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Drawing & Painting Workshops

Tim Hawkesworth & Lala Zeitlyn

Workshops for Teachers

Workshops for Teachers

Teachers and artists come from all over the country to take part in our workshop program. We explore many aspects of the creative process and the making of drawing and painting, that directly relate to teaching as well as the challenges of making art. 

The primary question that comes up is how do we set about the education of the imagination? How do we impact and encourage creativity? Most learning is based on the understanding that learning follows a logical and predicable pattern of acquiring knowledge. Educators produce lesson plans and structure their classes around measurable outcomes. The education of the imagination requires sustained encounters with uncertainly. It is fostered by affirmation, excitement and experimentation. It is stymied by direction. The question then becomes how do we work this into our teaching of art?

The participants in the workshop are asked to observe themselves in their creative process. To make notes of what fosters it and what diminishes it. We create an environment in which everything is focused on fostering creativity and facilitating the individual participants work. It is used by both artists and teachers. In a way we seek to create an ideal environment from which the participants get to study what best fosters creativity. This has a direct and tangible influence on their teaching. It expands their understanding of creativity and gives them concrete tools to use in teaching.

The other issue that is explored is how to mesh this fostering of creativity with the teaching of technique and knowledge of the visual arts. If you show someone how to make green, it is a technical tool. If they are mixing colors and they find green, it is a moment of extension and excitement. The latter fosters creativity and exploration. The former gets information efficiently taught. All creative activities are a mix of structure and surrender. Artists and students need technical information. How do we work these two concerns together? How do we tie the artists learning to his or her voice?

These questions lie at the heart of art education and our understandings of how art works and contributes to our communities. The workshops are set up to explore these questions in the making of art – to pull from this intensive experience as much as we can that will help us, as teachers, struggle with this dilemma. It is a laboratory for addressing as directly as possible, these concerns.

Timothy Hawkesworth

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    About

    Tim Hawkesworth grew up in Ireland, immigrated to the US in 1977. He has been showing in New York since the early 1980’s as well as other cities around the country and in Europe. His work has received considerable critical attention including reviews in the New York Times, Art News, the New Yorker, the LA Times, the Boston Globe and the IrishTimes. His writing has also been published by several art magazines. He teaches his workshops at different locations around the country including, Massachusetts College of Art in Boston, and Bennington College in Vermont.  His work is in many public and private collections including the Brooklyn Museum, the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, the IrishMuseum of Modern Art and the Dublin City Hugh Lane Gallery. He is currently represented by Littlejohn Contemporary in New York and Peyton Wright Gallery in Santa Fe. His work was recently featured in a solo exhibit at the Royal Hibernian Academy in Dublin and he is one of four Irish painters in “The Quick and the Dead†at the Dublin City Hugh Lane Museum.

    Lala Zeitlyn claims her real education as an artist took place on the family farm although she studied painting at Bard College and Philadelphia College of Art. Her work has shown in and around the Philadelphia area and hangs in many private collections. She is also a practicing body worker and brings this knowledge to her teaching, exploring the many forms of access we have between body, mind and spirit. Lala has taught workshops with Tim Hawkesworth for the past thirteen years.

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