Connecting with Wood – Paul Bowen

October 12-13, 2008
Two-day workshop, limited to 12 participants
Tuition: $300
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Paul will lead this intensive workshop that is open to both beginners and those who are experienced in other media. Learn to build structures ranging from the miniature to monolithic by using scrap wood with simple and safe techniques. Whether with electric or hand-tools, abstract or figurative methods, students will explore a range of possibilities of sculpture in wood construction. There will be time for demonstrations and discussion about the issues of sculpture in our time. Tools and materials will be supplied but may be augmented by the student if they wish.

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Originally from Wales, Paul moved to Williamsville, Vermont from Cape Cod last year and has taught sculpture and drawing for 30 years. Recently Paul was Artist-in-Residence at Dartmouth College. His sculptures have been exhibited widely and are in numerous public and private collections including those at the DeCordova Museum and Sculpture Park in Lincoln, MA, the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis, the Hood Museum in Hanover, and the Guggenheim Museum in New York. The recipient of awards such as a Sculpture Fellowship from the New England Foundation for the Arts and a grant from the Pollock-Krasner Foundation, some of Bowen's sculptural commissions are permanently installed at the Cape Museum of Art, Smith College, and a site overlooking Tokyo Harbor.