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“Painting Tidewater Plants with Natural Dye” by Anne Yoncha, Artist in Residence

“Painting Tidewater Plants with Natural Dye” by Anne Yoncha, Artist in Residence
Saturday, June 11
2:00pm-4:00pm
Visiting artist in residence, art professor, and Fulbright Scholar, Anne Yoncha, will give a FREE class on Saturday, June 11th, from 2:00pm- 4:00pm. The class will take place at Arts on Main. Yoncha will teach students how to create dyes from local materials such as pine straw. Then using these dyes students will make their own works of art on paper.

Please call Arts on Main to register for this class.

ABOUT THE ARTIST

Anne Yoncha (US) is Assistant Professor of Art at East Central University in Ada, Oklahoma. Born and raised in Wilmington, Delaware, she earned her MFA at the University of Montana and recently completed a Fulbright fellowship at the Natural Resources Institute Finland, working with restorationists to make collaborative art-science work about former peat extraction sites outside Oulu. Her practice combines digital sensing technology, such as bio-data sonification, and analog, traditional processes including painting with ink she makes from locally-sourced plant matter. Her ongoing research with the HAB (High Altitude Bioprospecting) working group began in fall 2019 at Field_Notes, a residency of Finland’s Bio Art Society at Kilpisjärvi Biological Station in subarctic Lapland, where she worked with artists, biologists, and programmers to attempt to detect high-altitude microbes using a heli-kite. Tree Talk, her temporary site-specific installation sonifying invisible processes within a stand of Ponderosa pines, was selected as the 2018 Emerging Artist project at Blackfoot Pathways Sculpture in the Wild in Lincoln, Montana. She has also been awarded residencies at Cedar Point Biological Station in Ogallala, Nebraska, and Flathead Lake Biological Station in Polson, Montana. Her work has been shown nationally and internationally, notably at the CICA Museum in South Korea, Finland’s Art Ii Biennial, the Budapest Environmental Project, and Codex Foundation’s international artistic exploration “Extraction: Art on the Edge of Abyss”. Outside the studio she can often be found doing another kind of environmental “research” via bicycle.

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Drawing Workshop for Beginners of All Ages with Emily Christoff Flowers: Class #2

Drawing Workshop for Beginners of All Ages
with
Emily Christoff Flowers
Thursday, April 21
Thursday, May 5
Thursday, May 19
Thursday, June 2

 

1:00pm – 3:00pm
Learn the basics of drawing in this simple 4 class workshop for beginning artists of all ages. Kids under the age of 10 must have an adult with them during the entire class. Students will be working from life, as well as from photos, focusing on the basic elements of art that have been used for hundreds of years by the greatest masters of art. The class will meet every other Thursday for a total of 4 Thursdays. Students will build on the information they learn from one class to the next. Your teacher, Emily Christoff Flowers, has been teaching drawing classes for 3 decades and is the recipient of many drawing awards.
Supply list:
  •     Hb, 2b and 6b graphite pencils {General’s Kimberly Drawing Pencils and Sets | BLICK Art Materials (dickblick.com)}
  •     Kneaded eraser {Blick Kneaded Erasers | BLICK Art Materials (dickblick.com)}
  •     Ruler
  •     11 x 14″ drawing pad, {Strathmore 400 Series Smooth Surface Drawing Pad – 11″ x 14″, 24 Sheets | BLICK Art Materials (dickblick.com)}
  •     Uni Pin fine liner drawing pen. {Amazon.com: Uni Pin Fineliner Drawing Pen – Sketching Set – Black Ink – 0.03 to 0.8mm – Set of 6: Office Products}
  •     White eraser {Paper Mate White Pearl Eraser | BLICK Art Materials (dickblick.com)
  •      Charcoal pencil set {General’s Charcoal Pencils and Sets | BLICK Art Materials (dickblick.com)}
  •     Blending stump {Richeson Blending Stumps – Pkg of 3, 1/4″ Dia. | BLICK Art Materials (dickblick.com)}
  •     Personal photographs to draw from
About Your Instructor

Emily received her Bachelor’s in Fine Art from Bowling Green State University in Ohio where she focused on life drawing. While still in art school, she began selling portraits as a career. She has taught portraits since 1984 and continues to support herself with portrait commissions and teaching.

 

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Adult Paint Night with Kelly Richards: Margarita

Monday, May 2
6:00pm – 7:30pm

Celebrate Cinco de Mayo with us by joining Kelly Richards for Adult Paint Night at Arts on Main. Students will be using acrylic paint to create a painting of a margarita nighttime scene on canvas. Images above will be used as inspiration. Kelly will provide all materials needed for the class. Bring a friend and come have a fun, relaxing night of painting!

 

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Drawing Workshop for Beginners of All Ages with Emily Christoff Flowers: Class #1

Drawing Workshop for Beginners of All Ages
with
Emily Christoff Flowers
Thursday, April 21
Thursday, May 5
Thursday, May 19
Thursday, June 2
1:00pm – 3:00pm
Learn the basics of drawing in this simple 4 class workshop for beginning artists of all ages. Kids under the age of 10 must have an adult with them during the entire class. Students will be working from life, as well as from photos, focusing on the basic elements of art that have been used for hundreds of years by the greatest masters of art. The class will meet every other Thursday for a total of 4 Thursdays. Students will build on the information they learn from one class to the next. Your teacher, Emily Christoff Flowers, has been teaching drawing classes for 3 decades and is the recipient of many drawing awards.
Supply list:
  •     Hb, 2b and 6b graphite pencils {General’s Kimberly Drawing Pencils and Sets | BLICK Art Materials (dickblick.com)}
  •     Kneaded eraser {Blick Kneaded Erasers | BLICK Art Materials (dickblick.com)}
  •     Ruler
  •     11 x 14″ drawing pad, {Strathmore 400 Series Smooth Surface Drawing Pad – 11″ x 14″, 24 Sheets | BLICK Art Materials (dickblick.com)}
  •     Uni Pin fine liner drawing pen. {Amazon.com: Uni Pin Fineliner Drawing Pen – Sketching Set – Black Ink – 0.03 to 0.8mm – Set of 6: Office Products}
  •     White eraser {Paper Mate White Pearl Eraser | BLICK Art Materials (dickblick.com)
  •      Charcoal pencil set {General’s Charcoal Pencils and Sets | BLICK Art Materials (dickblick.com)}
  •     Blending stump {Richeson Blending Stumps – Pkg of 3, 1/4″ Dia. | BLICK Art Materials (dickblick.com)}
  •     Personal photographs to draw from
Cost per student for the 4-class series is $120.
Registration Deadline: Tuesday, April 19  @ 5pm



About Your Instructor

Emily received her Bachelor’s in Fine Art from Bowling Green State University in Ohio where she focused on life drawing. While still in art school, she began selling portraits as a career. She has taught portraits since 1984 and continues to support herself with portrait commissions and teaching.

 

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Palette Knife Oil Painting Class for Beginners with Rebecca West

Saturday, April 16
11:30am-2:30pm
Rebecca West will be teaching students how to paint with oil paint using palette knives. This is a beginner class for anyone interested in learning how to start palette knife oil painting. This 3-hour long class will be divided into two parts. The first half will consist of setting up and exploring the technique. The second half will be creating a painting, experimenting with the palette knives.
*Students will create an oil painting that will need transported while the paint is still wet.

Supply List:

  • Canvas and or canvas paper (10″x 10″ no bigger than 11″x 14″)
  • Oil paint
  • Palette knife
  • Mineral spirits or other oil cleaning product
  • Box for paint transport

Cost is $50 per student

Registration Deadline: Thursday, April 14 @ 5 pm


Palette Knife Paintings by Rebecca West

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2022 Daffodil Festival: Fabulously Fun Arts and Flowers

Fabulously Fun Arts and Flowers

Sponsored by Garden Club of Gloucester

and Arts on Main

 

April 2 & 3, 2022

Saturday 9:00pm -5:00pm

Sunday 12:00pm- 5:00pm

 

The 36th Annual Gloucester Daffodil Festival will be held April 2 and April 3, 2022, and its theme will be “In Full Bloom,” celebrating both the festival’s full return and its history.

Arts on Main is partnering with the Garden Club of Gloucester to sponsor “Fabulously Fun Arts and Flowers.” This is a creative event where art will be interpretated through floral arrangements. It is in conjunction with the 2022 Daffodil Festival. Stop by Arts on Main during the months of February, and March to choose the piece of art you will be interpreting. Floral arrangements will be on display during the Daffodil Festival, on April 2 & 3. This event is free and open to everyone who wants to participate.

Download the Daffodil Festival Application, complete, and turn in at Arts on Main.

 

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Gallery Hours

Open Wednesday – Saturday
Noon – 5:00pm
Closed Sunday through Tuesday
Call: (804) 824-9464

Open Studio

Every Friday Morning, 9am-Noon
Free Painting Sessions!
Open Painting Studio

Art Classes

Ongoing classes in all mediums for kids of all ages.
Art Class Registration Info

Volunteer Opportunities

Are you looking for ways to volunteer in the community? Arts on Main has wonderful volunteers and would like you to join them. Call the gallery for more information. 804.824.9464.

 

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Calling all Artists! Arts on Main invites artists Calling all Artists!

Arts on Main invites artists of every medium and level, to submit artwork for the 2022 Annual Juried Exhibition.

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