Purchase Pieces from 'The Divinest Sense' Show by June Glass, Jonathan Brand & Bevan Ramsay
New England Harvesters by Thomas McKnight
Thomas McKnight New England Harvesters Acrylic on Canvas 48″ x 72″
WAASAP!! Elementary After School Art Program with Brianna Killion – Fall 2025
10 weeks (Grades 2 – 5)
Wednesdays, 3:45 PM to 5:00 PM | September 17, 24, October 1, 8, 15, 22, 29, November 5, 12 and 19
The Norman Sunshine Center, 11 Green Hill Road, Washington Depot
Brianna Killion has cherished a love for art and children since her own childhood in Fargo, North Dakota. From an early age, she dreamed of becoming both a mother and an artist.
After earning a degree in art education from MSUM, Brianna worked as a nanny before becoming an art teacher at Saint Paul Academy. Her journey eventually led her to New York City, but her love for nature drew her to Roxbury, Connecticut, where she and her blossoming family lived for several years before relocating to the quaint inspiring village of New Preston.
Brianna serves as the full time art teacher for Region 12 schools, including Booth, Burnham, and Washington Primary School, where she teaches Kindergarten through Fifth grade. She finds pure delight in watching students discover and nurture their passion for art.
Brianna’s latest venture, the Washington Art Association School Art Program (WAASAP! for short) aims to be a home away from home for your child. Here, children can create to their hearts’ delight while learning about famous artists and techniques in a nurturing and inspiring environment.
Managing Your Art Photos – and ALL Your Computer Files. Lecture with Michael Jay (Wednesday, September 10th 4:30pm to 6:00pm)
Wednesday September 10th | 4:30pm to 6:00pm
Location: Washington Art Association General Studio
This interactive 90-minute workshop will help artists manage their photos, by explaining basics such as photo formats and resolutions, but also showing how to organize their master files – and how to use those techniques to manage all their computer files. Because of the popularity of Apple products, we’ll pay special attention to Apple’s Photos app, and show how to use iCloud to automatically share photos among all your Apple devices. While the Photos app is not a professional solution, it is the de facto tool used by many artists for informal cataloguing – and offers great value in providing quick access to one’s photo library while traveling with just one’s handheld devices.
Some of the other topics to be covered in this workshop include:
• Settings to ensure maximum quality of the photos as seen on your devices
• Factors which can reduce the quality of photos shared with others
• Creating your own albums and folders in the Photos app
• Editing, exporting – and the Photos app’s limitations with RAW format files
• The relationship of your original photo files and those in the Photos app
• Your Mac’s built-in method to easily scan documents and printed photos
• Using folders to organize your computer files, and search tools to find your items
• The easy way to import to a Mac from professional cameras, bypassing the Photos app and saving files directly to your computer
We’ll also show the exact settings needed to sync seamlessly between handheld Apple products, and will take time to address issues on attendees’ own devices. We’ll have the ability to project attendees’ devices wirelessly to a shared screen, for the entire class to follow along with real-world scenarios.
Because this lecture will be focused on Apple products, we will not provide detailed information for other devices or apps, but much of the general information – especially about file management – will be applicable to non-Apple computers.
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Materials List
Bring your laptops (Mac or PC), and handheld Apple devices (iPhone and iPad), so you can follow along, adjust your settings, and share your specific questions.
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Instructor Michael Jay is a consultant and certified Apple Teacher, who has worked with tech professionally for over 30 years. He worked previously as an Emmy Award-winning editor and project manager in Hollywood and New York, collaborating with many leading names in entertainment, and has taught tech courses at NYU, Rutgers University, and over a dozen Connecticut institutions. Michael is the owner of Personal Tech Support, tutoring small businesses and consumers, and especially enabling artists with their technology.
Unlocking Your Artistic Potential with Kathy L’Hommedieu – Fall Class 2025
8 weeks
Thursdays, 11:00 AM to 2:00 PM |
September 25, October 2, 9, 16, 23, 30 November 6 and 13
Norman Sunshine Center
There is so much creative energy in each of us just waiting to find
Participants who withdraw from a class must request a refund or credit more than 14 days prior to the start of the class in order to receive a full refund or credit (minus a $20 cancellation fee or 10% for one-day workshops).
Participants who cancel a registration between 8 and 14 days prior to the start of the class may receive a 50% refund or credit.
Participants who cancel a registration less than 7 days prior to the start of the class will not receive a refund or credit.
Washington Art Association does not offer prorating for classes, and there are no make-ups, credits or refunds if a student misses a class.
Membership fees are non-refundable.
Colored Pencil Botanical Holiday Drawing Workshop – with Teri Goetz (Sunday, November 16th and Monday, November 17th 10am to 3pm)
Sunday November 16th and Monday November 17th | 10am to 3pm
Location: Washington Art Association General Studio
This workshop is a wonderful opportunity to create a colored pencil botanical holiday drawing. Come have some fun with colored pencils. They are a perfect medium to draw botanical subjects, especially for the beginner, although all levels are welcome. By using methodical techniques like tonal variation, light and shadow and building layers, easy to draw shapes will become realistic botanicals. In a non-threatening environment, you’ll be taught and then guided through exercises to understand materials and methods and light on form to create realistic 3D images, then the use of blending and color layering on the 3D form. Line drawings will be provided or, you can draw the (provided) subjects on your own. Come join us as we explore the meditative process of using colored pencils to create a botanical holiday drawing, which you can turn into a card.
Subjects will be supplied. Depending on what’s available and attractive at the time, Teri will guide you through drawing and coloring your subject.
Fall Harvest Colored Pencil Workshop – with Teri Goetz (Friday, September 19th, and Sunday, September 21st, 10am to 3pm)
Friday September 19th | 10am to 3pm
Location: Washington Art Association General Studio
Bring on the fall harvest! Join us as we draw fall gourds and/or pumpkins. Colored pencils are a perfect medium to draw botanical subjects, especially for the beginner, although all levels are welcome. By using methodical techniques like tonal variation, light and shadow and building layers, easy to draw shapes will become realistic botanicals. In a non-threatening environment, you’ll be taught and then guided through exercises to understand materials and methods and light on form to create realistic 3D images, then the use of blending and color layering on the 3D form. Line drawings will be provided or, you can draw the (provided) subjects on your own. Come join us as we explore the meditative process of using colored pencils for fall botanical art.
Plane Deconstruction (The Face) with Jorge Vascano – Fall 2025
7 weeks
Sundays, 3:00 PM to 7:00 PM | September 14, 21, 28, October 5, 12, 19, 26
Location: Washington Art Association’s General Studio
Class Description:
This class aims to have the students learn an efficient way to approach sculpture specially when it comes to carving directly.
The subject to explore would be the human face, which will be carved in clay using a reductive method in planes, which will systematically deconstruct its shapes in a geometric way.
Following a hierarchy of importance, the students will learn to form a coherent strategy of sculpting. By focusing in a general to specific approach, we will advance in a logical way, in which each step (or cut) will lead to the next until the desired form is achieved.
Since every sculptural work is different, this class doesn’t necessarily seek to teach a sculptural formula, but offers a way of thinking three-dimensionally, which transcends to other artistic fields enriching their practices.
Biography
Jorge “Vascano” Vasquez Elescano, draws his artistic influence from his evocative Amazonian upbringings of Peru. Even though coated by elaborate shapes and patterns, his work is simply a vehicle into our inner complex selves through the exploration of material.
Although influential his experience in Peru, it wasn’t until moving to the U.S. that he received formal training in various educational institutions such as the Corcoran College of Art and Design, Maryland Institute College of Art and The New York Academy of Art, where he received his MFA in 2017.
During that formative period and after, Jorge has partaken in shows in the US, Portugal, Denmark, Ireland and Chile. Also, he’s been awarded merit international residencies to Giverny, France; Carrara, Italy; Kylemore Abbey, Ireland and Todi, Italy. Moreover, he has been published in literature journals and in press articles such as Beautiful Bizarre Magazine, Artnet News and The Washington Post. Lastly, he had his works featured in the Golden Globe and the Oscar Academy Award nominated motion picture, “If Beale Street Could Talk”.
Jorge currently resides in Washington, Connecticut where he continues developing his professional practice.
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Cancellation Policy
Figure Painting with Scott Bricher – Fall Class 2025
8 weeks
Mondays, 9:00 AM to 12:00 PM | September 22, 29, October 6, 13, 20, 27, November 3 and 10
Location: Washington Art Association’s General Studio
Learn to paint the figure (or anything) in oil.
Scott will coach the class in a dynamic way of seeing shape, value and color. He takes a hands-on approach to teaching with demonstrations and continual classwide and individual instruction. Through short and long poses of nude and clothed models, students will build mastery which can be used for painting any subject. Level up your painting skills in a nurturing and interactive environment.
Watercolor Fall with Megan Marden – Fall Class 2025
8 weeks
Sundays, 12:00 PM to 2:30 PM | September 21, 28, October 5, 12, 19, 26, November 2 and 9
Location: Washington Art Association’s General Studio
This class embraces the immediacy and portability of watercolor to explore seeing, interpreting, and responding to the world around us. Students will create small works based on everyday objects and observations, with an emphasis on process over perfection. Close looking at both our own work and the work of artists from art history will play a central role in shaping each week’s projects. We’ll explore a range of watercolor techniques while learning to embrace the element of chance, imperfection, and the evolving nature of a painting.
MEGAN MARDEN is a painter based in Connecticut. She received her BA and MFA in Painting from Western Connecticut State University and continued her studies in painting and drawing at the New York Studio School. Her work has been supported by grants and awards from the State of Connecticut Office of the Arts and Western Connecticut State University. In 2019, she was a Four Pillars Artist-in-Residence at the Mount Gretna School of Art. Megan exhibits her work at the Oxbow Gallery in East Hampton, Massachusetts, and her paintings have been included in recent group exhibitions at the Joyce Goldstein Gallery, the University of Connecticut, the Bowery Gallery, and The Painting Center.
Cancellation Policy
Participants who withdraw from a class must request a refund or credit more than 14 days prior to the start of the class in order to receive a full refund or credit (minus a $20 cancellation fee or 10% for one-day workshops).
Participants who cancel a registration between 8 and 14 days prior to the start of the class may receive a 50% refund or credit.
Participants who cancel a registration less than 7 days prior to the start of the class will not receive a refund or credit.
Washington Art Association does not offer prorating for classes, and there are no make-ups, credits or refunds if a student misses a class.
Membership fees are non-refundable.
Loosen Up! With Souby Boski – Fall Session 2025
8 weeks
Thursdays, 1:00 PM to 4:00 PM | September 25, October 2, 9, 16, 23, 30, November 6 and 13
Location: Ideas Depot
Souby Boski Materials List.pdf
Looking for an impressionistic spontaneity in your work? Do you want to apply your paint in a more gestural, painterly manner? Want to stop overworking details? Students will learn tips on how to communicate visually with suggestions rather than trying to describe everything in precise detail. Students will loosen up by using bigger brushes, more paint, working faster, and placing marks & gestures with purpose and intention.
The more you simplify what you do, the more it frees your mind to concentrate on staying loose.
Bring reference photos and a selection of canvases!
Cancellation Policy
Participants who withdraw from a class must request a refund or credit more than 14 days prior to the start of the class in order to receive a full refund or credit (minus a $20 cancellation fee or 10% for one-day workshops).
Participants who cancel a registration between 8 and 14 days prior to the start of the class may receive a 50% refund or credit.
Participants who cancel a registration less than 7 days prior to the start of the class will not receive a refund or credit.
Washington Art Association does not offer prorating for classes, and there are no make-ups, credits or refunds if a student misses a class.
Membership fees are non-refundable.