CRISTINA CÓRDOVA | 5-Day Virtual Live Course: Full Standing Figure | Oct 8-12 Nov 8th – 10, 2024

CRISTINA CÓRDOVA | 5-Day Virtual Live Course: Full Standing Figure

 

October 9-12 (Wednesday-Saturday) and November 10, 2024 (SUNDAY)

10 am – 2 pm / All levels

Limited spaces available

ABOUT THE EVENT


I am excited to share this new cycle of my classic full-figure program. Throughout 4 days of live demonstrations and daily feedback reinforced by prerecorded material, students will create a clay figure out of slabs using a simple armature and patterns.

Students will then work independently throughout the rest of the month with ongoing e-mail support before reconvening for an online show and tell.

The full set of videos is yours to keep forever. All patterns and diagrams will be available to download through 2024. All live demos will be pre-recorded if you can’t make the class.

What you’ll get: encouragement, guidance and accountability

  • You will receive a virtual kit with scaled photographic views, patterns for the entire body, additional references, and diagrams to support your sculpting for three different female figures.
  • More than 25 concise, pre-recorded video tutorials on the entire figure to reinforce live demonstrations, yours to keep forever.
  • 14 hours of live demonstrations and co-sculpting via Zoom (Wednesday-Saturday)
  • Daily personalized feedback from Cristina on your progress to troubleshoot and answer any questions.
  • Additional feedback via photos (see below) during the independent work period (October 12- November 10).

How this will work

Upon enrollment, you will have access to a list of tools and supplies needed to build your armature, prepare your patterns and references and get ready for the first day of class.

Although we include tiled versions of the reference posters we recommend taking the references folder to your local print shop to have the posters printed in large format printers without the need for tiling. Use the measurement keys in each image to make sure all are printed at the right size!

*Tiled images are PDF documents that break down a large image into standard printer size units, allowing you to print and puzzle them together at home.

BONUS MATERIAL!

In addition to the original set of patterns for Figure A (see right), I will be offering patterns and reference materials to sculpt 2 additional models (B & C). All of these are yours to keep and try as you grasp the technique. Please note that although the pre-recorded material and written instructions reflect the construction of different (yet similar) standing figure the techniques and construction protocols are exactly the same for the development of all the figures utilizing the different sets of patterns and photographic references.

I will be demonstrating the construction of FIGURE C throughout our live Zoom meetings. You are free to sculpt and receive live feedback on any of the three model options you choose to work on throughout our time together.

MORE ON CRISTINA CÓRDOVA


Puerto Rican, b. 1976, Boston, MA
lives and works in Penland, NC

Native to Puerto Rico, Cristina Córdova creates figurative compositions that explore the boundary between the materiality of an object and our involuntary dialogues with the self-referential. Images captured through the lens of a Latin American upbringing question socio-cultural notions of gender, race, beauty, and power.  Córdova has received numerous grants including the North Carolina Arts Council Fellowship Grant, a Virginia Groot Foundation Recognition Grant, several International Association of Art Critics of Puerto Rico awards, and a prestigious United States Artist Fellowship award in 2015.

Córdova has had solo exhibitions at the Alfred Ceramic Art Museum, (Alfred, NY), and her work is included in the collections of the Renwick Gallery of the Smithsonian American Art Museum, (Washington, DC), Colección Acosta de San Juan Puerto Rico, (San Juan, PR), the Mint Museum of Craft + Design, (Charlotte, NC), and Museum of Contemporary Art, (San Juan, PR). In 1998, Córdova completed her BA at the University of Puerto Rico, and she received her MFA from the New York State College of Ceramics at Alfred University in 2002. Córdova is represented by Ferrin Contemporary.