March 2021
Painters’ Forum with Rob Pollien
Fridays, January 8, February 12, March 12 and April 9 (Second Fridays of the month), 1 to 3 pm Online via Zoom This class at the Farnsworth Art Museum, for experienced painters that want to increase their skillset, offers four oil or acrylic painting projects over four months. These will include 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…
Find out more »Step by Step Watercolor Level 2 with Erica Qualey
Tuesdays, March 16, and 30; April 13, and 27 3:30 to 5:30 pm Eastern timeOnline via Zoom. Have you learned the basic watercolor skills but feel like you need a bit of guidance to bring your paintings to the next step? This class may be just what you are looking for! Grab your paintbrushes and join our watercolor painting group! We will be painting our way through the winter blues. Erica will lead you through live, interactive watercolor paint-alongs, via…
Find out more »Possibilities with Watercolor with Erica Qualey
Tuesdays, March 16, 23, 30, April 6, and 136 to 8 pm Eastern TimeOnline via Zoom Time to dig out your paint brushes and get those creative juices flowing! Join Erica for a virtual watercolor workshop perfect for beginners and those with some experience but wanting to fine-tune their technique. Watercolor is a fun and beautiful medium to use and with the understanding of some basic skills can produce rich and illuminating paintings. In this class, we will dig deep…
Find out more »Making It Up as You Go with Ryan Jackson
Thursdays, January 21, February 18, March 18 and April 15, 1:00 to 2:30 pm Online via Zoom If you have been yearning for a reason to laugh out loud, sign up for this class! You will not be disappointed! This is the perfect ‘after 2020’ occasion to not just snicker, but howl! You’ll be able to really bust out of your shell and have fun doing it. This class is back by popular demand and offered by Ryan Jackson, a…
Find out more »Possibilities with Watercolor 2 with Erica Qualey
Thursdays, March 18, 25, April 1, 8 and 15 from 6 to 8 pmonline via Zoom Due to popular demand, we are offering a second class of Possibilities in Watercolor. This is the same class that is offered on Tuesdays here. Time to dig out your paint brushes and get those creative juices flowing! Join Erica for a virtual beginner watercolor workshop perfect as well for those with some experience but wanting to fine-tune their technique. Watercolor is a fun…
Find out more »Adventures in Word and Image: A Generative Writing Salon
Saturdays, January 16, February 20, March 20 Online via Zoom. Join local author and career educator, Jodi Paloni, for a generative writing salon inspired by visual images selected from current Farnsworth Art Museum exhibitions and the museum collection, paired with snippets of poetry and prose to spark curiosity and imagination. Participants will engage first in a “sudden prompt” to get the creative juices flowing, and then break to write “alone among others” for about 30 minutes. Finally, writers will share…
Find out more »Possibilities with Watercolor with Erica Qualey
Tuesdays, March 16, 23, 30, April 6, and 136 to 8 pm Eastern TimeOnline via Zoom Time to dig out your paint brushes and get those creative juices flowing! Join Erica for a virtual watercolor workshop perfect for beginners and those with some experience but wanting to fine-tune their technique. Watercolor is a fun and beautiful medium to use and with the understanding of some basic skills can produce rich and illuminating paintings. In this class, we will dig deep…
Find out more »Empress of the Environment: Louise Nevelson at a Crossroad with Laurie Wilson
Thursday, March 25, 2 pm Eastern TimeOnline via Zoom After two decades of creating celebrated wood sculptures - in 1965-1966 Nevelson turned to new materials, at first plastic and then metal. She also shifted from making work to be seen indoors to creating sculpture to be seen outdoors and began to title her works Atmospheres and Environments. Already seen as one of the Abstract Expressionists her new work qualified her as a Minimalist artist - a little recognized fact. Despite…
Find out more »Possibilities with Watercolor 2 with Erica Qualey
Thursdays, March 18, 25, April 1, 8 and 15 from 6 to 8 pmonline via Zoom Due to popular demand, we are offering a second class of Possibilities in Watercolor. This is the same class that is offered on Tuesdays here. Time to dig out your paint brushes and get those creative juices flowing! Join Erica for a virtual beginner watercolor workshop perfect as well for those with some experience but wanting to fine-tune their technique. Watercolor is a fun…
Find out more »Pysanka Demonstration with Lesia Sochor
Friday, March 26 from 4 to 5 pmOnline via Zoom Learn the Ukrainian style of egg decorating--Pysanka--during this online demonstration! The word Pysanka comes from the verb 'Pysati' which means to write. Designs are made by drawing (or writing) on an egg with a tool called a kystka. The traditional kystka is made from a wooden dowel with a copper funnel. It is heated in the flame of the candle, then dipped into beeswax and the designs flow from the tip onto…
Find out more »Step by Step Watercolor Level 2 with Erica Qualey
Tuesdays, March 16, and 30; April 13, and 27 3:30 to 5:30 pm Eastern timeOnline via Zoom. Have you learned the basic watercolor skills but feel like you need a bit of guidance to bring your paintings to the next step? This class may be just what you are looking for! Grab your paintbrushes and join our watercolor painting group! We will be painting our way through the winter blues. Erica will lead you through live, interactive watercolor paint-alongs, via…
Find out more »Possibilities with Watercolor with Erica Qualey
Tuesdays, March 16, 23, 30, April 6, and 136 to 8 pm Eastern TimeOnline via Zoom Time to dig out your paint brushes and get those creative juices flowing! Join Erica for a virtual watercolor workshop perfect for beginners and those with some experience but wanting to fine-tune their technique. Watercolor is a fun and beautiful medium to use and with the understanding of some basic skills can produce rich and illuminating paintings. In this class, we will dig deep…
Find out more »April 2021
Possibilities with Watercolor 2 with Erica Qualey
Thursdays, March 18, 25, April 1, 8 and 15 from 6 to 8 pmonline via Zoom Due to popular demand, we are offering a second class of Possibilities in Watercolor. This is the same class that is offered on Tuesdays here. Time to dig out your paint brushes and get those creative juices flowing! Join Erica for a virtual beginner watercolor workshop perfect as well for those with some experience but wanting to fine-tune their technique. Watercolor is a fun…
Find out more »Possibilities with Watercolor with Erica Qualey
Tuesdays, March 16, 23, 30, April 6, and 136 to 8 pm Eastern TimeOnline via Zoom Time to dig out your paint brushes and get those creative juices flowing! Join Erica for a virtual watercolor workshop perfect for beginners and those with some experience but wanting to fine-tune their technique. Watercolor is a fun and beautiful medium to use and with the understanding of some basic skills can produce rich and illuminating paintings. In this class, we will dig deep…
Find out more »Possibilities with Watercolor 2 with Erica Qualey
Thursdays, March 18, 25, April 1, 8 and 15 from 6 to 8 pmonline via Zoom Due to popular demand, we are offering a second class of Possibilities in Watercolor. This is the same class that is offered on Tuesdays here. Time to dig out your paint brushes and get those creative juices flowing! Join Erica for a virtual beginner watercolor workshop perfect as well for those with some experience but wanting to fine-tune their technique. Watercolor is a fun…
Find out more »Painters’ Forum with Rob Pollien
Fridays, January 8, February 12, March 12 and April 9 (Second Fridays of the month), 1 to 3 pm Online via Zoom This class at the Farnsworth Art Museum, for experienced painters that want to increase their skillset, offers four oil or acrylic painting projects over four months. These will include 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…
Find out more »Exploring Drawing Value with Whitney River
Mondays, April 12, 19, 26 and May 3, from 3 to 5 pm Eastern TimeOnline via Zoom Bring your drawings to life as you refine your shading skills. In this class, students will gain confidence in drawing through a combination of fun exercises, quick sketches, and extended still lives. Shading with graphite requires us to slow down, focus, and allow ourselves to be completely present and aware of what we are perceiving. In this way, rendering and shading through careful…
Find out more »Step by Step Watercolor Level 2 with Erica Qualey
Tuesdays, March 16, and 30; April 13, and 27 3:30 to 5:30 pm Eastern timeOnline via Zoom. Have you learned the basic watercolor skills but feel like you need a bit of guidance to bring your paintings to the next step? This class may be just what you are looking for! Grab your paintbrushes and join our watercolor painting group! We will be painting our way through the winter blues. Erica will lead you through live, interactive watercolor paint-alongs, via…
Find out more »Possibilities with Watercolor with Erica Qualey
Tuesdays, March 16, 23, 30, April 6, and 136 to 8 pm Eastern TimeOnline via Zoom Time to dig out your paint brushes and get those creative juices flowing! Join Erica for a virtual watercolor workshop perfect for beginners and those with some experience but wanting to fine-tune their technique. Watercolor is a fun and beautiful medium to use and with the understanding of some basic skills can produce rich and illuminating paintings. In this class, we will dig deep…
Find out more »“Musée des Beaux Arts”: An Ekphrastic Reading with Carl Little
Online via Zoom beginning at 2 pm Eastern Time In honor of National Poetry Month, poet and art writer Carl Little will combine art and poetry in an aural/visual presentation. The reading of poems by Blake, W.H. Auden, Wislaw Szymborska, Rosanna Warren, William Carpenter and others will be accompanied by the artworks that inspired them, with Brueghel, Renoir, Audubon, and Hopper among the featured artists. In addition to numerous art books, Carl Little is the author of Ocean Drinker: New…
Find out more »Making It Up as You Go with Ryan Jackson
Thursdays, January 21, February 18, March 18 and April 15, 1:00 to 2:30 pm Online via Zoom If you have been yearning for a reason to laugh out loud, sign up for this class! You will not be disappointed! This is the perfect ‘after 2020’ occasion to not just snicker, but howl! You’ll be able to really bust out of your shell and have fun doing it. This class is back by popular demand and offered by Ryan Jackson, a…
Find out more »Possibilities with Watercolor 2 with Erica Qualey
Thursdays, March 18, 25, April 1, 8 and 15 from 6 to 8 pmonline via Zoom Due to popular demand, we are offering a second class of Possibilities in Watercolor. This is the same class that is offered on Tuesdays here. Time to dig out your paint brushes and get those creative juices flowing! Join Erica for a virtual beginner watercolor workshop perfect as well for those with some experience but wanting to fine-tune their technique. Watercolor is a fun…
Find out more »Exploring Drawing Value with Whitney River
Mondays, April 12, 19, 26 and May 3, from 3 to 5 pm Eastern TimeOnline via Zoom Bring your drawings to life as you refine your shading skills. In this class, students will gain confidence in drawing through a combination of fun exercises, quick sketches, and extended still lives. Shading with graphite requires us to slow down, focus, and allow ourselves to be completely present and aware of what we are perceiving. In this way, rendering and shading through careful…
Find out more »Exploring Drawing Value with Whitney River
Mondays, April 12, 19, 26 and May 3, from 3 to 5 pm Eastern TimeOnline via Zoom Bring your drawings to life as you refine your shading skills. In this class, students will gain confidence in drawing through a combination of fun exercises, quick sketches, and extended still lives. Shading with graphite requires us to slow down, focus, and allow ourselves to be completely present and aware of what we are perceiving. In this way, rendering and shading through careful…
Find out more »Step by Step Watercolor Level 2 with Erica Qualey
Tuesdays, March 16, and 30; April 13, and 27 3:30 to 5:30 pm Eastern timeOnline via Zoom. Have you learned the basic watercolor skills but feel like you need a bit of guidance to bring your paintings to the next step? This class may be just what you are looking for! Grab your paintbrushes and join our watercolor painting group! We will be painting our way through the winter blues. Erica will lead you through live, interactive watercolor paint-alongs, via…
Find out more »May 2021
Exploring Drawing Value with Whitney River
Mondays, April 12, 19, 26 and May 3, from 3 to 5 pm Eastern TimeOnline via Zoom Bring your drawings to life as you refine your shading skills. In this class, students will gain confidence in drawing through a combination of fun exercises, quick sketches, and extended still lives. Shading with graphite requires us to slow down, focus, and allow ourselves to be completely present and aware of what we are perceiving. In this way, rendering and shading through careful…
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