Spring 2023 SUNY WCC Peekskill Newsletter

SUNY Westchester Peekskill • 27 North Division Street Peekskill NY 10566 • 914-606-7300 Center for the Digital Arts 13 New! Mural-Making for Public Exhibition – 30 Hrs Utilizing a unifying theme inspired by the City of Peekskill’s history, multicultures, and natural environment, students enrolled in this 8-week workshop will collaboratively design, paint, and install large and small-scale murals for public exhibition at the Center for the Digital Arts. Led by NYC artist and cultural activist Alex Rojas, participants will increase their knowledge and understanding about creating meaningful visual art statements that elicit audience interaction. Students will also increase their art skills in 2D design and construction; color selection, mixing, and painting application; and installing art in public places. The murals produced will be displayed in the center upon course conclusion and an artists’ opening reception will be scheduled for the community. CE-ART 2353PE, $350. IN-PERSON Sat., Jan. 21-Mar. 25, 10:00 am-1:00 pm. #20310 Painting and Drawing for Adults Get your ideas out of your sketchbook! Students will enjoy painting in the studio in class and outdoors in an interactive environment. In this class, students will learn from discussion, group critique, and examples of art while honing art skills of observation, gesture, composition, value, color mixing, and brushstroke, etc. The teaching artist demonstrates painting and drawing techniques for portraiture, representing the human form, landscape, and abstraction. CE-ART 2146PE, $277. IN-PERSON Mon., Feb. 6-Apr. 24, 6:30-8:30 pm. #20311 Mixed Media Printmaking for Adults Discover innovative ways to make handmade prints in addition to how technology such as computers and jet printers make printing contemporary. Make a portrait print based on a photograph, drawing from observation, and imagination. The instructor will introduce soft linocut, monotype, stenciling, and how to marbleize paper, to create prints on rice paper and other printmaking papers. CE-ART 2334PE, $311. IN-PERSON Tues., Feb. 7-Mar. 28, 6:30-9:30 pm. #20312 Painting En Plein Air Students will focus on outdoor landscape painting. Various locations throughout the local area will be selected. Rain dates TBA. Focus will be on color mixing, light and shadow, and composition. Students will be informed of the great plein air traditions of the Impressionists and the Hudson River School painters. Various approaches to landscape painting will be introduced, including water-mixable techniques in oil painting. CE-ART 2020PE, $277. OFF-SITE Sat., Mar. 25-May 20 (skip 4/8), 10:00 am-1:00 pm. #20313 Community Arts for Adults Aaron Porter is a graphic artist and illustrator. He graduated from Northern Illinois University with a degree in Scientific Illustration and earned an MFA in painting from the University of Miami. Aaron worked as a staff artist at several newspapers including eight years at The Journal News in White Plains which is what brought him to the area. Prior to moving to New York, he worked as an assistant junior high school English teacher in Japan for three years. Currently he works as a freelance graphic artist. Since 2010 he has taught Adobe Photoshop and Illustrator as well as 2D animation, photography, and digital painting at Bronx Community College and Westchester Community College. He teaches adults, teens, and children. See page 7 for course descriptions. Get Certified in Adobe Photoshop and Adobe Illustrator! Center for the Digital Arts Career Fair 2023! Friday, April 28, 2023, 12:00 – 4:00 p.m. More Details to Come! www.sunywcc.edu/peekskill Register Early to get the classes you want!