Each workshop will include a short lecture, guided exercises, and experiments highlighting techniques core to Arnela and Jim’s processes. The weekend includes 8 instructional hours, over the course of two days. Local artists are encouraged to sign up for one or both workshops at www.thewoodshed.art Space is limited so sign up now to ensure your spot.

The workshops will culminate with a public reception on January 19, at 4:15 pm.

Arnela Mahmutović is an Albany based painter whose influences overlap and combine with her Balkan heritage, resulting in an intimate and shifting relationship between displaced bodies and invented spaces; constructed worlds in which each live as agents of their own narrative. Her Masterclass will focus on “the hand” as a conduit to explore notions of identity, memory, and personal history.

Jim Peters is a figurative artist and a member of the Visual Arts Committee at the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown. He presently teaches drawing at the Rhode Island School Of Design and painting at the Fine Arts Work Center Summer Program in Provincetown, MA. His Masterclass will focus on figure drawing, and the interplay of the figure and interior spaces, as well as an exploration of tonality to push and pull depth and volume. 

The Eclipse Mill is a wheel chair accessible building. 

This program is funded in part by a grant from the Cultural Council of Northern Berkshire, a local agency which is supported by the Mass Cultural Council, a state agency.

Additional support provided by New England Puppet Arts and the Eclipse Mill.

What: Master Class Workshops w/
Arnela Mahmutović and Jim Peters

Dates: Jan. 18 (Jim) & 19 (Arnela)

Time: 11 am – 4 pm, daily

Where: Eclipse Mill, 243 Union St., North Adams, MA 

More: Public Reception Jan. 19 at 4:15 pm

Tuition: $50/workshop ($75 for both)