Sunday, April 24 | 2 - 3pm | Free with Admission 

Born in Hollywood, Judy Dater studied drawing and painting at UCLA and received her MA in Photography from San Francisco State University in 1966. She began her career photographing the landscape, but felt the urge to incorporate the figure, feeling that the landscape was incomplete without a human presence. Ultimately her images focused on the human face and body, particularly female. She has photographed herself and other women clothed and unclothed in a variety of environments, including their homes, which pose questions about women’s roles, life choices and the media. 

Saturday, April 9 | 2 - 3pm | Free with Admission 

Phillip Hua is a San Francisco based artist whose work has been exhibited in galleries and art fairs nationally and internationally. In 2014, he was selected by Kenneth Baker, former art critic for the San Francisco Chronicle, as one of five artists to exhibit at the Marin Museum of Contemporary Art. In the same year, he was shortlisted for the Young Masters Art Prize, a non-profit wing of the Cynthia Corbett Gallery (London), which recognizes young artists who reference old masters. Just this year, he was selected as one of five artists to create artwork for the pilot art program, Art in Muni, in which artists produce work to be featured inside San Francisco Muni buses.

Hua has participated in group shows at the Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, Oakland Museum of California and SFMOMA. Hua is a member of the adjunct faculty at the Academy of Art University in San Francisco where he teaches Digital Media.

Sunday, April 3 | 2 - 3pm | Free with Admission 

Kim Frohsin began exhibiting in the San Francisco Bay Area in the early 1990s, and in 1993 was included with Nathan Olivera, Manuel Neri and Stephen De Staebler in the exhibit Four Figures from the Bay. With Wayne Thiebaud as the juror, she won the California Society of Printmakers' Award in 1996, and the following year exhibited at the de Young Museum in San Francisco in Bay Area Art: The Morgan Flagg Collection.

Frohsin works in several media: painting, drawing, printmaking, and mixed media. Her subjects include the female figure, landscapes and cityscapes, as well as objects and series that attract her attention, and which are most often autobiographical in nature. Frohsin received her BFA from The Academy of Art College in San Francisco. She has exhibited in many solo and group exhibitions throughout the United States and her work can be found in both private and public collections including The Coca-Cola Corporation, Heritage Communications, Atlanta, GA; The Gap Inc., San Francisco, CA; The Crocker Art Museum, Sacramento, CA; and The San Jose Museum of Art, San Jose, CA.

Thursday, March 31 | 7 - 8pm | Free with Admission

Linda Christensen received her fine arts education at the University of California, Santa Cruz, where she obtained a Bachelor of Arts in 1985 and a Graduate Certificate the following year. Born in Berkeley, and currently residing and working in Santa Cruz, Christensen has always drawn inspiration and serenity from her natural surrounds, especially the coast. The horizon line has been present in the artist’s life since she was born and is featured in nearly all of her works. In her evocative paintings of ocean landscapes and domestic interiors this linear reference to her past and present is always there. While her work is deeply personal, Christensen ultimately pays homage to the universality of human emotion. More than merely observing the figure, the viewer is invited to sympathize with the subject.

Christensen states: “It is not enough to simply observe; we understand ourselves and others through feeling, through checking in emotionally. As a child I was always in tune with the subtle shifts in mood of those around me and this sensitive observation of strangers has continued to inspire my work as an artist. I catch people who are in a private place and are turned within. It is a brief moment, but something that we all do without being aware. There’s something magical in seeing the humanness in others as they turn inwards, reflectively, but uncritically.” 

Christensen has been represented by galleries in New York, Carmel, Laguna Beach, Dallas, and Ketchum, Idaho. Her work is prized in numerous collections across the United States, including the Crocker Art Museum of Fresno, the George Blair Collection, and Nordstrom.

Sunday, March 20 | 1 - 4pm | $15 Materials Fee

Inspired by our current exhibition, More Than Your Selfie, you will create your own shadow selfie’s! Participants will create a silhouette self-portrait, and then use collage and their own drawings to fill their self-portrait in with the colors and imagery that represent their likes, dislikes, and all other aspects of what makes them unique! Drop-in anytime between 1pm and 4pm, no registration required. All ages welcome, all children under 7 must be accompanied by an adult.

Elizabeth Greer has been working with elementary and middle school students for over 15 years. She is a long-time member and past president of the Art Docents of Los Gatos. An active Maker, Elizabeth enjoys exploring the intersection of art, science and technology with students while creating projects like rockets, digital art and photography, and LED artworks in classes at NUMU and the Los Gatos Recreation Department.

Pre-registration is not required for drop-in workshops, but feel free to pay in advance via Paypal. Please select which workshop you will be attending here, no registration form submission is required.

Saturday, March 19 | 2 - 3pm | Free with Admission

Self-examination and the body are important to Erin Feller's work, and self-portraiture has maintained a constant presence. Much of her work is autobiographical. She is concerned with the scope of living inside her mind and body (anatomy and physiology, transformation, disease, and consciousness, emotion and cognition). Feller says "her personal experiences, the life cycle, and nature are... main subjects. Collection and self-examination are two of themost important acts in [her] process, and are often visually exemplified through layers, translucency [and] juxtaposition." Feller uses her art practice to compute, transform, and transmit the discoveries she makes in everyday life. 

Feller received her BFA from the Art Academy of Cincinnati in 2004. She has participated in multiple solo and group exhibitions in galleries and museums both nationaly and abroad, including the Cincinnati Art Museum and Hien Minh Art Gallery, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam. 

Sunday, March 13 | 2 - 3pm | Free with Admission 

Julie Heffernan grew up in the West, vacationing in the grand spaces of National Parks and taking in landscapes that inspired artists such as Bierstadt. She received her BFA in Painting and Printmaking from the University of California, Santa Cruz and her Masters of Fine Art in Painting from the Yale School of Art.  Her luxuriant paintings are expressions of Heffernan’s knowledge of art history, a passion for the environment and the result of her drawing upon images from her subconscious that she conjures through a meditative type of image streaming. Heffernan considers much of her work as a kind of self-portrait and titles them as such. 

Saturday, March 5 | 2 - 3pm | Free with admission 

“I paint a fusion of two genres: still life and portraiture. I call these paintings Portraits in Absentia. These paintings are memories of lives, real or imagined, of relationships, of spirits, of paths chosen or found.” 

Born and raised in Utah, Elizabeth Barlow studied painting in California and at the Art Students League of New York. She received her MA from University of Virginia. Barlow's work has been exhibited throughout California. Her unique combination of still life and portraiture suggests that objects, such as a pair of shoes, a dress, a shirt, will retain something of the essence of the person who wore them, and can illustrate life stories, choices made and moments passed.  For Barlow, an object can at be once specific to a certain person and also universal in its symbolic evocations, offering the viewer a relatable connection.