We welcome new ceramics instructor Helen Segil. Helen has recently returned from an Unconventional Material Inquiry Residency at the Luca Della Maddalena Studio in Turin Italy. With a foundation in functional ceramics, her personal practice has evolved toward creating one-of-a-kind pieces that question how objects are used, understood, and experienced. She will help students learn and expand their wheel throwing skills and pursue independent projects.

New instructor Robert LaBranche offers Dynamic Composition for Painters, exploring foundational concepts of design and composition in painting practice. Using still-life as subject, students will concentrate on the manipulation of space and form, position, shape, changes in scale, value, and color with the intention of building mastery of composition. Robert demonstrates in oils, but acrylic painters are very welcome.

Joshua also offers a great pre-Christmas 3 session workshop: Fur Real: Pets & Animal Portraits in Oil. Whether it’s your beloved pet or a favorite wildlife subject, this workshop will guide you through creating a lifelike and expressive portrait. By the end of the weekend, you’ll take home a finished painting and a clearer understanding of how to approach animal subjects with confidence.

Tom Glover offers a new Night Moves class. Bring your flashlights and paint in the dark. No, not really, but you will be looking at the art created with the night in mind- from Caravaggio, Grunewald and Goya, to Magritte, Hopper and beyond. This will give you an opportunity to look at new palettes, new sets of colors which can build darks but still be rich with color. There’s color in the shadows! Any medium is welcome; experimentation is welcome. Source material can be landscape, moonscape, mind scape or any scape.

Sanctuary Arts Instructor Anthony Alemany returns from a very successful Summer creating large public commissions to offer Sculpting the Reclining Nude from Life and The Anatomy of Portrait Workshop. Currently he is creating a new public sculpture commissioned for Bohenko Gateway Park in Portsmouth, New Hampshire. It’s called Nebi, the Algonquian word for “water”, celebrating the life-giving power of water while honoring the deep cultural and historical connection between the Piscataqua region and the Indigenous peoples who have cared for these lands for thousands of years. Nebi is scheduled to be installed in Bohenko Gateway Park in 2027.

This Fall we offer 22 classes and workshops for the creative person who wants first class instruction in a professional and welcoming arts environment.

Cheers,

Christopher