Drawing: Michael Moore

July 25 – 30

Drawing Drawings – This is a process-oriented drawing workshop during which the act of drawing is primary. Participants will be drawing most of time, with breaks to see what others in the workshop have done. Everyone will be asked to share with others what they learn from making drawings. Our goal will be to improve through both drawing and observation. Participants will be asked to watch their drawings happen as they actually draw them, bit by bit, dot by dot, mark by mark, line by line, from nothing to something. Drawing is not a random act. Human hands, materials, and the activity of drawing create preferential patterns, designs, compositions, forms, and images. Participants will draw/design with brown or black ink from a variety of sources using a variety of tools on a ground, or surface, of paper or board. Whatever or however we are drawing, the ink will gradually integrate with the ground/surface and begin to reveal an image of some kind, of any kind, as the ink and the ground balance and support one another. When participants see that this visual balance occurs, they will stop drawing and accept what it is they have drawn, however near or far it is from anything they might have imagined in the first place. They andtheir drawings have become equivalent to one another. Seeing the drawings, they see themselves.

Michael Moore holds a BFA degree in Printmaking from Syracuse University and an MFA degree in Drawing from the University of Washington. He studied Inuit carvings in Churchill, Manitoba in 1975. He traveled to Japan in 1988 and 2001, and to China in 2001. He taught at the University of Southern Maine, 1967-1992, the Callendar Park College of Education, Falkirk, Scotland, 1972/73. Michael was a member of the Graduate Faculty at The Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts in Philadelphia, 1992 – 2017, where he served as Director of Graduate Programs and Chair of the Post-Baccalaureate Program. He taught twelve drawing workshops at Haystack Mountain School of Crafts, 1985-2012, and has participated in Thinking Through Drawing conferences in New York and London. Michael Moore maintains studios in Philadelphia and Maine and has exhibited his work in a variety of solo, group, and faculty exhibitions during the past 50 years. drawingdrawings.com

This workshop is currently full. Please contact us if you would like to be added to the waitlist.

Workshop Registration

Enrollment in each workshop is handled on a first-come, first-served basis. A deposit payment of $250 is required at the time of registration with full payment for all summer workshops due by May 30. If a workshop is full you can contact our office to be placed on the waitlist free of charge. If space becomes available we will let you know. All workshops begin on a Sunday afternoon and conclude on Saturday morning.

Fees

The cost of participating in a workshop includes tuition, room and board. We offer on-campus housing in a private (single) or double (shared with one other person) room. Room availability is limited and filled on a first-come, first-served basis. If you do not need housing, you may register as a day student at a reduced rate. Whether staying on campus or off, all meals are included and prepared for workshop participants by the Quarry restaurant. Fees for materials and supplies will vary for each studio and can range from $25-$100.

Accommodations

Housing is in new or recently refurbished houses located within walking distance of studios and workshops. Single or double occupancy bedrooms are provided in shared housing. Bedrooms are comfortably furnished with twin beds. Linens and towels are provided, you should bring an extra swim towel.

Cancellation Policy

Cancellations made 30 days prior to the start of your workshop will receive a refund minus a $50 processing fee. Cancellations made 10 days prior will receive a 50% refund. Any cancellations after that will be charged the full rate. However, if you experience illness on the day of planned arrival, we will refund minus $50 to protect all of our participants. Should circumstances change, and we decide it is not possible to safely operate and cancel or postpone a workshop, you will receive a full refund.