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  Mining Inspiration: A Workshop with Arnie Zimmerman


 
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Mining Inspiration: A Workshop with Arnie Zimmerman

Saturday – Sunday, November 13-14, 10am - 4pm

Fee: $180 members; $200 non-members

 

In the way a writer uses letters to make words to be placed in a sentence and then paragraphs, Zimmerman will share how he uses clay to make parts that he joins to create a three dimensional narrative. Zimmerman will demonstrate how he uses shifts in scale, surface treatment, and a sense of place as well as the use of  memory, dreams or observations from daily life to imbue his three dimensional forms with thoughts and feelings.  Students will observe how he uses surprisingly unconventional handbuilding techniques, using networks of hollow forms, such as tubes, spheres and slab-built geometric volumes, to create his architecthural structures and expressive figures.  Then Arnie will give the students the opportunity to mine inspiration for themselves and try Arnie’s unique working techniques.   

 

Arnie Zimmerman is an actively working artist with a professional career starting in 1980 after graduating with a MFA from The NY State College of Ceramics at Alfred, NY in 1979.  Arnie’s main focus has been studio work primarily using clay and the techniques he learned in his training as a starting point for making sculpture. Over the last 25 years the conceptual arc of Arnie’s work has traveled from abstraction to narrative sculpture using the figure.  Arnie has been awarded many prestigious grants over the last 25 years these include 3 grants from the NEA, 3 grants from NYFA, Arts International, Lila Wallace-Reader's Digest Fund International Artists Grant for residency in Portugal. In 2005 Arnie was awarded a Louis Comfort Tiffany Grant.

 

From 2005 thru 2009 Arnie worked on a multi media collaborative installation titled “Inner City” shown three times in Portugal, The Netherlands and United States.   Arnie has taught and lectured at scores of Colleges and Universities throughout the world. His last teaching position was at Hunter College, City University of New York. He has maintained his studio in Williamsburg, Brooklyn since 1981.

 

 

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