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2026
Sunday February 22nd
Noon-3pm
Carl Heyward / Akiko Suzuki
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studio 55 martinez
55 howe rd martinez, ca
HIGH COMPETENCY WORKSHOPS
FOR CONTEMPORARY ARTISTS
IN ALL MEDIA AT ALL LEVELS OF EXPERIENCE
Options for Mentoring and one-to-one instruction
$195
$25 materials fee collected on the day of the workshop. Participants are provided essential working materials, but are encouraged to bring tools and substrates as desired
TOWARD DEVELOPING INDEPENDENT SKILLS:
Basic (Novice)
Working (Advanced Beginner)
Extensive (Competent)
Expert (Proficient)
Leader/Mastery.
Artists/curators Carl Heyward and Akiko Suzuki return to STUDIO 55 MARTINEZ on Sunday, February 22nd, and invite artists to continue their explorations in mixed media practice, as well as making adjustments to attitudes and approaches when seeking creative solutions and flow in their work. Having conducted international workshops in Japan, participated in Master Studio Sessions there with peers, and curated or participated in exhibitions in NYC, NC, and Seoul, Korea, in recent months, they are eager to share the fruits of these experiences in both collaborative and individual practice.
info :
artspeak2020@yahoo.com
Carl Heyward
is a NEA Fellow and grant recipient, former MFA instructor at SF Academy of Art University, arts writer and founder of Global Art Project, a mixed-media collaborative cooperative with a membership in 12 countries. He has exhibited at Room Art Gallery, Mill Valley, The Fourth Wall Gallery in Oakland, CA, artist-in-residence at The Schools of The Sacred Heart at The Flood Mansion, San Francisco, and continues to exhibit internationally: Kranz, Slovenia; Mazatlan, Mexico; Venice, Italy; and Ghent, Belgium, in 2017-2019. His work is in collections held by SF-MOMA, NY-MOMA, Yale University Art Library, the National Gallery of Australia, Wellsely Art Library and the Brooklyn Museum. He is associated with Jennifer Perlmutter Gallery, CA; 10dence Gallery, Holland, Galerie Sobo Bade, Senegal, and Gallerie Renee Marie, CA, East Village Art View Gallery, NYC
https://www.instagram.com/carlheyward/
https://www.carlheywardarts.com/
https://www.instagram.com/globalartproject/
Akiko Suzuki:
is a textile and mixed media artist living in California, U.S.A.
In 1986, Akiko Suzuki graduated in visual design from Kyoto College of the Arts where she studied photography, video, and three-dimensional production.
Suzuki started making quilts in 1990 and has won numerous art quilt awards both domestically and internationally and has been collected all over the world.
Since 2014, she has participated in the Global Art Project co-founded with Carl Heyward.
She has co-facilitated art residencies including group exhibitions, solo and collaborative studio practice and workshops in Italy, USA, Mexico, and Senegal.
Suzuki's works express poetry and the intangible, invisible things; thoughts and skin sensations become words and images
This intuitive work, like a novel, is born from everyday life and the words spring from her flood of images becoming poetry reflected in the title of the work. The expression of these emotions also extends to photography and video.
Her works are visualized as abstractions via sumi ink, paint, collage, fiber, and textile art. Her solo exhibition SONGS OF A LITTLE BIRD is scheduled for July 2026 at NY2CA Gallery in Benicia, Ca
https://www.instagram.com/akiss_art/
https://www.akissart.com/
https://globartproject.wixsite.com/globalartproject-art
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MENTORING PROGRAM
in-studio / remote and online :
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Regardless of where one is in their practice a little support, an impartial critical eye, suggestions around the physical layout of the work space, alternative uses of materials and techniques--we all need help; we all need it from time to time...I offer Mentoring support for the working or nascent artist seeking to push their practice in the tradition of my Mixed Media Workshops in San Francisco, Dakar, Senegal, Lecce, Treviso and Venice, Italy, Mexico and throughout the United States.
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Up Close and Personal Support:
In Studio / Remote Online / Constant Contact / Curatorial Services / Portfolio Review / Gallery and Museum Visits
The purpose being to create an atmosphere for concentrated art making, "coaching", critique and development of a portfolio suitable for gallery presentation as well as assessing where you want to go with your practice via focused goal-specific sessions.These sessions are augmented with assignments, challenges and dialog between mentor and participant toward an evolving development of technique, confidence, skills and the creation of a limited body of new works. I am willing to consider indeterminate or difficult schedules but would want at a minimum a six month commitment that might be accommodated every other month with ongoing electronic contact or in any manner agreeable to both of us. These would be twelve (12) ... 2 hour sessions.
A discussion of realistic goals and needs is necessary
CARL HEYWARD:
artist / writer / curator / founder GLOBAL ART PROJECT
"...in my case, the whole enterprise is questioned upon each studio session as an existential tight rope walk above an abyss...as if I need to reclaim or be reclaimed by the process, the magic, the high that produces satisfactory work...it is a psychic muscle whose presence can't be counted upon, but conjured ...a weather report of the soul, and sometimes it ain't sunny and bright.
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