Drawing & Mixed Media for Teens - Ages 13-17 - with Nomi Silverman

Teens | This program is completed

NOW Starting on October 28!
10/21/2023-12/9/2023
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$300.00

Drawing & Mixed Media for Teens - Ages 13-17 - with Nomi Silverman

Teens | This program is completed

This course seeks to give students a strong foundation in drawing and other mediums such as pastels with an emphasis on building skills in observational drawing, proportion, contour line and shading and perspective. Students will learn techniques, composition and color theory. Instruction to be tailored to individual student levels and needs. 

  • Drawing paper 11 x 14 acid free ( Canson makes  pad called “biggie sketch”-inexpensive but acid free). No newsprint.

    Charcoal pencils.

    Options:

    Watercolor set

    Watercolor paper (pad as well-hot press-which is smooth)

    Pen set (for ink-they come in sets-get the one for sketching)

    India ink 

    Pastel paper (a few sheets)

Silverman, Nomi
Nomi Silverman

Nomi Silverman attended the High School of Art and Design and Barnard College. She also studied with Daniel Greene, David Leffel, Gustav Rheiberger, Harvey Dinnerstein, Ron Sherr, George Nama, Bob Blackburn, Burt Silverman, and Michael Mazur. She has had solo shows at The Fairfield Arts Center, A-Space Gallery in New Haven, CT, The Housatonic Museum in Bridgeport, CT, The Center for Contemporary Printmaking in Norwalk CT, A Shenere Velt Gallery in Los Angeles, CA, the Silvermine Guild of Art in New Canaan, CT, and the Greenwich Arts Center Gallery in Greenwich, CT, amongst others. She has also shown in many group shows including the Print Triennial, Politically Speaking, Contemporary American Printmaking at the William Patterson University, and National Drawing, at the College of NJ.  She has won many awards, and received a grant from the Puffin Foundation and the Connecticut Commission on the Arts and received a fellowship to Duke University. Selected articles, reviews and books include The New York Times, The Stamford Advocate, the LA Times, The Philadelphia Weekly, Venu Magazine and “Strokes of Genus 3” by North Light Books. Her work is in the collection of the New York Public Library, The Slater Memorial Museum, The William Benton Museum of Art, The Library of Congress, The Mattatuck Museum, the Boston Public Library, The Housatonic Museum of Art, The Hunterdon Museum of Art and numerous national and international collections.