The Shape of a Walk

A journey on foot towards new ideas. A live scrapbook where we can mull over things we come across,… “not focusing on the end destination,…having faith that the path will emerge understep” (Catherine Ireton, www.catherineireton.com, Things I’m Doing: The Shape of a Walk). We will use walking in the immediate Cape landscape as our starting point, our inspiration – the wooded trails adjoining the Castle Hill (farm) campus, and the nearby dunes, seashore, and other walks/walking trails.
Your work may use drawing, photography, sculpture, performance, etc. Your work may range from drawings to representational objects to three-dimensional gestures in the landscape to presentational modes of action.
Bring good walking shoes, a hat, sunscreen, a water bottle, basic tools and supplies you might have on hand, a camera or phone with a camera, a sturdy bag/backpack for collecting things found while walking. Lyman will also have on hand, basic hand tools, handmade dune drawing “rakes”, and various “markmaking” materials such as fluorescent string, and large drawing paper for sale at cost. Bring your preferred drawing tools and sturdy 18 x 24” paper, water based media., and a basic tool kit.
No experience required.
Susan Lyman, sculptor and painter, has lived in Provincetown MA since 1981, when she was awarded a Visual Arts Fellowship at the Fine Arts Work Center. She has exhibited her work for over 35 years in exhibitions in Japan, New Zealand, and the U.S. Lyman’s sculpture was recently included in “Branching Out: Trees as Art” at Peabody Essex Museum, and “Working Women: 36 Contemporary Women Artists” at Colby-Sawyer College. She has taught at RISD, Massachusetts College of Art, Hamilton College, Fine Arts Work Center, and University of Michigan School of Art, where she earned her BFA and MFA. Lyman has a solo exhibition, “Sculpture in the Unmaking”, at Boston Sculptors Gallery in March 2017. Her botanical illustrations are featured in the 2016 W.W. Norton & Co. publication, Holistic Health for Adolescents by Dr. Nada Milosavljevic.