JSS in the Light of Italy 2011

Student Work From JSS at the Certosa 2011

The JSS Benefit Presale & Live Auction in NYC

Click on invite to enter the Presale & Live Auction Event and Browse Thru the Works

Dear Friends of the Jerusalem Studio School,

Welcome to the JSS Benefit Auction.

The works seen here are available now at the presale prices listed and those not sold will be auctioned live during the benefit event at Steven Harvey Fine Art Projects on February 21st. 

Twenty-six acclaimed American artists, two distinguished art dealers and admired colleagues have donated outstanding work to help the JSS out of a crisis created this past summer when the executive director of the school disappeared leaving it with a $450,000 debt. It has been very moving to witness the support of so many people during this critical period. The new Israeli board members dug deep into their own pockets to ensure that the school opened this fall. The generosity of these artists that we so highly regard, stems from their knowledge and experience of the uniqueness of the Jerusalem Studio School. It is a professional vote of confidence of which all of us at the JSS are very proud.

Thank you to all of who made this benefit possible: the 26 contributing artists, Roy Davis & Cecily Langdale of Davis Langdale Company, Inc, Barbara Weis JSS Chairperson, Linda Adams JSS Board member, Peggy Brill and Kyle Staver volunteers.

We look forward to seeing you at the Live Auction, an important evening for the future of the Jerusalem Studio School.

If you will not be able to attend, please feel free to buy Presale or donate generously via Donate Sideways.

With much appreciation for your participation.

Israel Hershberg                              Steven Harvey

Founder and Director                      Steven Harvey Fine Art Projects

Coming Up at the JSS: Something New

THE JSS BOTTEGA SERIES

בעברית לחץ כאן

We are pleased to introduce the Jerusalem Studio School Bottega Series workshops.

The “bottega” in Italy was a master’s workshop where students or apprentices participated in the execution of works and processes so as to learn through direct experience, for the eye and for the hand, their chosen art or craft.

The JSS’s new Bottega Series is just that: themed workshops where various methods, materials and techniques, both common as well as rare and sometimes esoteric, will be demonstrated and explained step by step. We believe that learning in a bottega environment is particularly revealing for today’s students because what were once common methods, materials and techniques have become all but lost or misunderstood in our day – rendering most of them “rare”.

The JSS Bottega Series now reintroduces many of these methods and processes in a unique environment, the bottega, that will instill in artists, students and craftspeople a greater accessibility, intimacy and knowledge of materials, methods and techniques, whether in proceeding in a deepened way with one’s own work or deepening one’s understanding when seeing the great masterworks of the past.

The Bottega Series plans to offer workshops in the following subjects:

• 1. Hand Grinding and Tubing Oil Paint
• 2. Hand Made Supports and Surfaces for the Painter
• 3. Fresco Painting
• 4. Water Gilding and Gold Leaf
• 5. Making Crayons and Pastels
• 6. Egg Tempera
• 7. Understanding Glazing and Scumbling in Oil Paint

FIRST JSS BOTTEGA : ISRAEL HERSHBERG – WATER GILDING AND GOLD LEAF

January 16th, 23rd and 30th at 7:00 PM, Jerusalem Studio School, 33 Pierre Koenig Street – 5th floor, Jerusalem.  Our apologies: We are postponing the Bottega to sometime in late March, early April. New dates to be announced.

WATER GILDING – GOLD LEAF BOTTEGA DETAILS

• Slide Lecture: Gold Leaf – The History of Picture and Frame as Object.
• Demonstration: Preparing Rabbit Skin Glue and understanding its uses.
• Demonstration: Preparing and working with authentic (old master) glue gesso.
• Demonstration: Preparing a glue gesso panel as a support for painting or Gold Leaf.
• Demonstration: Preparing, applying and polishing red bole clay for gold leaf.
• Demonstration: Handling, applying, burnishing, finishing and toning gold leaf.
• Demonstration: How to make a 15th century Italian Renaissance style frame using the above methods of gold leaf and a painted granite cassetta field.

This first Bottega is dedicated to the memory of Robert Kulicke – Painter of note and master framer. Kulicke, who passed away in 2007, was the most important and innovative framer of his time.

With special thanks to my friend and former student, Marty Kotler, painter and Head of Frame Restoration at the Smithsonian Institution, Washington DC, for his expert advice and guidance in preparing for this Bottega.

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Participation fee (for the 3 days) NIS 350.00

To register  please call the us at (02) 671-9525 or email us at  jss@netvision.net.il

Details and participation fees of each Bottega will be announced individually and prior to the event.