Annual General Meeting

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

You are invited to join us for our Annual General Meeting, and celebrate the past year and all of our volunteers who helped make it a success! Please come to the gallery and see our “year in review” and how we’ve worked to improve our community through the arts.

Everyone is welcome to attend (you don’t have to be a member)!  A reminder that your membership needs to be current in order to vote.  Membership information can be found here.

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.
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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!

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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!
Sold Out $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!
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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? Come be inspired in this mixed media class with Guelph artist Ahmri Vandeborne! Young makers will explore the exhibition "Clay & Cloth: Forest" at the Elora Centre for the Arts and 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!
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BRIGHT BOLD CANVAS FOR KIDS! | PAINTING BIG ABSTRACTS | WITH EILEEN MACARTHUR

Elora Centre for the Arts 75 Melville Street, Elora, Ontario, Canada
AGES 8 +MAX 10 $65  |  No hst  |  All materials provided Junior artists! Join Eileen MacArthur to explore the methods and materials abstract artists use to make big, expressive paintings! We will be experimenting with using mixed media approaches and looking at the work of contemporary and historical artists for inspiration, learn about line, shape, colour, pattern and composition.
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The Nest! Thursday after-school maker space: Spring 2023

THE NESTTHURSDAY AFTER-SCHOOL MAKER SPACE

FOR AGES 10+  |  Maximum 20 spots

SPRING PROGRAM  |  APRIL 6– JUNE 15, 2023

THURSDAYS 3:30-5:30

$5 PER SESSION  |  $55 for the entire session 

Register for all 10 weeks (no single date sign-ups or drop in). 

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If you would like to sign up for The Nest after the start date, please contact us to arrange details!  Payment will be prorated.

$55

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.

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MIGHTY MATISSE! | JANUARY PA DAY FOR KIDS!

MIGHTY MATISSE! | January PA Day for Kids! Friday, January 24, 2025 |  9 am – 4 pm AGES 5-12  |  MAX 36  $70  |  No hst 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.

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

Elora Centre for the Arts 75 Melville Street, Elora, Ontario, Canada
AGES 8+  |   MAX 15   $120 for all 4 weeks  |  No HST  |  All materials provided
FEBRUARY 15, FEBRUARY 22, MARCH 1 & MARCH 8
Art-up your Saturdays in an immersive afternoon with Donna Hull and 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 the wonders of nature, drawing natural, organic shapes for the first 1-3 weeks and finish with the student's choice of a naturalistic animal portrait. Owl or Horse!
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