Exploratory Mask Making
8 Week Class | This course has been canceled
Mask exploration as an art form challenges us to transform ourselves to either outwardly reflect our true identities or inwardly disguise them. Mask making either through playful, practical or sacred forms has been an historically important practice for self exploration, helping us achieve an overall understanding of ‘what it means to be human’.
This introduction/intermediate level course will be an investigative journey of the self through the exploration of ancient themes: fertility, medicine, ritual, harvest, hunting, performance, protection and ornamentation. We'll use urban found materials that reflect our unique time and place in history (i.e. cardboard, plastic, metals, fabric etc.) as well as more traditional mediums like paints and pigments, to create.
Base Tuition: $385 + Materials Fee: $25 = $410 Total
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- Please have a basic set of acrylic paints and various sized brushes, i.e. flat, round, 12, 10, 8, 6, 4, 2, 0
Drew Simpson
Drew is an artist and curator, balancing his craft between programming galleries in Berlin and Toronto. He is a past graduate of the TSA diploma program and has gone on to exhibit in NYC, Paris, London, Berlin, LA, Madrid, Cologne, Basel, Chicago, and Miami as well as being included in various Canadian institutions such as The Power Plant, National Gallery of Canada, Art Gallery of Alberta, Mendel Art Gallery and the Musée d’art contemporain de Montréal. Simpson’s surreal miniature paintings are renowned for being exceptionally detailed, precisely rendered and always paying homage to an invisible aristocracy. The appropriation of visual language in Simpson’s work is beholden to classic masters, yet they are full of modern anachronisms and images that defy one art historical context, but remain governed by the same concerns: mortality, elusive beauty and brutal truth.