Drawing for Artists
with Claire Joyce
Course Schedule:
3rd Sundays // 11a-1p EST
Course Description:
Are you interested in exploring how drawing can help broaden your studio practice? Maybe you found your life drawing classes tedious or you "can't draw a straight line"? Guess what? No one can! It is not necessary to keep a daily sketchbook or make architecturally accurate plans for your sculptures to have drawing enrich your artistic process.
Join artist and life-long drawing enthusiast Claire Joyce in an exploration of materials, process, and visual thinking. The class will be playful, each meeting will adapt and change according to the needs and ideas of the students and encourage a rethinking of how drawing can be used.
We will address technique and formal ideas, consider the physicality of drawing, investigate how we communicate an idea visually, and practice mark making.
Claire and the students will be actively drawing and giving each other feedback during each session
Registration opens October 19th at 10am Central Time
About Claire
Claire Joyce was born in Jefferson City, Missouri in 1978. While attending the Kansas City Art Institute she spent one semester studying in Brighton, England at Brighton University. After graduating with a BFA in Printmaking in 2000 she lived in a pink Dodge conversion van and drove across the country campaigning for co-president of the United States under the Domesticratic Party, worked as a lithography print assistant, a costume design instructor, and the assistant art director at Paul Mesner Puppets. In 2003, she traveled to China for three months before being accepted to the University of Georgia, Athens. At UGA Claire was an assistant painting instructor on two trips to Ghana. After perfecting a technique to use only glitter and glue for her large-scale pieces she earned an MFA in Painting with distinctions in 2006. Claire has written online columns for both ReadyMade Magazine and CRAFT, and has built and designed costumes and puppets for the stage as well as maintained a studio life working in two dimensions. In addition to participating in residencies within the United States, Belgium and China, her work has been shown both nationally and internationally. For five years she taught drawing at College of the Redwoods in Eureka, CA. After three cross-country moves she and her family landed in Syracuse where she works in a small home studio and runs the business Tiny Two Hour Portraits (tinytwohourportraits.com).
You can also find her at clairejoyce.com
