The Powder Group - Creative Exploration Workshops

Creative Exploration Workshops Program

CREATIVE EXPLORATION WORKSHOPS 2016!

Presenter Bios

	Mark Adams Mark Adams is a painter, cartographer and traveler with training in watercolor, printmaking and life drawing. He has degrees in landscape architecture and ecology from the University of California, Berkeley and has exhibited his paintings and drawings on Cape Cod and the Islands since the 1980s, currently at the Schoolhouse Gallery in Provincetown. Other galleries include Fireplace Project in East Hampton, NY; DNA Gallery, Provincetown, MA; On the Vineyard Gallery, Tisbury, MA; and the Oakland Museum, Oakland, CA. A long-time Cape Cod resident, Mark works for the National Park Service and currently lives in Truro. He has been keeping travel sketchbooks for over 30 years. Instagram @chillmark13 << Back to Creative Exploration Workshops main page.

	Heather Blume A native of Cape Cod, Massachusetts, Heather Blume graduated with a BFA summa cum laude in Painting from the University of North Florida in 1992 and an MFA cum laude in Sculpture from the New York Academy of Art in 1994. Blume creates figurative drawings, paintings, and sculptures using various mediums. These improvisational and metaphorical works reflect her interest in and regard for the human condition. Blume’s work has been exhibited nationally in New York, Chicago, and San Francisco, as well as internationally in London, England, Paris, France, and Weimar, Germany. She is the recipient of several art awards and grants including a Florida State Grant, a Massachusetts Cultural Council Grant, and three Arts Foundation of Cape Cod Grants. Several of her works are included in the permanent collection of the British Museum and The Royal Coin Cabinet of Sweden in Stockholm. She is a recent graduate of the Advanced Art Appraisal Certificate Program of the Rhode Island School of Design. www.heatherblume.com << Back to Creative Exploration Workshops main page.

	Joerg Dressler Joerg was born in Hanau, Germany. He received a Master of Arts degree in Visual Communication from the Hochschule für Gestaltung, an art and design university in Offenbach, Germany. Additionally he studied typography at Ecole Nationale Superieur des Arts Decoratif in Paris. Dressler moved to the US in 1996. He is the recipient of the Romanos Rizk Scholarship at the Provincetown Art Association and Museum and his work has been exhibited throughout Massachusetts, New York, Pennsylvania, Illinois, and Kentucky. His work has been published in The Boston Globe, ArtScope Magazine, Art New England, Provincetown Arts, Cape Cod Live, Cape Cod Voice, Boston Spirit Magazine and the Provincetown Banner. His work is widely collected both nationally and internationally. Instagram: @Joerg_Dressler \| www.joergdressler.com << Back to Creative Exploration Workshops main page.

	Michael Gillane Michael is an artist and educator who earned his BFA in printmaking from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst and his MFA in printmaking from Pratt Institute. He also completed the Master Printer Training Program at the Tamarind Institute of Lithography in Albuquerque, NM. For the last eight years Gillane has been an art educator and arts integration specialist in the Springfield, MA public schools. He has shown his work in galleries in NYC; Amherst, MA; and Cape Cod. << Back to Creative Exploration Workshops main page.

	Traci Harmon-Hay Traci is the third generation of a family of female painters. She received her BFA from the Maryland Institute of Art, pursued further studies with Michael David Brown of the Schuler School of Fine Arts and spent four years at Studio Six, a Baltimore artist’s cooperative. Her watercolors are in collections across the country. She is the founder and member of the Harmon Gallery in Wellfleet, which shows her work, as well as fourteen other artists. www.traciharmonhay.com << Back to Creative Exploration Workshops main page.

	Joe Navas Joe is Cape Cod-based photographer and owner of Organic Photography in Orleans, MA. He currently serves on the Graphic Design Advisory Board at Cape Cod Community College. A life-long artist, Navas has shown his work in Provincetown, Orleans, New Orleans, Telluride and Wellfleet and it resides in private collections around the world. Navas has been taking photographs since he was a teenager, professionally for 15 years, with the last 8 seeing it become his primary focus. His work, especially his most recent projects - centered on world class track and field athletes - has garnered him praise from around the photography world and will be the feature of an upcoming Boston showing. His photography business, which he began 7 years ago and co-owns with his wife Kristen, has become one of the most widely recognized and sought after wedding-photography outlets in New England. Instagram @joeink \| www.joenavasphoto.com \| www.organicphotography.org << Back to Creative Exploration Workshops main page.

	Sian Robertson Sian is a self-taught collage artist originally from the UK, now living in North Truro. Her source materials are mostly paper ephemera, though she occasionally includes mixed media components in her work. Robertson says "Maps are of particular interest to me - they are beautiful to look at, they represent areas lived in and places still to visit, and I have incredibly fond memories of learning to map read when I was very young. As a small child I loved spending time in the car, with me navigating our way home. I clearly remember being excited to predict that there would be a river, or a T-junction, or a hospital a mile ahead, and being thrilled when it was actually there. Now, as an adult, maps give me a physical and emotional connection to a time and place left behind, and the reassurance that it might be returned to in the future."" Robertson is an active member of PAAM and has participated in members' exhibits since 2009, including having her work selected for several juried shows. Her 'Postage Portrait' collages were featured in the Summer 2015 edition of Uppercase Magazine. Her figurative pieces made entirely from maps were part of her first solo show, at A Gallery in Provincetown, last summer. Instagram: @sianrobertsonart \| www.sianrobertsonart.com << Back to Creative Exploration Workshops main page.

	Vicky Tomayko Vicky is an artist who works with a variety of print methods creating one-of-a-kind works on paper. She studied printmaking in Detroit and with Michael Mazur in Provincetown. She was a fellow at the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown and has an MFA in printmaking from Western Michigan University. In addition to PAAM, she teaches at Cape Cod Community College and at the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown Summer Program. She manages the print studio for the Fine Arts Work Center during their 7 month Residency Program, providing workshops and one-on-one instruction. She was an artist-in-residence at the Cape Cod Lighthouse Charter School in Orleans for ten years. Tomayko was assistant professor of printmaking at Connecticut College. She is represented by the Schoolhouse Gallery in Provincetown. www.vickytomayko.com << Back to Creative Exploration Workshops main page.

	Mike Wright Sculptor Mike walks Provincetown beaches and streets searching for old painted wood. Her subject matter—the sea, fishing vessels, architecture—along with inspiration from early Provincetown Modernists Blanche Lazzell, Karl Knaths and Kenneth Stubbs, place her on the artistic continuum that is Provincetown. Wright just had a solo exhibition at the Cape Cod Museum of Art; received a Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant in 2014; was the "Artist in Residence" at Cape Cod Community College; was awarded a full fellowship to the Vermont Studio Center; won the Michael E. Deluty Outstanding Sculpture Prize at the CAA National Competition in 2007, won the 1998 National Competition at PAAM, resulting in a solo exhibition in 1999. She has exhibited in Japan, New York City, East Hampton, Maryland, Montana, Florida, Louisiana, Boston and Provincetown. Her work is in the collection of the Provincetown Art Association and Museum and in many private collections. Alden Gallery represents her in Provincetown, and WilliamsMcCall Gallery in Miami. www.sculptormikewright.com << Back to Creative Exploration Workshops main page.

	Sally Brophy Sally Bio coming soon. @sallybrophy << Back to Creative Exploration Workshops main page.