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We all attend classes there at SAS because we WANT to be there. Why else would anyone pay to attend a class unless we wanted to learn? When one disagrees with a particular pathway suggested by an artist/teacher, try it anyway.
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I am hoping you are supporting me. Of course, I am suffering from a lot of envy of those who CAN attend these workshops. I have gotten a lot of scholarships but have that crummy day job that keeps me from availing myself of the stuff in the studios.
I am, in fact, trying to conceptualize a local workshop to audition for them as an instructor, designed specifically to show the regular students how best to avail themselves of the opportunity of open studio. I see the bickering and whining about the problems, but not many participants are actually aware of the broad range of opportunity at their fingertips, just to be able to have a model, and easel AND OTHER ARTISTS to bounce ideas off.
In another forum, there was a complaint of "down time" in very intense workshop they attended. The down time I have had in SAS workshops were the most valuable. Having things stuffed into your head in that week is often more than you can bundle up and take home, but the opportunity to discuss it with your peers sometimes is more valuable as you can struggle through it and see what it means on a more realistic level.
I have a DEEP love for the whole studio concept. It is such a gift and sort of fading from the norm. In big cities with big schools and big culture, they are in the garrets and basements of artist's communities. In my air-conditioned, locked in oven, the mingling of artists is usually accomplished in my underwear on the computer (Cynthia, please don't tell us there is a dress code!! ha ha!)
I think people don't even know there is the opportunity and in many cases, there are no open studios. I looked for 15 years and asked every amateur painter I could find. I signed up for a five week supervised figure study at the Museum and was smart enough to ask the MODEL. Found out I was three miles from the school and have never left.... well I moved closer, now I CAN walk in the winter.
The workshops are a different animal than a full curriculum, the open studio is like a gym for artistic athletes.