Image and Object: Jeffry Mitchell and Amy Johnson

High School Visual Art Master Class
January 18–21, 2008
Image and Object: Jeffry Mitchell and Amy Johnson

In this master class, you’ll go on a journey of exploration with visual artists Amy Johnson and Jeffry Mitchell and discover the rich territory between drawing and sculpture.

Using both recycled and traditional artists’ materials, you’ll explore both two- and three-dimensional work. You might create a sculpture based on an image of a vase and then create an image based on the vase sculpture.

Studying the work of Arcimboldo, who created portraits in which faces are made of vegetables and fruit, and Markus Raetz, another artist whose work plays with illusion and materials, you can expect to start artmaking on the wall or with sheets of paper, and then pop up and out into space—as Mitchell says: “activating a dual function” as the materials become both image and object.

This master class experience is appropriate for intermediate to advanced high school visual artists, and is limited to fifteen participants. Selection for the workshop will be based on your work sample; please email three (3) digital photos of your work, along with an artist statement, to martha@centrum.org.

Tuition, room and board is $195. Scholarships are available.

Scholarship/work sample deadline is Dec. 21, 2007.
Application deadline/payment due Jan. 4, 2008.

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Jeffy Mitchell's eclectic body of work has made him one of the Northwest's most-watched visual artists. Equal parts sculptor, printmaker, painter and conceptual artist, Mitchell references a wide spectrum of art history and decorative arts. His solo exhibitions have been seen throughout the United States, including the James Harris Gallery in Seattle, and (September 2007) the Pulliam Deffenbaugh Gallery in Portland.

His works are in the collections of the Boston Museum of Fine Arts, the Contemporary Museum in Honolulu, the Fogg Art Museum at Harvard University, the Philadelphia Art Museum, the New York Public Library, and the Seattle Art Museum among others.

Amy Johnson pursued her interest in visual art at the University of Colorado at Boulder and received her BFA with concentrations in photography and ceramics. She received her MFA from the University of Washington with a body of work focused on female socialization and identity. Johnson has been a resident at the Archie Bray Foundation for Ceramic Arts in Helena, MT and is in the collections of the University of Montana Museum of Art and Culture and the Archie Bray Foundation. Johnson was the recipient of the Elmer Craig Award from  The National Council on Education for the Ceramic Arts in 2006.