Scholarships are available. Ken Aptekar's paintings tell stories, pose questions, excavate memories, reinterpret personal history or world history - his works are paintings as conversations, as dialogs. During the four-day painting workshop participants will be encouraged to discuss the question of what paintings mean and how does a painting produce a meaning. Ken will explore his own particular responses to these questions with the group and, through dialog, assist participants in elucidating their own thoughts and reactions. A painting, in Aptekar's view, produces meaning both from what the artist puts into the work and from the responses of viewers.
Participants can work on a canvas in either oil or acrylic paint.
Please bring source material and, prior to the workshop, consider the content of the painting you wish to develop. Ken Aptekar is a two-time National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship award winner in Painting. He received his MFA in 1975 from the Pratt Institute. Ken has had numerous solo exhibitions and participated in many group exhibitions in the United States and in Europe. The Jewish Museum, the National Museum of Art, and the Corcoran Gallery of Art, as well asnumerous private and corporate collections.