Imagining Nature: A Jouney in Painting and Writing

Throughout 2009

Workshop Dates listed below

Does your New Year’s resolution include getting creative or trying something new?  Join artist Lee Steadman, writer John Repp and park naturalists for “Imagining Nature,” a series of workshops at the Tom Ridge Environmental Center on interpreting Presque Isle’s natural world through painting and writing.  Sponsored by The Friends of the Tom Ridge Center and ArtsErie this year long, monthly series of workshops is for adults age 16 and up with no experience in art or writing needed.  Participants may attend one or all sessions and must pre-register with a $5 per workshop fee.  All materials and instruction are provided. Sessions meet at the TREC and may involve both indoor and outdoor activities.  The “Imagining Nature” series of workshops will culminate in a public exhibit of participants’ work in early 2010.  

Workshop dates are as follows:

  • Saturday, Feb. 7, 1 p.m. - 4 p.m.

  • Weds, March 11, 6 p.m. - 9 p.m.

  • Sat., April 18, 1 p.m. - 4 p.m.

  • Weds, May 13, 6 p.m. - 9 p.m.

  • Sat., June 13, 1 p.m. - 4 p.m.
  • Weds, Aug. 19, 6 p.m. - 9 p.m.

  • Sat., Sept. 19, 1 p.m. - 4 p.m.

  • Weds, Oct. 14, 6 p.m. - 9 p.m.

  • Sat., Nov. 21, 1 p.m. - 4 p.m.

This project was made possible in part through funds provided by ArtsErie's Arts in Education Partnership, a divisiion of The PA Council on the Arts, a stage agency which is funded by the citizens of Pennsylvania through annual legislative appropriation and supported by the National Endowment for the Arts.