Dates: Sunday, Ten-week session, March 24- June 9 (no class March 31 and April 28)

Course Description: Visit the galleries to focus on still life paintings, then learn how to work with acrylic paint. Learn fundamental skills and color relationships and theory. Working independently, realize your ideas with a series of paintings on canvas or panel. You may bring your own supplies; a list of required materials is distributed during first class.

Instructor: Justin Life

Justin Life received an MFA from Tufts University/School of the Museum of Fine Arts (‘07) and a BFA in Painting from the University of North Carolina at Greensboro (‘02); he also studied at the Winchester School of Art at Southampton University in England (‘02). His shows include “Affirming the Hand” at the Courtyard Gallery, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (‘05); the “Student Annual Exhibition” at Grossman Gallery, SMFA (‘06); “Boston Young Contemporaries” at 808 Gallery (‘07); “MFA Thesis Show” at Tufts University (‘07); “Flora and Fauna” at EM Gallery, Winston Salem, NC (‘09); and “Boston Drawing Project 10th Anniversary Show” at Carroll and Sons Gallery, Boston MA (‘09). Life also teaches at Tufts University and the Boston Architectural College.