2020 Courses Workshops & More

Untitled monotype by Kim-Lee Kho, 2019

CORONA VIRUS UPDATE 
Due to the ongoing pandemic situation, all of my in-person events for spring have been cancelled or postponed until the situation normalizes at least somewhat. Please visit my online offerings page here for more information. 

Happy New Year & New Decade!
Here are my art courses and event listings for 2020, including one new topic, one revival (by popular demand), week-long intensives, live demos (some free & open to the public, some members-only), jurying, short courses and intensives. Please check back periodically for further updates.
WINTER
★ JURYING
BURLINGTON FINE ARTS ASSOCIATION, Burlington
Opening at The Hub Friday, January 24, 2020, 7:00–9:00 pm
The Artist’s Mark 2020 Juried Exhibition
Details are not yet available online but will be in the fall.
Click here for more information.
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★ EXHIBITION
GLADSTONE HOTEL, 3rd Floor, Toronto
Saturday, January 25–March 5, 2020
Opening reception January 31, 2020, 7 to 10pm
'Heartspace Hotel' Solo Exhibition
A thrilling last-minute addition to my winter schedule! The Gladstone is a very different setting for my heart-based work. Includes pieces not seen at my recent Red Head Gallery show, and two pieces never before shown.

NEILSON PARK CREATIVE CENTRE, Etobicoke
(Wednesdays, February 5–26, 2019, 1:00–4:00pm)
Gel Plate Monoprints: Fast, Fun & Sophisticated​
Monoprinting with gel plates is a creative and playful process that can lead to stunning results. Using acrylic paints along with everyday items and art materials, we’ll play with colour and design, create rich visual textures, patterns and layered effects. Techniques include: adding, removing, masking, stencilling and mark-making.
Level: Suitable if you're new or more experienced with this process, as long as you have some art-making experience.
Registration is now open: Click here for more information.

★ TALK & DEMONSTRATION
OSHAWA ART ASSOCIATION
Art Resource Center, 45 Queen Street, Oshawa
Wednesday, March 11, 2020, 7:00–9:00 pm
Layered Thinking: Multidisciplinary + Mixed Media Approaches
Multidisciplinary artist Kim-Lee Kho will share her recent solo exhibition Heartspace, a wide-ranging installation exploring the human heart, which featured large and small scale work, drawing, painting, printmaking, photography, sculpture and mixed media along with giant photo-digital image transfers on handmade scrolls. She will also demonstrate some of her favourite mixed media approaches, working on paper to create a small artist’s book.
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SPRING
★ DEMONSTRATION
THE JAPANESE PAPER PLACE, Etobicoke
Wednesday, March 25, 2020, 12:30–4:00 pm
POSTPONED: Washi Wednesdays – Mixed Media: Thinking In Layers
Kim-Lee Kho will demonstrate some of her favourite mixed media techniques, building up layered, multi-surface artworks, combining: digital prints, drawing, painting, texture and image transfers, on a variety of Japanese papers. She will also demonstrate how she fastens multiple layers together.​ 
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NEILSON PARK CREATIVE CENTRE, Etobicoke
(Wednesdays, April 1–22, 2020, 9:30–4:00pm)
Acrylic Mediums for Painting & Mixed Media
The mediums aisle at the store is confusing but if you understand what you’re looking at, mediums are what makes acrylics the most versatile paint, because you can alter its properties so widely and combine in so many ways. We will explore a variety. Bring your questions. Level: Some art-making experience required; also suitable for very advanced painters. $25 materials fee payable to the instructor.
Course is not yet listed on the NPCC website.

★ JURYING
THE GUILDS at the ART GALLERY OF BURLINGTON, Burlington
(April 3–5, 2020)
CANCELLED: Kaleidoscope of the Arts 2020
I will be acting as one of two adjudicators for the annual all-guilds show & sale event presented at the Art Gallery of Burlington.
Click here for more information (currently has last year's details).
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NEILSON PARK CREATIVE CENTRE, Etobicoke
(Wednesdays, May 6–27, 2020, 9:30–4:00pm)
Creative Approaches to Painting from the Model
A clothed model will be our springboard to explore different artistic approaches each week (including materials, process and concept) using a combination of exercises and open painting. Art history, contemporary art and physical samples will provide a basis for our investigations. Level: Intermediate to advanced. $15 materials fee payable to the instructor.
Course is not yet listed on the NPCC website.

SUMMER
WEEK-LONG INTENSIVE
One of my most popular courses
Monday July 13 – Friday July 17, 2020
9:00am to 4:30pm
​​Haliburton School of Art + Design
Acrylics – Explore, Express, Experiment
The most versatile of all paint media, acrylics can do almost anything you want. 
      Through the magic of acrylic mediums you can change the appearance, behaviour and characteristics of acrylics in surprising ways, from pourable glazes to texturized and transparent impasto, layered encaustic-like effects to sculpted surfaces. 
      In this intensive, materials and process-based course, a variety of acrylic mediums, physical processes and techniques will be explored. These may include drip, scrape, scratch, scumble, tickle, pour, squeeze, sculpt, roll, collage, layer, making skins and embedding objects. You will also investigate tools – how to select, use and customize them, with particular emphasis on unconventional choices. Materials fee and list. 
      All levels and abilities are welcome (including advanced or pro), the only prerequisite is an open mind and an adventurous spirit.
2020 courses are not yet listed on their website.

WEEK-LONG INTENSIVE
Another popular course
Monday July 27 – Friday July 31, 2020
9:00am to 4:30pm
​​​Haliburton School of Art + Design
Acrylic Glazing & Encaustic Effects
​From the Old Masters to cutting-edge contemporary artists, the use of transparent paint glazes is a tradition that has come a long way. In this process and materials-based course you will learn the language of transparent colour in acrylics, how to mix and work with glazes, which mediums to use when, and the importance of dilution, sheen and thickness. 
      Glazing will be complemented with the rich surfaces and translucent depth of encaustic effects in acrylics. In structured exercises and your own creative explorations you will work with layering, blending, painterly marks, impasto surfaces and combine acrylics with other media to create depth and invite light into your paintings. Materials fee and list. 
      Suited to anyone interested in enriching their acrylic painting with mediums, focussing in-depth on transparency, translucency, texture, through glazing and encaustic-like effects, understanding their technical aspects and exploring their creative potentials. Also to students who have taken the other acrylics course.
2020 courses are not yet listed on their website.