What is a Walking Artist? 🌿🌱🌼 Virginia Museum of Fine Arts Special Workshop Instructor: Alexandria Searls 🗓️ Saturday, July 26 10:00 AM - 2:30 PM A walking artist creates the experience of a walk and then materializes that experience in text, photography, film, or a design. The walk can be short or long, fast or extremely slow, in a pattern or in a straight line. The walk can be along an established path or through fields and woods without a path. The walk can be along city streets or out in nature or in a combination of the two. The walk for this particular workshop will take place along the beautiful gardens at Brent and Becky's. This workshop will introduce you to walking art, its history and its practice. First, you’ll watch a presentation of videos about the walking artists Richard Long, Hamish Fulton, and Cardiff & Miller. Then we’ll head out to explore the gardens for our walking art piece. Together, we’ll decide on the design of our walk, taking the history of the area into consideration, as well as the sights and sounds. We’ll choose our methods of materializing our walk. We can film or photograph during our walk, or we can walk and then return to do the documentation. FOR AGES 14+ This program has been organized by the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts and is funded, in part, by the Paul Mellon Endowment and the Jean Stafford Camp Memorial Fund. $25/per student For more info/to sign up: https://www.gloucesterartsonmain.org/events/what-is-a-walking-artist (fb)

We still have a few spots left open in our Pre-K Summer Art Camp! 🎨☀️ 🗓️ Monday, July 21 - Friday, July 25 9:00 AM - 12:00 PM In the spirit of uninhibited artistic expression, this summer’s youngest artists will explore a variety of art and artisan projects. Among a variety of choices, these little makers will create handmade journals and pencils, masks, and marble art, as well as explore making paints with natural materials like soil. Students will learn about Japanese art history, French impressionists, ancient cultures, and Earth sources. $25/per student (for the entire week!) Sign up here: https://www.gloucesterartsonmain.org/events/summer-art-camp-ages-3-5-5tp6m (fb)