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SUMMARY:Art Improvisation Workshop with Kathy Kosins
DESCRIPTION:Improvisation On Canvas is a hands-on\, 3-hour workshop where you’ll paint to jazz music from a curated playlist\, focusing on abstract expression using texture and colors. Inspired by Bebop-era artists like Thelonious Monk\, Charlie Parker\, Dizzy Gillespie\, and Miles Davis\, alongside other modern jazz composers\, you’ll learn to “hear” in color and “listen” for shapes. \nJoin celebrated artist\, musician\, and experienced teacher Kathy Kosins as she leads you through an exciting adventure in sound and color. Kathy will provide individual guidance and encourage the use of alternate materials (that she will supply) for applying paints. \nStudents need to bring a few various sized canvases\, paints\, and brushes they would like to use. Kathy suggests acrylic paint. (Nothing really large\, please!) \nAt the end of the class\, you’ll have the opportunity to share your work\, learn from others\, and discuss your creative process. \nAbout Kathy Kosins: \nKathy Kosins is an interdisciplinary artist and a master of improvisation. Her art quite literally translates from stage to canvas. She may be best known for her successful career as a critically acclaimed jazz and soul artist\, yet all the while Kosins has been quietly gaining ground in the modern art world as well. \n“For me\, art and music are one in the same\,” Kosins says. “There’s no separation and there never has been.” Self-taught as musician\, composer and visual artist\, Kosins creates abstract acrylic paintings on canvas. A mid-century modern aesthetic has long inspired her work. Cubist and surrealist artists of the 1950s and 1960s inform her technique. \nKosins never studied art or music. Still\, she’s made a decades-long career in those fields. “My artwork is total improvisation\,” she says. “There is no preconceived composition.” At most\, Kosins may choose a color palette ahead of time. She believes in creating art when the moment strikes. That is exactly how she began painting from a live music stage. \nThose who have had the opportunity to see Kosins perform – and paint on stage – know it’s a rarity. Kosins often says she “hears color and sees sound\,” a condition known as synesthesia. As the band continues to play an impromptu instrumental on stage\, she applies color and strokes – each inspired visually by the interpretation of the music. The end result is an abstraction of the music being played. \nKosins is passionate about making art. Enough so that she created a clinic to guide aspiring or professional artists through the process itself. Titled\, “Improvisation on Canvas\,” Kosins has taught courses to students of all ages – at high schools\, performing arts schools\, colleges and continuing education courses across the country. \nKosins’ commissioned paintings are held in private collections throughout the US and Europe. \nCancelation policy: the Village Arts Factory will offer refunds minus the processing fees up to seven days before the class begins. It will not be possible to offer refunds within seven days of the class date. \nThe Village Arts Factory is an ADA-accessible facility and certified Kulture City sensory venue. \nThe Village Arts Factory takes precautions to provide a safe environment and our instructors are educated in providing options for individual limitations. Please make your own individual decisions regarding health precautions. \nClick Here to Register!
URL:https://villageartsfactory.com/event/art-improvisation-workshop-with-kathy-kosins/
LOCATION:Village Arts Factory\, 50755 Cherry Hill Rd\, Canton\, MI\, 48188\, United States
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