This Will Not Be Your Mother's (Life) Drawing Class!
(Or Dinner and a Nudie!)
When: Any eight sessions - Wednesday evenings from 6:30–8:30pm beginning April 21st - June 30th, 2010
Instructor: Michael David & Thomas Swanston
Location: King Plow Arts Center: 949 W Marietta Street NW, Suite X-105, Atlanta, GA
Cost: $349 for an 8 week session (Bring a friend and get 25% off!)
Please join Michael David & Tom Swanston for lessons in an “anyone, any level” class in drawing paired with “hi-lo” culture. This hands on studio experience is designed for everyone who desires to explore and deepen their own creative experience and have fun while doing it. Drawing from the model (yes, beautiful and not so beautiful neked men and women will be among us) will be only one of the tools we will use to develop a greater understanding of each of our creative processes. We will use apples, eggs, fabric and trash too… In class we will view and discuss other artists and their work:
One week after a visual presentation on contemporary art we’ll have a lively discussion, playing “Jerk or Genius," Gioto to Hirst. Another week, after viewing film noir, we will discuss how Seurat influenced the value and tone in post-war american cinema.
Seriously… after work instead of heading home (boring) or to the local bar (mind-numbing), come by the new studio at King Plow – The Fine Arts Workshop. We will draw beautiful live models, mix and meet, have some wine and food. It’s a fun and informal way to feed your creative side. Wednesday night will always be provocative and FUN.
Michael David
Michael David has taught at Princeton University and the Savannah College of Art And Design, and has lectured at The School of Visual Arts in New York, The New York Studio School and The Art Institute of Chicago. His paintings have been exhibited around the world, and are included in the Permanent Public Collections, of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Guggenheim, Houston and Denver Museums among many others. He is the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship, and awards from American Academy of Arts and Letters, the National Endowment for the Arts, and the Albee Foundation. www.michaeldavidartist.com
Thomas Swanston
Tom Swanston has taught at the GLCA New York Arts Program and within the University of Georgia system at Kennesaw and Gordon Colleges, and lectured at The Maryland Institute College of Art. Exhibiting regularly in galleries in Atlanta, Boston, Los Angeles, Naples, New Orleans, and Santa Fe, he has had 14 solo and 46 group exhibitions, included in 8 museum exhibitions and published in over 55 industry and lifestyles magazines. He has been awarded two Ford Foundation grants, a Rubenstein Foundation grant, and been a Fellow at the Hambidge Center for Arts and Science.
