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July 2020
Coffee Hour for Creatives
Coffee Hour for Creatives Mondays | 8:30 - 10:30AM Downshift Coffee (39 Main St., Belfast, ME 04915)/ Park on Main St. Are you looking for creative accountability, new connections with other innovators and dreamers, or a network to share your ideas with -- and to be inspired by? Join the ongoing outdoors, physically-distanced, Coffee Hour for Creatives gatherings. Now happening Mondays, 8:30-10:30am, at Park on Main. Pick up a drink from Downshift Coffee and join us in the shade.
Find out more »Artists Out and About: Summer Camp FULL
Outside means big fun at art camp! In addition to setting up in mini "studios" on our lawn, campers will hit the road with supplies to sketch by the waterfront, chalk the harborwalk, and create a temporary installation in a downtown park!
Find out more »Kinetic Creatives
Kinetic Creatives Tuesdays 10:15-11:45am *starting July 14th Park on Main, downtown Belfast All ages. $15. Pre-register on the website. ABOUT THE CLASS: Art really is for everyone! No experience necessary for these outdoor sessions led by friendly teaching artists. Offerings will change weekly to encourage you to observe, creatively interpret, or interact with your surroundings in innovative ways. Instructors will be sharing prompts that invite you to walk a short distance (up to 1/4 mile) from the park, to engage…
Find out more »Art at City Park
Art at City Park Outdoor Art Activities in Belfast's City Park Visitors of any age can drop by the Waterfall Arts station and pick up a materials kit for a different activity every week. Find us along the road near the tennis courts, or at the gazebo. Materials have been disinfected and items borrowed and returned are not re-used. Free of cost, donations welcomed. ***In the event of rain on a given Wednesday morning, you can find Bridget for a…
Find out more »Socially Engaged Art
Socially-Engaged Art Thursdays 7 - 8:30pm *starting July 9th Outside at Waterfall Arts, 256 High St., Belfast, ME 04915 All ages| Free No registration required. A space for conversations about how we might engage through the arts to catalyze social action, respond to or investigate our current reality, and process or instigate change. This gathering is appropriate for artists of any discipline, medium or inclination (dance, music, sculpture, poetry, etc.!) who are interested in art as social practice. Community-based or…
Find out more »Figure Drawing
Figure Drawing: Long Pose Saturdays 9:30am - 12pm *starting July 11th Location: Outside at Waterfall Arts, 256 High St., Belfast, ME 04915 $60 for 6 sessions (pre-register on the website), or $15 drop-in. Ages 15+ ABOUT THE GROUP: The longest running group of its kind in the Midcoast area, the life drawing group at Waterfall Arts began over a decade ago. After a four-month hiatus, we are reviving this program in a modified setting for summer 2020: outdoors and physically-distanced,…
Find out more »Art Together Morning: Lenticular Drawings
ART TOGETHER MORNING with Bridget Matros at home (on Zoom) Saturday, July 18 10:00 AM - 12:00 PM $15 / pay what you can Ages 7+ Any way you look at it, this artwork is going to be awesome! Work together to create two images that will be seen from different angles when we're done. ABOUT THE INSTRUCTOR: Bridget Matros is the Kids & Families Program Coordinator at Waterfall Arts. Matros came to Waterfall Arts with over 15 years of…
Find out more »In / Out: Approaches to the Landscape in Encaustic
In / Out: Approaches to the Landscape in Encaustic with Hélène Farrar WED July 22 - THURS July 23; Rain date: Fri. July 24th 10:00AM - 3:00PM Cost: $90 general / $81 members Location: Outside at Waterfall Arts, 256 Main St., Belfast, ME 04915 Ages: 16+ ABOUT THE CLASS: Investigate the art of encaustic painting in this very hands-on workshop and interpret and develop sketches/photographs/ideas about the landscape into encaustic paintings. Explore the ancient medium of encaustic whilst painting form,…
Find out more »Friday Tryday: Peace Flag Printing
FRIDAY TRYDAY: PEACE FLAG PRINTING with Bridget Matros at the Belfast Boathouse Harborside Yard Friday, July 24, 2020 6:00 PM - 8:00 PM $15 Age 21+ ***Space is limited to 12. Preregistration required. BYOB!*** ABOUT THE CLASS: Enjoy a beverage with the cool breezes and beatific view of the harbor as an unforgettable studio setting! We've got super simple printmaking supplies to use on pre-made colorful flags and will help you create a design worth repeating! We'll use ink, woodblock…
Find out more »Fundamentals of Watercolor
Fundamentals of Watercolor Instructor: Lesia Sochor Cost: $70 general / $63 members Location: Outside at Waterfall Arts Dates: Wed. July 29 and Thurs. July 30 Times: 10:00AM - 1:00PM Ages: 18+ ABOUT THE CLASS: This class will explore watercolors' unique and unexpected properties. We'll become familiar with washes, gradations, and bleeds, and painting on both dry and wet surfaces. With some control and luck, images will appear. Working plein air (outdoors) lends itself to more immediate responses. *Some materials will…
Find out more »August 2020
Art Together Morning 8-1-20
Details coming soon! ART TOGETHER MORNING with Bridget Matros at home (on Zoom) Saturday, July 18 10:00 AM - 12:00 PM $15 / pay what you can Ages 7+ ABOUT THE INSTRUCTOR: Bridget Matros is the Kids & Families Program Coordinator at Waterfall Arts. Matros came to Waterfall Arts with over 15 years of teaching art at every level and setting — from preschool circle-time to computer literacy classes for the elderly. A practicing artist herself, Matros developed and grew…
Find out more »Small Books, Three Ways
SMALL BOOKS, THREE WAYS with Amy Tingle and Maya Stein Wednesdays on August 12, August 19, and August 26; Rain Dates: August 13, August 20, and August 27 10:00 AM - 12:00 PM Outside at Waterfall Arts $85 / $77 with member discount Age 15+ Members receive class discounts! Check out our membership program here. ABOUT THE CLASS: Three books, three days. This class is for you if you’re an imaginative reader who wants to play with your words, a…
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