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The Hiddenite Center will host an acrylic painting workshop with renowned Catawba County artist, Pat Flachbart. The class will be held at the Center�s Educational Complex from 10:00am until 12:00noon. In addition to class instruction, a buffet of fruit teas, cheese, crackers, grapes, and sweets will be available to delight the palate as class members take a break from their pallet of paint.

Class members are responsible for providing their own materials including a 16x20" canvas with grey under painting, paintbrushes, and the following acrylic paints:

Yellow Ochre
Olive Green
Light Green
Hooker Green (or any dark green)
Blue Green
Ultramarine Blue
Cad Yellow Light
Alizarin Crimson
Violet
Cad Orange
White
Mars Black

Cost for attending the workshop is $35 for the public and $30 for members of The Hiddenite Center. Class space is limited to 12 participants. Reservations are required and may be made by calling (828) 632-6966.

Students will learn to paint a landscape after a design of the artist, but will have leeway to express their own creativity.

Pat Flachbart has been teaching all media of painting through for the past seven years. She exhibits her work at Full Circle Arts in Hickory, the Hickory Museum of Art and various venues throughout the year.

Exploration and experimentation are the guiding forces in Pat�s life and work. Her journey through life has taken her from St. Louis, Missouri to Paris, France, to Monterey County and the Sierra Foothills of California, and all the way to Hickory, NC. Pat explores and experiments with oil painting, watercolor, acrylic, her exquisite handmade paper and her most unique raku pottery pieces. She enjoys sharing her enthusiasm with her painting and pottery students. Pat describes herself as a �hands-in and hands-on� artist.

As Pat puts it: �My work reflects my travels, my home, my love of nature and my interests in expression and experimentation. I continuously attempt to step into the unknown and test new and innovating methods and materials � testing my patience and challenging what�s conventional.�

Hiddenite Center events, exhibits, and programs are made possible in part through the generous funding of Alexander County government, the Eileen and R. Y. Sharpe Family Foundation, The Winston Salem Foundation, the Friends of the Hiddenite Center membership program, and by the Grassroots Grant of the N.C. Arts Council, a division of the Department of Cultural Resources. The Hiddenite Center�s Lucas Mansion and Educational Complex are wheelchair accessible.

To learn more about Hiddenite Center events and programs, please visit http://www.hiddenitecenter.com, email [email protected], or join the Hiddenite Center on facebook by searching Friends of the Hiddenite Center.