new year, new series of artist entrepreneurial workshops
The New Hampshire State Council on the Arts is offering its third series of free workshops for professional New Hampshire artists seeking to build their business skills, promote their work and network with other artists.

All workshops run from 3 to 5 p.m. at the N.H. State Council on the Arts office at 2 1/2 Beacon St. in Concord. Snow dates are set for the following day.

The first workshop takes place Tuesday, Jan. 23. Learn about the benefits of having a Web site, how to get started, site architecture, pros and cons of creating your own site, how to market your site, and other tips in “I Think I Want/Need a Web Site, But Where Do I Begin?,” facilitated by Dan Pouliot, webmaster (Cabletron/Enterasys) and artist (photography, oil painting, digital art).

On Feb. 27, during “Artist Grants and Services: What Do We Do? What Are You Missing?,” N.H. State Council on the Arts staff will share information and answer questions about the various services and grants offered to professional artists with a particular focus on public art, fellowships and artist entrepreneurial grants and workshops.

Learn more about “Approaching a Gallery & Patron Relationships” on March 27, and about “Pricing: For What It’s Worth” on April 24.

The series concludes with an “Artist to Artist Dialogue,” a philosophical and practical discussion about making a living in the arts.

Space is limited. Register by calling 603-271-2789 or e-mailing This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it

Coolidge Center for the Arts open house
The winter series of beginner and intermediate studio art classes at Wentworth-Coolidge Mansion, 375 Little Harbor Road, Portsmouth, begins Jan. 22 and runs for six weeks. For registration or more information, call 603-436-6607.

For interested participants, the school is offering a free open house with light refreshments at their carriage house gallery on Sunday, Jan. 7, from 2 to 4 p.m. where instructors will answer questions while displaying their work.

Faculty include Adeline Goldminc-Tronzo, Donna Harkins, Dewitt Hardy, Pamela Dulong Williams, Bruce Iverson, Norma Machado, Dustan Knight and Christina Eadie.

Classes include “Fundamentals of Simple Watercolor,” “Pet Portraits,” “Continuing Chinese Brush Painting,” “Drawing from the Inside Out,” “Advance Watercolor,” “Drawing the Landscape,” “Drawing for Beginners,” “Capturing Color in Pastel,” “Figure Drawing from Life,” “Basics and Beyond in Oil,” “Intro to Chinese Brush Painting,” “Portraits in Oil,” “Beginning Stained Glass” and “Intermediate Stained Glass.”

Open house attendees can receive $10 off same-day registration if they bring a coupon from the Web site, www.wentworthcoolidge.org. Through the generosity of the Fuller Foundation, a limited number of scholarships are available.
 
new instructors at Sanctuary Arts
Sanctuary Arts winter classes begin in mid-January, running at staggered intervals through March. A full schedule is available by visiting www.sanctuaryarts.org or by calling 207-438-9826.

The Eliot, Maine, arts center has added four new instructors to the core of professional artists instructors. Christopher Pothier, a Concord artist with a background in traditional European painting who makes much of his living painting murals in Boston, is teaching “Representational Oil Painting” and “Figure Painting.” Norma Machado, a member of the Copley Society and the Pastel Society of America, will be offering her expertise in pastels. Pamela Dulong Williams, whose work can be seen locally at Three Graces Gallery, will be teaching oil painting. Janet Nina Carlson will teach a non-toxic monotype gelatin print class that will feature creative techniques using materials directly from nature, along with geometric and textural patterns.

In addition, watercolorist Dewitt Hardy will be teaching “Watercolor Figure in the Environment”; Cate Aichele, who has training in the French academic tradition, will be teaching an “Old Master” drawing class using Renaissance techniques, as well as a figure sculpture workshop, sculpting a half-life size nude; and Alice Carroll will offer, along with her popular jewelry and metalsmithing class, both precious metal clay and silver casting workshops.

Christopher Gowell offers a technical sculpture class, and Dustan Knight continues her landscape theme with “Painting Outdoors/Inside,” working both realistically and abstractly in water media. Botanical artist Carol Ann Morley will teach the traditions, techniques and beauty of this classical art form, along with her usual class in basic drawing.