Hello! My name is Colette- I am a fine artist and dressmaker living in the Pilsen neighborhood of Chicago. I am offering this class/community to help myself by helping others; I’ve been struggling to find the same passion I used to have surrounding my creative practice that came with the built in community and collective nature of a studio art class (I attended both Parsons School of Design and the School of the Art Institute of Chicago). Come join me every Saturday online for a crit/art show and tell as well as an intensive class set up similarly to a high school AP art portfolio building class with a 5 hour duration like many college level studio art classes. The only rule is that you must complete a work every two weeks. We will alternate weekly between 5 hour work sessions and 5 hour crit/show and tell days with personal project planning/strategizing/goal setting for every new project followed by a brief presentation of everyone’s plan for the next piece, however you find planning helpful (this may be journaling about concept, sketching out ideas that may become a painting, creating a comprehensive plan of action list, booking appointments or making supplies lists. Whatever is helpful to you in order to conceptualize your next work.) By the end of the year, expect to have a body of about 25 pieces with which I personally plan to use to launch a solo exhibition in my studio. Please come prepared to lock in, feel supported, excited, foster good feelings around hard work, and accomplishment. Open to all skill levels. The main prerequisite to this free studio art class is commitment.

Colette Obermaier

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