The Gardiner Library will host a Painting the Light with Monet: Literature-Based Art Workshop with Jill Obrig on Sunday March 24 from 2 to 4 p.m.
The workshop is $15 per child for Grades 2-4. Pre-registration and payment due by Monday March 18. The art exploration will look at the art of Monet and teach how he saw the same scene, but at different times of day and year. After reading Goodbye Autumn, Hello Winter by Kenrad Pak, children will paint a scene created with different colors, using watercolors and crayons, and become Monet.
Obrig has been teaching students ages 2-92 for over 30 years at museums, camps, galleries, private and public schools and libraries. For the past three years she has collaborated with the Stone Ridge, Hurley and Rosendale Libraries winning four grants for the project “Exploring Connections between Art, Art History and Literature.” She is hoping to continue this exploration in the Summer of 2019 at the Gardiner Library.
Jill has exhibited at various venues such as the Unframed Artist’s Gallery in New Paltz, the Art Society of Kingston and the Parrish Art Museum in Southampton, NY.”Pteri the Pterodactyl”, a project created by some of Jill’s students, is on exhibit at the Mid- Hudson Children’s Museum.
The workshop takes place in the library community room, 133 Farmer’s Turnpike in Gardiner.