Master Classes
Take Your Practice Further
Master Classes at Anderson Ranch Arts Center are highly selective, limited-enrollment workshops which provide advanced students with even greater access to world-renowned artists and educators. These rigorous classes are geared toward professional and committed artists who want to take their work to the next level with mentoring from master teachers, but who may not have the time for a years-long committed mentorship or residency. In the interest of continuity, some Master Classes also offer additional virtual sessions following the in-person summer workshop. Master classes require a portfolio review for admission.
Concentrating on aesthetic, technical and conceptual development, classes specifically address how to improve one’s work through group discussions, individual sessions with the instructor and studio time. Students dive deeply into the dynamics of their art-making and medium. The goal is to unleash a student’s potential with rigor and exploration, direction and critique. Our Master Classes are a dynamic new offering as well as an essential addition to our artistic programs.
2025 Master Classes
2025 Master Class Faculty
Kris Graves
Kris Graves is an artist and publisher based in New York and California. Graves creates artwork that deals with societal problems and aims to use art as a means to inform people about cultural issues. His publishing group, +KGP, collaborates with artists to create limited edition publications and archival prints, focusing on contemporary photography and works on paper that address issues of race, identity, equity, gender, sexuality, and class.
Valpuri Remling
Valpuri Remling is the master printer and workshop manager at Tamarind Institute in Albuquerque NM. Prior to relocating to the US, she worked at Helsinki Litho, a lithography workshop in Helsinki, Finland, as a master printer and artist, simultaneously teaching planographic methods at the Academy of Fine Arts. Remling holds an MFA in printmaking from the Academy of Fine Arts in Helsinki and has studied in the Estonian Academy of Arts and the Academy of Fine Arts in Prague.
Andrew Ross
Andrew Ross is an artist working within the intersections of assemblage sculpture and digital imaging. He received his BFA from The Cooper Union and attended Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture. Ross has exhibited in group exhibitions at The Hessel Museum, The Drawing Center, The Studio Museum in Harlem, Artists Space, and Greene Naftali. He has staged solo exhibitions at Kai Matsumiya Fine Arts Gallery, Signal, American Medium, Clima, and False Flag.
Aline Smithson
Aline Smithson is an interdisciplinary artist, filmmaker, educator, and editor based in Los Angeles, California. Her practice examines the archetypal foundations of the creative impulse and she uses humor and pathos to explore the performative potential of photography. She received a BA in art from the University of California at Santa Barbara and was accepted into the College of Creative Studies, studying under significant California artists. After a decade-long career as a New York Fashion Editor, Smithson returned to Los Angeles and to her own artistic practice.
Becky Suss
Becky Suss is a painter living and working in Philadelphia. She has recently exhibited in venues including the Institute of Contemporary Art in Philadelphia, Oakland University Art Gallery, The Fralin Museum of Art, and LAMOCA.
Fred Tomaselli
Fred Tomaselli has shown his work in museums, biennials and galleries around the world, including MoMA, LA MoCA, The Whitney, and SF MoMA. Solo museum shows include the Whitney Museum at Philip Morris, S.I.T.E. Santa Fe, The Albright Knox Gallery, Palm Beach ICA, The Fruitmarket Gallery in Edinburgh, The Irish Museum of Modern Art in Dublin, Orange County Museum of Art, and Laguna Art Museum. In 2010, his work was the subject of a twenty-year survey that originated at the Aspen Art Museum and subsequently traveled to the Tang Museum and the Brooklyn Museum. A native Californian, he has lived in Brooklyn since 1985.
Jasmine Wahi
Jasmine Wahi is the founder and co-director of Project for Empty Space, a nonprofit organization in New York City and Newark, NJ. Her multifaceted curatorial practice predominantly focuses on issues of femme empowerment, complicating binary structures within social discourses, and exploring multi-positional cultural identities through the lens of intersectional feminism. In 2023, she was honored by The Metropolitan Museum of Art for exemplary social impact work. In 2020, Wahi became the inaugural Holly Block Social Justice Curator at the Bronx Museum of the Arts.
Dr. Deborah Willis
Deborah Willis, Ph.D, is a curator and a professor in the Department of Photography & Imaging at New York University, Tisch. She received a MacArthur Fellowship and a Guggenheim Fellowship. She is the author of The Black Civil War Soldier, and Posing Beauty: African American Images from the 1890s to the Present.