Programs & Meetings

2018-19 Program Summary
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Friday, Sept. 28th
Saturday, Nov. 10th

​​Friday, Jan.11th

​Saturday, Mar. 9th
Friday, May 10th​
Meet & Greet; Judged Exhibit Award Display
Robin Caspari: Composition & Using Notans & Thumbnails
Bonnie Kidd Carter & Janet Visser: Unique Underpainting Techniques
Ed Tepper-Get to Know your Digital Camera
​Paper Swap & Pastel Surfaces Discussion
Guests and prospective members are welcome!
Meeting Location
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​Crossroads Art Center
2016 Staples Mill Rd.
Richmond, VA  23060

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Friday, Sept. 28th
12-3 PM

* NOTE:  Rescheduled due to Hurricane Florence
Member Meet & Greet; Judged Exhibit Award Winning Painting Discussion

We're kicking off the 2018-19 Program year with some member meet and greet time.  MAPS Executive Board members will provide light lunch.  Afterwards, members who received awards at our Annual Judged Exhibit at Reynolds Community College in May will share their award-winning paintings with the group and discuss their process.  
Members enjoyed getting to know each other and finding out more about our members' award-winning paintings at our 9/28 meeting at Crossroads Art Center.
Saturday, Nov. 10th
12-3 PM
Robin Caspari:  Composition & Using Notans and Thumbnails

Robin Caspari, local artist and teacher, will talk about composition in painting. We will be going high tech in this program so bring your tablets and phones to learn how to use them for Thumbnail sketches. Robin will be discussing the use of NOTANS for composition as well. We will be trying our hand at doing Notans.  Please bring images to work out composition, a sketchpad/paper, soft pencil and any "value" markers (such as Tombow pens) you have to the meeting.

Find out more about Robin Caspari at her website at robincaspari.com. 
Friday, Jan. 11th
12-3 PM
Bonnie Kidd Carter & Janet Visser:  Unique Underpainting Techniques

Bonnie Kidd Carter and Janet Visser will discuss will discuss and demonstrate their unique process for preparing their surfaces for pastel work.
Saturday, March 9th
​12-3 PM
Ed Tepper:  Get to Know your Digital Camera

Ed Tepper will help us to understand more about what our cameras can do and how we can take better reference photos to use with our studio paintings, including how we can compose with our cameras.  Members should bring their digital cameras (and manuals) to the meeting.

Ed Tepper is an independent photographer living in the Richmond, Virginia area specializing in Professional Headshots, Real Estate and Sports & Action photography.  Find out more about him at his website at www.edtepperphotography.com.
Friday, May 10th
12-3 PM
Paper Swap & Pastel Surfaces Discussion (Papers You Love to Hate!)

Members will have a chance to swap and sell materials they no longer need or use.  We will have a review of pastel papers and hope to have some samples to share and try.