COMMUNITY CONNECTIONS provides free arts programming to youth with intellectual and/or developmental delays in elementary and secondary school in the Life Skills and LRC classrooms. We meet students once a month throughout the school year at Centre Wellington District Secondary School, Elora Public School, John Black Public School in Fergus, Arthur Public School, Victoria Cross...
SUPPORTIVE ARTS is a unique program offering inclusive, arts-based learning opportunities and compelling artistic experiences to individuals with varying abilities. We welcome all adults and caregivers from Wellington County and the surrounding areas to our weekly program, led by ECFTA Arts Educator and Mindfulness Facilitators. Wednesday & Thursday morning and afternoon classes held weekly September...
REGISTRATION IS OPEN! SCROLL DOWN TO JULY/AUGUST TO SEE WEEKLY CAMP DESCRIPTIONS Looking for assistance? We have funding available thanks to the Optimist Club of Centre Wellington-Fergus available on a first-come-first-served basis for families facing financial barriers. Contact us today to request a spot! TIPS FOR REGISTRATION! You DO NOT need to log in to...
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! SUPPORTIVE ARTS is a unique program offering arts-based learning opportunities and compelling artistic experiences to individuals with varying abilities. We welcome adults...
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! SUPPORTIVE ARTS is a unique program offering arts-based learning opportunities and compelling artistic experiences to individuals with varying abilities. We welcome adults...
SUPPORTIVE ARTS SPRING THURSDAY AFTERNOONS 1 PM-3 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! SUPPORTIVE ARTS is a unique program offering arts-based learning opportunities and compelling artistic experiences to individuals with varying abilities. We welcome...
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. Participants will learn to create a...
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...
You are invited to be the first to view this new exhibition! Meet & mingle with the 9 artists of 'Escape: Transcending Bounds', and enjoy a Saturday afternoon surrounded by creativity and community. Admission is free. Above: The Octarine Women Artists' Collective. Back row, L to R: Gail Root, Carol Hughes, Leslie Miles, Gail Brown, Anne...
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! We will be using a variety of materials to explore how artists design characters for manga and anime, including drawing, painting and sculpting. We’ll...
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...
This Easter-themed workshop will get young artists 6 + hopping in a fun-filled half-day exploring art, crafts, stories and art history from Easter traditions around the world! Let’s get busy with a variety of materials including felt flowers, spring inspired paintings, paper collage and decorated eggs. The afternoon will include an outside play break to...
The Schoolhouse Arts Collective is marking its 2nd Annual TINY ART EXPO! APRIL 26 and 27 11 AM to 4 PM It’s a weekend celebrating beautiful things that come in small packages. All pieces are new, original 8” square or smaller works of art and we very much look forward to sharing these small gems...
WEAVING WITH DIANNE KENNEDY CRUTTENDEN Celebrate May Day with tapestry artist Dianne Kennedy Cruttenden. This workshop will offer an easy-going introduction to the art of weaving and go home with your own hand woven and embellished amulet pouch, perfect for the arrival of Spring! These charming hand woven pouches are to be worn around the...
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...
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...
The Art Centre is at the threshold of an exciting new chapter, and we invite you to take the next step with us! As both our organization and the communities we serve grow, we need to address some of the physical constraints of our two galleries and classroom, to help break down barriers to participation in the arts.