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What a Painting Dream Trip Looks Like

Following the February 2016 PleinAir magazine historic trip to Cuba, publisher Eric Rhoads determined that he would create at least one painting trip to exotic locations each year. His goal: Paint in the world’s most beautiful places and visit places people might not go on their own.

EXHIBITION: Levi Jackson and Adam Bateman, in Salt Lake City

Plein air painters Levi Jackson and Adam Bateman are featured in a show at Rio Gallery in Salt Lake City, January 20 through March 10. They shared their thoughts on the exhibition with PleinAir Today recently.

Salmagundi’s West Coast Expansion Nets a Museum Show

The Salmagundi Club, a historic art club based in New York City, branched out to California over the last year, and the West Coast participants are now the subject of a museum show in El Cajon.

Paint Like an Old Master? Look Like an Old Master

Two artists participating in the EnPleinAirTEXAS event dressed in period costume while painting the view at Fort Concho in San Angelo, Texas.

Capturing Nepali Carvings Before They Disappear

Nepal was hit hard by an earthquake in April 2015, and an artist named Gurung Dhwoj has been at the center of the relief efforts. Along the way, he has scratched out some time to paint and sketch. Recently, his drawings have more urgency to them, as he realized that many wood carvings on buildings—a key element in the local culture—were not being restored or preserved amidst the great chang

Artists and Conservancy: Depicting the Native American Legacy

In this series, artist Lori Putnam speaks on the role artists can play in the conservation and preservation of land, cultures, and buildings. In this installment, Putnam discusses the Sedona Plein Air Festival’s theme of Native American Legacy.

Get Your Work Appraised, Help a Museum

Those within travel distance of Hingham, Massachusetts, can get paintings appraised by an expert while benefiting a local museum, on December 10.

OPPORTUNITY: Inaugural Plein Air Event, Cape Ann, Massachusetts

- Bob Bahr reporting, Editor PleinAir Today - Coastal Massachusetts, one of the most inspiring places in America to paint, now has another plein air...

Winners in Ellicott City, MD

The heat didn’t faze the participants in Paint It! Ellicott City, an event that recently wrapped up in Maryland. Alison Leigh Menke won two...

Who Won in Schaumburg?

The 6th Annual Prairie Plein Air Competition was held the first two weeks in May, offering prizes for top painters, and the event’s judge...

Cuban Traveloque by Evelyn Dunphy

Maine artist Evelyn Dunphy made the trip to Cuba in February, and she offered a workshop to participants as well. Dunphy was so fascinated...

Studio Everywhere Makes Tracks, Makes Waves

The Orwicks have been on the road for five months, painting and encouraging children in various parts of the world to paint, and they...

Urban Sketching: When Exploring Becomes Getting Lost (or Vice Versa)

Omar Jaramillo makes a good case for getting lost in Zanzibar. Lead Image: Omar Jaramillo drew this scene in Zanzibar, Tanzania. He cut a...

Urban Sketching: Capturing Disappearing Buildings in Toronto

What started out as documentation proved to be a “Rashomon”-like experience for a sketching group in Canada. Lead Image: Members of Toronto Urban Sketchers...

High Stakes Conservation and Plein Air Painting in the Hamptons

In very few places are the stakes as high in land conservation as they are in the Hamptons. Reports of one acre of "buildable"...

EXHIBITION: “Autumn Art Show,” at Wilson Gallery

Plein air painter Gwen Gutwein is showcased in an exhibition on view through December 24 at Wilson Gallery, part of Picture This in Print...

Cowboy Artists Trot Out Their Finest

An annual show for the Cowboy Artists of America produced moving works in two- and three-dimensional media. See the pieces that earned three exhibiting...

October 3: Gladys Roldan-de-Moras Figure Paintings

The charming figurative works of Gladys Roldan-de-Moras manifest the artist’s deep connection with her Mexican and Columbian heritage.   Insight Gallery in Fredericksburg, Texas, will host...

June 13: Prix de West

More than 300 paintings and sculptures by the most accomplished figures in Western art will be on display and available for purchase at the...

Montana’s Famed Western Art Week

An exciting series of events for Western artists and collectors, Western Art Week arrives in Great Falls, Montana.   Western Art Week comprises a series of...