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Toscana Americana Workshops
presents
Visual Journaling
in Tuscany
with Artist/Instructor
Nancy R Wolfe
Cortona, Italy April 18-25, 2009
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Left: "Venice"
Above: "Mike's Steel Table"
Right: "She Takes a Walk"
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Meet Nancy R. Wolfe
When she was a child, Nancy overheard her mother tell a neighbor that she had the worst handwriting of all of her kids (there were 3).This memory has remained with her forever because she still writes in her visual journals and on her paintings trying to make it not so.
Nancy always has had a passion for poetry and literature. She is seduced by its ‘color’ and richness and her work always has this narrative connection with visual content. Presently, she has been working on her own poetry and planning a visual installation for a group exhibit in February, 2008
She encourage her students to honor the “ordinary” that surrounds them each day and takes the time to make a connection to a simple sound like coffee being poured into a cup or the pattern that can be created by a tea bag on paper and how we can express this through our individual sense of art making.
Nancy is a painter/educator who exhibits her paintings at various galleries and art festivals throughout the United States. She teaches in her studio and at community organizations. Nancy received her M.F.A. in Painting in 1994, and is a lecturer in Art at Eastern Michigan University,Ypsilanti, MI and teaches this workshop for EMU’s Art Department and at Wayne State University’s Art Therapy Program in Detroit, Michigan. She has taught painting at University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, and Adrian College, Adrian, MI.
Nancy has worked in photography for 22 years and published a quarterly journal called Photoworks during the 1980’s.
Nancy’s visual journal project on memory is being included in the publication of Where do the Children Play? A study guide to the Film Edited by Elizabeth Goodenough; Elizabeth Goodenough has taught English and American Literature since 1976 at Harvard University, Claremont McKenna College and the University of Michigan.
Pending: Public Art 9/11 Memorial Sculpture, UM Shapiro Library
By Jens Zorn, Sculptor, inscribed poem by Nancy Wolfe
“It truly was one of my favorite classes. I like the approaches you took – the simple things get looked over in grad school…like stopping to listen to sounds. Very simple but can be a profound experience in our fast-paced lives. I guess what I am trying to say is that I got much more out of a week long (2) class than a 2- semester independent study in Graphic Design.”
Todd Marsee
M.F.A. Watercolor
“The course met my expectations in all ways and perhaps surpassed them. I was expected to be challenged and I was. I hoped for a dynamic, fluid, caring teacher whose own work had integrity and depth and whose pedagogy was student centered and shaped. That was also true. I expected to find visual ways of expressing myself and ideas—that too happened!!”
Martha Petry Joyce
Asst. Professor, Language, Literature and Arts Dept.
Jackson Community College
“I came to class with no expectations except to learn and that was quickly accomplished. This class opened my eyes to many new methods and approaches for creating art. I am so happy to have learned visual journaling. I will be able to use it all the time.”
Christina Gibbs
Undergraduate freshman
“It was helpful to get different viewpoints and sort out and formulate directions for projects. It helped me a great deal. Ideas bubbled up!” I enjoyed being here, like nothing I’ve ever experienced before, making fast decisions on work, work that took thought and evolution of the thought process through many phases. I feel I have good ‘craft’, but the exploration of various art media and ideas were very exciting. The freedom you allowed us was the catalyst for the flow of work from myself. This class will stay with me for a very long time.
Dayna Rae Brooks
Graduating student
“The course went beyond my expectations. It helped me to begin formulating my own style for journaling. It started the creative process flowing for me again and I feel I have created something precious. I’ll keep it up.”
Rani Buenting
*Handwritten copies from workshop participants are available upon request.
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