Update 10/19/09: I have a new Personal Portfolio & Teaching Portfolio Blog up now: http://rebeccakimmel.blogspot.com/ - Please visit my new blog to see my work and my students' work, since my website Gallery is down.
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Update 2/14/09: Great news! The first of my privately tutored high school students to graduate from Mahanaim Art was accepted to her first choice art college and received $40,000 in scholarship money! She later received an additional $8,000 per year in additional scholarship based on her portfolio.Big congrats to Ms. A!!
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Update 4/1/09:
In Fall 2009, I will be teaching a Figure Drawing Workshop at Otis College of Art on Thursdays from 3:45 - 6:45 PM.
Update 3/24/09:
I will be back to teach at Irvine Valley College in Summer 2009:
Summer 2009:
At Irvine Valley College, I will be teaching Life Drawing:
Though these are listed as 2 separate classes, they are essentially the same class, and meet at the same place and time:
ART 85 - LIFE DRAWING I
ART 86 - ADVANCED LIFE DRAWING
Day/Time: Mon Tues Wed Th - 9:00AM - 12:55
6 weeks (5/26/2009 - 7/5/2009)
Location: B 320
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This is my tentative upcoming Summer 2009 Teaching Schedule for the Brentwood Art Center in Brentwood, CA:
Course start dates and status depend on enrollment, so if you are interested in enrolling, please contact the Brentwood Art Center:
Contact Info. for Brentwood Art Center:
13031 Montana Avenue at 26th Street
Los Angeles, CA 90049-4891
TEL 310 | 451—5657
FAX 310 | 458—9009
Tuesdays - all day
10am - 1pm, Beg/Int, PAINTING FUNDAMENTALS, acrylic only
2-5pm, TEEN, NON-NUDE FIGURE DRAWING
7-10pm, PAINTING, ALL LEVELS (same as current class)
Wednesdays
7-10pm, PORTRAIT & FIGURE PAINTING
Thursdays
2-5pm, INTRO TO ART-MAKING: PAINTING, FIRST 5 weeks only, 7/2 - 7/30
Saturdays
10am-1pm, INTRO TO ART-MAKING: MIXED MEDIA, first 4 weeks only, 6/27 - 7/25 (closed July 4)
10am-1pm, INTRO TO FIGURE DRAWING: MASTER COPIES, last 5 weeks only, 8/1 - 8/29
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Teaching Updates for Winter, Spring and Summer 2009:
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New!
I will continue to teach at Brentwood Art Center in Winter and Spring 2009:
Brentwood Art Center's Winter / Spring 2009 Calendar:
Continuing Classes: September 15, 2008 - June 20, 2009
Winter Semester (Session classes): January 10 - April 4, 2009
Spring Semester (Session classes): April 18 - June 20, 2009
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TUESDAYS
Painting Fundamentals combined with Painting, All Levels
continuing month-to-month, 7-10pm, resumes 1/13, ends on 6/16, Teen/Adult
WEDNESDAYS
Drawing Fundamentals
Spring, 4/22-6/17, 2:30-5:30 pm, 9 weeks
Drawing Fundamentals
Spring, 4/22-6/17, 7-10 pm, Teen/Adult, 9 weeks
SATURDAYS
Beg/Int Figure Drawing
10am-1pm, continuing month-to-month, resumes 1/10/09, ends on 6/20/09, Teen/Adult - same as current class
Intro to Art-Making: Drawing in Color
2-5 pm, 4 weeks, 4/25-5/16, Teen/Adult
Please see Brentwood's website for more details on these classes:
Winter / Spring: Teen Classes at Brentwood Art Center
Winter / Spring: Adult Classes at Brentwood Art Center
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***COURSES ABOVE THIS POINT ARE CURRENT / FUTURE.
***COURSES BELOW THIS POINT ARE CLOSED / PAST:
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I will continue to teach at Otis College of Art in Spring 2009.
Foundation Life Drawing
Mondays (course is open to full time Otis students only) - 8:00 am - 3:00 pm
Monday, January 12 - Tuesday, May 5
Drawing The Fantastic
Thursdays - 3:45 - 6:45 pm
(As of 7/16/08):
At Otis College of Art, I will be teaching Life Drawing in their Foundation Department on Mondays, in Fall 2008.
New! (As of 5/2/08)
At Otis College of Art, I will be training to teach Life Drawing in their Foundation Department on Tuesdays, in Fall 2008.
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Other News:
July 2008: My article discussing the Open Figure Drawing Workshops that I run appeared in ImagineFX magazine. Check out the article here!
May 2008: At the end of this month, I will have been back in Los Angeles for one year. Woo!
May 2007: Moved back to Los Angeles, California to start teaching.
May 2007: Invited to exhibit digital paintings in the show “Sumus Vicinae”, an invitational group show of international artists to be held in Paris, France.
April 2006: Invited to write 2 cover related articles for ImagineFX magazine, leading digital arts publication.
March 2006: Invited to write cover related article for ImagineFX magazine, leading digital arts publication.
March 2006: Invited to join the BETA testing team for the popular digital sculpting software, ZBrush 3.0.
December 2006: MFA Thesis Show, Palimpsest, my exhibition of large format figurative digital paintings, ran in the George Mason University Fine Arts Building Fine Arts Gallery from Dec. 12 – Dec. 19. Please see www.rebeccakimmel.com for images and pictures from the show.
November 2006: Animations featured and published in the book, Live Movies: A Field Guide to New Media For The Performing Arts. Malone, Kirby and Gail Scott White, eds. Fairfax: Multimedia Performance Studio Press, 2006.
October 2006: Launched www.foundationalarts.com, a joint personal website / forum dedicated to the foundations of figurative art with friend Joel Carlo.
October 2006: Featured in ImagineFX Magazine’s “Artist Insight” section.
October 2006: Granted permission to write 2 articles about the Anatomy Forum for IT’S ART MAGAZINE for its upcoming edition.
August 2006: Interviewed for IT’S ART MAGAZINE for its upcoming edition.
August 2006: Mentioned in ImagineFX Magazine in article about Anatomy for Beginning Artists. The work I do for the Open Figure Drawing Workshops on the Anatomy Forum was mentioned by the article writer, who developed his digital art style through my free online Workshops.
July 2006: Featured in IT'S ART MAGAZINE #0005 - One Year Anniversary Edition
Work and bio presented in new online (French and English) magazine.
May 2006: Pixologic ZBrush (maker of digital sculpting software) agreed to sponsor one free student for my CGWorkshop.
May 2006: Featured on the website CGBrainchild
Work featured on new website dedicated to computer graphics and visual art.
December 2005: Received BOXX Sponsorship
For projects relating to the Anatomy Forum, I received as part of a BOXX Sponsorship a free BOXX Workstation at a value of over $3,000.
December 2005: My article on drawing, “Drawing Lessons: Opposing Curves (Nudity)” was published online by the CGSociety. It has enjoyed immense popularity and has been referenced on numerous international websites. |
