Category: Art on the River

Art at the River

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Saturday, August 10, 2024

9-11am at Middlebridge Preserve, 95 Middlebridge Road, Narragansett, RI 02882

Click here to sign up. All are welcome to this free event.

On Saturday morning, August 10, 2024, Narrow River Preservation Association welcomes artists of all ages and skill levels welcome to create art along Narrow River.

(Rain date Sunday, August 11, same time and location.)

  • “Plein air” (open air) painters will demonstrate their techniques and others will give instruction in drawing and painting scenes of the Middlebridge area.
  • Bring your own easel or sketch pad.  Sketch your version of an expansive landscape view or crouch down and capture a still life view of oysters on the fringe of the salt marsh.
  • NRPA will provide other guided activities including paper and supplies needed to make seaweed art and fish prints. We encourage you to bring blank T-shirts and/or pillowcases so you can make a fish print onto those, too!

FREE and open to All ages!  The gathering area is a field with grass and dirt surfaces. Wheelchairs are welcome.

If you would like to volunteer to support this event, then please VISIT THIS LINK to share your areas of interest with us.

Thanks to all who joined us for Art on the River August 2023!

Click here to read an article in The Independent about Art on the River featuring photos by Michael Derr.

Thanks to everyone who joined us on Saturday, August 6, 2022 for Art on the River

We had a wonderful time creating seaweed art, making fish prints, learning to play hubbub from Silvermoon LaRose of the Tomaquag Museum and then each decorating our own hubbub game to keep!

Hannah (left) and Silvermoon look on as Veronica shows them how to make seaweed prints.
Silvermoon (right) taught guests how to play hubbub, an Indigenous bowl game, then invited each attendee to decorate their own game pieces to keep.
Plein air painting along the river
Fish prints
Making art with seaweed
Seaweed Art
Fish prints
Experienced artist and NRPA Board President Richard Grant shows others how to draw perspective.

Art on the River 2020

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**Out of an abundance of caution. we have cancelled this year’s Art on the River event. We invite you to create art near or about the river and send us your photos! Photos can be emailed to nrpa@narrowriver.org. Stay well!**

One Saturday morning each August, Narrow River Preservation Association welcomes artists of all ages and skill levels welcome to create art along Narrow River.

Local artists will give instruction in drawing and painting scenes of the Middlebridge area. Bring your easel or sketch pad. Sketch your version of an expansive landscape view or crouch down and capture a still life view of oysters on the fringe of the salt marsh. “Plein air” (open air) painters will demonstrate their techniques.

Photographers are welcome to capture the sights with camera, iphone or ipad.

Children are welcome! We will provide guided activities including seaweed art and fish prints. Bring a T shirt if you would like to make a fish print onto it!

At Middlebridge Marina, 95 Middlebridge Road, Narragansett, RI.

FREE and open to the public. All are welcome!

Thanks also to the GFWC Women’s Club of South County for supporting our partnership with the Jonnycake Center of Peace Dale.