Westchester Community College, State University of New York

Utilizing a unifying theme inspired by the City of Peekskill’s history, multicultures, and natural environment, students enrolled in this 8-week workshop will collaboratively design, paint, and install large and small-scale murals for public exhibition at the Center for the Digital Arts. Led by NYC artist and cultural activist Alex Rojas, participants will increase their knowledge and understanding about creating meaningful visual art statements that elicit audience interaction. Students will also increase their art skills in 2D de-sign and construction; color selection, mixing, and painting application; and installing art in public places. The murals produced will be displayed in the Center upon course conclusion and an artists’ opening reception will be scheduled for the community.

At SUNY Westchester Peekskill: CE-ART 2353PE, 10 Sat., Jan. 21-Mar. 25, 10:00 am-1:00 pm, $350. #20310

Discover innovative ways to make handmade prints in addition
to how technology such as computers and jet printers make printing contemporary. Make a portrait print based on a photograph, drawing from observation, and imagination. The instructor will introduce soft linocut, monotype, stenciling, and how to marbleize paper, to create prints on rice paper and other printmaking papers.

At SUNY Westchester Peekskill: CE-ART 2334PE, 8 Tues., Feb. 7-Mar. 28, 6:30-9:30 pm, $311. #20312

Get your ideas out of your sketchbook! Students will enjoy painting in the studio in class and outdoors in an interactive environ-ment. In this class, students will learn from discussion, group critique, examples of art while honing art skills of observation, ges-ture, composition, value, color mixing, and brushstroke, etc. The teaching artist demonstrates painting and drawing techniques for portraiture, representing the human form, and landscape, abstraction.

At SUNY Westchester Peekskill: CE-ART 2146PE, 12 Mon.,
Feb. 6-Apr. 24,6:30-8:30 pm, $277. #20311

Students will focus on outdoor landscape painting. Various locations throughout the local area will be selected. Rain dates TBA. Fo-cus will be on color mixing, light and shadow, and composition. Students will be informed of the great plein air traditions of the Im-pressionists and the Hudson River School painters. Various approaches to landscape painting will be introduced, including water-mixable techniques in oil painting.

This class will be offsite.: CE-ART 2020PE, 8 Sat., Mar. 25-May 20 (skip 4/8), 10:00 am-1:00 pm, $277. #20313