Discovering and Refining your Creative Voice: Unleash Your Power to Communicate

01/18/2023 10:00 AM - 02/15/2023 12:00 PM ET

Category

Workshop

Admission

  • $100.00

Summary

This Five week workshop is for anyone who wants to explore their creative potential in a variety of mediums and approaches. Everyone possesses creativity and a desire to communicate, sometimes it just takes the right environment and guide. This class is designed by artist Stewart Wilson who is a perfect guide for your creative journey.

Description

Dates: Wednesday January 18, 25 ,February 1, 8, 15

Time: 10AM - 12PM

Members $ 90.00

Non - Members $ 100.00

Description

Many art workshops focus on the “How” - Drawing, Weaving, Painting techniques.

This workshop will focus on the “Who,” “What” and “Why” of Art. Who are you and what is your unique voice? What is it that you wish to communicate? And Why?

Art is a form of communication. Each one of us has a unique perspective; we share our world using our unique voice. This workshop is an exploration in discovery. It is designed to encourage and appreciate our uniqueness through the art mediums.

Instructors Bio

Stewart Wilson's art has always been about creativity, connections and community.

For over 40 tears, Stewart has been producing and distributing a message of spirit and peace through his Persona sculptures which he called “wrapped representatives from another dimension here for peaceful purposes.” He exhibited these small, whimsical sculptures in Museums and galleries and sold them in their shops world-wide. Each sculpture was packaged with its portrait signed and numbered and included a message of peace and connectivity. Since 1979, he has produced over 31,000 individual pieces in human and animal form. Stewart's art has been the subject of articles in the New York Times, Hartford Courant, Waterbury Republican, in addition to several Japanese magazines.

With the money from the sales of Personas, Stewart was able to open his first non-profit arts organization, Public Image Gallery on Mott Street in New York City in 1981. Public Image provided much needed opportunities to young, emerging artists and performers to share their talents. Many of these artists' works now grace major galleries and museums like the Whitney and MOMA. Public Image received grants from National Endowment for the Arts, New York Council for the Arts and was a regular feature of many television (CBS), magazines (Games Magazine) and newspapers (NewYork Times).

After leaving New York City for the woods of Northwest Connecticut, Stewart's skill at organizing art communities resulted in founding and being the Executive Director of his second non-profit arts organization, Artwell Gallery in Torrington (1995-2011). Hundreds of more visual artists and musicians, dancers, actors and puppeteers were to interact and flourish in that space.

His work as an art teacher in the public schools is still another example of Stewart's desire to promote community and creativity. He taught welve years at Rochambeau Middle and Pomperaug High School – Regional District #15, Southbury CT). He uses his art, his passion and humanity to bring people together in respectful environments to be creative.

His newest venture,"Personaland.com ," combines his passion for creative community with the vast opportunities of 21st century technology. His online global arts village has showcased nearly 500 artists from 50 countries with a mix of relevant and inspiring themes such as “Art in the Time of Pandemic, “ “Social Justice,” “Democracy and the 2020 Elections,” “Peace,” “Community,” “Journeys” and more. Personaland responded to the current pandemic with timely theme art shows and global zoom forums. In all of his ventures in the arts, Stewart has demonstrated an ability to bring strangers together in a shared mission of building creative community and relationships of respect and friendship.

Materials and Overview

Employing a series of exercises and group shares, we will develop our individual creative process to achieve clearer, more powerful creative expressions which will illuminate the path of our artist's journey.

Day 1: First steps in finding your voice.

Setting goals. Recognizing powerful voices from the art world. Tools and concepts. Artistic process. The power of honesty, journals, doodles, homework and failures. Art as reflexive self dialogue.

Project – Pencil exercises. Seeing as opposed to thinking.

Self-portraits using various materials (pencil, charcoal, collage & watercolor) Reflection and sharing

Day 2: Perspectives and Opinions. Reflecting upon voice and expressions.

Figurative and abstract. Sensory and cognitive awareness. Mining your thoughts from the bedrock of society.

Project – Paint exercises. Making a statement using various processes from script to sketch to prototype to project. Media can be pencil, charcoal, collage, photography or watercolor.

Reflection and sharing

Day 3: Getting in touch with ourselves. How do we feel in our spaces?

Touching and the use of tension in 2D and 3D expressions. Spacial and sculpture tools and concepts.

How do you feel right now?

Project - Taking a wad of clay to explore voice and expression.

Reflection and sharing

Day 4: Going Digital

What are the opportunities for expression using digital photography, video and digital software?

Digital tools and concepts.

Project - Using cameras and computers, we communicate our present.

Reflection and sharing

Day 5: Mapping out Past, Present and Future

Writing and sketching a personal roadmap.

Project - Using camera to make a self portrait and then to incorporate it using any media to represent your present.

 

Weather Cancellation Policy

In the event Five Points Arts cancels a workshop due to an inclement weather forecast every effort will be made to re-schedule the workshop. If the workshop cannot be re-scheduled, or the new date does not accommodate the registrant's schedule, that person will be offered the opportunity to apply the cancelled workshop fee toward a future workshop. If preferred, Five Points will offer a full refund instead of a rescheduling option.Every effort will be made to announce weather related cancellations 24 hours in advance; however, registrants are advised to check their e-mail on the morning of the scheduled workshop for any cancellation message.

 

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