August 2021
Summer Blooms: Explorations in the Ancient Medium of Encaustic with Hélène Farrar
This in-person class will meet at the Gamble Center on the Farnsworth campus. Whatever your relationship to flowers – an avid gardener, a giver or receiver of a bouquet, or someone with a creative eye, we are excited to bring you a playful workshop looking to summer blooms and the ancient medium of encaustic. Join Artist Hélène Farrar in exploring this hot molten wax painting medium where we will drip, pour, drag, layer, heat, and scrape! In developing a rich…
Find out more »First Friday at the Farnsworth—August 2021
Join us on Friday, August 6, from 5-8 p.m. for another First Friday at the Farnsworth! The event, part of the Arts in Rockland First Friday Art Walk, offers free admission to the public to the Farnsworth's galleries. Main Street will be closed to car traffic, and our Main Street doors, leading right into our galleries, will be open to all. This is the 12th consecutive year that First National Bank has sponsored the event for the Farnsworth, allowing for…
Find out more »Now Or Never: Poetry Writing Workshop with Kathleen Ellis
Tuesday & Thursday, August 10,12, 17, and 19 from 10 am to 12 noon, On Zoom A two-week, live ZOOM workshop exploring poems that stop you in your tracks. What have you always wanted to write? A poem beginning with an absurd or outrageous assumption? A poem that starts and ends with the same two lines? A prose poem or a poem that shocks you? In this two-week workshop, we will explore new ways to think about what a poem can…
Find out more »Plein Air Painting with Watercolor Series with Erica Qualey: Workshop 4
Workshop 4 - Topic: Painting the Working ShorelineWednesday, August 11 via Zoom, 10 am to 12 pm and 1 to 3 pmThursday, August 12 on location, 8 am to 12 pmFriday, August 13 on location, 8 am to 1 pm This series consists of six intensive watercolor workshops where participants will be immersed in painting plein-air in watercolor. Each workshop can be taken individually, or as a series as each workshop has a different focus and subject matter. This is…
Find out more »Now Or Never: Poetry Writing Workshop with Kathleen Ellis
Tuesday & Thursday, August 10,12, 17, and 19 from 10 am to 12 noon, On Zoom A two-week, live ZOOM workshop exploring poems that stop you in your tracks. What have you always wanted to write? A poem beginning with an absurd or outrageous assumption? A poem that starts and ends with the same two lines? A prose poem or a poem that shocks you? In this two-week workshop, we will explore new ways to think about what a poem can…
Find out more »Farnsworth / CMCA Third Sunday Tours at 10
Join education coordinators Jude Valentine of the Farnsworth Art Museum and Mia Bogyo of the Center for Maine Contemporary Art to tour current exhibitions comparing and contrasting thematic artworks from both organizations. Participants will travel to both art institutions to view works in person, learn about varied art-making approaches and create a visual response of their own. Meet outside at the Museum Street entrance to the Farnsworth at 9:45 am. In case of rain, wait under cover until 10 am…
Find out more »Now Or Never: Poetry Writing Workshop with Kathleen Ellis
Tuesday & Thursday, August 10,12, 17, and 19 from 10 am to 12 noon, On Zoom A two-week, live ZOOM workshop exploring poems that stop you in your tracks. What have you always wanted to write? A poem beginning with an absurd or outrageous assumption? A poem that starts and ends with the same two lines? A prose poem or a poem that shocks you? In this two-week workshop, we will explore new ways to think about what a poem can…
Find out more »Step by Step Watercolor—Level 1 with Erica Qualey: Back by popular demand!
Tuesdays, August 17, 24, 31 and September 7 from 6 - 8 pm (ET)Online via Zoom This class is suitable for beginning watercolor painters who have perhaps picked up a brush, but don’t know where to go next. During each session, Erica provides step-by-step instructions on how to paint each beautiful scene in an easy and approachable way. Prior to the workshop, you will receive a .pdf of the underdrawing which you can trace or use as a guide to…
Find out more »Vera Bock, Book Designer and Illustrator: Her Beguiling Artistry, Her Adventurous Spirit—with Jane Bianco
Online via Zoom Vera Bock studied wood engraving, heraldry design, and manuscript —illumination, and mastered a range of graphic processes used in making art for reproduction in designing and illustrating more than fifty books in her New York studio, employing techniques from relief printing to pen-and-ink drawing to wet-and-dry mixed media painting. She also illustrated magazines, and between 1936 and 1943 designed bold posters for the New Deal era Federal Art Project, on subjects ranging from civic services and labor,…
Find out more »Now Or Never: Poetry Writing Workshop with Kathleen Ellis
Tuesday & Thursday, August 10,12, 17, and 19 from 10 am to 12 noon, On Zoom A two-week, live ZOOM workshop exploring poems that stop you in your tracks. What have you always wanted to write? A poem beginning with an absurd or outrageous assumption? A poem that starts and ends with the same two lines? A prose poem or a poem that shocks you? In this two-week workshop, we will explore new ways to think about what a poem can…
Find out more »Step by Step Watercolor—Level 1 with Erica Qualey: Back by popular demand!
Tuesdays, August 17, 24, 31 and September 7 from 6 - 8 pm (ET)Online via Zoom This class is suitable for beginning watercolor painters who have perhaps picked up a brush, but don’t know where to go next. During each session, Erica provides step-by-step instructions on how to paint each beautiful scene in an easy and approachable way. Prior to the workshop, you will receive a .pdf of the underdrawing which you can trace or use as a guide to…
Find out more »Painting with Andrew Wyeth: A watercolor workshop with Barbara Thomas
In-person at the Gamble Education Center on the Farnsworth Campus Under the guidance of Barbara Thomas, students will look at the ways Andrew Wyeth constructed a painting, including: compositional choices, palette and color choices, paint mediums and their uses, and how he created atmosphere through technical and stylistic aspects of rendering. Students will gain an understanding of the sense of ‘place’ in an artist’s work, particularly Wyeth’s. Close observational drawing in the gallery followed by a painting session will deepen…
Find out more »Step by Step Watercolor—Level 1 with Erica Qualey: Back by popular demand!
Tuesdays, August 17, 24, 31 and September 7 from 6 - 8 pm (ET)Online via Zoom This class is suitable for beginning watercolor painters who have perhaps picked up a brush, but don’t know where to go next. During each session, Erica provides step-by-step instructions on how to paint each beautiful scene in an easy and approachable way. Prior to the workshop, you will receive a .pdf of the underdrawing which you can trace or use as a guide to…
Find out more »September 2021
Robert Indiana: The Hartley Elegies with Michael K. Komanecky
Elegy: a song or a poem expressing sorrow, or lamentation for someone who is dead. Farnsworth Chief Curator Michael K. Komanecky will discuss a group of ten silkscreen prints by Robert Indiana, The Hartley Elegies. Created between 1989 and 1994 along with eighteen related paintings, they were inspired by a 1915 painting by the prominent American modernist Marsden Hartley did in Berlin in memory of his fallen friend and presumed lover, Karl von Freyburg, a German soldier who was killed in…
Find out more »Step by Step Watercolor—Level 1 with Erica Qualey: Back by popular demand!
Tuesdays, August 17, 24, 31 and September 7 from 6 - 8 pm (ET)Online via Zoom This class is suitable for beginning watercolor painters who have perhaps picked up a brush, but don’t know where to go next. During each session, Erica provides step-by-step instructions on how to paint each beautiful scene in an easy and approachable way. Prior to the workshop, you will receive a .pdf of the underdrawing which you can trace or use as a guide to…
Find out more »Plein Air Painting with Watercolor Series with Erica Qualey: Workshop 5
Workshop 5 - Topic: Painting Among Giants… ForestscapesWednesday, September 8 via Zoom, 10 am to 12 pm and 1 to 3 pmThursday, September 9 on location, 8 am to 12 pmFriday, September 10 on location, 8 am to 1 pm This series consists of six intensive watercolor workshops where participants will be immersed in painting plein-air in watercolor. Each workshop can be taken individually, or as a series as each workshop has a different focus and subject matter. This is…
Find out more »Painters’ Forum with Rob Pollien
September 10, October 8, November 12, December 10, from 1 to 3 pm (ET), on Zoom Four oil or acrylic painting projects over four months with demonstrations, lectures, an online forum, discussion, and critiques! The projects will begin with palette management and color mixing exercises and progress through a series of color-related painting problems. The work of Albers, Itten, and Zorn will be referenced, examined, and incorporated in our study. This course is for experienced painters wishing to improve their…
Find out more »George Tice and Andrew Wyeth: Parallel Visions with Angela Waldron
Maine has a centuries-old history of attracting artists captivated by the state’s natural beauty and the quiet ethos of its hard-working inhabitants. Over a period of many decades, nationally-renowned photographer George Tice and artist Andrew Wyeth were drawn to Maine, inspired by the state’s past, and a present that speaks to a sense of timelessness and the enduring qualities of honor and dignity in an honest days’ work. Through familiar scenes of the ordinary and everyday, Tice's and Wyeth's works are a testament to the essential connectedness of people to their…
Find out more »Home: The House As a Mirror with Mj Viano Crowe
Three Thursdays, September 23, 30, and October 7 from 1 to 5 p.m.In-person at the Gamble Education Center on the Farnsworth Campus Love scrapbooking? Want to uplevel your scrapbooking skills? Join Mj Viano Crowe to create a multi-folding, 2-sided, unique accordion book with images and text, that investigates your relationship to “home”---whatever the meaning of that word holds for you. Using a wide variety of materials and personal images, we’ll use the creative process to explore “the house’ as a…
Find out more »Home: The House As a Mirror with Mj Viano Crowe
Three Thursdays, September 23, 30, and October 7 from 1 to 5 p.m.In-person at the Gamble Education Center on the Farnsworth Campus Love scrapbooking? Want to uplevel your scrapbooking skills? Join Mj Viano Crowe to create a multi-folding, 2-sided, unique accordion book with images and text, that investigates your relationship to “home”---whatever the meaning of that word holds for you. Using a wide variety of materials and personal images, we’ll use the creative process to explore “the house’ as a…
Find out more »October 2021
Plein Air Painting with Watercolor Series with Erica Qualey: Workshop 6
Workshop 6 - Topic: Capturing the Colors of FallWednesday, October 6 via Zoom, 10 am to 12 pm and 1 to 3 pmThursday, October 7 on location, 8 am to 12 pmFriday, October 8 on location, 8 am to 1 pm This series consists of six intensive watercolor workshops where participants will be immersed in painting plein-air in watercolor. Each workshop can be taken individually, or as a series as each workshop has a different focus and subject matter. This…
Find out more »Home: The House As a Mirror with Mj Viano Crowe
Three Thursdays, September 23, 30, and October 7 from 1 to 5 p.m.In-person at the Gamble Education Center on the Farnsworth Campus Love scrapbooking? Want to uplevel your scrapbooking skills? Join Mj Viano Crowe to create a multi-folding, 2-sided, unique accordion book with images and text, that investigates your relationship to “home”---whatever the meaning of that word holds for you. Using a wide variety of materials and personal images, we’ll use the creative process to explore “the house’ as a…
Find out more »Painters’ Forum with Rob Pollien
September 10, October 8, November 12, December 10, from 1 to 3 pm (ET), on Zoom Four oil or acrylic painting projects over four months with demonstrations, lectures, an online forum, discussion, and critiques! The projects will begin with palette management and color mixing exercises and progress through a series of color-related painting problems. The work of Albers, Itten, and Zorn will be referenced, examined, and incorporated in our study. This course is for experienced painters wishing to improve their…
Find out more »Off the Page: A Workshop for Honing Skills for Poetry Performance with poet Martin Steingesser
Four Wednesdays, October 13, 20, 27 and November 3from 3:30 to 5 pm (ET)Online via Zoom Have you ever wanted to learn how poets read and express their works by heart? Do you love the way the intonation and lilt of the voice creates more meaning in the verse? Did you know that the word for “Ear” & “Wisdom” are the same in Sumerian! This workshop with master poet, Martin Steingesser will show you how to achieve more range, more…
Find out more »Off the Page: A Workshop for Honing Skills for Poetry Performance with poet Martin Steingesser
Four Wednesdays, October 13, 20, 27 and November 3from 3:30 to 5 pm (ET)Online via Zoom Have you ever wanted to learn how poets read and express their works by heart? Do you love the way the intonation and lilt of the voice creates more meaning in the verse? Did you know that the word for “Ear” & “Wisdom” are the same in Sumerian! This workshop with master poet, Martin Steingesser will show you how to achieve more range, more…
Find out more »Off the Page: A Workshop for Honing Skills for Poetry Performance with poet Martin Steingesser
Four Wednesdays, October 13, 20, 27 and November 3from 3:30 to 5 pm (ET)Online via Zoom Have you ever wanted to learn how poets read and express their works by heart? Do you love the way the intonation and lilt of the voice creates more meaning in the verse? Did you know that the word for “Ear” & “Wisdom” are the same in Sumerian! This workshop with master poet, Martin Steingesser will show you how to achieve more range, more…
Find out more »November 2021
Off the Page: A Workshop for Honing Skills for Poetry Performance with poet Martin Steingesser
Four Wednesdays, October 13, 20, 27 and November 3from 3:30 to 5 pm (ET)Online via Zoom Have you ever wanted to learn how poets read and express their works by heart? Do you love the way the intonation and lilt of the voice creates more meaning in the verse? Did you know that the word for “Ear” & “Wisdom” are the same in Sumerian! This workshop with master poet, Martin Steingesser will show you how to achieve more range, more…
Find out more »Painters’ Forum with Rob Pollien
September 10, October 8, November 12, December 10, from 1 to 3 pm (ET), on Zoom Four oil or acrylic painting projects over four months with demonstrations, lectures, an online forum, discussion, and critiques! The projects will begin with palette management and color mixing exercises and progress through a series of color-related painting problems. The work of Albers, Itten, and Zorn will be referenced, examined, and incorporated in our study. This course is for experienced painters wishing to improve their…
Find out more »December 2021
Painters’ Forum with Rob Pollien
September 10, October 8, November 12, December 10, from 1 to 3 pm (ET), on Zoom Four oil or acrylic painting projects over four months with demonstrations, lectures, an online forum, discussion, and critiques! The projects will begin with palette management and color mixing exercises and progress through a series of color-related painting problems. The work of Albers, Itten, and Zorn will be referenced, examined, and incorporated in our study. This course is for experienced painters wishing to improve their…
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