O'Hanlon Center for the Arts

Mixed Media Photo Fun – with Jackie La Lanne
2023-11-03 10:00 - 13:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | O’Hanlon Center for the Arts
Use printed photos as a jump off point for creativity
Friday November 3, 202310 am to 1 pm
Play with different materials on your photographs.
Experiment with oil pastels, watercolors, acrylics and charcoal. Possibilities are endless.
Try gel plate printing and collage. Cut, tear, and paste.
Jackie will provide photographs and all materials. You may also bring some.

$60 or $48 OHCA membersmaterials provided
Maximum 8 participants
Deadline to register: Thursday November 2 at 5pm

ABOUT THE FACILITATOR

Jackie La Lanne retired at the end of 2021 from over 30 years teaching art in the Mill Valley School district. She is currently Board President of of O’Hanlon. She graduated from Sonoma State University with a Bachelor’s of Fine Arts in Studio Art and a Masters Degree in Art Education. She loves teaching art and making photographs, which she says have a lot in common: discovering, making, envisioning, sharing, and having fun.
La Lanne, who can often be found in the artroom wearing the earrings she made from her old bike lock keys, has been teaching elementary art curriculum in Mill Valley public schools for many years. She is an accomplished artist, teacher, and photographer and has created wonderful collaborative textile projects for her five grandchildren.

Water Based Oil Painting – with Jennifer Siegal
2023-11-10 10:00 - 12:00 | O’Hanlon Center for the Arts
Learn to Paint with Waterbased Oils ages 18+

4 Fridays:Nov 10, 17 and Dec 1, 8.

10 am to 12 pm

Fee: $195 or $160 OHCA members

4 student minimum, 8 maximum.
Register by Nov 9 at 4pm.

Learn traditional oil painting techniques while using Water Based Oils in this fun painting class for beginners. Participants will learn fundamentals for mixing primary colors, mixing grays all with use of the palette knife. While learning to paint with this rich paint, participants will create a variety of paintings on canvas board, from surrealism to realism to impressionism and even a pet portrait.

Use Water-Based Oil Paints-No mess, or fumes.

Materials list:

BLICK has an OVERVIEW of many products for you to choose your own.

To visit this list, please go to https://www.dickblick.com/lists/wishlist/336FSX78L0XD5

Below is listed what is needed in general.
WaterMixable Oil Paint:COLORS:WhiteYellowRedAlizarin CrimsonUltramarine BluePhalo green or Sap Green or Viridian GreenBurnt SiennaBlack is OPTIONAL
3- 4 Brushes BRISTLE for oilSize 4, 6, 8 or largerFlats or Filbert
Canvas BOARD or Stretched Canvases, or Canvas Pads,Size 9×12 11×14 or 12×16, for Example
2 Empty spice jar for ex. to hold Water and Solvent
PAPER PALETTE9×12 at minimum size
SOLVENTS Water MIXABLEOption to Buy Paint MEDIUM, see list by WINTO
– Or buy THINNER and a Jar of Linseed Oil, both Water mixable.
Paper Towel Roll or Rag
Vine Charcoal.
Also Suggested:Soft Pencil or Charcoal pencilSketch book

ABOUT THE FACILITATOR

Jennifer Siegal received a BA in Studio Art from the College of Creative Studies, UCSB 1990 and attended the MFA Program at Otis College of Design.

Right after school, she was hired by Disneyland to draw Pastel Portraits, and 30 years later, she continues to enjoy working from life in pastels, from Still life, Landscape to Figurative. She has taught Studio Art for over 15 years in LA and recently moved back to the Bay Area.

Jennifer Shows at the Marin Open Studios every year and has a display at the Chamber of Commerce store in Sausalito. Born in Montreal, she also enjoys teaching Afterschool Art at the Lycee Francais in Sausalito.

Instagram @ Jenny_Siegal_Art.
www.JenniferSiegal.com

Making a Wabi-Sabi Book - In Person with Sherrie Lovler
2023-11-12 10:00 - 15:30 | O’Hanlon Center for the Arts
Something magical happens where ink meets water on a page
Wabi-sabi is the Japanese aesthetic of appreciating beauty in imperfection. Using this as our underlying guide, something magical happens in the uncontrolled parts on a page where ink meets water.
We will contrast these natural occurrences with calligraphic lines and gestures using sumi ink and brushes on good quality paper. Beginning with getting centered and present in our bodies, you will be led step by step into this process of making several spontaneous-looking pages that will be sewn into a 5″ x 10″ Japanese stab bound book. Final artistic touches will be added to make the book flow from page to page.
No art or bookbinding experience is needed.

Sunday November 12, 202310:00 am – 3:30 pm with 1/2 hour lunch break
$150 or $120 OHCA members
$25 materials fee paid to instructor day of class.Sherrie will supply all the paper and ink etc.Some materials participants should bring – list sent when registered.
Maximum 8 participants.Register by Friday Nov 10 3 pm.

ABOUT THE FACILITATOR
Sherrie Lovler has been teaching calligraphy and related arts for several decades. She is well known in the western calligraphy world, having taught at international calligraphy conferences, Ghost Ranch, Friends of Calligraphy in San Francisco, Society of Scribes in New York City, as well as accredited classes at Northern Arizona University.
She is the author, illustrator and designer of On Softer Ground: Paintings, Poems and Calligraphy, which won a gold medal for Most Outstanding Book Design from Independent Publishers Book Awards, 2016. Sherrie exhibits her work regularly and loves teaching and inspiring her students to take creative leaps.
www.artandpoetry.com

Community Gratitude Meditation
2023-11-18 15:00 - 16:15 | O’Hanlon Center for the Arts
Thanksgiving gives us the opportunity to be thank-full

Catherine Flaxman
Mill Valley psychotherapist and life-long meditator, Catherine Flaxman, MA, LMFT, has been a guest teacher at Spirit Rock and conducted a weekly mindfulness-based meditation group for five years at the Mill Valley Community Center.

O'Hanlon Holiday GIFT SALE
2023-12-01 - 2023-12-22 | O’Hanlon Center for the Arts
OHCA HOLIDAY GIFT SALE
runs Dec 1 – 22
(or until all gift items are sold!)
Please attach payment of cash or check to item card and put in locked black box.
If you need to pay by credit card, come into the office, M – F, 10 am – 3 pm
Sales Tax included.
Thank you to our donors.
Thank you for your purchases!

Closing Party & Fundraiser: OFF THE SHELF Altered Book & Book Art Show
2023-12-09 18:00 - 21:00 | O’Hanlon Center for the Arts
Please RSVP below

Also available during the event: OHCA HOLIDAY GIFT SALEruns Dec 1 – 22 (or until all gift items are sold!)

Samples of artworks from the show –all available at the auction!

Artist: Bibi Summer

Artist: Nance Miller

Artist: Lee Nisbet

Artist: Linda Mueller

Artist: Anika Kapan

Artist: Marilyn L Geary

mouseover for artist names | click to expand images

Thank you to our local sponsors for their food & beverage donations!!

Beverages donated by

Diana Gay-CataniaandDave Catania

Flowers donated by

First Fridays: Art and Energy Medicine – with Laurel Shear (1/5/24)
2024-01-05 10:00 - 14:00 | O’Hanlon Center for the Arts
Energize your creative flow state

$160 | $128 OHCA members (each session)

Gather in a creative community to make art and alleviate stress.

We will be using energy medicine techniques such as Clinical EFT tapping therapy and Biofield Tuning sound therapy to bust limiting beliefs and energize your creative flow state so you can move forward and create the art you want to make.

ABOUT THE FACILITATOR

Laurel Shear lives and works in the California Bay Area. Shear completed her MFA at The University of Texas at Austin in 2015. 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 at Richmond Art Center and NIAD (Richmond, CA), My Silences Had Not Protected Me and For Freedoms at Fort Gansevoort, (New York, NY), and Where Dreams Come True at TSA LA (Los Angeles, CA).

Shear facilitates drawing and painting workshops at O’Hanlon Center for the Arts. She recently earned her Masters of Intuition Medicine Certification from the Academy of Intuition Medicine® in Sausalito, CA. She is an energy medicine practitioner and a certified Biofield Tuning and EFT practitioner.

www.laurelshear.com

Mindfulness-Based Meditation Group on Zoom with Catherine Flaxman
2024-01-10 19:15 - 20:15 | Zoom
Living in the Present. Finding Peace Within
Applying the Dharma and Inner Wisdom to Daily Life

Wednesdays 7:15 – 8:15 p.m.
January 10 – April 3, 2024
Drawing on mindfulness practices and Buddhist perspectives, we attend to the breath and present moment awareness, so that we may step back from inciting thoughts and emotions, loosen the grip of the past and open to silence. Through these practices, the mind settles, and the heart opens and softens. We touch the inherent goodness within, cultivate compassion for self and others and learn to engage fully with life – no matter what comes our way.
Includes instruction, guided meditation and silent practice, poetry, reflections and writings.
Open to all. No prior experience necessary.
Participants are encouraged to attend every meeting to receive the benefit of regular practice within a supportive, spiritual community.
By donation on a sliding scale. Suggested donation $8 – $12 per week or $96 – $144 for series. In order to cultivate and deepen regular practice, participants are encouraged to attend every time.
Questions: Call Catherine at (415 389 8633). To receive info on how to donate and get the recurring Zoom link contact: catherine@catherineflaxman.com

Catherine Flaxman
Catherine Flaxman, M.A. LMFT, is a licensed psychotherapist with a private practice in Mill Valley. Catherine has been meditating since her teens, went to India in her 20’s and began practicing Vipassana (Insight meditation) over forty-five years ago. She has taught meditation at O’Hanlon Center for the Arts, been a guest teacher at Spirit Rock, and conducted a weekly meditation group at the Mill Valley Community Center for five years.

Art Forum (in-person)
2024-01-12 12:00 - 14:00 | O’Hanlon Center for the Arts
Get honest and thoughtful feedback on your current work in a welcoming and open group setting in person!

Facilitated by Jackie La Lanne, Tom Zizzo, and Naomi Tamura

We will meet once a month on the second Friday of the month from 12-2 pm to discuss the work presented.

Bring in one or two pieces of your work. You will get practice talking about your work and get honest and thoughtful feedback from the group.

Who: Up to 8 practicing artists
When: The Second Friday of the Month, 12-2pm
Cost: FREE – But donations of any amount to OHCA are much appreciated.

Please RSVP below!

Art Talk & Reception – Annual Members' Show
2024-01-13 14:30 - 16:30 | O’Hanlon Center for the Arts
Join us for a festive celebration of our Annual Member’s Exhibit!
Event open to All

Canceled...Junk Art From Packaging – with Jackie La Lanne
2024-01-19 10:00 - 14:00 | O’Hanlon Center for the Arts
This Workshop is Canceled
Endless Possibilities for Creativity
Friday January 18, 202410 am to 2 pm
$72 | $60 OHCA members
Post holiday creations. Bring in all your “junk” and create something new of value using cardboard, plastics, foil, and tape.
We will reuse “stuff” and give packaging a second chance. Make a junk figure, recycled pot, musical instrument, puppet, toy. Possibilities are endless.
Materials Provided or bring your own “junk”

ABOUT THE FACILITATOR
Jackie La Lanne retired at the end of 2021 from over 30 years teaching art in the Mill Valley School district. She is currently Board President of of O’Hanlon. She graduated from Sonoma State University with a Bachelor’s of Fine Arts in Studio Art and a Masters Degree in Art Education. She loves teaching art and making photographs, which she says have a lot in common: discovering, making, envisioning, sharing, and having fun. La Lanne, who can often be found in the artroom wearing the earrings she made from her old bike lock keys, has been teaching elementary art curriculum in Mill Valley public schools for many years. She is an accomplished artist, teacher, and photographer and has created wonderful collaborative textile projects for her five grandchildren.

Annual Member Meeting 2024
2024-01-22 17:30 - 19:00 | O’Hanlon Center for the Arts
All current OHCA Members are invited to join us for our Annual Meeting & Pot Luck.
Meet in the O’Hanlon Gallery, bring a dish and beverage to share.

Potter Wickware Book Reading & Signing
2024-02-03 15:00 - 16:30 | O’Hanlon Center for the Arts
Please join us at a book reading and signing for Potter Wickware’s newly released book “Selected Writings”

“Selected Writings: Potter Wickware” is a compendium of published and unpublished work by an adventuresome and skilled writer who is also an O’Hanlon Center board member. Potter will read from the book, we’ll have a Q&A, and he’ll sign copies of his book (paperback, 84 pages, $20).

RSVP to office@ohanloncenter.org

The book is illustrated with photographs and contains:

3 short stories published in literary journals (Catamaran and Threepenny Review)
Non-fiction and memoir, including an excerpt from “Crazy Money: Nine Months on the Trans-Alaska Pipeline” (Random House, 1979)
Fiction, excerpts from I’m Still Here, a novel“Three Hundred Hours,” a major piece in the East Bay Express from 1985 and more!

The book was designed by Jeremy Thornton.

Postponed new date TBD ...Layered Fabric Assemblage – with Vicki Assegued
2024-02-11 10:00 - 17:00 | O’Hanlon Center for the Arts
This workshop is Postponed. New date TBD. Create a truly unique hanging art piece
$175 | $140 OHCA members+ $35 Material fee, paid to Facilitator
(5 students minimum; 12 maximum)
Learn many techniques for creating a truly unique and stunning art piece, with multiple layers and textures of fabric. You’ll create a base, covered with beautiful overlays of fabric, surrounded by shapes that extend outward, giving the piece added shape, dimension and excitement.
There will be plenty of demonstrations, both technical and aesthetic. The final piece will hang on the wall.
No sewing involved. Perfect for beginning through advanced artists!

Materials List for Students to Bring:

Fabrics – such as second-hand clothing, fabric scraps, cushion covers, lace, place mats, trim, sheets, etc. Any type of fabric will work except thin silk.
Fabric scissors
Regular scissors

Instructor will supply: Many fabrics, iron-on adhesive, all necessary tools, substrate, backing

ABOUT THE FACILITATOR
Vicki Assegued, M.A. is an experimental, innovative fiber artist who teaches her techniques to students at various art schools, retreats and museums, and also exhibits and sells her artwork. Please see vickiart.com for more information.

Art Exploration for 8 to 12 year-olds with Laurel Shear
2024-02-12 15:00 - 16:00 | O’Hanlon Center for the Arts
Spend 60 minutes each week using your imagination and developing your artistic voice!

• Create using a variety of material.
• Choose what and how to make “stuff with stuff”
• Draw, paint, print, sculpt, glue, and cut.
• Bring your unique vision to life with hands on art-making

Feb 12th – March 28th
(no class on Presidents’ Day Feb 19)
Mondays for 6 weeks
3:00 – 4:00 pm
$200 | $160 OHCA members
12 children max

Materials Provided $20 materials fee per session to instructor

Laurel Shear
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 a mama.

Drawing for Teens – with Laurel Shear (2024 series 2)
2024-02-12 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.
6 weeks, 2024 Series 2:
February 12, 26
March 4, 11, 18, 25
Please note schedule: No class February 19
In this 6-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
$240 or $192 for OHCA members
(register by 12 noon, February 12)

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

Artists Retreat - Winter 2024
2024-02-19 09:00 - 2024-02-23 17:00 | O’Hanlon Center for the Arts
“OHCA retreats offer a rare, deepening experience. In the expanse of time, the quiet and the connection to friends working nearby, my confidence and powers of insight are strengthened.”
– Candis Cousins
Monday to Friday,
February 19–23, 2024
9 a.m. to 5 p.m.
OHCA is once again offering a week-long ARTIST RETREAT.
This is a 5-day opportunity for artists to work independently but in the company of other dedicated artists. This is not a workshop, and there will be no instruction. What there will be is an opportunity for serious self-directed artists to work in a quiet atmosphere for a sustained period of time, working together but independently in the spirit of creativity.
The Retreat is open to anyone who agrees to some simple rules:

There is to be no talking except for quietly outside during the hours of 9-5.
No music is allowed except with earphones.
No visitors.
Participants will be responsible for their own lunch and art supplies unless otherwise designated.
Artists may leave their supplies and work set up during the week and will be required to clean up afterwards.

Space is limited to 5 visual artists and 1 writer.
Space allocations will be determined by the group.
Friday afternoon everyone gets together to socialize and share their work/process.

Week-long retreat: $180 | $150 OHCA members.

Photos: Janet Greenwood

Tuesday Perception Abstract Painting: Collage and Color with Peller Marion
2024-02-27 10:00 - 14:00 | O’Hanlon Center for the Arts
Explore, experiment, and surprise yourself. This is an invitation to give yourself permission to discover a deeper creative you. Learn to use unique techniques with collage, oil sticks, tempera, acrylics, and oversized paper, while forgetting all preconceived ideas and judgements.
Experience how to get over blocks to creativity, inhibitions, and an inner critic.
Surprise yourself and get to the next level of your creativity.
Led by Dr. Peller Marion. Consulting psychologist, author, artist.
www.pellermarion.com

$75 Non-members | $60 OHCA Members
plus $10 Materials Fee to be paid to the facilitator the day of the workshop
Limit: 8 attendees

New Member Social - March 9, 2024
2024-03-09 14:30 - 16:30 | O’Hanlon Center for the Arts
Looking Forward to Meeting You!
If you have joined in the past year or are a member who has never come to a new member social, we hope to see you here.
Meet and Mingle, find out about history and opportunities at OHCA and enjoy refreshments.
RSVP by March 8 if you can join us.

Coral Reef Exploration
2024-03-15 12:00 - 14:00 | O’Hanlon Center for the Arts
Join Sarah McNeil and Jackie La Lanne to explore making some fun coral reef creations.
Inspired by crocheted coral reefs made from fiber, we will give you the tools to explore making 3-D hyperbolic shapes, which resemble the structures of coral and other structures found in nature.
Alternatively, work with felting and other materials to simply explore making “things” that live in our oceans’ treasures.
We are hoping that perhaps some of the creations could become part of an entry for the OHCA fiber exhibit in May.

Materials: Use the supplies of yarn, crochet needles, felt, and other items that we’ll have on hand.
Please also feel free to bring with you any cast-off yarn or other materials that you might like to work with.
Here is a link to the crochet coral reef project which is serving as inspiration.https://www.margaretwertheim.com/crochet-coral-reef

March 15, Noon to 2:00FREE RSVP or just drop in!

Canceled due to Rain - Center Landscape Beautification Volunteer Day
2024-03-23 12:00 - 16:00 | O’Hanlon Center for the Arts
Work Day Canceled due to forecast of RAIN!
Please Email the office to schedule a time you can come and we will give you a task: office@ohanloncenter.org or call 415.388.4331 Wear work gloves, hat and sunscreen, bring snack – help us get ready for the April 20 Garden Party.
THANK YOU!

Postponed...Mixed Media Weaving on a Simple Loom – with Vicki Assegued
2024-03-24 10:00 - 17:00 | O’Hanlon Center for the Arts
This workshop is Postponed. New Date TBD.
Learn to create unique mixed media weavings
$175 | $140 OHCA members+ $35 Material fee, paid to Facilitator
(5 students minimum, 12 maximum)

Learn many techniques to create exciting and unique mixed media weavings, on a simple loom (supplied for you). You’ll learn many stitches to weave in yarn and fabric, and then add beads, jewelry parts and all sorts of fun embellishments to create a textured and lively piece.
You’ll also learn to make special tassels, pompoms, and fringes to add on to the body and edges of your weaving.
No weaving or art experience is necessary to take this workshop, or to make fabulous pieces of art.
Perfect for beginning through advanced artists.

Materials List for Students to Bring:

Fabric scissors
Embroidery needle (plastic or metal, 3 inches long, with eye large enough to fit yarn),
Fabric and yarn (made of any materials, colors and textures you like)
Very strong string (for the warp string) that won’t break when pulled upon
Needle and thread
Optional: string, beads, buttons, jewelry parts, driftwood, shells, etc.
(The instructor will provide many fabrics, yarns and embellishments, and please do bring your own stash, as well).

Instructor will supply:

Loom
Fabric, yarn, string, beads, buttons and other embellishments

ABOUT THE FACILITATOR
Vicki Assegued, M.A. is an experimental, innovative fiber artist who teaches her techniques to students at various art schools, retreats and museums, and also exhibits and sells her artwork. Please see vickiart.com for more information.

Floral Fantasties Art Talk and Reception April 2
2024-04-02 16:00 - 19:00 | O’Hanlon Center for the Arts
Please join us at 4:00 for an art talk by the exhibition artists. A reception will follow at 5:30 – 7:00 pm.
We are part of the Mill Valley Art Commission First Tuesday Artwalk.

Writing from the Heart w/ Dr. Peller Marion (on Zoom)
2024-04-03 13:30 - 15:30 | O’Hanlon Center for the Arts
An adventurous mix of writing
and some art too
This FREE drop-in and on-going Zoom group requires no experience. All you need to bring is a notebook and a pen. Peller will bring the instruction, inspiration, safe space, writing and art prompts.

Find your writing voice.
Dive into your creativity.
Deepen your writing practice.
Share your stories, memories, and inspirations.
Get steady positive affirmation for your work in a community of passionate writers.

First and and fourth Wednesdays each month
1:30 p.m. to 3:30 p.m.
Contact facilitator Peller Marion via email to get the zoom link
pellermarion@gmail.com
Donations accepted to O’Hanlon Center for the Arts
616 Throckmorton Avenue • Mill Valley • CA • 94941

Facilitated by Dr. Peller Marion, author of five books and exhibiting artist and psychologist.
For more workshops led by Peller: go to O’Hanlon Center for the Arts (www.ohanloncenter.org) or www.pellermarion.com
email facilitator with questions:pellermarion@gmail.com

Gallery Closed Today due to PG&E's scheduled power outage
2024-04-09 | O’Hanlon Center for the Arts
Sorry for the inconvenience. We will open again Wednesday at 10:30 am.

Hand-Building Ceramic Sculpture in the Dick O’Hanlon Sculpture Garden – with Christie Close
2024-04-13 10:00 - 17:00 | O’Hanlon Center for the Arts
Discover Ancient and Innovative Sculpture Methods

In this weekend workshop local Mill Valley artist and sculptor Christie Close will demonstrate ancient and innovative hand-building methods for making sculpture. We will each design, plan and create our unique clay sculpture during the weekend. This workshop is appropriate for beginners as well as artists experienced with clay.
Surface finishing techniques for adding texture, pattern, relief, burnishing, colored clay slips, earth pigments or paint, and final wax polishing will be covered in the presentation and discussion lunches. sample-images and handouts.
Bring a bag lunch or snacks/drinks for our mid-day discussion sessions.

Saturday and Sunday April 13, 1410 AM to 5 PM
$225 | $180 OHCA Members

25# clay and firing fee is $55 additional paid to facilitator first day of class.

8 participants max

About Christie:
Artist and Teacher Christie Close has a Studio Fine Arts education and spent most of her adult life exploring her personal artistic development. She is a native Californian from the High Sierras, attended Fresno State College with an emphasis on Sculpture at age 15. Attended Cabrillo in Aptos and College of Marin learning the classics of Fine Arts, portrait, figure, drawing, color, composition, and 3-design.
She leaned into the search for personal authenticity in her work discovering unique and innovative imagery, methods, and materials, found and handmade tools and experimental processes. All of this adds layers of meaning and story to her works and workshops.
Christie will bring her sensory based creative approach and original vision to the upcoming sculpture workshop.

Drawing for Teens – with Laurel Shear (2024 series 3)
2024-04-15 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.
6 weeks, 2024 Series 3:
April 15, 22, 29
May 6, 13, 20

In this 6-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
$240 or $192 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

Art Exploration for 8 to 12 year-olds with Laurel Shear - 2024 Series 2
2024-04-16 15:00 - 16:00 | O’Hanlon Center for the Arts
Spend 60 minutes each week using your imagination and developing your artistic voice!

• Create using a variety of material.
• Choose what and how to make “stuff with stuff”
• Draw, paint, print, sculpt, glue, and cut.
• Bring your unique vision to life with hands on art-making

Tuesdays 4/16, 4/23, 4/30, 5/7, 5/14, 5/21
Tuesdays for 6 weeks
3:00 – 4:00 pm
$275 | $220 Members (Includes material fees)
10 children max

Laurel Shear
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 a mama.

Water Based Oil Painting – with Jennifer Siegal
2024-04-17 15:00 - 17:00 | O’Hanlon Center for the Arts
Learn to Paint with Waterbased Oils ages 18+

4 Wednesdays:April 17 – May 8

3:00 – 5:00 pm

Fee: $195 or $160 OHCA members

4 student minimum, 8 maximum.
Register by April 16 at 3pm

Learn traditional oil painting techniques while using Water Based Oils in this fun painting class for beginners. Participants will learn fundamentals for mixing primary colors, mixing grays all with use of the palette knife. While learning to paint with this rich paint, participants will create a variety of paintings on canvas board, from surrealism to realism to impressionism and even a pet portrait.

Use Water-Based Oil Paints-No mess, or fumes.

Materials list:

BLICK has an OVERVIEW of many products for you to choose your own.

To visit this list, please go to https://www.dickblick.com/lists/wishlist/336FSX78L0XD5

Below is listed what is needed in general.
WaterMixable Oil Paint:COLORS:WhiteYellowRedAlizarin CrimsonUltramarine BluePhalo green or Sap Green or Viridian GreenBurnt SiennaBlack is OPTIONAL
3- 4 Brushes BRISTLE for oilSize 4, 6, 8 or largerFlats or Filbert
Canvas BOARD or Stretched Canvases, or Canvas Pads,Size 9×12 11×14 or 12×16, for Example
2 Empty spice jar for ex. to hold Water and Solvent
PAPER PALETTE9×12 at minimum size
SOLVENTS Water MIXABLEOption to Buy Paint MEDIUM, see list by WINTO
– Or buy THINNER and a Jar of Linseed Oil, both Water mixable.
Paper Towel Roll or Rag
Vine Charcoal.
Also Suggested:Soft Pencil or Charcoal pencilSketch book

ABOUT THE FACILITATOR

Jennifer Siegal received a BA in Studio Art from the College of Creative Studies, UCSB 1990 and attended the MFA Program at Otis College of Design.

Right after school, she was hired by Disneyland to draw Pastel Portraits, and 30 years later, she continues to enjoy working from life in pastels, from Still life, Landscape to Figurative. She has taught Studio Art for over 15 years in LA and recently moved back to the Bay Area.

Jennifer Shows at the Marin Open Studios every year and has a display at the Chamber of Commerce store in Sausalito. Born in Montreal, she also enjoys teaching Afterschool Art at the Lycee Francais in Sausalito.

Instagram @ Jenny_Siegal_Art.
www.JenniferSiegal.com

STRICTLY ABSTRACT Online Exhibit – Roundtable Discussion on Zoom
2024-04-18 16:00 - 18:00
Artwork: Ann O’Hanlon
Zoom Discussion begins at 4 p.m. Pacific
To request an invitation to the Roundtable Discussion via Zoom, please email the OHCA Office.
