Oil Painting with Laura Tryon Jennings
(starts May, 2023)
*** THIS CLASS IS NOW FULL ***
Wednesdays (5 class session)
May 24 and 31
June 7, 14, and 28 (No class on June 21)
9:00 a.m. – 12:00 p.m.
Oil painting for adults of all skill levels. Laura teaches each student individually, so they can paint at their own level and paint a subject befitting their skills and needs.
Each session focusses on learning the basics of oil painting materials, foundations of color theory, color mixing, composition, and critique, and demos. For each session, there is an optional assignment or challenge for students who would like more direction or want to discover a new technique.
The atmosphere is relaxed, supportive, and encouraging. Laura talks with each student new to painting to get a feel for what he or she would like to accomplish, which enables her to guide the student. For students with no background in painting, Laura recommends one or two private lessons with her prior to the 6-class session. If that is not possible, please contact Laura (LTryonJennings@gmail.com) with your email and phone number so she can connect with you at least one week before the session begins.
Make-up classes will be scheduled by the instructor only in the event they are cancelled due to weather or if the instructor cancels. No refunds will be made after one week of classes. Classes cannot be pro-rated except for COVID-19 related events.
COVID vaccines are recommended. Be aware that the class will follow Mass State COVID guidelines; therefore, students should be aware that masking and vaccination requirements may change over the duration of the class.
Image: Details of “True Warmth,” Laura Tryon Jennings, 32″ x 46″, oil on canvas
Fee: $165.00 ($24.00 supply fee to Laura if you need supplies)
12 participants maximum
Tai Chi with Kathryn Demers
Fridays (6 classes)
May 16
June 2, 9, 16, 23, and 30
11:00 a.m. – 12:00 p.m.
Fee: $75.00
Tai Chi is an ancient art involving postures, breathing, and movements to enhance the flow of energy, or chi, throughout and around the body. It is based on the concepts of yin and yang, the dynamic balancing of opposites, and the rhythms of the natural world. Tai chi is a mind-body practice originally developed as a martial art, and now widely practiced for its many health and wellness benefits.
Kathryn Demers is a certified tai chi and qi gong instructor. She has studied tai chi and qi gong with Master Fang Chih-Lee for several years. She teaches Yang style, with the focus on enhancing health and wellness through the mind-body connection. With a diverse background in education, movement-based learning and energy modalities, Kathryn enjoys teaching the art and science of tai chi. She offers classes at several locations in the area.
“Tai Chi and Qi Gong are gentle on the body, calming to the mind, and good for the spirit,” says Demers. “I love the many health benefits of tai chi and qi gong and am glad to have the opportunity to share this practice with others.”
Registration: Required
12 participants maximum in each class.
Gentle Yoga with Kezia Bacon (June, 2023)
Wednesdays (4 classes)
June 7, 14, 21, and 28
11:30 a.m. – 12:30 p.m.
Suitable for beginners, this 1-hour class includes centering, warm-ups, and gentle yoga postures to help you stretch, strengthen, and tone your body while calming your mind. Most students feel relaxed and refreshed by the end of class.
Sessions are held in the museum’s Phoenix Gallery.
Kezia (pronounced Kee-za) is a Kripalu-Certified Yoga Instructor who has been teaching since 1997.
Fee: $48.00
Registration required for monthly class:
https://artcomplex.org/product/yoga_bacon_monthly/
12 participants maximum in each class.
Kezia also offers drop-in classes for $15.00.
Registration: https://artcomplex.org/product/yoga_keziabacon_dropin/
Drum Circle Rhythm Event
with Ed Sorrentino
Saturday
June 10, 2023
12:00 – 1:00 p.m.
A one-hour rhythm session facilitated by local percussionist Ed Sorrentino, Percussion Department Chair at the South Shore Conservatory.
Frequently called “in-the-moment music-making,” drum circle participants sit in a circle and play drums and/or hand percussion instruments. Participants engage together to create a group rhythm and cooperate in rhythm games.
Sessions will be held outdoors, weather permitting. If the weather is not cooperating, sessions will be held indoors, in the Phoenix Gallery.
Fee: $10.00
Registration: Required
12 participants maximum.
Chair Talk Workshop
with Mary Coogan
Saturday
June 10, 2023
10:00 a.m. – 12:00 p.m.
Using “The Secret Lives of Chairs” pop-up show as a starting point, this two-hour workshop is an opportunity to share your own real or imagined chair stories. Be a selective editor and bring photos, drawings, rumors, poems, fabric samples–even a chair!–to the workshop with you. This support material will help you reveal the past lives or your imagined futures for the chairs you love or miss or want.
Come celebrate the chair, bring a story, and we will make a little art. Often, the chair we love says, “Glad you are home.”
Bring your lunch if you want to.
This workshop will be held in the museum’s Alden Studio.
Fee: $10.00
Registration: Required
12 participants maximum.
Stories and Art for Children
Thursday
June 22, 2023
10:00—10:45 a.m.
In collaboration with the Duxbury Free Library, children ages 4 and up are invited to join us at the Art Complex Museum for a story and an art project.
Children must be accompanied by an adult caregiver.
Registration: https://duxbury.assabetinteractive.com/calendar/story-art-project-at-art-complex-museum/
Registration for this event opens Thursday, June 8, at 5:00 a.m.
12 participants maximum
Gentle Yoga with Kezia Bacon (July, 2023)
Wednesdays (4 classes)
July 5, 12, 19, and 26
11:30 a.m. – 12:30 p.m.
Suitable for beginners, this 1-hour class includes centering, warm-ups, and gentle yoga postures to help you stretch, strengthen, and tone your body while calming your mind. Most students feel relaxed and refreshed by the end of class.
Sessions are held in the museum’s Phoenix Gallery.
Kezia (pronounced Kee-za) is a Kripalu-Certified Yoga Instructor who has been teaching since 1997.
Fee: $48.00
Registration required for monthly class:
https://artcomplex.org/product/yoga_bacon_monthly/
12 participants maximum in each class.
Kezia also offers drop-in classes for $15.00.
Registration: https://artcomplex.org/product/yoga_keziabacon_dropin/
Drum Circle Rhythm Event
with Ed Sorrentino
Saturday
July 8, 2023
12:00 – 1:00 p.m.
A one-hour rhythm session facilitated by local percussionist Ed Sorrentino, Percussion Department Chair at the South Shore Conservatory.
Frequently called “in-the-moment music-making,” drum circle participants sit in a circle and play drums and/or hand percussion instruments. Participants engage together to create a group rhythm and cooperate in rhythm games.
Sessions will be held outdoors, weather permitting. If the weather is not cooperating, sessions will be held indoors, in the Phoenix Gallery.
Fee: $10.00
Registration: Required
12 participants maximum.
Left: Sally Dean, From Marshfield Cemetery
Right: Kelley MacDonald, Summer Garden
Beginning Acrylic Painting Workshop
Thursday
July 27, 2023
10:00 a.m. – 4:00 p.m.
There is nothing like the experience of painting outdoors. Join instructors Kelley MacDonald and Sally Dean to give it a try! Whether you are an absolute beginner or have never tried acrylics, come enjoy a day of plein air painting. Learn how acrylic paints work and how a simple setup can work to get you out and painting.
Weather permitting, we will paint landscape on the beautiful grounds of the museum. If it’s rainy, windy, or too hot we will be in the studio working from still life setups. Painting from life is key here.
All materials will be provided for a $20 fee, payable to the instructor on the day of the workshop.
Please bring a lunch and a portable chair.
Limit of 12.
Fee: $125.00
Registration: Required.
Gentle Yoga with Kezia Bacon (August, 2023)
Wednesdays (4 classes)
August 2, 9, 16, 23, and 30
11:30 a.m. – 12:30 p.m.
Suitable for beginners, this 1-hour class includes centering, warm-ups, and gentle yoga postures to help you stretch, strengthen, and tone your body while calming your mind. Most students feel relaxed and refreshed by the end of class.
Sessions are held in the museum’s Phoenix Gallery.
Kezia (pronounced Kee-za) is a Kripalu-Certified Yoga Instructor who has been teaching since 1997.
Fee: $60.00
Registration required for monthly class:
https://artcomplex.org/product/yoga_bacon_monthly/
12 participants maximum in each class.
Kezia also offers drop-in classes for $15.00.
Registration: https://artcomplex.org/product/yoga_keziabacon_dropin/
Drum Circle Rhythm Event
with Ed Sorrentino
Saturday
August 5, 2023
12:00 – 1:00 p.m.
A one-hour rhythm session facilitated by local percussionist Ed Sorrentino, Percussion Department Chair at the South Shore Conservatory.
Frequently called “in-the-moment music-making,” drum circle participants sit in a circle and play drums and/or hand percussion instruments. Participants engage together to create a group rhythm and cooperate in rhythm games.
Sessions will be held outdoors, weather permitting. If the weather is not cooperating, sessions will be held indoors, in the Phoenix Gallery.
Fee: $10.00
Registration: Required
12 participants maximum.
Mini Mosaics with Deb Aldo
Saturday
August 26, 2023
1:00 – 3:00 p.m.
This class is an experiential montage of colors and setting patterns that strike your fancy. No rule, just guidance.
Hands-on, slow and relaxing, this class begins with a short explanation and demo. Students will fill a round base with pieces of glass, stone, shell, pebbles, and other great stuff. (Hanging hardware included.) Create the first piece for practice and a second piece because it was fun to create the first piece!
All materials are included in the fee and tools are on loan for the class.
Instructor Deb Aldo has been making mosaics since 1997. She has worked, taught, and lectured internationally for the past two decades.
Fee: $50.00
Registration: Required
12 participants maximum.
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Artist Mary Coogan explores "The Secret Lives of Chairs" in this pop-up exhibit. "More than an aid to sitting, beyond form and function, a chair can hold history, and there sits its secret life."
Saturdays and Sundays, June 3 through 24th, 1:00-4:00 p.m.
Reception Sunday, June 3, 1:00-4:00 p.m.
Mary is also teaching the "Chair Talk" workshop on Saturday, June 10, from 10:00 a.m. to noon. See our website for registration.
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Join us for a Gallery Talk on Thursday, May 25th. Learn about artist, author, and illustrator, Wanda Gág, and get a behind-the-scenes look at the 5-year journey of assembling the "TAG" exhibit.
Coffee at 10:30 and the talk begins at 11:00 am.
Shown: Un-crating one of Tula Telfair's paintings after its journey from New Jersey.
#artcomplexmuseum #wandagag #seeplymouth Tula Telfair Artist
Now THAT'S a big painting!
Pop-up Exhibit!
Oil paintings by students of Laura Tryon Jennings, on display in our Alden Studio Gallery.
Exhibit and Reception:
Sunday, May 21st, 1:00-4:00 pm
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Opening Sunday, May 21st is Aaron Norfolk: Audio-Video, a collection of paintings. Join us for the opening reception from 1:00 to 4:00 pm.
Shown: Aaron Norfolk, Untitled, 2022, oil on panel
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Collection Spotlight: Mother and Child
This carved soapstone sculpture shows a kneeling woman with an infant in a carrier on her back. Her eyes and necklace, made from ivory, stand out against the dark color of the stone.
Creating carvings from natural resources like stone and bone is a traditional craft of Inuit artists. Soapstone, a softer stone, is easier to carve. Figures of animals, birds, men, women, and children are popular motifs. In the hunting culture, the carved figure of mother and child contrasts with imagery of male hunters, and represents the giving and nurturing of life.
Wishing all mothers a beautiful Mother's Day!
Mother and Child, c. 1940
Unknown artist, Baffin Island, Canada
#artcomplexmuseum #inuitart #mothersday #artmuseum #seeplymouth #duxbury
It's back: Drum Circle on May 13!
Frequently called “in-the-moment music-making,” participants sit in a circle and play drums and/or hand percussion instruments. Participants engage together to create a group rhythm and cooperate in rhythm games. Facilitated by local percussionist Ed Sorrentino, Percussion Department Chair at the South Shore Conservatory.
Other sessions are scheduled for June 10, July 8, and August 5.
Registration required. See artcomplex.org/programs/classes-workshops/ for details.
#artcomplexmuseum #drumcircle #duxburyma #seeplymouth South Shore Conservatory
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I spot Kim Arouca
If you haven't yet seen Lisa Houck's "Botanical Explorations," visit the museum this week! This joyful, colorful show includes mosaics, watercolors, and a large print, and it closes on Sun, May 14.
The museum is open Wed-Sun, from 1:00-4:00 pm.
Shown: "It Flowers All Year Round," (Detail), 2020, mosaic
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The concert is free. Seating is first-come, first-served. We reserve the right to cap attendance if the capacity of the room is exceeded.
#artcomplexmuseum #concert #duxburyma #seeplymouth Aaron Larget-Caplan, Guitar Artist
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Pop-up Exhibit!
"growing pains," an exhibit of creative works by high school students, will be open for two weekends:
May 6 & 7 and May 13 & 14, from 1 to 4pm.
This exhibit was guest-curated by Duxbury High School senior Bella Marino, and is the culmination of her internship at the museum.
Shown: Charlotte Tobin, "Portland Plein Air," 2022
#artcomplexmuseum #popupexhibit #studentart #seeplymouth #artmuseum
Duxbury Public Schools
The herring are running! The herring has long been an integral part of the local ecosystem, and in the spring, they return from the sea to spawn in the river in which they were born.
Join us on Saturday, April 29th, 1:00-3:00 pm, to learn more from Brian Taylor, Environmental Educator from the North and South Rivers Watershed Association. Family activities. Free event.
#artcomplexmusuem, #duxburyma, #herring, #seeplymouth North and South Rivers Watershed Association
