Elder Arts

En Plein Air Painting

The River Arts Elder Arts Program is up and underway in Lamoille County!

Community members aged 60 and up are invited to roll up their sleeves and get creative in any of the ongoing art classes happening in Hyde Park’s Sterling View Community Center, Morrisville’s River Arts Center, Johnson’s Town Hall, Morrisville’s Copley Terrace Apartments, and Stowe’s West Branch Apartments.

All classes are free of charge and provide a wonderful opportunity to get out, try new media and techniques, and express yourself creatively with others!

We look forward to meeting you!

Classes

Fall

The Elder Art program is pleased to present three workshops with Vermont Artist, Lin Warren:

Sculpture Using Polymer Clay

Dive into a great material! Polymer clay is a clean and fun medium to use when creating 3-dimensional art works. Students can choose their own subjects or take those suggested. Paint will be applied to the sculptures after baking, which can prove that clay can truly come alive! Composition, balance and the fundamentals of design will be incorporated into the sessions. Let’s have fun!

Mondays, October 19th, November 2nd, 9th, and 16th, from 9-11 am at the Sterling View Community Center in Hyde Park.

Freedom In Acrylic Painting

Acrylic painting is a medium that has gained great popularity in the art world. Being a quick drying, water soluble medium, students will discover the ease of using many of the techniques this medium has to offer.

Subjects will include still life, landscape and ideas the individual student would like to paint. Composition, balance and the fundamentals of design will be covered. Come and enjoy!

Mondays, October 19th, November 2nd, 9th, and 16th from 1-3 pm at the Copley Terrace Apartments Community Room in Morrisville.

The Joy of Acrylics

Explore the foundations of art using acrylics! Quick drying and water soluble, students will discover many of the techniques this medium has to offer. Color mixing, composition, balance, and the fundamentals of design will be incorporated into each class. Subjects will include still life, landscape and the ideas/inspirations of each student. Students should bring a favorite object and/or photograph to use as subject matter.

Tuesdays, 9:00-11:00 am, November 3rd, 10th, 17th and 24th at the Johnson Town Hall

Lin Warren is a visual artist living in Vermont. She has exhibited her artwork in galleries across the country, winning numerous awards and inclusion into many permanent private and gallery collections. Lin brings over 35 years of experience in the Arts, and tremendous energy and enthusiasm to each of the workshops she teaches.

Our Favorite Poems: Reading and Writing Poetry

Are there a few poems that you never grow tired of? That

captures something you’ve never been able to say as well?

That you wish YOU had written?

From Mary Oliver to Dr. Seuss, from Robert Frost to Hip Hop

lyrics, from traditional to post modern - bring in 3 poems you

cherish and we’ll share them and learn to make our own versions

of great verse!

Tuesdays, 1:00 - 3:00 pm, November 10th, 17th and 24th at the West Branch Apartments Community Room in Stowe

Julia Shipley is a poet and freelance writer. Her work has appeared in Hunger Mountain Review, Vermont Life Magazine and Alimentum: the Literature of Food among others. Her chapbook of poems, Herd, is forthcoming from Sheltering Pines Press and she is currently working on a nonfiction book.

Elder Art Gallery

Be sure to visit the Elder Art Gallery, by clicking on the link below, and take a tour of the fantastic and original artwork being created during our Elder Arts classes and workshops!

Watercolor landscape workshop with Gabriel Tempesta

The Elder Arts Program is generously supported by the Copley Munson Fund.