Jane Rosen Drawing Workshop

Jane Rosen and Stephanie Lie. Photo by Richard Whittaker.

Jane Rosen lived, worked, and exhibited in New York for twenty years. In 1989 she moved to a horse ranch in San Gregorio, California. She has taught art at a number of colleges and universities since 1978 including the School of Visual Arts in New York, the University of California at Davis, Stanford University, and the University of California at Berkeley, where she currently teaches a method of drawing based on the sculptor's way of seeing. A book is in progress entitled "Seeing Through Touch." Please see her resume for a more complete history of her teaching and showing experience.

All instructors have been trained by Jane in the teaching of drawing. Each has worked intensively in some aspect of drawing with Jane and gone on to teach in their own right. Each instructor also brings their area of expertise in such diverse subjects as early childhood education, computer graphics, and Tibetan art practice, making them suited for the Bay Area's diverse population interested in applying drawing to their life and work.

Celia Gerard lives and works in New York City. She received a BA in Art and Art History from Colgate University, an EdM in Arts in Education from Harvard University and a MFA in Sculpture from the New York Studio School. Celia has taught drawing and sculpture with Jane at the LaCoste School of the Arts in Provence and at Bard College in New York, in addition to having been her studio assistant in New York and California. Celia is currently teaching drawing at the School of Visual Arts in New York City and is represented by Sears-Peyton Gallery in New York.

Stephanie Lie received a B. A. in Computer Science and a B.A. in Art Practice at the University of California at Berkeley in 2000, where she was a UC President's Undergraduate Fellow. She taught drawing classes with Jane at UC Berkeley for four years, and she is currently an M.F.A. candidate at UC San Diego in New Media.

Joshua Hart received a B. A. in Art Practice and a minor in Chemistry at the University of California at Berkeley in 2000. He taught with Jane at UC Berkeley for two years in addition to being her studio assistant. Since then, Hart graduated with an M.F.A from Bard College's Milton Avery School of the Arts, and he is currently teaching at Harvard University and MassArt.

Lila Tretikov received a B. A. in Art Practice and a B.A. in Computer Science at the University of California at Berkeley. She has worked extensively with Jane in her drawing classes at UC Berkeley and as her studio assistant. She is currently working in Silicon Valley as a senior programmer, using skills from both fields of study, as well as working on a book on Jane's drawing method with Richard Rhodes, Ginger Rhodes, and Stephanie Lie.



	Photo by Richard Whittaker.
	In a letter written from Vincent van Gogh to his brother Theo, 1888: "If you study Japanese art, you see a man who is undoubtedly wise, philosophic and intelligent, who spends his time how? In studying the distance between the earth and the moon? No. In studying the policy of Bismarck? No. He studies a single blade of grass. But this blade of grass leads him to draw every plant and then the seasons, the wide aspects of the countryside, then animals, then the human figure. So he passes his life, and life is too short to do the whole."