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FALL 2024 - WINTER 2025

FALL 2024 Schedule

Oct 9 - LIVE #134: Overcoming Obstructions to Progress

Oct 23 - LIVE #135 SUBMISSION INSTRUCTIONS

SUMMER 2024

SUMMER 2024 SCHEDULE

SERIES PROJECT DOCUMENT 1

LIVE #133 SUBMISSION INSTRUCTIONS

Jul 10 - LIVE #128 - Meet the Juror with guest Dan Addington

Jul 24 - LIVE #129 - Intro to the SERIES PROJECT

Aug 7 - LIVE #130 - Guest Brian Rutenberg: Working in Series, Abstracting from Landscape

Aug 21 - LIVE #131 - Series Progress/Feedback: Ideas, Sources, Approaches

Sep 11 - LIVE #132 - Guest Diane Williams: Working in Series, Personal Voice

Sep 25 - LIVE #133 - Series Progress: Comments, Support, Critique

SPRING QUARTER 2024

Spring 2024 Schedule

SPRING 2024 INSTRUCTIONS FOR MEMBER CRITIQUE & PAINTING CLINIC

Apr 3 - LIVE #121 - Benefits & Opportunities of Working Small w/Jen Drysdale and Paula Dunn

Apr 17 - LIVE #122 - Websites & Newsletters w/guest Jason Horejs

May 1 - LIVE #123 - Personal Voice

May 15 - LIVE #124 Guest Artists Diane Williams and Michael Shemchuck talk about Personal Voice

May 19 - DEADLINE TO SUBMIT FOR PAINTING CLINIC

May 20 - DEADLINE TO SUBMIT FOR JURIED SHOW

May 29 - LIVE #125 - Painting Clinic - Works in Progress

Jun 10 - DEADLINE TO SUBMIT FOR MEMBER CRITIQUE

Jun 19 - LIVE #126 - Approaching Your Subject

Jun 26 - LIVE #127 - Member Critique & Announce Juried Show Results

Winter Quarter 2024

WINTER QUARTER 2024 SCHEDULE

LIVE #115 - How To Get the Most From Your CWA Membership

LIVE #116 - Working with Shape, Scale, and Proportion

LIVE #117 - How to See and Work with Composition

How to Submit for the Feb 21 Painting Clinic (deadline: midnight Feb 11)

LIVE #118 - Painting Clinic - Focus on Composition

LIVE #119 - Guest Artists

How to Submit for Mar 20 Member Critique (deadline: midnight Mar 10)

LIVE #120 - Member Critique (focus on shape & composition)

Fall Quarter 2023

SCHEDULE - FALL 2023

Oct 11 - LIVE #109: All About Texture

Oct 25 - LIVE #110: Process & Materiality w/guests Lisa Pressman & Nathan Terborg

LIVE MENTORING #111 - Member Instructions

Nov 8 - LIVE #111: Live Mentoring - Finding Time for Your Art

PAINTING CLINIC #112 - Member Instructions

Nov 29 - LIVE #112: Painting Clinic - A Focus on Texture

Dec 6 - LIVE #113 - Gamblin Product Specialist Q&A

MEMBER CRITIQUE #114 - Member Instructions

Dec 20 - LIVE #114 - Member Critique: A Focus on Texture

Summer 2023

SUMMER 2023 SCHEDULE

SUMMER PAINTING CLINIC - INSTRUCTIONS

SUMMER MEMBER CRITIQUE - INSTRUCTIONS

Jul 5 2023 - LIVE #103 - All About Color, A Review

Jul 19 2023 - LIVE #104 - Deciding When It's Done

Aug 2 2023 - LIVE #105 - LIVE MENTORING: Finding Creative Energy

Aug 16 2023 - LIVE #106 - PAINTING CLINIC: Nearly Done

Sep 6 2023 - LIVE #107 - Stand OUT in the Crowd: Maximizing Your Online Presence

Sep 27 2023 - LIVE #108 - Member Critique: A Focus on Color

Spring Quarter 2023

Apr 12 2023 - LIVE #96 - How We See Composition, Part 1

Apr 19 2023 - LIVE #97 - Gamblin Q&A

May 10 - LIVE #98: Painting Clinic, 'Almost Done'

May 17 - LIVE #99: How We See Composition, Part 2 + PDF Questions

May 31 2023 - LIVE #100 - Celebrate with us!

Jun 14 - LIVE #101 - Mentoring: Feedback

June 28 - LIVE #102 - MemberS Critique

Winter Quarter 2023

WINTER 2023 SCHEDULE

Jan 4 2023 - LIVE #88 - LIVE Mentoring: Procrastination & Avoidance

INSTRUCTIONS - FINAL MEMBER CRITIQUE - Deadline March 8th

Jan 11 2023 - LIVE #89: Sources, Stories, Symbols & Content

Jan 18 2023 - LIVE #90: Q&A w/demos, Challenging and Frustrating Techniques

Feb 8 - LIVE #91: Top Challenges of the Visual Artist, Guest: Eric Maisel, PhD

Feb 22 - LIVE #92: Photographing Your Work

Mar 1 - LIVE #93: Painting Clinic, Paintings In Progress

PAINTING CLINIC WINTER 2023 - GUIDELINES/INSTRUCTIONS

Mar 8 - LIVE #94: Trust The Process w/author Shaun McNiff

Mar 22 - LIVE #95: Member Critique, A Focus on Composition

Summer Quarter 2022

Summer 2022 Schedule

Summer 2022 PAINTING CLINIC GUIDELINES

Jul 13 2022 - LIVE #71 Recording - Composition/POD Part 1, Unity & Contrast

Jul 20 2022 - LIVE #72 Recording - Painting Clinic, Summer 2022

July 27 2022 - LIVE #73 Recording - Visual Weight, Hierarchy, Balance, Symmetry & Proportion

Summer 2022 MEMBER CRITIQUE GUIDELINES

August 10 2022 - LIVE #74 Recording - POD Part 3: Repetition, Pattern, Rhythm

August 17 2022 - LIVE #75 Recording - Gallerist Panel w/Q&A

August 24 2022 - LIVE #76 Recording - Personal Voice, Part 1

Sept 7 2022 - LIVE #77 Recording - Personal Voice, Part 2

Sept 14 2022 - LIVE #78 Recording - Member Critique: Formal Analysis

Sept 21 2022 - LIVE #79 Recording - Q&A: Composition, Principles of Design

Fall Quarter 2022

Fall 2022 - SCHEDULE (as of 10.06.2022)

Oct 12 2022 - LIVE #80 Recording: Using Transparency & Opacity Effectively

LIVE MENTORING #1 - TAMING YOUR INNER CRITIC

Oct 19 2022 - LIVE #81 Recording: Taming Your Inner Critic, Part 1

Oct 26 2022 - LIVE #82 - Using ProCreate to Improve Your Painting w/Melinda Cootsona

Nov 9 2022 - LIVE #83 - Taming Your Inner Critic, Part 2

!! MEMBER CRITIQUE FALL 2022 - GUIDELINES/INSTRUCTIONS !!

PAINTING CLINIC FALL 2022 - GUIDELINES/INSTRUCTIONS

Nov 16 2022 - LIVE #84 - Making Progress, Member Stories

Nov 30 2022 - LIVE #85 - Painting Clinic: Paintings In Progress

Dec 7 2022 - LIVE #86 - Achieving Depth thru Layering, w/Rebecca and DEMOS

Dec 14, 2022 - LIVE #87 - Member Critique: Analysis of Form & Content

INSTRUCTIONS - LIVE MENTORING January 4th - Deadline to Submit Dec 30th

Spring Quarter 2022

Spring 2022 Schedule

Apr 13 2022 - LIVE #61 Recording - Discovering Your Personal Aspects of Form

Apr 20 2022 - LIVE #62 Recording - Pathways to Content in Your Work

Apr 27 2022 - LIVE #63 Recording - Member Work: Finding Your Form

INSTRUCTIONS FOR PAINTING CLINIC - LIVE #65 and #66

May 11 2022 - LIVE #64 Recording - Personal Paths w/Krista Harris & Joanna Kidney

May 25 2022 - LIVE #65 Recording - Paintings in Progress 1, The Painting Clinic

June 1 2022 - LIVE #66 Recording - Painting in Progress 2, The Painting Clinic

June 8 2022 - LIVE #67 Recording - Professional Development, Part 1

June 15 2022 - LIVE #68 Recording - Professional Development, Part 2

LIVE #68 - IMPORTANT QUESTIONS TO ASK YOURSELF ABOUT YOU AND YOUR ART

June 22 2022 - LIVE #69 Recording - Spring 2022, Member Critique: A Focus on Form

June 29 2022 - LIVE #70 Recording - OPEN Q&A: Professional Development

Winter Quarter 2022

Winter Quarter 2022 - SCHEDULE

Jan 12 2022 - LIVE #51 Recording - Member Critique, Work from Fall 2021

Jan 19 2022 - LIVE #52 Recording - History of Abstraction

SUBMISSION GUIDELINE - FEB 9 MEMBER STORIES - DEADLINE FEB 4TH

SUBMISSION GUIDELINE - MEMBER CRITIQUE - Deadline March 2

Jan 26 2022 - LIVE #53 Recording - Sources in Abstraction

Feb 2 2022 - LIVE #54 Recording - Abstraction: Finding Your Way

Feb 9 2022 - LIVE #55 Recording - Abstraction: 6 Member Stories

Feb 16 2022 - LIVE #56 Recoding - Abstraction: Putting It All Together

Mar 2 2022 - LIVE #57 Recording - Photography: What is its role in painting?

Mar 9 2022 - LIVE #58 Recording - Member Critique: Spontaneous Works

Mar 16 2022 - LIVE #59 Recording - Working Representationally Part 1, with 3 Guest Speakers

Mar 23 2022 - LIVE #60 Recording - Working Representationally Part 2, with 3 Guest Speakers

Fall Quarter 2021

Oct 6 - LIVE #41 Recording - Jerry & Rebecca Develop Their Work, Part 1

MEMBER TECHNIQUES - Guidelines for Submission

Oct 20 - LIVE #42 Recording - Finishing & Presenting Your Work

MEMBER ASSIGNMENT - for FINAL CRITIQUE (Due Dec 31th)

Oct 27 - LIVE #43 Recording - How We Develop Our Work, Part 2 of 4

Nov 3 - LIVE #44 Recording - How We Develop Our Work, Part 3 of 4

Nov 10 - LIVE #45 Recording - How We Develop Our Work, Part 4 of 4

Nov 17 - LIVE #46 Recording - Member Techniques

Dec 1 - LIVE #47 Recording - CWM w/Encaustic, Photography - Guest Lia Rothstein

Dec 1 - LIVE #47 - Lia Rothstein's 'Resource List' for materials

Dec 8 - LIVE #48 Recording - CWM w/Photography, Plein Aire - Guest Mary Mendla

Dec 8 - Mary Mendla's Supply & Resource List

Dec 15 - LIVE #49 - Spontaneity w/CWM - Guest Karen Darling

Dec 16 - FREE Q&A Fall 2021 - Recording

Dec 29 - LIVE #50 Recording - How We Work

Summer Quarter 2021

Summer 2021 - Schedule

Jul 7 - LIVE #31 Recording - An Introduction to Intentions

Jul 21 - LIVE #32 - Writing Your Intentions - Guidelines

Jul 21 - LIVE #32 Recording - Member Intentions

July 28 - LIVE #33 Recording - Mark Making Part 1

Aug 4 - LIVE #34 Recording - Mark Making/Line Part 2

Aug 11 - LIVE #35 Recording - Working in Series (Focused Intentions)

Aug 17 - FREE SUMMER LIVE Session Recording - Intentions

Aug 18 - LIVE #36 Recording - Composition Part I

Aug 18 - LIVE #36 Composition Part I - HOMEWORK

Aug 25 - LIVE #37 Recording - Composition Part 2

Aug 25 - LIVE #37 Composition Part 2 - HOMEWORK

Sep 8 - LIVE #38 Composition Part 3 - Review of Composition Exercises

Sep 22 - LIVE #39 Series & Intentions w/guests Sorrentino and Mascarenhas

Sep 29 - FINAL CRITIQUE

Spring Quarter 2021

SPRING 2021 SCHEDULE

Apr 7 - LIVE #21 Recording - An Introduction to Shape

Apr 14 - LIVE #22 Recording - The Form & Content of Shape

Apr 21 - LIVE #23 Recording - Guest Eric Maisel "The Power of Daily Practice"

Apr 21 - Books by Eric Maisel Jerry says are 'worth reading'

Apr 28 - LIVE #24 (Part 1) Jerry's Coaching Q&A

May 5 - LIVE #24 (Part 2) Coaching Q&A w/Jerry & Rebecca

May 12 - LIVE #25 Recording - Introduction to Scale & Proportion

May 17 - FREE LIVE Session - About Abstraction

May 19 - LIVE #26 Recording - Practical Aspects of Scale & Proportion

May 19 - LIVE #26 Supplemental Videos

May 26 - LIVE #27 Recording - Member Critique: Shape, Scale, Proportion

Jun 2 - LIVE #28 Recording - Rebecca Answers Questions About Process

Jun 2 - LIVE #28 - Recommended Messy Studio Podcasts

Jun 16 - LIVE #29 - Putting It All Together, Spring 2021

Jun 23 - LIVE #30 - Final Critique - Spring 2021

Fall Quarter 2020

October 7 - LIVE #1 Recording - Interesting Color & Color Relationships

October 7 - Color Relationships & Interesting Color - EXERCISES

October 7 - Jerry & Rebecca's PDFs

October 14 - LIVE #2 Recording - Pervasive Contrast

October 14 - Pervasive Contrast - EXERCISES

October 14 - Pervasive Contrast - Artwork PDFs

October 21 - Live #3 Recording - Spontaneity & Control

October 21 - Spontaneity & Control - EXERCISES & Further Reading

October 21 - Spontaneity & Control - Artwork PDFs

October 28 - Value + Mixing Blacks, Grays, Whites - EXERCISES

October 28 - LIVE #4 Recording - Value + whites, blacks, grays

October 28 - Value - Rebecca's PDF

October 30 - LIVE Q&A Recording - CWM basics

November 4 - Control in Editing PDF - Rebecca

November 4 - LIVE #5 Recording - Control Issues

November 4 - Control Issues - EXERCISES

November 11 - LIVE #6 Recording - Guest Artist Melinda Cootsona

November 18 - LIVE #7 Recording - Dualities: Contrast of Meaning

November 18 - Dualities - EXERCISES

November 18 - Dualities - Examples of Dualities PDF

December 2 - LIVE #8 Recording - Color Tips & Pitfalls

December 2 - Color Tips & Pitfalls - EXERCISES

December 9 - LIVE #9 Recording - Developing Spontaneity

December 9 - Developing Spontaneity - EXERCISES & Additional Reading

December 16 - LIVE #10 Recording - Member Critique Fall 2020

Winter Quarter 2021

Winter Quarter Schedule & Syllabus

Jan 6 - LIVE #11 Recording - Introduction to Layering

Jan 13 - LIVE #12 Recording - Introduction to Texture

Jan 13 - Introduction to Texture - EXERCISES

Jan 20 - LIVE #13 Recording - Developing Texture

Jan 20 - LIVE #13 - EXERCISES

Feb 3 - LIVE #14 - ART VOCABULARY - Talking About Your Work

Feb 10 - LIVE #15 - Ann Landi - Guest Speaker from Vasari21

Feb 24 - LIVE #16 - Writing Your ARTIST STATEMENT

GUIDELINES FOR SUBMITTING WORK FOR MEMBER CRITIQUE

Mar 3 - LIVE #17 Recording - Sara Post Talks Layering/Collage

Mar 3 - LIVE #17 - Sara Post Layering/Collage Supplies & Tips

Mar 10 - LIVE #18 Recording - Critique, Self-Critique, and Editing

Mar 17 - LIVE #19 Recording - Putting It All Together

Mar 24 - LIVE #20 Recording - MEMBER CRITIQUE

Sep 22 – LIVE #39 Series & Intentions w/guests Sorrentino and Mascarenhas

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