Past News & Events

The Golden Gate Atelier offers a variety of events throughout the year, you can browse an archive of our past events and happenings below.

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Vermeer – The Greatest Exhibition

May 16, 2023

Tuesday, May 16 1pm

Please join Golden Gate Atelier for a film on the recent Vermeer show at the Rijksmuseum.
Rialto Cinemas Elmwood
2966 College Ave at Ashby, Berkeley
We will go to a local cafe afterwards to have some food and drinks and discuss the inspiring paintings of the Master of Delft.

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GGA Visit to the Sargent Exhibition

Feb 25, 2023

Saturday, February 25, 10am

Andrew Ameral and Sean Forester will lead a group to see the Sargent show. https://www.famsf.org/exhibitions/sargent-and-spain Afterwards we will have lunch together in the museum cafe. Please purchase your own tickets and feel free to bring your family and friends. We will meet at the entrance of the Legion of Honor museum at 10am. Hope to see you there!

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Americans in Paris: Online Art and Literature Seminar

Feb 21, 2023 – Mar 14, 2023

4 Tuesdays at 4pm, beginning February 21

Sean Forester will lead an online class on David McCullough’s wonderful book The Greater Journey: Americans in Paris. To sign up: https://www.classicalpursuits.com/product/online-seminarthe-greater-journey-americans-in-paris/
Sean will lecture on the paintings of John Singer Sargent, Thomas Eakins, Henry Ossawa Tanner, and more. There will also be group discussions of McCullough’s book. Here is a preview:

They left America and sailed to France. Painters and sculptors, inventors, political thinkers, doctors and nurses – Paris gave them a vision of deeper knowledge and more intense beauty.  We follow in the footsteps of Samuel Morse, an accomplished painter before he invented the telegraph and Morse code; Charles Sumner, whose studies at the Sorbonne helped make him a passionate abolitionist; and Elizabeth Blackwell, America’s first female physician, when there were twice the number of medical students in École de Médecine de Paris as in all of America. McCullough gives us the sweep of history, from the Franco-Prussian war to the Commune and the Second Empire.

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Learn Artistic Anatomy – Shoulder Girdle and Muscles of the Head

Jan 6, 2020 – Jan 27, 2020

Monday 6:30 – 8:30pm

We at the Golden Gate Atelier would love for you to join us for an open house lecture on artistic anatomy and the muscles of the shoulder girdle on January 06th from 6:30 to 8:30. You will be attending a lecture by one of the leading experts in the field. Throughout history, artistic anatomy has played the most paramount role in an artists education. We will be covering the bony and muscular shapes that impact the surface of the skin and create form. This course is excellent for painters, sculptors, illustrators, and digital artists who are passionate for the human form and are looking to improve their understanding. Looking forward to seeing you!!

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Learn Artistic Anatomy – Muscles of the Head

Jan 27, 2020

Monday 6:30 – 8:30pm

We at the Golden Gate Atelier would love for you to join us for an open house lecture on artistic anatomy and the muscles of the head on January 27th from 6:30 to 8:30. You will be attending a lecture by one of the leading experts in the field. Throughout history, artistic anatomy has played the most paramount role in an artists education. We will be covering the bony and muscular shapes that impact the surface of the skin and create form. This course is excellent for painters, sculptors, illustrators, and digital artists who are passionate for the human form and are looking to improve their understanding. Looking forward to seeing you!!

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Open Studio & 6 Year Anniversary Party

Jun 30, 2018

Friday 6 - 9pm

Come and celebrate with us!
Friday, June 30th 6 – 9pm

Student Artwork
Food & Drink
Awards

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