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Art in Oaxaca: A Workshop in Photography, Collage, Painting and Mixed Media offered by supplier M20737 (read about supplier) Key Information: Class Size: 3 - 8 people Destination: Mexico   Category: Art and craft workshop Specialty: Other, Painting   Season: February Courses Per Year: 1 Course Level: All levels Min Price: 1495 US Dollar (USD) per person Max Price: 1495 US Dollar (USD) per person

OUR WORKSHOPS: COLLAGE , PHOTOGRAPHY, PAINTING AND MIXED MEDIA

Our goal is to fuel your artistic vision by exploring a very special place where art is found not only in galleries, museums and crafts, but in nearly every aspect of daily life. Stimulated by visits to museums , carefully chosen field trips, and your instructors’ knowledge of Oaxaca’s special places, you’ll soon find a path to your own vision of this remarkable city. Choose among collage, photography, mixed media media, paintng or a combination of all.

Working side by side with a small group of students or in a more private space in the studio , you’ll benefit from in studio direction, encouragement and exercises on an ‘as needed basis’. And during daily individual critiques and class discussions, you’ll have an ongoing opportunity to review your progress with your instructors and fellow students. Your visual vocabulary will be enriched by your experiences both in and out of our studio, and, like so many artists before you, you will leave with an expanded, reinvigorated vision and a workthat reflects the spirit and the magic of Oaxaca.

We will teach the following skills and techniques in photography: composition, framing the image, lighting on site, capturing motion, point of view and developing a project.

We will teach the following skills and techniques in collage: composition, layering, adding light into the work, connecting forms and images, adding a unexpected element, surface finishing

Day 1
Arrival in Oaxaca: Your instructors will meet you at your hotel and walk you to the studio where we'll have an introductory meeting followed by mezcal, guacamole and a light supper.

DAY 2
Morning: Meet in the gaarden of Santa Domingo for orientation to the city, its customs and its culture followed by a visit to the colorful market. After we'll have an optional group lunch at a restaurant in the zocalo. the plaza in the city center.
Afternoon: Studio Slide Presentations of various media, demonstrations, techniques and approaches. Discuss individual projects with instructors.
Late Afternoon: Explore the city for subject matter, observe the Oaxacan light, color and shadows and gather materials for collage.

DAY 3
Morning: Attend Guelaguetza performance
Afternoon: Begin collage. Edit photographs
Evening: Optional gallery visits

DAY 4
Morning: Full day of collage making and/or photography .
Afternoon: Optional Textile Museum or Tamayo Museum visits
Evening: Group dinner.

DAY 5
Full day: Market visit followed by a cooking class at Susana Trilling's Seasons Of My Heart School of Oaxacan Cuisine.
Late Afternoon: We'll linger a the dinnertable enjoying the fruits of your labor.
(Round trip transportation included late breakfast and early dinner included)

DAY 6
Morning: Finish projects and edit work for evening presentation
Afternoon: Free time
Evening: Final presentation with group and individual critiques. Followed by:
Farewell banquet at Biznaga, a Slow Food restaurant serving fusion Mexican food.

DAY 7
Morning: Breakfast at Las Golindrinas with Humberto & Mari.
Discuss future directions your work might take
Course evaluation.
Goodbyes.

TOUR ITINERARY AND DAILY PLAN:
CARNIVAL WORKSHOP, FEBRUARY 9 - 15, 2013

Day 1:
Arrive in Oaxaca: Arrive and check in to your hotel. Mari and Humberto will meet you at your hotel and accompany you to Humberto's studio for social hour to get acquainted. Light supper included.

Day 2:
Morning: Meet in the garden of Santa Domingo Church for an orientation to the city and where Humberto will give insights to its culture, rituals and history. Visit Oaxaca's colorful market, followed by lunch in the zocalo (center’s park and is considered one of the most beautiful zocalos in Mexico). Return to studio for slide presentations, demonstrations and discussion of individual artistic directions and possibilities. Then explore the light, shadow and local color of Oaxaca and/or collect materials.

Day 3: Begin work in the studio with with artistic direction and coaching from your instructors. Full work day
Continue discussing artistic directions and begin creating your week’s work. Visit a special store unique to Mexico to buy additional materials if needed.
In the late afternoon Prepare for Tuesday trip for Carnival with a short pictorial lecture on elements of photography consisting on techniques of framing the subject in the view finder, developing a good composition and capturing light.
Early evening: Optional visit to Photography Museum or Pre Hispanic Museum

Day 4:
Morning: Meet our professional guide at your hotel for our trip to experience Carnival! Today focuses on photographing, sketching or observing as we go to a wood carving village for their carnival celebration. We'll see a mock wedding. And surprise, on this occasion the bride is male and festooned with female accoutrements and a beautiful white bridal gown. Bands will be playing and many of the villagers, wearing masks and dressed in costumes, will be dancing. Bring your cameras or sketch pads and dancing shoes and join in!
Lunch at restaurant Azucenas.
Afternoon: Visit a weaving village.
Late afternoon: Continue work in the studio or free time.

Day 5:
Cooking class at a professional cooking school in the city.
Afternoon: work in studio
(optional): Visit Oaxaca’s newest textile museum, located in a magnificently restored downtown building and/or galleries.

Day 6: Full work day in studio

Day 7; Morning and afternoon: Put on the finishing touches to your collage or painting, edit your photographs and prepare for the in studio exhibition. During the day you will have individual discussions with your instructors including plans for continuing directions.
Late afternoon: free time
Evening: Exhibition of work followed by our farewell celebratory banquet at a wonderful slow food restaurant.

Day 7: Breakfast and workshop evaluation with instructors. Students who have chosen the optional extension will depart for Puebla with Mari.

Puebla extension (optional and not included in cost of workshop. POR):

Three nights and four days exploring this colonial tiled city. Visits to Puebla’s famous flea and antique market, a traditional vecindade (an alleyway of houses, workshops and stores and particular to Puebla), Ampara museum, the colorful village of Chulula with its partially excavated pyramid with a church built on the top, its tiled “Indian Baroque” churches with their unique interiors, a Talavera Factory, shopping. We will take a first class bus to Puebla from Oaxaca. On the fourth day you would take a special luxury bus that goes directly to your terminal at the airport.

Faculty Information:
A resident of Worcester MA., Mari Seder now spends much of the year in Oaxaca. In 2010 she received her third Kinnicutt travel Award from the Worcester Art Museum to continue her research on Modern painters and their Pre-Columbian influences. She was a finalist and a recipient of the Massachusetts Cultural Council Award in Photography. Her work is in the collections of Lehigh University, Worcester Polytechnical Institute, the Worcester Historical Museums and Fototeca, Havana. She has shown her work nationally and internationally.
Her most recent solo exhibition was the fall of 2011 at Centro Fotografico Alvarez Bravo, Oaxaca, Mexico. She has lectured at the Worcester Art Museum and directed and taught in its off site course in Oaxaca for three years from 2008 to 2010 and independently with Humberto Batista for the past three years.

Born in Mexico City, Humberto Batista has lived in Oaxaca for thirty years. He taught for the Kansas City Art Institute for several years, has given many workshops in painting and collage and with Mari taught the Worcester Art Museum's off site course for three years from 2008 to 2010.
His assemblages, collages and paintings have been exhibited widely in the United States and Mexico and are in collections on this continent and in several European countries. He is represented in Oaxaca by Galeria Arte de Oaxaca. Photographs of his work can be seen in the recently published book, Oaxaca Mexican Cultural Heritage. His work can be seen Gallery La Luz de Jesus in LA . In 2013, he will having a forthcoming exhibit of his collages at a downtown gallery in San Francisco. In 2008, he received the prestigious Esther and Adolph Gottlieb Foundation Grant to further his work.

Other Activities:
Puebla extenstion (optional and not included in the cost of the workshop): Three nights and four days exploring this colonial tiled city. Visits to Puebla’s famous flea and antique market, a traditional vecindade (an alleyway of houses, workshops and stores and particular to Puebla), Ampara museum, the colorful village of Chulula with its partially excavated pyramid with a church built on the top, its tiled “Indian Baroque” churches with their unique interiors, a Talavera Factory, shopping. We will take a first class bus to Puebla from Oaxaca. On the fourth day you would take a special luxury bus that goes directly to your terminal at the airport.

Note: Minimum 3 students.

Facility Information:
The studio is located only 5 five blocks from the zocalo ( a park surrounded by restaurants, cafes and much activity). The neighborhood of the studio itself is
mixture of residential with small businesses--restaurants,bookstores,museums, craft ,textile and clothing stores , the Santo Domingo Cultural center and church as well as a fresh food market.
The studio is a well equipped professional artist's studio filled with antiques, Mexican masks , artifacts , an extensive library of art books and a lot of natural light. In the open patio, there are verdant cactus plants that add to the atmosphere of this colorful and productive studio.

Notes:
Tuition for workshop. Field trip with professional guides. Hotel with single occupancy and private bath in a charming hotel (Discount for shared double).One evening banquet dinner, one lunch at a restaurant, one gourmet meal at cooking school, one evening home cooked meal. Tuition for Cooking School. Fresh Mexican coffee every morning.

Not included is airfare and most meals. Discount for shared double room.

Price Excludes:
- Airfare and most meals (cost of food in Oaxaca is quite cheap and healthy) and most museum tickets.
Notes:
- Additional information for accompanying partner or spouse who is not a workshop participant but who wishes to attend Carnival and farewell banquet dinner will be given price upon request or who wishes to attend Guelaguetza and or the cooking class will be given price on request.

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