About this Event
Open to all levels of experience and artistic backgrounds, this exclusive event provides an opportunity to learn useful techniques utilizing re-purposed, found objects. I share the secrets of my own professional practice, offer assistance to help guide your creative process and expand your scope of usable materials. (offered to adults 18+)
Topics include:
*Scavenging, Picking and Storing
*Glues, Adhesives and Altering Activators
*Letting Objects Tell Their Stories
*Balance, Composition and Presentation
$250 fee covers 10 hours over 2 days with use of tools, adhesives and selected objects. Attendees are encouraged to bring their own personal artifacts, items and boxes/platforms to combine with the materials provided.
Space is limited to 10 participants so that individual attention and personalized direction can be provided to everyone.
All participants must show proof of vaccination and be willing to wear a properly fitted mask as potentially required at the time of the event by the California Department of Public Health.
About the Presenter: Dianne Hoffman is a self taught mixed media artist with a primary focus in found objects and recycled materials mingled with collage, paint and clay. Her work conveys nostalgic stories with impactful sentiment. She was born and raised in the suburbs of Southern California and moved North to become a resident of San Francisco in 1988. The City by the Bay, with its loving embrace of everything extraordinary and endless resource of possibilities, came to cultivate and nurture her creative impulses. She has been a full time artist of salvaged and repurposed components since 2010 with work found in collections worldwide including Hong Kong, Australia, Africa, Europe and throughout the continental U.S. Dianne maintains an abundant workspace at Arc Studios and Gallery in the South of Market neighborhood of San Francisco. She is also an advocate liaison for her art community working with the San Francisco nonprofit, ArtSpan .
About the Venue: Arc Gallery & Studios features a 1,000 sq. ft. art gallery, a smaller project gallery, a fine art consulting office & gallery, an art education center, and ten quality artist studios, along with the Kearny Street Workshop office, the San Francisco Artist Network office, and VEGA Coffee Shop. Arc supports the making of quality art in all media, provides a nurturing environment for artists to create their work, builds a community of artists to encourage exploration of art, provides resources for the professional development of visual artists, and promotes appreciation of the visual arts in the city of San Francisco.
Event Venue & Nearby Stays
Arc Studios & Gallery, 1246 Folsom St, San Francisco, United States
USD 250.00