O'Hanlon Center for the Arts

Postponed new date TBD ...Layered Fabric Assemblage – with Vicki Assegued
2024-02-11 10:00 - 17:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | 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.

Sculpture Garden Party
2024-04-20 14:30 - 17:00 | O’Hanlon Center for the Arts
Celebrate the completion of the New Sculpture Garden with refreshments and live music.
RSVP below!

Marbled Paper Workshop with Hampton Deck
2024-04-26 10:00 - 14:00 | O’Hanlon Center for the Arts
Learn about the ancient technique of marbled paper and create your own sheets of marbled paper to take home.

Each student will have their own marbling tray, set of acrylic paints, nails, rakes, and combs for use during the workshop.
The instructor will alternate between demonstrating and helping students as they (learn to) do it themselves

Friday April 26th10am to 2pm (with BYO lunch break on deck)
Fee: $150 | $120 OHCA Members
Materials Fee $30 per person payable to facilitator day of class. All materials provided.
5 min to 8 max participants
Register by 3:00 pm Thursday April 25.

About Hampton:
Hampton Deck “discovered” marbled paper in Florence, Italy, in the summer of 1986. He was so smitten by its beauty, he vowed to himself that one day he would learn to make it.
Twenty-nine years later he fulfilled that vow by learning from world-renowned marbler, Pamela Smith in Abiquiu, New Mexico. He has been marbling ever since in the marbling studio he built in his garage.
He loves to introduce this amazing and addictive art process to others. He covers datebooks, journals, blank books and the like with his marbled paper.
Hampton grew up in the Southern United States, studied engineering in college, moved to the San Francisco Bay Area in 1988 and has just retired from being a Presbyterian minister for the past 35+ years. He is married and has 4 grown children. He loves to tell stories, practice spirituality, backpack in Yosemite in the summer, ride his bike and marble paper!

Artists and Art of the Marin Society of Artists from late 1920s - 1970
2024-05-01 19:00 - 20:30 | O’Hanlon Center for the Arts
Artists and Art of the Marin Society of Artists from the late 1920s – 1970
A visual presentation by Kambia Moezzi

Wednesday May 1 at 7:00 pm
Free – RSVP requested (below)

About Kambia
Kambia Moezzi spent a joyful childhood in Marin surrounded by artists and art. Her father, Farhad Moezzi, was an artist and educator in Marin from the mid-1950s through 1974.
Spurred by her love for Art-in-Action events and running around the Marin Art & Garden Center as a child, Kambia has researched artists and related events to help rekindle the spirit of art in the community from the late 1920s through 1970.

Wooden sculpture by Dick O’Hanlon

Photo of Dick O’Hanlon at El Paseo.
Courtesy of the Lucretia Little History Room, Mill Valley Public Library.

Joy Alive! in Concert at O'Hanlon
2024-05-12 15:00 - 16:30
Joy Alive! photo credit: Irene Young

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!

Doors at 2:30 – show at 3:00.
Joy Alive! plays the original compositions of Terry Garthwaite on lead vocal, guitar, percussion.
With 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!

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Water Based Oil Painting – with Jennifer Siegal (Spring 2024 series 2)
2024-05-22 15:00 - 17:00 | O’Hanlon Center for the Arts
Learn to Paint with Waterbased Oils ages 18+

4 Wednesdays:
May 22 to June 12

3:00 – 5:00 pm

Fee: $195 or $160 OHCA members

4 student minimum, 8 maximum.
Register by May 22 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:
White
Yellow
Red
Alizarin Crimson
Ultramarine Blue
Phalo green or Sap Green or Viridian Green
Burnt Sienna
Black is OPTIONAL
3- 4 Brushes BRISTLE for oil
Size 4, 6, 8 or larger
Flats 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 PALETTE
9×12 at minimum size
SOLVENTS Water MIXABLE
Option 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 pencil
Sketch 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

Fiber Show and Wo Schiffman First Tuesday Art Talk and Reception
2024-06-04 16:00 - 19:00 | O’Hanlon Center for the Arts
Both the Gallery and Loft in June are must see shows. In the Gallery Fiber Show, the artist talk will be at 4pm and the reception at 5:30 – 7:00.
In the LOFT, Wo’s reception starts at 5:30 with an artist talk at 6:30.

The Art of Ecoprinting - with Tracy Flanagan
2024-06-19 10:00 - 15:00 | O’Hanlon Center for the Arts
LOFT Art Opening – Robb Havassy “Liquid Daydreams”

Create one of a kind botanical prints, using local foliage, heat, and water
Wednesday June 19, 202410AM-3PM
Maximum number of students: 8
Register by June 18.
Class fee: $145 | $115 OHCA members
Materials fee: $20 paid to instructor day of class
Course description:
Create one-of-kind artful botanical prints. Using natural dyes, local foliage, heat and water, design and ecoprint silk and paper with botanical collage
Learn to:

Collect foliage that will print on cloth and paper
Prepare paper and cloth for different artistic effects
Bundle and steam for different effects
Create artistic design layouts
Set up your home (space, materials, equipment) to ecoprint

About the Facilitator
Tracy Flanagan dyes and ecoprints cloth and paper using ecologically sustainable local leaves, flowers, and pigments.
These techniques transfer brilliant and unexpected plant colors and images to repurposed and redesigned cloth. Using natural products extracted from the earth and plants, heat, and water, she breathes new life into fabrics and paper for rebirth and reuse, telling a new story of connection between place, fiber, and person.
She believes that hand marked fiber is ‘everyday art’ and can heal the body and spirit.
www.tftextileart.com

An Introduction to Encaustics workshop – with Margot Hartford
2024-06-23 11:00 - 16:00 | O’Hanlon Center for the Arts
A great introduction or refresher in using warm wax as a painting medium
Sunday June 23, 11:00 am – 4:00 pm
This hands-on, one-day encaustic basics workshop is a great introduction if you have never worked with encaustic wax or if you need a refresher in using warm wax as a painting medium.
The workshop will examine approaches to using paper, botanicals, and 3-D objects that can be embedded into the wax for an encaustic collage. We will address heating, fusing, and manipulating wax, as well as discuss colors, brushes, and where to find materials.
The encaustic wax and all other encaustic supplies will be provided. Students are encouraged to bring their own additional materials to incorporate into their artwork. Each student will leave with at least two completed pieces of encaustic art.

$155 | $124 for OHCA members plus $20 materials fee to instructor day of class.
Max 8 studentsRegister by June 22.

ABOUT MARGOT
Margot Hartford is a Bay Area lifestyle and fine art photographer. While serving as a docent at SFMOMA, she discovered encaustic painting through the work of Jasper Johns. Inspired, she created a small studio in her home and experimented with using wax to produce pieces of art.

Margot is currently using her photography to produce personal fine art projects and compilation pieces, and she has a studio at the ICB in Sausalito.

Poetry Reading with Arlene Wohl and Catharine Clark-Sayles, M.D.
2024-06-23 16:00 - 17:30 | O’Hanlon Center for the Arts
Arlene Wohl is excited to invite you to a reading of her debut poetry and art book, A Jagged Line.
She is honored to be joined by Catharine Clark-Sayles,M.D., who will also read works by CB Follett, former Poet Laureate of Marin!
Sunday June 23 @ 4:00 pm in the Loft

Please RSVP – capacity 20
(see form below to RSVP)

Writers Night Out 2024
2024-06-28 19:00 - 21:00
Readings by Abby Wasserman’s Creative Writing Class at O’Hanlon Center for the Arts

Confirmed presenters:
Jonathan ErbJill MorrisJackie La LanneBarbara CarboneHope Silver Marti SousanisLaurie HongPotter WickwareBruce NelsonLynda Beth Unkeless
Friday June 28
7:00 – 9:00 pm
in the O’Hanlon Gallery

FREE but $10 suggested donation gladly accepted.
Refreshments will be served after the presentation.

Please RSVP – capacity 40
(see form below to RSVP)

Writer's Night Out
Marti Sousanis

Writer's Night Out
Abby Wasserman

Naomi Tamura LOFT Show Opening Reception
2024-07-02 17:30 - 19:00 | O’Hanlon Center for the Arts
This evening from 5:30 to 7 pm visit Naomi and see her solo show:
PLACES
Real • Imagined • Reimagined
Recent Work by Naomi Tamura
IN THE LOFT
Part of the First Tuesday Artwalk in Mill Valley.

Center Closed July 3 -5 for Deck Work
2024-07-03 | O’Hanlon Center for the Arts
We will see you on July 9 for the opening of TEAM WORKS!
Happy 4th!

Center Closed for 4th of July
2024-07-04 | O’Hanlon Center for the Arts
Have a safe and fun Holiday.
