Learn all summer long in Massachusetts or go on week-long retreats in New Mexico. Here is what’s new in the Classes Near You sections for Massachusetts and New Mexico.
Helen Byers
www.helenbyers.com
Helen Byers is an artist and illustrator who is active in several genres and mediums. She was born in Brazil, grew up in northern California and Mexico, and now lives in Massachusetts. She qualified for the PhD in English at the University of California, Santa Barbara and taught literature and writing at the college level before moving to the Pacific Northwest to work as a freelance literary editor. After moving to Boston in 1988, she embarked on a career as an author, illustrator, and editor for educational publishers.
Since 2013, Helen has turned full-time to her lifelong love of art, teaching botanical drawing and painting in Massachusetts at Tower Hill Botanic Garden (Boylston), the Concord Art Association, and Fruitlands Museum (Harvard). She is also a regular instructor in New Mexico, at Ghost Ranch (Abiquiu), where her courses include a field-sketching workshop focused on high-desert fauna and flora, co-taught with biologist Janet Darrow.
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Workshops in Massachusetts
Daffodils: Botanical Painting in Watercolor
Tower Hill Botanic Garden
Boylston, Massachusetts
April 16, 2014
10 AM–4 PM
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Spring Blooms: Botanical Painting in Watercolor
Tower Hill Botanic Garden
Boylston, Massachusetts
May 10 & 17, 2014
10 AM – 4 PM
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Observational Drawing in Colored Pencil
Fruitlands Museum
Harvard, Massachusetts
May 31–June 2, 2014
10 AM–3 PM
For information and to register, email mkershaw@fruitlands.org
or call 978-456-3924 ext. 291.
Field Sketching & Journaling
Fruitlands Museum
Harvard, Massachusetts
July 12 & 13, 2014
10 AM–3 PM
For information and to register, email mkershaw@fruitlands.org
or call 978-456-3924 ext. 291.
Daylilies: Botanical Drawing in Colored Pencil
Tower Hill Botanic Garden
Boylston, Massachusetts
July 19 & 20, 2014
10 AM–4 PM
For information and to register call 508-869-6111.
Harvest Home: Botanical Drawing in Colored Pencil
Fruitlands Museum
Harvard, Massachusetts
August 16 & 17, 2014
10 AM–3 PM
For information and to register, email mkershaw@fruitlands.org
or call 978-456-3924 ext. 291.
Vegetables: Botanical Art in the Summer Garden
Tower Hill Botanic Garden
Boylston, Massachusetts
August 23 & 24, 2014
10 AM–4 PM
For information and to register call 508-869-6111.
Workshops in New Mexico:
Field Sketching Ghost Ranch Fauna & Flora
(co-taught with biologist Janet Darrow, PhD)
Ghost Ranch Education & Retreat Center
Abiquiu, New Mexico
June 23–29, 2014
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Celebrations for Days of the Dead (Días de los Muertos)
Ghost Ranch Education & Retreat Center
Abiquiu, New Mexico
October 27–November 2, 2014
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