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FALL OPEN STUDIO SERIES | WITH EILEEN MACARTHUR (6 weeks)
Elora Centre for the Arts 75 Melville Street, Elora, Ontario, Canada6-WEEK EVENING OPEN STUDIO
Thursdays | October 10, 17, 24, Wednesday 30, November 7, 14, 2024 | 6:30 -8:30 pm
AGES 14+ | MAX 12$180 + hst for all 6 weeks
Please note, there will be no class on Halloween, Thursday, Oct 31. This week, class will be held on Wednesday, Oct 30. OPEN STUDIO with artist Eileen MacArthur is designed for artists who have some experience and would like specific guidance to develop or resolve their artwork. All mediums are welcome in this collaborative and friendly Thursday evening series!
AFTER CASSON | OIL PAINTING WITH RICK WORTHINGTON
Elora Centre for the Arts 75 Melville Street, Elora, Ontario, Canada
AGES 16+ | MAX 12
$150 + hst | + $25 kit fee | All materials included in the kit fee
Join artist Rick Worthington for this beginner to intermediate oil painting workshop! Rick will guide you in creating a master copy of A.J. Casson’s 1929 oil painting, The Elora Mill. A member of the Group of Seven, Casson found endless inspiration within the villages of Elora and Salem, and so will we!
DRAWING BASICS FOR KIDS! | 6 WEEK SUNDAY SERIES | with Eileen MacArthur
Elora Centre for the Arts 75 Melville Street, Elora, Ontario, Canada
SUNDAYS | Oct. 20- Dec. 1, 2024 | (No class Nov. 10) | 10 am-12 pm
AGES 10-14 | MAX 12
$150 for all 6 weeks | No hst | All materials provided
Drawing Basics is designed for older kids 10 and up who love to draw and want to learn some new skills! Young artists will learn how to draw from observation and how to translate what we see into drawing. Led by artist Eileen MacArthur, Eileen will guide the class in learning about line, value, and balance in composition. Artists will be experimenting with various wet and dry drawing material including graphite, charcoal, ink and watercolour.
TEENY TINY BAKERY PRESENTS OCTOBERRRR COOKIE DECORATING
Elora Centre for the Arts 75 Melville Street, Elora, Ontario, Canada
AGES 12+ | MAX 12
$75 + HST | + $25 kit fee
At last! Elora’s Teeny Tiny Bakery joins us at the Art Centre to share the love of mini decorated-cookie masterpieces! Join baking/pastry artist Jackie Long for a fun and playful guided evening workshop and learn the art of decorating cookie tops, themed to a holiday or occasion!
NEON NOODLERS! | OCTOBER PA DAY FOR KIDS!
SOLD OUT
AGES 5-12 | MAX 36
$70 | No hst
Excite your October senses with fluorescent bolds and bright colours! Phosphorescence, luminescence and day-glo will be the theme of the day as we explore how artists use solid, bright colours and shapes to create ART with intensity! Let's explore abstraction, pop art and synthetic colours as we embrace a hyper method making art!
PLAYFUL PORTRAITS | Loose Pastels | with Peter Skoggard
Elora Centre for the Arts 75 Melville Street, Elora, Ontario, Canada
AGES 14+ | MAX 12
$65 per person + HST | All materials provided
Join multi-disciplinary artist and Elora-good-egg Peter Skoggard for a playful introduction to chalk pastel!
Peter has drawn over a thousand pastel self-portraits, and a further two hundred portraits of local characters over the past 4 years, so he has learned how to take the fear out of one of the most difficult subjects: the human face!
Writing With Fire | Intro to Pyrography With Heather Martin
Elora Centre for the Arts 75 Melville Street, Elora, Ontario, Canada
AGES 14+ | MAX 12
$75 + hst | + kit fee
Join artist Heather Martin for a relaxed afternoon and explore the beautiful and unique art of Pyrography. Create your own wood-burned Charcuterie board, incorporating intuitive marks, textures and depth and learn about the tools and techniques of Writing with Fire!
BASQUIAT-INSPIRED PET PORTRAITS | WITH EILEEN MACARTHUR
Elora Centre for the Arts 75 Melville Street, Elora, Ontario, Canada
AGES 16+ | MAX 12
$75 + hst | All materials included
Share some art-love with our furry friends in this playful afternoon of mixed media exploration and collage with artist Eileen MacArthur! Inspired by the Neo-Expressionist work of American pop-culture icon Jean-Michel Basquiat, we will be using a variety of materials and approaches to explore how artists convey emotions and ideas. This workshop is all about using an abstract painting approach and getting a little messy! No experience necessary!
BOOK BINDING FOR KIDS! | WITH AHMRI VANDEBORNE
Elora Centre for the Arts 75 Melville Street, Elora, Ontario, Canada
AGES 6-12 | MAX 12
$40 | No hst | All materials provided
Young makers! Join Guelph artist Ahmri Vandeborne and learn how to book bind! Make your very own notebooks, journals and books in this playful Saturday afternoon, perfect for kids who like to journal, draw, or keep track of their discoveries when they’re exploring outside. We'll bind and decorate together and then explore the Elora Centre for the Arts to document all our discoveries in these brand-new, hand-made pocket books. Artists will leave the class with the skills to keep making their own special books for all their favourite activities!
LET’S DILLY DALI! | NOVEMBER PA DAY FOR KIDS!
Elora Centre for the Arts 75 Melville Street, Elora, Ontario, Canada
AGES 5-12 | MAX 36
$70 | No hst
Let’s explore the wild and wonderful surreal world of Salvadore Dali through his mysterious Melting Clocks landscapes!
Young artists will learn about weird world of Surrealism and how artists use dreams to create strange artworks with hidden meanings. We will also be looking at some of the methods artists use to express complex ideas, such as frottage and finding images in abstract marks. Get ready to dally with Dali!
DUTCH FLORAL STILL LIFE | Learning from The Masters | with EILEEN MACARTHUR
Elora Centre for the Arts 75 Melville Street, Elora, Ontario, Canada
AGES 16+ | MAX 12
$75 + hst | All materials included
Join artist Eileen MacArthur for an introduction to painting a botanical still life using acrylics. Looking at the works of Dutch masters for inspiration, students will learn about paint handling, value, composition, colour mixing, and creating shape and drama.
Eileen will also discuss glazing and how to unify paintings and create strong focal points. Students will go home with an 8×10 painting detail of a Dutch Still Life botanical.
Everyone welcome! No experience required.
HOLIDAY CHARCUTERIE & MORE | WOOD BURNING WITH HEATHER MARTIN
Elora Centre for the Arts 75 Melville Street, Elora, Ontario, Canada
AGES 14+ | MAX 12
$75 + hst | + $30 kit fee
Handcraft your own seasonally inspired charcuterie board to take home or gift for the holidays! , guided Join Pyrography artist Heather Martin in a relaxed afternoon creating your own wood burned, textured design. Learn various Pyrography techniques to create texture, line, and tonal value. Inspired by your own intuitive exploration, students will go home with a charcuterie board as unique as you!