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Monhegan Island's dramatic landscape provides an inspiring reference. Located ten miles off the Maine coast, the tiny island furnishes an unusual array of visual stimulation. On one side are tall cliffs, the highest on the New England coast. On the other side is a tranquil meadow sloping down to a picturesque harbor area featuring classic New England architecture. In the center are dense pine forests. Seventeen miles of footpaths meander throughout the terrain. There are very few vehicles, no streetlights, and only in the past decade did electricity come to the island. Monhegan has a long and illustrious history as a retreat for artists (it is a mecca for bird watchers as well). The island's landscape has served as subject matter for such luminaries as Rockwell Kent, George Bellows, Robert Henri, Fairfield Porter, and the Wyeths (who still own a home on the island). You won't find a more stimulating place to work! ********** In this our eighth year of conducting workshops on the island, we're introducing a new, small group intensive format designed to maximize your learning experience. This year, for the first time, the artists will be able to work both outdoors in the landscape AND indoors at the Aimone Studio on the island. Our space can accommodate up to five artists indoors and so we've limited the enrollment to that exclusive, intimate number. Now, time you'll have the option to work indoors, when the weather is inclement or to work on studio pantings derived from sketches executed in the field. And with this limited enrollment Steve Aimone will be able to devote even more time than usual to one-on-one coaching, tailoring the workshop to each individual's needs. In addition, for the first time this year, we're offering two different workshops. We begin the season in July with our inaugural Monhegan version of our highly successful DIRECTED INDIVIDUAL STUDY workshop. Then, in August, we'll offer our eighth annual COMPOSITION WITH LANDSCAPE AS REFERENCE session. More details follow below. Don't miss out on these unique workshop experiences--enroll now! |
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The Spiritual Language of Art Composition with Landscape as Reference: DIRECTED INDIVIDUAL STUDY (Small
Group Workshop and Retreat) July 22-26, 2009 (Arrive on the island on or before Wednesday, July 22, which will feature introductory activities in the late afternoon and early evening; then take part in four full working days on the 23rd through 26th, depart the island on Monday, July 27th.) Tuition:
$500
Join artist-author-instructor Steve Aimone and a group of your peers in pursuing four-day independent study projects. Within general guidelines that unify the group YOU SET YOUR OWN AGENDA. You begin by forming an informal contract outlining what you wish to explore. Artists share their agendas with one another and work cooperatively during the session to help one another succeed. Aimone will furnish intensive art coaching, working extensively on a one-on-one basis with each artist. You'll take part in regular interactive critiques and discussions designed to increase artistic self-awareness and the ability to articulate about your work. During the session, you'll have the option of working: 1) in the landscape (outdoors), where you may execute a series of focused studies or a create a series of alla prima works; and / or 2) indoors in the Aimone Studio at Carina House, in the heart of the village. Here you may choose to create some studio works derived from outdoor sketches, or from memory (you may also make use of the studio as an alternative choice should the weather be inclement). Don't miss out on this unique opportunity... join us!
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The Spiritual Language of Art: COMPOSITION WITH LANDSCAPE AS REFERENCE Small
Group Workshop and Retreat August 24-28, 2009 (Arrive on the island on or before Monday, August 24, which will feature introductory activities in the late afternoon and evening of the 24th; take part in four full working days on the 25th through 28th, depart the island on Satuday, August 29.) Tuition:
$500
Join Steven Aimone and a small group of artists for our eighth annual COMPOSITION WITH LANDSCAPE AS REFERENCE workshop on Monhegan Island. This year, for the first time, the artists will be able to work both outdoors AND indoors at the Aimone Studio on the island. Explore a variety of ways in which compositions can be abstracted from the landscape reference. Whenever you work from the landscape you inevitably select, distill, arrange, and alter the visual forces you find at your disposal. This workshop exposes you to a broad range of possibilities and encourages you to explore your own individual approach. As you take part in a series of guided challenges, you'll learn to:
The workshop begins with an interactive lecture that focuses on a range of landscape designs from across time and cultures. Then, you'll explore a series of guided challenges that focus on a particular approach or process. Some time will be reserved for working independently. Participants work in close proximity at a different location each day with intensive individual consultation from the instructor. Days end with an interactive critique in which participants are encouraged to share discoveries. |
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UPCOMING SCHEDULE:
COMPOSITION WITH LANDSCAPE AS REFERENCE August 24-28, 2009 payment in full, $500 |
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COMPOSITION WITH LANDSCAPE AS REFERENCE August 24-28, 2009 deposit, $200
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COMPOSITION WITH LANDSCAPE AS REFERENCE August 24-28, 2009 balance, $300
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Here's what a number of past participants have say about their Aimone Art Monhegan Workshop experience:
"I
have taken many workshops over the years and have never had an instructor
that came near Steve's overall knowledge of art and design and demonstrated
such humble dedication to the students in his workshop. The workshop
enabled me to create satisfying abstractions of the landscape. As
a result of Steve's coaching, I was able to identify the underlying
structure of the landscape and feel its rhythm. These principles
strengthened my compositions and will guide my work f or the coming
year."
-- Jean Jackson, West Lafayette, Indiana
"I want to thank you both from the bottom of my heart. You have set me free in so many ways. So many things that I knew but could not verbalize, but you did, and things just fit into place. -- Betty Slade, Pagosa Springs, Colorado
"The
experience for me, artistically, went beyond any expectations I
had going in. By week's end, the ways in which I was seeing things
changed...The intimacy of the island and the members of the group
was simply liberating!"
-- Holly Weber, Virginia Beach, Virginia
"The
five-day artists' working retreat on Monhegan Island provides the
serious artist striving to find or enhance one's poetic voice with
the ideal context for artistic maturation. Monhegan is a tiny island;
its village is frozen in time: no fast-food restaurants, no shopping
malls, no TV, no phones to speak of. You are happily insulated from
the infringe ments of daily living on your art...totally immersed
in art…free for thinking, contemplating, absorbing, experimenting,
assimilating, and painting."
-- Daniel Wozniak, Ormond Beach, Florida
"I've never experience a workshop so rewarding and so unique. There wasn't a soul in the group who wasn't excited by the challenges and marveling at the personal growth that Steve gently coaxed out of us. -- Lenore Barnett, Hendersonville, North Carolina
"I learned
that I could respond to the landscape reference, paint landscapes
in an abstract manner, and be authentic. I was overwhelmed in a
positive way with the shapes that surrounded me – all I had to do
was turn my head and there was another painting waiting to be painted.
The blank canvas became less intimidating than it had been before."
-- Charlene Thomas, Longwood, Florida
"On
Monhegan, its like Mother Nature is in your face. The rocks, the
cliffs, the wind, the surf shooting up 20 feet all around you, brings
out basic primal urges, fear, awe. It's a rush and the paintings
reflect it. Now, when I go outside to paint, I feel less like an
observer and more a part of nature."
-- Jim Cassidy, Ormond Beach, Florida
"The workshop can't be described as the best workshop I've taken--it's way beyond that. It's unique in that Steve pushes us in his gentle way to search, through our art, for ourselves." -- Pat Wellborn, Hendersonville North Carolina
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