Portrait Sculpture (Thurs. Nov. 2025)
SJAC is thrilled to welcome back classically-trained artist and educator Melissa Kennedy! Melissa offers a special five-week portrait sculpting course. Combining demos and lots of hands-on sculpting time, students will work through observing a live model.
Melissa will help you to make the most of time-tested classical methods in sculpting the human face:
setting up a portrait in clay
establishing a consistent perspective
finding 'points of truth'
looking for structure and likeness in a portrait
how to look for and map out forms
setting up symmetry in three dimensions
Age group: 16+
Times: 6-8:30pm
Duration: 5 weeks
Dates:
Thursdays: November 6, 13, 20, 27 December 4
Registration fee: $400
Supplies fee: All supplies included.
Capacity: 6
Senior's discount: Seniors aged 65+ are eligible for a 20% discount on all adult workshops; enter coupon code SENIOR65 at checkout.
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Instructors
Melissa Kennedy
Melissa Kennedy is an artist and educator from New Brunswick. Melissa started her career as a full time artist in 2016 when she graduated from the drawing and sculpture program of The Florence Academy of Art, a classical atelier style school in Florence, Italy that focuses on figurative art. She spent the following three years as a principle instructor at the academy before returning to NB.
Since then she has broadened her scope of subject matter, and enjoys working on realistic works of animals and nature scenes as well as figurative and portrait work. Melissa has had the opportunity to exhibit in group shows and sales in London, Barcelona, and New York. Her work is available here in New Brunswick through Gallery 78.
