Women’s Studio Workshop has offered high quality, content-rich courses in printmaking, papermaking, and bookbinding for 46 years. The Summer Art Institute (SAI) financially supports our programming annually and has also provided the opportunity for WSW to establish itself as a national and innovative leader in these material studies. Sadly, and for the first time, our campus will remain closed during the optimal summer months due to COVID-19. Opportunities for teaching and learning, however, will carry on and continue to thrive!
We have designed online experiences that will keep our community learning and creating in meaningful ways. We know that nothing replaces in-person classes, particularly when our beautiful and secluded campus provides such a rich opportunity for deep concentration and community building. Below are modified virtual workshops in a variety of disciplines, designed for everyone from professionals to serious young artists!
A limited number of need-based scholarships are available. If you are interested, please email Artistic Director Erin Zona at [email protected]
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August 2020
Sketchbook Practice with Eleanor Anderson
Sketchbook Practice with Eleanor Anderson Dates: August 4,6, 11, 13, 18, 20 Time: 7-9PM EST Tuition: $200 members / $225 non-members Level: all ages (including serious young artists) Class Limit: 12 students Artists have kept visual diaries of their ideas and surroundings throughout history. In this online class, we'll explore what that means during this challenging time of COVID-19. Students will get structured prompts for exploring, playing, and recording their environment in a sketchbook using basic art supplies and items…
Find out more »Studio Tour with Kelly Taylor Mitchell
Studio Tour with Kelly Taylor Mitchell Date: August 6th, 2020 Time: 7PM EST Tuition: $15 suggested donation Join us for a studio tour with artist Kelly Taylor Mitchell, moderated by WSW AD Erin Zona. This event will include a full tour of Mitchell’s working space at the Atlanta Contemporary Art Museum. According to the artist, her practice "...centers oral history and ancestral memory woven into the fabric of the Africana Diaspora." This session will be organized as a…
Find out more »October 2020
Kitchen Table Clay! Handbuilding Tableware at Home
Kitchen Table Clay! Hand-building Tableware at Home Dates: October 6, 8, 13, 15, 20 and 22 Time: 7pm - 8:30pm Tuition: $175 members / $200 non-members Class limit: 10 Students will learn various hand-building and surface decorating techniques that have been practiced for centuries. Hand-building allows us to create unique functional and sculptural objects that do not require access to a wheel. Throughout this three-week session, demonstrations will include use of slabs, coils, molds, and pinch pots to create functional…
Find out more »April 2022
Behind the CV: Workshop
This is a sliding-scale virtual workshop. Workshops are intended to prioritize students and emerging artists/educators. This conversational workshop will offer practical approaches to drafting, organizing, and maintaining an institutional CV. We’ll also discuss the creative possibilities that can open up when considering the CV as a form itself and a container for new narratives. Bring your questions, concerns, and a current draft/iteration of your CV (optional!). Spots are very limited, so reserve your space now! About The Series…
Find out more »Behind Artist Applications: Workshop
This is a sliding scale virtual workshop on writing towards artist applications. Workshops are intended to prioritize students and emerging artists/educators. Language has agency. As artists, we’re often asked to condense the language around our work to fit into character limits for applications. In our writing and editing towards these apps, how do we make certain to choose our words economically while not having to sacrifice our poetics? The first half of this 90-minute workshop will focus on defining and…
Find out more »Behind the Interview Process *Let’s Get to Know Each other*: Workshop
*Let's Get to Know Each other* is a sliding scale virtual workshop on the interview process for academic jobs. Workshops are intended to prioritize students and emerging artists/educators. The workshop will cover what happens after you submit materials and are invited to the next step! This will be a comfortable space to think in real time about the struggles of academic applications and how to feel cool, calm and collected as you can be during the process! Spots are very…
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