Saturday and Sunday, June 6 & 7; 10am to 4pm

Instructor: Mira White

If you are an artist who is passionate about working with the figure, you will love this workshop. Designed for continuing and advanced artists, you will explore expressing the figure in a way that expresses intuitive and personal vision - visual storytelling with the figure as the main protagonist.

You will bring figure sketches and studies to use as references for this experimental approach to contemporary figure work that utilizes collage and multiple mixed media. Each class will begin with warm-up exercises that delve in to moods, atmosphere, and symbols.

This is a workshop devoted to expressing feelings about our humanity, its current predicaments, and its joys. It will enrich and expand your personal practice with a combination of exercises, discussions, and very focused time to paint your subjective vision.

Mira M. White is a professional artist and teacher who received a B.F.A. with High Distinction, and an M.F.A. with Distinction from California College of the Arts. Mira has worked primarily in independent art centers for over 40 years. She conducts multimedia workshops throughout the U.S. and Europe. Her arsenal of materials has expanded over the years, and her range of media includes all aspects of drawing, oils, watercolor, collage, and encaustic. Most of her current work would have to be called narrative abstraction, as she is currently melding her previous predilection for representation with a love for mark making and abstraction.

Website: www.miraMwhite.com

Fee: MarinMOCA Members: $255; Non-members $300

Materials List: Please see Materials List below

Additional Materials Fee: $10 to be paid directly to the instructor

Where: Marin Museum of Contemporary Art; 1210 Fifth Avenue, San Rafael (at B Street)