Portrait Sculpture Workshop with Colleen O'Donnell

Join artist and educator Colleen O'Donnell for a "two-days-in-the-clay" and learn to sculpt the portrait head!  Learn how to observe heads, see their differences and similarities and how to translate this information into a three-dimensional sculpture.  Starting with basic structure, you will build a half-size head in air-dry clay.  Expressive possibilities will emerge as your skills develop.  A portrait model will be present, but students are welcome to work from their own photographs or imagination.  Instruction will be geared to all experience levels from beginners to advanced.

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Date: Saturday and Sunday, October 28 & 29, 2023
Time:  9 a.m. - 5 p.m. 
Fee:  $250 (includes model fee)
Register by: October 20 (space is limited) 

** Sign up with a friend and receive 10% off both registrations.  Use discount code SPCass11 at checkout. 

Colleen O'Donnell is a contemporary figurative sculptor and draftsperson. She holds an MFA and Certificate from the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, and studied figure drawing at the Art Students League and the National Academy of Design. She has exhibited widely including invitational exhibitions in New York City and San Francisco.  She has been selected for residencies at the Carving Studio in Rutland, Vermont, and the Fulton Street Gallery in Troy, NY.  She is an adjunct faculty member at PAFA and Senior Adjunct Professor of Sculpture and Drawing at Rowan University at Burlington County, NJ, and was an instructor in the Apprenticeship Program at the Johnson Atelier Institute for Sculpture at the Grounds for Sculpture, NJ.