Category: Workshop

Gallery 302 presents ‘Figures in Pastels — A live-model workshop for Experienced Artists’

Join award-winning painter Terri Brooks for “Figures in Pastels,” a workshop designed for experienced pastel artists. Working from a live, costumed model, participants will refine their ability to capture the human form using layered pastel techniques. The class will focus on essential life-drawing skills, using light and shadow to define facial structure and form through […]

Art news from Helene Farrar

Oh wow, September marks entering into 15 years of officially being in business! It’s easy to look back thinking of my past studios (who remembers the one on a third floor in Hallowell with checkered floors or when I was teaching art at an elementary school 2/3 time and getting my studio off the ground?) […]

Waterfall Arts hosts 12-hour Life Drawing Marathon and exhibition opening

Waterfall Arts will host a 12-hour Life Drawing Marathon from 9:30 a.m. to 9:30 p.m. Sept. 14 to celebrate the opening of a life drawing exhibition. This immersive event offers artists a unique opportunity to challenge their creative endurance through a series of figure drawing sessions featuring a variety of models and both short and […]

Ogunquit Art Association will host its 70th annual Art Auction and preview at Barn Gallery

This Ogunquit Art Association (OAA) tradition is the biggest annual art auction in Ogunquit and one of the major cultural events of the summer, and 2024 marks the 70th year of this tradition. The 70th OAA Art Auction will be held at 7 p.m. Aug. 3, with doors opening at 6 p.m. at the Barn […]

Upcoming classes at Maine Art Gallery

Sketchbook Journaling in Watercolors 9 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. July 8, 9, 10 Instructor: Diane Dubriel Location: Class will be outdoors Simple Pamphlet Stitched Book 9 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. July 17 Instructor: Joelle Webber Master Class: Intriguing Flowers (photography workshop) 4 p.m. Aug. 5 Instructor: Olga Merrill Location: Pineland Farms The Maine Art Gallery […]

Student/teacher art show, plus upcoming classes at the Maine Art Gallery

Parents, teachers and children poured into the Maine Art Gallery, aka MAG, in Wiscasset for the opening of the K-12 student art show on April 12. For the first time in the years that the annual exhibit has opened the MAG season, students presented their work alongside that of their teachers. As grades 7-12 art […]

Late summer exhibitions and Gala Reception at Barn Gallery

Be part of embracing a momentous milestone, as the Ogunquit Art Association, Maine’s original artists’ group (est 1928), celebrates a remarkable 95 years of fostering creativity and expression through a captivating blend of exhibitions, gallery talks, demonstrations, workshops and more. The exciting season of art exhibitions and programs by artists of the Ogunquit Art Association […]

Maine Art Gallery offers summer classes

It’s not too late to expand your creativity by enrolling in a painting class at the Maine Art Gallery in Wiscasset. While classes provide opportunities learn new skills, they also help to provide some discipline to the creative process.Even the most experienced artists find joy in the classroom tutorial. Complete details on the classes can […]

Local Color Gallery will host a demo on Print Day in May to benefit turtles

Three printmakers from Local Color Gallery will demonstrate the art of printmaking from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. May 6 in celebration of Print Day in May.  Leslie Moore (linocut), MF Morison (linocut/copper plate etching) and Nell Parker (woodcut) will join printmakers from around the world on this first Saturday in May to make prints […]

Helene Farrar will lead two encaustic workshops 

Helene Farrar is excited to announce extended encaustic workshops and an encaustic retreat in Maine at a very magical place. The first workshop will be held in Sedona, Arizona, in March for four days at the Sedona Arts Center. “Mapping Place: A Landscape Painting Retreat in Encaustic” with two sessions will be a retreat-style workshop […]