Art History for Artists with Nicholas Collins — Starts August 7
Weekly online course at 6:30PM on Wednesdays — This 4-part series of weekly, informal, and interactive zoom discussions is designed to help the artist explore themes and components that relate to our individual artmaking practice.
Weekly online course at 6:30PM on Wednesdays — This 4-part series of weekly, informal, and interactive zoom discussions is designed to help the artist explore themes and components that relate to our individual artmaking practice.
Weekly online course at 6:30PM on Wednesdays — This 4-part series of weekly, informal, and interactive zoom discussions is designed to help the artist explore themes and components that relate to our individual artmaking practice.
Dates: August 7, 14, 21, 28, 2024
Time: Wednesdays, 6:30 - 7:30 PM PST
Structure of Class: (4) 1-hour ONLINE Zoom sessions recurring weekly at the same time
Class Description
The history of art is the story of human expression. How do we absorb, judge and utilize the artwork that compels us to contribute? This 4-part series of informal, interactive zoom discussions is designed to help the artist explore themes and components that relate to our individual artmaking practice. Themes that we will cover in this 2nd Art History for Artists workshop include: how war affects art, defining our cultural address, the fundamental balance of order vs chaos, art museums and selfie culture, a look back at the career of the late Frank Stella, etc. We will also be discussing the factors that culminated in the “High Renaissance” and what it means to us today. And how will posterity see our era? I hope it will be a refreshing course to dive deep into our history, our connections to our ancestors and to refine our methods of communication: how we can act and react with honesty and compassion to our contemporary circumstances.
About the Instructor
NICHOLAS COLLINS studied art history and sculpture at UCSB and trained in etching and relief printmaking at KALA in Berkeley, where he was an artist in residence for two years. He has shown his work in galleries in the Bay Area, Sonoma and Mendocino counties. For 8 years Nicholas has been teaching printmaking and drawing workshops, both in-person and on-line at the Mendocino Art Center and Pacific Art League in Palo Alto.