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Judy Richardson

Art from Nature - Workshop for Ages 8 through Teens

June 22-26, 2010
10 am to 4 pm
Medium: Sculpture and Multi-Media
Level: Ages 8 through Teens
5-Day Studio/Outdoor Workshop
Tuition: $375 Bascom members/ $400 non-members (includes all materials)
www.judy-richardson.com

This workshop, designed specifically for youth, will be a week of creating art that is inspired by and interactive with the environment. Young people will have the opportunity to learn from the sculptor who built the peaches in the movie "James and the Giant Peach." Students will have an action-packed week of creating structures, environments and animal habitats by drawing, painting, nailing, wrapping, sewing, binding, gathering and constructing! This will be an exciting time at The Bascom while internationally acclaimed Patrick Dougherty (www.stickwork.net) will be creating a site-specific sculpture from gathered saplings on The Bascom campus. The youth in this workshop will have the opportunity to create site-specific works of art of their own on The Bascom's campus and nature trail.

Judy Richardson lives in Brooklyn, New York, where she makes sculpture from found objects and various materials that she uses for building. Richardson worked many years as a scenic artist in San Francisco, where she painted and sculpted scenery for the San Francisco Opera, San Francisco Ballet, rock concerts, TV commercials and movies. She made the giant peaches for the movie "James and the Giant Peach." Currently, Richardson is a professor of art and art history at the City University of New York and is a teaching artist in the New York City public schools, where she teaches students and their teachers about painting, sculpture, printmaking and design.

Public Reception: Tuesday, June 22
4:15 pm, Mixer and Public Reception, Atrium
5 pm, Slide talk. Richardson will talk a bit about the building of the "giant peaches," site-specific sculpture and her sculptural work for the urban landscape of New York City.

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