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Plein Air painting with Phyllis Shafer

Plein Air painting with Phyllis Shafer

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 of light paint and sage brush Emma on top of…

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Merry Merry!!!!

Merry Merry!!!!

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 huge success, we won the NNDA Comstock Innovator of the…

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UK artist Claire Scully’s creative illustration workshop

UK artist Claire Scully’s creative illustration workshop

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 wild horses, light, smells, flora and fauna only found at…

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Narrative Illustration stitching workshop with UK artist, Stewart Easton

Narrative Illustration stitching workshop with UK artist, Stewart Easton

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 learned how to design and stitch their own folkloric family…

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Sidne Teske’s pastel painting workshop

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, ground floor of St Mary’s Art Center. Her show will…

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All new clothes for little “Burro”

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 of animals. Each animal is beautifully made with fine painterly…

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PLein Air Painting workshop with Monika Piper Johnson

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 itself. The grounds and mountain light change dramatically at all…

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Pochoir printmaking workshop

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 editions. Pochoir is a stencil printing process. It is laborious…

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

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 of ground is being covered. Last week was the overview…

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MERRY MERRY MERRY EVERYTHING to all our friends!

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 our events page here and dont forget our Open Studio…

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