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ONSITE |  Saturday, November 12, 10 a.m. - 3 p.m.

Instructor: Julie J. Thomson

$75 Non-member Adult**

(**Arboretum Members receive a 10% discount on all classes.)

Course Capacity: 8

Drawing inspiration from trees and the history and culture of Black Mountain College, Artist and Environmental Educator Julie Thomson leads this four-hour workshop based on the teaching of Josef Albers, whose Leaf Studies are one of the least examined aspects of his influential teaching and landmark book The Interaction of Color. Participants will learn about the leaf studies made by Josef Albers and his students at Black Mountain College in the 1930s and 40s. Then, after mindful time collecting leaves in the Arboretum forest, participants will be inspired to work with color and shape to make their own leaf studies.

Julie J. Thomson is an Environmental Educator, Naturalist, Independent Scholar, Curator + Artist who lives in Western North Carolina. She studies and shares the Natural History and Cultural History of places, and teaches seeing. Julie also researches and writes about artists at Black Mountain College. In 2016 she curated Begin to See: The Photographers of Black Mountain College. She also edited That Was the Answer: Interviews with Ray Johnson (Soberscove Press 2018). Currently she is co-curating Weaving at Black Mountain College: Anni Albers, Trude Guermonprez, and Their Students which will open at Asheville’s Black Mountain College Museum + Arts Center in Fall 2023. Instagram: @ncnaturalistjulie, juliejthomson.blogspot.com

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Image Credit: Lore Kadden Lindenfeld, Leaf Study, 1945-48 14" x 10 1/2", leavers and watercolor Black Mountain College Museum + Arts Center