Palette Passes are $75 and includes all demos, lectures, presentations and book signings during the week of the Invitational (six+) at the Olmsted Plein Air Invitational Headquarters at 721 Miami Circle.
FREE Programming*** Single tickets | $20
Palette Pass holders will also receive a discount at the Artists & Collectors Soiree on Saturday, April 23rd. Cocktails, delectable hors d’oeuvres and desserts with an artful flair, live jazz music and Olmsted Plein Air Invitational award winner artists announced at the Artists & Collectors Soiree. Tickets are $200 per person. ($175 per person with Palette Pass). Call 404-376-7075 to purchase your discounted tickets.
MONDAY, April 18
11:00 AM -
2:00 PM Suzie Baker, 2022 Olmsted Plein Air Artist | What’s the Big Idea? How to find your next plein air painting and how to keep your creativity flowing. Demonstration and Lecture ***
TUESDAY, April 19
11:00 AM - John Eiseman, “The Nature of Art”
Discussion and “walk” through the present exhibit - highlighting the various artists, their methods and materials, the “voices” of the artists as told by an artist. A fun discussion of comparing and contrasting a variety of pictorial expressions about the land and it’s people, the regional plein air movement as it relates to today - and yesterday…basically a fun talk, a tour of the exhibit and it’s artists.
WEDNESDAY, April 20
11:00 AM - 2:00 PM - Mark Fehlman, LIVE painting demo | "Seeing shapes, not things…then what?"
THURSDAY, April 21
11:00 AM - Crista Pisano & Cynthia Rosen, 2022 Olmsted Plein Air Artist | ‘The difference size makes” | This dynamic duo will present and demo. If the painting/s do not get completed during this two our timeframe, the completed paintings can be viewed and purchased at the Awards and Competition Event
2:00 PM - Steven Walker, 2022 Olmsted Plein Air Artist | Live painting demo
FRIDAY, April 22
11:00 AM - 2:00 PM - Dmitri Wright: Artist and 2022 Olmsted Judge | A Painter’s Perspective on Beauty within the Principles and Methodology of Impressionism for our Contemporary Times | Presenting the foundational principles of Impressionism, rooted in the Academy as transformed by the Impressionists and those beyond from his writings on the Art of Creativity; and offer examples from his work in applying one’s personal perception, temperament, and aesthetical beauty for more expressive freedom in the process of abstraction from representation of one’s chosen subject.
SATURDAY, April 23
11:00 PM - Neal Hughes , 2022 Olmsted Plein Air Invitational Artist Live Demo | "Natures poetry" Finding a balance between truth and poetry in nature.
2:00 PM -
SUNDAY, April 24 (programming is complimentary)
2:00 PM - Assessing Artistic Merit, Panel Discussion by 2022 Olmsted Plein Air Awards Judges | Dmitri Wright, Artist, Bill Davidson, Billy Love
4:00 PM -