Classes + Workshops
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All classes and workshops are In Person unless noted otherwise.
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Upcoming Classes
The Painterly Print – Gel Plate Monotypes
Monotypes are unique prints made by applying paint or ink to a flat plate and then transferring the image to paper. They are often called the most painterly of prints. Making monotypes gives the artist...
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Mixed Media: Layering Paints and Papers to Create Rich Surfaces
In this class you’ll explore how to combine acrylic paints with a wide varietyof papers—both found and handmade—to create richly layered surfaces and a cohesive, unified mixed media work. You’ll learn about different substrates, how...
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Approaches to the Figure
All levels welcome. Our subjects are live models. Using both drawing and painting media, we’ll practice different approaches that focus your attention on simplifying the figure in space. Relying on observation, we’ll explore ways to...
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Online: Drawing Plants
This workshop meets online. In this workshop, we’ll use plants as our subject matter and draw in three different mediums: colored pencils, crayons, and watercolors. We’ll start with small, more intimate drawings and gradually up...
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Knives Out! Painting with the Palette Knife
All levels welcome. Want to take your painting to the next level? Try painting with the palette knife instead of a brush. You will get clean color, beautiful texture, and deeper space with very little...
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Knives Out II
Students that have taken Knives Out with Ruth will have the opportunity to advance their own works with guidance and support. We will meet weekly to discuss questions and difficulties you have encountered in your...
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Gyokatu Fish Printing
In this one-day workshop, Carolyn Letvin will teach the process of making and enhancing prints made from fish. Originating from Japan in the mid-1800s, Gyotaku prints are a form of nature printing, believed to have...
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Embrace the Practice – Daily Painting
Let’s start a daily painting practice together. The value of a commitment to a specific art-making practice is that the daily routine is both grounding and freeing; it’s an insistent act of documentation and with...
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Model Session with Live Model (Sep 28)
FEE IS NON-REFUNDABLE. No instruction, just an opportunity to develop or sharpen your life drawing and painting skills with an artist’s model, nude or clothed. Each five-hour session will feature multiple poses with at least...
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Color + Spontaneity + Layering = Watercolor
Color, as it is used in watercolor and as a tool for expression, will be the focus of this class. Through individual mentoring, you will clarify your vision and intent. Focusing on any subject of...
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The Stylized Still Life
All levels welcome. In this class, students will explore acrylic still life painting with a focus on composition and observation of light and shadow. Students will expand their knowledge of color mixing and painting techniques...
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Still-Life Drawing: Finding the Right Tone
All levels are welcome. In this two-day workshop with pencil artist Mark Zieff, you will learn to create highly expressive still-life drawings using toned paper and a simplified palette of colored pencils. Artists started using...
Click for DetailsModel Session with Live Model (Oct 5)
FEE IS NON-REFUNDABLE. No instruction, just an opportunity to develop or sharpen your life drawing and painting skills with an artist’s model, nude or clothed. Each five-hour session will feature multiple poses with at least...
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Postcard Landscapes
In this workshop, we’ll work in watercolor, gouache, or acrylic to make simple, stylized landscape postcards. Working small is an excellent way to try out different approaches to rendering place. We’ll also make stencils to...
Click for DetailsThe Painterly Print – Gel Plate Monotypes
Monotypes are unique prints made by applying paint or ink to a flat plate and then transferring the image to paper. They are often called the most painterly of prints. Making monotypes gives the artist...
Click for DetailsModel Session with Live Model (Oct 19)
FEE IS NON-REFUNDABLE. No instruction, just an opportunity to develop or sharpen your life drawing and painting skills with an artist’s model, nude or clothed. Each five-hour session will feature multiple poses with at least...
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On Site: Capturing the Light en Plein Air
Plein air painting in historic Concord, MA! Capture the beauty of Spring in Concord while painting outdoors with master plein air painter, Caleb Stone. Colorful specimen trees, Walden Pond and the surrounding woodlands, sweeping marshes,...
Click for DetailsModel Session with Live Model (Oct 23)
FEE IS NON-REFUNDABLE. No instruction, just an opportunity to develop or sharpen your life drawing and painting skills with an artist’s model, nude or clothed. Each five-hour session will feature multiple poses with at least...
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Photo to Paint – Creative Interpretation and Expression
Students will explore the art of using photographs as a springboard for creative expression in painting. Rather than copying images directly, participants will learn to interpret and translate their chosen photos into unique artworks, focusing...
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Working With Woodcuts
Woodcuts are historically one of the original relief print making mediums. Once used primarily as a means of providing integral illustrations alongside typeface in printed books, the woodcut evolved into a legitimate medium of creative...
Click for DetailsModel Session with Live Model (Nov 3)
FEE IS NON-REFUNDABLE. No instruction, just an opportunity to develop or sharpen your life drawing and painting skills with an artist’s model, nude or clothed. Each five-hour session will feature multiple poses with at least...
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Painting, Pattern, and Collage
This class is for painters who want to experiment, loosen up, and/or expand their practice. We will work from a variety of sources for inspiration: still-life setups, postcards, and images from museum collections. As a...
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The Unique Image: Intuitive Painting with Acrylics
In this six-week class, Kathy will guide you to thoughtfully explore your unique imagery and tap into your intuition. Through a series of exercises, demonstrations, and critique, you will be encouraged to explore your imagination...
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Reading the Lines of the Land with Acrylic, Oils, or Aqua Oils
All levels welcome. This class is about moving from landscape into abstraction. The idea of landscape to abstraction covers a very broad range. It is very difficult to move one’s thinking towards the abstract, but...
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Beginning Oil Painting
Do you want to try oil painting for the first time or review and build on experience you have? Oils are perhaps the most forgiving of media and allow incredible flexibility in how they are...
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Fur, Feathers, Scales, and Hair
All levels welcome. Learn to paint our animal friends! In this six-week class, we will start by discussing how to choose good reference photos and then move into exploring various mark-making approaches to create different...
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Wordy Still Life
In this workshop, we’ll create simple still life images using painted paper collage and/or watercolor painting. We’ll begin by making observational drawings of real objects, then combine them in imaginative ways. And we can add...
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Large-Scale Collage
We’ll begin with sketching—exploring ideas, shapes, and composition—then dive into color theory to understand how colors interact and illuminate one another. You’ll paint and cut papers on a much larger scale, opening up new possibilities...
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Mosaics: Developing Your Personal Imagery
All levels are welcome. This course will provide an in-depth experience with mosaic design and fabrication. Each participant will have the opportunity to create an 8” x 8” mosaic with traditional Mexican glass smalti and...
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Moments in Landscape with Watercolor Monotype
Think small, big impact. Is there a moment that captures your eye—a particular light, composition, color, or pattern in nature? Bring drawings or images of what inspires you and we will look at possibilities in...
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Wonders of Gel Plate Printing
Gel plate printing is an accessible monotype printing process—no press required! It is a versatile and experimental process for creating papers for collage, bookmaking, cards, journaling, as well producing monotypes. Printing in this way naturally...
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Printmaking Studio Basics
This workshop is suitable for beginners and can be adjusted for all levels of experience. All materials will be provided. Whether you are a first time printmaker or a seasoned professional artist, this workshop will...
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Push Your Oils
Are you ready to inject new energy into your painting practice? This class will challenge you to step outside your comfort zone and explore some creative possibilities. We’ll experiment with dynamic mark-making, bold color palettes,...
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Watercolor for Absolute Beginners
Unlike most watercolor classes, this one will start at the very beginning! This class is geared towards the absolute beginner and will prepare you for future watercolor classes. We will begin with learning the basic...
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Oil Pastel: Draw, Scratch and Scrumble
All levels of experience are welcome. Is it painting? Is it drawing? It’s both, and that’s the fun of it! Come for a day of discovering what this lush medium can offer. We will run...
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Online: Terra Incognita – Deepening Our Approach to the Landscape
Explore what truly sparks your motivation to make things inspired by the natural world. Beyond depicting, who are we in our relationship to the environment? Why portray the land? What is it that we really...
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Botanical Prints
In this class, you will learn to make unique and colorful botanical prints. Students will collaborate to make prints together and also make unique prints of their own using botanical and naturally found materials: leaves,...
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Linoleum Printmaking
All levels welcome. Join printmaker Coco Berkman in a two-day intensive workshop exploring the magic of relief printmaking! We will be transferring a drawing onto a 10” x 10” linoleum plate, carving it with Japanese...
Click for DetailsModel Session with Live Model (May 26)
FEE IS NON-REFUNDABLE. No instruction, just an opportunity to develop or sharpen your life drawing and painting skills with an artist’s model, nude or clothed. You are not required to stay for the entire session,...
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Figurative Collage
Learn how to create collages with very simple materials such as glue and magazine cuttings or any thin papers that you fancy. There will be magazine cuttings in every color for you to choose from....
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Meeting Meaning and Metaphor
Through drawing, painting, collage, and mixed media, we’ll explore how ideas, memories, and emotions can take visual form. Using metaphor as our guide, we’ll translate what we feel or remember into what we can see...
Click for DetailsPrintmaking Studio Basics
This workshop is suitable for beginners and can be adjusted for all levels of experience. All materials will be provided. Whether you are a first time printmaker or a seasoned professional artist, this workshop will...
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Collage-a-thon
All levels of experience are welcome. With an emphasis on fun and discovery we will cut, tear, stack, weave and fold our way through a series of collages based on prompts, using various themes and...
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Explorations in Gel Plate Printing
A gel plate is a stimulating and immersive medium with a unique openness to experimentation in the monoprinting process—without the need for a printing press! Implementing simple tools and exploring image transfers, we will create...
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Tetra Pak Printmaking
Tetra Pak is a type of food carton often used for soups, broths, and shelf-stable milks. Its plastic-faced foil lining also makes it a popular printmaking material, capable of producing etching-like prints with simple tools...
Click for DetailsPrintmaking Studio Basics
This workshop is suitable for beginners and can be adjusted for all levels of experience. All materials will be provided. Whether you are a first time printmaker or a seasoned professional artist, this workshop will...
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Plein Air Monotypes without a Press
In this one-day workshop you will learn how to translate your skills as an oil painter into printmaking. This technique requires no press, is portable and can easily be used plein air. Using your current oil...
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Starting from Something – Drawing, Painting, and Collage
Where to begin? In this weekend workshop, we will start with quick and loose transcriptions of a painting from the past. These transcriptions will become collage paper. Collages will inform drawings as well as monotypes...
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Drawing for Painters
This four-day workshop will address five major themes in the relationship between painting and drawing: scale, note-taking, measurement, iteration, and intervention. During our time together we will focus on drawing as a complete, independent media...
Click for DetailsModel Session with Live Model (July 6)
FEE IS NON-REFUNDABLE. No instruction, just an opportunity to develop or sharpen your life drawing and painting skills with an artist’s model, nude or clothed. Each five-hour session will feature multiple poses with at least...
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The White Line Woodcut and Beyond
The white line woodcut, also known as the Provincetown Print, is a uniquely American form of printmaking, invented by artists working in Provincetown in the early 1900s. In this method, beautiful multicolor prints are printed...
Click for DetailsModel Session with Live Model (July 15)
FEE IS NON-REFUNDABLE. No instruction, just an opportunity to develop or sharpen your life drawing and painting skills with an artist’s model, nude or clothed. Each five-hour session will feature multiple poses with at least...
Click for DetailsModel Session with Live Model (July 18)
FEE IS NON-REFUNDABLE. No instruction, just an opportunity to develop or sharpen your life drawing and painting skills with an artist’s model, nude or clothed. Each five-hour session will feature multiple poses with at least...
Click for DetailsIt’s About the Paint
A week-long workshop with Emily Passman designed to expand how you apply your paint. Through guided exercises using your photos as well as working from observation, you’ll explore brushwork, color exploration, and right-brain creative strategies...
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In Black and White: Large-Scale Collages
All levels welcome. In this one-day workshop, we will work big, bold, and in black and white, making large-scale collages. Our day will begin with a series of drawings made with a sumi brush and...
Click for DetailsColor + Spontaneity + Layering = Watercolor Intensive
Color, as it is used in watercolor and as a tool for expression, will be the focus of this workshop. Through individual mentoring, you will clarify your vision and intent. Focusing on any subject of...
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Finding Shapes in Collage
What if the most interesting shapes in your work are the ones you haven’t found yet? In this workshop, we’ll explore how to uncover those shapes—moving beyond literal forms to discover compositions that feel personal...
Click for DetailsReading the Lines of the Land with Acrylic, Oils, or Aqua Oils
All levels welcome. This class is about moving from landscape into abstraction. The idea of landscape to abstraction covers a very broad range. It is very difficult to move one’s thinking towards the abstract, but...
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Colorful Clothing Model Session with Live Model (Aug 7)
FEE IS NON-REFUNDABLE. Inspired by Amy Sherald’s powerful portraiture, the live model will be wearing visually rich, colorful clothing against a colorful, contrasting background that suggests individuality, personality, and narrative. No instruction, just an opportunity...
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