Discordian Accordion (Book Housed in a Box)

Dates to be Announced

Full Day Class (6 Hours): Learn unorthodox methods of construction from master artist and create a contemporary work of art. Students are encouraged to delve into their interior world as a path to creative self-discovery. Explore the symbol of the House as a metaphor for the self.  These symbolic portraits will address the interplay of juxtaposing color, pattern and text using an accordion book design, housed in an easily constructed box. Students will learn from this workshop: how to build an Accordian Book Housed in a Box, Students will explore visually sensual and intriguing materials like asphaltum tar, gold leaf, beeswax with blended color pigment. Learn hand-sewn construction and binding techniques using tar- paper. Demonstrations will include a variety of experimental mix media techniques taken one step further, adding sculptural plains with glues while developing interesting surface treatments; use photo transfer and tissue collage to build up more detail in a larger book.

Grgich is a well-known portrait and book painter who generously shares her methods and magic. Integrate a intuitive approach by incorporating; drawing, composition, collage, and mixed-media sculpture. Throughout class Grgich will provide demonstrations and one on one help with composition and construction.

To Bring Materials List for Discordian Accordion: Acrylic or gouache paint, Lettering stamps and stickers, Paint brushes, PVA glue, gel-medium, Tapestry needle, Spool of embroidery thread, Exact-o knife, Straight edge ruler with cork back, Scissors, Black Sharpie Pen, Pre-selected minimal collage, photos, ephemera. (Heat gun optional)

$75  Full Day-Kit $15 Fee for Discordian Accordion: Hand bound book cover, Tar paper, Tar / Asphaltum, Gold leaf, Old text from books for collage, Metallic embossing powder, Baby Oil, Paper towels, Sculpty, Transfers, Tissue Collage, Gold Leaf.

Ask about arranging about private or group classes and get a 25% discount!

3 Students Minimum 

8 Students Maximum (discount does not include kit fee)

See descriptions below and set up your class (prices may vary)

Discordian-Accordion: Book Housed in a Box

Painterly Portrait Books

Puzzled

Opulent Goddess Book

Layers of Chimera

For more information: 
 annemariegrgich@gmail.com

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Currently I am teaching private and groups classes in Portland Oregon.
annemariegrgich@gmail.com to arrange classes.

Painterly Portrait Books

Grgich is a life-long book artist and portrait painter, internationally known for her faces and passionate raw art developed over the last 26 years. In this intensive class you will transform a book into a visual journal of personality and autobiography with the use of collage and paint. Anne inspires with a wide range of artistic techniques and shares her secrets providing demonstrations throughout the day in a positive atmosphere with intuitive painting assistance. Learn how to unify collage in a lively day of creating and absorbing methods to achieve Grgich's detailed ancient feel in your own work. Spend a day with Grgich, and take home a new approach to painting and seeing. Get inspired to work more freely and have your art passion awakened by the constant creative energy of the class, they will learn how to paint with coffee, beeswax, acrylics, and get the various painting surfaces of Anne Grgich’s richly painted books, you will leave with one book well on its way to being complete.

Anne Marie Grgich is a life-long self-taught artist and teacher. She first started showing her work in 1981 with invitations to teach in schools by 1983. Years ago Anne was contacted by Teesha Moore and has been teaching at various art retreats ever since. Grgich had her first museum show in 1987 and continues to be invited to exhibitions and teach at Colleges and Universities more frequently. Anne recently held a residency at  Sydney College of Art, Sydney AU. Anne Grgich was delighted to receive a paid collaborative residency at Pottery Northwest at the Seattle Center in Seattle Washington.

Anne Grgich Collage Portraiture

Learn about Anne's techniques and create your own portraits of soul-composing landscapes and faces with collage and ephemera to build form with color, layering and under painting. Anne demonstrates how she gets her deep jewel-like effects. Students will create two portraits and will experience hands on and individual time with teacher throughout the day. Anne offers an amazing learning experience wherein she shares her own passionate process and infects you with it along the way. Anne Grgich gives an inspiring slide show and describes her background and influences that combine to create her unique style of painting.

"Puzzled"

Paint with puzzle and cutouts to build colorful abstract forms and sculptural structures and on hand psychedelic stenciling overlay. The layers will reveal your own textural substructures with concentrated artful delights. Chaos meets structure, the puzzle grid teaches you how to play and express yourself with brush and form in a vitreous mosaic. Grgich will give demos of her puzzle painting techniques and bring examples to share and provide you with a playful creative guidance.

The Opulent Goddess Book

Learn rudimentary approaches to book building. For beginners who want to make their own illuminating and embellished portraits without allot of fuss. “The Opulent Goddess Book" will be constructed of two gold picture frames and simple materials. Grgich assists in creating page by page Goddesses to embellish.

 

OP-U-LENT:

Possessing or exhibiting great wealth; affluent, characterized by rich abundance; luxuriant.

Layers of Chimera

The Layers of Chimera

Learn the secret art of chimera layering with paper, transforming imagery by bleeding inks, gels and glazes. Anne offers a slide show of relevant works and guides students with one on one attention throughout the day. The final product will be aged and beautiful with a wax-free encaustic-like surface.

Find out more
about this class that I offer in a studio in the Carriage House Studios, located near downtown in NE Portland.

SELECTED TEACHING EXPERIENCE
2011
The Carriage House Studios, Portland Oregon
2010

Art Intensives with Anne Grgich, Portland, Oregon

Pottery Northwest Residency, Seattle, Washington

2009

Residency at Sydney College of Art, Sydney AU, Callan Park Art Studio

2008-2006

Art Unraveled, Phoenix, Arizona

Art and Soul, Richmond, Vermont

AOT Gallery, Port Townsend, WA

Art House Gallery, Nashville, TN

Art Unraveled, Phoenix, AZ

AVAM, American Visionary Art Museum, Discordian Accordian, Landscapes of Mind. Baltimore, MD.

The Queens Ink, Pop Art Rose, Landscapes of Mind, Savage, Baltimore

Arts Corps, Seattle Urban Academy, Spruce St. “The Studio” , The Frye Art Museum, Spring and Summer, Seattle, Washington

Art Fest, Port Townsend, WA

Art Unraveled, Phoenix Arizona

Innerstandings, Landscapes of Mind, Portland Oregon

Art & Soul, Fall Art Retreat, Portland, Oregon

2005

Art & Soul, Hampton, Virginia

Art Werx, Vancouver BC

Arts Corps, Seahurst Elementary, Burien, Washington

Art Fest, Port Townsend, WA

Art Unraveled, Phoenix, AZ

Art Intensive, 8 Weeks, Seattle, WA-Private Lessons

2004

Art Unraveled, 3 days, Phoenix, AZ

Art Fest, Port Townsend, WA

The Queen Anne Toddler Art Society, Seattle, WA

Sand Point Way/Magnuson Naval Station, Seattle, WA Teen Art Project

2003-2000

Sand Point Way/Magnuson Naval Station Teen Art Project: Book Painting Project/Technography

Seattle Center High Seattle, WA Summer Mentor Teen Book Arts w/ L. Atkinson

Green Bay University, Green Bay, WI Artist Lecture, Book Making Workshop

Ballard High School, Seattle, WA Poetry Book Design, Sponsored by Art Reach

St.George Elementary, Seattle, WA Painting and Book Making

Crest Learning Center, Mercer Is, WA MM & Book Arts Instructor

MADD, Youth Conference, Nashville, TN Directing Teen Mural Painting

Art Reach, Class Planning, Seattle, WA Mixed Media & Book Arts Instructor

Orion, High School Painting, Seattle, WA MM & Book Arts Instructor

1996

Seafirst Gallery, Seattle, WA, Art Exhibit-Book Art, House Project, Workshop and Sea First Gallery Exhibition “AWay to Say, Youth Art Exchanges”, sponsored by Pacific Arts Center & Sea First Bank

1984 San Francisco City College, San Francisco, CA Lecture in Humanities

1983 Metropolitan Learning Center, Portland, OR Quilt Project and Collage Instruction, studio visit of the production of “Random Phenomena” magazine.

"Grgich is one of the most original and innovative of the group of American artists known as Outsiders. Completely self-taught, and on the cover story of Raw Vision Magazine (#22), she became known for her one-of-a-kind books filled with page after page of impassioned, expressionistic faces and figures. Grgich often employs collage and vigorously applies layer after layer of over-painting, covering found texts and images, yet allowing some of the underneath to remain visible. This layering suggests generations of mystery and mystique to her exotic characters." -Phil Demise-Smith, Gallery A Studio

Teaching and Residency Links:

Art House Gallery, Nashville, TN

American Visionary Art Museum, Baltimore, MD

The Queens Ink, Savage, Maryland

Arts Corps, Seattle, WA

The Frye Art Museum, Seattle, Washington

Art & Soul, Art Retreats

Art Unraveled, Phoenix, AZ

Art Fest, Port Townsend, WA

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