Gwen Strahle has been teaching drawing at RISD since 1984 and is a past recipient of the John R. Frazier Award for Excellence in Teaching. She shows her paintings with Zeuxis, an association of still-life painters, and at Lenore Gray Gallery in Providence, and her work has also been exhibited in galleries and museums across the country.
Strahle is the recipient of awards from the Connecticut Artist Fellowship, the Guggenheim Fellowship, the American Academy of Arts and Letters and the Ingram Merrill Foundation.
For the first two weeks class will be held Wednesday through Sunday, then starting the third week classes will take place Monday through Friday. A rigorous investigation of drawing from the model and/or large set-up sprawling across classroom. Deeper contact to the drawing experience through sustained exposure. Opportunity for re-invention, change. Confront problems of drawing, build on strengths. Emphasis on drawing consolidation, concentration, stamina, persistence. Regular critiques, slide talks, RISD museum trips. The goals of this course are to facilitate and maintain a continuous flow of drawing energy and examination. Students will re-examine the way they make drawings, in a progressive drawing environment. Through sustained contact with their drawing/s, students will make personal advancement.
