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Visiting Artist Series 
Work with and learn from some of today's most significant working artists.

Each year, the Visiting Artist Series brings several notable artists to the League to teach master classes, which supplement existing ongoing classes and workshops. This extraordinary opportunity allows students and artists from the community to work with and learn from some of today’s most significant working artists. The League is indebted to the visionary support of the Olson-Vander Heyden Foundation and the advisory committee.

 

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Patrick Horsley SEE MORE: VISIT PATRICK'S WEBSITE MASTER CLASS Staying Centered:  A Functional Pottery Demonstration Sat-Sun, April 21–22, 2012  |  9 am-4 pm Location: Art Students League of Denver Ability: All Levels Cost: $135 for members, $160 for non-members Register by 4/13 MORE INFO> Non-members, please call 303-778-6990 to register.

Ceramic artist Patrick Horsley is a respected studio potter based in Oregon who teaches and conducts workshops for art centers and universities throughout the country. His pottery has been featured in many major ceramics publications, is represented in galleries across the United States, and has been widely collected by individuals and museums, including the Seattle Art Museum and the American Museum of Ceramic Art. Horsley describes his primary interest as “the making, the process, and the physical dance of making pots…[that] present a new view and image of a familiar form.”

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Some of our past visiting artists have included:

• Bill Amundson, who lectured on his creative process and led a master class in drawing.
• Jenny Dubnau, who taught a master class and lectured on her creative process in painting psychological portraits.
• Del Harrow, who led students through exercises and experiments with new and old techniques in stoneware clay and casting slip after an instructor-lead visit to the concurrent Marvelous Mud exhibition at the Denver Art Museum.
• Matt Brown, who introduced the Japanese Hanga Method in a woodblock printmaking workshop. See also Wood and Water article on Matt's work.
• Ricardo Mazal, who presented his unique artistic process, which incorporates abstract painting along with digital photography and technology, monotypes, and video. See also Finding Meaning in the Abstract article on Ricardo's work.
• Jeanette Pasin Sloan, who works in the great still-life tradition of Western art and takes a distinctly modernist approach to design and color.
• Richard Notkin, whose teapots, ceramic sculptures, and tile murals are visual explorations into social and political commentary.
• Chinese artist Yang Yang, who came to Denver with the Asian Arts Coordinating Council.
• We introduced Zimbabwe sculptor Collen Nyanhongo.
• Also, VSA arts Colorado partnered with us to bring deaf Israeli artist Uzi Buzgalo to the League to present workshops.

Advisory committee: Rachel Basye, Tom Burke, Richard Chanzit, Peter Durst, Colleen Fanning, Ron Hicks, Homare Ikeda, Ron Judish, Carol Levin, Gayla Lemke, Emilio Lobato, Mark Lunning, Katharine Smith-Warren, Sharon Walsh and Jordan Wolfson


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