Upcoming Events

Draw With Steve Harpster everyday at 11:00am Pacific Time https://www.facebook.com/harptoons/ View past and future lessons on his Facebook page.

Enjoy live music by local musicians every Friday evening as you dine on fresh, creative, wholesome cuisine from the 5511 Bistro and view live art displays. Pair that wonderful food with hand crafted wines made on site at Blooms Winery. A fabulous new destination for Wine, Art, Food and Music in Freeland. Reservations accepted for dining.

Make Sunday afternoons special with a visit to Blooms 5511 Bistro for live music by local musicians. Come for the music, stay for the food. Fresh, creative, wholesome cuisine by Chef Wayne Carter is always a treat, and paired with wines by Blooms Winery, hand crafted on site make it even more wonderful. Enjoy viewing the art displayed by local artists. Wine, Art, Food and Music make a great blend at Blooms, a true destination spot in Freeland.

Artist Marcy Johnson, weaver and jewelry maker, will be at Penn Cove Gallery on Tuesday, April 21, 2020 from 10 AM to 5 PM along with some of the tools she uses for her artwork. Marcy has designed and produced a line of woven scarves, blankets and jewelry. She has participated in regional and international exhibits.  All her work reflects her extensive travel and research into ethnic cultures and fiber techniques.

Discovery and Reveal: Screenprinting onto/into Encaustic is a workshop that covers the unique process of silkscreening pigment sticks, tinted gesso, and inks below/into/onto encaustic surfaces. A simplified approach towards screenprinting makes this process easy to grasp and unites graphic print elements with painting surfaces and motifs. The class will focus on creating images that incorporate multiple printing passes from both fixed screenprinting stations to freeform printing approaches. The class is designed for students who have basic encaustic experience although no…

Whidbey, Women & Art May 16-17, 2020 Saturday & Sunday 11:00am - 5:00pm Free Admission ​ A  Benefit  Art  Show  and  Sale Sponsored  by Soroptimist  International​  of  South  Whidbey  Island  at Dancing Fish Vineyards 1953 Newman Rd, Freeland, WA 98249 click  HERE  for directions and website ​

Join renowned photographer and teacher Sam Abell for a concentrated one-week workshop on beautiful Whidbey Island. Open to a select number of photographers serious about their work, this workshop will emphasize documentary photography of the life and landscape of Puget Sound.  The workshop will also concentrate on the editing of work and the creation of photographic projects. Each day participants will engage with Sam in the field making new photographs and in the classroom editing existing work. With strong individual…

Altered Books Botanizing is a workshop in which an altered book can become a personal archive of life in a changing climate. In this workshop, participants will learn basic techniques for altering a book to use as a journal in which to record observations of the natural world. We will begin by editing the content of a used book via cutting, pasting, gesso, and collage. Methods of creating pockets and cavities in the existing book structure will be demonstrated and…

Fibre + paper + ink together produce a unique and inspiring marked textile that illuminates more beautifully than any other combination. Paper adds unique textural and sculptural qualities to the felt, which we emphasize with bold ink work added to our final felt forms. In this class we cover resist work, paper selection and sources, ink for felt design, and the manipulation of form. Our main project will be a cylindrical table lamp. We’ll also explore a small sculptural lighting…

Join Keron Psillas, award-winning photographer and author, to discover and refine a deeper intent for your photography. With six books Internationally award-winning books of photography published, Keron is creating a legacy of refined work with a passionate voice. 2019 was the debut of her fine press edition of Cavalo Lusitano: The Spirit Within, from Veritas Editions, and saw acclaim and awards for Lusitano:noble, courageous, eternal, as well as Loss and Beauty: creating solace in a land of infinite sorrow. From…

Discover how to speak strongly, simply, and in your own voice. The focus of this workshop is exploring mark-making possibilities for increasing visual vocabulary. Emphasis is placed on using the silk screen in an intuitive, painterly way. In addition to deconstructed, polychromatic, and other spontaneous printing methods with fiber reactive dyes, we will also be printing with textile medium, Caran d’Ache crayons, charcoal, and other water-soluble media. Along with demonstrations and hands-on work, each day will include a series of…

In Kyrgyzstan, when a daughter got married, her mother and her relatives felted her a rug. Using their ancient symbols they felted her best wishes and good luck into the rug that stayed with her for the rest of her life. In this workshop, you’ll create a felted rug (approximately 3×5’) with the instructor’s pre-felt technique, using either the several hundred-year-old symbols or creating your very own. Come and join us for a four-day workshop and learn – about the…

Juried Art Festival in Edmonds, WA.  Call for artists open from March 1- May 3. Festival takes place June 19-21.

This is an introductory to advanced course in the ancient Korean technique of joomchi or felted paper. In this context the word ‘felted’ means that this method of fusing papers uses some of the same hand tools and styles of manipulation that one can use in making felt from wool fiber. In both cases, the main tools are the hands and water. Having studied papermaking for several years and traveled extensively in Asia I will also talk about the uses…

Creating abstract art with oil paint and cold wax medium is intuitive, bold, and full of discovery. Your pieces will take on lives of their own through the many layers of oil and cold wax you apply, addition of mixed media elements, and the areas you choose to scrape away. Each oil and cold wax piece is a result of a moment in time and space where elements converge in a one-time-only way. I’ll show you lots of techniques for…

Big Ink is all about creating bold dramatic surfaces on garments that engage the wearer and the viewer. This is design that celebrates life and movement! We explore inks and paints for printing and drawing on textiles to add form, depth and line. Seamless garment design will be covered encompassing colour, form and fit, plus using resist additions and pleating for additional shaping and fit. Collar, sleeves and hood design will be covered, as well as tools and techniques to…

How do you experience nature? Some people climb the biggest mountain they can find, others prefer beach combing the coast, while others cultivate their backyards into pristine gardens. How can we capture that energy and express those fleeting feelings of exhilaration, nostalgia, or serenity on the canvas? This workshop explores abstraction, color and mark through the lens of landscape painting. We will transform our reference imagery into rich, energetic, abstract paintings. Each morning we will explore and experiment through warm-up…

This renowned workshop is designed for both amateur and professional photographers who wish to strengthen their ability to see and work in color. Through daily shooting assignments, critiques and discussions, participants acquire techniques to become more sensitive to light and its effects on color, composition, texture, pattern, and design. While covering the use and quality of natural light, the main focus is on investigating color from a personal point of view. Arthur guides and inspires participants to help refine an…