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    • 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

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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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    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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    • 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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    SUPPORTIVE ARTS WEDNESDAY MORNINGS

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

    SUPPORTIVE 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! 

    $280.00

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    SUPPORTIVE ARTS THURSDAY MORNINGS

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

    SUPPORTIVE 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! 

    $280.00

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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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    GARDEN COTTAGE OIL PAINTING WITH RICK WORTHINGTON

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

    Spring greens can be tricky to work with. Join Elora artist Rick Worthington and learn to tame "the green" using techniques inspired by the Impressionists in the full-day, relaxed introduction to oil painting.

    Working from Rick's original plein air sketch, students will learn how to bring a dynamic, authentic feel to their painting journey!

    $150.00

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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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    HOW TO BUILD A PAINTING WEDNESDAY NIGHT OIL PAINTING

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

    WEDNESDAY NIGHT OIL PAINTING WITH RICK WORTHINGTON

    4-WEEK WEDNESDAY SERIES

    How to Build an Oil Painting is designed to gently guides students through Elora artist Rick Worthington’s unique process of creating an oil painting from start to finish. Throughout the course, students will learn how to choose a color palette, sketch out a drawing, block in shapes, and layer oil paints to bring a piece to life!

    $160.00

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    DRAWING FOR ADULTS WITH EILEEN MACARTHUR

    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!

    $100.00

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    • COLLAGRAPHS FOR KIDS! PRINTMAKING 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 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!

    $30.00

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    POKEMON WORLDS!

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

    Pokemon 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!

    $65.00

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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!

    $65.00

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    INTUITIVE ABSTRACT PAINTING

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

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    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.

    $290.00

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    • LET’S VAN GO! JUNE PA DAY FOR KIDS

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

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    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!

    $70.00

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