Mixed Media Play

Mixed Media Play with Sara Gately

Four Wednesdays, February 5-26, 4:00-6:00pm

Cost: $125-$225 sliding scale*

Materials will be provided!

Join multimedia artist Sara Gately on an adventure into experimentation and exploration! In this class, you’ll get to explore a new medium each week including liquid watercolor paints, acrylic paint markers, collaging with mod podge, and more. This class is perfect for participants who want to try out some new art tools without the commitment of a long-term investment. Try out nontraditional techniques and methods with an emphasis on process, rather than product! Be prepared to bring your own ideas — although the instructor will provide some images and step by step drawing exercises, this will be your opportunity to be creatively independent. Finally, the instructor will give presentations on several artists such as Alma Woodsey Thomas, Faith Ringgold, Friedensreich Hundertwasser to inspire or guide artistic production. If you are ready to be creative in a kind, non-judgmental, artistically nurturing environment with an emphasis on fun, you have found the right place!

For questions or to register, please email programs@nohoarts.org. If registering, please include your full name, mailing address, and phone number. Payment may be made in advance via PayPal here: https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/ncfa33hawley or by check to “NCFA” mailed to the Northampton Center for the Arts, PO Box 366, Northampton MA 01061.

*Payments on the upper end of the sliding scale help support our ongoing commitment to accessibility and sliding scale models. If financial assistance is needed, participants may apply for Community Fund support: https://www.nohoarts.org/community-fund

Sara Gately is Massachusetts based 2D Visual Artist and certified K-8 Art Teacher. She has been a practicing Visual Artist and educator for over twenty years and has exhibited in group and solo shows throughout the New England area. Gately attended Hampshire College where she received a B.A. in Comparative Religion and Visual Art in 2003. In 2008, Gately received her M.Ed for Teaching Visual Arts PreK-8 from Lesley University. Gately is familiar with a plethora of different fine art techniques and materials, utilizing her skills as an elementary art teacher to create mixed media work and instruct students of all ages and abilities.