THIS CLASS HAS BEEN CANCELLED

Date: Tuesday to Friday, Feb 19 to Feb 22

Course Description: Explore our collections to discover different approaches to painting. Realize your ideas on canvas, panel, and paper as you learn about preliminary sketches, composition, choosing materials, use of color, and how to use acrylics, watercolor, and other media.

Instructor: Ria Brodell

Ria Brodell is an artist based in Boston whose current body of work addresses issues of gender, sexuality and "butch" identity. Brodell studied at the School of the Institute of Chicago and received a BFA from Cornish College of the Arts in Seattle ('02) and an MFA from the Museum School/Tufts University ('06). Brodell has had solo and group exhibitions throughout the US, is a recipient of the Blanche E. Colman Award ('11) and the Emerging Artist Award from the St. Botolph Club Foundation ('08). Her work has appeared in The Boston Globe, New American Paintings, Beautiful Decay, Art New England, Art Slant: San Francisco, Daily Serving, The Phoenix and Boston Magazine.