Looking for more space to spread out and work on a project? Or maybe you want to work amongst other artists to feel inspired and get some helpful feedback on your work. Join other local artists any time between 9am-12pm, for Open Studio. Please pay $10 cash at the door. Bring all supplies you need to use, NRAS has easels available. 

No registration, drop in only, cash or check.

No registration required – all are welcome! $10 cash only 

Looking for a creative way to kick off your week? Join us every FIRST and THIRD Monday night at North River Arts Society for Drop-In Craft Night! Bring your own project—whether it’s knitting, sketching, embroidery, sewing, collage, or any craft you're working on—and enjoy a relaxed, welcoming space to create alongside fellow makers.

All skill levels are welcome. This is an informal, social night perfect for getting inspired, sharing ideas, and making progress on whatever you're into. Come solo or with friends—stay the whole time or just pop in!

This group is open to all ages, levels, skills and crafts. 

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Join North River Arts for Friday Night Figure Drawing!

Settle into a relaxed, creative atmosphere and spend your Friday evening drawing or painting from a live model. Each session begins with a series of short, dynamic poses designed to help you warm up, loosen your hand, and explore gesture. We then transition into longer poses, giving you the opportunity to dive deeper into proportion, anatomy, shading, and more refined detail at your own pace.

This is an uninstructed studio session, making it a wonderful option for artists of all levels who are looking to practice, build confidence, or simply enjoy dedicated time to create in community with others. Bring your preferred materials and enjoy a supportive, inspiring environment to grow your figure drawing skills.

Easels provided by NRAS. $20 drop in fee at the door, cash only. Space limited to 14 students. 

In this unique learning opportunity, figure painter Corey Pitkin will demonstrate two similar but distinct approaches to working from a live model in two different mediums: soft pastel and oil paint. On day one Pitkin will demonstrate using soft pastel and other dry media techniques including charcoal and PanPastel. On day 2 the focus will shift to oil painting using a simplified palette while discussing the creative opportunities that each medium can bring. This workshop is open to artist working in charcoal, pastel, or oil paint. Exploring all of the mediums being demonstrated is encouraged by not required. Mornings will begin with demonstrations and group discussion, and during the afternoons students will work in their selected media(s) while Pitkin provides individual guidance. A live nude model will be onsite for both days. Photographs of the model are not allowed.

Materials List: This workshop is open to soft pastel, PanPastel, and oil. Artists should be experienced in the medium of choice before the workshop. Please see materials lists below. 

Corey Pitkin Oil Painting Supply List.pdf

Corey Pitkin Soft Pastel Supply List.pdf

Corey Pitkin PanPastel Charcoal Supply List.pdf

Corey Pitkin PSA, IAPS/EP
A predominantly self-taught artist, Pitkin’s award winning work has been featured in The Pastel Journal, Art Renewal Center, Portrait Society of America, Pratique des Arts Magazine, International Artist Magazine, and Pastel World Magazine, and is held in collections across the globe. He is a Signature Member of the Pastel Society of America where he also serves on the Board of Governors and has achieved Eminent Pastelist status with the International Association of Pastel Societies. Pitkin teaches frequently online and regularly travels for in-person workshops. He currently resides in upstate New York with his wife Esther and children Anastasia and Xavier.

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So many of us love the color and line work of Intuitive Abstract pieces, but don’t know where to start to create them.  This workshop explores the building of Non Objective work, where there do not have to be any recognizable items or shapes. This method is without planned outcomes, and is spontaneous and surprising.  This session is for beginners and experienced painters alike.  We will have exercises that release us from intention, and allow for visceral colors, shapes and lines, and then to finish the piece we rely on compositional guidelines to bring the painting together.  It will be a fun and supportive day where you will surprise yourself in a good way! 

About the Instructor: Kelley MacDonald

After getting her Art History degree at Wheaton College, Kelley continued taking art classes at various Art Associations for 10 years before she started painting.  First with watercolor, then oil and now happily with acrylic and mixed media, it has been a lifetime of growing and exploring all things art.  

Kelley has won numerous awards, and has taught classes and workshops for many years.  While for the majority of her career Kelley has been a literal, representational painter, in the past 4 years she has been diving into abstraction, particularly Intuitive Abstraction.  The history involved on the canvas, the multiple layers, the reveal and conceal and push and pull are what attracts her to this method. 

A favorite thing to do is to travel, and be inspired by different landscapes and  cityscapes.  Kelley has traveled to Holland to paint, along with many places on this side of the ocean, namely Nova Scotia, Sedona, Santa Fe, St. Simon’s Island, Seattle, San Miguel de Allende, MX, California and Maine. 

In 2009 Kelley founded the Artists’ Challenge Group “Girls Just Wanna Paint” which is a collection of award winning artists  who post a response to a new topic every month consecutively since July of 2009. Aside from the Providence Art Club. Kelley is a member of the North River Arts Society in Marshfield, MA.  She has taught at the Art Club, Bristol Art Museum, and at North River Arts Society.

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This spring workshop invites you to slow down and ask yourself: “What do I want?” Tap into your daydreams, wander through your imagination, and connect with your inner spark; leave feeling relaxed and renewed. 

We’ll begin with a dreamy all-levels yoga practice and immersive sound bath led by Lauren Champagne. Through movement and sound, the body relaxes and the mind becomes more spacious, allowing stagnant creative energy to flow. A guided meditation will deliver you to a dreamlike state where insight and imagination can surface more freely.

From there, we’ll gather for a guided collage session with artist Lindsey Boss, using imagery, texture, and intuition to explore and give form to what’s been waiting beneath the surface. No experience needed. 

Bring your yoga mat, your curiosity, and a willingness to explore.

All art materials provided.

About the Instructors: 

Lauren Champagne 

With over 13 years of experience teaching yoga, Lauren Champagne brings a refined, intuitive approach to exploration. She has led hundreds of classes, immersive workshops, and transformational retreats, and opened her own yoga school in 2025 to offer thoughtfully designed teacher training programs and mentorship. 

Lauren's classes are known for being fun, inspiring and intentional. Her teaching range includes power yoga, flowy vinyasa, cozy restorative yoga, sound healing and yoga Nidra. 

Whether leading a class, workshop or retreat, Lauren creates spaces that are welcoming, safe and nurturing where yogis can deepen their practice, reconnect with themselves, and experience something lasting beyond the mat. 

Lindsey Boss

Since graduating from Mass College of Art in 2008, Lindsey has been consistently making analog collages with vintage books and magazines, which she avidly collects. The hunt for imagery, primarily from the 50s-80s, is a huge part of the process. The collages are a way of making sense of her own life experiences, but the goal is to evoke a wide range of feelings and reassurance within the viewer, as they make sense of their own experiences. Over the past 10 years, Lindsey has been showing her work in and around the Boston area, and has done some album art. She is happy to be bringing more of it into the beautiful South Shore.

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Join us for a hands-on one-day workshop exploring the whimsical art of spun cotton bird making. In this session, participants will learn the technique ofusing a diluted glue solution to build up cotton fibers into various shapes, with a special focus on birds. From songbirds to more imaginative varieties, Michelle will demonstrate how the same core process can be adapted to create many different types of birds, allowing for both guided learning and personal creativity.

Participants will be led step-by-step through forming, shaping, and finishing their own cotton bird. By the end of the day, each student will leave with a completed bird(s) and the skills to continue experimenting with cotton at home.

This workshop is suitable for beginners and experienced makers alike and is perfect for anyone interested in sculpture, folk art techniques, or playful mixed-media processes.

Instructor Bio: Michelle Chung Levesque is a self-taught fiber and mixed media artist who loves to work with wool, fabric, paper, and metal wire. As a lifelong creative and maker of stuff, Levesque has always enjoyed the challenge of making beautiful things from unexpected raw materials and she strives to show this passion in whatever she creates.

Materials List:

• a bag of jumbo cotton balls 
  
• Bottle of Elmer’s glue, clear or white
  
• acrylic paints and assorted brushes (NRAS has some available for those who do not have any)
• paper towels 

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Learn the art of traditional Nantucket-style basket weaving in this half-day workshop focused on creating a beautiful lidded glass jar basket. Students will weave a classic cane basket around a glass jar base, then finish their piece with a fitted lid and signature Nantucket-style details.

This workshop is perfect for beginners and returning weavers alike, and participants will leave with a functional, timeless basket that can be used for storage, gifting, or display.

All materials are included, and each student will go home with a completed lidded jar basket.

About the Instructor: Joy Sawyer

In the 1980’s when I was raising my two sons I had a basket making business called Duxbury Bay Baskets. I taught classes all over the Boston area, sold my creations at art and fine craft fairs, and exhibited my work in local art shows. I put my reeds away in the 1990’s when I started my 25 year career as an Interior Designer. After my husband and I retired I picked up a Nantucket basket that had been sitting unfinished for a decade and I was once again smitten! I encouraged him to learn this amazing craft and he has been a talented student. We started Nimble Fingers Studio three years ago and now teach shaker style baskets, Nantucket baskets and Nantucket bracelets. We are delighted that you will be joining us for a class. 

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Join artist and floral designer Grace Moore for a relaxing afternoon of floral arranging. Grace will guide participants in creating beautiful arrangements perfect for tea party settings. Please bring your own teapot and two teacups to incorporate into your design (check your local savers or thrift shops!). Students will leave with a stunning floral arrangement and the skills to create elegant tablescapes for future gatherings—just in time for Mother’s Day!

About the Instructor: Grace Moore

Grace is a local artist and floral designer out of Marshfield, MA. She works at Beach Plum Floral in Marshfield and spends her free time painting, making earrings, crafting, and generally anything creative! Grace is a co-founder of Wicked Women Makers Market, a holiday craft market at the Marshfield Fairgrounds.

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Get ready to jump in and get your hands wet!  Your nature art journey starts here. Designed to coincide with World Ocean Day, this class sets the stage for deeper engagement with the world's oceans and to raise awareness about the vital role oceans play in our lives — from regulating climate and producing oxygen to providing food, jobs, and biodiversity.

Join Cape Cod educator/artist, Stephanie King, for a relaxed and creative workshop on the unique art of seaweed pressing.  In this workshop we will make seaweed pressings using drift seaweed collected off the coastline of Cape Cod.  Together we will learn how to create a “travel” press as well as learn the basic techniques for pressing seaweed on to paper.  Collecting seaweed that has washed ashore is a lovely way to enjoy nature and create art with very little environmental impact. This art form is a wonderful way to relax, go with the flow and preserve your seaside memories.  We will make several pressings of seaweed that can be used in scrapbooking, made into cards, or framed.

*For the love of the land and sea, all materials will be sustainably collected on Cape Cod by the instructor.  Please bring a small container to bring some leftover seaweed home for further exploration.

About the Instructor: Stephanie King 

Stephanie King is a native of Massachusetts. She maintains a full-time studio in Sandwich, MA. Stephanie is a Cape Cod based eco-artist who creates mixed media art on paper, canvas and wood panels using seaweed and botanicals. With a background in Sociology and Montessori education, Stephanie transitioned into a career in the visual arts in 2023. Driven by an innate desire to create and an aspiration to effect positive change in herself and her community, Stephanie’s art invites viewers to see seaweed and botanicals in new ways. She has been observing and studying plants, seaweed and nature through an artistic lens since 2005. She established ‘Seaside Botanical Art’ on Cape Cod in 2023. Since then, her artwork has been included in several group exhibitions as well as two solo shows on Cape Cod. She received an honorable mention in the 2024 Autumn Juried Exhibition at the Falmouth Art Center. In the Fall of 2025, Stephanie received the C.A.R.E for the Cape & Islands Stewardship Award for her commitment to preserve and enhance the natural environment, culture and history of the Cape and Islands. In addition to practicing sustainable methods while collecting drift seaweed and wild botanicals, she regularly cleans beaches and uses her work to educate and create behavior change.

Website: https://www.seasidebotanicalart.com

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/stephanie-king-18750b359/

IG: https://www.instagram.com/stephanieking_botanicalart/

FB: Seaside Botanical Art

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You can do this! Explore sketching with abandonment. Step out of your comfort zone and draw with a variety of materials, letting all the imperfections, “mistakes,” and corrections lead you to beautiful discoveries and exciting images. Perfectionism is highly overrated. Let fearless mark making lead you to dynamic images that engage and delight! Layer, smudge, erase…it’s all good.

In this workshop, we will look at some of the masters of intuitive drawing (both past and present) for inspiration. You will watch Suzette demonstrate various techniques and be coached through exercises using different mediums. You will utilize still life as subject matter. Please bring 3-5 objects from your home to arrange in your space and a patterned dishtowel or fabric piece to wrap into the still life. Anything goes! Ordinary objects are often poetic. Don’t over think what you bring in. Suzette encourages you to bring the drawing tools you already have in your kit and not to worry if you don’t have every element on the extended

materials list. Get ready to wow yourself…

Materials list:

Must have:

• A book of cheap sketch paper for exercises
• A Bristol pad, Vellum or Smooth, as big as you please but not smaller than 11x14
• A graphite pencil
• Some willow or vine charcoal
• Paynes Gray acrylic ink
• white charcoal or white conte crayon or white pastel
• 3 colors watercolor, acrylic gouache, or acrylic paint and a brush

Nice to have:

• watercolor, gouache, acrylic sets
• pastels, oil or soft
• ink tense pencils
• Cran d’arche Neocolor crayons or like product
• water-soluble graphite
• acrylic markers
• crayons
• gel pens
• prior works you are willing to tear into collage material

About the Instructor: Suzette Lebenzon

Suzette Lebenzon has painted since her childhood in Scituate, MA. She has kept a studio and shown in galleries most of her adult life. Her home and studio are in Wellfleet.

Suzette was a recipient of the Mass Cultural Council’s Unrestricted Artists’ Grants. In 2023, Suzette was inducted to the National Association of Women Artists, as a Signature Member. Her work has been curated into shows at the Art Complex Museum in Duxbury, the Scollay Square Gallery in Boston’s City Hall, and the Galatea Fine Art Gallery in SOWA.

She is represented by the  AMZehnder Gallery in Wellfleet, MA; and the BBLG Gallery in Smithtown, NY.

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In this captivating 2-day workshop Julie and Michael will help you discover the beauty of pastels. You will explore color, layering, blending and composition as you learn how to create a vibrant floral artwork. They will share: their knowledge; skills; materials/process; tricks and tips and their love of detail – all of which can be applied to any genre, and the workshop is perfect for all skill levels. Two tutors, two creative days.

About the Artists:

Julie and Michael are international award-winning artists sharing a love of pastel and realism. They’ve been fascinated with realism since childhood and in their artwork, they strive to create paintings with greater depth and feeling than can be achieved with a photograph. Julie is in the IAPS Master Circle (IAPS-MC) a Master Pastelist in: New Zealand (MPANZ); and Australia (MPSA) and is a Signature member of the Pastel Society of America (PSA). Michael is an IAPS Eminent Pastelist (IAPS-EP), a Master Pastelist in: the Pastel Society of America (PSA-MP); New Zealand (MPANZ); and Australia (MPSA) They both have had articles and their pastel paintings published in many leading art magazines and sell their work internationally and through galleries in New Zealand. Between them they have over 40 years of teaching experience and currently teach workshops Internationally and throughout New Zealand. Julie also teaches privately from their studio in Greenhithe, Auckland.

www.juliefreeman.co.nz www.michaelfreemanartist.com

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