5 Day Workshop - October 30 - November 3, Friday - Tuesday (10am-5pm)
5 days
10 students maximum
Lunches included (include any dietary considerations on registration)
Approaching Abstraction: Considering Color, Composition and Content
“Approaching Abstraction” is a master class designed for artists, makers, and creative thinkers who want to explore abstraction in a thoughtful and practical way. Through guided exercises and discussion with the incredible Kari Minnick, students will investigate how abstract imagery can emerge from their own visual language. Abstraction may serve as a starting point, a process, or a destination — and this class invites participants to explore the many possibilities in between.
Starting with their own images, photos, clippings, etc., students will examine why certain imagery appeals to them, how to isolate the image's potency, dissect it, vary it, and ultimately move toward meaningful abstraction. Drawings, color studies, and/or test pieces will form the basis for a series of projects in the class and beyond. Using Bullseye sheet and accessory glasses (powder and frit), students will be introduced to innovative methods that enable expressive use of color, strong composition, and depth. Through multiple firings, students will consider both sides of the glass, layering strategies, and rich, complex surfaces.
Topics will include, among others:
Intuitive and expressive use of color
Layering strategies to achieve maximum depth
Realism, abstraction, and points in between
This accessible art class for kiln workers will be of interest to artists such as printmakers and painters, as well as anyone seeking to expand their visual expression through glass. The content is easily translatable to other media.
While basic kiln practices will be touched upon, the focus of the class will be on expressive use of materials and creating glasswork rooted in each student’s signature voice. Prior glass experience is helpful but not required. Artists working in other media are encouraged to enroll.
More About Kari Minnick
“My art is a study of contrasts: order and chaos, thick and thin, questioning and acceptance. Using rich surfaces and layers of glass, I contrast fleshy realism with abstraction. Immediacy and restraint, delicacy and directness; I balance bold composition and nuanced line.
A maker of pictures and teller of stories, I’m heartened by familiar fluency yet stirred by ecstatic newness. Fleeting gesture on solid ground, murky meaning and bruising impact. Disparate elements crescendo and resolve into beauty.”
Kari Minnick owns and operates Kari Minnick Art Glass Studio, where she produces architectural commissions, fine art and introduces artists from other media to kiln-glass. Her glasswork has won several prestigious awards and is held internationally in private, corporate and embassy collections. Minnick began her career as a painter; earning a degree in studio art from the University of California at Davis. An exhibiting artist and dynamic educator, Kari shows her work and teaches her signature classes internationally.
5 Day Workshop - October 30 - November 3, Friday - Tuesday (10am-5pm)
5 days
10 students maximum
Lunches included (include any dietary considerations on registration)
Approaching Abstraction: Considering Color, Composition and Content
“Approaching Abstraction” is a master class designed for artists, makers, and creative thinkers who want to explore abstraction in a thoughtful and practical way. Through guided exercises and discussion with the incredible Kari Minnick, students will investigate how abstract imagery can emerge from their own visual language. Abstraction may serve as a starting point, a process, or a destination — and this class invites participants to explore the many possibilities in between.
Starting with their own images, photos, clippings, etc., students will examine why certain imagery appeals to them, how to isolate the image's potency, dissect it, vary it, and ultimately move toward meaningful abstraction. Drawings, color studies, and/or test pieces will form the basis for a series of projects in the class and beyond. Using Bullseye sheet and accessory glasses (powder and frit), students will be introduced to innovative methods that enable expressive use of color, strong composition, and depth. Through multiple firings, students will consider both sides of the glass, layering strategies, and rich, complex surfaces.
Topics will include, among others:
Intuitive and expressive use of color
Layering strategies to achieve maximum depth
Realism, abstraction, and points in between
This accessible art class for kiln workers will be of interest to artists such as printmakers and painters, as well as anyone seeking to expand their visual expression through glass. The content is easily translatable to other media.
While basic kiln practices will be touched upon, the focus of the class will be on expressive use of materials and creating glasswork rooted in each student’s signature voice. Prior glass experience is helpful but not required. Artists working in other media are encouraged to enroll.
More About Kari Minnick
“My art is a study of contrasts: order and chaos, thick and thin, questioning and acceptance. Using rich surfaces and layers of glass, I contrast fleshy realism with abstraction. Immediacy and restraint, delicacy and directness; I balance bold composition and nuanced line.
A maker of pictures and teller of stories, I’m heartened by familiar fluency yet stirred by ecstatic newness. Fleeting gesture on solid ground, murky meaning and bruising impact. Disparate elements crescendo and resolve into beauty.”
Kari Minnick owns and operates Kari Minnick Art Glass Studio, where she produces architectural commissions, fine art and introduces artists from other media to kiln-glass. Her glasswork has won several prestigious awards and is held internationally in private, corporate and embassy collections. Minnick began her career as a painter; earning a degree in studio art from the University of California at Davis. An exhibiting artist and dynamic educator, Kari shows her work and teaches her signature classes internationally.
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