THE SPIRITUAL LANGUAGE OF ART WORKSHOPS:

The following university-style, Aimone Art Workshops are designed to meet the needs of the contemporary working artist. Each features artist/author Steven Aimone as instructor, and each is available for arts groups and institutions everywhere.

These events are offered in two formats, both limited in enrollment to 16 participants:

FULL LENGTH SHORT COURSE: five-day format; venue has the option to schedule the introductory lecture the evening before. Aimone Art Services charges a flat fee of $5,000 per workshop, plus lodging and transportation for the instructor.

CONDENSED SHORT COURSE:

Adaptation of these workshops to shorter, three-day format. Aimone Art Services charges a flat fee of $3,600 for the workshop, plus lodging and transportation for the instructor.

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1.  EXPRESSIVE DRAWING AND PAINTING:

     LINE AND MARK AS SUBJECT
Take part in a workshop in contemporary drawing that emphasizes the formal elements of line and mark. Explore ways in which line and mark can be the primary subject matter of a work. Investigate various ways in which they can activate pictorial space. Discover ways of organizing them into compelling compositional arrangements. Features shared, hands-on challenges and interactive group critiques.

2.  ABSTRACT PAINTING:

     NONOBJECTIVE COMPOSITION
An exciting and challenging introduction to the language of non-objective design (abstract composition). Explores what art can say IN ADDITION TO OR APART FROM its traditional purposes of describing external appearances, telling literary narratives, and expressing specific and pre-determined emotions.  While the majority of hands-on challenges are executed in painting, drawing, and collage, this workshop is neither media not technique specific, and no technical expertise is required.

3.  ABSTRACT PAINTING:

     PROCESSES OF ABSTRACTING FROM A REFERENCE

Explore a wide variety of ways you might abstract from a visual reference. Whenever you work from the observation,you inevitably select, distill, arrange, and alter the visual forces you find at your disposal. In this workshop, you'll look at a broad range of possibilities taken from art history and contemporary art. After taking part in shared challenges, you’ll be encouraged to explore individual approaches. The premise of the workshop: you, the artist, are a unique filter through which experiences of the visible are processed to produce a new visual reality that is uniquely and expressively your own.  Each day ends in interactive group critique. Not media or technique specific.