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FALL OPEN STUDIO SERIES | WITH EILEEN MACARTHUR (6 weeks)

Elora Centre for the Arts 75 Melville Street, Elora, Ontario, Canada

6-WEEK EVENING OPEN STUDIO 

Thursdays | October 10, 17, 24, Wednesday 30, November 7, 14, 2024 | 6:30 -8:30 pm  (Please note, no class Thursday, Oct 31. Week 4 will be held on Wednesday, Oct 30.)

 AGES 14+  |  MAX 12    $180 + hst for all 6 weeks

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!

$180.00

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!

$65.00

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!
$75.00

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!
$75.00

Designing for Tapestry | WEAVING WITH Dianne Kennedy Cruttenden

Elora Centre for the Arts 75 Melville Street, Elora, Ontario, Canada

AGES 14 +  |  MAX 12  

$130 +hst  |  + 40 kit fee  |  All materials included in kit fee

 
Join Tapestry Artist Dianne Kennedy Cruttenden for a full day of tapestry weaving in the our sunlight studio classroom at the Elora Centre for the Arts!
 

$130.00

Inspiring Your Creativity at Any Stage of Life: ‘Bloom’ with artist Janice Mason Steeves

Elora Centre for the Arts 75 Melville Street, Elora, Ontario, Canada

Are you looking to be inspired for the next stage of your life?  Wondering where to begin as you re-imagine where your creative opportunities and life changes may take you?  Join artist and author Janice Mason Steeves as she talks about how an insistent dream she had while she was at an artist residency in Sweden, led to writing 'Bloom: On Becoming An Artist Later in Life'. Interspersed with stories of  the 138 artists she interviewed, Janice shares her own journey to become an artist as well as the research she did into art and aging.  While written with older artists in mind, this is an inspiring book about creativity for all ages and all mediums, whether music, writing, painting, or poetry.

$8.85

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.
$75.00

TEENY TINY BAKERY PRESENTS HOLIDAY COOKIE DECORATING!

Elora Centre for the Arts 75 Melville Street, Elora, Ontario, Canada

At last! Teeny Tiny Bakery joins us to share the love of mini decorated-cookie masterpieces! Join cookie artist Jackie Long for a fun and playful evening workshop to learn the art of decorating cookie-tops, themed to the Holidays!

$75.00

INTIMATE INTERIORS  |  ACRYLICS WITH RICK WORTHINGTON

Elora Centre for the Arts 75 Melville Street, Elora, Ontario, Canada

AGES 16+  |  MAX 12 

$150 + hst  |  + $15 kit fee

Join artist Rick Worthington to learn the fundamentals of creating interior paintings and discover the essentials of acrylic painting in this foundational course. Interior scenes offer some of the most intimate, inviting, and captivating subjects to paint! Join us for this immersive day of intimate interiors!

$150.00

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!

$75.00

SUPPORTIVE ARTS WINTER WEDNESDAYS

Elora Centre for the Arts 75 Melville Street, Elora, Ontario, Canada

SUPPORTIVE ARTS 2025 WINTER WEDNESDAYS

JANUARY 8 - MARCH 5, 2025 

EVERY WEDNESDAY, 10 AM - 12 PM 

Weekly inclusive art & mindfulness classes for adults with varying abilities 

Sold Out $180.00

SUPPORTIVE ARTS WINTER THURSDAYS

Elora Centre for the Arts 75 Melville Street, Elora, Ontario, Canada

SUPPORTIVE ARTS 2025 WINTER THURSDAYS

JANUARY 9 - MARCH 6, 2025 

EVERY THURSDAY, 10 AM - 12 PM 

Weekly inclusive art & mindfulness classes for adults with varying abilities 

Sold Out $180.00

DAYTIME OPEN STUDIO WITH EILEEN MACARTHUR

Elora Centre for the Arts 75 Melville Street, Elora, Ontario, Canada

OPEN STUDIO DAYTIME MONDAYS 7-WEEK SERIES

Join us Monday afternoons 12:30-3:00 pm for this winter Open Studio series. Designed as open-flow studio time and loosely guided by artist Eileen MacArthur, this class is for artists who have some experience and/or would like specific guidance to develop or resolve their work. 

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CIRCLE WEAVING WITH WOOL AND NATURE

Elora Centre for the Arts 75 Melville Street, Elora, Ontario, Canada

The smooth, flowing nature of circles offer a calming connection to nature.   Join tapestry artist Dianne Kennedy Cruttenden in our bright and cheery workshop classroom for a creative journey into the portals of circle weaving!

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The Georgian Bay Series AFTER TOM THOMSON

Elora Centre for the Arts 75 Melville Street, Elora, Ontario, Canada

OIL PAINTING WITH RICK WORTHINGTON

The second in our GEORGIAN BAY series celebrating the work of members of the Group of 7, AFTER TOM THOMSON is an intermediate oil painting workshop for artists with some oil experience. Create a master copy of Tom Thomson’s iconic 1916-1917 painting The West Wind.

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NEEDLE FELTED 3D SHEEP!

Elora Centre for the Arts 75 Melville Street, Elora, Ontario, Canada

Join fibre artist Megan Cleland for a playful afternoon of guided needle felting and learn how to take felting into another dimension! This class is suitable for beginners and those with some experience flat felting that want to try felting sculpturally!

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The Georgian Bay Series AFTER LAWREN HARRIS

Elora Centre for the Arts 75 Melville Street, Elora, Ontario, Canada

OIL PAINTING WITH RICK WORTHINGTON

The third in our GEORGIAN BAY series celebrating the work of members of the Group of 7, AFTER LAWREN HARRIS is an intermediate oil painting workshop for artists with some oil experience. Create a master copy of Lawren Harris’s 1921 masterpiece, Stormy Weather, Georgian Bay.

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BURNING ON PAPER! PAPER PYROGRAPHY

Elora Centre for the Arts 75 Melville Street, Elora, Ontario, Canada

Join Pyrography artist Heather Martin of FireWork Designs for an introduction to the art of burning on paper! In this interactive 2-Sunday afternoon class students will have an opportunity to explore and practice creating consistent lines, patterns, and shading with burning on paper!

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MAUD LEWIS TULIPS! PUNCH NEEDLE RUG HOOKING

Elora Centre for the Arts 75 Melville Street, Elora, Ontario, Canada

Let's paint with yarn! Join textile artist Caitlin Barrie for a guided introduction to the traditional art of punch needle rug hooking! Join us for an immersive day and create your own  a 9.5" x 9.5" vibrant punch needle rug inspired by Nova Scotian Folk Artist, Maud Lewis’s lively painting Tulips!

No experience is necessary,

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REDUCTIVE LINOBLOCK PRINTMAKING 2-SATURDAY WORKSHOP

Elora Centre for the Arts 75 Melville Street, Elora, Ontario, Canada

Learn the tools and techniques needed to create a two-colour image through reductive linoblock printmaking with artist Ahmri Vandeborne!

Reductive lino prints are created through a process of designing an image and selectively carving away details to print each new colour layer. 2-Saturday workshop.  March 29 & April 5

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DRAWING FOR ADULTS

Elora Centre for the Arts 75 Melville Street, Elora, Ontario, Canada

Join artist Eileen MacArthur April 27 and May 4 for this two-Sunday introduction to the basic concepts of studio drawing. Students will work with graphite, conte and charcoal and explore the use of line, shape, value, proportion and composition. Using a still life set-up, there will be time for group and individual critique. This class will focus on observational drawing from life and how to draw what you see.  All skill levels welcome!

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PAINTING OUTSIDE! FAMILY PLEIN AIR

Elora Centre for the Arts 75 Melville Street, Elora, Ontario, Canada

Join in our local celebration of plein air painting this May in this 2-hour quick-paint class with artist Eileen MacArthur! Family Plein Air is a fun indoor-outdoor, family-friendly paint for all ages who want to experience art-making together!

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ABSTRACT EMBROIDERY WITH AHMRI VANDEBORNE

Elora Centre for the Arts 75 Melville Street, Elora, Ontario, Canada

Artist Ahmri Vandeborne joins us for a Thursday evening introduction to embroidery this May. Learn how to take an abstract idea from paper to fabric in this easy-going, loose and freestyle approach to embroidery!

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BREAKING BOUNDRIES! USING LIMITATIONS TO EXPAND CREATIVITY IN PAINTING

Elora Centre for the Arts 75 Melville Street, Elora, Ontario, Canada

Find out how creative you can be when you set your own rules while painting! What happens when you only use two colours? Or when you have to use a tiny paint brush on a large canvas? Or when you use dice to choose what type of lines you paint and what colours you use?

Artist Ahmri Vandeborne will guide artists in a playful evening workshop setting limitations on tools and processes to help expand your creativity!

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