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Introduction to techniques, materials, and vocabulary in oil painting. Still life, landscape, and figure used as subject matter. Emphasis is on painting and drawing from life. (lower level)

This is a special class taught by Holt visiting artist John Bankston. Coulter Gallery will provide a unique classroom space, where student work will be displayed in an ongoing exhibition that will grow over time for the public to observe.Using the fundamentals of painting, this class will explore paintings narrative potential through several painting projects. The project themes will be memory, emotion, the self and the painting process. The class will culminate in a group mural that incorporates ideas from class projects.

This painting class is presented by Holt Resident artist, Kim Anno and builds on two ideas: The first is that the history of painting is intrinsically linked to the lion's share of contemporary art. The second is that the world is upside down in climate change. Students will explore interdisciplinary approaches to painting, including the use of recycled materials, to celebrate its nexus and expand its materiality. We will analyze tyranny, sublime, and irony in the construction of new works. Everyone will have the opportunity to exhibit their work in the Coulter gallery.

This rare class explores making a mural in the context of mural history. We will engage the history of mural painting from ancient to contemporary times for an informed production of murals on canvas in one of the painting studios at school. The social, the political and the cultural roles mural painting has played will be discusses while students will be engaged in making their own.