Drawing / Painting: Research & Critique w/ Catherine Haggarty [TUESDAY] -- APPS CLOSED
Drawing / Painting: Research & Critique w/ Catherine Haggarty [TUESDAY] -- APPS CLOSED
ONLINE Course - via Zoom
Free to Apply!
Apply by Sunday, May 19, 11:59pm (EST)
Day of the week: Tuesday
Time: 6:00-9:00 pm (EST) / 3:00-6:00 pm (PST)
Length: 3 hrs.
8 Weeks of Classes: June 4, June 11, June 18, June 25, – no class July 4th week – July 9, July 16, July 23, July 30
About This Course
Drawing / Painting: Research & Critique is an 8-week online course that meets weekly on Tuesdays from 6-9pm (EST) / 3-6pm (PST). The focus of this course will be on drawing formally, conceptually and materially and how it may connect to artist’s paintings, textiles, or even sculptures. Artists working in all mediums and practices are welcome to take this course, one of the main focuses will be generating ideas through drawing. The 8 weeks will be divided between Guest Speakers, time for Q&A and presentations by artists in the class about their work as it relates to or is inspired by drawing and will culminate in final critiques with invited Visiting Critics. This course is open to all artists working in any medium. All class sessions will be recorded.
Championing research for the artist as a diverse methodology is important in this course, recognizing that drawing research may vary for all - we welcome experiences and examples by everyone in the course. In doing so, examples of how one ‘researches’ will expand naturally and grow after their course for artists in and out of their studios. In doing this work together - our understanding of drawing as a tool to invent, edit, culminate, honor and dictate in our work will help other facets of the studio world, be it painting, drawing, sculpture, and or textiles as the artist’s primary focus.
All drawings are seen as important to discuss, share and push further in this course. Mechanisms to build composition, idea generating, automatism and theoretical positions on drawing will be discussed. Each artist will receive two opportunities to present their work to the Faculty, Catherine Haggarty, and the group. In addition, the artist's final critique will feature a Visiting Critic who will offer additional feedback and conversation.
Films, videos and short readings will be present as weekly asynchronous context for the conversations held in class and beyond. Artists will be paired up with one peer in the class based on their work and connection for a virtual studio visit outside of class time to connect more deeply and share work, process and ideas. Break out rooms and small group work will be a part of weekly meetings to engage in fun and also challenging prompts to draw together in real time.
Each artist in this course will recieve a ‘drawing care package’ mid way through the course!
One should take this course if they want to push their work, try new techniques, and learn how to champion drawing in their art studio and life. Prompts will all be specific and tailored to each artist and supplemental videos, context and explanation will be offered if need be to clarify any obstructions and assignments.
Final Critiques and reviews will be lead by Pratt Institute Faculty Angela Conant and Ben LaRocco with Catherine Haggarty.
Please Note: This is an application-based course. Applications will be juried after the application deadline of May 19th. Artists will be notified of the application decision the week of May 20-24. Artists accepted to the course will receive a payment link for the course cost and a Financial Aid breakdown if needed.
Guest Speakers
Visiting Critic
Angela Conant is an artist, curator, and educator in Brooklyn, NY. Her paintings and drawings reorient the viewer to look out from inside the body. Hand-carved stone elements seep and poke through orifices, interrupting a pictorial space of trompe-l'œil tubes and arteries. In her stone sculpture, rock is rendered illusorily soft. Her work approaches the human experience of being in a body with humility, curiosity and imagination, in sardonic contrast with the paternalistic western tendency to shelter and control.
She has spoken at Boston University's School of Fine Art and at New York Foundation for the Arts, and was awarded a Critical Writing residency at Recess (New York City) in 2013, an Artist Residency at the Millay Colony (Austerlitz, NY) in 2014, and was a 2019 Home School Hudson participant. In 2007, she co-founded The Gowanus Studio Space, an artist-run collaborative in Brooklyn where she served as Artistic Director until 2014. She earned a BFA in Painting from Boston University in 2004, and an MFA in Art Practice from School of Visual Arts in 2013. She was a 2020 Shandaken Paint School Fellow, and has an Advanced Certificate in Curatorial Studies from Hunter College as of 2023.
Visiting Critic
Ben La Rocco is a teacher, writer, and artist. He has exhibited his sculpture and painting throughout New York City, and in Europe. He is the recipient of a Marie Walsh Sharpe Space Program Fellowship and the S J Wallace Truman Award for Painting at the National Academy Museum. He has published art criticism at artcritical.com, Hyperallergic and The Brooklyn Rail, where he was managing arts editor from 2006 to 2011. He co-curated “Paintings in Trees” at The People’s Garden in Bushwick, Brooklyn. His sculpture, Sundial, is currently on view in Harlem’s Morningside Park as a part of the inaugural exhibition of Harlem’s sculpture gardens. He lives with his family in Brooklyn where he teaches at Pratt Institute.
Artists in this course will:
Will participate in a class size of 10 artists max
Share research and participate in conversations about drawing - formally, conceptually and materially
Receive Artist Talks + Q&As with 5 invited Guest Speakers
Opportunity for critiques from Faculty + peers
Feedback from one of the invited Visiting Critics for the final critique
Share and gain new perspectives to reinvigorate each other’s approach and artistic practice
Learn about new artists, suggested films, readings and exhibitions to see in relationship to dialogue about drawing
Open forum to discuss all painting related + art world questions
Catherine Haggarty
”Cat Transfiguration”, 2023
acrylic on canvas
33 x 22 in
Faculty Bio
Catherine Haggarty, b. 1984, is an artist based in Brooklyn, New York.
Haggarty’s paintings and curatorial work have been reviewed by and featured in Bomb Magazine, Artnet, Hyperallergic, Art Forum, Two Coats of Paint, Brooklyn Magazine, The New York Times, Art Maaze Magazine, Art Spiel, Pep Talks for Artists, Sound and Vision Podcast and The Observer.
Catherine has been a visiting artist & critic at Cornell MFA (2024), Rocky Mountain College of Art (2024), Western Connecticut MFA (2023), Contemporary Arts Memphis (2023), Vassar College (2023), Rutgers MFA (2022), U Albany MFA (2022), MICA (2022), UCONN MFA (2022 + 2023), RISD BFA (2022), Pratt BFA (2022), The University of Oregon (2021), Boston University MFA (2021), SUNY Purchase MFA (2020), Hunter MFA (2020), Denison University (2020), Brooklyn College MFA (2019) and in 2018 Haggarty was the Anderson Endowed Lecturer at Penn State University.
Solo & Two Person exhibitions include: Untitled Miami, Lorin Gallery, LA, Geary Contemporary (NYC), Massey Klein Gallery (NYC), This Friday Next Friday (Brooklyn), Bloomsburg University (PA), and Look and Listen in Marseille France. Select group exhibitions include: The PIT (LA), Badr El Jundi (Madrid, Spain), Mindy Solomon (Miami, FL), Andrew Rafcaz (Chicago, IL), Hesse Flatow (NYC), Mrs (Maspeth, NY) and McBride Contemporary in Montreal, Canada.
Haggarty earned her M.F.A from Mason Gross, Rutgers University in 2011. Haggarty is the Founder, Owner and Executive Director of The Canopy Program which is a one year mentorship program within the NYC Crit Club which Haggarty co-founded with artist Hilary Doyle in 2017. In addition, Haggarty is a Visiting Associate Professor at Pratt Institute.
Currently, Haggarty is the Spring 2024 Teiger Mentor for the Arts at Cornell AAP MFA and recently was a Visiting Artist at Rocky Mountain College of Art + Design (Denver, CO) on the occasion of her Exhibition featuring ten years of work at The Philip J. Steele Gallery.
Select exhibitions include Massey Klein Gallery (solo), Geary Contemporary (solo), Mindy Solomon Gallery (Miami, FLA), The Pit (LA) Morgan Lehman (NYC), Leftfield Gallery (CA), Andrew Rafacz (Chicago), Art on Paper Fair with Project Pangee in Montreal Canada, Lorin Gallery (LA), Able Baker Contemporary in Portland Maine and CGK Gallery in Copenhagen.
Visiting Critic and Lecturer appointments include but not limited to: Boston University MFA, University of Oregon, UCONN MFA, Suny Albany MFA, Denison MFA, Brooklyn College MFA, RISD BFA, and Cornell BFA. In 2018 Haggarty was the Anderson Endowed Lecturer at Penn State University and the Teiger Mentor in the Arts at Cornell in Spring 2024. Teaching experience also includes Rutgers University, the Fashion Institute of Technology, The School of Visual Arts, Pratt and Hofstra University.
