Continuing its @287 series of exhibitions, workshops, and meetups, the Cultural Alliance of Western Connecticut invites aspiring artists to get creative while sipping a glass of wine and meeting new friends at the easel.
“Masters & Mixers,” a new and entertaining experience with instructor Susan Jackson of the Georgetown School of the Arts, brings together adults who want to learn to paint, return to painting, or paint with friends on Thursday, Jan. 30, 7 to 9 p.m., at the Cultural Alliance, 287 Main St., in Danbury. The fee is $35 per person. That includes paint supplies, brushes, a canvas, easel and apron.
Snacks will be provided by the Cultural Alliance of Western Connecticut, but please bring your own wine or beverage. You can pre-register (it’s required) by visiting www.eventbrite.com For more information, call the Cultural Alliance at 203-798-0760.
Susan Jackson has worked as an exhibit designer, theatrical scenic designer, and a Walt Disney Imagineer, but her passion is instilling both young and old with the hands on experience of making art. She received her MFA from the California Institute of the Arts and, soon thereafter, found herself teaching in the classroom.
Jackson is the owner of the Georgetown School of the Arts in West Redding, where her Paint, Draw & More! concept of combining brushstrokes with fun has attracted hundreds.
The “model” for Jackson’s class will be a work by the self-taught African-American artist, Horace Pippin. Born in 1888, he didn’t start painting until he was about 40, in the late 1920s. Pippin was the first African-American painter to express his concerns about war and social-political injustices in his art, speaking simply and directly in images easy to understand and identify with. The artist and his work provide the perfect inspiration for those who deny their creative side – all the more reason to jump into this @287 “Masters & Mixers” meetup.