WINTER WORKSHOP:
This winter Joseph Mann will continue to lead a Figurative Drawing Group on Thursday evenings. We will focus on pencil drawing and work from the model in the interior as a motif.

During the course we will discuss the usage of line to create volume and as a locator of forms in space; “the constellation of forms” on a two dimensional surface. These and other ideas manifest themselves in drawings by the great masters including Gabriella Munter, Giacometti, Suzanne Valadon and Henri Matisse. All great drawers use these ideas of structure as syntax for their poetic work. Although these ideas will be discussed with examples, the order of the day, or evenings, will be to DRAW. I help individuals with the individual needs, working one-on-one.
 
This is a rigorous course and not a coffee cultch; your understanding of drawing will be enhanced and your abilities improved while your individuality is respected. The intensity of these classes can not be replicated in college settings as past participants will attest to.

Please join us this winter for some excitement; change is better than rest!  

Classes will meet in the Oregon Society of Artists Building located at 2185 SW Park Place, near Burnside and SW 23rd. It has a spacious studio and parking lot and is located in a safe neighborhood.

A materials list and directions to the OSA will be sent to you upon receipt of your registration and payment. Limited scholarship funds are available. Please email me with any questions.

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

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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