Carriage Factory Art Gallery

Shell Art Workshop
2020-09-06 10:00 - 12:30 (America/Chicago) | Carriage Factory Art Gallery, 128 E. 6th Street, Newton, KS, 67114, United States
SHELL ART WORKSHOP
with
Mary Goering

SATURDAY, September 26, 2020

10:00 a.m. – 12:30 p.m.

cost: $25.00

All materials and tools provided. Session includes instruction and time to design and complete your own shell art. This class is suitable for adults and children 10 years and older.
Maximum of 8 Participants
Masks REQUIRED
ADHERENCE TO SANITIZING AND SOCIAL DISTANCING

Colorful Clam Shells
2020-09-12 | Carriage Factory Art Gallery, 128 E. 6th Street, Newton, KS, 67114, United States
A take-n-make online class with Mary Goering. $10
Colorful Clam Shells
Create colorful clam shells with colored markers.
You will receive 6 lovely shells and a variety of markers. Use your imagination to decorate these shells using the natural shape and grooves on the shells. This is a fun activity for kids and adults.
Reserve your spot by Sept. 5, 2020. Pick up kits Sept. 7-11 at the gallery. Link to instructional video sent on Sept. 12, 2020 to your email.

A Marriage of Mediums
2020-09-17 - 2020-11-13 | KS

Shell Art Workshop
2020-09-26 10:00 - 12:30 | Carriage Factory Art Gallery, 128 E. 6th Street, Newton, KS, 67114, United States

12x12 Exhibit Entries being accepted
2020-10-01 08:00 - 2020-11-07 17:00 | Carriage Factory Art Gallery, 128 E. 6th Street, Newton, KS, 67114, United States
The Carriage Factory Art Gallery will host the third annual 12×12 Small Works art competition. Entries will be accepted through Nov. 7, 2020. Entry fee is $12/piece with a max of three entries. See entry form for further details. Click link below.
2020 12×12 entry form

Plein Air Workshop with Jeffery Sparks
2020-10-10 09:00 - 16:00 | Carriage Factory Art Gallery, 128 E. 6th Street, Newton, KS, 67114, United States
PLEIN AIR WORKSHOP

Painting and sketching outdoors is an essential practice for every artist and the best path toward stronger and more captivating paintings. In this one-day workshop, artist Jeffery Sparks will equip each student with the fundamentals of painting and sketching outdoors.
The morning half of this workshop will take place indoors and will cover the keys to working quickly and well outdoors. After lunch, we’ll go outside to paint and practice what we’ve learned. If time permits, at the end of the day we’ll head back indoors to cap off the day with final thoughts, questions, and encouragement.
We will concentrate most of our learning on understanding the important keys of plein air painting and how these can be applied in reasonable process each time you paint.
Instructor:
With a teacher’s gift and a storyteller’s heart, Artist Jeffery Sparks is excited to share the joy of painting with you. He has been a plein air and studio painter for many years. He is the co-founder of the Missouri Valley Impressionist Society), has written for Fine Art Connoisseur, and has his work in collections throughout the United States. Recently, his solo exhibition, “The Painting Pastor” at the Carriage Factory Gallery demonstrated the excitement about plein air painting from both artists and collectors. It is a perfect time to paint outdoors!

Supplies:
This workshop is open to artists working in pretty much any painting medium. When it comes to supplies for this workshop, think “light weight and portable.” As a rule of thumb, you should be able to leave your car with everything you need without making a second trip.
BASIC ITEMS:

Viewfinder
Small Sketchbook
Pencil and Eraser
Portable Easel or Pochade or French Easel.
Palette (if not built into your easel or pochade)
Paper Towels (1 roll at least)
Trash Bag you can secure with a clip
Cleaning Solution
Palette Scraper
Three (3) Canvases (no smaller than 8×10, but no larger than 12×16)
Cleaning Solutions (Odorless mineral spirits or water)
Brushes (bring the best you have, #10-16 is usually a good size, but the numbers are not standard; mainly, avoid small brushes).

PAINTS
If you are using oils, acrylics, or gauche I would recommend a white and a warm and cool version of each color. Here is what I often use in an outdoor palette (8 colors plus white):

White
Warm Blue (Ultramarine Blue)
Cool Blue (Cobalt Blue)
Warm Yellow (Cadmium Yellow Medium)
Cool Yellow (Lemon Yellow)
Warm Red (Cad. Red, Winsor Red, etc.)
Cool Red (Alizarin Crimson)
Viridian Green (additional color)
Transparent Earth or Transparent Oxide Red (additional color)

If I want a simpler setup, I reduce colors to the essentials (4 colors plus white):

White
Cadmium Yellow
Red
Ultramarine Blue
Alizarin Crimson

Special note: I have an iPhone and there is a wonderful app called “See Value”. Another is “Art Tools”. I encourage to search one or both of these apps as they are good tools in the field. For Android users, if these are not available, you might try searching for a value finder for photographers, as these are often built for them.

Sunflower Clothespin Angel Ornaments
2020-11-21 10:00 - 17:00 | Carriage Factory Art Gallery, 128 E. 6th Street, Newton, KS, 67114, United States
Sunflower Clothespin Angel Ornaments
Kits now available in our gift shop.
A fun Kansas spin on the traditional craft of making dolls out of clothespins. Great for the family to do together during the holidays. You will need scissors and glue, everything else will be provided. Each kit contains the materials needed to make two holiday ornaments. These make wonderful gifts or accents for the Christmas tree.

A Christmas Watercolor Workshop - Online
2020-12-05 09:30 - 12:30 | Carriage Factory Art Gallery, 128 E. 6th Street, Newton, KS, 67114, United States
An Online Christmas Watercolor Workshop with Susan Bartel
Students will learn how to make watercolor Christmas cards. $40, all supplies included. A link to the online tutorial will be included with each kit. Deadline to sign up is Nov. 28, 2020.

Santa's Workshop with Beth Burns
2020-12-05 13:30 - 15:45 | Carriage Factory Art Gallery, 128 E. 6th Street, Newton, KS, 67114, United States
Art instructor Beth Burns will teach students age 8 and over to make projects to decorate for the holidays and gifts to give others during this class. Kits ($20) are available from the gallery and class will be an online meeting on Dec. 5. If you can’t make the class Dec. 5, a link to an instructional video will be available with the kit. Sign up for class and we will mail you the invitation for the Zoom meeting.

Christmas Pysanky Egg Class with EB Schmidt
2020-12-12 10:00 - 12:00 | Carriage Factory Art Gallery, 128 E. 6th Street, Newton, KS, 67114, United States

Love Your Gallery - Raffle Tickets
2021-01-07 10:00 - 2021-02-13 17:00 | KS

Sat"Art"Days with Beth Burns - Snow January 2021
2021-01-09 11:00 - 13:00 | Carriage Factory Art Gallery, 128 E. 6th Street, Newton, KS, 67114, United States

2021 - Kansas through the Eyes of an Artist Exhibit
2021-01-23 - 2021-03-19 | Carriage Factory Art Gallery, 128 E. 6th Street, Newton, KS, 67114, United States
View the online catalog here: https://carriagefactoryartgallery.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/KS-show-Art-Catalogue-cover-1-lo-res.pdf

Pieces of Harmony by Kayann Ausherman
2021-02-11 - 2021-04-09 | Carriage Factory Art Gallery, 128 E. 6th Street, Newton, KS, 67114, United States
The gorgeous mixed media artwork of Kayann Ausherman is featured in the Pieces of Harmony exhibition in the Susan Koehn Gallery of the Carriage Factory Art Gallery. Come to the opening reception to meet the artist Feb. 16 from 5-7 p.m. Please call to reserve an appointment time to help us maintain social distancing. Exhibit runs through April 9, 2021.

Making Valentine's
2021-02-11 12:00 - 17:00 | Carriage Factory Art Gallery, 128 E. 6th Street, Newton, KS, 67114, United States
Join Jennifer Weigel for a class to create your own handmade Valentine’s. Make 6 different Valentine’s with your kit. $10.00 includes supplies (glue, scissors, markers not provided), and online instruction. Sign up by Thursday, February 11, while supplies last.

line artist receptions
2021-03-26 18:00 - 2021-03-28 15:00 | Carriage Factory Art Gallery, 128 E. 6th Street, Newton, KS, 67114, United States
Meet artist Aaron Jackson Bowman at the opening of the “line” show. Call the gallery at 316-284-2749 to reserve a time.

Introduction to Pastel with Elizabeth Corbett
2021-03-27 - 2021-03-28 | Carriage Factory Art Gallery, 128 E. 6th Street, Newton, KS, 67114, United States
Introduction to Pastels with Elizabeth Corbett 2 day workshop.
Saturday, March 27 10:00-5:00
Sunday, March 28 1:00-5:00
All supplies included, space is limited for social distancing.
Register deadline Saturday, March 20

Sunflower in a Frame with Susan Bartel
2021-04-17 10:00 | Carriage Factory Art Gallery, 128 E. 6th Street, Newton, KS, 67114, United States
Learn to paint a sunflower in a frame from the comfort of your home with this online workshop. Students will be given a handout and a link for an online tutorial. Kits will be available for pick with all supplies included. Access to instructor and work at your own pace.
Workshop: April 17
Register by: April 10
$40 per student
Kits available for pick up April 13-17

Opening Meet and Greet receptions for Environmental Exposure Glen Ediger
2021-05-28 18:00 - 20:00 | KS
Ediger brings Environmental Exposure to Carriage Factory Art Gallery
Glen Ediger has gone by many monikers in his career – inventor, designer, author, car enthusiast and now artist.
Ediger’s latest creative venture has been a cooperative effort with Mother Nature. Ediger takes different types of metals and masks them with different natural elements or other metal shapes, sets them outside to be exposed to the elements and lets nature take its course. Some pieces are left outside for just a few weeks and others for over a year. The results are stunning and as varied as the weather in Kansas.
Ediger first got the idea when he saw a rusting car that had patterns left on the metal from rusting cans and thought “Could this be art?”
Ediger’s philosophy about his environmental art is “Everything we do leaves an impression. Our actions, whether intended or not, create an effect on our environment and on our relationships. My art-form is an expression of that effect, it intends to ‘expose’ both literally and figuratively the effects of our actions, by creating a patina, with rust and decay on to the medium, literally creating the art on the exposed material.”
Landscapes are the focus of much of Ediger’s work but through experimentation using different metals, where he places the pieces to be exposed – close to a tree, in direct sun, etc. – and how long the piece is exposed, he is able to achieve a variety of effects.
“Sometimes, the hardest thing is deciding when to bring the piece in,” Ediger said.
Once he brings a piece in from the exposed elements, he cleans it by using compressed air to remove any debris, seals the metal and then mounts, mats and frames the pieces using reclaimed lumber.
Forty of Ediger’s metalwork pieces are part of his upcoming show “Environmental Exposure” at Carriage Factory Art Gallery May 29-July 16. The show will kick off with three meet and greet events at the gallery – 6-8 p.m. Friday May 28, 6-8 p.m. Saturday, May 29 and 1-3 p.m. Sunday, May 30.
More information about the show can be seen at carriagefactorygallery.com, including a video of Ediger discussing his process and a visual catalog for the show.

Body of Work by Juris Krievins opening reception
2021-06-17 17:00 - 19:00 | Carriage Factory Art Gallery, 128 E. 6th Street, Newton, KS, 67114, United States

Studio Art Tour 2021
2021-06-26 13:00 - 18:30 | Carriage Factory Art Gallery, 128 E. 6th Street, Newton, KS, 67114, United States
The Carriage Factory Art Gallery will host the 2021 Studio Art Tour on June 26, 2021. The studio tours are from 1 -5 p.m. followed by a picnic in Kriehbel Park next to the gallery from 5-6:30 p.m. After June 19, 2021, please call the gallery to purchase tickets. 316-284-2749
The tour includes six art studios in the Newton Area:
Juris Krievins and Andy Brown – Newton
Aaron Jackson Bowman – Newton
Beth Vannatta at Springdale Art and Nature Center – near Halstead
Ann Zerger – rural Moundridge
Kathy Waltner – rural Moundridge
Carol Zerger – rural Moundridge

Lasting Impressions meet and greet receptions
2021-07-23 18:00 - 20:00 | Carriage Factory Art Gallery, 128 E. 6th Street, Newton, KS, 67114, United States
The Carriage Factory Art Gallery will host “Lasting Impressions – Hand Pulled Original Prints” featuring prints by Prairie Press Printmakers Founder and Director Doug Billings, and other Prairie Press members. “Lasting Impressions” will also have prints from the Springdale Art & Nature Center print show.
Meet and greet receptions with the artists will be held from 6-8 p.m. Friday, July 23; 6-8 p.m. Saturday, July 24; and 1-3 p.m. Sunday, July 25 at the gallery.
Artist info:
Doug Billings has taught printmaking at MarkArts in Wichita since 2000. He belongs to several national print organizations including the Society for American Graphic Artists, the American Color Print Society, the Boston Printmakers, the Print Consortium and American Print Alliance. Billings creates and teaches works using relief printmaking, reduction block prints, intaglio printmaking, aqua tints, and lithography.

Whimsical Situations and Impossible Realities
2021-08-22 - 2021-10-15 | Carriage Factory Art Gallery, 128 E. 6th Street, Newton, KS, 67114, United States
Conyers Whimsical Situations and Impossible Realities at Carriage Factory Art Gallery
McPherson artist Wayne Conyers is using his art to tackle his fears. Recently retired after 44 years of teaching art, most recently at McPherson College, Conyers compares his decision to retire to free falling.
Conyers explains his process in painting “Free Falling Series: Taking a Leap into the Great Unknown”:
“I’m going to be in a freefall not knowing what in the world is going to happen,” Conyers said pointing out elements in the painting. “This totem, walking off the ledge, that’s me. There’s people who will be noticing how I’m doing along the way. The monopoly house is my security that’s tumbling down into uncertainty.”
His painting series on free falling is part of his new show “Whimsical Situations and Impossible Realities” at the Carriage Factory Art Gallery in Newton through Oct. 12, 2021.
One perk of retirement for Conyers is more time for painting. A piece that might have taken him years to complete in the past now take months, which by Conyers’ measure is fast.
If you look closely at the paintings, you’ll see why his work requires so much time. Each piece has thousands of tiny tri-color tiles painted in watercolors. His work is meticulous and filled with what he refers to as “eye-candy.”
“One of the things that I’m very conscious of is the visual blending of colors rather than the physical blending of colors. I like to put several colors close to each other and then how does the eye blend those together to make a certain color or tone,” Conyers said.
In addition to the free-falling series, there are several additional themed series in the show – paintings based on the issue of appropriation, his interest in theoretical physics, personal issues and experiences and paintings just for fun.
On the subject of appropriation, Conyers has borrowed from “Green Stripe” by Henri Matisse to create “Red Stripe.” The basic shape of the woman is similar, but Conyers has definitely made it his own with incredibly detailed bits of color.
“I have no problem with appropriating the images of others and making them mine in some way. Just copying, that’s something else. Appropriation of images and working with those to make them personal, is something I have a lot of fun with,” Conyers said.
Conyers’ fascination with theoretical physics resulted in paintings like “When Six-Dimensional Matter Deflates, It Produces Two-Dimensional Slabs of Exotic Matter with Red Strings.” Conyers has wrapped his head around string theory concepts and produced a visual interpretation. Another series within the theoretical physics theme is quantum chromodynamic fluctuations, which Conyers described as “a study of the interaction between quarks and gluons. Since this takes place at the sub-atomic level, I got the idea of doing a series based on reducing areas of my paintings to their most basic digital existence–a relationship of pixels.”
The five paintings known as Quantum Chromodynamic Fluctuations #1-5 have more of the appearance of a quilt than a complicated physics concepts but knowing the process that goes into them gives them meaning and depth.
“Whimsical Situations and Impossible Realities” is on display in the Susan Koehn Gallery at Carriage Factory Art Gallery, 128 E. Sixth St. in Newton through October 12, 2021. More information is available at www.carriagefactoryartgallery.com.

Rose Watercolor Workshop with Susan Bartel
2021-09-11 08:30 - 12:00 | Carriage Factory Art Gallery, 128 E. 6th Street, Newton, KS, 67114, United States
JOIN SUSAN BARTEL IN LEARNING THE PROCESS TO PAINT A ROSE. ONLINE AND IN-PERSON CLASS AVAILABLE WITH A MASK.
In person session will be limited to 6 students.
Online students will be provided a kit the week of the class. All materials provided including a handout and a link to the online tutorial. The class is $45 per student. Register on or before August 31.

Nature's Palette Show running now through November 12
2021-09-19 - 2021-11-12 | KS
The Carriage Factory Art Gallery is hosting Nature’s Palette until November 12. Featuring works by: Betty Eller, Mary Johnson, Gail Lutsch, Kathleen Schroeder, and Sue Vautravers. Come see all the beautiful sides of nature.

Carriage Factory Art Gallery is Open Tuesday- Friday 12:00-5:00 and Saturday 10:00-5:00.

Carriage Factory Art Gallery Fall Art Market
2021-09-25 10:00 - 16:00 | Carriage Factory Art Gallery, 128 E. 6th Street, Newton, KS, 67114, United States
Join us for our first fall art market and kids’ carnival Sept. 25, 2021.
Art Market is 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.
Kids’ Carnival is 10 a.m. to 3 p.m.

4th Annual Holiday Showcase 12x12 Small Works
2021-10-21 - 2021-12-18 | Carriage Factory Art Gallery, 128 E. 6th Street, Newton, KS, 67114, United States
4th Annual Holiday Showcase
12×12 Small Works
One Foot in Front of the Other
October 21 through December 18
Closing Reception Saturday, December 18 6:00-8:00pm People’s Choice winner announced
People’s Choice voting opens October 21 in person or on Facebook

Barn Quilt Class with Virginia Swartzendruber
2021-10-30 09:00 - 15:00 | Carriage Factory Art Gallery, 128 E. 6th Street, Newton, KS, 67114, United States
Variation on a 9 Patch
Barn Quilt Class with Virginia Swartzendruber
Saturday, Oct. 30th
$40

Just Trying to Leave Something Behind
2021-11-20 - 2022-01-14 | Carriage Factory Art Gallery, 128 E. 6th Street, Newton, KS, 67114, United States
Opening November 20,2021
Opening Meet and Greet
Saturday, November 20, 6-8
Sunday, November 21, 1-3

2022- Kansas through the Eyes of the Artist
2022-01-22 - 2022-03-18 | Carriage Factory Art Gallery, 128 E. 6th Street, Newton, KS, 67114, United States
