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    • Saturday, March 23, 2024
    • 11:00 AM - 4:00 PM
    • 157 Old Main Street Marshfield Hills
    • 1
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    Enter the world of rug hooking, a timeless craft of pulling up strips of wool fabric or yarn to create beautiful loops that will create a lovely little scene. Using a kit from "Hooking Rugs" by Deanne Fitzpatrick of Nova Scotia, you'll learn the art of rug hooking techniques while crafting an 6"x6" "County Moon" pattern. 

    MATERIAL INCLUDED - students will get a kit that contains the pattern on burlap, hoop, hook and colorful materials to create the scene. 

    The workshop runs 11am-4pm, please bring a snack or lunch.

    About the Instructor: Carol Smith

    Carol began rug hooking about 25 years ago by attending a continuing education class at night in the nearby high school, and she found a passion.  Loving the textures and color interactions of the materials, the calming act of rug hooking, the creativity inspired by this art and the wonderful community of fellow rug hookers, she has continued to expand her knowledge through attending rug schools, workshops, Guilds and community groups.  Her “Lure of England” landscape was a finalist in the Celebration of Hand Hooked Rugs competition in 2021.

    • Sunday, March 24, 2024
    • Sunday, April 14, 2024
    • 2 sessions
    • 157 Old Main Street Marshfield Hills
    • 8
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    Ever wondered how the giant puppets for the Festival of the Arts Puppet Parade are made? Here's your chance to find out! Sally and Michelle will be collaboratively working on a new giant puppet for the 2024 Festival of the Arts, and you can join them in making your own "beakie" head. During the workshop, Sally and Michelle will guide you through the process while simultaneously working on the giant puppet. The session will serve as an open studio for puppet making, with personalized guidance from Sally and Michelle. Additionally, you'll gain insights into creating a giant puppet if you're interested in making one for the 2025 festival.

    Sunday, March 24, 9 am-11:30 am: Creating the Form Bring your own cardboard, boxboard, etc. Sally and Michelle will assist you in creating the form for your beakie head. If time allows, you can start painting your beakie; acrylic paint and brushes will be provided. Take your beakie home and continue working on it at your own pace.

    Sunday, April 14, 9 am-11:30 am: Decorating day! Bring all your craft supplies and share with others to create a unique beakie that is entirely yours. Glue on gems, yarn, fabric, flowers—let your creativity flow! If your beakie isn't finished, no worries! Take it home and continue working on it until the Festival. We invite everyone to join the 2024 Puppet Parade, proudly showcasing their brand new beakie! 


    • Saturday, April 06, 2024
    • Sunday, April 07, 2024
    • 2 sessions
    • 157 Old Main Street Marshfield Hills
    • 8
    Register

    Join Diane Rappisi for a fresh perspective on the ever-challenging, always beautiful, human figure. Working from the live (nude) model, participants will manage the critical components of composition, gesture, shape, structure and color. Participants begin monochromatically in either charcoal or oil grisaille, and proceed to full color work in pastel or oil. All levels are welcome.

    For information about recommended materials, please see: https://www.rappisiart.com/page/ 39914/supply-lists 

    About the Instructor: Diane Rappisi

    Diane Rappisi is a contemporary realist painter whose work fuses the light and chroma of the Cape Cod colorists with the form and structure of the traditional Italian and French academies. She works in oil, pastel, charcoal, and graphite. Diane is a member of the International Association of Pastel Societies (IAPS) Masters Circle and served on its Board of Directors from 2016-2021. She is a Signature Member of the Pastel Society of America and the Maryland Pastel Society, and also holds memberships in the Salmagundi Club in New York, the Oil Painters of America, and the Pastel Society of Colorado. Her work resides in numerous private and public collections across the US, in New Zealand, Australia and the Netherlands, and selected pieces have been published for the National Park Service in Glen Echo, MD. 

    • Saturday, April 13, 2024
    • 9:00 AM - 4:00 PM
    • 157 Old Main Street Marshfield Hills
    • 11
    Register

    In collaboration with the Focus on Figures exhibition, this workshop will center around the art of making images, learn how to effectively compose an image within a frame, and discover the significance of listening to your inner intuition. Join us for an engaging and interactive experience that will enhance your understanding and skills in visual storytelling. Let’s delve into the world of picture-making and community building. The first half Don Claude will have students take turns posing for one another or setting up their object of choice. With the second half, students focus on post-processing with what we made as a group vs individually. File management to creatively adjusting your image leading to a physical object. If there’s time left we will have a discussion on the experience. Don Claude will also provide a professional printer for students to take home a physical copy of their work. Price includes photo quality printer paper and (atleast) one print for students to take home.

    Materials List:

    • Digital camera
    • Laptop with Adobe Creative suite
    • SSD drive
    • Tripod

    About the Instructor: Don Claude Eshun 

    Claude is an educator for the Photography courses at Harvard University. He received his MFA degree in Photography from Massachusetts College of Art and Design in 2022. His work is currently exhibited at the Worcester Art Museum. He was in the Harvard Art Museum, Beacon Street Gallery, and The White Room. He was shortlisted for the 11th Kassel Dummy Award back in 2020 leading to his zine publication dromo, an annual zine publication to share narratives of the black experience. In his practice, he reflects on and reimagines scenes from his own history: He sees images from Ghana and Italy and more recently from America. By assembling photographs -- found, collected, and made -- Claude explores his multiple pasts and possibilities for the future.

    • Saturday, April 20, 2024
    • 12:00 PM - 3:00 PM
    • 157 Old Main Street Marshfield, MA
    • 9
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    Monitored by Lauren Bass

    Artists of all levels are invited to attend an open studio session working from a nude model. There will be no instruction. All materials and experience levels are welcome. Artists need to be at least 18 years old.

    Session and Model Fee: $20 preregister online or drop-in cash only

    Limit to 15 people

    • Saturday, April 27, 2024
    • 9:00 AM - 4:00 PM
    • 157 Old Main Street Marshfield Hills
    • 2
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    Embrace creative opportunities with collage and mixed media.

    Join us if you would like to explore new territory in constructing a painting using collage elements and water based media. Steps in the process include loosely determining composition with shapes, simplifying detail, applying collage materials, creative mark-making, asemic writing and more. 

    Find your unique voice as you explore how various media can influence the outcome of your artwork while discovering what processes best align with your vision and goals.

    Strategies learned often result in a more contemporary, abstracted interpretation of  traditional subject matter as you combine media for a more personal expression.

    About the Instructor: Karole Nicholson 
    Karole Nicholson attended Rhode Island School of Design studying graphic and advertising design; she currently works in mixed media and collage engaging an abstracted, contemporary approach to expressing her spirit on canvas. Texture, a gentle palette and an abstract view of the environment are the components that draw her into developing each painting.

    She exhibits her work as a member at the Attleboro Arts Museum, North River Art Society, Next Door Gallery, Gallery Twist and the Pawtucket Arts Collaborative.

    facebook.com/karole.nicholson

    instagram.com/karolenicholsonart

    URL: karolenicholson.com

    Recommended materials and tools list:

    • Canvases, wood panels, or mixed media paper (choose sizes based on your comfort level) Plan to bring enough to work on more than one piece as drying time is a factor
    • Matte medium (I use Utretch brand, but Golden or Liquitex are great.)
    • Collage materials such as: newspaper, book pages, tissue paper, old letters, fabric, blue prints,  vintage papers, maps, newsprint, rice paper, corrugated cardboard, magazines, letters, envelopes, music, grocery lists, stamps, tickets, ... anything! If you have done in collage in the past, bring some of your stash of collage papers
    • Acrylic paints (minimum, one red, one blue, one yellow, one white and one black, more if you choose).
    • Brushes,catalyst blades,color shapers to apply paint, your choice
    • Palette knife (preferably with square end) or old credit card to apply medium
    • Paper palette for mixing paint
    • Any of the following: Aquarelle crayons, “Woodies”, “Stabilio All” pencils, “Inktense” pencils, lead pencils, compressed charcoal, soft pastels, watercolor paints, inks
    • Container for water (1 quart or larger)
    • Spray bottle for water
    • Plastic tray or heavy ply plastic*
    • Masking tape
    • Paper towels
    • Ruler
    • Scissors, Exacto knife
    • Reference Photos (see below)

    Reference photos:

    Reference images, photos or drawings of the subject matter you are interested in translating into painterly collages. Still life images, landscapes, animals, nature, food and cooking, plants, fruit/vegetables, gardens, photos from trips all work well

    Additional helpful items:

    Newsprint pad , Rags (cotton t-shirts work well), Kneaded eraser, Sharpie marker

    • Saturday, May 04, 2024
    • 9:00 AM - 4:00 PM
    • 157 Old Main Street Marshfield Hills
    • 11
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    This workshop will stress a few constants that are the basics for any successful painting, composition, value recognition, and movement. This is all starts with getting the drawing right. The class will also cover the importance of doing studies and evaluating the elements of a painting that are important to the design and composition.



    About the Instructor: Christine Bodnar

    Christine has earned the level of Eminent Membership from the International Association of Pastel Societies. Her paintings have been shown in museums and galleries throughout the U.S. in national and international exhibitions and are in private collections across the country.

    Memberships and Affiliations
    • International Association of Pastel Societies, Master Circle and Eminent Pastelist
    • Signature Memberships with
    • Pastel Society of America 
    • Connecticut Pastel Society
    • North River Arts Society
    • South Shore Arts Center, Cohasset, MA.

    Articles/Publications

    • Southwest Art Magazine - Artist To Watch, November Issue, 2019
    • American Art Collectors - April Issue 2019, Artist Focus and Advertisement
    • Pure Pastel- Contemporary Works By Today’s Top Artists Feb 2019
    • Boston Voyager on-line interview and publication, September 2018

    christinebodnar.com

    Supplies

    We will try and do 2 paintings during this workshop using sizes of various sizes. 

    Sanded surface type papers

    • Pastel Premier Sanded Pastel Paper - fine, white
    • UART Sanded Pastel Paper or Board 400 or 600 grit
    • Pastel Mat Sanded Paper - White
    • Art Spectrum Colourfix Fine Tooth Pastel Paper - White
    • Canson Mi-Teintes Pastel Paper - white, grays, nuetrals 

    Soft Pastels - Landscape colors or set ( I will be bringing a variety with me to share )

    • Unison
    • Terry Ludwig
    • Great American
    • Mount Vision
    • Sennelier
    • Schminke 

    Other materials

    • Sketsch Pad / charcoal pencil for value studies.
    • Easel supplied ( can work on tabletop easel )
    • Drawing board for mounting paper
    • Masking tape - supplied
    • Paper towels


    • Saturday, May 11, 2024
    • 9:00 AM - 4:00 PM
    • 157 Old Main Street Marshfield MA
    • 1
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    This workshop will have you mixing colors with confidence in no time! By taking a deep dive into a limited complementary color palette of reds and greens, you will gain of thorough understanding of how color works. This knowledge can then be applied to other suggested limited palettes. Let me help take the mystery out of color theory for you!

    About the Instructor: ​Mary L. Moquin

    Mary Moquin is a professional artist and teacher. She lives on the cape and spends part of the year in a remote dune cottage on the peninsula known as Sandy Neck in Barnstable, MA. The inspiration for her paintings comes from observing time passing as the light and shadows fall across the structures there. The structures have transformed into metaphors for meditation. Her work has won numerous awards and has been included in several regional and national juried shows. Mary holds a BFA in printmaking and an MFA in painting from Umass Dartmouth. Her work is represented in Wellfleet, MA at the Cove Gallery, North Water Gallery in Edgartown , MA, Alper’s Fine Art in Rockport, MA and at www.marymoquin.com

    ​Materials:

    • ​oil or acrylic paint
    • ​Cadmium Red Light (a very orangey red)
    • ​Magenta (a red that leans towards violet)
    • ​Pthalo Green (an intense blue green)
    • ​Lemon yellow (we will use this to create a vibrant yellow green)
    • ​Titanium White
    • ​(for oil painters, Gamblin Cadmium Chartreuse is a fun color to add and can replace the lemon)

    PLEASE bring the above colors for a successful experience. Feel free to bring along any other tubes of red or green paint that you have as I will be discussing paint properties and you may want to experiment with other reds and greens. But I know you will have success with the ones I've listed.

    • ​A pad of canvas paper at least 16x20, 18x24 preferred. Acrylic painters can use any large sheets of paper instead, oil painters can bring gessoed paper or primed canvas instead of a pad if need be. 
    • ​Palette knives for mixing paint. 
    • ​A variety of brushes.
    • ​Paper towels.
    • Saturday, September 07, 2024
    • Sunday, September 08, 2024
    • 2 sessions
    • 157 Old Main Street Marshfield Hills
    • 11
    Register

    In this workshop, you’ll learn the key concepts of painting interior scenes. Eli will demonstrate and explain her methods and work one-on-one with each student. The focus will be on: How light flows through a scene, illuminating forms and creating an evocative mood. Achieving accurate drawing and correct values; two of the most crucial aspects of representational painting. How to develop a well-balanced composition of light and shadow patterns  (chiaroscuro). How to quickly block in the motif or major elements of the scene. Balancing warm incandescent light with cool natural light.  And lastly how to achieve value contrast and add finishing touches to your painting.

    About the Instructor: Eli Cedrone

    Eli Cedrone is an award-winning artist from Boston. A graduate of the School of Art & Design, (Suffolk University) she also studied in Florence, Italy; The Museum of Fine Arts School and The Academy of Realist Art, Boston. Cedrone work has been featured in numerous art publications such as Plein Air Magazine and Fine Art Connoisseur. She is the recipient of several residencies and fellowships and has participated in juried invitationals in the US and abroad. Cedrone is also a popular workshop instructor and teaches worldwide.

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