Summer 2021 // Igniting & Preserving The Creative Impulse
Summer 2021 // Igniting & Preserving The Creative Impulse
Igniting & Preserving The Creative Impulse
5-day workshop with Alex Gartelmann
July 11 -15, 2022
All levels / All mediums
The composer Charles Ives once said: “Every great inspiration is but an experiment - though every experiment we know is not a great inspiration.” What we take from this is: experimentation leads to great art, we must take the good with the bad. With any creative practice, exploring new methods, techniques, and habits helps rejuvenate and broaden our process. Conspire with multidisciplinary artist and preservationist, Alex Gartelmann, and journey into the great wide open to enliven your creative practice.
Inspired by Erwin Wurm’s one-minute sculptures, we’ll dive into a variety of creative methods, collaborations, and uncover (or hone-in) the skills necessary to remain curious in your artistic work. Influenced by Atlanta, its buildings, its objects, and its natural environment, and through a collection of daily projects, students will sketch, photograph, map, perform, build, sculpt, and experiment to expand creativity. Be prepared to hike, discuss, read, make, perform, and reignite your creative practice. This workshop is excellent for artists, writers, and other creative’s working in all mediums.
ABOUT ALEX
Alex Gartelmann (b. 1984) is a multidisciplinary artist based in Milwaukee and Sheboygan, WI. He is one half of the collaborative Sebura&Gartelmann, with artist Jonas Sebura. Gartelmann received his MFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and works for the John Michael Kohler Art Center as the Programming Director and Site Steward of the Mary Nohl Art Environment in Fox Point, WI. His work has been shown widely and was a summer resident at SculptureSpace in Utica, NY, in 2019 with Jonas Sebura. He collectively runs with artist Emily Duke and Sebura, Blue Room, a curatorial project space located in Sheboygan, WI.
The $475.00 workshop fee includes workshop, lab fees, and two group dinners. Students will need to arrange independent lodging or may camp at nearby campsites. Students will arrive Sunday, July 11, 8pm. Supply list provided one month prior to the workshop.
The $625.00 workshop fee includes workshop, lab fees, two group dinners, and dormitory lodging for six nights. Students will arrive Sunday, July 11, 8pm. Check out will be noon, Saturday 17, 2021. Supply list provided one month prior to the workshop.
The $725.00 workshop fee includes workshop, lab fees, two group dinners, and historic cabin lodging for six nights. Students will arrive Sunday, July 11, 8pm. Check out will be noon, Saturday 17, 2021. Supply list provided one month prior to the workshop. Not all cabins are private.