TAKE A MASTER CLASS
Pastel Drawing with Chung-Fan Chang
Date Tuesday, August 25; 10:00am -12:00pm
Fee $60 + $15 materials fee
In this Master Class, participants will explore the art of color, texture, and light—learning how to blend, layer, and manipulate pastels to create rich, expressive works of art. Participants will also learn traditional techniques and methods to improve their drawing skills, and may bring their own reference images for inspiration. Designed for all skill levels, this class focuses on working with light to middle value paper while unlocking the full potential of soft pastels.
Date Tuesday, August 25; 10:00am -12:00pm
Fee $60 + $15 materials fee
In this Master Class, participants will explore the art of color, texture, and light—learning how to blend, layer, and manipulate pastels to create rich, expressive works of art. Participants will also learn traditional techniques and methods to improve their drawing skills, and may bring their own reference images for inspiration. Designed for all skill levels, this class focuses on working with light to middle value paper while unlocking the full potential of soft pastels.
BIO
Born in Taipei, Taiwan, Chung-Fan Chang’s work explores her Taiwanese and Chinese heritage, displacement and Eastern aesthetic through painting, works on paper, video, and wall installation. Chung-Fan Chang was the recipient of the 2022 Individual Artist Fellowship from the New Jersey State Council on the Arts; 2013-14 Visual Arts Fellow of the Mississippi Arts Commission. Her “Kite” series of work has been exhibited in galleries and museums nationally and internationally. Selected solo and group exhibitions include the Kite XIII: Emarginate (2024) at the Monmouth Museum in Morristown, NJ; A Building with a View: Experiments in Anarchitecture (2016) at the Contemporary Art Center in New Orleans, LA; the Museum of Contemporary Art of Georgia in Atlanta, GA (2013). Chang’s curatorial project Shifting Momentum – Abstract Art from Taiwan and the Noyes Collection, was exhibited at the Taipei Cultural Center in New York, NY and Noyes Museum of Art in Hammonton, NJ (2018). Chung-Fan Chang holds a BFA from Taipei National University of the Arts, and an MFA from Savannah College of Art and Design. Chang is an Associate Professor of Art at Stockton University in Galloway, New Jersey.