In Person Events
Art History Lecture: Ladies Night
Date: April 25th, 2024
5:30 to 7:30
FREEEEE!
Yes it’s ladies night! Let’s talk about those special lady painters in history. More details to come. Open to the public, anyone can come and enjoy this talk!
Photographing your work, digital image basics, and other annoying things visual artists have to learn.
May 16th, 2024
5:30-7:30
FREEEEE!
What we plan to address/cover: Taking pics of your 2D work, working with digital images, staying organized, how to prepare images for submission to galleries and competitions. If there’s time we will also talk about networking suggestions/business stuff as well.
Self Portrait Competition and Celebration
The competition: any currently enrolled student as of Spring Term 2024 is eiligible. Works must be at least 90% done from life… added or invented elements can be added but the work itself need to primarily be done from life. Deadline is June 2nd. Portraits should be dropped off the week of June 3-7th.
Awards: $500 tuition credit for the winner of each of the following categories
Quantity - sheer quantity of self portraits completed. These must be at least a geenral likeness and a reasonable level of finish for the drawing/painting. For example: alla prima paintings, expressive line drawings, etc. qualify
Qaulity - the portrait that demonstrates a high level of mastery
Creativity - conceptually interesting
Selfie Celebration!
Come see all the self portraits that our students submitted to our internal self-portrait competition. Open to the public! Saturday, June 8th after class ends at 5:00 - whenever. Please add your name to this form if you expect to come/attend/celebrate with us!
Anatomy of an Artist Statement
Thursday, June 20th 5:30 to 7:30
Guest Speaker: Hester Tittmann
If you are struggling with writing your artist statement, good news, you are on the right track! Crafting a good artist statement is really hard. In this demo we will help define, in practical terms, what an artist statement is, and how to approach yours. We will identify elements that can make your artist statement more effective, as well as name common pitfalls to avoid. We will break down a few examples from famous artists. There will be time for questions.
Hester Tittmann is a communications strategist and a student at ARA Boston. Hester runs their own practice, Rabbit Rabbit Studio, where they do branding, copywriting, and communications design for artists, architects, small businesses and nonprofits. Before starting Rabbit Rabbit, Hester worked for Rebar, in San Francisco, with public artist Matthew Passmore, and for Macarthur Fellow Walter Hood as Hood Design Studio's Marketing Director and public art coordinator in Oakland, Calif.
Better Storytelling Lecture and Demo with Greg Manchess
Thumbnail sketches lead to stronger paintings. We’ll use the simplest aspects of drawing— line, shape, and value, plus effective composition skills— to allow the student to fill pages with small ideas, searching for the best few that communicate impressions, emotions, and most importantly, curiosity.
This is what makes a painting fascinating: storytelling. All based on simple picture design started in the smallest of sketches, the thumbnail.
This is the opening lecture about Greg’s work, plus a composition lecture and demo. If you’re interested in the full workshop, you can learn more here.
Friday September 6th, 9:30 AM to 12:30 PM
Price: $75
Online Events
ARA Boston AMA (Ask Me Anything)
The First Sunday of each Month
11:00 AM
Questions about materials, need suggestions for how to approach alla prima painting, or wondering what our favorite mediums are? The First Sunday of each month, join one of the ARA instructors online for office hours. If you have specific questions, it would be best to let us know in advance. We will not be critiquing individuals artwork during this time. This is more for general drawing, painting, and process questions, advice/suggestions/recommendations, and information about The Academy of Realist Art Boston and it’s online or in-person atelier program.
Recordings of Previous ARA AMA can be found here.
May 5, 2024 11:00 AM - Andres Castillo and John Asimacopoulos
Jun 2, 2024 11:00 AM - Emanuela DeMusis
Jul 7, 2024 11:00 AM - John Asimacopoulos
Aug 4, 2024 11:00 AM - Cindy MacMillan and Garrett Vitanza
Sep 1, 2024 11:00 AM - Antonio
Oct 6, 2024 11:00 AM - John and Garrett
Nov 3, 2024 11:00 AM
Dec 1, 2024 11:00 AM
