Nationally and internationally awarded artist, Stan Miller, visited Piqua from Monday, March 7 to Thursday, March 10, 2022 to teach a watercolor workshop, held at Apple Tree Gallery in Piqua, OH, from 9am - 4pm daily. Read about the artist below!
Stan Miller, an internationally known American artist, has been a professional painter in watercolor and egg tempera for more than forty years. Miller has earned many awards, exhibited his paintings in numerous exhibitions, galleries and museums, and instructed workshops and juried art events around the world. He is an award winner and signature member of the American Watercolor Society, and in 2018, he was on the Jury of Awards for the 151st American Watercolor Society International Exhibition.
Miller was born on a small farm in Southeastern South Dakota in 1949, where he was one of seven children. Growing up, Stan would watch his brother, Greg, draw. He was influenced by a various events in his childhood, such as visiting professional watercolorist Randy Penner, a family, along with being taught perspective in the third grade. Stan originally went to attend Spokane Falls Community College for physical education, since he considered an art major unrealistic. Nonetheless, he made the switch to a commercial arts major, and ended up graduating with an Applied Arts Degree and a Commercial Art Degree. It was during the third year of his college education where took his first watercolor class, which led to the selling of his paintings for as little as $2 per piece, before graduating. Since then, Stan has continued to live in Spokane, other than the two years he spent in Pennsylvania.
In the fall of 1973, Stan had made a decision to make a living as a full time, professional watercolorist and has managed to do that now for more than forty years. Along with painting, he started teaching watercolor in 1976, with little teaching experience. Now, he enjoys teaching nearly as much as painting, as he teaches weekly classes in Spokane as well as workshops around the world. Stan spends most of his time in his studio painting, hoping never to retire.
Stan’s recent exhibitions and awards include 2016 Quondam International Exhibition - Quindao, China; 2015 First Place - The Artist’s Magazine Competition; 2014 World Water Media Competition and Exhibition - Narbonne, France; 2014 World Water Media Exposition and Exhibition - Bangkok, Thailand; 2010, 2013 and 2018 American Watercolor Society Exhibition – New York City, USA.
For more about Stan Miller, please visit: www.stanmiller.net
Nationally and Internationally awarded artist, Bonnie Griffith, will be coming to Piqua at a date TBD, held at Apple Tree Gallery in Piqua, OH, from 9am to 4pm daily.
Maximum of 16 participants. Registration info below.
This workshop is $350 for Non-PAC Members and $325 for PAC Members.
PLEASE NOTE: Registration will open once new dates are set for this workshop. Stay tuned!
Painting the western landscape in oils and pastels, Bonnie Zahn Griffith brings her world to life on paper and canvas. A painter and educator, Griffith paints on location throughout the US and teaches workshops on plein air techniques and the art of pastel painting. The daughter of Montana ranchers, Griffith learned at an early age about the vast and rugged landscape of the Missouri Breaks of Montana from the back of a horse. Not always appreciating the fundamental beauty of the landscape, it ultimately became a deep-rooted factor in her work to create a visual story.
Always an artist (proclaimed at age 5), Griffith's career went from a source of supplemental income during college years and subsequent gallery representation to her primary business in 2009. Focusing on landscape painting in an impressionistic yet representational fashion, she has gained skills that have opened doors for her in the art world. Griffith has studied with renowned instructors over her career such as Robert Moore, Lorenzo Chavez, Ned Mueller and Elizabeth Mowry. In addition to competing in 6 -12 plein air events annually, her works are displayed in galleries in Washington, Idaho, Montana, Oregon and Utah. The artist also has works in permanent corporate collections in these states and in private collections throughout the US, Canada, Australia and Europe. Some publications that have included articles about the art of Bonnie Griffith include Pastel Journal, Southwest Art, PSWC’s Pastel Magazine and inclusion in the book Strokes of Genius.
"As an artist of the western landscape who works in oils and pastels, I find the rich pigments of pastel and oil allows me to create paintings that have the brilliance and the bold color we see in the West. My love of the landscape prompts me to paint it, and I look for a story to tell when I paint. I work to create art in which the viewer can step into, finding and experiencing their own story. If that happens, then I have done my job. From the ground up, the stretch of the landscape, the embrace of the colors, the magnitude of the terrain and the physical earth all shape my vision from my heart; so my love of the land."
For more about Bonnie Griffith, please visit: www.bonniegriffith.com
Nationally and internationally awarded artist, Howard Friedland, will be visiting Piqua from Monday, October 31 to Thursday, November 3, 2022 to teach an oil painting workshop, held at Apple Tree Gallery in Piqua, OH, from 9am - 4pm.
PLEASE NOTE: This workshop has reached max capacity. Register for the waitlist below.
This workshop is $350 for Non-PAC Members and $325 for PAC Members.
PLEASE NOTE: If you are registering for the waitlist, do NOT pay your registration fee. You will be contacted if a spot opens up for you.
Howard Friedland was born in Bronx New York. Lived in Miami Florida, Albuquerque and Taos New Mexico and now resides in Bozeman Montana with his wife artist Susan Blackwood. He studied fine art and commercial art at New York's High School of Music and Art. He went to college at The Cooper Union for the Advancement of Art and Science in the department of Art and Architecture in New York's Greenwich Village. Howard has studied painting with Ned Jacob, Michael J. Lynch, Mark Daley, Laura Robb, William Schultz, Robert Kuester, Charles Reed ,Carolyn Anderson, Mitch Billis, Scott Christensen and most recently with Matt Smith.
Oil Painters of America inducted Howard as a Signature Member into their organization in 2003. Friedland is a Director on the Board of Oil Painters of America and is the Chairman of the Jury Selection Committee. He was featured in the July 1989 issue of American Artist Magazine . He has been featured in the Master Painters of the World section of the International Artists Magazine, Plein Air Magazine and Fine Art Connousseur Magazine. He has painted, taught and exhibited extensively in New Mexico, Colorado, Montana, Arizona, Florida, Mexico, France, Italy, England, Spain, Portugal, Croatia and China. His work has won numerous awards and is in many private and corporate collections.
"The challenge for me is always to see the world with fresh eyes and respond spontaneously to the beauty before me ... I prefer to paint only enough for the viewer to get a clear vision of what the subject is and suggest the rest. When the painting is viewed close up you can see the many colorful brush strokes, as you step further away the brush strokes disappear and your eye pulls the whole painting together. That is what the magic of painting is about for me. This allows the viewers to use his or her imagination and participate in the painting", exclaims the artist.
For more about Howard Friedland, please visit: www.howardfriedland.com
We're proud to present Comfort Inn + Suites as the official sponsor of Piqua Arts Council's Artist Workshops. Comfort Inn + Suites has an average customer rating of 4 stars, and is collectively claimed the best hotel in Piqua, Ohio. The establishment is a beautiful, newly renovated hotel with 101 oversized rooms with 22 two room suites. This hotel is connected to the Miami Valley Centre Mall with several anchor stores and a food court. There are several restaurants within walking distance such as Buffalo Wings and Rings, Red Lobster, Bob Evans, McDonalds and Cracker Barrel. Cinemark theater also sits in the Southeast corner of their parking lot. They have ample parking for bus tours and car shows. Option to enjoy a very large indoor heated pool and refreshed fitness center.
Participating Workshop artists may call 937-778-8100 for special rates just for them.
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