​Hello Reader,​

Long before a class begins, I am thinking about the experience I want to create for you. The colors that will find their way onto your palette. The conversations that unfold around the table. The feeling I hope you carry home when the afternoon is over.

As a teaching artist for more than 26 years, I have learned that art flourishes when people feel welcomed, encouraged, and genuinely seen. Every lesson is thoughtfully planned, every demonstration carefully prepared, every project designed to help you grow at your own pace while experiencing the pleasure of making something with your hands.

My hope is that you leave with more than a finished painting.

I hope you leave with a greater appreciation for what art can do — how it slows us down, sharpens our eye, and helps us notice beauty in ordinary moments.

I hope you leave with a sense of community. The kind that naturally forms when people sit down together, share stories, and make something side by side.

And I hope you leave feeling that creativity belongs to you. Not to a select few. To all of us.

Watercolor Fridays with Sharon Ann Smith​
July 10, 17 and 24
1:30 to 3:30pm
​99 Stockton Suites, Suite 6B, Rosemont NJ​

$225 for all three sessions. All materials included. Nothing to buy, nothing to bring.
Drop in for a single session: $75.

This Friday is the first session. There is still room.

​Sign up for watercolor!​

Or reply to this email and I will get you set up.

With gratitude,
Sharon Ann Smith

P.S. Know someone who has been wanting to try watercolor? This is the one to forward. One week left to join.

The 2026 BCCAC Student Show opens July 12 at Pennswood Art Gallery in Newtown.

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Artist Talk and Opening at 2pm. Free and open to the public.

This is oil painting from our atelier program. Come see the full show.

​Pennswood Art Gallery, Newtown PA​

Hope to see you there!