9 Square: Acrylic Painting with Michael Giaquinto

Monday, August 2 through Thursday, August 5 • 5:00 pm - 8:00 pm 

Members - $140

Non-Members - $152

Materials Included.

Youth Ages 9 & up. Through acrylic painting, we will explore the creative expression of storytelling by creating nine 4” x 4” canvas blocks that we will connect into one cohesive image. Students will work at their own pace and have an opportunity to create one or more “9 Square” finished works. This course will teach the technics of acrylic painting while developing creative storytelling through art.

Instructor Bio:

Michael A. Giaquinto was the Exhibitions Curator at the Cape Cod Museum of Art. He studied art at Montserrat College of Art, Beverly, MA. & North Carolina State University, where he studied Art History.

Museum Technician (1990 – 1991) at the Ackland Art Museum at UNC Chapel Hill, NC. Chief Art

Preparator (1991-2000) at the Gregg Art Museum, NC State University, Raleigh, NC.

Art Teacher (2003 -2005) at St. John Paul II High School in Hyannis, MA.

Painting and Drawing teacher, along with Multi-Media & Folk Art workshops for adults at the Weny Education Center at CCMoA, Creative Arts Center, Chatham, & the Cultural Center, South Yarmouth.

Michael has held workshops at the DeCordova Museum and Sculpture Park, Lincoln, MA. Weny Education Center at CCMOA and the Truro Center for the Arts.

Michael was awarded “Craftsman of the Year” by the Early American Life Magazine in 2001 and 2005 and in 2017 the VISI Award, presented by Cape Cod & Islands Art Educators Association; and was guest speaker and held a painting demonstration for the Guild of Harwich Artists, 2017.

His work has been exhibited with Berta Walker Gallery, Provincetown, MA., Chabot Fine Art Gallery, Providence, RI., Miller White Fine Arts, South Dennis, MA., Cape Cod Museum of Art, Dennis, MA., Cultural Center of Cape Cod, South Yarmouth, MA., Creative Arts Center, Chatham, MA., Provincetown Art Association and Museum, Provincetown, MA.

He is featured in Deborah Forman’s book, Contemporary Cape Cod Artists on Abstraction, 2015.