Event List

Celebrate the warmer weather by learning how to draw an enchanted garden coloring page. We'll go over techniques for how to plan your page and how to draw the different plants and animals that live there. All skill levels are welcome! 

This beginner-friendly class will introduce you to the versatile world of watercolor pencils, where drawing and painting come together.

Join Miss Rebecca at the Carriage Barn Arts Center for a bugs and blooms-themed story time and a special craft. Then explore the Carriage Barn’s latest exhibit with your family!

This beginner-friendly class will introduce you to the versatile world of watercolor pencils, where drawing and painting come together.

Do you love to draw? Join a few NCHS art students for a fun-filled, hour-long drawing class on Sunday afternoon! In this lesson, students will use colored pencils to draw their own unique fantasy creatures.

Come get your hands dirty! During this workshop, you will create a unique piece of sculptural art from air-dried clay. Beginning techniques for modeling, sculpting, and building with clay will be utilized and explored.

Pulitzer Prize–winning art critic Sebastian Smee captures the shifting passions and politics of the art world in Paris in Ruins, revealing how the pressures of the siege and the chaos of the Commune pr

Happy Mother’s Day! Join NCHS art students for a fun-filled, hour-long class on Sunday afternoon to design Mother’s Day cards with watercolor. We’ll first familiarize ourselves with watercolor techniques and design our cards.

Join us for an oil pastel drawing workshop! In this workshop, we will focus on color and pattern while learning how to use oil pastels.

This four-session workshop will explore where fashion, nature, and art converge. Students will create nature-inspired fashion sculptures using a 12-inch mannequin as the foundation.

Come get your hands dirty! During this workshop, you will create a unique piece of sculptural art from air-dried clay. Beginning techniques for modeling, sculpting, and building with clay will be utilized and explored.

This four-session workshop will explore where fashion, nature, and art converge. Students will create nature-inspired fashion sculptures using a 12-inch mannequin as the foundation.

Discover the timeless craft of mosaic art in our engaging two-session workshop at the library. Mosaic is a 4000-year-old art form that uses bits of decorative glass, tiles, and other materials to create geometric designs.

New Canaan Library is pleased to offer a new 4-session weekly course this Spring in Calligraphy. Calligraphy is the art of fine hand lettering. Participants will use a calligraphy marker to learn letter shapes and pen strokes.

Children will celebrate the season while learning new techniques, mixing colors, and painting on stretched canvas. Best for children ages 3-5. 

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Discover the timeless craft of mosaic art in our engaging two-session workshop at the library. Mosaic is a 4000-year-old art form that uses bits of decorative glass, tiles, and other materials to create geometric designs.

Do you love to draw? Join NCHS art students for a fun-filled, hour-long drawing class on Sunday afternoon! We will be drawing our dream dinner table, with our favorite dishes and desserts.

This four-session workshop will explore where fashion, nature, and art converge. Students will create nature-inspired fashion sculptures using a 12-inch mannequin as the foundation.

New Canaan Library is pleased to offer a new 4-session weekly course this Spring in Calligraphy. Calligraphy is the art of fine hand lettering. Participants will use a calligraphy marker to learn letter shapes and pen strokes.

The weather is beautiful and we're excited to get outside and enjoy it! Join us to learn how to paint a simple sunset painting while sitting outside on the green. All skill levels are welcome. 

Please pre-register.

This four-session workshop will explore where fashion, nature, and art converge. Students will create nature-inspired fashion sculptures using a 12-inch mannequin as the foundation.

At the burgeoning turn of the 20^th century, Connecticut offered artists beautiful rural landscapes not far from the big cities where they transformed European Impressionism into a uniquely American form.

New Canaan Library is pleased to offer a new 4-session weekly course this Spring in Calligraphy. Calligraphy is the art of fine hand lettering. Participants will use a calligraphy marker to learn letter shapes and pen strokes.

At the burgeoning turn of the 20^th century, Connecticut offered artists beautiful rural landscapes not far from the big cities where they transformed European Impressionism into a uniquely American form.