Think Like an Artist: Looking and Making

Adult Tuition-Free Class | This program is completed

All levels welcome, recommended for beginners.

4/10/2018-6/12/2018

7:00 PM-9:30 PM EDT on Tue

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While other classes help you improve your technical skills, this class will help spark your conceptual skills. Together we will explore key concepts and strategies that artists use for communicating ideas of beauty, emotion, experience, opinion, and narrative. Each week will focus on a different theme commonly found in art and design. We will view and discuss artworks, then experiment with a series of challenges to get you thinking and creating like an artist.

WHAT WILL YOU LEARN IN THIS WORKSHOP
1. Students will become familiar with a wide variety of artistic styles, themes, and genres.
2. Students will learn how to describe, analyze, interpret, and evaluate works of art in order to effectively critique.
3. Students will consider how design, composition, and artistic choices support meaning and visual communication.
4. Students will develop their personal voice and style in the creation of artworks.

  • • Sketchbook (5x7 or 8x10ish)*
  • • Pencils*
  • • Glue stick
  • • Colored pencils
  • • Sharpie*
  • • Access to images (postcards, printouts, photos, magazines, etc.)

  • Items marked with an * are available for purchase in Fleisher’s school store. Members receive a 10% discount on art supply purchases.

Marie Elcin has been teaching in both the children and adult programs at Fleisher since 2007. She has a BFA from Moore College of Art and Design and a Master of Art Education from Tyler School of Art, Temple University. She is a practicing fiber artist with a focus on embroidery, surface design, and printmaking.