Notes from the Studio

a collection of works by students of the 2019-2020 Advanced Seminar Program

The collection of works on view here aim to reveal each artist’s process while working in the studio.

Over the past year, this group of artists have shared readings, discussions, critiques, and lectures as part of an experimental seminar led by Mike Magrath, Klara Glosova, and me, Kimberly Trowbridge.

This seminar was designed for atelier graduates as a forum for challenging and expanding one’s level of inquiry in the studio. Our goal has been to help students construct a rigorous and sustainable practice outside of the classroom setting.

It is a revelation for many artists to shift the focus onto the questions, rather than the answers, in one’s work. To find pleasure, curiosity and surprise in the process itself and to learn to articulate that process as a means for self-discovery and awareness. I believe in this method as a fulfilling, lifelong journey for the artist and as a means for delving deeper into one’s unique vision.

The artist must be willing to exist on the line between the known and the unknown and to create a practice that encourages and supports that existence.

It has been a true pleasure working with this motivated and intelligent group of artists and to witness their growth as creative thinkers.

With Gratitude,
Kimberly Trowbridge

ORDER OF ARTISTS

Nan Herbert ● Nancy Bocek ●  Nick Riesland ● David Sun ● Anna Guarneri ● Sally Shintaffer ● Pamela Robinson