CAMERON SCHMITZ 2025 CLASSES & WORKSHOPS
Cultivating Your Creative Path:
A 6 Month Course with Cameron Schmitz
River Gallery School, Brattleboro, VT
Meets the 4th Thursday of every month | 11am-1pm
Feb 27, March 27, April 24, May 22, June 26, July 24, 2025
Do you want to develop yourself as a practicing artist? Are you ready to push your artwork to the next level by overcoming fears and limiting beliefs, while simultaneously learning how to build a sustainable art practice inspired by your own life? If so, this course is for you!
This exciting new course meets from 11am - 1pm on the fourth Thursday of each month,Feb - July. Cameron Schmitz will guide you through a series of topics (listed below) designed to help you achieve personal goals related to your artistic practice. In monthly meetings you will have the opportunity to work closely with Cameron and benefit from the group, to discuss your art work and learn about a series of strategies designed to dig more deeply into the art-making process, exhibiting, and building a successful business as an artist. Rick Rubin's book, The Creative Act: A Way of Being will be used for inspiration and to guide dialogue. Additionally, each month Cameron will offer homework in the form of engaging prompts and suggestions related to the subject matter of each class.
Critique: During this course, you will have the opportunity to work on pieces over time (outside of class), get feedback from Cameron and the group; rework any elements as your awareness and understanding grows; and return for more feedback as you see fit.
Group Show: Towards the end of this 6 month course, all participants will be invited to exhibit pieces in a group show in Main Street Studio, which will open on July 4th.
Tuition Fee: $300 for 6 session course
Drop in $55 per session
Drop-ins welcome only: Feb, March, June
Link to Register:https://rivergalleryschool.asapconnected.com/#CourseID=306635
The Expansive Dynamics of Triptych Painting
Snow Farm, Williamsburg, MA | April 26 +27, 2025
In this 2-Day intensive painting workshop, students will be able to explore the exciting and dynamic process of creating multi-panel paintings harmonized through color, composition, and painterly brushwork techniques. Students will be supported by Cameron to realize their vision with a freedom to work either representationally or abstractly, and the choice to bring source materials, or create intuitively.
Cameron will be providing instruction and demonstrations in oils, and oil pigments and painting supplies will be provided by Snow Farm. Students who prefer to work in acrylics may do so by bringing their paints and accompanying mediums.
Appropriate for both beginning, experienced, and advanced painters, this painting workshop will provide a supportive environment with individualized instruction augmented by demos, discussions, and slide presentations featuring historical and contemporary artists.
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Revive & Reimagine Old Work:
Bring in your unfinished, unresolved or abandoned paintings and give them a fresh start!
River Gallery School, Brattleboro, VT
June 2 + 3, 2025 | 11am - 4pm
Part of the unique beauty of oil painting is the depth of color that can be achieved as a result of layering oil pigments, using both transparent and opaque layers of color. Just like the Old Masters employed, the more layers an oil painting has, often the richer it can become!
Join Cameron Schmitz for a 2-Day workshop to discover the richness and inspiration that can be discovered by using previously unfinished works as an underpainting! Explore the creative and inspirational potential by re-working your unfinished, unresolved or abandoned paintings. In this workshop, students will take time to discuss ways to re-enter a work or give it an entirely new and fresh start! Cameron will discuss ideas and demonstrate strategies for selecting parts of your previous painting, using glazing techniques combined with layers of opacity, to create luminous, depth-filled, color-rich paintings. This workshop is using oil paints, but students are welcome to bring in any existing paintings in both acrylic and/or oil.
$350 tuition
Registration Link:https://rivergalleryschool.asapconnected.com/#CourseID=306631
