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  • Tuesday, January 28 – Sunday, February 2 – Abstracting the Land Through Photography

    North Country Studio Workshops in Bennington Vermont offers five-day intensive workshops for artists and craftspeople, in an atmosphere of discovery, energy, collaboration, and inspiration. Clay, fiber arts, printmaking, drawing, jewelry, paper and book arts, painting, sculpture, basketry, encaustic, mixed media, and photography are taught by nationally and internationally-known artists and instructors.

    Nestled in the foothills of the Green Mountains of Vermont, the classic New England campus of Bennington College provides workshop facilities, accommodations, and an inspirational setting.Expand your understanding of landscape photography to convey metaphorical, personal, and historical narratives. Learn traditional and alternative techniques such as photograms in cyanotype and lumen prints alongside digital capture. Engage in studio and outdoor sessions crafting visual stories. Lectures and critiques provide perspective and feedback. Perfect for those seeking an exploratory approach to creative landscape photography. Some photography experience helpful. Instructor Rachel Loischild is an artist, mother, educator, and Massachusetts Cultural Council Fellow in Photography. Holding an MFA from Pratt Institute, her work has been shown at galleries and museums including  the Danforth and the Newport Art Museum, and the Jounju Photo Festival in Korea. Her work is held in numerous collections.

    • Application Fee: $60.00
    • Residents: $1,555.00
      (Tuition, Fees, Room & Board Tuesday dinner through Sunday lunch)
    • Commuters: $1,255.00
      (Tuition, Fees, Lunch and Dinner Tuesday dinner through Sunday lunch)

    Click here for a list of supplies that you will need to bring for this workshop. Register at https://ncsw.org/photography

  • 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 15 – Sunday, March 18 – AD 20/21

    AD 20/21: Art & Design of the 20th & 21st Centuries, featuring 50 Select Exhibitors offering modern to contemporary fine art, photography, jewelry, vintage and contemporary studio furniture, decorative arts, sculpture, fine prints, drawings and more at the only show and sale of its kind in New England, takes place at The Cyclorama, Boston Center for the Arts, 539 Tremont Street in Boston, beginning with a gala preview party Thursday, March 15 to benefit Boston Architectural College. Weekend hours are Friday, 1 – 8, Saturday, 11 – 8, and Sunday, 11 – 5. Standard admission $15, children under 12 free.

    On Friday, special guest speaker Vicente Wolf will present a talk on the infusion of global design and style into his work, and will sign copies of his books Lifting the Curtain on Design and Crossing Boundaries: A Global Vision of Design. The talk begins at 1:30. On Saturday at 3, join panelists Richard Baiano, President of Childs Gallery, Judith Bookbinder, author of Boston Modern: Figurative Abstraction as Alternative Modernism, and Katherine French, Executive Director of the Danforth Museum and School of Art, for a lively exchange moderated by Judith Tolnick Champa, Editor of Art New England. Immediately following the Boston Expressionism panel, Martha Richardson of Martha Richardson Fine Art, and James Stroud of Center Street Studio will offer informal talks in their exhibition booths, which will both feature works by African American Boston artist John Wilson. Finally, on Sunday at 2, Katherine Mierzwa of the Friends of Modern Architecture/Lincoln offers a fascinating presentation on architect Charles M. Goodman, the 1957 Alcoa Care-Free House in Lincoln, Massachusetts, and the history of aluminum and its important role in mid-20th century modern architecture. For complete information visit www.AD2021.com.