Critical Explorations with Tom Csaszar

In evaluating visual works fully, often one has to see them outside your studio, in another context, perhaps with other works, and also hearing responses from other people about them.  Frequently we see a few different levels and connections in our works, and reading them in relation to the emphasis of other’s comments and in relation to different works, rooms, even changes in light, helps us see more freshly what we first engaged with in the works.  This gives us a chance to see them again for the first time, to think about them for a second or third time.  This all can help knowing how to develop potentials in them that we see, to move toward the next work, or to paint a body of works that maintain a related focus—however a focus extended in its range.

In this series of three classes, the three discussions and classes a month apart can be taken as separate classes on developing your work.  We will focus on this in each class.  Or they can also be taken as a sequence, giving you a chance to adjust and respond to the works of each session through works made in between each of the three classes.

Each class will begin with a discussion of one to four works brought to the class by each participant, and continue with studio time in which each person can work in the mediums they bring with them to develop visual works in drawings, water colors, paintings, collages, or other mediums.  We will end with a short discussion of the works made in class.  If time permits, and according to the interests of the class, we may look and discuss works in the galleries that are pertinent to our works.

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Date:  3 Saturdays, January 25, February 22 & March 29
Time:  10 a.m. - 3 p.m. 
Fee:  $95 per session (10% discount when you register for all three: $285 - 10% = $256.50)
Register by:  Friday, January 17, February 14 & March 21 (space is limited)
** Receive an automatic 10% discount when you register for all three sessions

An artist, writer, and lecturer based in Philadelphia, Tom Csaszar has been on the graduate faculties of the University of the Arts and the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts for over twenty years. He has written numerous pieces over the last twenty-six years for The Journal of Art, Artnews, Art in America, American Crafts, The New Art Examiner, Sculpture, Title Magazine.com, Artcritical.com and various gallery catalogues. His paintings have been shown regionally and locally for over thirty-five years. A Contributing Editor of The New Art Examiner from 1993 - 2001, he is a member of the International Association of Art Critics, and the College Art Association. He has developed and taught seminars in graduate programs at the University of the Arts and the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts since 2000.