The Bigger Picture with Leslie Baum

Concept

Leave your expensive art supplies at home and discover how making with humble materials inspires big moves, creative play, and experimentation in this immersive five-day workshop.

Experience

Scaling up can be expensive and intimidating and it also requires a big studio space. Don't let these challenges stop you from engaging in the essential play that pushes your art practice forward. In PenArt's spacious studio, embrace the creative freedom and experimentation that working with student grade acrylic paint, inks, and rolls of kraft paper unleashes. Engage in a generative making process that includes painting, drawing, and collage. Spread out across tables and cover the floor and walls with your work. Get loose! Be bold! Take up space! Find inspiration from the natural beauty of Door County, presentations and discussions of contemporary artists, and the work of your classmates. Discover how working on a larger scale connects us with our body and reminds us that making is fun.

Skill Level

Open to students of all levels working in any drawing or painting media; beginners to advanced.

Instructor

Leslie Baum is a Chicago-based painter whose work is invitational in nature. Her painting practice is informed by her long tenure as museum educator at the Art Institute of Chicago. Leslie received her BA from the University of Vermont and studied abroad at the Glasgow School of Art. She has exhibited nationally and internationally with exhibitions in New York, San Francisco, Portland, Mexico City, Rome, and South Korea. Her drawings and paintings are in permanent collections of the Chicago Art institute and the Elmhurst Art Museum. Her work has been reviewed extensively, including in Artforum, Art in America, Hyperallergic, New City, and the Chicago Tribune. She has received residencies at Watershed Center for Ceramic Arts, the Nido project in Monte Castello di Vibio Italy, Yaddo and the Vermont Studio Center. A 2020 DCASE grant funded the pleinairarchive.com - a site documenting her ongoing painting social practice. She was recently named one of Chicago’s Art 50 by New city magazine.