Watercolor Painting for Families

with Kim Meyers Baas

Saturday, June 29, 2024, 10:00 a.m.–1:00 p.m.

Tuition: $125 per family

This workshop includes lunch at 1:00 p.m.

Ox-Bow’s campus provides hundreds of beautiful views for painting the landscape. Families will explore views of the lagoon, meadow, and woods while painting en plein air with watercolor. Experiment with techniques such as washes, color mixing, mark making, and creating textures inspired by the natural environment.

Kim Meyers Baas is an arts educator who has worked in public and private settings in Michigan, Chicago, and on the Mexican/Texas border cultivating youth artists and community workers since 1992. Her teaching and art making practice focuses on exploring family identity, inequality, migration, cultural recognition, art + technology literacy, and media representation in marginalized communities. Kim has worked as an artist educator with Kentwood Public Schools, Ox-Bow Summer School of Art, Calvin University, Kendall College of Art & Design, Chicago Public Schools, Valley AIDS Council, and The School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Kim holds a BA from Loyola University Chicago & MAAE from The School of the Art Institute of Chicago.