Exhibitions & Programs
See below for workshop opportunities!
Upcoming
Programs and Events
The Power of Color:
Summer Watercolor Workshop
Hosted by Cynthia Kukla, Watercolor Honor Society, Instructor ©
The Downing Museum is hosting the national Watercolor Honor Society Members Exhibit and in
connection, the WHS is providing two watercolor workshops for members of the community.
The Power of Color Workshop will take place Th 8-22-24 and Fr 8-23-24 at the Downing Museum from
10M to 3PM with a ½ HR lunch break. Please bring a bag lunch and personal still life items: flowers and
vase from home that will make an inspired flower painting and/or family or travel mementoes for a
‘personal history’ still life. We will have a short critique the last half hr. each day for those who wish to
have one. Others may continue to paint and complete their work. The cost is $150.
(A full description and suggested supply list of materials to bring will be provided when you register.)
The Power of Color is a unique opportunity to focus exclusively on color, color mixing and techniques to
make lush color washes. Once you understand watercolors, they really are easy, spontaneous, rich, and
varied. Some of you are pros, some intermediate and some may be at the beginning stage of painting. You
want to make your watercolors as individualistic and dynamic as you are so getting a real grip on color
mixing and color theory will send you on your way.
To register, please send an email to [email protected] with subject “Artist Watercolor Workshop”
Community Watercolor Workshop
Hosted by Beth Shadur
This one-and-a-half-hour workshop will cover the basic techniques of watercolor. This will include:
- Flat and graded washes
- Introduction of Direct Method of watercolor
- Glazing of colors
- Introduction of Indirect Method of watercolor
- Wet into Wet
- Painting with strokes
Beth Shadur has exhibited widely in solo and group exhibitions in the United States and abroad, including at the Art Institute of Chicago and the Drawing Center in NYC. She has created over 150
large public murals as public, private and community art projects in both the United States and Great Britain. She has taught and served as a visiting artist at many colleges and universities and her
work appears in many publications, books and catalogues, including Twentieth Century Watercolors, Abbeville Press; Art and Cartography, Art Institute of Chicago.
Shadur has been awarded numerous Ragdale Fellowships and is a Thomas Watson Fellow from Brown University; from 2004-6, she served as Executive Director of ARC Gallery, Chicago. She
participated in the Cool Globes Public Art Project in Chicago in 2007, and in 2008, was Artist-in-Residence at the Burren College of Art in Ireland through a Governor’s Award for International
Arts Exchange from the Illinois Arts Council. She has been an Artist in Residence at the Banff Centre for the Arts, the Harfnarborg Art Museum in Iceland and will do a residency at Chateau Orqumaux in Chamont, France. From 2012-2024, she was the Gallery Director at Prairie State College in Illinois, and is an independent curator as well.
To register for this workshop, please email [email protected] with subject “Community Watercolor Workshop”