Pastel Painting with Nomi Silverman

Adult Classes | Registration opens 8/15/2025 12:00 AM

All Levels
9/18/2025-11/13/2025
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$390.00
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Pastel Painting with Nomi Silverman

Adult Classes | Registration opens 8/15/2025 12:00 AM

Think about pastels in a new and different way. Explore color, value, composition, and concept as well as different surfaces and materials. Using subject matter of your choice—still lives, landscapes, portraits (even self!)—we will expand the horizons of what is possible.

  • Supply list:

    Pastels (if you don’t have any, a good basic set is Nu Pastels set of 96) 

    Paper—either sandpaper pastel paper or watercolor or printing paper, 

    Spectrum pastel ground in color of your choice (if you are using sandpaper you don’t need this) Please don’t use paper called “pastel paper”. That won’t hold pastels more than one layer and can't handle water, though that’s fine for quick studies. 

    Gouache, and brushes and water containers. Any additional supplies will be discussed.

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.