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Abstractions

Personal development and team building through art.

What will you do?

Learn

Learn the history of abstract art, artists, groups, and movements.

Identify

Identify symbolic languages of lines, shapes, and forms

Methodology

Learn methods of pioneering abstract artists
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Practice

Exercise and develop your technique

Create

Create original artwork and find your artistic identity and language.
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Reveal

Share, discuss, and critique
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Reveal

Share, discuss, and critique
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Experience

Share, discuss, and critique
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What's included?

  • 4 Workshops
  • Sketchbook
  • 2 Framed Canvases
  • Unprimed Linen 
  • Solo Studio Time
  • Online Learning Program

Practices

Automatism
Spiritual Abstraction
Sound Abstraction
Landscape Abstraction
Symbolism
Color Theory
Point, Line, and Plane
Pointillism
Soak-stain
Action Painting
Theosophy
Trance Lecturing

Details

If after the first workshop you find it's not for you, get a full refund!
All materials and tools provided including ink, colored pencils, pastels, paint, soak-stain, brushes, and other tools.
Each workshop contains:
Instruction (30 min)
Exercises (30 min)
Creation (60 min)

Featuring

Curriculum is based on methodology and technique of pioneering abstract artists.

Hilma af Klint

Wassily Kandinsky
Paul Klee
Franz Marc
Gabriele Münter
August Macke
Albert Bloch
Marianne von Werefkin
Willem de Kooning
Lee Krasner
Jackson Pollock
Joan Mitchell
Mark Rothko
Robert Motherwell
Helen Frankenthaler

One-off Workshops

Krasner & Pollock Workshop

Learn about Lee Krasner and Jackson Pollock careers and relationship, create using their methodology, and view the highly anticipated exhibition at The Met.

Krasner and Pollock: Past Continuous

 Schedule

Saturday October 10th, 1-3pm
East Village Workshop, East Village

Date: TBD
East Village Workshop, East Village

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Day of the Dead

Based on Frida Kahlo and Hilma af Klint methodology, this workshop is a celebration of life through communication with the dead through art.

 Schedule

Friday October 16th, 7-9pm
East Village Workshop, East Village

Friday October 23rd, 7-9pm
East Village Workshop, East Village

Friday October 30th, 7-9pm
Long Island City, NYC

Sunday November 1st, 1-3pm
Long Island City, NYC

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Hilma af Klint "The Five" Workshop

Explore and exercise automatism and spiritual abstraction methods of Hilma af Klint's séance circle, The Five.

 Schedule

Friday September 18th, 7-9pm
East Village Workshop, East Village

Friday September 25th, 7-9pm
East Village Workshop, East Village

Friday October 9th, 7-9pm
East Village Workshop, East Village

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The Garden Workshop

Experience Hilma af Klint’s nature "energy" theories through direct observation in East Village botanical gardens.

 Schedule

Sunday September 6th, 3-5pm
6BC Botanical Gardens, East Village

Sunday September 13th, 3-5pm
East Village Workshop, East Village

Sunday September 20th, 3-5pm
East Village Workshop, East Village

Sunday September 27th, 3-5pm
East Village Workshop, East Village

Frequent Questions

What happens after I purchase a ticket?

You'll first receive a confirmation email, then a day before the workshop, you'll receive an email with directions or special instructions. 

What is the refund policy?

You can get a refund until 7 days before the workshop date.  We're also fine with moving you to a future date.

For outdoor workshops, what happens if it rains?

If there is heavy rain in the forecast 2 hours before the workshop starts, we'll let you know it's been canceled and reschedule the group, or you can choose the next available date.

Do I have to bring materials?

No, all art materials are provided.  However, we don't provide water for outdoor workshops, so bring hydration and dress accordingly.

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