Classes
Events
OUTDOOR Explorers! | Plein-Air+More Summer Art Camp
MAGICAL Creatures! | Draw+Doodle Summer Art Camp
Small HUMANS Big ART! | Big Ideas Summer Art Camp
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 (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!
AFTER CASSON | OIL PAINTING WITH RICK WORTHINGTON
Elora Centre for the Arts 75 Melville Street, Elora, Ontario, CanadaDRAWING BASICS FOR KIDS! | 6 WEEK SUNDAY SERIES | with Eileen MacArthur
Elora Centre for the Arts 75 Melville Street, Elora, Ontario, CanadaDrawing 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.
NEON NOODLERS! | OCTOBER PA DAY FOR KIDS!
PLAYFUL PORTRAITS | Loose Pastels | with Peter Skoggard
Elora Centre for the Arts 75 Melville Street, Elora, Ontario, CanadaAGES 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, CanadaBASQUIAT-INSPIRED PET PORTRAITS | WITH EILEEN MACARTHUR
Elora Centre for the Arts 75 Melville Street, Elora, Ontario, CanadaBOOK BINDING FOR KIDS! | WITH AHMRI VANDEBORNE
Elora Centre for the Arts 75 Melville Street, Elora, Ontario, CanadaAGES 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, CanadaDUTCH FLORAL STILL LIFE | Learning from The Masters | with EILEEN MACARTHUR
Elora Centre for the Arts 75 Melville Street, Elora, Ontario, CanadaTEENY TINY BAKERY PRESENTS HOLIDAY COOKIE DECORATING!
Elora Centre for the Arts 75 Melville Street, Elora, Ontario, CanadaAt 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!
INTIMATE INTERIORS | ACRYLICS WITH RICK WORTHINGTON
Elora Centre for the Arts 75 Melville Street, Elora, Ontario, CanadaAGES 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!
HOLIDAY CHARCUTERIE & MORE | WOOD BURNING WITH HEATHER MARTIN
Elora Centre for the Arts 75 Melville Street, Elora, Ontario, CanadaAGES 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!
HOLIDAY CARDS FOR KIDS! | MIXED MEDIA WITH AHMRI VANDEBORNE
Elora Centre for the Arts 75 Melville Street, Elora, Ontario, CanadaAGES 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!
HOLIDAY MINI CAMP! 2-DAY JANUARY WINTER BREAK WITH ALEXA COLLETTE
Elora Centre for the Arts 75 Melville Street, Elora, Ontario, CanadaGive 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.
PAINTING BASICS FOR KIDS! 4-WEEK SATURDAY SERIES
Elora Centre for the Arts 75 Melville Street, Elora, Ontario, CanadaArtist 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!
OPEN STUDIO MONDAYS WITH EILEEN MACARTHUR
Elora Centre for the Arts 75 Melville Street, Elora, Ontario, CanadaMONDAY 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.
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!
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NEEDLE FELTED LANDSCAPE WITH MEGAN CLELAND
Elora Centre for the Arts 75 Melville Street, Elora, Ontario, CanadaJoin fibre artist Megan Cleland for a fun and friendly introduction to the art of needle felting in the round!
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, CanadaEvent 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.
CIRCLE WEAVING WITH WOOL & NATURE
Elora Centre for the Arts 75 Melville Street, Elora, Ontario, CanadaWEAVING 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!
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, CanadaNew 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.
The Georgian Bay Series AFTER TOM THOMSON
Elora Centre for the Arts 75 Melville Street, Elora, Ontario, CanadaOIL 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.
NEEDLE FELTED 3D SHEEP WITH MEGAN CLELAND
Elora Centre for the Arts 75 Melville Street, Elora, Ontario, CanadaJoin 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!
THE DRAWING ROOM! | 4-WEEK SATURDAY SERIES | LIVE ANIMALS with Donna Hull
Elora Centre for the Arts 75 Melville Street, Elora, Ontario, CanadaArt-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
BURNING ON PAPER! PAPER PYROGRAPHY WITH HEATHER MARTIN
Elora Centre for the Arts 75 Melville Street, Elora, Ontario, CanadaJoin 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!
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, CanadaNew 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.
MARCH BREAK ART CAMP IMAGINING IS BELIEVING!
Elora Centre for the Arts 75 Melville Street, Elora, Ontario, CanadaIMAGINING 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.
The Georgian Bay Series AFTER VARLEY
Elora Centre for the Arts 75 Melville Street, Elora, Ontario, CanadaOIL 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.
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, CanadaCalling 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.
SUPPORTIVE ARTS WEDNESDAY MORNINGS
Elora Centre for the Arts 75 Melville Street, Elora, Ontario, CanadaSUPPORTIVE ARTS SPRING
WEDNESDAY MORNINGS
10 AM – 12 PM
MARCH 19-JUNE 18, 2025
Weekly inclusive art & mindfulness classes for adults with varying abilities. We offer Wednesday morning and Thursday classes, September-June!
SUPPORTIVE ARTS THURSDAY MORNINGS
Elora Centre for the Arts 75 Melville Street, Elora, Ontario, CanadaSUPPORTIVE ARTS SPRING
THURSDAY MORNINGS
10 AM–12 PM
MARCH 20-JUNE 19, 2025
Weekly inclusive art & mindfulness classes for adults with varying abilities. We offer Wednesday morning, Thursday morning & Thursday afternoon classes, September-June!
MAUD LEWIS TULIPS! PUNCH NEEDLE RUG HOOKING
Elora Centre for the Arts 75 Melville Street, Elora, Ontario, CanadaLet'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,
REDUCTIVE LINOBLOCK PRINTMAKING WITH AHMRI VANDEBORNE
Elora Centre for the Arts 75 Melville Street, Elora, Ontario, Canada2-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.
PARIS MATCH! APRIL PA DAY FOR KIDS
Elora Centre for the Arts 75 Melville Street, Elora, Ontario, CanadaI 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!
THE ART OF ANIME+MANGA!
Elora Centre for the Arts 75 Melville Street, Elora, Ontario, CanadaAnime 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!
DRAWING FOR ADULTS WITH EILEEN MACARTHUR
Elora Centre for the Arts 75 Melville Street, Elora, Ontario, CanadaJoin 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!
COLLAGRAPHS FOR KIDS! PRINTMAKING WITH AHMRI VANDEBORNE
Elora Centre for the Arts 75 Melville Street, Elora, Ontario, CanadaCalling all budding artists! Interested in trying something new? Learn the basics of printmaking through the art of collagraphs!
Guelph artist Ahmri Vandeborne will show you tips and tricks on how to compose an image of your choosing, translate your image to a collagraph matrix (raised surface), and ink up your plate for some hot-off-the-presses printing!
POKEMON WORLDS!
Elora Centre for the Arts 75 Melville Street, Elora, Ontario, CanadaPokemon kids! Join artist Eileen MacArthur for a half-day Sunday workshop celebrating the world of Pokemon! We will be making a Pokemon habitat using a variety of different materials and methods, including drawing, painting and sculpting!
PAINTING OUTSIDE! FAMILY PLEIN AIR
Elora Centre for the Arts 75 Melville Street, Elora, Ontario, CanadaJoin 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!
ABSTRACT EMBROIDERY WITH AHMRI VANDEBORNE
Elora Centre for the Arts 75 Melville Street, Elora, Ontario, CanadaArtist 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!
INTUITIVE ABSTRACT PAINTING
Elora Centre for the Arts 75 Melville Street, Elora, Ontario, CanadaOne spot left!
Join Stratford artist Sal Cucci for an introduction to intuitive abstracts and explore your personal expression in this playful and inclusive weekend!
This immersive 2-day workshop will appeal to painters of any level, whether you are beginning your abstract journey, or would like to deepen your practice.
LET’S VAN GO! JUNE PA DAY FOR KIDS
Elora Centre for the Arts 75 Melville Street, Elora, Ontario, CanadaOne spot left!
Young makers! Take a stroll through the vibrant world of Vincent Van Gogh and explore his use of colour and line to create motion, emotion, and intensity! Let's explore the sunny side of painting and using LOTS of vibrant yellow, yellow, yellow and practice Impressionist methods of art-making, as we work together to recreate Van Gogh’s luminous sunflowers on canvas!
FLOW+GLOW! ART & MOVEMENT CAMP
Elora Centre for the Arts 75 Melville Street, Elora, Ontario, Canada3-DAY CAMP FOR AGES 4-7
If your budding artist loves art, with a little get-up-and-go mixed in, this ART + MOVEMENT camp is for you!
We’ll invent our own junior yoga moves and get those ants in your pants dancing and singing, along with playful creativity and friend-making!
ART THEN+NOW! MINI MASTERS CAMP
Elora Centre for the Arts 75 Melville Street, Elora, Ontario, Canada5-DAY CAMP FOR AGES 7-12
Let’s time-jump into the art time machine and look at Art THEN + NOW! This camp is full-on art making, trying out new materials, and exploring the connections between art today and art of the past!
ART TECHS! THE SCIENCE OF ART CAMP
Elora Centre for the Arts 75 Melville Street, Elora, Ontario, Canada5 DAY CAMP FOR AGES 7-12
If you love to experiment, innovate, and collaborate then this camp is for you! This STE(A)M-injected camp brings super-sonic art making to young artists who love bright colours, bright ideas and are curious about how science and tech can POWER their ART explorations!













































