The 2015 Members’ Exhibition opens at the Morean Arts Center in St Petersburg on Saturday, July 11, from 5 to 9 pm. The show runs until August 21. Several of my Morean students and I will have work in the Members’ Exhibition–my entry is a new drawing, Untitled, (from the Dance series) gesso, Sumi ink, wax medium and charcoal on paper, 25 x 20 inches.

My six week Beginning/Intermediate Painting Course at the Morean Arts Center in St Pete started Tuesday evening, June 2, at 7. There are still a few spaces left. Sign up for five weeks or three weeks by calling the Morean at 727-822-7872 or on line at: http://www.moreanartscenter.org/education_classes/class.php… My Thursday morning Beginning/Intermediate Painting Course continues throughout the summer–I’ll be teaching it in my studio, close to downtown St Pete. For more info contact me through www.rosemarieprins.com

Using their choice of acrylics, oils, water soluble oils and mixed media, students will learn various painting techniques such as color blocking, blending, shading, over-painting and direct color application, basic color theory and composition as well as a variety of mixed media techniques including collage and montage. Participants will consolidate information and techniques learned, with the goals of creating more compelling paintings and, in the case of more advanced students, each discovering his or her

I have worked on several Artist-in-Residence projects in Pinellas County, Florida, with at-risk teens through Youth Arts Corps. One of the projects was What Home Means to Me. For this mixed media installation I worked with youth at both Wildwood Recreation Center in South St. Petersburg and at the Gulf Coast Museum in Largo. Each youth was given a shoe box and told to create his or her ideal room in an ideal home using

Spending the summer of 2012 in Santa Fe, where I had lived from 1980 to 1993, brought back memories. In that dry, arid climate I was flooded with memories of my years in New Mexico. It was a period of reflection and contemplation. One day in July I walked into a Santa Fe art gallery where Judy Chicago’s Power Play, a body of paintings from the 1980s, was on exhibit and I was transported to