Creative Conversation with Marcy Bernstein
Wed, Aug 23
|Poughkeepsie
Our Guests: Mary Ann Glass, Stacie Flint and Joel Brown. As an artist have you ever wondered what viewers say about your art work when you aren’t there to explain it? As a viewer, have you ever thought, “I know what I like and don’t like, but I cant always explain why!” Let's find out together !
Time & Location
Aug 23, 2023, 6:00 PM – 8:30 PM
Poughkeepsie, 40 Cannon St, Poughkeepsie, NY 12601, USA
About the event
Traditional artist presentations begin with the artist showing the work and discussing their ideas to an audience. When that is complete, the audience is invited to respond.
But what would happen if we flipped the order?
In a Creative Conversation, the artist is silent as a facilitator prompts the viewers to respond to what they see, think and feel and to explore what specific elements in the artwork stimulated their intuitive ideas. Viewers are encouraged to delve deeper into the works of art and start to deconstruct their ideas based on the color, texture, composition, values, subject matter, symbolism. The artist listens quietly as different viewers respond to the work. This process is often very enlightening to the artist as they hear how their work is being received and interpreted on a purely visual level withought the interference of preliminary information or instruction about the work.. Is the artist getting…