Audiences were spellbound by Eric Rhoad’s dynamic presentations in California last weekend. Rhoads, publisher of both PleinAir and Fine Art Connoisseur magazines, moderated panels during the California Art Club’s (CAC) Winter Symposium in San Francisco and the Los Angeles Art Show: Historic and Traditional convention. He will offer the same kinds of informative and motivating presentations during the 1st Annual PleinAir Convention & Expo in Las Vegas from April 12-15, 2012. 

One of the strong motivations for painting outdoors is the desire to preserve what might be at risk—farms, prairies, parks, homes, movie theaters and the like. On Monday November 14, 2011, PleinAir editor Steve Doherty will lecture about plein air artists and historic preservation, and he is still interested in hearing from artists.

PleinAir magazine’s multi-talented Senior Account Executive, Richard Lindenberg, once again participated and reported on the 2011 Plein Air Festival in San Lius Obispo, California sponsored by the San Luis Obispo Museum of Art. Lindenberg proudly tells us he received and Honorable Mention award and that two artists shared the Best of Show award: Carolyn Lord and Carolyn Hesse-Low.

Brian Sindler of Northbook, Illinois claimed the Best of Show award in the 2011 Door County Plein Air Festival hosted by the Peninsula School of Art in Fish Creek, Wisconsin. Some of the other awards winners  announced on July 22, 2011 include Colin Page (First Place), James Richards (Second Place) and Tom Nachreiner (Third Place).

Anticipation is building for the 1st Annual PleinAir Convention from April 12-15, 2012 at Red Rock Casino Resort in Las Vegas now that PleinAir^TM Magazine has staged a tremendously successful outdoor painting event in the Adirondack Mountains of upstate New York. More than 80 artists from around the country gathered at Paul Smith's College on Lower Saint Regis Lake from June 21-26 to paint, share ideas and artwork, and establish lasting friendships.