Classes

About the studio
Gay's studio, at 1402 ½ Greenleaf, Evanston, is a private, independent teaching studio, in its seventeenth year. Classes there are small, averaging six, the studio is tidy and light, teaching is one-on-one, the atmosphere is friendly and nurturing, and the refreshments are delicious. If you have to miss a class, you can arrange for a makeup in another class within the same session, but there is no reduction for missed classes and makeups can not be carried over.

Also, no places are saved without a deposit of at least $50, paid ahead. Full payment is due by the first day of class, and earlier is even better. Make checks  payable to Gay Riseborough and mail to her home at 1801 Crain St. , not to the studio. Call 847-475-5159 for further information or for a consultation with portfolio review.

About Gay

Gay Riseborough has been teaching art since 1985. As well as running her own teaching studio, she has served on the faculty of the School of the Art Institute of Chicago where she taught Portrait Drawing and Figure Drawing with Color for twelve years. Previous to that, she taught for ten years at the  Evanston Art Center, Evanston, IL, a large and well-known community art center with a student enrollment of almost 2000. There she developed all the portrait classes, introducing Portrait at Levels I and II, as well as the Figure Outdoors and Portraits in Watercolor.

In 1990, she began teaching in her home studio; from there she went into a storefront facility at 1123 Florence, and now to a storefront just two blocks east, at 1402½ Greenleaf. To see a copy of Gay's current résumé, click here.