Free Education Programs: BAC offers many free art education events each year. You can meet artists in the Gallery talking about their work, or demonstrating their materials and techniques. We’ve had special guest lecturers speak on topics as varied as studio glass, Japanese American furniture design, and the history of the Museum of Modern Art. We also offer an occasional 15-minute art history discussion in the gallery.

BAC Workshops: Want to learn how to draw a boat? How to create woven wire sculpture? How to make your own kite? How to use that new digital camera? BAC offers affordable workshops throughout the year, taught by our local artists or by guest instructors from across the country.

Out and About Drawing

Get out your sketchbooks and sunscreen!

This summer we’ll draw Winslow every Wednesday afternoon from 2-4. Each week a different teacher, a different lesson, a lot of fun. To sign up for any (and all!) the workshops, call us at 206.842.3132. Each session, $20. Children younger than 14 must be accompanied by an adult. Tell the good people at Oil and Water that you’re taking this class, and get a 10% discount!

Out and About Drawing with Elizabeth Moga:
What's the Angle? Perspective Drawing Around Town
Wednesday, June 25, 2-4 p.m., $20.00
Let’s take a walk down Winslow Way. The cars angle one way, the street another. It’s all linear perspective and we’ll work to line it all up. These two hours of work on perspective will give you drawing skills that you’ll use forever. Image: Elizabeth Moga, Geranium Chair.

Out and About Drawing with Maria Coryell-Martin:
Sketching in the Field with Ink and Watercolor
Wednesday, July 9, 2-4 p.m.; $20.00
Expeditionary Artist Maria Coryell-Martin will share ink and watercolor field sketching techniques developed from her experiences painting in remote regions from the Saharan desert to Antarctica. Using fine-tipped and dip pens, you will discover how to create fast and expressive sketches and how to enliven them with watercolors. Also, learn how to make your own pocket watercolor kit out of an Altoids tin! You can learn more about Maria here: www.expeditionaryart.com Photo: Maria Coryell-Martin at work.

Out and About Drawing with Gillian Bull: Oil Pastels
Wednesday, July 16, 2-4 p.m. $20.00
Using oil pastels we will explore ways for you to express your own view of our surroundings. What excites you? Is it a vista; the sky; individual leaves or rocks; or maybe it is the colors. What can you leave out, what should you put in? How might you convert your thoughts into images? Image: Gillian Bull, Villa II. Oil pastel.

Out and About Drawing with Ellen Miffitt: Watercolor Pencils
Wednesday, July 30 (new date!), 2-4 p.m.; $20.00
Watercolor Pencils – learn to explore line within color sketches; you also have the option to add water to blend some or all of the areas of the sketch.  Even a camera does not do justice to capture the colors that we see.  Image: Ellen Miffitt, Summer Inlet. Watercolor pencil.

Out and About Drawing with Elizabeth Smith:
Sundeck Sketching
Wednesday, August 6, 1:30 - 3:40 (note time!);
$20.00 (does not include ferry fare)
Join Elizabeth Smith in the passenger departure area of the ferry for an introduction to sketching.From sleeping dogs to running children to pleasure seeking boaters and the Seattle skyline, all will be recorded in the time, the day, the moment.

You will be encouraged to encompass the big picture to the precise detail swiftly and yet at the same time, learn how to record the essence. You will lose any inhibition about sketching in public and learn that the slightest contact with others enhances every drawn memory.Think about coming as a family group and sketch a journey together.

Elizabeth keeps a constant summer sketchbook when she and her husband Richard cruise every summer. Her work was recently featured in 'Good Old Boat' May/June 2008. Image: Elizabeth Smith, Mount Rainier, ink on paper.

Out and About Drawing with Wendy Orville:
Drawing Space
Wednesday, August 20, 2-4 p.m.; $20.00
Learn a variety of simple drawing techniques that will help you create convincing space in your sketches and artwork. We will draw on site, weather permitting. All experience levels welcome. Image: Wendy Orville, Two Trees, monotype.

On the Trail at the Bloedel Reserve

Every August BAC offers workshops taught on the trail at the beautiful Bloedel Reserve. This year we offer four Sunday afternoons of learning to experience nature through art and art in nature.

August 3 - David Sessions: The Art of Looking
This guided walk-through of the gardens of the Bloedel Reserve is a springboard to launch and heighten one’s awareness of the five elements of design: Color, Line, Shape, Texture, and of course Composition.

August 10 - Ellen Miffitt: The Watercolor Journal
Journaling is solely for pleasure – it doesn’t require that you be an accomplished artist. One afternoon with Ellen Miffitt will give you skills to pursue all sorts of watercolor pencil sketchbooks. Your next step could be a garden journal, travel sketchbook, or dream journal.

August 17 - Elizabeth Moga: Don’t Blink: Capturing the Light.
Value relationships are the foundation of successful plein-air painting. Spend an afternoon quickly establishing your lights and darks--work fast and have fun!

August 24 - Elizabeth Smith: Patterns in Nature; Patterns in Art
Learn how to transform the patterns of Nature into the patterns of art. You'll develop your drawing skills, your sense of composition, and your thoughts about landscape.

Each workshop is from 1-4 p.m. ; $45 members/$50 non-members
For more information, call us at 206.842.3132.

Big Day of Glass
A special tour of the Museum of Glass

BAC’s tour of the Museum of Glass will focus on Lino Tagliapietra in Retrospect: A Modern Renaissance in Italian Glass.

It is not uncommon for an artist to be touted as "the greatest" or "most significant," but in the case of Lino Tagliapietra, the pronouncements happen to be true. Tagliapietra left school at around age eleven to work full time in the glassmaking industry in the glass center of Murano, an island in the Venetian lagoon.

This child, who developed into the world’s greatest living glassblower (and arguably one of the greatest in the history of glassmaking), also proved to be a superb artist and educator. In the process, the course of glass art was changed.

We will also see several other exhibitions, including Living Legacies: Homage to a Maestro; Dante Marioni: Form, Color, Pattern; and Contrasts: A Glass Primer (this exhibition catalogue is available for sale at Bainbridge Arts and Crafts). Finally, we will visit the Museum’s hot shop and see glass sculpture being created by the Museum’s team, and by visiting artist Susan Plum.

Tour Leader: Victoria Josslin
Date: Thursday, July 31
Time: Meet at the Museum of Glass, 10:30 a.m.
Tuition: $40. Includes Museum admission. Does not include transportation, parking, or lunch. To sign up, please inquire at the front desk.

Pioneer Square Gallery Tours

Pioneer Square Gallery Tours resume on May 8. Join Victoria Josslin for a visit to Seattle art galleries. On the ferry, Victoria talks about exhibitions in the area, and introduces the galleries that we’ll be visiting. Many of the galleries provide us with our own private introduction to their shows. Wear your walking shoes! BAC’s Gallery Tours take place on the second Thursday of the month, May through September. Tuition, $10. Please sign up at the Gallery, or over the phone, 206.842.3132.

Jonathan Talbot Returns to lead a new workshop:

Dancing with Design

During this one-day workshop we will free-up our approach to composition by using collage to explore a variety of the aspects of design.

We’ll discover intellectual, intuitive, and kinesthetic approaches to line, shape, color (including hue, value, and intensity), texture, movement, rhythm, relativity, interest, and unity. Most of the day will be devoted to hands-on interactive compositional exercises but each participant will create at least one finished work as well.

Location: Creativity Center, Bainbridge Island
Fee: $115. includes materials
Date: Saturday, October 11. 9:30 – 5:30
To Enroll: Visit or call Bainbridge Arts and Crafts, 206.842.3132

The works of artist Jonathan Talbot have been exhibited at The National Academy and the Museum of Modern Art in New York, have represented the U.S. overseas in exhibitions sponsored by the State Department and the Smithsonian Institution, and are included in museum collections in U.S. and Europe.

Talbot's works include oils, watercolors, etchings, collages, and multi-dimensional collage-constructions. Among the public collections holding Talbot works are The Newark Museum, The Smith College Museum, The Everhart Museum, The Byer Museum, The Free Library of Philadelphia, The San Francisco Academy of Art, Fairleigh Dickinson University, The Provincetown Historical Society, and the Toronto Central Library.

Talbot maintains his studio in Warwick, NY where he lives with his wife Marsha.
Image: Jonathan Talbot, Fandango Patrin, collage. Photo: Jonathan Talbot