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Meeting LIVE Online for 7 sessions, every other Tuesday.

September 24, October 8, 22, November 5, 19, and December 3, 17.

Over the course of the next few months we will be gathering online, every other week, to continue and deepen the conversation.

The selection of readings we will be covering this fall will support our larger inquiry into the deeper nature of painting. 

• • September 24  John Berger, “Steps Towards a Small Theory of the Visible (for Yves)”, from The Shape of a Pocket

• • October 8  Mary Jane Jacob, selections from Dewey for Artists

• • October 22    Andrew Forge, “Painting and the Struggle for the Whole Self”, an essay from Observation: Notation – Collected Writings of Andrew Forge

• • November 5    Suzi Gablik, selections from The Reenchantment of Art

• • November 19  John Berger, “A Professional Secret”, from Keeping a Rendezvous

• • December 3   Robert Hughes, selections from Frank Auerbach

• • December 17  Gillian Pederson-Krag, the opening essay to her self-published monograph

“I first started teaching and facilitating The Reading Group back in the nineties. I was working with a group of younger painters who were developing their hands-on skills and were quite talented. I knew from my own experience that my engagement as a painter hugely benefited from reading stuff about painting that felt real, relevant, and stimulating – and I wanted to bring that sort of addition to the younger painters.”

Jordan will be facilitating the discussion in a supportive and friendly atmosphere.  All these books are great and worth purchasing, but PDFs will be supplied for all of the essays and selections.

Wine and nibbles recommended, although not essential.  Open to painters and non-painters, of all persuasions, world-wide.

To register simply click on the “+” sign below.