WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. — The Clark Art Institute offers drop-in watercolor painting on Thursdays in July and August (July 6, 13, 20, and 27 and August 3, 10, 17, 24, and 31) from 1–4 pm. 

 

The weekly program takes place on the Clark Center's Fernández Terrace.

 

Visitors are invited to pick up a miniature watercolor kit and try their hand at plein air painting on the Clark's 140-acre campus. See the landscape with new eyes after getting inspired by the Clark's special exhibition, Edvard Munch: Trembling Earth, or by the permanent collection galleries.

 

Watercolor kits include paint, paper, miniature palette, and optional painting prompts. Pick up a kit on the Fernández Terrace (or, in case of rain, in the Family Room, located on the lower level of the Clark Center).

 

This program is presented in conjunction with the Clark's special exhibition Edvard Munch: Trembling Earth. On view in the Clark Center through October 15, 2023, the exhibition is the first in the United States to reveal how the artist animated nature to convey meaning. The exhibition features approximately eighty paintings, prints, and drawings, organized thematically to reinforce how Munch used nature to express human psychology, celebrate farming practice and garden cultivation, and question the mysteries of the forest as Norway faced industrialization.

 

Free and open to the public. No registration required.