Aleah Chapin Workshop
Youth Intensive: Drawing & Painting (Ages 13 - 99)
DATE: August 15 - August 18, 2012
COST: $250
SKILL LEVEL: All levels
Through a series of short and long model poses, this four day workshop will introduce you to the exciting basics of drawing and painting the figure. Both full body and portrait, we will explore how to bring life to your work while also pushing for accuracy of form, value and color. The aim of this class is to help each student develop their skill and gain inspiration - beginner to advanced.
Aleah Chapin's Bio
Aleah Chapin is fascinated by the many languages that pigment can speak. Through paint, she explores her surroundings and the intrinsic physical quality of things. By investigating exterior textures she delves deeper into the unseen cerebral and psychological substance of the person or object she is painting.
Education
New York Academy of Art, MFA candidate, New York, NY, Fall '10 - present
Studio Escalier, drawing at the Louvre, Paris, France, Spring '10
Wackers Academie, Amsterdam, the Netherlands, Fall '09
Gage Academy, workshops, Seattle, WA '08-'09
Cornish College of the Arts, BFA, Summa Cum Laude, Seattle, WA, '05-'09
Glasgow School of Art, study abroad program, Glasgow, Scotland, Fall '07
Pete Jordan Studio, Whidbey Is., WA, '00- '06
Lane Gwinn Studio, Whidbey Is., WA, '98-'99
Recent Solo & Group Exhibitions
2011:Take Home A Nude, Sotheby's, New York, NY
Show & Tell, Vignettes Gallery, New York, NY
LIA Summer Exhibition, Leipzig, Germany
NYAA Summer Exhibition, Flowers Gallery, New York, NY
The Ridiculist Revival, Jackson Hall Gallery, New York, NY
Single Fare 2: Please Swipe Again, Sloan Gallery, New York, NY
I Don't Wanna Grow Up, NYAA, New York, NY
For The Love Of, NYAA, New York, NY
Anastomosis, Gallery at Jericho Library, Jericho, NY
CAA Exhibition, Hunter College, New York, NY
A New Generation, Brackenwood Gallery, Langley, WA
2010: Mixed Minds, Amsterdam, the Netherlands
2009: Cornish College of the Arts, B.F.A. thesis show, Seattle, WA
2008: Flying Apron, solo show, Seattle, WA Canvas Gallery, Seattle, WA
2007: Faire Gallery, solo show, Seattle, WA
Awards and Scholarships
New York Academy of Art Service Scholarship, '11
New York Academy of Art Merit Scholarship, '10
Leslie T. Posey Foundation Scholarship, '10
Judith Kindler and Kyle Johnson Scholarship for Innovation in the Arts, '08
Cornish College of the Arts Merit Scholarship, '05, '06, '07,'08.
29th Annual Washington Association for Learning Alternatives Art Award, '04
American Association of University Women Art Award, '04
