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Watercolor Painting Class at Sandwich Home Industries Join renowned artist Robert O’Brien for Painting the Many Moods and Facets of Water in the Watercolor Medium. This class, which will be held at the Center Sandwich Fine Craft Gallery, in Center Sandwich, New Hampshire, is for all skill levels and may be taken for two consecutive days or a single day on July 24 and/or July 25 from 10 am to 4 pm. Students will learn techniques from rendering a simple reflective puddle to a mountain stream. The class is geared toward adults (18+). Robert O’Brien has been painting
in the watercolor medium for over 40 years. Since moving to Vermont in 1977, he has focused his work on landscape and architectural studies. New England, with its distinct fourseason climate, provides the artist with a wealth of subject matter and everchanging light effects. The artist finds beauty in the ordinary, subtle reminders of everyday life in rural New England. In his own words, he is driven “to capture the vanishing landscape in my paintings” before they disappear forever as a result of the steady hand of “progress”.
Since 1998, Robert O’Brien has traveled often to Southern France. The region’s sun-splashed landscape and timeless quality of light has added a new dimension to the artist’s paintings. To register, contact sandwichcrafteducation@gmail.com, call 603-284-6831, or visit Sandwich Home Industries, a founding member of the League of NH Craftsmen, at 32 Main Street in the historic village of Center Sandwich. See a complete list of class descriptions at centersandwich. nhcrafts.org.
What is it about New Hampshire that makes hardy souls suffer relentless winters and draws people back each summer from across the globe? Is it the scent of heliotrope and peals of laughter across night air? The meeting of friendly faces on familiar streets? Or the rhythm of reliable traditions across the years? These questions are just some that are explored onstage at Village Players’ Theater in Wolfeboro in its summer production of Thornton Wilder’s Our Town. Diving deep into the Pulitzer Prize-winning script during four months of rehearsal, cast and crew have explored moments from the everyday lives of their characters while becoming more present in the moments of their 21st century experiences: careers, illness, weddings, births and the conflicts and joys of the day-to-day. Set in the fictional town of Grover’s
Corner, NH, Our Town follows the Webb and Gibbs families from 1901 to 1910 as their children grow. Directed by Scott Lounsbury, the production takes playwright Wilder’s desire for a primitive staging to heart. Performed as a staged reading, the lack of scenery and costumes allows Wilder’s words to become the focus, and the “eye candy” to be found in historical photos of the region projected on either side of the stage. Lounsbury, a renowned conductor and composer, brings his musical sense to the production, truly orchestrating the pace and performance to reveal the timelessness of relationships in the natural ebb and flow of life. By doing so, he reflects the playwright’s own words to Albert Einstein about the structure of Our Town, “It is from a life-long devoted listening to Bach, Beethoven, Mozart and Palestrina that I draw, as
best I can, certain aspirations towards form, breadth and expressiveness.” Our Town will be mounted on The Village Players’ historic and airconditioned stage at 51 Glendon Street in Wolfeboro, Fridays and Saturdays,
Watercolor painting by artist Robert Obrien
Explore the Beauty of the Everyday in Our Town
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