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art workshop, Events

Visiting Boston’s Polish Harvest Festival

Part I: Polish Meadow — Mural, group painting (all ages welcome)

Part II: Cracow Nativity Scene Competition introduction (all about the  First International) New York City 2025 Competition.

To see one of our previous Nativity Scene Competition journals  click HERE . This year we invite participants from all continents. For more information about 2025 Competition click HERE.

When: Sunday, September 21, 2015
Where: 655 Dorchester Ave., South Boston, MA
Time: Start at 1:30 PM

Part I: Polish Meadow — Mural, group painting (all ages welcome)

Thank you to Anna Karam and Sylwia Wadach-Kloczkowska for their invitation and workshop support,  Sebastian Niejadlik for the  preparation of wood panels for our mural, and volunteers Kalija, Serena and Emma.

 

Part II: Cracow Nativity Scene Competition introduction (all about the  First International) 2025 Competition.

 

art workshop, Events

Art Without Borders: Celebrating Heritage, History, and Community

Revolutionary Harvest Festival

September 13, 2025, at Philipse Manor Hall State Historic Site, 29 Warburton Ave. Yonkers, NY 10701
12:00 PM — 5:00 PM

Join us in painting the Harvest Festival mural, a community artwork designed by Bobbi Egan, that will transport you back to the spirit of the 18th century!

Revolutionary Harvest Festival, mural design by Bobbi Egan
Revolutionary Harvest Festival Mural – Painted by Yonkers’ residents and their guests

Textile artist Courtney Dudley, from the Catskills, will share her brochure with  secrets of naturally dyeing fabrics with wild plants.

@courtneydudleyart

The Nowodworski Foundation is proud to be a grantee of ArtsWestchester with funding made possible by Westchester County government with the support of County Executive Kenneth W. Jenkins and the Board of Legislators.

We are thrilled to thank Sarah Wassberg Johnson, Program and Event Manager, and Michael A. Lord, Site Director at Philipse Manor Hall State Historic Site in Yonkers, for their steadfast support of our projects and programs.

 

Art Classes for Everyone, art workshop

INSPIRED BY NATURE art series in Port Chester–Rye Brook Public Library

The INSPIRED BY NATURE offers an engaging series of art workshops (in-person & virtual) for children, parents, and grandparents. Port Chester–Rye Brook Library will host 3 in-person sessions in July 11, 18 and August 1, 2024 (11 am–12 pm).

Also at the end of August, Saturday August 24, 2024 (during Port Chester Day in John Lyon Park) children and their families will join the Nowodworski Foundation painting and printing workshops.

Virtual sessions will be provided by Zoom (starting early fall 2024)

 

art workshop, Events

July 7 — Summer Camp 2024 — “In the Footsteps of the Polish Arms” — Italy & Poland

Today, our pedagogical and educational team has been joined by Ms. Jaga and Mr. Staszek, who will conduct art classes and Ms. Ewa, our guide. (L—R) Ms. Ewa, Mr. Jerzy, Ms. Jaga, Mr. Staszek. / Dzisiaj do naszej drużyny pedagogiczno-wychowawczej dołączyli p. Jaga i p. Staszek, którzy będą prowadzili zajęcia plastyczne oraz p. Ewa nasza przewodniczka. (L—P)  p. Ewa,  p. Jerzy, p. Jaga, p. Staszek.

Morning hike to Hala Malinowa / Przedpołudniowa wędrówka na Halę Malinową

At the Chapel of Our Lady of the “AK” Army, the youth made sketches and cleaned up the area around. / Przy Kapliczce Matki Bożej AK-owskiej młodzież zrobiła szkice a wokół uporządkowała teren.

At noon we went to the Tree Festival in Sidzina to see what the local festival looks like! / W południe udaliśmy się na Święto Drzewa w Sidzinie, aby zobaczyć jak wygląda lokalny festyn!


We’re weaving wreaths of wildflowers. / Pleciemy wianki z polnych kwiatów.


Sunday Mass / Niedzielna Msza

Art Classes for Everyone, art workshop, Easy to Draw, Easy to Paint

POLLINATORS IN ACTION – Monarch Butterfly Greeting Card In-person Workshop – PHILIPSE MANOR HALL, December 16, 2023 at 1:00 PM

POLLINATORS IN ACTION – Monarch Butterfly Greeting Card In-person Art Workshop – PHILIPSE MANOR HALL

Saturday, December 16, 2023
1:00 PM – 2:30 PM | FREE
Philipse Manor Hall State Historic Site
29 Warburton Avenue Yonkers, NY 10701  (directions: click HERE)

Are you curious about pollinators? Interested in learning how to draw them? In this free, family-friendly workshop, we will create greeting cards for any occasion to share with your loved ones. Learn to draw the Monarch butterfly at each stage of its life, from caterpillar, to chrysalis, to metamorphosis into a butterfly, plus learn how to draw its host plant, the milkweed. All materials are provided.

Instructor Bio: Amanda Konishi is a freelance illustrator and painter, born in Orange County, CA and now living and working in New York. She graduated from the School of Visual Arts in 2014 from the Illustration and Cartooning program with a Bachelor of Arts. Her illustration clients include Children’s Hospital Los Angeles, The New York Times, The Baffler, and Firewords Quarterly, amongst others.

See other art workshops at sitenf.org/online-art-class.

This workshop is part of Pollinators in Action, Empowering Community through Visual Art, which is sponsored by the Philipse Manor Hall State Historic Site, ArtsWestchester, Westchester County Government with the support of County Executive George Latimer and Nowodworski Foundation.

 

Art Classes for Everyone, art workshop

Enchanted Forest. Wednesday, May 25 at 5:30 PM

Enchanted Forest and Joy of Unexpected Accidents – a Wash Technique
Free Live Zoom Art Workshop
Wednesday, May 25th at 5:30PM

To sign-up for this program email office@sitenf.org with “Stained Glass Design” in subject line. We will email you zoom ID and password.

ARTS. NEVER ENDING JOURNEY * Series of art workshops for Children, Tweens, Teens, Families & Adults. Workshops will focus on art elements (line, shape, color, value, texture, and shape) and principles of design (contrast, variety, emphasis, pattern, movement and rhythm, balance, and unity).

Art Materials:

  • White paper (heavy preferred) any size
  • Paints: blue, red, yellow, green, and white
  • Brushes: medium, large and very small (or whatever you have)
  • Water sprayer or/and sponge/old rug
  • Water containers
  • Paper towel
  • Optional: Board to hold paper and masking tape


* This project is made possible with funds from the Statewide Community Regrants Program, a regrant program of the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of the Office of the Governor and the New York State Legislature and administered by ArtsWestchester.

 

art workshop, Image Editing

SETTING A GIMP WORKSPACE

Thursday, 6/24/2021
RECORDED SESSION — SETTING A GIMP WORKSPACE
Sometimes the best way to learn something new is to go about it, step-by-step. This is especially true when learning how to use new software. GIMP (GIMP is an acronym for GNU Image Manipulation Program. It is a freely distributed program for such tasks as photo retouching, graphic design, and text effects. It is available for download to MAC, Windows, and Linux operating systems. There are a lot of tutorials available in video format. This is the best way to learn GIMP.

It is hard to learn everything you need to know in a live workshop. Much less frustrating is a step-by-step video that allows the viewer/budding artist to follow the steps at their own pace.

There are so many features in GIMP, that we decided to provide four unique projects that focus on different aspects of the program. The learning curve is enhanced through the use of video, allowing the viewer to pause, replicate each step, and learn to navigate around the GIMP workspace.