Farnsworth Art Musuem Events

Monday March 16 10:00am - 12:00pm EDT

Gamble Education Center, 9 Grace Street, Rockland, ME, 04841-2867, United States

Watercolor Foundations & Creative Exploration Workshop with Erica Qualey

This class meets for 8 sessions from Monday, January 26 through Monday, March 30 with a two week break from February 16-23. In the event of inclement weather, this class will meet on Zoom. This class is eligible for access rates. Join us for an engaging 8-week watercolor journey designed to build strong foundational skills while encouraging you to confidently develop your own creative voice. This workshop blends structured learning with the freedom of personal exploration—much like a guided studio session. Each week, we’ll focus on a key watercolor technique or concept, supported by live demonstrations, group activities, and thoughtfully selected reference images to spark ideas. You’ll have dedicated time to apply what you’ve learned to your own work, with opportunities for both one-on-one guidance and supportive group feedback. Whether you’re just starting out or looking to deepen your understanding of watercolor, this class offers a nurturing environment to experiment, grow, and connect with fellow artists. During the final class session, participants will showcase their artwork in a celebration of their progress, creativity, and growth throughout the course. Come paint, play, learn, and share your artistic voice! Click here to access the materials list for this class. Erica Qualey is an award winning watercolor artist and teacher who lives in the midcoast of Maine. She has exhibited internationally and is represented in private collections throughout the United States and Canada. She is an associate member of the New England Watercolor Society and has been published in the 19th edition of the yearly publication, Splash. She has led workshops for adults at Farnsworth Art Museum in Rockland, ArtWaves DMI on Mount Desert Island, Haystack Mountain School of Crafts in Deer Isle, Coastal Maine Botanical Gardens, and other art associations. She has participated in visiting artist programs in public schools and has run art programming for children through her local library. Cost: $350 $325 for members. Access rates available. To ensure the program can run as planned, a minimum of 6 participants is required.

Gamble Education Center, 9 Grace Street, Rockland, ME, 04841-2867, United States

Tuesday March 17 2:00pm - 5:00pm EDT

This program will take place on Zoom, United States

Collage from the Studio Drawer with Elizabeth O'Reilly

Night Under Expressway,2007Watercolor and Collage,8″ x 8″Courtesy of Caldbeck GalleryThis class meets weekly for four weeks on zoom all classes are recorded and available for repeated viewing. This class is eligible for access rates. In this hands-on collage making class, you’ll transform your own drawings and paintings into vibrant collage artworks while discovering how artists throughout history have approached similar ideas. Through the course of this four week class you’ll learn how to simplify forms, explore abstraction, and see your everyday subjects in completely new ways. Together, we’ll draw fresh ideas from the Farnsworth’s collection and beyond by looking at how artists like David Driskell, Alex Katz, and John Marin distill the world around them into expressive shapes and compositions. You’ll create line drawings, cut your own shapes, and build layered collages influenced by everything from Louise Nevelson’s sculptural abstraction to Hector Nevarez Núñez’s bold photomontage techniques. Throughout the workshop, you’ll experiment with a variety of materials and approaches, gaining practical techniques for weaving collage into your personal art practice. Each session includes supportive individual guidance and energizing group critiques, helping you grow your skills, stretch your creativity, and walk away with artwork that feels fresh, personal, and deeply informed by the larger art world. Elizabeth O’Reilly received her BEd from The National University of Ireland and an MFA from Brooklyn College. She has participated in residencies at the Ballinglen Foundation, Ireland the UCROSS Foundation, Wyoming and the Ragdale Foundation, Illinois. O’Reilly has received numerous awards including a Pollock Krasner Foundation grant, a Charles G. Shaw award for painting and a grant from the Peter S. Reed Foundation. She taught an outdoor landscape class at The New School for Social Research for many years and has taught extensively at colleges in New York City, including Parsons School of Design, Brooklyn College, and Pratt Institute. She also taught watercolor and collage at The National Academy School. She currently teaches at The New York School of the Arts in New York City, and out of her studio in the Gowanus area of Brooklyn. O’Reilly shows at the George Billis Gallery in Chelsea, New York and had a solo show in 2022. She showed at the Caldbeck gallery in Rockland, in the summer of 2020 with Lois Dodd. Her work has been reviewed in Art In America, The New York Sun and Art News. A documentary on her work, Ealaiontoir Thar Saile (An Artist Abroad) was shown on network TV in Ireland. O’Reilly’s work is found in many corporate and public collections, including the State Department, Washington D.C. The Office of Public Works, Ireland the Memphis Brooks Museum in Memphis, Tennessee and the Ogunquit Museum in Maine. Cost: $270 $240 for members. Access rates available. To ensure the program can run as planned, a minimum of 6 participants is required. Click here for the supply list.

This program will take place on Zoom, United States

Wednesday March 18 12:00pm - 1:00pm EDT

Farnsworth Library, 16 Museum Street, Rockland, ME, 04841, United States

Farnsworth Concert Series: Brian Shankar Adler

The next concert in the Farnsworth Concert Series features award-winning percussionist and composer Brian Shankar Adler as he presents a piano trio that blends jazz, Indian classical music, and tango with cinematic improvisations. Brian Shankar Adler is an interdisciplinary percussionist and composer. Described as “a polyrhythmic force… New York City gritty yet still somehow capable of evoking the delicacy of a summer breeze…” (JazzTimes), his work transcends the terrain between genre and geographic region, asking: how can we find connection through rhythm? Adler has performed in caves, forests and adjacent glacial ice fields as well as Carnegie Hall, Kennedy Center, Lincoln Center and The Stone. He has been recorded on over fifty albums including his solo works: For a Gallery on the Moon (Chant Records, 2020), Fourth Dimension (Chant Records, 2019), and his recent collaboration: Air Space: Cricket Cipher (Adhyâropa Records, 2024). Playing primarily a hybrid drum set that includes North Indian tabla, Argentine bombo legüero and found objects, Adler’s work explores the perception of time, the communicative properties of rhythmic gesture and existential questions that reside in the human condition. With equal focus on improvisational and compositional practices, he uses rhythm as a tool for collaboration. An accomplished composer, Adler’s works have been praised as “profoundly exquisite… striking interior chords, where the heart and the mind’s inner ear intersect…” (All About Jazz). He has been commissioned to compose A Memory of Fire (Palaver Strings), Echoes of the Gomero (Rasa String Quartet), We Are a Body of Water (Bates College Gamelan Orchestra) as well as music for Appleton Rum’s “Find Your Rhythm” ad campaign. As a 2025 CASJ Fellow, Adler collaborated with scientists at Shaw Institute to create Dance of the Cephalopod, a solo percussion piece that explores innovative ways to engage the public through social justice. Adler was a composer-in-residence at Antenna Cloud Farm, Avaloch Farm Institute and Vermont College of Fine Arts. He has been the recipient of numerous awards, including Composer’s Now Grants and ASCAP Plus Awards. A Lifetime Arts/National Guild grant winner, Brian Shankar Adler has revolutionized the accessibility of rhythmic pedagogy. In 2013, he published A World of Percussion connecting rhythm, language, mathematics and environment through a study of shared musical concepts from around the globe. Adler is currently on faculties at: Bates, Bowdoin College and Vermont Jazz Center. He is a Vic Firth and Schlagwerk artist and has offered masterclasses and residencies internationally. Cost: $25 $20 for members students 17 and over $10 children 16 and younger are free. This concert is eligible for access rates. We also are offering a subscription rate to the entire music series please click here to subscribe to all 8 concerts in the series for a discount. Thank you to our sponsors:

Farnsworth Library, 16 Museum Street, Rockland, ME, 04841, United States

Monday March 23 10:00am - 12:00pm EDT

Gamble Education Center, 9 Grace Street, Rockland, ME, 04841-2867, United States

Watercolor Foundations & Creative Exploration Workshop with Erica Qualey

Gamble Education Center, 9 Grace Street, Rockland, ME, 04841-2867, United States

Tuesday March 24 2:00pm - 5:00pm EDT

This program will take place on Zoom, United States

Collage from the Studio Drawer with Elizabeth O'Reilly

This program will take place on Zoom, United States

Thursday March 26 12:00pm - 12:30pm EDT

Farnsworth Art Museum, 16 Museum St, Rockland, ME, 04841-2867, United States

Gallery Walk: A Closer Look with Gwendolyn Loomis Smith

George Bellows (1882-1925) Beating Out to Sea, 1913 Oil on plywood panel 14 5/8 x 18 7/8 inches Museum purchase, 1945.567 Photography by Alan LaValleeA series of monthly walks, each focusing on select themes or sections within the exhibition MAINE: A Force Within Americ......More

Farnsworth Art Museum, 16 Museum St, Rockland, ME, 04841-2867, United States

Friday March 27 10:00am - 12:00pm EDT

Riverbrook Preserve, 3540 Washington Road, Waldoboro, 04572

Outdoor Studio: Nature Mandalas & Painting with Plant Inks with Katama Murray & Midcoast Conservancy

This program is eligible for access rates. In this outdoor nature workshop* along the Goose River, where Andrew Wyeth found inspiration for some of his key works, we will seek inspiration as well. Join teaching artist Katama Murray and ecologist Kit Pfeiffer at Riverbrook Preserve to connect to the current season, place, and this special ecosystem as we make designs using organic objects. We will enjoy a guided walk before creating nature mandalas and painting with plant dyes. Along the way we will forage for materials, and learn the process of creating handmade natural dyes and ink using plant pigments from plants and food waste! Students will learn the basics of creating a natural dye bath and liquid inks to write and draw on paper, and may choose to paint if they wish depending on weather and comfort. These meditative processes yield unique, one-of-a-kind results, and provide opportunities to let go while collaborating with nature. All materials will be provided, and all are welcome! This class is done in collaboration with Midcoast Conservancy. With a legacy dating back to the 1960’s, Midcoast Conservancy works with neighboring land trusts to increase climate resilience and the pace and scale of land conservation. In addition, they focus on river restoration and water quality programs, outdoor education and recreation, sustainable forestry, and advocacy. Harnessing this broad range of initiatives underscores the connectedness of the natural world and human communities, thus enhancing their ability to assemble individual and community support, catalyze others to conserve healthy lands and waters, and help build resilient and vibrant communities. Teach Peace Prints is a small, woman-owned business led by Katama Murray, which focuses on printmaking and fiber techniques that utilize natural materials. As an eco artist, educator and naturalist, Katama is constantly inspired by patterns, shapes, and colors that dwell within these spaces and organisms. Since starting the Teach Peace Prints journey in 2020, Katama creates handmade products on paper and fabric using a variety of materials and processes, and continues to experiment with combining various techniques while mindfully collaborating with the natural world. Sewn, naturally dyed and printed by hand, TPP offers unique, one of a kind products for those who wish to bring elements of nature into their homes and daily lives. Featuring items such as everyday textiles, prints and creative supplies for fellow makers, each collection of work is seasonally inspired and is based on the importance of place. Katama believes that the process of making and constant learning in tandem with nature can help to encourage further awareness and appreciation of our natural surroundings. *This class is weather dependent. We will be outdoors the entire time please dress appropriately including warm clothing, winter boots, and optional microspikes/hiking poles. Cost: $45 $40 for members. Access rates available. To ensure the program can run as planned, a minimum of 10 participants is required. We have another outdoor studio class! Check out our first offering by clicking here.

Riverbrook Preserve, 3540 Washington Road, Waldoboro, 04572

Monday March 30 10:00am - 12:00pm EDT

Gamble Education Center, 9 Grace Street, Rockland, ME, 04841-2867, United States

Watercolor Foundations & Creative Exploration Workshop with Erica Qualey

Gamble Education Center, 9 Grace Street, Rockland, ME, 04841-2867, United States

Tuesday March 31 2:00pm - 5:00pm EDT

This program will take place on Zoom, United States

Collage from the Studio Drawer with Elizabeth O'Reilly

This program will take place on Zoom, United States

Thursday April 2 2:00pm - 4:30pm EDT

Gamble Education Center, 9 Grace Street, Rockland, ME, 04841-2867, United States

Direct Observation: Oil Painting with Rob Pollien

Plein Air Painting, Acadia NPThis class meets weekly on Thursdays starting April 2 through April 30 there is no class on Thursday, April 23. This class is eligible for access rates. Join us for an immersive painting experience at the Farnsworth Art Museum, where you will focus on painting from direct observation in oil. This hands-on workshop is designed for painters looking to strengthen their skills and deepen their understanding of value, composition, and paint handling. All sessions are taught in person, creating an intimate environment for real-time guidance and feedback. Starting with simple value and color studies in oil, we will progress quickly toward more complex painting problems that focus on color mixing, paint application and developing a systematic, deliberate approach to painting from observation. Through classroom study, critiques and assignments, attention will be given to sound, essential studio practices, helping the students to grow, become “unstuck” and move toward bringing their painting to a higher level. Artists of all levels of experience are welcome although the course is recommended for artists with a firm understanding of basic drawing. You may access the materials list here. Instructor Rob Pollien earned his MFA from the University of Pennsylvania and attended the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture. In 2019, he was one of Acadia National Park’s Resident Artists. Robert has received support from the Ludwig Vogelstein Foundation, the Monhegan Artists’ Residency Corporation, the Joseph A. Fiore Art Center at Rolling Acres Farm, and the Brush Creek Foundation for the Arts. He has also been awarded the Maine Arts Commission Individual Artist Fellowship for painting. His paintings are in numerous corporate, public, and private collections. He is represented by Artemis Gallery in Northeast Harbor and the Page Gallery in Camden Maine. Rob has recently retired from teaching at the University of Maine. Cost: $300 $270 for members. Access rates available this class will run with 6 registrants.

Gamble Education Center, 9 Grace Street, Rockland, ME, 04841-2867, United States

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