NEW IBERIA, La. --- This year’s Shadows-on-the-Teche Plein Air competition will be bookended by two painting workshops led by plein air artists Richie Vios and Mark Boedges.
Richie Vios:
Richie Vios will be leading the two-day workshop Essential Elements: A Watercolor Workshop for Plein Air Painting on March 9-10, 2022, at 7837 Main Hwy. in St. Martinville.
Vios, a licensed architect turned plein air watercolorist, will share how to be a successful plein air artist by simplifying the watercolor process into the essential elements, guiding each artist for a better understanding of the watercolor medium through live demonstrations.
Vios is a faculty of the 2022 Watercolor Live, 2022 Teaching Faculty at the Plein Air Convention and Expo in Santa Fe, NM and a juried artist for Shadows Plein Air 2022.
The cost to participate in the workshop is $200, and a portion of the funds will be used to support the Shadows. More information about Vios’ workshop can be found on the Shadows
website.
Mark Boedges:
Mark Boedges, judge for Shadows Plein Air, will be leading a three-day workshop from March 19-21, 2022 at the Shadows (320 E. Main St., New Iberia).
The workshop will focus primarily on giving students the tools to render authentic light by carefully using correct values and rigorously maintaining color temperature relationships between light and shadow.
Among the top honors Boedges has received are the Grand Prize for Landscape and a spot on the cover of International Artist magazine, as well as more recently the Joseph Hartley Memorial Award at the prestigious Salmagundi Club in New York City, Best in Show at the American Impressionist Society's National Exhibition, and Best in Show at the Scottsdale Salon of Fine Art.
The cost to participate in the workshop is $599. More information about Boedges’ workshop can be found on his
website.
Shadows Plein Air Schedule:
The Shadows-on-the-Teche Plein Air Painting Competition will take place March 12-18, 2022. Visitors are invited to travel around the seven-parish area and watch artists paint en plein air.
Other festivities planned during competition week can be found below. Additional details about these events can be found on the Shadows’
website.
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March 9-10: Watercolor Workshop with Richie Vios in St. Martinville (7837 Main Hwy.).
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March 12: Quick Draw at 3 p.m. in downtown New Iberia.
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March 13: Paint Delcambre from 7 a.m.- 8 p.m. at Bayou Carlin Cove; Art Talk with Mark Boedges at noon; Artist Meet and Greet at 5 p.m. (605 S. Railroad St., Delcambre).
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March 15: Painting Demo at 1 p.m. at Hilliard Art Museum (710 E. St. Mary Blvd., Lafayette).
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March 17: Painting Demo at 2 p.m. near the Shadows.
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March 18: Paint Out from 9 a.m. - 1 p.m. in downtown New Iberia; Awards Ceremony & Fine Art Sale at 6:30 p.m. at Shadows Visitor Center
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March 19-21: Painting Workshop with Mark Boedges at the Shadows.
About Shadows-on-the-Teche Plein Air:
The Shadows-on-the-Teche Plein Air competition debuted in 2015, introducing the community to painting en plein air. The tradition of “painting outside” is one explored by William Weeks Hall, the last private owner of the Shadows, who advertised for and taught painting classes in the gardens in the 1940s.
In the seven-year history of the competition, over 180 artists from 28 states, Canada, and the Philippines have applied to participate. Almost 100 of these artists have traveled to New Iberia for the opportunity to spend a week painting Acadiana, helping to preserve our unique landscape and historic, urban, and rural viewscapes. Painting sales, the driving force behind the event and a clearer measure of success, increase each year with a grand total of $140,000 over the history of the event, providing support to the artists and the Shadows.
About the Shadows-on-the-Teche:
The Shadows-on-the-Teche, National Trust for Historic Preservation site, opened to the public in 1961 with the mission to preserve the buildings, landscape, collections, and historical integrity of the site; to research and interpret through education programs a 19th century southern Louisiana plantation economy and community and their evolution; and to encourage an appreciation of and interest in historic preservation. The
National Trust for Historic Preservation, which owns and operates the Shadows-on-the-Teche, is a private, non-profit organization. The Shadows does not receive funding from federal, state, parish, or city government. The site supports itself through admissions, special programs and events, and donations to the Friends of the Shadows. For more information, visit
ShadowsOnTheTeche.org.
For more information please contact Jayd Buteaux at (337) 369-6446 or
JButeaux@savingplaces.org. Funds raised from Plein Air will be used for the continued preservation and maintenance of the Shadows.
