Oil in Conversation with Josie Licavoli

Join oil painter Josie Licavoli for a beginner-friendly oil painting class designed to build confidence with foundational techniques while encouraging you to develop your own visual language.

Through hands-on exercises, demonstrations, and discussion, you’ll learn the basics of working with oil paint while experimenting with color, texture, composition, and mark-making. We’ll also explore the past, present, and future of oil painting, tracing a medium with a history spanning more than 1,000 years. Together, we’ll consider how artists have used and reimagined oil painting throughout history, and how we can recontextualize elements of art history to create work that feels personal, contemporary, and uniquely yours.

For late teens, young adults, adults

Sliding scale tickets are availabe for every SCRAP Workshop:

• General Admission #1: Covers the cost of workshop and materials
• General Admission #2: Covers cost of workshop, materials, and supports the instructor
• General Admission #3: Covers cost of workshop, materials, supports the instructor, and helps keep our workshops more accessible

About the Artist

Josie Licavoli is a Bay Area raised painter. In her work, she reimagines a world where the feminine body and the earth remain in reciprocal relation. Drawing from the California coast, her Filipino ancestry and both Western and Asian art histories, Josie paints the figure as a spiritual, emotional and ecological site of knowledge. Rooted in myth, ecology, and lived experience, her paintings are an inquiry on the nuanced ways we mirror the environments we inhabit.

Josie graduated with a degree in Arts Education and Studio Art from Humboldt State University in 2022, and has dedicated herself in making the arts more accessible to a varying range of communities within San Francisco. She currently is a Teaching Artist at SCRAP and a Studio Assistant at Hospitality House Community Arts Program.

About SCRAP

SCRAP is a non-profit organization working at the intersection of arts, education and the environment. We breathe new life into old arts & crafts supplies and reduce waste by diverting over 250 tons of materials heading to landfill every year.

Learn more about SCRAP and our mission to make art materials & education more accessible to all at www.scrap-sf.org