Classes

ART COACHING AND MENTORING
Lisa is now accepting mentorships with artists who:
• want a sustained one-on-one relationship to critique and develop their work.
• are preparing a portfolio for consideration for graduate school.
• have an upcoming exhibition and want support and feedback to choose work.
• want to begin exhibiting their work and need help in developing a body of work to submit for consideration for exhibitions.
• benefit from a consistent structure for feedback in order to maintain a sustained art practice to generate new work.
Limited spaces available, download Coaching pdf for more info.

MONTHLY CRITIQUE GROUPS
Groups are for artists with a committed studio practice. For more information download this pdf or contact Lisa via the Contact form.

SPINES & FRAGMENTS
a book workshop with Lisa Kokin

In this workshop we will get down to the bare
bones of books, as it were. We will strip, cut, tear
and expose the innards of one or several books to make
a strange and wonderful sculpture or collage. Parts of the
spine, covers and text will make their appearance but not
in the way they were originally intended. Additional
elements such as wire, string, wood and other found
objects will be added for structure and embellishment.

Sunday, May 20
10:00 – 4:00 pm
Fee: $125 plus $15 supply fee
Some supplies included
Download pdf for more info

Reuse Muse: Bookmaking with Found Materials
A weekly class with Lisa Kokin

ENROLLMENT IS NOW OPEN FOR THIS CLASS
Contact Lisa for information on future sessions.

This six-week class will explore the intersection of bookmaking and found materials. Through a series of concept- and materials-based assignments, students will experiment with an open-ended approach to making books and expand their idea of what constitutes a book. Possible topics to include: found text, altered books, books that do not resemble books, books presented as sculptures, book/collages, and the non-readable book as sculptural object. Possible materials to include anything and everything that has already had its first life and use and is ready to assume its second one as Art. The class will nurture a spirit of curiosity and risk-taking, which emphasizes process as well as product. A reader with assignments, articles about contemporary artists and technical information will serve as repository for all information covered in class. Critiques will be supportive and challenging.
Class meets in Lisa's studio in El Sobrante.

Six Thursdays, June 14 - July 19, 6:30 – 9:30 pm
Fee: $495
Some supplies included
Download pdf for more info

Lisa Kokin’s work in mixed media installation, artist’s books, assemblage and sculpture has been exhibited in numerous solo and group exhibitions in the U.S. and abroad. A recipient of a California Arts Council Individual Artist’s Fellowship and a Eureka Fellowship, Ms. Kokin’s work is in numerous collections. Her work is represented by Seager Gray Gallery, in Mill Valley, CA and the Tayloe Piggott Gallery in Jackson, WY.

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