SUMMER WORKSHOP:
This summer I will be teaching two “Figure in the Landscape” painting workshops in Portland. They will synthesize a blending of the figure with the landscape and a blending of what we see with what we know. Instead of trying to mimic nature we will work toward what Cezanne called “a parallel to nature”.

As part of this investigation, we will discuss:
the difference between dark and light painting (early van Gogh) and color painting (late Van Gogh)
what the French modernist painters learned from the Japanese
composition from observation which becomes a dynamic analogue to what we see

Each day we will meet in a public park where we can be insured a shady place to work and be protected from the sun. In the mornings I will lecture on what is pertinent for the day and we will have coffee. We will draw and paint through the day from the model (clothed) and the landscape. At the end of the day we will gather to discuss the work created that session and probably drink a cold beer/lemonade. Please note, if this sounds like meeting at someone’s house to paint and drink, IT IS NOT. This is a rigorous course designed to push painters towards a deeper level of understanding regarding their craft and a higher level of artistic potentiality.

  Summer Workshop (A):
Times: 9:00 a.m. – 4:00 p.m.
Dates: July 27th (Monday) – July 31st (Friday)
Tuition: $350 (includes model fees and morning/afternoon drinks)
  Summer Workshop (B):
Times: 9:00 a.m. – 4:00 p.m.
Dates: August 3rd(Monday) – August 7th (Friday)
Tuition: $350 (includes model fees and morning/afternoon drinks)

Materials list and other information will be provided a week before each session begins.ŬIf you need an easel and a board I will be glad to provide them for you; let me know.

Since 1994, the School of the Art Institute of Chicago (ranked number one with Yale as the top art schools in the nation) has flown me back there to teach “Figure in the Landscape”. This year I am staying here and I hope you will join me to paint. I look forward to these sessions.

CLASS REGISTRATION:
Please email me to register for the class: josephemann@msn.com

 

TESTIMONIALS:
"Your classes have taught me to ask what is essential? What do I care about? What have I overlooked? You taught me to continue searching for the balance between the poetic and the structural. You created a safe environment in which I am free to paint, draw and face the demons of the day." Julie Davis, Intensive student

"In all the years I've spent as a student, I have never had a more positively influential teacher." Susan Nelson, PSU Student

"I am endlessly impressed with your capacity to hold all of us, as we struggle and evolve and slip ahead and back again. I don't see how you do it, but am grateful for your strength and steadiness. I thought again about the critique and how carefully and consistently you handled reticence. You stayed your course, didn't recoil, didn't try to fix people, met each person where they stood—that in itself is a great lesson to those of us present, since in the end all there is to do is witness the storms, have compassion, stay the course and keep painting." Sally Retecki, Intensive student

"Joseph Mann is one of those extraordinary teachers who combines a rich and deep knowledge of art history with a keen eye for teaching to the individual. He is one of the few who could be called a ‘master teacher’."
E.W. Ross, Dean
Division of Continuing Studies and Special Programs
The School of the Art Institute of Chicago
Ox-Box Program Director

GUEST ARTISTS/COLLEAGUES:
Joseph regularly invites artists to talk about their work and colleagues to teach in his workshops. Among those who have participated in past workshops are:

Mark Andres
Dr. Jan Dworkin
Bill Garnett
George Johanson
Sharri LaPierre
Barbara Mason
Lucinda Parker
Eunice Parsons
Tom Prochaska
Dr. Bob Stuckey
Jack Portland
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RELATED LINKS:
Augen Gallery
Print Arts Northwest
Process Work Institute
The New York School of Painting,
Drawing and Sculpture
The School of the Art Institute
of Chicago — Ox Bow
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photo by: aaron johanson