Painting on Panels: Margaret Krug
Dates:
August 13-27, 2010
Price:
$3,400.00
Program Website:
www.margaretkrug.com
Program Coordinators:
Margaret Krug
Address:
248 Mulberry Street, New York, NY 10012
Telephone:
cell 646-232-6808
Fax:
212-598-4805
E-mail:
margaret.krug@gmail.com
Preferred method of contact:
email
Description:
Textbook: An Artist’s Handbook: Materials and Techniques, Margaret Krug
Focus on traditional painting methods and their contemporary application including encaustic used in the Fayum region of ancient Egypt, egg tempera from early Renaissance Siena and oil painting from Renaissance Venice. Prepare small wood panels with traditional gesso ground. Produce paint by combining dry pigments with beeswax, egg, milk glue or oil. Technical proficiency is encouraged through a two-step process - copying the techniques employed in master paintings and creating an original work using the same methods. Create a set of technical examples to use as visual reference as well as a cohesive body of original work. Day trips, with art history lectures and sketchbook exercises, to museums and other sites in Siena, Florence and surrounding towns enable students to examine the cultural/historic context of methods and concepts presented in the course. Critiques and thematic assignments encourage access to personal vision.
Coordinator Biography(ies):
Margaret Krug is a painter who received her MFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. She has exhibited at AIR Gallery, The Painting Center, The Window Gallery, The Nix Gallery, and Vlepo Gallery in New York City and at the Art Institute of Chicago, the Nelson-Atkins Museum and elsewhere throughout the United States, Europe, and South America. She is the director of a painting, drawing and art history program at the Spannocchia Foundation in Italy. She is Adjunct Professor of painting and drawing at Parsons The New School for Design. While Senior Lecturer at the Whitney Museum, she taught twentieth and twenty-first century American art. She taught painting, materials and techniques, at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. She was awarded the School of the Art Institute of Chicago Traveling Fellowship Award for Painting: George D. and Isabella A Brown Traveling Fellowship. In 2008 she was awarded the Art and Art History Distinguished Alumni Award from the University of Nebraska at Omaha. Her book, An Artist’s Handbook: Materials and Techniques, was published by Harry N. Abrams in New York and Laurence King Publishing (distributed worldwide by Thames and Hudson) in London in November 2007. Blume in Barcelona published the Spanish edition in March 2008, Dumont Publishing in Cologne published the German edition in August 2008, and Art Publish published the Russian edition in September 2008. Anhui Fine Arts Publishing published the Chinese edition in Shanghai in August 2009. Margaret Krug was born in Sioux Falls, South Dakota. She lives in New York City.
“Excellent all around-great balance of artistic work and field trips, very nicely organized.”
“Bravo to the Spannocchia staff. You do a magnificent job!”
“Focus on Spannocchia, the place. Do not try to bring your life with you; just immerse yourself in the life that is offered at Spannocchia.”