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August 2019 Adult Art Classes at GPMA

People attend an art class at Grants Pass Museum of Art GPMA

August 2019 Adult Art Classes at GPMA Art Classes! Visit our Website Click on any picture to reach our website class signup page. We now have two levels of pricing for classes. Museum members receive a $5 discount on all classes. To become a member or to renew a membership: Click here Elements of Art – Color with Kristen O’Neill Saturday, August 3 1 – 4 pm Part of the series of fundamental art classes: Elements of Art Color! Color can be one of the most dominate elements. · Learn about hues, value, and intensity. · Explore the historical changes of color use, warm vs. cool palettes. · Create your own color wheel for reference. · Learn, with simple projects, how to set a mood with color in your artwork. Class will be taught in acrylic – but the knowledge works for all mediums. A great class for the beginner,

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Southern Oregon Plein Air Kicks Off 1 Week From Today! Have You Signed Up Yet?

southern oregon plein air june 2019

JUNE 19 – JUNE 22, 2019

$85 registration fee – Register Now!

Southern Oregon Plein Air (SOPA) invites artists of all levels to participate in 4 days of plein air painting!

 

Artists can customize their SOPA experience by participating in a vendor fair, attending FREE plein air presentations, joining guest artists for on-location demonstrations, entering art into a juried show, participating in a “quick draw” event, and taking advantage of social events.

 

Paintings entered into the competition will be juried for over $1000 in cash prizes for 1st, 2nd, 3rd places and four honorable mentions. This year’s juror is Cody Bustamante, Professor of Art at Southern Oregon University in Ashland, OR.

 

Check In and registration will be happening on Wed. 6/19 at Central Art during our Vendor Fair, so mark your calendars!

 

Thank you for your interest in SOPA 2019 – we

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Earth Paint Summer Deals + Eco Artist Interview

Earth Paint Summer Deals + Eco Artist Interview

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Can you say “Let’s Paint!” in Italian? ….”Dipingiamo!”

Take me to Italy!

Fascinating interview with Natural Artist & Prodigy, Josh Tiessen. Read more here.

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Ashland New Plays Festival presents THE GUN SHOW by E.M. Lewis

What: Ashland New Plays Festival presents THE GUN SHOW by E.M. Lewis When: Friday and Saturday, June 14 and 15, 2019, at 7:30 pm Where: Bellview Grange, 1050 Tolman Creek Road, Ashland Tickets: $25, available onlineor at the door, subject to availability

Taking Aim at the Gun Debate: Can we have a conversation about this?

A defaced road sign from rural Minnesota.

Ashland New Plays Festival will present a special two-night full production of The Gun Show by award-winning playwright E.M. Lewis at 7:30 pm on June 14 and 15 at the Bellview Grange in Ashland, featuring Andrew William Smith and directed by Lisa Velten Smith. Tickets are $25, available online or at the door, subject to availability. A conversation with the audience about personal experiences with guns will follow the performance.

“I am here to tell a public story and a private story. A story about guns in America and a story about my own experiences with guns in America.”

And so begins the riveting one-hour play. Lewis tells her story with raw honesty and gives audiences important insight into the nuances of America’s

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Poets on the Loose – Saturday April 13, 2019

Celebrate National Poetry Month in Jacksonville with Poets on the Loose 2019 on Saturday, April 13

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February 8th & 9th, 2019 Will Be A HUGE Weekend at Central Art

Small Business Saturday November 24 2018 Central Art Supply, Medford, Oregon

This year’s theme is “Surfaces,” and will feature vendors representing products from Strathmore, Hahnemuhle, Ampersand, Winsor & Newton, Stillman & Birn, Bee Paper, Arches, Art Alternatives, Masterpiece, Arnhem, Canson, Chartpak, Fabriano and more!! That certainly covers a whole lot, doesn’t it?

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Rogue Gallery Presents Capturing Beauty: Paintings by Sheri Dinardi , Ilene Gienger-Stanfield, and David Terry

Rogue Gallery New Exhibit and Reception

Main Gallery exhibit:

Capturing Beauty: Paintings by Sheri Dinardi , Ilene Gienger-Stanfield, and David Terry January 11 – February 22, 2019 Reception Date: January 18, 5:30 – 8:00 pm

Last of Summer 18×24 oil on linen by David W Terry

Artists Sheri Dinardi, Ilene Gienger-Stanfield, & David Terry create luminous works in the time honored tradition of oil painting. Their paintings of people, structures, and landscapes beautifully capture a moment in time and the essence of the subject.

The Capturing Beauty exhibit features three artists who paint in the traditional oil medium. Creating figurative oil paintings require talent, training, skill, and perseverance. The process of creating an oil painting requires many hours work due to the slow drying time and the paint properties required in layering the

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