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Unconventional Portraits Recognizing Star Quality with Alice Wheeler May 22, 2010 1–4 pm Simons Board Room

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This workshop is now sold out. Tickets are still available to the other two workshops in this series.

What is star quality? What makes people look good in photos? It's the quality that made Kurt Cobain stand out among the other local musicians; it's also what Andy Warhol was looking for in his Screen Tests and photographs. After a walk through SAM's two current special exhibitions, local photographer Alice Wheeler takes participants out on the street with models to make portraits in the neighborhood around the Seattle Art Museum.

A camera (digital or film) is required for participation in this workshop.

SAM’s summer exhibitions Kurt and love fear pleasure lust pain glamour death—Andy Warhol Media Works consider identity, celebrity and the icon through a range of works and mediums. This series of three workshops at the Olympic Sculpture Park and SAM Downtown uses the exhibitions as a starting point to explore unconventional approaches to portraiture and self-portraiture with three Seattle-based artists featured in Kurt.

Co-presented with the Henry Art Gallery.

Other workshops in this series include:
June 19: In Space and Time with Gretchen Bennett and D.W. Burnam
July 31: Sculptural Icons with Scott Fife

Members: $30.00
Adults: $60.00
Students: $48.00
Seniors: $48.00
Henry Art Gallery members: $30.00

Prices above are for entire workshop series (3 classes). Individual workshop tickets: SAM and Henry Art Gallery members $14, students and seniors $20, general admission $24.

Tickets may be purchased at the Ticketing Desk at any of SAM's three sites, or over the phone with a credit card by calling the SAM Box Office at 206.654.3121.