Joel Janowitz

Your Bridge Across We are so pleased to welcome Joel Janowitz to our summer series with his workshop "Painting Light: A Watercolor Workshop". Joel Janowitz received his undergraduate degree from Brandeis University, and his MFA in Painting from the University of California, Santa Barbara. He taught at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston from 1994-2000, at Wellesley College from 2003-2010, and at the Mass College of Art/low residency MFA program from 2006-2010. In 2008 he received his third individual Artist’s Fellowship from the state of MA. Earlier in his career he twice received artist’s grants from the National Endowment for the Arts. Joel Janowitz has exhibited both nationally and internationally. His work has been collected by numerous museums including the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Minneapolis Institute of Art, the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, and the Fogg Museum, Harvard. In 2011 he showed a new series of paintings at Victoria Munroe Fine Art, Boston. In 2010 his work was included at Changing Soil : Contemporary Landscape Painting at the Nagoya/Boston Museum of Fine Arts in Nagoya, Japan.

“In this workshop we will explore watercolor’s remarkable ability to convey the experience of form, space and especially, light. Students will also gain a stronger understanding of color through specific exercises and class demonstrations. Each day will offer a particular emphasis for that day. "Painting Light: A Watercolor Workshop" is intended both for students new to watercolor and for those more experienced with the medium. Good drawing skills will be helpful. This class will paint primarily out of doors, focusing on the visual richness of the sea, sky, land and architecture that surrounds us at Rock Gardens Inn. In addition we will have one or two sessions working with a model.”