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Workshop: Painting Landscapes with Watercolors

Suzanne Chamlin, Associate Professor of Studio Art and an artist whose own practice focuses on landscape, leads a soothing workshop using watercolors, inspired by the landscape paintings on view in Dusk & Dawn: Tonalism in Connecticut. The free workshop will take place in the Museum Classroom on Thursday, February 27 from 5-6:30 p.m. Due to the needs of space and supplies, participation is strictly limited, and registration is required! Image: Arthur Hoeber, Connecticut Idyll, ca. 1890, watercolor on paper. Private…

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February 27, 2025 @ 5:00 pm - 6:30 pm

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200 Barlow Rd
Fairfield, CT 06824 United States

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Free

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Fairfield University Art Museum

203.254.4000 ext. 2726

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Suzanne Chamlin, Associate Professor of Studio Art and an artist whose own practice focuses on landscape, leads a soothing workshop using watercolors, inspired by the landscape paintings on view in Dusk & Dawn: Tonalism in Connecticut. The free workshop will take place in the Museum Classroom on Thursday, February 27 from 5-6:30 p.m.

Due to the needs of space and supplies, participation is strictly limited, and registration is required!

Image: Arthur Hoeber, Connecticut Idyll, ca. 1890, watercolor on paper. Private collection, New York

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