Creative retreats, painting vacations & art getaways
Lisa Pressman
May 4 - 9, 2025
What If Retreat
Medium: Mixed Media
Level: All Levels
Location: Studio
Status: Open for Enrollment
Deposit is $450, balance due 30 days before arrival
Day Student Tuition: $1144 + Materials fee
Inn-Stay Package*: $2,380 - $3,220 + Materials fee
*Your Inn-Stay Retreat Package includes:
Workshop Tuition, lodging, dinner 2 nights (welcome and farewell), breakfast and lunch each day, daily snack breaks, unlimited coffee, tea & seltzer.
For your independent dinners, there are many restaurants with a wide variety of cuisines and price points, within comfortable walking distance of the Inn, plus Whole Foods Market and Trader Joe’s.
Click here for Sample Daily Agenda.
You can choose a room to yourself (single occupancy) or double your fun, bring a friend and split a room (double occupancy).
To learn more about your options or to register, click the Register button.
Rates & Enrollment
About This Workshop
A mixed media workshop discovering your language though materials, process and observation.
This workshop is based on demonstrations of a variety of materials, prompts and exercises to get to the core of personal meaning. The focus is on exploration, intuition, and pushing out of your comfort zone. Directives include formal elements such as line, shape, space, color, and composition with fast-paced timing based on discovery rather than finished products. Techniques will focus on markmaking, layering, collaging, excavating, combining materials, and more. Some of the materials we will be using include: dirt, coffee, natural materials, inks, acrylic mediums and paint plus cold wax and R&F Pigment Sticks©
Participants will create many small works to let go of the "precious" mentality. Freedom of expression is emphasized!
Participants will not only develop their technical skills but also gain a deeper understanding of their artistic style and voice. By immersing themselves in the making process and consistently producing pieces, artists will have the opportunity to reflect on their work, identify patterns, and uncover recurring themes. This self-exploration and reflection are invaluable in helping artists to refine their artistic vision, and ultimately, find their unique visual language that sets them apart as creators.
About Lisa Pressman
Lisa Pressman’s artistic career is marked by exploration: testing the boundaries of the expressive potential latent in a variety of mediums, among them oil, encaustic, cold wax, and mixed-media collage. Her work is abstract, conceptually based, and process driven. Lisa’s artworks feature marks, forms, colors and patterns that are evocative rather than overt.
Lisa received her BA, Fine Art from Douglass College from Rutgers University, and her MFA in Painting from Bard College. She has been painting for over 40 years. Lisa has exhibited regionally and nationally in solo and group exhibitions at spaces such as the Cape Cod Museum of Art, (Dennis MA) The Holter Museum of Art (Helena, MT,) and Hunterdon Art Museum (Clinton, NJ ) and her work is held in numerous private and public collections. Her work is represented by Susan Eley Fine Arts (New York, NY,) Addington Gallery (Chicago, IL) The artist has had two solo exhibitions in New York City at Susan Eley Fine Art in NYC 2022 and at The Painting Center, NY, NY 2023.
A highly respected arts educator, Lisa maintains a vigorous teaching program. She worked on the faculty of the former Art Institute of NY and served as a visiting professor at Pratt Institute and other universities. She has taught workshops in France, Mexico, Italy and the US . Lisa is renowned for her knowledge of encaustic, cold wax processes, concept-based courses, and she presents annually at the International Encaustic Conference in Provincetown, MA and is also a Core instructor for R&F Handmade Paints.
Her specialty centers around everyone’s needs, with focused attention paid to visual editing and critique. Lisa provides personal, one-on-one teaching time to students so to discuss their specific questions and what is happening in their work in a meaningful and personal way!
Materials
Sample Agenda
Will I receive a confirmation in the email?
You will receive an email confirmation and, as time gets closer, more email full of info and goodies.
Here is the payment schedule:
$450 deposit is due at the time of registration.
Remaining balance is due 30 days before your retreat start date
Pay in Full at time of registration and save $100
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