Art of World Cultures for Kids Ages 9 to 10 w/ ZOE HARRIS
2023-04-20 15:30 - 16:30, 2023-04-27 15:30 - 16:30, 2023-05-04 15:30 - 16:30 (America/Los_Angeles) | O’Hanlon Center for the Arts
In these fun and unique classes, children will learn about different creative traditions from cultures around the world.
For children ages 9-10
Sessions will incorporate recycled materials, found and natural objects, paint, special papers, ink, and more!
RSVP the Friday prior to each session.
NEW: For the safety of all, children must be fully vaccinated against COVID to participate.
NEW Winter Series start January 5, 2023

1 session
6 sessions
12 sessions

$23, $19 OHCA Family* members
$120, $96 Family members
$200, $160 Family members

*Family membership is $160/year for a couple and two children and includes lots of benefits like discounts on workshops – call 415-388-4331 today to join or enroll online!
Zoe Harris has been teaching art and culture in Marin and the Bay Area for over thirty years. She has worked in both public and private elementary and middle schools. In addition, she has also taught in museums, libraries and community centers. Some of the Marin institutions she has worked in include Bay Area Discovery Museum, Global Education of Marin, Marin County Office of Education; Willowcreek, Gallinas, Coleman, Olive, Lagunitas, Bacich, and Bahia Vista Schools, Ross Valley Summer School, Canal Ministry and Pickleweed Community Center Kids Club.

Please enter CHILD FULL NAME & AGE when you Checkout, in the “Additional Information” section.

Saturday Perception Workshop
2023-04-22 10:00 - 14:00, 2023-04-29 10:00 - 14:00, 2023-05-06 10:00 - 14:00 | O’Hanlon Center for the Arts
One of the core principles Ann O’Hanlon stressed was learning how to seeFor over 35 years – Saturdays have been a time to put that into practice. To experiment and discover.

Thank you to Ann Fricker and Noni Garner for organizing the return to the LOFT Saturdays from 10 am to 2 pm.
The morning starts with a simple exercise or prompt that informs the day.
$25 for non-members and $20 for members.
Materials provided or bring your own.

Attendees must be fully vaccinated and Masks required indoors
Workshop will be held in the LOFT
Beginners Expected!

Center Closed Dec 21- Jan 2 – Happy New Year!

$20.00 – $25.00Price range: $20.00 through $25.00

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LOVING THE SATURDAY WORKSHOP
The long-running Visual Perception Workshop is at the heart of O’Hanlon Center. Recently we asked workshop participants for their thoughts.
I love doing art with friends…and then sharing it!
I love that it is a drop-in class andI don’t have to sign up ahead of time.
I like that I don’t have to know how to do art…It’s about our own creativity.
It is so much fun.
I love the creative atmosphere. It breeds excitement and enjoyment of the process.
I like the mix of people and their art.
It is free and fun.
I like that I can get into the flow of art and forget the stressful world.
I look forward to stepping into another time and place. It is a magical experience to visit this special piece of land at the foot of Mt Tam.
Being with people who care about art and artists is something I find worthwhile. I feel lucky to have discovered this class. It informs me well beyond 4 hours on Saturday.
This Saturday workshop serves as a tool to open up all of my senses and I come alive.
The setting is gorgeous and serene.
I love Saturday class. I wouldn’t think of missing it. I come every Saturday, and have for years and years.

Beethoven A Life Remembered presented by CONTEMPORARY OPERA MARIN
2023-04-22 15:00 - 17:00 | O’Hanlon Center for the Arts
Contemporary Opera Marin
Contemporary Opera Marin presents Beethoven, A Life Remembered — A weaving of music by and about Beethoven, with his closest friends’ and contemporaries’ readings of letters and observations. Learn things you never knew, and hear fascinating music unjustly overlooked in an intimate setting.
Featuring: Michael Mendelsohn, Sibel Demirmen
FREE
3:00pm
For more info, visit pa.marin.edu/music-from-marin

Sunday Family Art Day w/ CATHERINE TAYLOR TAI or JACKIE LA LANNE
2023-04-23 13:00 - 15:30 | O’Hanlon Center for the Arts
A monthly child-led art workshop with seasonal and nature themes layered into the activity
The O’Hanlon Loft is a space for children (and grownups) to come get messy, try new things and have fun. We will experiment with paint, crayons, glue, glitter and found objects depending on the season and age of participants.
Workshop will take place in the O’Hanlon Loft Studio.

$35 per family Plus $5 materials to be paid to instructor day of event

UPCOMING DATES:
July 30, August 27, 2023

INTRO TO CATHERINE
Catherine is an artist, mother and health coach. She has enjoyed raising her three children around the world from NYC to Singapore and now Northern California.
She is an advocate of forest school and the arts and loves when the two meet. Catherine also serves on the OHCA Board.

Sunday Family Art Day$40.00

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Artist Member Loft Studio Use
2023-04-24 09:00 - 17:00, 2023-05-01 09:00 - 17:00, 2023-05-08 09:00 - 17:00 | O’Hanlon Center for the Arts
Loft Studios open for Members (Artist level & up)
Every Monday 9:00 am – 5:00pm
$20 drop-in (no reservations needed)
FREE on 1st Monday of the Month.

Drawing for Teens w/ LAUREL SHEAR (2023 series 3-continues)
2023-04-24 16:00 - 17:30, 2023-05-01 16:00 - 17:30, 2023-05-08 16:00 - 17:30 | O’Hanlon Center for the Arts
Light, tone, line, pattern, mass, perspective, abstraction and composition
Mondays: 4 to 5:30 p.m.
8-WEEK SERIES #3 2023:
4/17, 4/24, 5/1, 5/8, 5/15, 5/22, 5/29, 6/5
In this 8-week series we will use a range of drawing materials. Each class will start with a warmup, and then focus on translating three dimensional objects to a two-dimensional surface, focusing on light, tone, line, pattern, mass, perspective, abstraction and composition
Maximum 8 students
A materials list will be emailed after registration
$320 or $256 for OHCA members

ABOUT LAUREL
Laurel Shear lives and works in the California Bay Area. She opened her first New York solo show, Daydreaming In My Nightmare, at Fort Gansevoort in March 2018. Recent exhibitions include Right Here Right Now, Richmond Art Center and NIAD (Richmond, CA) My Silences Had Not Protected Me, For Freedoms, Fort Gansevoort, (New York), Where Dreams Come True, TSA LA (Los Angeles), Push, Incline Gallery (San Francisco). She is a former member of the artist run gallery Tiger Strikes Asteroid in Los Angeles. Press for her work includes Artnet, New York Magazine, Brooklyn Magazine, and Luxe Magazine, among others. She facilitates drawing and painting workshops at O’Hanlon Center for the Arts and serves on the Board. Shear was a competitive cheerleader, she’s an energy medicine practitioner, and a proud mama.
www.laurelshear.com

Tuesday Perception Workshop
2023-04-25 10:00 - 14:00 | O’Hanlon Center for the Arts
Explore, experiment, and discover your unique form of creative expression.
The Visual Perception workshops are hands-on creating with materials, experimenting, and discovering without dependence on technique. Participants are encouraged to pay attention to what you see, accept the marks you make, explore, experiment, and discover your unique form of creative expression.
A simple prompt or exercise is given at the beginning of class. Participants are free to elaborate on their initial efforts or do something else entirely.
We end the workshops with a gathering (coming together) of everyone and their work. Participants look, discuss, and value the work created.
Most materials are provided and/or bring your own.
$25 non-members
$20 OHCA members
Masking may be required. Bring a mask in case.

Tuesday Perception Workshop$20.00 – $25.00Price range: $20.00 through $25.00

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Introduction to Drawing w/ NAOMI TAMURA (continues)
2023-04-26 10:00 - 12:00, 2023-05-03 10:00 - 12:00 | O’Hanlon Center for the Arts
Set aside your inhibitions and learn to draw!
6 Wednesdays: April 19 & 26, May 3, 17, 24 & 31. (No class May 10)
10:00 am to 12:00 pm
$240 or $190 for OHCA Members
Materials Fee:$20 paid to Facilitator 1st day of class
Drawing is fundamental to any form of visual art and can be the most easily accessible form of individual expression. It is as unique to each artist as a person’s handwriting.
Set aside your inhibitions and learn to draw! In this beginner class, we will learn the basics of drawing using a variety of materials, techniques, and methods.
Bring your open and curious mind, a sketchbook (minimum 9” x 12”), and your favorite writing tool. All other materials will be provided. (Materials fee $20 paid to the instructor at the beginning of class).
3-6 students

ABOUT NAOMI
Naomi Tamura has been exploring artistic endeavors most of her life, taking an interest in drawing and painting at a young age. After graduating from Scripps College with a Studio Arts Degree, Naomi worked professionally as a graphic designer /art director in both print and online.
Naomi is a practicing artist and philanthropist. She is involved in various creative and community endeavors, most notably serving as a former board chair of O’Hanlon Center for the Arts, and currently serving as the longest-serving board chair at Youth in Arts in San Rafael.
After raising her family and retiring from commercial work, she refocused her energies on her many creative pursuits, including sharing her knowledge and enthusiasm for the creative process with others.

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Creative Writing w/ ABBY WASSERMAN
2023-04-27 10:00 - 12:00, 2023-05-04 10:00 - 12:00, 2023-05-11 10:00 - 12:00
This weekly group features freewriting (to loosen the Muse) with sustained and supportive group critiques of works in progress.
The facilitator is a journalist, author, and editor who has been leading OHCA writing groups for 15 years.
This ongoing Thursday workshop will be held in person in the upper Loft.
Contact Abby to be included:
abby.wasserman@gmail.com
$156, $125 OH member for 6 sessions
Single session drop-in: $27
Visit Abby Wasserman’s Website »

Creative Writing w/ Abby Wasserman$27.00 – $156.00Price range: $27.00 through $156.00

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Poetry with Cruwys via Zoom
2023-04-27 14:00 - 15:30, 2023-05-11 14:00 - 15:30
For poets and poetry lovers alike
Join with OHCA resident poet Cruwys Brown and 2010-2012 Poet Laureate of Marin County, CB Follett, for an afternoon of poetry exploration, reading, and discussion.
Submit a short (one page max) poem to share and discuss in advance to office@ohanloncenter.org. This can be a poem you love, or want to explore. One you have written or not.
OHCA Members only
12 people max.
Since space is limited please register below!

April 13, 27
May 11, 25
June 8, 22
Short bio of Cruwys Brown
Dick Brown is a long-time explorer of poetry. The first poetry group he attended was in 1965 in Brooklyn Heights, NY, around the corner from where Walt Whitman self-published Leaves of Grass. He has been involved in poetry workshops over the past several years. He founded the Marin Poet Laureate Program with the Marin County Free Library System.

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Vimala Sangha
2023-04-28 09:00 - 10:30 | O’Hanlon Center for the Arts
For information about the group please contact Celeste Perry: celesteperrytv@gmail.com

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Collaborative Painting Workshop w/ HELEN COHEN and DIANE GOLDSTEIN (POSTPONED)
2023-04-30 12:00 - 16:00 | O’Hanlon Center for the Arts
This Workshop has been POSTPONED until Fall 2023. Date TBD.
Let your free spirit leap out and play!

$125 or $100 for OHCA Members

Each participant must have a partner for this workshop. Each person registers separately. Max 10 people.

First of all, abstract collaborative painting is really fun! Participants will be trying something different such as: letting go of outcome and working on large canvas/paper spontaneously with a partner of your choice. Let your free spirit leap out and play!
Collaboration can bring a new and powerful experience to your art process: unexpected things emerge through an exchange of ideas and listening/responding to the painting together with your partner. It will require mutual respect, mutual effort and letting go of ego.
Participants will need to have a prearranged partner to register for the workshop, but register separately.
There will be demonstrations and tips for getting loose and working together through out the process.
During the last hour of the workshop, participants will have time to share their process and their paintings with the group.

Suggested Supplies to bring:
Mixed Media: water soluble paint, markers, crayons, graphite, collage and whatever materials you and your partner want to incorporate. (No oil) Bring a variety of brushes or other instruments for making marks. Bring palette paper or paper plates, water containers and acrylic or water color paint. You may want to use a variety of brush sizes to work spontaneously. Water soluble house paint can be fun.
Please bring one or two large canvases or paper: we suggest a minimum 48 x 48, but encourage 48 x 60 so there will be ample room to work with your partner simultaneously. Or if you wish, O’Hanlon has large rolled paper that you can use. Depending on the timing, you may want to make more than one large piece.

ABOUT THE FACILITATORS
Helen and Diane are both mixed media artists who live and work in San Francisco. They have been sharing a studio at Yosemite Place in the Bayview district for over ten years.
Helen S. Cohenwww.helenscohen.comwww.instagram.com/helenscohen/
Diane Goldsteinwww.dianegoldstein.netwww.instagram.com/goldstein4435/

Tuesday Perception Workshop
2023-05-02 10:00 - 14:00 | O’Hanlon Center for the Arts
Explore, experiment, and discover your unique form of creative expression.
The Visual Perception workshops are hands-on creating with materials, experimenting, and discovering without dependence on technique. Participants are encouraged to pay attention to what you see, accept the marks you make, explore, experiment, and discover your unique form of creative expression.
A simple prompt or exercise is given at the beginning of class. Participants are free to elaborate on their initial efforts or do something else entirely.
We end the workshops with a gathering (coming together) of everyone and their work. Participants look, discuss, and value the work created.
Most materials are provided and/or bring your own.
$25 non-members
$20 OHCA members
Masking may be required. Bring a mask in case.

Tuesday Perception Workshop$20.00 – $25.00Price range: $20.00 through $25.00

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First Tuesday Art Opening: KAY COUSINEAU Retrospective and PELLER MARION
2023-05-02 17:00 - 19:30
Art openings for:
O’HANLON GALLERY
KAY COUSINEAU Retrospective
A Journey: Sixty Years of Painting
1963 – 2023

Artist’s Talk 5:00 – 5:30 p.m.
Reception 5:30 – 7:30 p.m.
Live Music with Mike Greensill on piano and Noel Jewkes on reeds and flute

LOFT GALLERY
PELLER MARION
Wet Paint

Reception 5:30 – 7:30 p.m.

Surprise Yourself - Creation and Perception w/ CANDIS & CAYEN
2023-05-03 11:00 - 13:00
Every other Wednesday Cayen and Candis are offering a Zoomed art talk!
Using Ann O’Hanlon’s book, seeing/perception, as inspiration, Cayen and Candis lead discussions of what we see when we look at the artworks of others or our own.
11 am to 1 pm
Limited number of participants.
Contact Cayen if you are interested in joining the group to get on the wait list: cayenr@comcast.net

Cayen Robertson is an active visual artist working in paper and inks. She has been a long time facilitator at the O’Hanlon Center and loves talking with people about their art.
Candis Cousins works in monoprint, collage and drawing. For twelve years she was in the monoprint workshop led by Cayen Robertson. When Cayen stepped down five years ago, Candis began facilitating the workshop. Whether we are looking at the work of other artists or our own work, Candis believes that our discussions can move us from prejudice to a state of wonder, recognizing beauty in unexpected places.

Surprise Yourself – Creation and Perception$20.00

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A zoomed art talk. Using Ann O’Hanlon’s book, seeing/perception, as inspiration, Cayen Robertson and Candis Cousins lead discussions of what we see when we look at the artworks of others or our own.

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Monoprinting w/ CANDIS COUSINS
2023-05-07 10:00 - 15:00 | O’Hanlon Center for the Arts
WE ARE NOW OFFERING THIS WORKSHOP TWICE A MONTH
Monoprinting is a playful, exploratory process requiring neither a press nor a background in art

On a plate of gel or plexiglass, images are made with paint, rollers, sponges, netting, leaves or anything else which might create an interesting pattern. The focus is not upon the finished work but upon the experience of discovery and making art.
In the workshop, after two or three hours, the group gathers to discuss what has been created. The purpose of the discussion is to help each person recognize the beauty in their work. Or, in the words of Ann O’Hanlon, our purpose is “to look upon a seemingly random work of our own with interest” and with “the same fulfillment… experienced on an unknown wilderness trail.”
Sundays, 10 a.m. to 3:00 p.m.
$55, $44 OHCA members,
$10 materials fee paid to instructor at day of class
8 people MAX (online registration closes at 3:00pm the prior Friday)
Participants must be fully vaccinated and wear masks.
ART DETAIL: JANET GREENWOOD

About Candis Cousins
Candis Cousins first came to the Center in 1972. Ann O’Hanlon was alive and at that time the Center was called ‘Sight and Insight.’ On Candis’ first day, Ann’s suggestion for working was this: “Every decision you make, try to make the wrong decision.”
In 2002, Candis returned to OHCA to join the mono printing group led by Cayen Robertson and Karen Cox. In her own work, Candis tries to keep moving forward without a plan, just to see what comes.
“It is such an invigorating, soul-finding experience to facilitate this workshop. A love-fest, a laugh-fest on the high seas of creativity!”
– Candis

Joy Alive! in Concert at O'Hanlon
2023-05-07 16:00 - 17:30
JOY ALIVE! is a synthesis of Terry Garthwaite from the Joy of Cooking and Barbara Borden and Susanne DiVincenzo from Alive! Both were influential bands from the 60’s to the 80’s. Now enjoy the inventive 20’s version of this band in concert.
Seating is limited. Get your tickets early!
Masks will be required for this event.
(Scroll down page for Ticketing)
Doors at 3:30 – show at 4:00.
Joy Alive! plays the original compositions of Terry Garthwaite on lead vocal, guitar, percussion
with the contributions of Barbara Borden on drums/percussion/vocals and Susanne DiVincenzo on bass/cello/vocals.
The music is rhythmic, upbeat and hopeful… a soothing balm any time, especially now!

Tuesday Perception Workshop
2023-05-09 10:00 - 14:00 | O’Hanlon Center for the Arts
Explore, experiment, and discover your unique form of creative expression.
The Visual Perception workshops are hands-on creating with materials, experimenting, and discovering without dependence on technique. Participants are encouraged to pay attention to what you see, accept the marks you make, explore, experiment, and discover your unique form of creative expression.
A simple prompt or exercise is given at the beginning of class. Participants are free to elaborate on their initial efforts or do something else entirely.
We end the workshops with a gathering (coming together) of everyone and their work. Participants look, discuss, and value the work created.
Most materials are provided and/or bring your own.
$25 non-members
$20 OHCA members
Masking may be required. Bring a mask in case.

Tuesday Perception Workshop$20.00 – $25.00Price range: $20.00 through $25.00

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