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MARCH BREAK ART CAMP | ART HISTORY TIME MACHINE!

MARCH BREAK ART CAMP  |  Art History Time Machine!  Monday, March 11 –  Friday, March 15, 2024  9 am – 4 pm Ages 5-12  |  Max 36 $350 no hst  |  All materials provided 1 spot left Let’s time-warp our way through Art History with artists Rae, Alexa and Stephanie for a week of time-travelling ART Exploration! The old masters will meet their match when our young makers mix it up and learn some classic artmaking techniques! Try your hand at Mesopotamian Bas-Relief Prints. Byzantium Mosaics. Egg Tempera Animal Portraits. A Van Gogh Pop-Up. A Mixed Media canvas inspired by the Group of 7’s Lawren Harris! Get ready for a multi-media-mash-up week of creativity, fresh air play & friendship!
$350

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SPRING AWAKENING! APRIL PA DAY FOR KIDS!

SPRING AWAKENING!  |  PA Day for Kids! Monday, April 8, 2024  |  9 am – 4 pm PA Day camp has been changed to Monday April 8, to align with UGDSB PA Day schedule.  Please contact programming@ecfta.ca if you have registered and would like a refund for the Friday, April 19 PA Day. If you have registered already for April 19, your spot is secure. Please join  us on Monday the 8th! Ages 4-12  |  Max 36 $70 no hst 1 spot left! Please email programming@ecfta.ca for a spot. April SHOWERS bring May FLOWERS in this creative-play-day featuring expressive watercolour painting and paper. Let’s spread our arms wide and welcome April, learn about the solar eclipse and let our creativity shine in our cheery Art Classroom and Maker Space!
$70

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BRACELET & EARRINGS | SCALE-MAILLE WORKSHOP

BRACELET & EARRING | SCALE-MAILLE WORKSHOP WITH ARTISAN MAILLE Thursday, April 18, 2024  |  6:00-9:00 PM Ages 16+  |  Max. 20  |  $75 + hst   |  All materials included. Unleash your creativity and dive into the mesmerizing world of scalemaille with this Thursday evening workshop, designed for both beginners and seasoned crafters. In this hands-on session, you'll  create your very own scalemaille bracelet and earrings, blending the ancient art of maille with the shimmering beauty of scales!
$75

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AFTER MONET | INTRO TO OIL PAINTING WITH RICK WORTHINGTON

AFTER MONET  |  INTRO TO OIL PAINTING  with RICK WORTHINGTON Sunday, June 2, 2024  |  10 am-4 pm AGES 16+  |  MAX 12  $150 + hst  |  $15 kit fee Explore the art of oil painting with Elora artist Rick Worthington in this introduction to oil painting as we look to Monet for inspiration. Artists will be guided in how to create the atmospheric qualities of light in Claude Monet’s 1903 painting The Houses of Parliament. Join us for this bite-sized workshop designed to inspire your journey into impressionistic oil painting!
$150

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THE MIRROR ROOM IN JUNE! JUNE PA DAY FOR KIDS!

The MIRROR ROOM in June!  | PA Day for Kids! Friday, June 7, 2024  |  9 am – 4 pm Ages 4-12  |  Max 36 $70 no hst one spot available! Join us for a colourful and cheery day discovering Yayoi Kusama’s magical world of PA Day POLKADOTS and MIRRORS! We’ll be focusing on pattern, repetition, and bending & shaping space & time, so get your noggin’ ready! http://www.yayoi-kusama.jp/
$70

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WEAVING TECHNIQUES | TAPESTRY WITH DIANNE KENNEDY CRUTTENDEN

WEAVING TECHNIQUES  |  TAPESTRY WITH DIANNE KENNEDY CRUTTENDEN SATURDAY, JUNE 8, 2024  |  10 AM - 4 PM AGES 14+  |  MAX 10  |  $110 + hst  Join textile artist Dianne Kennedy Cruttenden for a full day of learning a variety of tapestry techniques! This workshop is for those weavers who want a review and for new weavers to get started on your tapestry weaving adventure!
$110

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Micro Mini MAKERS! | Miniature World Summer Art Camp

MICRO MINI MAKERS!  |  Miniature World Camp Tuesday, July 2 - Friday, July 5, 2024 (4 day camp) 9 am to 4 pm Ages 5-12  |  Max 36  |  $280 no hst   It’s a micro-art world week! Small hands can make great art in a week full of tiny builds, small-scale sculptures, and mini masterpieces! We will explore a mix-up of mediums all micro-focused on the miniature. It will be petite-week of pint-sized perfection! sold out
$280

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Mid-Century MINI MODERNISTS! | Young Designers Summer Art Camp

Mid-Century MINI MODERNISTS! | Young Designers Camp Monday, July 8 - Friday, July 12, 2024  9 am to 4 pm Ages 5-12  |  Max 36  |  $350 no hst  sold out! Get ready to think outside of the box! Modernist thinkers and artists pushed the boundaries of art making and new materials and so will we! We'll explore the modernist teachings of the Bauhaus and focus our skills on developing Paul Klee-inspired block printmaking; 3-D architectural sculptures in the style of Wassily Kandinsky’s landscapes; and a kinetic wall sculpture that would make Maholy-Nagy proud!
$350

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Beyond the STRATOSPHERE! | TECH+ART Summer Art Camp

Beyond the STRATOSPHERE! | TECH+ART Camp Monday, July 15 - Friday, July 19, 2024  9 am to 4 pm  Ages 5-12  |  Max 36  |  $350 no hst  Campers! Let your  imagination go sky-high in this hi-octane art power pack week of science and art! Design and build your own model rocket throughout the week and turn them into kinetic flying works of art. On Friday, we’ll make sparks fly and launch our rockets into the sky for a ka-pow display of our creative genius! We will explore new worlds where young artists have never gone before!
$350

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POW! POP! PLAY! | Pop-Art Power Summer Art Camp

POW! POP! PLAY! | POP-ART Power Camp Monday, July 22 - Friday, July 26, 2024 9 am to 4 pm  Ages 5-12  |  Max 36  |  $350 no hst  

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Explore the colourful KA-POW world of pop culture in this big bold week featuring some big-wigs of the POP Art world! Andy Warhol, Keith Herring, Jasper Johns and Roy Lichtenstein will come to visit and inspire a week full of eye-popping colour, bold design, printmaking, stencils, collage and paint!
$350

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MYSTERY Mansions! | Design it+Build it Summer Art Camp

MYSTERY Mansions! | DESIGN IT+BUILD IT! Camp Monday, July 29 - Friday, August 2, 2024 9 am to 4 pm  Ages 5-12  |  Max 36  |  $350 no hst  

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Roll up your sleeves this week and get ready to design + build a MANSION of monolithic proportions! We will be the designers, architects, and creators of our own collaborative mysterious build. Behind every door is a new mystery! In each room will have a secret to solve. From invisible ink messages, trap doors, and kinetic sculptures, we will create a mansion that will put the Winchester house to shame. Will you be able to find your way out of this mystery?
$350

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ABC’s + LMNOP’s | Alphabet Summer Art Camp for Ages 4-6!

ABC’s + LMNOP’s | ALPHABET ART Camp for AGES 4-6! Tuesday, August 6 - Friday, August 9, 2024 (4 day camp) 9 am to 4 pm  Ages 4-6  |  Max 36  |  $280 no hst   sold out The alphabet offers 27 amazing opportunities to get creative! Let’s go all alphagetti this week and explore the world of the ABCDErian. We’ll learn about unusual words from other cultures, alphabets from around the world, night writing for the dark, and create our own personal alphabet font! This camp is designed for you youngest artists who are just entering their learning journey. Projects will be geared for our 4-6 year olds, with a day full of making fun and play. A great introduction to Summer Camp!
$280

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OUTDOOR Explorers! | Plein-Air+More Summer Art Camp

OUTDOOR Explorers! | PLEIN-AIR+MORE Camp Monday, August 12 - Friday, August 16, 2024  |  9 am to 4 pm  AGES 5-12  |  MAX 36  |  $350  |  No hst sold out Let’s break out of the studio this week and head outdoors for some plein air in the fresh air and learn about some earth-shaking art movements that embrace the environment and the earth beneath our feet! We’ll explore the tradition of plein air painting in the great outdoors, with a nod to the Group of Seven, and get some green-spiration from the Earth Art and Environmental Art movements.
$350

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MAGICAL Creatures! | Draw+Doodle Summer Art Camp

MAGICAL Creatures! | DRAW + DOODLE Camp Tuesday, August 20 - Friday, August 23, 2024 (4 day camp)  |  9 am to 4 pm  Ages 5-12  |  Max 36  $280|  No hst   sold out If you love, doodling, drawing, toons, anime, story booking or story boarding, this camp is for you! Magical Creatures is a drawing-forward camp, focusing on pencil, ink, illustration markers, watercolour, fun fonts and text. This camp is perfect for the young illustrator in you!
$280

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Small HUMANS Big ART! | Big Ideas Summer Art Camp

Small HUMANS Big ART! | BIG IDEAS Camp Monday, August 26 - Friday, August 30, 2024   |  9 AM- to 4 PM Ages 5-12  |  Max 36  $350  |  No hst   sold out Small hands can make BIG work in this week of thinking big and making bigger! Let’s look at the world around us through a new lens…a magnifying lens! In this thinking-big week, young artists will create monstrously sized insects that glide over the classroom; explore printmaking with the bountiful patterns found in nature; and join in a collaborative mural that takes its inspiration from the abstracted chaos of Jackson Pollock mixed with a kid-made Rorschach test.
$350

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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

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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!
$150.00

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DRAWING BASICS FOR KIDS! | 6 WEEK SUNDAY SERIES | with Eileen MacArthur

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

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.

$150.00

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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!

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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

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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

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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

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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!

$40.00

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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!

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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

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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

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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

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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

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HOLIDAY CARDS FOR KIDS!  |  MIXED MEDIA 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

Do you have a crafty kiddo looking for new ways of using all the bits & bobs in your craft drawer? Join this mixed media class with Guelph artist Ahmri Vandeborne! Young makers will explore our current exhibition, collect inspiration in a fun scavenger hunt activity, then will take their new-found inspiration back to the crafting room to work with pencil crayons, pastels, markers, collage materials and more to create unique compositions of colour and shape on giftable cards, perfect for holiday giving!

$40.00

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HOLIDAY MINI CAMP! 2-DAY JANUARY WINTER BREAK WITH ALEXA COLLETTE

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

Give your kiddos’ school break a creative kickstart to the New Year before they head back to school!

Join artist Alexa Collette on Thursday and Friday for 2 snow-inspired days exploring mixed-media, paint and clay, to create their own imagined winter-worlds filled with snowy landscapes and captivating creatures! Ages 6-12.

$130.00

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PAINTING BASICS FOR KIDS! 4-WEEK SATURDAY SERIES

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

Artist Eileen MacArthur is back in the ECFTA classroom to lead a fast and fun, art-packed introduction to the basics of painting for young artists ages 8 +.

Eileen will offer guidance in observational painting techniques, transfer-methods, colour theory, value, brush handling and composition, and how to break a painting down into more manageable parts!

$110.00

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OPEN STUDIO MONDAYS WITH EILEEN MACARTHUR

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

MONDAY AFTERNOON 7-WEEK SERIES

Join us Mondays 12:30-3:00 pm this winter! Open Studio is designed as open-flow studio time, loosely guided by artist Eileen MacArthur.

$245.00

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MIGHTY MATISSE! JANUARY PA DAY FOR KIDS

From bright solid shapes to colourful painted still life florals, we will ponder the beautiful and complicated inner world of French icon Henri MATISSE. Young makers will explore composition, pattern and colour, and learn about how artists tell stories with pictures!

sold out 

$70.00

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NEEDLE FELTED LANDSCAPE WITH MEGAN CLELAND

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

Join fibre artist Megan Cleland for a fun and friendly introduction to the art of needle felting in the round!

$120.00

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Artists Inspiring Artists – a FREE series to ignite creativity, presented by the Canadian Opera Company! – Session 1

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

Event cancelled due to illness.  To be rescheduled.  Register for one of the other upcoming sessions!

New Year, New You! With the Canadian Opera Company!

Kick off 2025 with a burst of creativity by joining the Canadian Opera Company and Elora Centre for the Arts for a transformative series of 3 evening workshops designed to fuel your artistic spirit. Hosted by Renée Salewski, a talented Teaching Artist from the Canadian Opera Company, these workshops are crafted to push you beyond your artistic boundaries. Explore new techniques and perspectives through improv, acting, creative writing, and visual art.

Free

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CIRCLE WEAVING WITH WOOL & NATURE

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

WEAVING WITH DIANNE KENNEDY CRUTTENDEN

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!

$120.00

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Artists Inspiring Artists – a FREE series to ignite creativity, presented by the Canadian Opera Company! – Session 2

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

New Year, New You! With the Canadian Opera Company!

Kick off 2025 with a burst of creativity by joining the Canadian Opera Company and Elora Centre for the Arts for a transformative series of 3 evening workshops designed to fuel your artistic spirit. Hosted by Renée Salewski, a talented Teaching Artist from the Canadian Opera Company, these workshops are crafted to push you beyond your artistic boundaries. Explore new techniques and perspectives through improv, acting, creative writing, and visual art.

Free

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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.

$150.00

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NEEDLE FELTED 3D SHEEP WITH MEGAN CLELAND

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!

$80.00

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Event Series THE DRAWING ROOM! |  4-WEEK SATURDAY SERIES  | with Donna Hull

THE DRAWING ROOM! |  4-WEEK SATURDAY SERIES  | LIVE ANIMALS with Donna Hull

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

Art-up your Saturdays in a playful afternoon of drawing with artist Donna Hull! Learn the 101’s of drawing from an art educator with more than 30 years of experience teaching in the classroom and beyond!  This 4-week series will focus on a visit from LIVE ANIMALS, the wonders of nature, drawing organic shapes and artist's choice of a naturalistic animal portrait, Owl or Horse! FEB 15, 22, MARCH 1, 8

$120.00

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BURNING ON PAPER! PAPER PYROGRAPHY WITH HEATHER MARTIN

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!

$130.00

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Artists Inspiring Artists – a FREE series to ignite creativity, presented by the Canadian Opera Company! – Session 3

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

New Year, New You! With the Canadian Opera Company!

Kick off 2025 with a burst of creativity by joining the Canadian Opera Company and Elora Centre for the Arts for a transformative series of 3 evening workshops designed to fuel your artistic spirit. Hosted by Renée Salewski, a talented Teaching Artist from the Canadian Opera Company, these workshops are crafted to push you beyond your artistic boundaries. Explore new techniques and perspectives through improv, acting, creative writing, and visual art.

Free

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MARCH BREAK ART CAMP IMAGINING IS BELIEVING!

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

IMAGINING IS BELIEVING March Break Camp!

A week where creativity knows no bounds. A place to dream, to believe, and to inspire. Where imaginations can run wild, where possibilities are endless, and art comes alive! For ages 5-12.

$350.00

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The Georgian Bay Series AFTER VARLEY

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

OIL PAINTING WITH RICK WORTHINGTON

Rescheduled to Saturday, March 15.

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

$150.00

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Artists Inspiring Artists – a FREE series to ignite creativity, presented by the Canadian Opera Company!

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

Calling all creative people in our community who want to be inspired!   Join the Canadian Opera Company and Elora Centre for the Arts for a transformative evening workshop designed to fuel your artistic spirit. Hosted by Renée Salewski, a talented Teaching Artist from the Canadian Opera Company, this workshop is crafted to push you beyond your artistic boundaries. Explore new techniques and perspectives through improv, acting, creative writing, and visual art.

Free

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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,

$120.00

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REDUCTIVE LINOBLOCK PRINTMAKING WITH AHMRI VANDEBORNE

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

2-SATURDAY WORKSHOP MARCH 29 & APRIL 5

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. 

$85.00

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PARIS MATCH! APRIL PA DAY FOR KIDS

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

I love Paris in the Springtime! CEZANNE, MATISSE, & CHAGALL will pay a visit to our studio classroom this PA Day, as we create our own art-salon, complete with Edith Piaf as our background crooner! Aspiring artists will learn about the great French Impressionists and consider how art movements develop, by many minds coming together to create a community!

$70.00

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THE ART OF ANIME+MANGA!

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

Anime and Manga fans. This class is for you! Artist Eileen MacArthur will introduce young artists age 8 + to the basics of drawing and skill building, while learning about Anime!

$65.00

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