OPM Member Workshops
OPM strives to offer four workshops for members every year. Workshops are taught by professional plein air painters suggested by the members and invited by the board of directors. They typically are held on a Saturday or Sunday morning and are followed by picnic lunch and paint-out.
OPM Workshops are funded by annual membership dues, so workshop participation is included with membership. Non-members may attend workshops online or in person by paying $25 at registration.
OPM Workshops are funded by annual membership dues, so workshop participation is included with membership. Non-members may attend workshops online or in person by paying $25 at registration.
*COVID-19 Notice: For everyone's safety and reasonable assurance, participants should be at least 2 weeks past their final CDC approved vaccination. As organizer of group activities, OPM will comply with any current local or State requirements and asks all participants to follow current CDC recommendations and guidelines.
2023 Workshop Schedule
January 7, 2023 "Landscape: Origin, Universal Meanings and Philosophy" with Dan Petrov
Saturday, January 7, 2023 • 10:30am
Minnesota Valley National Wildlife Refuge –
Bloomington Visitor Center
Dan Petrov is a classically trained painter who studied at a Russian atelier in Serbia, where he was born. He was working as an attorney by day and a painter by night when the Balkan war broke out, and he moved to Canada before emigrating to the United States. He has deeply considered views about art and how it can be an important means of expression, not only of beauty but of the entire range of human experience.
The presentation will begin in the auditorium. We will have BYO lunch in the adjacent classroom afterward and a paint-out (or paint-in) at the refuge in the afternoon.
Minnesota Valley National Wildlife Refuge –
Bloomington Visitor Center
Dan Petrov is a classically trained painter who studied at a Russian atelier in Serbia, where he was born. He was working as an attorney by day and a painter by night when the Balkan war broke out, and he moved to Canada before emigrating to the United States. He has deeply considered views about art and how it can be an important means of expression, not only of beauty but of the entire range of human experience.
The presentation will begin in the auditorium. We will have BYO lunch in the adjacent classroom afterward and a paint-out (or paint-in) at the refuge in the afternoon.
June 3-4, 2023: Workshop with Dan Mackerman at Art in Motion on the Lake Wobegon Trail
OPM will organize a Member Workshop at Art in Motion again this summer. This cafe and art gallery with classroom and outdoor picnic shelter is located on the Lake Wobegon Bike Trail in Holdingford, north of St. Cloud. Overnight camping is allowed, with building access to toilets and a shower. Save the dates! Details to be published soon.
July 23, 2023: Workshop at Great Lakes Academy Fine Art during Plein Air Duluth
In July 2023, OPM and GLAFA will celebrate our third year of collaboration to organize activities around plein air painting in the great port city of Duluth. Artists converge in Duluth Friday evening for dinner and nocturne-painting. Paint-outs are organized Saturday morning and afternoon, with an artists' social for dinner at Blackwoods Restaurant on Saturday evening. On Sunday morning, we have a workshop at GLAFA followed by paint-out on or around their beautiful property overlooking Lake Superior, the Lift Bridge, and harbor. On Sunday evening, we gather inside GLAFA for a reception and pop-up exhibit of paintings created over the weekend. Save the dates! Details to be published soon.