Plein Air Painting at Laurel Hill Cemetery with Michelle Oosterbaan and Roger Chavez

Date:  4 weeks, Friday, June 19 - July 17 (No class on July 3)
Time:  10 a.m. - 1 p.m.
Fee:  $175 
Register by: June 12 (Space is limited)
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Michelle Oosterbaan holds a BFA from Washington University in St. Louis as a Fred Conway Scholar and an MFA from Indiana University with postgraduate studies in Florence, Italy. Her fascination with light, chroma, and land is rooted in her studies of plein-air painting as a teenager in Washington D.C. She has had the privilege of exhibiting nationally and internationally at over 40 locations including The Drawing Center and the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts (PAFA). She has been awarded numerous grants and community based public art commissions. She is currently collaborating with Charlotte Griffin, Professor of Dance, at the University of California, Irvine and Jaime Cano of Grey Hare films on a cinematic video series, Impromptu, to animate her drawings with student dance. Her residency fellowships include the Cite des Arts International Paris, MacDowell, and Yaddo as John T. and Catherine E. MacArthur Fellow. 

Roger Chavez has had solo exhibitions at the Berman Museum of Art, Collegeville, PA, Gross McCleaf Gallery and Rosenfeld Gallery in Philadelphia. He is represented by Stanek Gallery in Philadelphia. Selected group shows include Woodmere Art Museum, Hopkins House for the Contemporary Arts, Haddon, NJ and Cacciola Gallery, New York. His projects and research have been supported by the Franz and Virginia Bader Foundation, Ballinglen Arts Foundation, The Pollock Krasner Foundation, The Vermont Studio Center, and a Serge Sacknoff Prize. Chavez received his MFA from American University, Washington D.C. and completed the Certificate program at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia. He considers his painting practice a form of philosophical investigation by beginning with his subject matter as a point of departure. He begins with a focus on the same subject over a stretch of time and his subject arrangement rarely changing. Serving as a motif, his subject becomes a scrutiny of its shadows, shapes, and the space it occupies. His questions elicit responses to how we see the same source differently in time, forming a repository of works of extended trials. The works are open to interpretations and simultaneously giving auras of timelessness, mortality and identity.