2025 Workshops & Instructors

OPM offers five days of workshops with Competition Artists plus a Juror Workshop on the last day of Competition Week.
Workshops with Competition Artists last 3 hours and cost $50 to attend. The Juror Workshop is scheduled for Saturday after the final reception. It costs $100, includes lunch, and is scheduled from 9am–2pm. Anyone may register for workshops.

Saturday, September 6, 2025

Jack Dant

Saturday morning at Sugarloaf Cabins, 9am–12pm: The Color of Water

Greg Finnegan

Saturday afternoon at Sugarloaf Cabins' Garage Mahal, 1:00-4:00pm: Make Your Own Wet Panel Carrier

Sunday, September 7, 2025

Matt Kania

Sunday during Paint-Out at YMCA Camp Menogyn, 8:30am-4:00pm: Learn to Squint

Kelly Schamberger

Sunday evening at the Rec Hall, 6:30-9:30pm: The Business of Creativity

Monday, September 8, 2025

David R. Becker

Monday morning at the Grand Marais Marina, 9:00am – 12:00pm: Watercolor and Gouache

Stephen Wysocki

Monday afternoon at the Campground Harbor Picnic Shelter, 1:00-4:00pm​: Color Theory in Plein Air

Carl Bretzke

Monday afternoon-evening starting at the Rec Hall, 5:00–8:00pm: Sunset

Tuesday, September 9, 2025

Bob Upton

Tuesday morning **starting at the Rec Hall,** 9:00am-12:00pm: Simplifying the Landscape in Gouache

Nelia Harper

Tuesday afternoon at the Campground Harbor Picnic Shelter, 1:00-4:00pm: Secrets of the Masters: Essentials of Carlson's Guide to Landscape Painting 

Wednesday, September 10, 2025

Lisa Stauffer

Wednesday morning starting at Campground Harbor Picnic Shelter, 9:00am-12:00pm: Create Order from Chaos

Dan Mackerman

Wednesday afternoon at Campground Harbor Picnic Shelter, 1:00-4:00pm: Oil Painting Test Kitchen

Juror Workshop on Saturday, September 13, 2025

Workshop with Neil Sherman 

Time: 9am-2pm, includes lunch 
Cost: $100
Location: TBA

This workshop will offer hands-on, individualized instruction with Neil Sherman - winner of the 2024 PAGM Best Body of Work grand prize and nationally acclaimed plein air painter of the northern wilds. Neil has ventured far into the BWCAW, by canoe and on skis, to capture the unique qualities of sky, water, and boreal forest in all seasons. His studied approach to composition, value, and chroma offers an opportunity for students to gain greater understanding and increase problem-solving skills when confronting all of Nature's complexity with a paintbrush.