Drawing IS for Everyone!

Level: Beginner to Intermediate How many times have you thought you could never draw? Well, this class will prove you wrong! Everyone can learn to draw, so bring your energy and we will tackle drawing aspects from the very beginning. You will be able to choose to explore the genres of your choice, including landscape, still life, florals, and/or portraiture. Beginners will work from photographic references and intermediates can choose to work from photographs or from their own in-class room still life set-ups. Note: This class will be meeting in the studio. Artist Nancy McTague-Stock credits early exposure to environmental experiences as the impetus for her life long artistic focus. Her environmentally focused imagery centrally highlights the fragility of nature in an increasingly technocentric world, through an amalgam of painting, printmaking and contemporary photographic media. Her work is observation-based, with a strong conceptual sensibility and superb craftsmanship. Nancy McTague-Stock was a Fellowship Recipient for post-graduate work at The Slade School of Art at the University of London in Experimental Drawing. She received an MFA from The Art Institute of Boston in Visual Studies in New Media, with mentors inclusive of Dike Blair, Judith Barry, Richard Klein, Anthony Apesos & Sunanda Sunyal. She holds a Marketing Strategy Certificate from Cornell University’s Johnson Graduate School of Management, and a BFA from Virginia Commonwealth University in Metalsmithing and Textiles, with specialty training in ancient jewelry techniques from the Kulicke Stark Academy for Jewelry Art in New York with Bob Kulicke. Ms. McTague-Stock has been the recipient of many awards, residencies, grants and fellowships. Her work has been exhibited in group exhibitions at over ten museums, solo/group shows in galleries and universities in Bulgaria, Canada, China, Denmark, Great Britain, Ireland, Latvia, New Zealand, Portugal, Serbia and in the U.S., from Los Angeles to New York. Nancy’s work has appeared in such publications as the New York Times, Studio Visit Magazine, Plein Air Magazine, Art New England Magazine, Hearst Media, The Woven Tale Press, VCU Arts, CBS Connecticut, Connecticut Post, EastCoast Home & Design, New England Home, Moffly Media, and VENU Magazine, among others. Her work is collected by private and public institutions worldwide, including most recent acquisitions of her work by Yale University’s Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, The Library of Congress in Washington, D.C., The Douro Museum Printmaking Biennial Collection in Portugal and The Chateau Orquevaux Permanent Collection in France. Nancy’s experience in a wide variety of media is extensive, with an environmental focus in her series of projects. She has created commissioned, community-focused, interactive installations and designed community participation projects, global artistic exchanges and outreach programs, working with students and artists from young to old. A periodic lecturer about contemporary art, environment and culture, Nancy has served for over twenty five years as a teacher, college counselor, artists’ mentor, arts writer, curator and juror for many academic, private and public institutions for exhibitions, including The Prince of Wales Foundation in the UK. Nancy lives on a nature preserve in Connecticut, providing a constant source of fodder for her work and maintains her permanent studio in the United States. To learn more about Nancy, visit her website https://nancymctaguestock.com/