Since opening Carmel Visual Arts — seven years ago — Carol Henry and I have been building “community” through our studio and gallery. Since then we have hosted over art 30 exhibitions in Carmel, with well-over 100 workshops and dozens of public art demonstrations. We are extremely happy to share that more than one thousand artists have taken these workshops with top professional instructors in both painting and photography.
Read MoreWith all of the latest news from WHO, the Federal Government, and all the way down to state and local jurisdictions, we are scrambling to forecast some future dates for some of our scheduled workshops and events at Carmel Visual Arts. We are working on that this week. For now, know that our April 2020 workshops are being moved to later dates and we will likely be doing the same for some of the May dates as well. In the meantime, you...
Read MoreUPDATE Aug 18, 2020 Carmel Visual Arts Director, Rich Brimer talks about recent changes that have been made due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Our 2020 workshop schedule has been a moving target so we have decided to postpone the rest of our scheduled workshops to 2021. Please view our updated workshop list here. We were only able to host 4 out of the scheduled 18 workshops for 2020. I never imagined that we would have to cancel or...
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Announcing the opening of an art destination with Space to Create If you have always wanted to paint in a place that has the green hills of Ireland, horses and whiskey then join Carmel Visual Arts in launching their second location in America’s heartland to paint and photograph in Kentucky. Rich Brimer and Carol Henry have acquired a beautiful 1871 manor in the rolling hills of Springfield, Kentucky less than 15 minutes from the...
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Carmel Visual Arts is proud to announce a special one-day class coming up in January 2020. Per Elof Nilsson Ricklund will be coming for a one day Figure class in Jan 2020. At the age of twenty one, Per Elof became the Director of Anatomy at the Florence Academy of Art, where he has since taught drawing, painting and sculpture. We are very happy to have him with us. This mixed-media figure class is only one day; Sunday, January 12,...
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