UPDATE Aug 18, 2020 Carmel Visual Arts Director, Rich Brimer talks about recent changes that have been made due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Our 2020 workshop schedule has been a moving target so we have decided to postpone the rest of our scheduled workshops to 2021. Please view our updated workshop list here. We were only able to host 4 out of the scheduled 18 workshops for 2020. I never imagined that we would have to cancel or...
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Carmel Visual Arts offer monthly painting demonstrations from today’s leading artists. Each event is open to the public however registration is recommended as space is limited. Your registration includes a reception at 6:30pm with light refreshments. Below is a list of upcoming events for you to choose from. Peter Adams — Still Life Demo — Sunday, July 21, 2019 6:30pm Jim McVicker — Portrait Demo — Sunday, Aug 4, 6:30pm Aaron Schuerr...
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Somewhere between downpours and rainbows, we turned on to Bill Owens’ street. His directions over the phone were implicit. “You will see a table on the side of the street next to a telephone pole. Turn in right there and go down the long driveway to my house.”
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The California Art Club and the Carmel Visual Arts will present the exhibition Point Lobos and Beyond at the Carmel gallery from October 19 to November 30, 2018. The exhibition opens with a reception with the participating artists on Saturday, October 19, from 2 to 4 p.m. The more than 30 works selected for inclusion in this display have been created by many of the state’s premier contemporary-traditional artists who are members of...
Read MoreLate in his career, Richard Diebenkorn wrote out ten points he thought useful when approaching the art of painting. Two of our more contemporary painting instructors are William Wray and Alex Kanevsky. They will be coming together at 6:30pm on Friday, Oct 26, 2018—an evening between each of their workshops—to discuss these 10 “notes” he wrote to himself. As artists, we all approach our art making differently, in fact,...
Read MoreWe Are Selma | The Selma Portrait Project by Kathryn Mayo Carmel Visual Arts welcomes Kathryn Mayo, a photography professor at Cosumnes River College near Sacramento, with an exhibition of her wet plate collodion ambrotypes. The exhibition features Kathryn’s photographs from an important series titled: We Are Selma | The Selma Portrait Project. Kathryn Mayo spent a year on sabbatical from teaching in California’s Central Valley to...
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