Senior Art: Creativity with Acrylics
Date: Tuesdays, June 2nd, 9th, 16th, 23rd, & 30th
Time: 1:00pm-3:00pm
Place: Room 1
8This is a FREE art program for senior citizens ONLY.

**All Supplies will be provided**

We’ll be learning all about acrylic paints, how to apply them, and the mediums that can be used with them. We’ll look at some contemporary artists who paint in acrylic, and after completing a sampler of techniques, we’ll be working to complete three paintings abstractly and intuitively.

Skill Level Needed: No experience!

About the Instructor: Susan "Sue" Supola

Susan, raised in Columbia Falls Montana, taught art and English classes at Flathead High School, Kalispell, for 23 years. She also taught one year at Narmer American College in Maadi, Cairo, Egypt. She received her B.A. Degree in English and Art Education in 1989, from Whitworth University in Spokane, Washington, where she was first introduced to the visual arts. Since then, she’s earned many graduate credits in art. Her first love is painting in watercolor, but she also enjoys working with dyes on silk, acrylic/mixed media painting, bookmaking and basket weaving. Susan was Montana’s Art Educator of the Year in 2004, received a Fulbright-Hays grant for a summer seminar in The Czech Republic and Slovakia in 2001, and was one of 12 teachers in the U.S. chosen to participate in “Modern Art in America,” a Humanities seminar in Research Triangle, North Carolina, 2012. She has shown work at The Hockaday Museum of Art, Longview Library, Columbian Artists show, Oregon Artists Association, The Broadway Gallery, and Paris Gibson Museum of Art.