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Plein Air painting with Phyllis Shafer

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Phyllis Shafer’s plein air workshop rocked! Against all weather conditions her students prevailed, If you every have the opportunity to take a class from Phyllis you will know why. Utterly passionate about painting, art and wilderness, she inspires and instructs. Thank you Phyllis! Phyllis’ demo…

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Merry Merry!!!!

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Merry Christmas and Happy New Year friends of St Mary’s Art Center! 2014 has been a fantastic year for the Art Center, with many great leaps forward! We had 6 international Artists in Residence from Denmark, Holland and the UK, our Art Faire was a…

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UK artist Claire Scully’s creative illustration workshop

31 07

4 days of drawing and learning with London based, UK artist, Claire Scully is a very very big treat. Claire is one of our Resident Artists for July and August 2014. The class began with an orientation hike in the local Comstock region, surrounded by…

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Narrative Illustration stitching workshop with UK artist, Stewart Easton

25 07

Our Resident artist Stewart Easton is an illustrator and embroiderer from Coventry in the UK. As unlikely an stitcher as you will find anywhere, he creates amazing tales and folklore within his work. His narrative stitching workshop was therefore a real eyeopener for students, who…

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Sidne Teske’s pastel painting workshop

10 06

When Sidne Teske instructs a workshop, she not only instructs, does demos, encourages students, gives individual tuition, and tells stories …she also opens up her entire incredible pastels collection for students to try ….!!!! Sidne is currently exhibiting with us in the Van Bokkelen gallery,…

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All new clothes for little “Burro”

08 06

Our Resident Artist Michelle Lassaline, has been working hard stitching new clothes for her performance art characters. First up little “Burro” is ready to play. Michelle is a watercolor artist and a performance artist. Her characters are formed by making papier mache full head masks…

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PLein Air Painting workshop with Monika Piper Johnson

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Everyone loved this workshop, with her buoyant and fun personality, Monika makes every day a great new adventure. Exploring paint and painting outdoors, color mixing and palettes, the students had a huge range of subjects to choose from even yards from St Mary’s Art Center…

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Pochoir printmaking workshop

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The Pochoir workshop with Elizabeth Ferrill was a big treat… not only is the process very specialized, originating in the French fashion industry it is also not well known or widely practiced anymore. The process was invented when magazines were very short run hand made…

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First Tuesdays of each month …. Intaglio Workshop with Nolan Preece…

24 01

First Tuesdays of every month!!!! From 10 am – 4 pm on first Tuesdays Nolan is instructing an Intaglio workshop covering many differing processes, in our new print workshop. It is hugely enjoyed … and it is still possible to join the class…. A lot…

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MERRY MERRY MERRY EVERYTHING to all our friends!

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photograph above by Frances Melhop St Mary’s Art Center wishes you all a very Merry Christmas, Happy Holidays and a wonderously creative New Year!!!! We have a fantastic line up of new exhibiting Artists and Resident Artists starting from February 2014… Keep an eye on…

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