting, exploring and discovering new ways to elevate your artwork.
In this two-day workshop students will combine the best of both elements by bringing to class a hard bound book, stacks of paper and glue and leave with an art book and a new way to express themselves, while explaining their art practice. While collaging with the printed pages students will be challenged to seek new methods of working on a two-dimensional surface. All types of paper can be incorporated into your piece from painted papers, purchased, decorative or recycled.
The completed book can be considered as sketches for larger works, while others may consider it a final work of art. Demonstrations, classroom discussion and power points will focus on understanding abstract elements and building strategies, and as a personal artistic philosophy on abstraction.
Suitable for intermediate and advanced students. Ages 21+
Saturday & Sunday, July 8 and 9, 2023
9:00 AM – 4:00 PM
Studio 1
$262
Next Session:
Painting with Paper: Abstract Collage
Saturday & Sunday, August 19 and 20, 2023
9:00 AM – 4:00 PM
RANSOME 2023 SCHEDULE
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*In an effort to maintain our non-toxic environment, the Woodstock School of Art does not permit the use of turpentine or mineral spirits in the painting studios. Additionally, please refrain from wearing perfume, cologne, or scents of any kind. Learn more.
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Please note that for workshops lasting all day there is a one-hour break from twelve noon to one PM. Students are invited to bring lunch and eat at the school or may go to any of the local dining establishments. The school does not provide lunch or refreshments.
ABOUT THE INSTRUCTOR:
Ransome graduated from Pratt Institute and retired as a tenured professor from the School of Visual Performing Arts at Syracuse University to pursue a full-time studio art career. He received his MFA in Studio Arts from Lesley University. Ransome’s artwork centers on his African-American lineage, which is traced back to sharecroppers of the American South who emigrated to Northern cities along the East Coast during the Great Migration.
Ransome has exhibited in the Katonah Museum of Art, The Sigal Museum Easton, PA, The Southeastern Center for Contemporary Art (SECCA) Museum of Art in Winston-Salem, NC and the Visual Art Center of New Jersey.
He was awarded the Hudson Valley Artist Purchase Award from the Samuel Dorsky Museum of Art in New Paltz, New York. Group shows include exhibits at galleries in Los Angeles, Boston, Kingston, NY, New Haven, CT, Dallas and Tequesta, Fl.
“The View from Here” was his first solo exhibit which opened in 2020 at the historic Barrett Art Center. “Say It Loud” opened in 2022 at the Elaine Bailey Augustine Gallery at the University of North Alabama, AL.
He is currently at work on solo exhibitions for the Alpha Gallery in Boston Massachusetts opening this Fall and the Opalka Gallery at Sage college in Albany, NY in 2023.
