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Chester Kasnowski
Chester Kasnowski, trained in traditional art practices and theories, has always embraced and practiced contemporary art movements that showed promise and hope in adding to tradition. He has excelled in and exhibited conceptual art, computer art, and video art during the tumultuous art period from 1970 to 1985. Returning to his roots in painting, in watercolor and pastels, he now produces and exhibits highly charged visual works that bring in the energy of earlier efforts and combines multiple ideas to speak of values found in the visual world, art history and arts future based on strong foundations. Kasnowski earned degrees from the Dayton Art Institute and Tulane University. He has taught art for more than thirty years, lectured, written art reviews, given workshops, and was a curator of education at the New Orleans Museum of Art. He has received many awards including a National Endowment for the Arts grant. Kasnowski has exhibited his works worldwide in one-man as well as group shows. His works are in numerous private collections as well as museums such as the Museum of Modern Art and Guggenheim Museum in NYC, the Tate Gallery, London, and the Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam. Mr. Kasnowski is forever grateful to and honors the three important teachers who taught and befriended him – Harold Carney, Meyer Schapiro, and James Steven.
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July 6 - 10
Tuesday - Saturday
9:30 a.m. - 4:30 p.m.
Minimum 6 students, maximum 15
Studio II
$205 members
$230 non-members
Although Cray-Pas, the first oil pastel, were
introduced in the 1920’s, it wasn’t until Picasso
asked Henri Sennelier to create professional oil
pastels, about 1945, that the world had a truly
new art medium. The Senneleir oil pastels are
richly pigmented pastels with a creamy consistency.
They adhere to paper, canvas, wood, metal and glass.
The experience is to draw with oils. The colors are bright
and long lasting. They have little to do with dry pastels in look,
feel or technique. Although oil sticks give you an oil paint
surface you can use this medium more directly and quickly
than paints. Learn the basics of this exciting medium.
This course will have you painting new colors, shapes
and perhaps developing ideas for your other color works.
Technique demonstrations, group and one-on-one instruction
will be accomplished. For beginners and seasoned artists as well. |
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