Sunday, January 26th, 2020
12PM TO 3PM
Mixed Media Workshops
Heyward is joined by award winning Japanese fiber artist Akiko Suzuki
Pushing Practice While Identifying and Breaking Habitual Modes of Working: Paying attention to what’s actually happening with materials; how they interact and evolve; how ideas present themselves in various ways in conjunction with this process often supersedes expectation and offers opportunities for broader, richer, more personal expression. These are a few of the goals presented in The Carl Heyward Mixed-Media Workshops, achieved through the suspension of self-judgement, ordering creativity and analysis to their appropriate times and places; discovering confidence in problem resolution; to take risks.
Explore the creative possibilities of “the materials at hand” which may include both traditional and non-traditional resources such as collage, painting, found materials, print and mark making; even discards, in the true spirit of Mixed-Media Arts. Heyward’s mentoring process moves participants through a series of alternative print making, collage, painting and mixed-media exercises. These practices help students to break out of creative blocks and self-imposed barriers.
Level: All levels
Location: Studio 55
Class size: Minimum 5 | Maximum 10
Age minimum: 18
Carl Heyward is NEA Fellow and grant recipient, former MFA instructor at SF Academy of Art University, arts writer and founder of Global Art Project, a mixed-media collaborative cooperative with a membership in 12 countries. He has exhibited at Room Art Gallery, Mill Valley, The Fourth Wall Gallery in Oakland, CA, artist-in-residence at The Schools of The Sacred Heart at The Flood Mansion, San Francisco, and continues to exhibit internationally: Kranz, Slovenia; Mazatlan, Mexico; Venice, Italy; and Ghent, Belgium, in 2017-2019. His work is in collections held by SF-MOMA, NY-MOMA, Yale University Art Library, the National Gallery of Australia, Wellsely Art Library and the Brooklyn Museum. He is associated with Jennifer Perlmutter Gallery, CA; 10dence Gallery, Holland, Galerie Sobo Bade, Senegal and Gallerie Renee Marie, CA, East Village Art View Gallery, NYC
