Open Studio at the Siena Art Institute

The public is invited into the Siena Art Institute's studios to view works-in-progress by students visiting for the month of June for our Portfolio Development Course. Also on view are Open Studios of our visiting professor Julie Evans, and our June artist-in-residence Jarrod Beck.

“PORTFOLIO DEVELOMPMENT”:
During their four-week course the students, have worked on personal art projects responding to the
architecture and artwork of Siena.

Participants include:
STUDENTS FROM CEPT UNIVERSITY, AHMEDABAD, INDIA:
· Chinmay Sudame
· Komal Gopwani
· Nupur Agarwal
· Nithya Suri
· Roshni Chinubhai
· Twinkle Pithadia
· Shikha Singh
· Smit Chokhandre
· Siddharth Srivastava

STUDENTS FROM THE STATE UNIVERISTY OF NEW YORK IN PURCHASE:
· Daniela Gomez, from the USA
· Lauren Britton, from Colombia

RECIPIENT OF THE CELESTE SCHOLARSHIP:
· Amruta Shah, from India

This program is sponsored by the Masters-level Studio Art Program of CEPT University (Ahmedabad,
Gujarat, India) but the program was also open to independent artists and advanced-level art students from other institutions. The program allows visual artists working in all disciplines to pursue their ongoing portfolio development in a stimulating and supportive environment, including group critiques, career development discussions, and excursions in the local area.

“EXPERIMENTAL TYPEFACE DESIGN”:
The Thursday June 27 Open Studio will also include work by from students in our 2-week intensive course
"Experimental Typeface Design: Megumi Koyama from Japan (from Clark University in US) and Kai
Takahashi from the US (from Yale University in US), taught by Prof. Don Tarallo.