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Learning

Learn new skills direct from the masters, using DVD's you can rent from Smarflix. SmartFlix is a service that rents DVDs - just like your corner video store - but we rent the kind of videos that you can't find on every street corner. Videos on painting, making glass beads, welding steel, building guitars... cool videos!

Accomodations for Artists [ TOP ]
(B&B & Hotels Catering to Artists)

PA EAST: Bucks County Art Workshops / Lodging
956 Bypass Road, Hilltown, PA 18944
Phone 215-249-9186    
http://www.stoneridge-farm.com/rooms.htm

NJ NORTHWEST: Peters Valley Craft Center / Art Workshops
19 Kuhn Rd.
Layton, New Jersey 07851
Office Phone:
(973) 948-5200
http://www.petersvalley.org

Budget Accomadation - Europe
London, Paris, Dublin, Amsterdam, New York, Barcelona, Milan
Nurturing Travel Addictions for over 100,000 travellers worldwide!
http://www.travellerspoint.com

Artista Creative Safaris for Women
Artista Creative Safaris for Women was born at the request of the guests of Las Olas. When asked what they would like to learn as well as surfing, we discovered painting was a favorite choice. Artista is located in the beautiful seaside hamlet of Carmel-by-the-Sea. Here, women escape into Bohemia with art instruction and inspirational activities specific to the area. Artista's newest creative safari, offers women the opportunity to design and produce their own unique fashion. Artista creative sessions are guided by Carmel's foremost artists and designers. Visit the [ web site ] for more info and upcoming workshops for women.

NY: Catskill Mountain Elderhostel / NEW YORK
Elderhostel commuters from throughout the Hudson Valley and Catskill region are most welcome!
Our commuter price of $265 per person includes all programs, lunch and dinner. Continental breakfast available at $9 per person per day. If you'd like to spend a night or two in Hunter, accommodation is available at the Hunter Inn at $75 per room per night (regardless of one or two people), including breakfast.
Elderhostel is a national, nonprofit organization that offers educational programming to retired Americans throughout the U.S. The Catskill Mountain Foundation will offer a rich and varied range of Elderhostel programs drawing on the Foundation's bookstore, gallery, movie theaters, performing arts center and planned community farm. Individuals 55 years of age and older are eligible.
http://www.catskillmtn.org/education/elderhostel.html

Hudson River Valley Art Workshops / NEW YORK
c/o Greenville Arms, 1889 Inn
PO Box 659 RT 32
Greenville, NY 12083 US
Phone: (518) 966-5219
www.artworkshops.com

Bucks County Art Workshops / NEW YORK
c/o Stone Ridge Farm B&B
956 Bypass Road
Perkasie, PA 18944
Phone 215-249-9186
www.buckscountyartworkshops.com/

Home Swaps / Rentals
A Global home exchange enables you to vacation anywhere in the world for just the cost of getting there. http://www.4homex.com/irelandhomeexchangehouseswap.htm

O'Neill's Town Home / IRELAND
LISDOONVARNA, ireland
situated in the Spa town of Lisdoonvarna , in scenic North Clare . A wonderful location for exploring the 100 square miles of the famous Burren and Atlantic coastline just nearby.
http://www.burrenpaintingcentre.com/burrenpaint/bandb.htm

Residencies, Retreats and Communities [ TOP ]

Bravura Academy
http://www.bravuraacademy.com/
Bravura Academy offers all inclusive painting workshop retreats in the Andalucian village of Arcos de la Frontera in Southern Spain. Workshops include instruction by world-renowned painters, lodging, transportation, food, wine, art tools and supplies, art library, painting studio, bilingual guide, and a good time.

Jennifer's Journey, All Women Travel
http://www.jennifersjourney.com
Jennifer's Journey is an authentic travel resource for women. We've handpicked women-friendly excursions - from the exhilarating to the serene - that combine fun, relaxation, and new experiences while fostering friendships, confidence, and self discovery.

The Hudson River School for Landscape
http://www.hudsonriverlandscape.com/about.html
The Hudson River School for Landscape will build a new movement of American art, modeling itself after the artistic, social and spiritual values of the Hudson River School painters. It will bring together the reawakening enthusiasm for the old American painters, the vigorous but unfocused scene of contemporary landscape painting and the urgent need for a renewed reverence for the land. By bringing back the skills and spirit of the pre-impressionist landscape painters the program will give much needed direction to a new generation of painters. As they learn to carefully study and reflect on the trees and clouds and blades of grass and cliffs, their paintings will become beautiful. Ideally, these artists and their beautiful representations of nature will help to lead the culture back to a stronger connection to the landscape. The school seeks to make a contribution both to the art world and the conservation movement.

THE FINGERLAKES Art Retreat
http://flar.us/
COME PAINT THE FINGERLAKES
WATERFALLS, GORGES, LAKES, BOATS, AMISH FARMS, VINEYARDS, QUAINT VILLAGES
Fingerlakes Art Retreat is located high above Seneca Lake in Upstate New York's scenic Finger Lakes region. Beautiful rolling hills are dissected by deep, glacial-cut gorges that flow down to the area's renown lakes- busy with boats in the warmer months. Woods, dairy farms and vineyards provide a variety of interesting landscapes to paint. Grand Prix racing at the historic Watkins Glen track is just a few miles above the farm. A myriad of painting and exploring opportunities await your visit!

Flax Art Studios
http://www.flaxartstudios.org/flaxartintresprogdetails.htm

Wisdom House
229 East Litchfield Road, Litchfield, CT 06759 - 3002
Phone: 860-567-3163
http://www.wisdomhouse.org/program/retreats.html
Come away to a quiet place and be filled with the peace of a retreat supportive of your creative works. Writers, visual and performing artists whose works are in concert with the mission of Wisdom House are invited to submit an application.
Many artists have found that Wisdom House provides an ideal atmosphere in which to be creative. Julia Cameron, author of The Artist's Way, has called Wisdom House her "spiritual home." Actor Richard Gere says Wisdom House is "a wonderful place for a retreat." Writer Safiya Henderson, comparing Wisdom House's program to some other artists' colonies, commented, "It's even okay to have writer's block here. It's understood as part of the process." And the New York Times proclaims Wisdom House a "resort for the spirit."
Fee:
$60 per night Monday--Sunday Private Room
$70 per night Monday--Sunday Private Room with Bath

Weir Farm Art Center
735 Nod Hill Road, Wilton, CT 06897
http://www.nps.gov/archive/wefa/Trust/TheTrust5.htm
Phone: (203) 761-9945.
Through the Artist-in-Residence Program, selected artists from all over the country spend two weeks to one month living and working in excellent facilities located on the farm.

I-Park
428 Hopyard Road
East Haddam, CT  06423
http://www.i-park.org/residency.html
Phone: 860-873-2468
I-Park announces its seventh season hosting The Artists' Enclave. Artists' residencies, self-directed/project oriented, will be offered from May through November 2007. Most sessions are four-weeks in duration, though there will be some two-week residencies offered as well.
Artists applying for a return residency will be given preference for scheduling during an April, off season, session, though they may apply for other sessions.

The Griffis Art Center
18 BRISTOL STREET / NEW LONDON, CONNECTICUT 06320 USA
PHONE: (860) 447-3431
http://www.griffisartcenter.com/intguide.htm
The Griffis Art Center's INTERNATIONAL ARTIST-in-RESIDENCE PROGRAM was founded in August, 1989. Supportive, nurturing, inspirational... the GAC offers a unique opportunity for an artist chosen from around the world; the opportunity to reside and work as a resident artist, in an atmosphere designed to stimulate personal vision and encourage new and exciting artistic expressions.

lillian e. smith center for the creative arts
PO Box 467
Clayton, GA 30525
Phone: 706 782-7846
http://www.lillianesmith.org
The Lillian E. Smith Foundation, Inc. was established to honor the memory of Lillian E. Smith, one of this country's eminent writers. The first activity of the foundation has been to create an artists retreat based at the site of the Laurel Falls Camp for Girls, located in Clayton, GA. This retreat is named The Lillian E. Smith Center for Creative Arts.

Liguria Study Center
Northern Italy
http://www.liguriastudycenter.org/english/fellowsh.cfm
Bogliasco is situated on the southeastern city limits of Genoa in northern Italy. The capital of the Liguria region and one of the most important cities in Italy, Bogliasco Fellowships are awarded, without regard to nationality, to qualified persons doing advanced creative work or scholarly research.
NY Office: 10 Rockefeller Plaza, 16th Floor, New York, NY 10020-1903
TEL: 212 713-7628

SUPPLIES [ TOP ]

Plein Air Frames by Frame Express
http://www.frame-express.com/pleinair.html

Glass Mullers
For mixing and grinding paint pigment. Functional Simplicity - The Muller is a beautifully hand made object of solid borosilicate glass with a perfectly ground flat base used to grind paints by hand. Grinding is done flat on a hard slab surface of glass or stone.
http://www.bzgrafix.com/shop/accessories&equipment/equipment/muller.html

TRAVEL WORKSHOPS [ TOP ]

The Painting Gypsies
http://www.thepaintinggypsies.homestead.com/
Join us in spectacular locations around the world for unforgettable outdoor painting workshops. We invite you to travel with us for fine food, professional instruction, with a lively cast of characters. 

Phil Levine Workshops Inc.
http://www.paintingfrance.com/
Phil Levine Workshops Inc., in existence since 1993, specializes in organizing painting workshops taught by some of America's most well known landscape and plein air painters. Custom designed instructed or non-instructed painting and photography workshops to France, Italy, Portugal, England the US or Mexico for your organization.

Pleinairworkshops.com / Global Locations
A comprehensive guide to outdoor painting workshops in the U.S. and abroad. Here you will find truly unique and exciting opportunities to learn directly from the world's leading professional fine art painters 'en plein air'. These exciting events are inspirational as well as instructional and will expand your craft to a whole new level.
http://www.pleinairworkshops.com/calendar.htm

Susan Truitt's OPEN AIR ITALY Workshops
http://www.susantruitt.com/
Susan Organizes workshop Italy.

WEB SITES [ TOP ]

The Connemara Loop

Follow the Loop and be taken on a journey through an ever changing landscape of majestic mountains, spectacular beaches, the wild Atlantic, mist covered lakes, pre-historic bogs and shady glens.
WEB SITE

Learning to See by Paul
This is the ongoing story of a lapsed painter making a slow journey back to being full time at the easel. This isn't a slick portfolio site, and you'll see as many failures here as you will successes.
But each piece has a story, and is another small step along the way. If something you see here helps you along on your own journey, wherever you're headed, then this site has a reason to exist.
WEB SITE

Irish Art - every significant Irish art gallery selling Irish art - North and South.
A complete database of all Irish art galleries with links to their artist's work. It is designed to allow collectors to browse Irish art galleries and buy art for pleasure and investment. Free membership allows Collectors to track favourite Irish artists and be e-mailed as soon as galleries upload new images. We do not sell art direct - nor can artists sell direct from this site. Irish artists can, however, use us freely to upload their work and seek representation from Irish art galleries. As art galleries can update their artist's information at any time their entry is as up-to-date as they require.
Visit the irishart.com Web Site

TAO Retreats to Paradise!
Retreats in California, Costa Rica, Thailand, and other location.
http://www.taoretreats.com/index.html

Culture Ireland : Images of Ireland : Irish artists
http://www.cultureireland.com/artists/index.asp