Color Charts Workshop

Understand your colors with Nancy Romanovsky Artists serious about mastering color understand the transformative value of creating color charts. This workshop will guide you through the systematic process of building charts with value gradations for the colors in your palette, enabling you to achieve a deeper mastery of color.

Watch Fern Paint

This is an opportunity to view artist Fern Tallos at work while they paint a mural in the museum. This mural will be the backdrop for a new exhibit all about Olympia’s history. Learn about mural painting by watching it in progress, and get a sneak preview of our upcoming exhibit. We need to prepare …

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Art History Book Club Meeting

Join us in the Tacoma Community College Building 4 Art Gallery or online for an Art History Book Club discussion of “The Glass Artist” by Tracey Chevalier.

Summer at the Schmidt Midsummer Night’s Dream Faire

Walk into a whimsical fair with fire breathers, live music from Pearl Django, and activities!. Enjoy themed food and drink while you stroll through the grounds and rose garden. Other surprises will entertain you throughout the night. Proceeds will benefit the Procession of the Species organization.

In Defense of the Arts

by Ned Hayes, publisher and Christian Carvajal, managing editor of OLY ARTS “The arts…are essential to the prosperity of the state and to the ornament and happiness of human life. They have a primary claim to the encouragement of every lover of his country and mankind.” —George Washington We stand for art. Our publication is …

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