This workshop is centered around your practice and your work, the work that you make and the work that you are. We will be addressing the story that you are compelled to explore and to share in your work. I will not be teaching technical aspects (although I am open to discuss those if the whole group benefits from such) nor focusing on any particular method. Your work is the guide for our sessions. I will be reviewing and (group)-discussing works in progress, ideas to be tackled, finished work the author is (not) satisfied with, making reference to art and culture, human history and philosophy and nature and more. The environment of the group will provide a healthy and stimulating sanctuary for all our thoughts and explorations and investigations. Everyone is an active equal participant in that process.
Open to all artists, working in any form or media, any level of experience. Participants will email digitals of their work (medium resolution, please) to the instructor a few days prior to the beginning of the workshop - and then on a weekly basis - to be reviewed. During the sessions those images will be shared with the group. Your thoughts will be welcome.
Bernd Haussmann’s work is visible nationally and internationally, at galleries and art fairs as well as at non-profit organizations. His work is part of the collections of numerous corporations and museums such as the Art Museum of South Texas in Corpus Christi, Longview Museum of Fine Art, Longview, and Amarillo Museum of Art, Amarillo, Texas; Lyman Allyn Art Museum, New London, CT; Hunterdon Museum of Art, Clinton, NJ; Provincetown Art Association and Museum, Provincetown, Montserrat College of Art, Beverly, and Danforth Museum of Art, Framingham, MA; and Stadtmuseum, Tübingen, Germany. Haussmann embraces the dialogue with his audience and the inclusion of the environment into his work and has been involved in numerous interactive projects and collaborations nationally and abroad, with e.g. Broad Institute of Harvard and MIT and University of Tuebingen. He enjoys the exchange with fellow artists and students and has been a mentor and educator at various institutions and organizations since 2014 (Castle Hill; PAAM, Montserrat College of Art; NHIA; Leslie University; Concord Art) in addition to hosting retreats and one-on-one classes.