Cultivate your artistic skills and connect with nature as spring begins! With an inquisitive and encouraging approach, we will develop core art-making skills while working directly with motifs of plants, gardens, and landscape in the Arboretum.

Participants will create with the versatile media of soft and hard pastel to express what they see and capture what inspires them in the natural world. Approaches and supplies for painting and drawing outdoors will also be discussed. The series of classes will begin indoors to develop basic pastel handling techniques and evolve to working outside in the Arboretum as the growing season and weather permit. No previous art experience is needed; the emphasis will be on exploration, creating with wonder, and seeing more as you do!

About the Instructor
Picture of Alice KelseyAlice Kelsey is a local professional artist working primarily in a colorful abstract impressionist style. Most of her paintings are started outside, where she finds vitality and wonders of color and form. You can learn more about Alice on her website.

Class Dates and Cost
Cost for the 3-class series: $150 ($125 for Penn State Students or Arboretum volunteers)
Class Dates: March 28, April 12, April 19
Class Time: 9:00 a.m.–noon
These classes are for adults (18+)