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CALIFORNIA ART ACADEMY AND MUSEUM
As of April 1997, the registered 501(c)(3) nonprofit corporation, known
as the California Art Academy and Museum (CAAM), was founded under the auspices
of the California Art Club. Currently, CAAM is engaged in a capital campaign
to raise funds for operations and a permanent location that would also serve
as California Art Club headquarters.
Future Plans for CAAM Include:
Tuition-based private academy for traditional training in painting, drawing
and sculpture
- Ongoing workshop series for amateur, intermediate and professional
artists
- Saturday morning children’s art classes
- A public educational museum displaying works by the early California
artists and their European and Asian influences, including the Pasadena
Arroyo Painters. The museum will also feature a collection of contemporary
masters.
A research and archival art library, open to the public, and designed
specifically for the benefit of artists and scholars.
- A lecture hall to be used by the Academy as well as for the public.
- Beaux Arts Café and Student Gallery
- Headquarters for the California Art Club, est. 1909
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Shuqiao Zhou
CAC Signature Member
Village Market |
Master Artist Workshops are already in
progress, taught by nationally recognized artists.
The Master Artist Workshops offered by CAAM are for amateur, intermediate
and professional artists, and begin with an orientation meeting and welcome
gathering with a light breakfast on Monday morning at the home of California
Art Club President, Peter Adams and California Art Club Newsletter Editor,
Elaine Adams. The workshop then runs for a week, and concludes with an
informal critique session and dinner on the final evening.
Class sizes are small (16 students maximum), offering students five days
of intimate work time with the master artist. Cost varies depending on
the workshop. Click here to see our
workshop listings.
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W. Jason Situ
CAC Signature Member
Tujunga Canyon Evening |
Past workshops have been conducted by Scott Burdick, a nationally recognized
artist from North Carolina who conducted a figure painting course in the
Pasadena area where he taught from a live model in a studio environment;
Ralph Oberg, a well known plein-air and wildlife artist from Colorado
whose course in the Pasadena area focused on landscape painting en plein
air; and Steve Huston, who conducted a figure drawing course in the intimacy
of his local, Pasadena-area studio.
Future CAAM workshops will be conducted by artists Glenn Vilppu (drawing),
Junn Roca (plein air painting), Ken Auster (urban landscape painting),
Peter Adams (plein air landscapes), William Hook (plein air landscapes),
Joseph Paquet (plein air landscapes), Nelson Shanks (figure painting),
Matt Smith (plein air landscapes), and others. The schedule continues
to be developed.
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