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artgallery@acadiau.ca
902-585-1373
‘The Way in and the Way Out’ – Workshop facilitated by Phyllis Kornfeld, art educator and curator of Cellblock Visions: Prison Art in America
Conducting art programs in prisons is different from conventional art classes in many ways, ( in addition to the obvious). The participants bring a wide disparity of experience, some with little or no skills or ideas, some with varying degrees, some with expertise and very fixed ideas. The motivation to make art is widely varied. Some people come to get free materials to supply their art "business". Most have a hunch that making art is the way to a kind of freedom that makes it possible to transcend their incarceration. Some prisoners participate for many long years, some for a few months, and some will attend only once or twice. These disparities require that I continue to invent, develop, and evolve successful methods of eliciting inventive, profound, well-executed, fully developed art almost immediately. The Creative Drawing Workshop is an exploration into unmapped territory, using black and white drawing mediums to release startlingly fresh artwork. Hands-on drawing projects combine ways of drawing without intention, without history, without employing previous concepts. These projects trick the ego and its habits to access a much deeper store of imagery and self-propelling creative energy.
Phyllis Kornfeld received her MA in Art Education from University of Oklahoma and has been facilitating art programs with prison inmates for close to 30 years, working with prisoners in both maximum and minimum security prisons.
Workshop is limited to to 15 participants. To register email name and phone number to artgallery@acadiau.ca
artgallery@acadiau.ca
902-585-1373
‘The Way in and the Way Out’ – Workshop facilitated by Phyllis Kornfeld, art educator and curator of Cellblock Visions: Prison Art in America
Conducting art programs in prisons is different from conventional art classes in many ways, ( in addition to the obvious). The participants bring a wide disparity of experience, some with little or no skills or ideas, some with varying degrees, some with expertise and very fixed ideas. The motivation to make art is widely varied. Some people come to get free materials to supply their art "business". Most have a hunch that making art is the way to a kind of freedom that makes it possible to transcend their incarceration. Some prisoners participate for many long years, some for a few months, and some will attend only once or twice. These disparities require that I continue to invent, develop, and evolve successful methods of eliciting inventive, profound, well-executed, fully developed art almost immediately. The Creative Drawing Workshop is an exploration into unmapped territory, using black and white drawing mediums to release startlingly fresh artwork. Hands-on drawing projects combine ways of drawing without intention, without history, without employing previous concepts. These projects trick the ego and its habits to access a much deeper store of imagery and self-propelling creative energy.
Phyllis Kornfeld received her MA in Art Education from University of Oklahoma and has been facilitating art programs with prison inmates for close to 30 years, working with prisoners in both maximum and minimum security prisons.
Workshop is limited to to 15 participants. To register email name and phone number to artgallery@acadiau.ca
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Pricing
$10.00 workshop fee
$10.00 workshop fee
10 Highland Avenue
Wolfville, Nova Scotia
artgallery@acadiau.ca
902-585-1373
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