July 21 - 25, 2025 1:00 - 3:00 pm Grades 6-12th Location: Wallkill River Center for the Arts Gallery Cost: $135 per student Animation Class Preview Animation is the art of bringing your drawings to life! Whether you’re interested in traditional animation, game animation, anime, 3D animation, or just want to make your doodles move … Continue reading Animation with Aedan Ciganek
July 21 - 25, 2025 10am - 12pm Grades 1st - 6th Plants, trees, leaves, vegetables, fruits, flowers, birds, bugs, fish, land, water, and clouds... It's all nature! Here's a few ideas of what I'd like to create with you: Shadow drawings of leaves and branches, drawings of the inside of vegetables, making a botanical … Continue reading Nature in Art with Margaret Grasso
Friday July 18th 6:30-8:30pm $40 without materials $60 with all materials supplied $40, $60 to include materials in your registration For absolute beginners or oil painters who need a refresher and some renewed courage. Topics covered will include: materials, pigments, brushes, solvents, basic color mixing, paint application, how to start a painting. All the … Continue reading 07/18/25 Intro to Oil with William Noonan
July 14 - 18, 2025 1:00 - 3:00 pm Ages 10-16 Location: Wallkill River Center for the Arts Gallery Cost: $135 per student Come join jewelry artist Janet Baskerville for a week long immersive and fun jewelry making class. We will work with different mediums like alcohol inks, mod podge, metal washers, scrabble tiles, Shrinky … Continue reading Jewelry Making with Janet Baskerville
July 14, 21, 28th Mondays, 12:30-3pm In Person $120 ($105 Members) This class is appropriate for artists who possess a basic understanding of the principles of drawing from life. Subjects like form, scale, shading and composition form the core of the curriculum and will consistently be revisited. Class work will include a variety of subjects, … Continue reading 07/2025 Inter/Adv Drawing with William Noonan
July 22 - 26, 2025 10am - 12pm Grades 5th - 12th Experiment with a wide variety of painting, drawing, and collaging. We will use sketchbooks and even learn how to make our own from mixed media paper as well as a cover you design. We will use: pens, pencils, paints, acrylic markers, water soluble … Continue reading Mixed Media Art Journals with Margaret Grasso
Please join us to meet the artist and view the new exhibits in the galleries which feature drawing. André Junget: Drawings DRAWING, Group Exhibit Juried by Andre Junget Theresa Gooby: Uncanny Garden Light refreshments will be served. This event is free and open to the public. Gallery hours: Friday - Sunday, 12 - 5 … Continue reading July Art Reception
July 12, 19, 26th Saturday mornings at 9:30-12pm $120, $105 for Members Live In Person – Painting with William Noonan For beginner, intermediate and advanced students. This course is conducted live in the classroom. The instructor’s main medium is oils but any painting medium is welcome in this class. Students are encouraged to follow their … Continue reading 07/2025 Oil Painting with William Noonan
Drawing, Group Exhibit Juried by André Junget Juried by Andre Junget, the theme for this group exhibit is “Drawing" with all drawing mediums welcome. Selected artists: Kim Steinard Borell Catherine De Cesare Keith Dougherty Karen E. Gersch Yona Gonen Laura Martinez-Bianco William Noonan Joanne Penaluna Roberta Rosenthal Elizabeth Sundwall Susan Wilson XaN (Alexandra Devin) Valerie … Continue reading Drawing: Group Exhibit Juried by Andre Junget
André Junget: Drawings Pen and ink is my favorite medium. The idea of creating value with an ink line has always fascinated me. In my view, nothing else compares to it. Beginning with first seeing the wood engravings of Gustave Doré, then the British and American book illustrators of the Golden Age of Illustration, I … Continue reading André Junget: Drawings
Theresa Gooby: Uncanny Garden explores themes of growth, transformation, mystery, identity and absurdity. In this series of works on paper, nature and the human connection to the natural world are forefront. These figures in this show challenge the dominant narrative of identity, allowing elements of the natural world to embody representations of the self. Long … Continue reading Theresa Gooby: Uncanny Garden
Thursdays, July 10, 17, 24th 9:30am - 12:30pm $175, $150 members Orange County Arboretum Thomas Bull Memorial Park 211 NY- 416 Montgomery, NY For intermediate and advanced students Working from live specimens and photos we will create a background behind accurate botanical subjects. Draw and paint using watercolor pencils and tube or block watercolor. Create … Continue reading 07/25 OC Arboretum Outdoor Painting with Roberta Rosenthal
July 7 - 11, 2025 10am - 12pm Grades 1st - 5th Whether its realistic, stylized, or imaginary, animals are my favorite subject! We'll be using guide books, photos, and references for observation. We'll even try simplifying them into stylized animals too! Imaginary animals are a big favorite. We can make our own with watercolor … Continue reading Animals Real & Imaginary with Margaret Grasso
Sundays, 10am-12pm July 6, 13, 20, 27th $120 ($100 Members) ($90 to skip beginners day) The first day of the months' session is for anyone who is just starting out or needs more guidance. I would recommend that you attend if you're a first time student of this class! This beginning watercolor class will … Continue reading 07/2025 Beginning Watercolor with Stephanie Snyder
Saturday July 5th 5:00 - 7:00pm At the Wallkill River Center for the Arts Suitable for Adults Animation Class Preview Animation! The art of making movement with drawings. This one day crash course will equip aspiring animators with the basic skills of the craft. We will: Practice key animation techniques Study movement from real life, … Continue reading 07/05/25 One Day Adult Animation Workshop with Aedan Ciganek
Wallkill River Center for the Arts will be closed July 4 - 6, 2025. The galleries will reopen Friday, July 11th with new exhibits: Theresa Goodby: Uncanny Garden Andre Junget: Drawings Drawing: Group Exhibit, Juried by Andre Junget Art Reception: Saturday, July 12 from 5 to 7 pm Please join us to celebrate the … Continue reading WRCA Galleries CLOSED
June 25th 6-8pm $50 per student Still life painting is a unique experience, sign up and give it a try, or continue your journey. All levels and mediums welcome. Instructor shall work in watercolor. Each class shall consist of a short lesson, followed by each participant working individually on the evening’s still life scene. Individual … Continue reading 6/25/25 All-Medium Still Life Workshop with Alan Lewis
Friday June 20th 6:30-8:30pm $40 without materials $60 with all materials supplied $40, $60 to include materials in your registration For absolute beginners or oil painters who need a refresher and some renewed courage. Topics covered will include: materials, pigments, brushes, solvents, basic color mixing, paint application, how to start a painting. All the … Continue reading 06/20/25 Intro to Oil with William Noonan
Thursday June 15th 10:00am - 12:00pm At the Wallkill River Center for the Arts Delight in creating an elegant watercolor card based on the Japanese principle of Wabi-Sabi.Using a muted palette and simple round and flat brushes, experiment with color fields that will serve as backdrops for your own dramatic effects. Tools like saranwrap, scotch … Continue reading 06/12/25 Zen Watercolor Card Workshop with Monica Ostrow
June 11th 6-8pm $50 per student Still life painting is a unique experience, sign up and give it a try, or continue your journey. All levels and mediums welcome. Instructor shall work in watercolor. Each class shall consist of a short lesson, followed by each participant working individually on the evening’s still life scene. Individual … Continue reading 6/11/25 All-Medium Still Life Workshop with Alan Lewis
June 7, 14, 21st Saturday mornings at 9:30-12pm $90, $80 for Members Live In Person – Painting with William Noonan For beginner, intermediate and advanced students. This course is conducted live in the classroom. The instructor’s main medium is oils but any painting medium is welcome in this class. Students are encouraged to follow their … Continue reading 06/2025 Oil Painting with William Noonan
Wallkill River Center for the Arts (WRCA), located in Orange County in the Hudson Valley of New York, has been a leading voice for the arts and a premier arts center for more than 15 years. A robust offering of art courses, workshops, monthly exhibits, performances and receptions, our facilities at the historic Patchett House … Continue reading SEEKING ART CENTER ASSISTANT / RECEPTIONIST
Thursdays, June 5, 12, 19, 26th 10:00am -1:00 pm $175, $150 members For intermediate and advanced students Working from live specimens and photos we will create a background behind accurate botanical subjects. Draw and paint using watercolor pencils and tube or block watercolor. Create an atmosphere of time and place. Learn to blend pencils and … Continue reading 06/25 Botanical Drawing in Watercolor Pencil and Watercolor with Roberta Rosenthal
June 3, 10, 17, 24th 9am - 12pm $160, $140 Members Location: OC Arboretum Students will learn all the fundamentals of how to create beautiful paintings outdoors. Using a limited palette, students will learn how to simplify the vast landscape and capture the important aspects of a scene to create a successful plein air … Continue reading 06/2025 Plein Air Painting with Nancy Reed Jones
June 2, 9, 16th Mondays, 12:30-3pm In Person $120 ($105 Members) This class is appropriate for artists who possess a basic understanding of the principles of drawing from life. Subjects like form, scale, shading and composition form the core of the curriculum and will consistently be revisited. Class work will include a variety of subjects, … Continue reading 06/2025 Inter/Adv Drawing with William Noonan
