Fall Semester 2024
Join us this Fall at the Martin Art Gallery for talks, lectures and workshops with artists and art educators. Please reach out to Martin Art Gallery Directory Jessica Ambler ([email protected]) for more information about these sessions and Zoom links when available.
ARTIST TALK: TRENTON DOYLE HANCOCK
September 5, 2024, from 5 p.m. - 6 p.m.
Martin Art Gallery & via Zoom (please email Martin Art Gallery Director, Jessica Ambler, [email protected], for Zoom link)
Hancock’s work draws from personal experience, the art historical canon, comics, pulp fiction, and a variety of pop culture references, exploring universal concepts of light and dark, good and evil, and everything in between. Hancock has an MFA from the Tyler School of Art at Temple University, Philadelphia and has had solo exhibitions at numerous institutions including the Ringling Museum of Art, Sarasota, FL and the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth. TX. He was also featured in the 2000 and 2002 Whitney Biennial exhibitions, becoming one of the youngest artists in history to participate in the prestigious survey.
JOBS IN THE ARTS LECTURE WHAT IS ART EDUCATION?
Terri Yacovelli
September 17, 2024, from 5 p.m. - 6 p.m.
Martin Art Gallery & via Zoom (please email Martin Art Gallery Director, Jessica Ambler, [email protected], for Zoom link)
Yacovelli will give a virtual talk on art education as a career path. She will discuss necessary education and training as well as what the job entails.
ARTIST WORKSHOP - SUMI INK DRAWING: WEST MEETS EAST
Holly Trostle Brigham
October 16, 2024, from 3:30 p.m. - 5 p.m.
Martin Art Gallery
Work with Philadelphia artist Holly Trostle Brigham to learn Arthur Hall Smith’s unique approach to combining Western and Eastern ink techniques. Use Sumi ink, India ink, Ivory and Mars black acrylic paint, skewer sticks, bamboo reed pens, straws, brushes and learn how to brutalize a line.
