Critique Seminar (5 session)
Adult Class | Registration opens Monday, July 6, 2026 8:00 AM EDT
This workshop will provide you different ways of thinking about both your personal art practice and the processes you use in the studio. Critique will focus on painting and works on paper, including collage. We will discuss developing different ways of approaching your artwork, enabling you to cultivate your concepts, and harmonize your creativity.
The class size will be limited, so everyone will have the opportunity to discuss their ideas and methods of their practice with a working professional artist, Fran Gallun. Each week students will bring up to five works (both finished and works-in-progress) for discussion and evaluation in order to create strategies for you to hone your artistic direction.
What You Will Learn:
1. It’s an opportunity to help resolve technical and conceptual problems that you are facing in your art practice
2. Learn from the experience of the other students.
3. Discuss ideas about art concepts and theory; artistic movements; and artists that suit your own reality, and are relevant to your own artistic practice.
4. It will give you an opportunity to articulate the concepts in your artwork.
This is a 5-session class that will meet on alternating weeks. Class will meet on:
September 16, 2026
September 30, 2026
October 14, 2026
October 28, 2026
November 11, 2026
Fran Gallun
I am a Philadelphia native, and have been producing art here for about 40 years. During that time, I have worked in different media, as well as 2D and 3D work.
Starting out in photography at the Philadelphia College of Art in the late sixties, I went on to painting, then mixed media work, sculpture and installation. In the last several years I circuitously got around to painting on canvas again, and then on to the pastels exhibited in May, 2005, at the DaVinci Art Alliance in Philadelphia.
Themes running consistently through my work are lively, intense color; expressive line and gesture; interest in ancient civilizations, ruins, the cycles of time; and memories and imaginings of all these.
When I switched from painting on canvas to works on paper, I felt liberated, and the themes that interested me in painting emerged in a new and deeper way in the mixed media works. It was very exciting to see this consistency of subject, even as the materials changed dramatically.
I have found it helpful to remember that painting is a long distance run, not a sprint. I have been amazed at the things my art has taught me. When younger, I never realized this was the big reason people keep doing art.