Portrait Drawing - The 92nd Street Y, New York
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Portrait Drawing

Learn about anatomy, proportion, line and value by working from quick studies and longer poses.

Working from live models you will develop your ability to capture the model’s features and personality; then move onto drawing your friends and family.

Prerequisite: Drawing for Beginners.

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This program is part of the Gilda and Henry Block School of the Arts.
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Thu, Sep 19, 2024 - Thu, Dec 19, 2024
1 pm - 3:30 pm ET

  • Price: from $725.00
  • Instructor: Nancy Johnson
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Nancy Johnson

Nancy Johnson

Nancy Johnson received her BFA from the University of Massachusetts and her MFA from Yale University. While attending the University of Massachusetts, Nancy Johnson was awarded a grant from the Ford Foundation for her outstanding undergraduate work, and a Strathmore Paper Award for her excellence in drawing. After receiving her MFA degree, Nancy taught painting and drawing at several institutions including Mount Wachusett Community College, Westfield State College, and the University of Massachusetts at Amherst. As an adjunct at the University of Massachusetts, Nancy participated in launchi ...

Nancy Johnson

Nancy Johnson

Nancy Johnson received her BFA from the University of Massachusetts and her MFA from Yale University. While attending the University of Massachusetts, Nancy Johnson was awarded a grant from the Ford Foundation for her outstanding undergraduate work, and a Strathmore Paper Award for her excellence in drawing. After receiving her MFA degree, Nancy taught painting and drawing at several institutions including Mount Wachusett Community College, Westfield State College, and the University of Massachusetts at Amherst. As an adjunct at the University of Massachusetts, Nancy participated in launching the first Summer Abroad Program in La Napoule, France and Brugge, Belgium where she and her colleagues instructed a group of 35 BFA students in painting and drawing. She has nearly 30 years of experience in art education and has taught adult classes and workshops at 92Y since 2002.

Nancy’s work ranges from paintings of the still life, and portrait to works based in the abstract expressionist tradition. Her work was exhibited as part of the Group Shows 4 Women Painters, at Anderson University, Posers and Rockers Show at the Brooklyn Artist Gym, and Metro 26 Show in Newark NJ, and in solo exhibitions at 510 Warren Street Gallery in Hudson, NY and The Bleecker Street Gallery in Manhattan. Her most recent paintings were shown in solo exhibitions at Wagner Gallery in Staten Island, and at Hampden Gallery in Amherst, MA. Nancy is a painter living and working on Staten Island, NY.

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