TEACHING ARTIST

Jimmy Miracle is an American visual artist working across the genres of painting, installation, and social practice using traditional and non-traditional forms of investigating perception, memory, observation, and awareness. Born in Ohio in 1983, Miracle receivied his MFA from UC Santa Barbara in 2018 and a B.A. in studio art, magna cum laude from Belhaven University in 2004 in Jackson, MS. He has lived and worked in Florida, Mississippi, New York City, New Jersey, Washington DC, Maryland, Germany, California, and Iowa City. He was the 2018-2019 Teaching Fellow at the University of California Santa Barbara and recipient of the Humanities in the Community Grant from the Interdisciplinary Humanities Council where he exhibited and co-created along with artists suffering from mental illness and his choreographic collaborator, Stephanie Miracle. He has had solo and group shows in New York, Los Angeles, Berlin, London, and Washington, DC exhibiting at Ziehersmith, Outlet Fine Art, HKJB, The Smithsonian Museum of American Art, The Islip Art Museum, Castle Gallery, The Elizabeth Foundation for the Arts, and Flashpoint Gallery among others as an installation artist and painter. He also worked as a studio painting assistant for Jeff Koons, and studied classical drawing, painting, and sculpture at the Art Student’s League of New York and Chelsea Classical Studio with Michael Grimaldi, Brandon Soloff, Dan Thompson, and Steve Perkins. He has received the Cultural DC Creative Communities Fund Grant, the Maryland State Art Council Individual Artist Grant, the Howard Fenton Award for Painting, and the Levitan Fellowship among others, and has lectured at the Smithsonian Museum of American Art. He teaches color, composition, portraiture, life drawing, and painting in universities, workshops, and privately in his studio.

materials
The following items are needed for the workshop. Participants can bring their own or borrow/use provided materials. There will be an additional $15 fee for using provided oil paints and gessoed panels.

• wear a hat!
• Palette Knife (3” recommended)
• Palette (Large Wooden recommended)
• two 12 x 16” gessoed wooden panels
• Easel (outdoor easel recommended)
• Oil paints (Gamblin recommended) : Titanium White, Cerulean Blue, Ultramarine Blue, Dioxazine Purple, Quinacrodone Red, Cadmium Red Medium, Cadmium Red Light, Cadmium Orange, Cadmium Yellow Deep, Cadmium Yellow Medium, Cadmium Yellow Light, Permanent Green Light, Pthalo Green, Yellow Ochre

suggested readings
Hawthorne on Painting by Charles Hawthorne

The Art of Seeing and Painting by Henry Hensche

Art and Visual Perception by Rudolf Arnheim

The Art Spirit by Robert Henri 

The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction by Walter Benjamin

The Training of the Memory in Art: And the Education of the Artist by Horace Lecoq de Boisbaudran