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Helga Watkins: What is a Good Painting?
Fri September 26, 2025 @ 10:00 am – 12:00 pm
Cost: $20
Minimum of 8 / Maximum of 14 / All ability levels
We will survey the work of artists, historians and theorists, and examine intriguing and unresolved debates about the nature of art and the question of what makes a given work of art good (or not). Although a vast subject, this intensive mini-seminar will point to the larger historical and cultural context for making art, and on a more personal level, can help inform and clarify your own aesthetic and philosophical position as an artist.
To a plein air landscape artist, contemporary art theory may appear an arcane and irrelevant topic (at best) or at worst, an antithetical agenda that if engaged with threatens to drain the very life out of art making. This mini-seminar will combine presentations and discussions to demystify some important concepts in art theory.
Helga Watkins has had a wide-ranging career in graphic, environmental and experiential design, as well as higher education. She recently retired from her professorship at the University of Las Vegas Nevada where she founded the graphic design Graphic Design and Media degree program and taught in the Entertainment Engineering and Design program.
Helga works and paints from her fabrication shop and studio in Kanab, Utah.
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