Front-Range Meeting

DATE: Saturday, March 14, 2026 TIME: 10:00-10:30 am, socializing with coffee and snacks 10:30-11:00 am, meeting 11:00am-12:30 pm demo, with room available till 1 as needed Location: Wheat Ridge Center for Music & Arts (currently also Wheat Ridge United Methodist Church)7530 W. 38th Ave. Demo Artist: To be announced

DATE: Saturday, February 14, 2026 TIME: 10:00-10:30 am, socializing with coffee and snacks 10:30-11:00 am, meeting 11:00am-12:30 pm demo, with room available till 1 as needed LOCATION: Wheat Ridge Center for Music & Arts (currently also Wheat Ridge United Methodist Church)7530 W. 38th Ave. DEMO ARTIST: MITCH CASTER For our meeting, we are privileged to have Mitch Caster demonstrate drawing a clothed model in charcoal. Mitch Caster is a Colorado-based fine artist and life drawing instructor. In his oil paintings, pastels, and drawings, his subjects come to life with exceptional use of light and shadows, and extraordinary depth. His background as a courtroom illustrator

DATE: Saturday, January 10, 2026 TIME: 10:00-10:30 am, socializing with coffee and snacks 10:30-11:00 am, meeting 11:00am-12:30 pm demo, with room available till 1 as needed Location: Wheat Ridge Center for Music & Arts (currently also Wheat Ridge United Methodist Church)7530 W. 38th Ave. DEMO: “Starting Strong” with Jen Starling As artists we can learn from and be inspired by many forms of art expression. This season we will be treated to artists employing various media with experience and insights to share that transcend the boundaries of single a medium. Jen will demo a portrait in oil.  Jen Starling focused seriously on ballet and

DATE: Saturday, September 13th, 2025 TIME: 10:00-10:30 am, socializing with coffee and snacks 10:30-11:00 am, meeting 11:00am-12:30 pm demo, with room available till 1:00 as needed Location: Wheat Ridge Center for Music & Arts (currently also Wheat Ridge United Methodist Church)7530 W. 38th Ave. Demo Artist: Jeannette Stutzman Jeannette Stutzman is a painter who works in soft pastel and oils, and paints in an impressionistic style with a focus on the landscape. She is a Master Signature Member of the Pastel Society of Colorado and is currently the Co-President. Visit https://JeannetteStutzman.com to see more examples of her artwork.

DATE: Saturday, November 8th, 2025 TIME: 10:00-10:30 am, socializing with coffee and snacks 10:30-11:00 am, meeting 11:00am-12:30 pm demo, with room available till 1 as needed Location: Wheat Ridge Center for Music & Arts (currently also Wheat Ridge United Methodist Church)7530 W. 38th Ave. DEMO ARTIST: Sarah Blumenschein Sarah Blumenschein makes her home in Albuquerque, New Mexico.  Many are surprised to find out that even though creating art was her first passion and first choice of a degree, she ended up earning a Bachelor’s Degree in Industrial Engineering.  As a result, she spent 14 years working in industry as an engineer before “retiring”

DATE: Saturday, October 11th, 2025 TIME: 10:00-10:30 am, socializing with coffee and snacks 10:30-11:00 am, meeting 11:00am-12:30 pm demo, with room available till 1 as needed Location: Wheat Ridge Center for Music & Arts (currently also Wheat Ridge United Methodist Church)7530 W. 38th Ave. DEMO ARTIST: Patrick Kochanasz Kochanasz studied at the Baum School of Art in Allentown, PA from 2001-2005. He continued his studies in Visual Arts at Penn State University. After moving to Colorado in 2012, he became enthralled by the vast terrains of Colorado and the American West. As an avid backpacker, his paintings soon became the embodiment of his backcountry excursions.

DATE: Saturday, May 10th, 2025 TIME: 10:00-10:30 am, socializing with coffee and snacks 10:30-11:00 am, meeting 11:00am-12:30 pm demo, with room available till 1:00 as needed Location: Wheat Ridge Center for Music & Arts (currently also Wheat Ridge United Methodist Church)7530 W. 38th Ave. Demo Artist: Carole Katchen “How to Turn A Boring Painting into One That’s Exciting” PSC welcomes Carole Katchen as our demo artist for the May 10 Front Range member meeting.Carole Katchen has been a professional artist for 60 years. Her first solo exhibit was at the Denver Art Gallery (Saks Gallery) in 1972. Since then her work has been

DATE: Saturday, April 12th, 2025 TIME: 10:00-10:30 am, socializing with coffee and snacks 10:30-11:00 am, meeting 11:00am-12:30 pm demo, with room available till 1:00 as needed Location: Wheat Ridge Center for Music & Arts (currently also Wheat Ridge United Methodist Church)7530 W. 38th Ave. Demo Artist: Lorraine Trenholm “Anything Goes” A Southwest landscape from a photo. (Bio to come)

DATE: Saturday, March 8th, 2025 TIME: 10:00-10:30 am, socializing with coffee and snacks 10:30-11:00 am, meeting 11:00am-12:30 pm demo, with room available till 1 as needed Location: Wheat Ridge Center for Music & Arts (currently also Wheat Ridge United Methodist Church)7530 W. 38th Ave. Demo Artist: Sabrina Stiles, “Less is More: Unlocking Creativity with a Preselected Limited Palette” Primarily a contemporary impressionist artist, Sabrina Stiles draws inspiration from the beautiful landscape near her home in Colorado. Her work often crosses boundaries between realism and abstraction. Whether it’s interpreting the way the light falls on an old barn, the mystery of a nocturne or the subtle