There is no better time than today to begin documenting your art collection and legacy!

Take this first step and you will sleep better knowing your life’s work, the art you’ve been creating, or collecting for years, is catalogued, valued and protected. This course will guide you to develop a practice that can assist you daily in keeping an organized catalogue of your collections. You will take away a comprehensive plan to move forward with the tools to protect your assets, document your collectibles, and be prepared for unforeseen events. This is a one day hands on workshop with a seasoned arts advisor, avid collector, and art appraiser who draws on her own experiences to share why this is so vitally important. Think of this course as a gift to your future self and the ones you love.

Art, Civic Identity, and the Making of the Gates of Paradise

The fifty years Ghiberti spent forging the Baptistery doors stand as a testament to the love and devotion he felt for Florence, where civic pride found its truest expression in the patient beautification of the city itself. This lecture considers the moment the craftsman became an intellectual, witnessed in two self-portraits Ghiberti set into the Baptistery doors of Florence. In the first, the young Ghiberti presents himself as a man of the workshop, the turban of a goldsmith shielding him from dust, heat, and noise, while in his later portrait he appears as a thinker who had mastered perspective and his knowledge of classical antiquity, as reflected in his reliefs.

A 3-day workshop in which participants will have the opportunity to explore planning pictures that hold the viewer's attention.

This listing is for the lecture/demo only. See also: Composition for Visual Impact (Full Workshop)