Registration for Online Classes and Workshops:
OPTION 1: Sliding Scale $5-15 Single Class/ Workshop Select your class or workshop by submitting selected donation below and the registration link for the current available meeting will be emailed prior to class or workshop.
OPTION 2: Unlimited Classes/ Workshops Enroll in a monthly membership with a minimum pledge of $20* and receive unlimited classes and workshops. Registration links will be sent to your email prior to each class and workshop.
To sign up click "Become a Patron" tab below and pledge a minimum of $20 to receive unlimited classes and an annual gift of appreciation. Click here for more details about membership levels.
* Proceeds help fund Community Art Center and Gallery. Your support is greatly appreciated.
OPTION 3: Scholarship for Free Classes/ Workshops Apply for a scholarship and receive registration links to classes and workshops upon approval.
In the effort to make art education available to the community, scholarships are offered to help provide financial assistance.
Current Online Classes and Workshops:
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Tuesday Drawing
Tuesdays 6:00 to 7:00 pm (PT) $5-15 Instructor: Caz Azevedo No Prerequisite: All Levels Class Description: Studio art class in drawing and composition focusing on the fundamentals of art while developing the mind and body coordination to draw from observation. Students will work representationally from still and life drawings using their environment, landscape, photographs and imagination. Various media, methods, and techniques will be discussed including the materiality of the medium. SCHEDULED CLASSES 2021: Jan 26: Contour Drawing Feb 2 : Gesture Drawing Feb 9: Gradation, Cross Hatching, Pointillism Feb 16: NO CLASS Feb 23: Shade, Shadow, and Transparency March 2: Drawing with Ink March 9: Texture Drawing March 16: Positive and Negative March 23: Introducing Color to Drawing March 30: Warm and Cool Colors SPRING BREAK |
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Morning Movement Workshop
Wednesdays 10am-11am (PT) $5-15 Researcher: Caz Azevedo No Prerequisite: All Levels Workshop Description: A research based workshop exploring various improvisational movements while using the body as the material to draw, frame, and narrate imagined images. Ideas of research include instinct, rhythm, falling, dramatic expression, compositional elements, and spatial relationship. No dance experience is needed. This workshop is formatted around the exploration and research of individual movement. Participants will be encouraged to pull from their own "tool box" and experience of movement and dance to push the exercises to their desired levels. Participants agree by registering and attending movement workshops, they are doing so under their own risks and release all liability from instructor, CACAC, and CazAzevedo.com. SCHEDULED WORKSHOPS 2021: Feb 3: Drawing with the Body Feb 10: Matter-flow of the Body |
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Thursday Afternoon Studio
(Open Studio Workshop) Thursdays - 12pm-1pm (PT) Free or Optional Donation Research Artist: Caz Azevedo No Prerequisite: All Levels Workshop Description: A research based workshop exploring the art practice of Caz Azevedo. Various media will be discussed as participants can join, watch, and follow the process of Azevedo's current work, projects, and self-exploring exercises including but not limited to drawing, painting, printmaking, sculpture, and movement. Discussions and demonstrations with participants about the materiality of the medium and its matter-flow will be encouraged as other conversations about art. SCHEDULED WORKSHOPS 2021: Jan 28: Feb 4: |
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Private Lessons Available:
Instructor: Caz Azevedo
Private lessons are available and built around the student’s skill level and interests of what they want to learn, and can be specific to one medium or an arrangement of several media. I am an experienced artist and educator within the areas of: Drawing, Painting, Clay and Mixed-Media Sculpture, Printmaking, Video, Performance Art, and Contemporary Art History. All ages and skill levels are welcomed. I encourage parental figures to take classes with their children by offering family programs at a single rate. For more information please use the contact page to provide your information and availability with the best day(s) and time(s) of the week that would work best for you and I will respond promptly to arrange a free estimate and a video/phone consultation to begin setting up your personalized program. Due to the COVID-19 all instruction will be online.
Instructor: Caz Azevedo
Private lessons are available and built around the student’s skill level and interests of what they want to learn, and can be specific to one medium or an arrangement of several media. I am an experienced artist and educator within the areas of: Drawing, Painting, Clay and Mixed-Media Sculpture, Printmaking, Video, Performance Art, and Contemporary Art History. All ages and skill levels are welcomed. I encourage parental figures to take classes with their children by offering family programs at a single rate. For more information please use the contact page to provide your information and availability with the best day(s) and time(s) of the week that would work best for you and I will respond promptly to arrange a free estimate and a video/phone consultation to begin setting up your personalized program. Due to the COVID-19 all instruction will be online.
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EDUCATION
M.F.A. Studio Art Art and Art History Department, University of California, Davis concentrations: Video, Performance, Ceramics, Sculpture B.A. Art Practice Department of Art Practice, University of California, Berkeley concentrations: Printmaking, Sculpture, Ceramics, Painting B.A. History of Art History of Art Department, University of California, Berkeley concentration: Art and Visual Culture |
In my classroom I emphasize and encourage the need to search outside the established Western/European canon, and to represent “othered” artists. I teach with an emphasis on contemporary critical thought. I engage students in exploring art history and current issues and events in tandem. I guide students in developing their critical thinking skills so as to investigate sociopolitical issues through a post-modernized imagination, cultivating an environment where all students feel safe and encouraged to share their views in our discussions. I believe that an education in the arts is fertile ground for emboldening students to exercise critical thinking skills which can be applied to all disciplines in the arts and beyond.
Societies and the environment are in constant flux. Education must continue to change with the shifts of our generations. Today we face an uncertain virus that keeps us locked in our shelters, and unable to gather in traditional classrooms and labs. Educators must create innovative ways of teaching art online when materials become virtual and physically intangible. I accept and will overcome this challenge. I have had experience in transitioning studio classes and lecture series to online formats with students achieving success in their projects and assignments.
Since the COVID-19 virus I have been redesigning lesson plans for online instruction for ceramics, sculpture, printmaking, painting, drawing, performance art, and video, as well as researching a variety of engaging approaches for presenting art history lectures online. I am excited for the day when we all can return to the classrooms and labs, but until then we must keep education in progress, not just for the survival of the arts, but for the survival of humanity.
Caz Azevedo, 2020
Societies and the environment are in constant flux. Education must continue to change with the shifts of our generations. Today we face an uncertain virus that keeps us locked in our shelters, and unable to gather in traditional classrooms and labs. Educators must create innovative ways of teaching art online when materials become virtual and physically intangible. I accept and will overcome this challenge. I have had experience in transitioning studio classes and lecture series to online formats with students achieving success in their projects and assignments.
Since the COVID-19 virus I have been redesigning lesson plans for online instruction for ceramics, sculpture, printmaking, painting, drawing, performance art, and video, as well as researching a variety of engaging approaches for presenting art history lectures online. I am excited for the day when we all can return to the classrooms and labs, but until then we must keep education in progress, not just for the survival of the arts, but for the survival of humanity.
Caz Azevedo, 2020