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  • Tuesdays, April 3 – May 22, 9:00 am – 12:00 noon or 12:30 pm – 3:30 pm- Improve Your Watercolor Skills

    Join the Massachusetts Horticultural Society for this eight-week course (choose morning or afternoon sessions) beginning April 3 with artist and instructor Nan Rumpf. Classes are designed to further develop your watercolor painting skills and techniques. Each lesson is an activity designed to explore a different art element, principle, or painting technique. Explore the many possibilities of watercolor as you enhance your personal painting style and discover your artistic voice. Handouts, demos, painting examples, critiques will be supplied by the instructor.

    Nan Rumpf grew up in a small Iowa town on the banks of the Mississippi River, where she spent much of her childhood exploring the outdoors on her bicycle and daydreaming under a lilac bush. She graduated from the University of Iowa with a B.A. She currently lives in Wellesley, Massachusetts. She has worked as a professional puppeteer, designing and constructing her own puppets and masks. She organized dramatic arts workshops in public schools and libraries for twenty years.

    She has studied watercolor painting with Susan Swinand, Jane Goldman, Paul George, Charles Reid, Miles Batt, and Cheng Khee Chee. Her paintings have been exhibited at The DeCordova Museum School Gallery, The Danforth Museum, The Art Complex Museum in Duxbury, The Attleboro Arts Museum, The Wellesley Free Library (First Place Award), The Center For The Arts in Natick, Art on the Common in Needham (First Place Award), The Clinton Art show (Best In Show), Post Road Art (First Place Award in the Abstract Show), The Wellesley Community Center (Margaret Fitzwilliam Award for Excellence in Watercolor), The New England Watercolor Society Show in Cotuit (Woodruff Art Center Award) and her painting Soaring was awarded by George Nick in Concord Art’s Juried Members show.

    She is a member of the Concord Art Association, the Wellesley Society of Artists, The Rhode Island Watercolor Society and is a signature member of the New England Watercolor Society. She was chosen as one of the two art judges for The Amazing Things Summer Juried Art Show in 2012. Learn more at www.nanrumpf.com. The class will be held in the Cheney Room of the Education Building at Elm Bank, 900 Washington Street in Wellesley. Mass Hort Member Cost: $125; Non Member Cost $160. Register at www.masshort.org.

  • Thursday, March 22 – Sunday, March 25 – Attleboro Arts Museum 2012 Flower Show

    The Attleboro Arts Museum Flower Show is one of the organization’s largest and most anticipated annual fundraising events.  Whether you come simply to bask in the promise of spring, stimulate your own creativity, or support arts programming in southeastern Massachusetts, you will be sure to leave feeling pleasure, inspiration, and a sense of revival. Thursday through Saturday (March 22 – 24) 9:30 am – 4:30 pm, Sunday (March 25) 12:00 noon – 4:00 pm.  Admission each day is $3 for adults, children 9 and under free.  Breakfast and lunch are served daily by Morin’s Diner of Attleboro, in the lower level of the Museum.  The 2012 theme of Garden America: Freedom of Expression prompts Flower Show landscapers and florists to use beloved and iconic American artworks as inspiration for their garden creations. From “Mount Rushmore’s” reflective gaze, to Shepard Fairy’s call for “Hope” to painter Jasper Johns patriotic interpretation “Three Flags” – visual art has helped define and express our identity as a nation.  Complete directions to 86 Park Street in Attleboro, and more information may be found at www.attleboroartsmuseum.org.