Upcoming Events

Whidbey Art Gallery May 2023 The Whidbey Art Gallery on Second St in Langley will host Art Walk from 5-7 on Saturday, May 6. It’s a great time to meet some of our 37 artists and visit with friends and neighbors. The talented artists at Whidbey Art Gallery in Langley are hoping that all our April showers will bring May flowers. The gallery is filled with colorful new work and is the place to pick up something for Mother’s Day.…

Rob Schouten Gallery presents 15th Anniversary Exhibition  May 3 - 29  Opening Reception Saturday, May 6 from 5 - 7 during Langley’s First Saturday Art Walk The Gallery is thrilled to be celebrating its 15th Anniversary with a Special Exhibition. Please join us in celebrating fifteen wonderful years of showing the exceptional artwork of Whidbey Island and Northwest artists. (And it is our sixth year at our much loved Langley location.) We offer our most heartfelt thanks to our community,…

Twain is arguably our most famous American author and humorist. He was also an important and influential social icon. Timely Twain opens with the witty storyteller. Then we see him use his podium to deliver his wry political and social commentary. Finally, the numerous tragedies in his personal life appear to lead him to a darker, disappointed cynicism. Samuel Clemens followed every personal tragedy with surges of creative energy and productivity. There's no doubt he would have done so again…

A Master Class with Sam Abell Sam Abell, Instructor Date: Monday, May 29th – Saturday, June 3rd, 2023 (9am-4pm) Tuition: $1,300 Registration: $25 Materials: N/A 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…

Felt Your Dream! Prefelt Rug Workshop with Nomadic Design Flóra Carlile-Kovács, Instructor Date: Tuesday, May 30th – Friday, June 2nd, 2023 (9am-4pm) Tuition: $600 Registration: $25 Materials: $120 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’x5’) with the…

Rob Schouten Gallery presents Brian Mahieu paintings of the North Olympic Coast and Hoh Rainforest June 1 - 26 Explorations of the North Olympic Coast and the Hoh Rainforest are the subject of Brian Mahieu’s debut exhibition at the gallery. While working for many years as a plein-air painter, Mahieu has now added studio work his repertoire. Working in bold, assertive strokes and intense color Brian views his paintings as the esthetic records of a moment in time and place.…

PAINT WITH PAPER With Kristi O'Donnell Fridays, May 19, 26 & June 2 1 PM-3PM Kristi O’Donnell’s 'Paint with Paper' invites you into the creative flow and to have fun. Using vibrant papers, your hands and originality, you will learn how to allow the art muse to join in and experience joy. Your new-found skills will be transformed into artworks, greeting cards, luminaries, garden art, and bookmarks and applied to making whimsical yet useful items. Kristi uses the principles of…

Come to downtown Oak Harbor the first Saturday of each month to see art, meet artists, hear music & more!

Sunflower Bowl $40 Welcome summer with a happy sunflower bowl.  Class dates- June 3 & 10 2:00- 3:00pm Project pick up- June 17 Age 11-13 Sign up now >>>

Bring your bestie to our first-ever Bestie Author Talk! Two authors, two genres, two readerships: one wildly entertaining hour in the bookstore! Join NW locals Amber Casali and Will Taylor for this one-of-a-kind summer book mashup. We can think of no better way to kick off summer and Pride than with this book chat on publishing, writing for kids and families, non-fiction versus fiction, hikes, using the NW as inspiration, and much more! Q&A and signing to follow. Amber Casali is the author of Hiking Washington's…

Printing Your World: Creating a Palette of Fabrics with Monotype Cameron Mason, Instructor Dates: Sunday, June 4th – Thursday, June 8th, 2023 (9am-4pm) Tuition: $625 Registration: $25 Materials: $40 In this workshop we will use natural and found materials to make series of prints on fabric, each related but unique. Using thickened dye and simple tools we will make monotypes of positive and negative images. We will also use paste resists and dye attractant to expand the mark-making possibilities of your…

Henry Yan (click here to visit his web site) ​ Figure and portrait drawing with charcoals ​ June 9 - 11 Tuition: $650 Skill level: all levels ​ COURSE DESCRIPTION ​ The workshop will be focusing on drawing figure and portrait from live models, in order to improve participants’ skills in handling accurate proportions, human anatomy, rendering dark and light tones for three dimensional images etc. ​ Basic and advanced drawing skills will be demonstrated and practiced in long and short…

Capturing the Light in Watercolor Lynn Ferris, Instructor Date: Saturday, June 10th – Tuesday, June 13th, 2023 (9am-4pm) Tuition: $675 Registration: $25 Materials: TBD Take your work to the next level. Light and shadow shouldn’t be afterthoughts in our paintings. In fact, good use of light and shadow is one of the best ways to take a painting from ordinary to extraordinary.In her signature workshop “Capturing the Light,” Lynn will show students how to use light and shadow to design stronger…

Salon Series #4 Joomchi with Zia Gipson Zia Gipson, Instructor Date: Saturday, June 10th, 2023 (1pm – 4pm) Tuition: $35 Welcome to the Salon Series! Hosted by a couple of our local “celebrity” creatives: Zia Gipson and Ilene Sorenson. Have you ever wondered how some of our local talent choose their palette, subjects, plan, plot, and create? Now is your chance to watch up close and personal at any one of the three sessions in this fun and informal “salon…

Stunning Abstracts with Soft Pastels Mira M White, Instructor Date: Saturday, June 17th – Monday, June 19th, 2023 (9am-4pm) Tuition: $525 Registration: $25 Materials: TBD We are going to have a great time working with soft pastels in a variety of experimental ways: under-paintings with acrylics, watercolors or pastel diluted with rubbing alcohol.(No petroleum-based solvents in this workshop.) We will be layering both dry and wet processes. Lots of exuberant mark making on several surfaces! Open to continuing artists of all levels…

Stunning Abstracts with Soft Pastels Mira M White, Instructor Date: Saturday, June 17th – Monday, June 19th, 2023 (9am-4pm) Tuition: $525 Registration: $25 Materials: TBD We are going to have a great time working with soft pastels in a variety of experimental ways: under-paintings with acrylics, watercolors or pastel diluted with rubbing alcohol.(No petroleum-based solvents in this workshop.) We will be layering both dry and wet processes. Lots of exuberant mark making on several surfaces! Open to continuing artists of all levels…

Salon Series #5 Poetry Collage with Zia Gipson Zia Gipson, Instructor Date: Saturday, June 17th, 2023 (1pm – 4pm) Tuition: $35 Welcome to the Salon Series! Hosted by a couple of our local “celebrity” creatives: Zia Gipson and Ilene Sorenson. Have you ever wondered how some of our local talent choose their palette, subjects, plan, plot, and create? Now is your chance to watch up close and personal at any one of the three sessions in this fun and informal…