Instructor: Susan Lackey, susanlackeyart@gmail.com

Date: July 29, 2023

Time: 9:30 AM to 4:30 PM, includes a short lunch break. Bring your lunch and drink; we have a refrigerator

Workshop Cost: $90 members, $100 for non-members, plus $10 for extra supplies

Location: ClearWater Arts Center and Studios – 223 Crowell Drive, NW, Concord, NC 28025

Greenway Gallery, enter on the Kerr Street side of the building, double doors lower level, by parking lot.

To Register: Email instructor (above) to pay with check or to pay online click: Susan's Workshops

Registration Deadline: last day to register is July 26, 2023

Skill Level: Open to all levels of experience

Class: Ages 18 and up. Minimum class size: 5, maximum class size 12

Media: Acrylic

In this workshop, you will learn to loosen up your painting style so that you can paint more expressly. To preserve the freshness and uniqueness of your personal brush stroke, you will learn to paint quickly, loosely, and with playful intention.

First you will complete three short painting exercises flowing from expressive realism to expressive abstraction to expressive nonobjective art forms, following a simple process. The following three paintings are expressive examples of those three art forms.

Left to Right: non-objective, realism, and abstract

You will choose one of the art forms you practiced and use it to create a larger painting following the same loose and expressive process. In this workshop, Susan will demonstrate and coach you as you work.

You will receive a supply list when you register. The $10 extra supply fee is payable at the beginning of the workshop. This fee includes items not available in small quantities.

Susan Lackey has been painting and teaching painting for many years. She paints in acrylic and mixed media. She has won numerous awards in local, state, and national exhibitions. She is a signature member of the Watercolor Society of North Carolina.

Her work is frequently on display in area galleries and proudly hangs in both private and corporate collections. Susan’s most current work can be found at SusanLackeyArt.com

Instructor: JJ Jiang

Date: July 15 (Saturday)

Time: 9 am – 4 pm

Class Cost – Grant Subsidized Pricing: $50 members, $85 non-members

Register (Pay by PayPal): Go to www.cabarrusartguild.org, select the Classes & Workshops tab

Register (Pay by check): Email classes.CAG@gmail.com for instructions

Class Size: Maximum 15 participants

Location: ClearWater Arts Center & Studios – 223 Crowell Drive, NW, Concord, NC 28025.

Enter from Kerr Street side of building, lower level.

With years of experience and numerous awards, we are pleased to announce that JJ Jiang will teach an advanced beginner/intermediate watercolor workshop for the Cabarrus Art Guild. CAG is able to offer this opportunity at subsidized pricing due to a grant from the Grassroots Arts Program of the North Carolina Arts Council, a state agency, and the Cabarrus Arts Council.

JJ’s teaching is based on his belief that four fundamentals apply to all subject matter and even across mediums. JJ’s demos include clear instructions on these fundamentals: drawing, value, color, and edges. JJ will also discuss and demonstrate various techniques in watercolor, but he emphasizes the need for all artists to go beyond technique to explore the creative drive that has brought them to the easel.

In this one-day workshop, you’ll be using watercolors to create a beautiful landscape painting. After JJ’s step-by-step landscape demo, students will have the remainder of the class time to work on their own painting (from the photo reference provided) while JJ gives one-on-one instruction tailored to students’ individual levels. To wrap up, as time allows, JJ will have a brief critique and a question and answer session.

A list of supplies will be provided at registration.

Samples of JJ’s work.

JJ Jiang is an award-winning artist and a gifted instructor. He is a signature member of the National Watercolor Society and a North Carolina Watercolor Society Master Member. Though accomplished in watercolor, he is a versatile artist - excelling in drawing, oils, and Chinese brush painting. His subjects include landscape/urbanscapes, human figures, portraits, and still life.

JJ currently lives in Cary, North Carolina and is the founder and director of the Village Art Circle Studio & Gallery in the heart of downtown Cary. To see more of JJ’s work go to www.jjjiang.com.

Fluid Art Coasters - with Mahnaz Mirghanbari (in two (2) Parts!)

Name of class: Fluid Art Coasters

Instructor: Mahnaz Mirghanbari

Part 1 Date: Feb 18th, 2023         Time: 1 pm - 3 pm

Part 2 Date: Feb 25th, 2023           Time: 1 pm – 3 pm

Cost: $50.00 Member / $60 Non-Members (covers both class sections)

To REGISTER: send email to: aloranbyalora@gmail.com

Payment: Participants are asked to register and pay for the class by February 14th.  Payment can be made through Zelle, the instructor will provide details upon registration.

Ages 18 and up

Where: ClearWater Arts Center & Studios (223 Crowell Dr. NW, Concord, NC 28025 - enter through the double glass doors facing Kerr Street, called the Greenway Gallery).

Fluid Art Coasters - with Mahnaz Mirghanbari (in two (2) Parts!)

Name of class: Fluid Art Coasters

Instructor: Mahnaz Mirghanbari

Part 1 Date: Feb 18th, 2023         Time: 1 pm - 3 pm

Part 2 Date: Feb 25th, 2023           Time: 1 pm – 3 pm

Cost: $50.00 Member / $60 Non-Members (covers both class sections)

To REGISTER: send email to: aloranbyalora@gmail.com

Payment: Participants are asked to register and pay for the class by February 14th.  Payment can be made through Zelle, the instructor will provide details upon registration.

Ages 18 and up

Where: ClearWater Arts Center & Studios (223 Crowell Dr. NW, Concord, NC 28025 - enter through the double glass doors facing Kerr Street, called the Greenway Gallery).