Artist Margaret Curtis will teach a five day workshop July 14 – 18 in Studio B at Tryon Fine Arts Center for students in High School and College. Students will explore color and value, and how to apply them to create a sense of volume as well as the principles of composition as they work from both still life, and figure subjects.
Curtis is well known locally, regionally and nationally as a visual artist. She was represented for 10 years by P.P.O.W. Gallery in New York City. Her work has been exhibited at the Brooklyn Museum of Art and The Andy Warhol Museum in Pittsburgh. She was included in “The Figure: Another Side of Modernism” at the Snug Harbor Cultural Center and “Bad Girls” at The New Museum in New York and other major group shows. She has also shown at Zolla Lieberman Gallery in Chicago, The Huntington Beach Art Center in California and Salama Caro Gallery of London. Curtis is the recipient of the Ellen Battell Stoeckel Fellowship, Yale Summer School of Art and the Predmore Award from Duke University. Most recently Curtis has exhibited in the “End of Empire” exhibit at the Flood Gallery in Asheville, N.C. and in 2014 at the McMaster Gallery, University of S.C., Columbia, S.C.
Curtis currently lives with her husband and two sons in Tryon, where she paints in her studio and heads the exhibits committee for The Upstairs Artspace. “Margaret is a dynamic artist and teacher. Her work as an artist is thought provoking as well as joyful, beautiful and surprising. As a teacher she is passionate, thoughtful, tuned in to her students, serious, professional and fun at the same time. We are grateful to offer her a space to share her talents and insights with the youth in our community,” says Marianne Carruth, Director of Arts in Education at Tryon Fine Arts Center.
The class will meet Monday, July 14 – Friday, July 18 from 9 a.m. – 12 p.m. in Studio B at Tryon Fine Arts Center.
All supplies required for the course are covered by the tuition fee.
Tryon Fine Arts Center provides opportunities and facilities for the entire Carolina Foothills community in order to advance experience and participation in the arts. For more information or to register, call 828-859-8322 or visit www.tryonarts.org.

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by Marianne Carruht