Anatomy for Figurative Artists: Major Muscle Masses

Anatomy for Figurative Artists: Major Muscle Masses

Adult Online Art | This program is completed

All Levels

7/5/2022-8/23/2022

10:00 AM-1:00 PM on Tue

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$615.00

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ONLINE on Zoom and Facebook | July 5th Tuesdays 9-12 MST x 8 weeks | 10am-1pm Arizona Time (Mountain Standard Time)


Alicia N. Ponzio is an experienced figurative sculptor and instructor, as well as the former director of Anatomy and Ecorche Programs at the Florence Academy of Art. She has taught artistic anatomy extensively to 2D and 3D artists as well as at Pixar Studios and The University of Calgary Medical School. Alicia creates figurative compositions in bronze, often using her knowledge of anatomy to work from imagination. 

This course is designed to offer students information that applies directly to their artistic practice and further their understanding of the forms that are inherent in the human body. The course is designed to be taken either on its own as a study of the muscular masses of the human form.

Each week, Alicia will begin with a lecture using visual media to illustrate the concepts discussed. After the lecture, Alicia will narrate a pre-recorded demo showing how to complete the homework assignment for the week. For the final hour, Alicia will offer feedback to those students who have submitted homework. Between lectures, students may submit questions or engage in discussions on the private Facebook Group established for the class. The Facebook group will also be used to submit images of student homework; and Alicia will publish notes and useful images there as well.

Ponzio, Alicia

Alicia N. Ponzio (b.1974) began her career as a Lieutenant in the United States' Navy Nurse Corps. After experimenting with various mediums in figurative art, she found her voice in sculpture and made the decision to pursue it. Her pursuit took her to the Florence Academy of Art (FAA) in Florence, Italy, where she completed the Sculpture Program in 2008. She was then the director of the Artistic Anatomy and Écorché Sculpture programs, as well as a figure drawing instructor at the FAA until 2011, when she returned to the United States to set up her creative studio in downtown San Francisco. In 2014 Alicia and her partner, Justin Hess (painter, b. 1981), co-founded a private teaching atelier, also in San Francisco, JHess Studios. Alicia is active in a number of professional organizations including the National Sculpture Society and Portrait Society of America, in addition to creating works for gallery and commission, and maintaining an active teaching schedule at JHess Studios and various other venues in the United States and beyond. Alicia brings life to her bronzes and plasters, focusing on the abstract movement of forms as embodied in the human figure, as well as the subtle shades of human emotion. She favors asymmetry, irregularity, and variety in design: qualities that suggest a human touch. Her figure compositions and portraits have received recognition and honors from several organizations including the Art Renewal Center, the Catharine Lorillard Wolfe Art Club, The Portrait Society of America, The California Art Club and The National Sculpture Society from which Alicia received the Alex J. Ettl Grant in 2016. Her work ranges from miniature portraits to larger scale single figure and multi-figure compositions. She works extensively in plaster to achieve her effect, and casts the final product in bronze.