Facility: Sterling Correctional Facility

Course Dates: Tuesdays March 4th- May 27th

Facilitator: Sarah McKenzie

Course Description:

This class will offer a deep dive into the study of color for drawing students who have already established strong basic skills. It is not a beginner class. We’ll explore the essential principles of color theory while developing awareness and sensitivity to color effects and color relativity. Through weekly homework assignments, students will be encouraged to develop their own personal approach to color, exploring color as both a material and a language.

Facility: Sterling Correctional Facility

Course Dates: Tuesdays, March 4th- May 27th

Facilitator: Sarah McKenzie

This class will offer a deep dive into the study of color for painting students who have already established basic skills working with acrylics. It is not a beginner class. We’ll explore the essential principles of color theory while developing awareness and sensitivity to color effects and color relativity. Through weekly homework assignments, students will be encouraged to develop their own personal approach to color, exploring color as both a material and a language.

Facility: Sterling Correctional Facility

Course Dates: Tuesdays, Sept 10, 2024- Dec 10, 2024

Facilitator: Sarah McKenzie

Course Description:

Seeing and Drawing, Inside and Out will offer participants the opportunity to learn or build upon basic drawing skills to explore how the activity of drawing from observation both changes how we see the world and offers opportunities for self-expression. This course is available to those with no prior drawing experience or extensive drawing experience – all are welcome to explore these drawing techniques and the reflective process. Each week, the class will be introduced to a range of drawing concepts, including contour lines, line weight, perspective, value, contrast, gradation, and more. Assignments will include still-life subjects, interiors, and self-portraiture. Additionally, students will be asked to reflect on their process of drawing and creation through informal journaling, and they will further explore the topics covered in class by completing readings and outside homework assignments. 

Artwork: Joseph Taylor McGill, Untitled, 2021

Facility: Sterling Correctional Facility

Course Dates: Tuesdays, Sept 10, 2024 – Dec 10, 2024

Facilitator: Sarah McKenzie

Course Description:

This weekly seminar class is designed for students who have already committed to an independent artistic practice and are looking to grow their work through facilitator feedback, group critique, and self-directed projects. The course centers around professional practices such as crafting artist resumes and artist statements, understanding the art market, identifying exhibition opportunities, sustaining an art practice inside prison and after release, and other related topics.

Artwork: Hector Castillo, Living Beyond These Walls, 2022