Drawing Night at CIMA
February 13, 2018
Join us for a special Drawing Night and Aperitivo, led by artist Jen Mazza. CIMA’s opens its unique setting to artists of all levels to analyze and draw from works on view by Alberto Savinio. These paintings, conceived over just a few years in the late 1920s and early 1930s, nevertheless traverse a wide range of techniques.
Pencils have been generously donated by Blick Art Materials and paper has been provided by the legendary Italian
All skill levels welcome!
Limited to 30 participants.
FREE for CIMA Members.
About the artist:
Jen Mazza was born in 1972 in Washington D.C. Mazza received her B.A. in Visual Art and Spanish Literature from Mary Washington College in Fredericksburg, Virginia (1994), and an M.F.A. in Visual Art from Mason Gross School of the Arts at Rutgers University (2001).
Significant awards include residencies at Yaddo (2005), the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts (2004, 2005, 2006), Blue Mountain Center (2006), and the Jentel Foundation (2004, 2008). Mazza was also granted a Mid-Atlantic Arts Foundation Creative Fellowship to attend the Millay Colony in 2004 and returned again to the Colony in 2013.
In 2001 and again in 2008, the artist received Individual Artist Fellowships from the New Jersey State Council for the Arts, and in 2008 she was selected to be Artist in Residence at the Newark Museum. Her work is in the permanent collection of the Eli and Edythe Broad Art Museum at Michigan State University.
Since 2001, Mazza’s paintings have been exhibited nationally and internationally including a one-person show at the Jersey City Museum. She is represented by Tibor de Nagy Gallery and currently teaches at the New School of Design and the Pratt Institute.
*Please note that guests are allowed to bring their own supplies but only sketching materials are permitted. No water media, ink, or solvents are allowed in the galleries.
Refreshments have been generously donated by:
