Classes

ART COACHING AND MENTORING
Lisa is now accepting mentorships with artists who:
• want a sustained one-on-one relationship to critique and develop their work.
• are preparing a portfolio for consideration for graduate school.
• have an upcoming exhibition and want support and feedback to choose work.
• want to begin exhibiting their work and need help in developing a body of work to submit for consideration for exhibitions.
• benefit from a consistent structure for feedback in order to maintain a sustained art practice to generate new work.
Limited spaces available, download Coaching pdf for more info.

MONTHLY CRITIQUE GROUPS
Groups are for artists with a committed studio practice. For more information download this pdf or contact Lisa via the Contact form.

BOXING DAY
an assemblage workshop with Lisa Kokin
Note: February 26 class is filled!
Good news! We are offering another 'round' March 18 (all other info is the same).

In the spirit of Joseph Cornell, Betye Saar and Louise Nevelson, this workshop will explore creating a small environment within the confines of a nicely aged microfilm box rescued from a local library. Each person will receive a box, along with a handful of interesting collage and assemblage items, to get started. Emphasis will be on creating a cohesive, evocative piece through the use of found and repurposed objects. Themes to include: personal history, secrets, containment and childhood memories.

Sunday, February 26
10:00 – 4:00 pm
Fee: $115 plus $15 supply fee
Some supplies included
Download pdf for more info

Reuse Muse: Bookmaking with Found Materials
A weekly class with Lisa Kokin

ENROLLMENT IS CLOSED FOR THIS CLASS
Contact Lisa for information on future sessions.

This six-week class will explore the intersection of bookmaking and found materials. Through a series of concept- and materials-based assignments, students will experiment with an open-ended approach to making books and expand their idea of what constitutes a book. Possible topics to include: found text, altered books, books that do not resemble books, books presented as sculptures, book/collages, and the non-readable book as sculptural object. Possible materials to include anything and everything that has already had its first life and use and is ready to assume its second one as Art. The class will nurture a spirit of curiosity and risk-taking, which emphasizes process as well as product. A reader with assignments, articles about contemporary artists and technical information will serve as repository for all information covered in class. Critiques will be supportive and challenging.
Class meets in Lisa's studio in El Sobrante.

Six Thursdays, January 12 – February 16, 7:00 – 10:00 pm
Fee: $495 plus $20 reader fee
Some supplies included
Download pdf for more info

Lisa Kokin’s work in mixed media installation, artist’s books, assemblage and sculpture has been exhibited in numerous solo and group exhibitions in the U.S. and abroad. A recipient of a California Arts Council Individual Artist’s Fellowship and a Eureka Fellowship, Ms. Kokin’s work is in numerous collections. Her work is represented by Seager Gray Gallery, in Mill Valley, CA and the Tayloe Piggott Gallery in Jackson, WY.

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