Autobody Bridge Program 2017
Autobody Bridge Program: Session 5
Program Dates: February 7th - April 25th (12 Sessions)
When: Tuesdays 7-10pm
Where: Autobody Fine Art, Alameda, CA
Cost: $550
Application deadline: Rolling application deadline
** We will hold an Information Session on Tuesday January 17th, 7pm @ Autobody Fine Art**
Description:
With the cost of advanced degrees on the rise, the Autobody Bridge Program is designed to address the needs of young and emerging artists who are attempting to further their practice without necessarily attending a formal Graduate Program in Fine Arts.
And we want to make it as close to free as we possibly can!
Artists will be accepted two times a year. Building upon work produced either independently, participants will learn to focus their aesthetic and sharpen their technical skills in ways that promote the personal artistic growth necessary for engaging the artworld on a professional level. The program focuses (but is not limited to) the contemporary art practice of painting and drawing, and advocates the making, theory and discursive critique of objects produced by enrolled artists.
Artists will produce a comprehensive body of work under the guidance of the program facilitators in conjunction with artists’ studio visits, lectures and critiques. The Bridge Program provides intense immersion into the practice and profession of being an artist. The program culminates in an exhibition that is conceived and curated by the artists with the support and advice of the program facilitators.
6-9 Artists per session
Individual Critiques and studio sessions on Tuesday evenings
Visiting Artist Lectures
Mid-Term Group Critique
Group Show at Autobody Fine Art the end of each session
Target Candidate:
Emerging artists who are considering graduate school or exhibition opportunities and are looking for something structured to help them produce a body of work. Artists who have recently finished undergrad or grad school who are searching for the next step in their art career.
APPLICATION
Include the following:
Letter of Intent
8-10 images of recent work
CV
submit applications or questions to: [email protected]
Instructors/Facilitators:
Jacqueline Cooper received her Masters Degree in Fine Arts from UCLA in 1998 and has worked for the last twenty years as an Art Professor, Independent Curator, Art Critic and Gallerist. Between 1995-2000 she worked as the Los Angeles Editor for the Chicago New Art Examiner writing critical reviews and longer editorial pieces whilst also opening an independent artspace, 208 South La Brea Gallery in Los Angeles. Having moved to San Francisco in 2004 she worked as a Professor at the San Francisco Art Institute and in 2007 she opened Autobody Fine Art Inc. More details and images of all of the past exhibitions can be found at www.autobodygalleryandstudios.com. Jacqueline Cooper is currently the Artistic Director of the Sun Gallery, Hayward and the Fine Art photography and Video Coordinator of the Alameda County Fair.
Dickson Schneider is an artist and professor. He has taught at California State University East Bay for 15 years - Painting, Drawing, Art History, seminars on contemporary art, over 25 different classes. He is an accomplished artist in many different media, including Oils, Acrylics, and Egg Tempera. He also works in video and digital art. His free art project has traveled to New York, Miami, Los Angeles, Berlin, Munich, Portland, Seattle (and more) where he engages local communities in a dialogue about the value of art through the free exchange of original artwork. This has given him a first hand look at the contemporary art world and that experience has informed his teaching.
David Burke received his MFA from Tyler School of Art in Philadelphia in 2002. He has taught art at various levels for the last ten years, most recently at Chiang Mai University in Northern Thailand. He is the art director for the Oakland Super Heroes Mural Project and exhibits at Vessel Gallery in Oakland. (www.dburke.org)