Nature Printing Tree Rings workshop with Elizabeth Murray
Feb
15
2:00 PM14:00

Nature Printing Tree Rings workshop with Elizabeth Murray

In this unique mixed-media workshop you will be taught Nature Printing, a printmaking technique that combines plant-pressing, botanical printing, and hand coloring. The workshop will include demonstrations and a printing session where participants will learn how to create charming, hand-pressed compositions using fresh flowers, foliage, and feathers with ink and paper. The compositions will then be painted. All participants will leave the workshop with gorgeous works of art reminiscent of antique botanical prints.

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Rites of Nature
Jan
26
1:00 PM13:00

Rites of Nature

special event

rites of nature
january 26th • 1-4pm

Ancestor connections, nature printing, grief tending, going forward with commitment with all our kin. Special guests: Laurence Cole, Duncan & Melany Berry, musicians, and magic makers.

Pacific Grove Arts Center: 568 Lighthouse Avenue, Pacific Grove, CA 93950
Closed Monday & Tuesdays.
This is a FREE Event

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In Kinship with Trees
Jan
25
2:00 PM14:00

In Kinship with Trees

special event

in kinship WITH trees
january 25th • 2-4pm

Singing, poetry, story, plant music.
Special Guests: Laurence Cole, Elizabeth Murray. Poets: Duncan Berry, Casey Cushing, Jessica Dune Neafsey, King Grossman, Edward Earl Jarvis, Patrice Vecchione and Penny Vieregge.
Musician: Chris Gourlay


Pacific Grove Arts Center: 568 Lighthouse Avenue, Pacific Grove, CA 93950
Closed Monday & Tuesdays.
This is a FREE Event

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Watercolor Workshop
Jul
13
10:00 AM10:00

Watercolor Workshop

  • 62 Avenue Maria Road Monterey, CA, 93940 United States (map)
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Come paint with me.

Saturday, July 13th /  10am - 3pm

We will meet at my Monterey home, warm up in the garden, and studio with drawing and watercolor exercises. Then we will go paint in some of the charming historic gardens downtown Monterey. We will  have lunch in the gardens of Alta Bakery cafe in the Cooper Molera Adobe, a National Trust Historic Site with old roses, an orchard and delightful buildings and barns dating from 1827. I will show you some of my favorite features and stories of each garden.

Practice telling a story, seeing shapes, mixing colors, playing with light and shadows, abstraction, or reality. We will draw, paint, experiment and have fun! We will end in my garden and share our art with
a cool drink & toast. 

Cost: $240.

Bring your favorite supplies or use some of mine, a sun hat & lunch money.

Painting in the historic gardens of Monterey

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Up-Cycling an Old book into your favorite art journal treasure!
Jun
22
5:30 PM17:30

Up-Cycling an Old book into your favorite art journal treasure!

Paint, draw, collage, write your favorite poems or reflections on pages you watercolor first. 

Bring some personal paper memorabilia - old photos, greeting cards you love, postcards, vacation memorabilia, stamps, postcards, tickets, etc (can be Xerox copies)

We will have old books to choose from and magazines to collage with. If you have a favorite paint set, pens, colored pencils etc, bring them along. We will have some as well to share.

PLEASE REGISTER by calling the reference desk or emailing referencedesk@cityofpacificgrove.org
let them know your name, email & phone in case there are any changes! 
The reference librarian in charge is Catrina Coyle 831-648-5762

FREE EVENT BUT SPOTS ARE LIMITED
(Thanks Friends of PG Library!)

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Watercolor as Play
Mar
16
10:00 AM10:00

Watercolor as Play

  • 62 Avenue Maria Road Monterey, CA, 93940 United States (map)
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Watercolor as play
Saturday, MARCH 16th • 10 - 2pm

Event Location: Elizabeth Murray Studios - 62 Ave Maria Road, Monterey, CA 93940

Watercolor as play, experimenting, embracing beauty, embracing non-perfection as a gateway to discovery and delight. Open for all skill levels- techniques will be taught as well ways to explore new ideas and ways to approach with color, overlays, wet into wet, drawing or not first, etc. 

Class Cost: $190. - Home made soup, bread and tea provided. Supplies available or bring your own.
All levels of experience welcome.

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Artist Storytelling: Iluminado 
Dec
10
2:00 PM14:00

Artist Storytelling: Iluminado 

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ARTIST STORYTELLING: December 10th, 2:00- 3:30pm (Admission is FREE)
Monterey Museum of Art - Pacific Street 559 Pacific Street Monterey, CA 93940
Elizabeth will tell Magical Secrets From the Trees as the Woman of the Woods… along with 2 other artist storytellers!

Iluminado is a mesmerizing series of artful trees created by local artists: Edi Matsumoto, Elizabeth Murray, Mark Schlegel, JP Frary, and Sea Sevilla and Avelino Sanher of La Neta Murals. More than mere installations, these trees serve as interactive symbols, capturing the diverse voices of our community. Within Iluminado, visitors are invited to collaborate with each exhibition. With Elizabeth’s tree you are invited to write love notes to trees remembering all their beauty and life giving generosity. Children of all ages are writing notes to fairies to post in on the fairy tree and white paper doves have messages of peace in over 100 languages. Elizabeth’s large oil paintings of sacred groves glow, radiating with healing colors across the gallery. Come add your messages and discover some surprises at Iluminado.

Museum open to see exhibition Thursdays - Sundays 11-5  • Free for December 

OTHER NOTABLE EVENTS

December 22nd: WINTER SOLSTICE CELEBRATION - 5:30 - 7:30 pm
The longest night of the year will be magical celebrating art, community, trees, and Light together.

For full details of this exhibit please click here.

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Create a Handmade Book of what you Love
Dec
9
9:00 AM09:00

Create a Handmade Book of what you Love

Join me for this fun interactive workshop where we will make an accordion fold book with watercolor paper. Beautiful handmade papers will inspire you for your book cover. Inside - you can draw, watercolor paint, collage, or write pomes, notes, inspirational quotes. Bring photos, or treasured cards you have kept to add to the pages of what you love. I have found the act of creating a book of what I love is so nurturing and uplifting to make and to have.

Some themes might include: places, people, animals, plants, pomes, flowers, artwork, spiritual symbols, whatever lifts your spirit. This project is both fun and satisfying to make and have.

This project is both fun and satisfying to make and have. Bring your girl friend, spouse, or daughter. This will be an activity to enjoy together and a keepsake you will treasure.

Cost: $190
Soup, bread and tea will be shared with anything else you would like to add. Supplies included. All levels of experience welcome.

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Watercolor & Sketching to Awaken your Inner Artist
Nov
11
10:00 AM10:00

Watercolor & Sketching to Awaken your Inner Artist

Join me for this creative workshop where we will create a wreath of flowers with watercolors to make into your holiday blessing, greeting or illustrate your journal. Fun, quick drawing lessons will deepen your ability to see, and your hand to move as you draw what you see. You will learn simple, clear design elements - to make your art sing. We will review some watercolor techniques: play will be the way to awaken your natural abilities to create with curiosity and humor. There will be flowers, the garden and many intriguing objects to create your own creation as well as poems and blessings for inspiration. There will be several flower wreaths you can paint to create your own set of note cards, or to illustrate a blessing if you choose. Each artist in attendance will be given one of my flower illustrated wreath blessings as a gift.

Bring a friend or family member to create with you… See you soon!

Cost: $190
Soup, bread and tea will be shared with anything else you would like to add. Supplies included. All levels of experience welcome.

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Sep
10
10:00 AM10:00

Spiritual Teachings From The Trees

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Spiritual Teaching From the Trees

You are invited to my talk on 
“Spiritual Teaching From the Trees“
September 10th at 10:00 AM
Center for Spiritual Awakening (Ancient Wisdom in a Modern Way)
522 Central Ave., Pacific Grove, CA 93950

Singing with some of us from Wholehearted Community Song Circle 
Everyone is welcome. Donations accepted .

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Open Studio's Tour - October 8th & 9th
Oct
8
to Oct 9

Open Studio's Tour - October 8th & 9th

  • 62 Avenue Maria Road Monterey, CA, 93940 United States (map)
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Lets celebrate creativity, community and kinship with all of life for mutual thriving and well being.

Garden and studio open, new paintings, watercolors, and oils. All are welcome - you are encouraged to visit Open Studios throughout our community.

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Nature Printing with Elizabeth Murray and Latifat Apatira
May
28
12:30 PM12:30

Nature Printing with Elizabeth Murray and Latifat Apatira

In this unique mixed-media workshop you will be taught Nature Printing, a printmaking technique that combines plant-pressing, botanical printing, and hand coloring. The workshop will include demonstrations and a printing session where participants will learn how to create charming, hand-pressed compositions using fresh flowers, foliage, and feathers with ink and paper. The compositions will then be painted. All participants will leave the workshop with gorgeous works of art reminiscent of antique botanical prints.

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Creating your Illustrated Journal of Wonder and Gratitude - May
May
11
5:00 PM17:00

Creating your Illustrated Journal of Wonder and Gratitude - May

Theme for May is Honoring the Feminine way of being. The month of the Mother- a time to honor mothering of all kinds especially our Mother Earth. We will draw from cross-cultural aspects of the divine feminine in art, beliefs, and in relationship to nature. We will explore in our actions of loving kindness, beauty making, love and nurture, healing, peacemaking as some of the feminine gifts we each hold and can develop no matter what gender we are. We will celebrate the feminine with our art making, gratitude practices and openness to wonder and joy. I hope you join me for this last session.

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Creating your Illustrated Journal of Wonder and Gratitude - April
Apr
13
5:00 PM17:00

Creating your Illustrated Journal of Wonder and Gratitude - April

April Theme: The Theme will be Grandmother Ocean - we will draw and paint from the beauty of the ever changing life giving sea and deepen into our own personal metaphors of the ocean. I will collect shells, seaweed, stones, feathers, and other treasures on the edge of the sea for us to be inspired by as well as photo references. We will explore watercolor techniques of wet into wet, use of salt, over laying, splattering to give a sense of spray, movement, and spontaneity. I will weave in marine biology information, with spiritual metaphor, and artist considerations.

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Fundraiser for Ukraine Refugees
Mar
17
to Apr 15

Fundraiser for Ukraine Refugees

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Sunflowers are the symbol of Ukraine and symbolize happiness, optimism, honesty, peace, and nuclear disarmament. Join me with your support for the people of Ukraine. 100% of all poster sales will go to help feed the refugees though World Central Kitchen. I will sign the poster and mail them to you in a tube after April 20. You can donate directly donate.wck.org and let me know or send your donation via PayPal and let me know. I suggest $100. Per poster but you give what you can. Send me your address and which poster you would like- or both! Each positive action counts! Thank you !

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