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.
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**In case of rain, workshops may be held in the Campground Rec Hall, aka PAGM Headquarters**

Saturday, September 6, 2025

Jim Turner

Saturday morning at Artists Point, 9:00am–12:00pm: Big Brush Watercolor

Dan Mackerman

Saturday evening at the Rec Hall, 6:00–9:00pm: Oil Painting Test Kitchen

Jack Dant

Saturday afternoon Artists Point, 1:00-4:00pm: Rocks Rock!

Sunday, September 7, 2025

Matt Kania

Sunday morning, 9:00am–12:00pm: Paint the Sky

Kelly Schamberger

Sunday evening at the Rec Hall, 6:00–9:00pm: Fund Your Art Habit

Greg Preslicka

Sunday afternoon at Harbor Park, 1:00–4:00pm: Paint and Modify

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​: Plein Air Color Theory

Carl Bretzke

Monday evening starting at the Rec Hall, 7:00–10:00pm: Nocturnes

Tuesday, September 9, 2025

Bob Upton

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

Nelia Harper French

Tuesday afternoon at the Campground Harbor Picnic Shelter, 1:00-4:00pm: Secrets of the Masters: Composition of Outdoor Painting by Edgar Payne 

Wednesday, September 10, 2025

Lisa Stauffer

Wednesday morning starting at Campground Harbor Picnic Shelter, 9:00am-12:00pm: Pastel Possibilities

Steve Puttrich

Wednesday afternoon at Artists Point, 1:00-4:00pm: Capturing Light & Story in Plein Air, Oil or Watercolor

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.