Join artist Sisavanh Phouthavong Houghton, whose work is featured in In Her Place: Nashville Artists in the Twenty-First Century, to explore light, form, color, and your own creativity through painting from glitched photographic references.
This workshop is designed to guide and strengthen beginners and advanced students in the fundamentals of oil painting. We will create our own flower-collage glitch images and use them as references to better understand values, edges, and color mixing using oil paints. The class will begin with a review of materials and safe studio practices. The instructor will demonstrate how to create your own glitch image, transfer your image onto canvas, and block in local colors, and introduce simple color theory. The workshop will also cover how to use your phone to gauge value, adjust for temperature, and create a composition.
About Sisavanh Phouthavong Houghton
Sisavanh Phouthavong Houghton is a Lao American interdisciplinary visual artist and painting professor at Middle Tennessee State University. Her work has recently been exhibited internationally in Italy and Greece and in the US at the Frist Art Museum, the Knoxville Museum of Art, and the Susquehanna Art Museum. She has been featured in The New Art Examiner, NPT Arts Break, The Next-Door Neighbor, and Drawing South podcasts. Her work is held in the permanent collections of the Hunter Museum of American Art, the US Embassy in Suriname, and Pinnacle Banks.
Houghton earned her BFA at the University of Kansas and an MFA at Southern Illinois University of Carbondale, IL. In 2024, she won the first MTSU C-USA Faculty Achievement Award and represented MTSU as a finalist for the National C-USA Professor of the Year Award. In 2023, she won Best in Show at the thirty-eighth Positive/Negative Exhibition, and in 2022, she was awarded the Tri-Star Current Art Warhol Foundation Fund and MTSU’s 2022 Distinguished Creative and Teacher of the Year Award. She was nominated for the 2020 Joan Mitchell Foundation Arts Award and a 2019 Artfields Painting Award, and was a 2017 Tennessee Arts Individual Artist Fellowship recipient. She is represented by Tinney Contemporary Gallery in Nashville, TN.
Top image: Sisavanh Phouthavong Houghton. Whispers of Hope #31, 2024. Image courtesy of the artist. © Sisavanh Phouthavong Houghton
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