Join us for these upcoming events
Exhibition openings, film screenings, workshops and more!
We hope you'll join us for the many events taking place
at Main Street Arts.
Call or email the gallery for more info and to reserve your
spot in our workshops, camps, and drawing sessions.
august 2017
Opening Reception: Upstate NY Painting Invitational
Saturday, August 26, 2017 | 4 to 7 p.m.
September 2017
Small Monotypes with Bill DeMott
Saturday, September 9, 12–3p.m.
$35 per person, all materials included
Learn how to make original prints using a reductive monotype process
with a focus on making a compelling image on a small scale. As a bonus, workshop participants will be able to enter our Small Works exhibition
for a discounted entry fee! Sign up by Thursday, September 7.
Encaustic Collage: Working with Transparent Papers
and Drawings with Ali Herrmann
Saturday, September 16, 12–3 p.m.
$45, all materials included
Reserve your spot for this workshop by Thursday, September 14
In this workshop with September artist in residence Ali Herrmann, participants will create a luminous encaustic painting with a clear wax medium. Combining colored papers and drawings, you will use collage techniques to layer into the wax, creating an ethereal, one-of-a-kind
work of art with lots of depth.
*Disclaimer: Heated wax emits an odor that may be bothersome to those with odor sensitivities.
Film Screening: "Tim's Vermeer"
Thursday, September 21, 7–9 p.m.
Free
Tim Jenison, a Texas based inventor, attempts to solve one of the greatest mysteries in all art: How did 17th century Dutch Master Johannes Vermeer ("Girl with a Pearl Earring") manage to paint so photo-realistically —
150 years before the invention of photography? The epic research
project Jenison embarks on to test his theory is as extraordinary
as what he discovers.
Building a Ceramic Environment with Mandy Ranck
Saturdays, September 23 and 30, 12–3p.m.
$70 per person, all materials included
Join September/October artist in residence Mandy Ranck in a two-session workshop where you will build your own three-dimensional mixed media environment using fired clay figures and objects, and a painted backdrop. The first session will be for working with clay, second session is for applying paint and putting it all together. Sign up by Thursday, September 21.
October 2017
Opening Reception: Sacred Curiosities
Saturday, October 22, 2017 | 4 to 7 p.m.
(Exhibition opens on October 14)
Wet Felting Workshop with Victoria Connors
Saturday, October 28, 12–3p.m.
$45 per person, all materials included
In this workshop you will learn the techniques necessary to make
a wet felted landscape or still life using your own photographs as reference. Participants will leave with their own wet felted work of art with extra materials included to take home! Sign up by Thursday, October 26.
November 2017
Film Screening TBA
Thursday, November 16, 7–9 p.m.
December 2017
Opening Reception: Small Works 2017
Opening Reception: The Cup, The Mug 2017
Saturday, December 2, 2017 | 4 to 7p.m.
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