Welcome to the savvy painter podcast, the podcast for artists who mean business. Here's

your host, Antrice Wood.

Hello, it's Antrice and welcome to another episode of the savvy painter podcast.

This past summer I made a trip to Italy to participate in the JSS master program in Chavita

Castellano with Israel Hirschberg and Guest of Honor Ann Gail.

The Master Program is an intense six-week immersion into painting.

It's unlike any other workshop or program I've ever been to.

So some of you have been asking for an episode about my experience there,

but rather than paint kind of a what I did on my summer break picture,

I wanted to create something that might be a little bit more useful to you

I'm going to talk about my experience in the context of how to get the most out of a course or

workshop we'll cover in-depth a few concepts that are critical to doing

this, and these concepts, by the way, apply to any learning experience. Afterwards, I'll

describe what the JSS program is like because I've been getting a lot of questions about that too.

So let's start with a broad general points.

The first and seemingly most obvious step to ensure that you get the most out of a program is to know who is

giving the workshop. I know I'm Captain obvious right? But seriously make sure you know

a little more than what the instructor's paintings look like or how popular he or she is on

Facebook. Also be clear on what you want.

Know what you're getting yourself into and get an idea of what you want out of it,

and then proactively dive in.

So ask some questions to clarify this for yourself.

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