Writing About Illness with Humor & Grace with Sharisse Zeroonian
2026-08-08 15:00 - 16:00 (America/New_York)

Designing with Dahlias: Flowers & Fine Art with Ann Bianchi & Denise Boisvert
2026-08-18 11:00 - 14:00
Designing with Dahlias: Flowers & Fine Art with Ann Bianchi & Denise Boisvert
Tuesday, August 18th from 11:00AM–2:00PM (1 class)
You are warmly invited to a joyful, hands‑on workshop that celebrates both fresh flowers and creative expression. In this special class, participants will first create their own stunning floral arrangements, focusing on Dahlias alongside some other seasonal favorites from Denise’s garden with complementary greenery in clear glass vases. Denise, your floral grower and guide, will demonstrate each step of the arranging process, helping everyone create a piece that feels personal and expressive, and you’ll learn from her about the growing process behind Dahlias. Flowers, fillers, vases, marbles for stem support, and FloraLife will all be provided. After finishing their arrangements, participants will join Ann, your art instructor, for a relaxed art session in drawing and painting, where she will guide you through basic techniques to capture the shapes, colors, and personality of your arrangement.
Students are encouraged to use their own art materials to capture the beauty of their arrangements in favorite styles. This combination workshop blends the joy of hands‑on floral design with the creative exploration of translating real‑life beauty into art, offering a unique experience for all skill levels. Have fun creating a lovely arrangement and bring home both your finished floral piece and the artwork inspired by it.
A $10 materials fee covers all floral supplies, and class takers should bring garden pruners or sharp scissors along with any art materials they enjoy creating with—paints, pencils, brushes, pastels, papers, sketchbooks, or any preferred surfaces and any garden tools for accessorizing their artwork renditions.
$65 Members | $95 Non-members + $10 Materials Fee (paid to instructors)
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CREATING BOTANICALS from Acrylic Skins with master artist Theresa Girard!
2026-08-24 09:00 - 15:00

Autumn Impressionistic Painting with Ann Bianchi
2026-09-13 11:00 - 15:00

Wash On A Line with Betsey MacDonald
2026-09-15 10:00 - 13:00
Wash On A Line with Betsey MacDonald
Tuesdays, September 15, 29 & October 6, 20 from 10:00AM–1:00PM (4 classes)
Intermediate to Advanced Levels
From 10:00 AM – 1:00 PM
Member $170
Non-Member $200
Drawing improves painting in so many ways and it can be successfully used along with watercolor. Drawing sharpens eye-hand coordination, it improves observational skills, it allows us to simplify complex shapes and establish composition before adding color. First, we’ll study two artists who create beautiful images with line and watercolor. Then we’ll use pens and brushes to draw from life using my dogs as models, a human model, colorful vegetables and fruits as well as our own photographs. We’ll combine our detailed drawings with expressive, soft, loose, translucent watercolor washes, first in monochrome, then a limited pallet and finally in full color. Precise ink lines with loose wet-on-wet watercolor will create a compelling artistic contrast and help us all to be less rigid in our approach to watercolor.
Materials: Watercolor set (an inexpensive tray is fine but a set of tubes with palette is great, too), variety of brushes, watercolor block or pad (at least 140 lb, 8x 10, 12 x 16, 16 x 20, , hot and/or cold press paper, pad of drawing paper or mixed media paper, jar or two for water, spray bottle, #2 pencil, Micron fineliner pens with fine points and brushes, (a simple set of 4 is fine) or nib pens and waterproof ink, like Speedball that won’t run with watercolor, paper towels. Charlie Mackesy’s book, “The Boy, the Mole, the Fox and the Horse” or his new one “Always Remember “ $12 on Amazon ( this is not necessary but it’s gorgeous and we will draw from it in class. I’ll project imagery so you don’t NEED it.

Beyond Likeness: Contemporary Expressive Portraiture with Susan Sward
2026-09-15 14:00 - 17:00

Open Sewing Studio with Emily Bennison
2026-09-16 09:30 - 11:00

Inspired by Nature, Alcohol Inks with Mary Wojciechowski
2026-09-19 10:00 - 15:00
Inspired by Nature, Alcohol Ink Workshop with Mary Wojcienchowski
Designed for those with prior experience but beginners are welcome.
Saturday, September 19th From 10 AM – 3 PM
Member Fee $95
Non-Member Fee $125
Materials Fee $7
See more of Mary’s work here
This workshop will explore the unique qualities of alcohol inks and how they may be used for flowing abstracted works, representational images and subjects that incorporate both. Landscapes will be the primary subject, taking full advantage of these vibrant colored inks that intermingle in ways that creat colore and textural effects, often with unexpected results.
In this one-day workshop, with both guided demonstrations and individual experimentation, students will create expressive landscape compostions combingin the fluid movement of ‘first pours’ with deliberate markmaking. Expansive views of skies, landforms and water as well as detailted depictions of foreground trees will be developed using the unpredictability of this medium to create unique paintings.
Designed for those with prior experience, students will be given opportunities to learn through exploration with a sense of creative playfulness during the process.
All materials and Yupo will be provided and students only need to bring an apron and a snack or lunch.
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Line & Wash Watercolor Batik on Kinwashi Paper with Peter S Turner
2026-09-21 12:00 - 16:00

The Art of Shibori: Creating One-of-a-Kind Dyed Scarves with Peter Turner
2026-09-22 12:00 - 16:00

The Beauty of Small Paintings with Ann Bianchi
2026-09-26 10:00 - 13:00

Plein Air Landscape in Oil, Acrylic or Pastel with Jeneane Lunn
2026-10-04 13:00

Painting The Written Word with Ann Bianchi
2026-11-07 11:00 - 13:30
