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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

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

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

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!

$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

2025 SUMMER CAMPS COMING SOON!

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

REGISTRATION OPENS THURSDAY, JANURARY 23 at 10 am!

9 weeks of Summer Art Making for ages 4-6 and 7-12!

July 2 to August 28, 2025

9 am - 4 pm each day

Weekly Camp descriptions coming soon!

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

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

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.
$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

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!

Sold Out $40.00

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.

Sold Out $130.00

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

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!

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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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COLLAGRAPHS FOR KIDS! WITH AHMRI VANDEBORNE

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

Calling all budding artists! Interested in trying something new? Learn the basics of printmaking through the art of collagraphs!

Guelph artist Ahmri Vandeborne will show us 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!

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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!

We will also examine how artists' work can change over time and how they find inspiration in new ways of using familiar materials.

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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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

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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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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.

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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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PARIS MATCH! | APRIL PA DAY FOR KIDS!

Elora Centre for the Arts 75 Melville Street, Elora, Ontario, Canada
AGES 5-12  |  MAX 36  $70  |  No hst 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! We will consider how Paris became a gathering place for artists and how to think about making a thriving art community of ideas and art-making!
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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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LET’S VAN GO! | JUNE PA DAY FOR KIDS!

Elora Centre for the Arts 75 Melville Street, Elora, Ontario, Canada
AGES 5-12  |  MAX 36  $70  |  No hst 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 using mixed media and 3-D textures!
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