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Visiting Artist Series 
Work with and learn from some of today's most significant working artists.

Each year, the Visiting Artist Series brings several notable artists to the League to teach master classes, which supplement existing ongoing classes and workshops. This extraordinary opportunity allows students and artists from the community to work with and learn from some of today’s most significant working artists. The League is indebted to the visionary support of the Olson-Vander Heyden Foundation and the advisory committee.

 

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Bill Amundson SEE MORE: VISIT Plus Gallery WEBSITE MASTER CLASS Blurred Vision: Seeing the World Your Way Sat-Sun, Feb 18–19, 2012  |  9 am-4 pm Location: Art Students League of Denver Ability: All Levels Cost: $150 for members, $200 for non-members, $15 materials fee Register by 2/10 MORE INFO> Non-members, please call 303-778-6990 to register. LECTURE & DEMONSTRATION How I Draw What I Draw Thursday, Feb 16  |  6 pm Location: Art Students League of Denver Cost: $10 (membership not required) Resister by 2/10 MORE INFO>   Non-members, please call 303-778-6990 to register.

Artist Bill Amundson, a long-time Denver resident who now resides in his hometown of Stoughton, Wisconsin, has long been one of Denver’s most cherished artists. Working in what he refers to as the "Suburban Regionalist" style, his drawings capture and celebrate an un-idealized vision that has been described as ironic, compulsive, delicate, irreverent, whimsical, banal, and masterful. Amundson has exhibited throughout the US and earned numerous awards, including the first Belmar Arts District Achievement award in 2004 and the Denver Art Museum Contemporaries Award in 2010. His work resides in many private collections and museums, including a major piece acquired by the Denver Art Museum.

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Patrick Horsley SEE MORE: VISIT PATRICK'S WEBSITE MASTER CLASS Staying Centered: A Functional Pottery Demonstration Sat-Sun, April 21–22, 2012  |  9 am-4 pm Location: Art Students League of Denver Ability: All Levels Cost: $135 for members, $160 for non-members Register by 4/13 MORE INFO> Non-members, please call 303-778-6990 to register.

Ceramic artist Patrick Horsley is a respected studio potter based in Oregon who teaches and conducts workshops for art centers and universities throughout the country. His pottery has been featured in many major ceramics publications, is represented in galleries across the United States, and has been widely collected by individuals and museums, including the Seattle Art Museum and the American Museum of Ceramic Art. Horsley describes his primary interest as “the making, the process, and the physical dance of making pots…[that] present a new view and image of a familiar form.”

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Some of our past visiting artists have included:

• Jenny Dubnau, who taught a master class and lectured on her creative process in painting psychological portraits.
• Del Harrow, who led students through exercises and experiments with new and old techniques in stoneware clay and casting slip after an instructor-lead visit to the concurrent Marvelous Mud exhibition at the Denver Art Museum.
• Matt Brown, who introduced the Japanese Hanga Method in a woodblock printmaking workshop. See also Wood and Water article on Matt's work.
• Ricardo Mazal, who presented his unique artistic process, which incorporates abstract painting along with digital photography and technology, monotypes, and video. See also Finding Meaning in the Abstract article on Ricardo's work.
• Jeanette Pasin Sloan, who works in the great still-life tradition of Western art and takes a distinctly modernist approach to design and color.
• Richard Notkin, whose teapots, ceramic sculptures, and tile murals are visual explorations into social and political commentary.
• Chinese artist Yang Yang, who came to Denver with the Asian Arts Coordinating Council.
• We introduced Zimbabwe sculptor Collen Nyanhongo.
• Also, VSA arts Colorado partnered with us to bring deaf Israeli artist Uzi Buzgalo to the League to present workshops.

Advisory committee: Leona Lazar, Tom Burke, Richard Chanzit, Peter Durst, Colleen Fanning, Ron Hicks, Homare Ikeda, Ron Judish, Carol Levin, Gayla Lemke, Emilio Lobato, Mark Lunning, Katharine Smith-Warren, Sharon Walsh and Jordan Wolfson


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