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Instructor: Glen Moriwaki
Instruction Dates: June 9 through June 22, 2012
Location: Caunes-Minervois, (near Carcassone) Languedoc region, France

Prospectur

This is a two week workshop in a small village at the base of the Montagne Noir in the Languedoc. It is designed for painters who seek art instruction structured not as a summer-school class, but as a small painting seminar, an intensive one. It is a chance for artists to come together to share ideas and perspectives, stimulation and mutual encouragement. Instruction is one-to-one, based on each participant's goals. The overall aim of instruction is to assist each in taking his or her work to the next level of development, no matter what degree of past experience. In short, the workshop offers the chance to paint for two weeks six thousand miles away from home, work, and distractions. Nature, history, French food and wine, and quietude help to create a setting conducive to creativity and moreover to your growth as an artist in whatever direction you choose.

This summer's workshop marks our 14th summer in Caunes-Minervois. Through the efforts of former San Franciscans Terry and Lois Link, the workshop's accommodations and studio facilities have developed into a simple but comfortable retreat where artists have been able to do some of their best and most experimental work.

Program

• Fourteen days of painting instruction based on each student's workshop proposal
• En-plein air painting in the area as well as studio painting at Berges
• Individual instruction and critique at Berges studio
• Eveing group critiques, slide-lectures, and discussions based on material from the reader

About the workshop

The workshop's structure is flexible. Participants can learn valuabe, sometimes remarkable things from each other in countless informal, serendipitous ways just by working side by side in the studio on a daily basis. Group instruction and group critiques occur as needed. Special Emphasis is placed on creative process; how painting ideas get generated (by preplanning or spontaneous action) and how they are transformed through developmental stages, painting processes, and vaious methods and techniques into expressive art objects. Of course, every artist's creative process is different from another's, but can be expanded and enriched by one's exposure to how others make art. For this purpose, I've compiled a reader with articles, interviews, and artist's statements to provide a stepping-off point for evening discussion about art and art making which may go wherever the participants care to take them. A few evening slide-lectures are scheduled as well.

View photos of artwork from previous workshops.

The pages on this website should answer most of your questions, to talk to the instructor directly, you can contact him at gmoriwak@ccsf.edu

About Glen Moriwaki

Glen Moriwaki is a tenured instructor of art at San Francisco City College, where he teaches painting at the Fort Mason campus. He received his MFA from UC Berkeley, where he studied with Joan Brown and Elmer Bischoff. Glen has had solo shows in San Francisco and Hawaii. He has also exhibited in New York, China, and France, as well as at the Oakland Museum and the University Art Museum at UC Berkeley. This will be his 12th summer workshop in Caunes.