Instructors: Sarah McCoubrey & Dinitia Smith
Landscape painter Sarah McCoubrey, a full professor at Syracuse University, will lead this two-week class in plein air painting. Participants will discover the transformational experience of painting the unique color and light of the Umbrian landscape. McCoubrey will encourage students to practice close observation of color and specifics of light while also offering insights from her 25 years of teaching painting and drawing in the School of Art. Inspired by the beauty and richness of Assisi, its art and its history, participants’ own artistic practice will be nourished.
Sarah McCoubrey is primarily a landscape painter. She exhibits regularly in solo and group exhibitions in nationally recognized venues and is currently represented by the Locks Gallery in Philadelphia. McCoubrey received her MFA from the University of Pennsylvania and is a Professor in the College of Visual and Performing Arts at Syracuse University. She is the recipient of several grants, including two New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowships in Painting, two Ballinglen Arts Foundation Fellowships, a Millay Colony Milton Avery Foundation Fellowship, a MacDowell Colony Fellowship, a National Endowment for the Arts Grant Award, and a New York State Council on the Arts Grant.
Dinitia Smith has published four novels, most recently, The Honeymoon, a biographical novel about the 19th Century author, George Eliot. Her short fiction has been published in numerous journals. She was also, for eleven years, a cultural correspondent for The New York Times where she wrote about books and the world of literature. Dinitia has taught Creative Writing at Columbia University, Barnard College, New York University and many other places.
photo by Audrey C. Tiernan
