Contemporary Painting - New Aesthetics
Adult | Registration opens 11/19/2025 8:00 PM EDT
Contemporary art making and journaling can record your lived experiences. Holiday travel and its landscapes, hotel and home interiors: snapshots and magazines all offer scenes to paint. Or you can experiment with a weekly colorful still life set-up. Learn to combine new color, brush and composition techniques in abstract, realistic or in-between styles. Positive group critique ends each class. With the help of a professor-guide you can achieve rewarding results in painting, pastel, collage, image-making. Please note: NO class 1/19
This class has a required materials list.
- Please note: This class is 7 sessions
Supplies List: First class: Bring supplies you own in your medium, canvas and/or paper. Basic colors: Hansa yellow, magenta, ultramarine blue, black, white. Try out borrowed school brushes temporarily. More supplies suggestions will be made in first class. Bring photos in your phone. We welcome 1-2 previous artworks to share.
Alexa MacCrady
LEXA MCCRADY AXON has taught painting, drawing, and printmaking since 1987 and shown work in NYC, Paris, Tokyo, and London. She holds a MFA from the City University of New York Hunter College. She is a student of Valerie Jaudon, Robert Morris, and art theorist Rosalind Krauss. She received individual artist grants from New England Foundation for the Arts, Connecticut Commission on the Arts, Guild Hall Museum East Hampton NY. Exhibitions include Smith College, Parrish Museum, East Village NY; Biennials of Sao Paolo and Everson Museum. She is Adjunct Faculty at Eastern CT State University in digital art.