Discover the beautiful rich blacks and soft tonal ranges of Mezzotint engraving. This course will focus on the working and printing of your image on a pre-mezzotinted plate. Instruction will also be given on ‘rocking’ your own plate plus tips and tricks for printing mezzotints. Each student will edition at least one finished mezzotint.

Join us for a rich, rewarding and FUN experience that enhances children’s imaginations, self-esteem and natural performing ability through structured theatre games and activities. The teachers are Mount Allison theatre students with experience teaching children.

This workshop will combine art history with art making, exploring how landscape painting in Western art reflects the complicated relationship between humans and the environment. This course will focus in particular on changes in the conception of depth in painting and how this corresponds with the increasing separation between subject and object in Western thought more generally. We will explore ways of extending and flattening illusory space, working in a range of media (acrylic paint, charcoal, ink, pastels...) and from a variety of subjects, including collage, hand-made models, and plein air observation. We will consider the mystical space of Byzantine Icons, the development of linear perspective in the Renaissance, the concept of the Sublime in Romanticism and Modernism, and the fragmentation of space throughout the 20th century.

How do you describe the summer? It’s almost impossible not to start with the temperature and the comparative brightness of the sun and if we are lucky enough to be in a place like St. Andrews, with the water, the trees, the birds and the whales. And can you really describe what happens in the summer – say summer love -- without framing it with summer details? As a result, describing what the sky was like in the summer in a short story or essay can become an exercise in rendering emotion or opinion through detail. In this course, we will experiment with describing our summer landscape in the creation of either short stories or essays based in St Andrews.

In this 2 day workshop, students will discover how colour, light and design can create passion in a watercolour composition. St. Andrews and the beautiful province of New Brunswick (and beyond) will provide our inspiration. Students will explore and participate in painting a new subject each day. Studio (and Plein Air Painting IF STUDENTS WANT TO EXPLORE ONLY! AND IF WEATHER PERMITS) will be experienced to further enhance the passion of this wonderful medium! Subject matter will include a landscape and a street scene including architectural and landscape components. Exploring creative colour mixing and both new and traditional techniques of paint application will provide a sound knowledge base. Students will also focus on linear and atmospheric perspective for further dramatic impact. Instruction through demonstrations, critiques and a “hands on” approach will allow for students to create luminous and vibrant paintings! This course is suitable for all level of expertise.

Eastport Arts Center’s Summer Workshop Series continues from noon to 3 pm, Tuesday, July 23, with Sue Griggs-Bailey’s workshop, Pastels and Underpainting. Participants will learn in a relaxed atmosphere to use underpainting techniques to create a dramatic pastel painting. Attendees may choose to follow along with a demonstration, or may create their own painting from references.

Can you tell a weed seedling from a plant you want to keep? Join the Lubec Garden Club for a class on Weed Identification. Learn what common weeds such as wood sorrel, crown vetch and chickweed look like and learn more about how they grow. Paula Kovecses of TWIG Eastport is presenting this class that’s free and open to the public. Join us at the Common Room at the Inn on the Wharf, 69 Johnson Street in Lubec.

Explore sights and scents at the Tides Institute and Museum of Art exhibition, and return to the library for fun activities involving all five senses: Paint with sound or spice paint, draw with marbles, make noisemakers, play sight memory games, make scented (or unscented) play dough, and take the blindfold melon tasting test! All ages, small children accompanied by an adult.

Explore the vibrant medium of stained glass with the talented and seasoned artist Ruth Dunfield! This course is designed for beginners and those with experience. Students will have the opportunity to learn how to use patterns, cut glass, foil, solder and more.

Join Marine Mammals of Maine (MMoME) as they take you through a seal's journey from stranding to release, and all of the obstacles in between. The program will cover seal basics such as: whether it's normal for them to be out of the water; why you might see a baby on its own, when and why seals need our help. You will learn what MMoME is, what they do, the animals they care for, and how you can help. All ages.