with Jimmy Miracle
Saturday September 28 and Sunday September 29, 4-6:30pm
at PS1 Close (538 S. Gilbert)
pay-what-you-can: $25-$130
Students will draw portraits from life from individual models learning the fundamental construction of the basic forms of the head, primary anatomical landmarks of the skull, perceptual drawing strategies, 2-D composition, and linear perspective. Students will spend a majority of time drawing from life. In addition, core concepts will be introduced during brief lectures and in personal critique.
Registration deadline: Sept. 26
open to teens & adults 14+
*PS1 workshops are pay-what-you-can thanks to support from Hills Bank and individual donors. $106 is the true cost of the workshop, and we encourage participants to select the cost that they can afford, or pay a little extra to support future sliding-scale fees.
TEACHING ARTIST
TEACHING ARTIST:
Jimmy Miracle is an American visual artist working across the genres of painting, installation, and social practice using traditional and non-traditional forms of investigating perception, memory, observation, and awareness. Born in Ohio in 1983, Miracle receivied his MFA from UC Santa Barbara in 2018 and a B.A. in studio art, magna cum laude from Belhaven University in 2004 in Jackson, MS. He has lived and worked in Florida, Mississippi, New York City, New Jersey, Washington DC, Maryland, Germany, California, and Iowa City. He was the 2018-2019 Teaching Fellow at the University of California Santa Barbara and recipient of the Humanities in the Community Grant from the Interdisciplinary Humanities Council where he exhibited and co-created along with artists suffering from mental illness and his choreographic collaborator, Stephanie Miracle. He has had solo and group shows in New York, Los Angeles, Berlin, London, and Washington, DC exhibiting at Ziehersmith, Outlet Fine Art, HKJB, The Smithsonian Museum of American Art, The Islip Art Museum, Castle Gallery, The Elizabeth Foundation for the Arts, and Flashpoint Gallery among others as an installation artist and painter. He also worked as a studio painting assistant for Jeff Koons, and studied classical drawing, painting, and sculpture at the Art Student’s League of New York and Chelsea Classical Studio with Michael Grimaldi, Brandon Soloff, Dan Thompson, and Steve Perkins. He has received the Cultural DC Creative Communities Fund Grant, the Maryland State Art Council Individual Artist Grant, the Howard Fenton Award for Painting, and the Levitan Fellowship among others, and has lectured at the Smithsonian Museum of American Art. He teaches color, composition, portraiture, life drawing, and painting in universities, workshops, and privately in his studio.