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Follow your passion and hone your skills or stumble upon an unexpected road to new adventures!
​The Workshop Finder is an online directory of workshops and tour opportunities around the world including art workshops, retreats & tours, photography workshops & tours, writing workshops, retreats & writers conferences, music workshops, camps, festivals, lessons & tutorials, etc.
​The Workshop Finder is updated each week with newly posted event listings.
Art workshops, retreats and tours
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​​​​Private Online Lessons $65.00/ week
with Kristen Olson Stone

I offer instruction for painting with traditional oils, water mixable oils, acrylic, gouache and watercolor. I help with drawing and design, color mixing, techniques specific to each medium, brushwork, materials and so much more. Do you want to capture your latest adventure? Tell a story with a painting? Complete a commission? Through weekly guidance I can help:). You can email me jpegs of your artwork as well as other art related questions.  In between our pre-scheduled calls I can help you via email.​
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Live Zoom Watercolor Workshops and Classes with Judy Mudd
Paint-along, ask questions and review during workshops. Reference materials, including drawing guides, reference photos, and palette colors are provided prior to class. 
​Ongoing
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​​​2022 Art Workshops in Santa Fe, New Mexico
Bluebird Studios offers the perfect place to bring creatives together in the heart of the American West located in Santa Fe, New Mexico, where the desert and mountains meet. We are located just 7 miles from the historic Santa Fe Plaza, yet in a country setting of horse ranches and open space. The studio is tucked into the southern edge of the Sangre de Cristo mountains on a sheltered 9-acre horse ranch of rolling hills, arroyos (dry river beds) that are dotted with pinion, juniper, chamisa, and sagebrush just off the Old Santa Fe Trail.
April, May, August, September and October 2022
8 Joy Lane
Santa Fe, New Mexico
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Live, Online Watercolor Workshops
with Cindy Welch

Interactive, live classes with demos recorded to view again and again. Reference photo, drawing, and supply list provided before class. 6 week sessions on a variety of subjects including landscapes, floral, still life, and animals. Learn about color mixing, values, composition, and more. Fun, stress free instruction concluding with a personal critique.
Ongoing
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​​​​Italy Bellissimo
hosted by McKay Photography Inc.

Tuscany and Cinque Terre
This is a SMALL group tour with LIMITED availability.
ONLY 12 photographers with 2 instructors!
Tuscany – 6 nights in a beautiful Tuscan Villa – Food, Wine, Photography, Castles, and the Tuscan countryside! Italian full course dinners INCLUDED!
Cinque Terre – 4 nights of incredible seaside landscape like no other place in the world. One beautiful group dinner included
April 16-27, 2023 
April 27 - May 8, 2023
Tuscany & Cinque Terre, Italy​
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Private Photography Instruction
by Nancy LeVine Photography

With over 30 years as a professional photographer in New York City, Paris and Seattle and over 15 years teaching photography, I am now offering Private Instruction from my studio in Beacon, NY. Or via Zoom and Facetime. We can also meet on location in the Hudson Valley. My private instruction is responsive to whatever you would like to learn.
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The YMCA's Downtown Writers Center
​The YMCA's Downtown Writers Center in Syracuse, NY, offers a wide variety of online literary arts programming, including workshops in poetry, fiction, nonfiction, drama, and more, along with a stellar series of online readings by visiting poets and writers. Join us from the comfort of your home!
Ongoing throughout year
Syracuse, NY and Online
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​​Erma Bombeck Writers' Workshop
The 2022 workshop will feature New York Times’ bestselling authors, Saturday Night Live legends, Emmy Award winners, Thurber Prize winners, a Moth GrandSLAM winner, the author of the Bible (The New Comedy Bible, that is), screenwriters and a slew of celebrated comedians and authors. The registration fee is $499, which includes meals and full access to a *virtual* package of the keynote talks and Pitchapalooza. Virtual only: $79. 
October 20-22, 2022
University of Dayton, Ohio
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​​​​​2022 Tile Making in Tuscany!
Learn the art of tile making in Italy while enjoying the Tuscan lifestyle. Ceramic artist, Brenda McMahon teaches the 13-day workshop at La Meridiana International School of Ceramics just south of Florence. You will be guided through various tile making techniques and then learn how to create a painterly surfaces on your artwork. Workshop includes all materials, firings, meals, housing and 2 day trips. The workshop is open to students of all levels.
September 11-24, 2022
LA MERIDIANA
International Centre of Ceramics in Tuscany
Firenze, Italy
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​Art Workshops with Mary Lin Watanabe
Release the stress of daily life and discover your creative self by exploring different art mediums. Whether this is a one-time experience or a lifelong hobby, Mary’s workshop will give you the opportunity to expand your right brain. Each course is perfect for “me time” to begin your creative journey.
Just as with in-person classes, each online workshop is interactive via Zoom. Every painting workshop consists of 5 weekly 2 hours sessions (PST time zone).
May 2022 through February 2023 (6 workshops) 
​Zoom sessions
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​Peru Photo Tour 2022
World Heritage Sites, breathtaking mountains, a vibrant traditional culture, and mystical Inca citadels, Peru is enchanting. Join us on a 14-day photo tour and exploration of one of the most mysterious places on earth.
July 1-14, 2022
Starts in Lima, Peru
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​Iceland Photo Tour 2022
A photographic journey to capture the captivating natural beauty of Iceland. Discover a land of natural beauty beyond compare, where inspiration and opportunity meet to provide exceptional photographic possibilities.
August 30 - September 9, 2022
Iceland
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Tuscany Adult Amateur Cello Workshop
1 or 2 week workshop for adult cellists, beginners to professionals. Study with a master teacher who has been offering summer cello workshops for more than 25 years​ in one of the most beautiful regions of the world, Tuscany, Italy.​ Without going to heaven, you can't do better and the return trip is easier.
June 27 - July 11, 2022
Teatro Comunale degli Arrischianti
Sarteano, Italy
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​​CMC Summer 2022 Chamber Music Workshop
The Chamber Music Center of New York

Come join our Summer 2022 Workshop held at The Masters School in Dobbs Ferry, NY. Chamber Music and Orchestra are at the core of what we do - but friendships and outdoor activities round out the amazing three weeks. Performances at various venues, masterclasses and field trips complete this workshop.
For ages 8 - 20.
July 11-29, 2022
The Masters School
49 Clinton Ave.
Dobbs Ferry, NY
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​​Painting on the Coast of Maine
with Sharon Rusch Shaver
Adventure-Artists are painting on the Coast of the United States this summer! This exciting painting and writing opportunity includes instruction and demos of Plein air painting techniques with award winning Artist Sharon Rusch Shaver in inspiring nautical surroundings. Comfortable en-suite accommodations with balcony views of the harbor, all ground transfers, airport pickup and return, and to painting sites. $2,950, book now for early bird discount! $450 holds your spot. Join us on this next exciting adventure for artists!
August 8-12, 2022
Rockport, Maine
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​Eat Paint Live
​Cotswolds Sketching Retreat

Famous for its idyllic towns and villages, its castles and palaces and soft rolling landscapes, The Cotswolds is one of England’s most picturesque areas. This small-group art retreat includes accommodation at a Cotswolds country cottage and farm, plus 4 days and nights of sketching excursions to Oxford, Blenheim Palace and more.
June 20-24, 2022
Middle Stanley Farm, The Cotswolds, England
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Etruscan Places: Landscape Painting Workshops in Italy
Etruscan Places offers a completely unique series of open air painting workshops on location, rain or shine, in some of Italy’s most spectacular landscapes. Artists, curators, writers Maddine Insalaco and Joe Vinson are residents and home owners in both the USA and Italy. Their presence in Tuscany since 1995 guarantees their knowledge of the landscape, inhabitants and local culture. In 2022 we will offer two programs in September and October: Open Air Fundamentals (all levels) and Advanced Seminar. Fees include materials and surfaces, equipment, meals, accommodation, field trips and local transport. 12 student max and 2 instructors every class. Reduced rates are offered for extended stays.
September and October 2022
Buonconvento, Tuscany ITALY
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​OPUS Chamber Music Summer Camp
The 2022 OPUS 20th Annual Chamber Music Camp will be held from August 1st to August 6th in-person at North Central College, Naperville, IL with the final concert at Wentz Concert Center. This high-reputation and team-developed curriculum is designed to challenge and musically-inspire campers (ages 8-18.) Please visit www.napOPUS.org under Music Camp 2022. There is a large pool of scholarship fund for campers to apply by the deadline June 8th. OPUS accepts college students as Teaching Assistants (Form under Faculty.)
August 1-6, 2022
North Central College, Naperville, IL
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​Yosemite Photo Workshops
with Phil Hawkins

Learn landscape photography from a 37 year veteran of the park, leading workshops in Yosemite for 14 years. Workshops in Fall, Winter and Spring.
Throughout the year
Yosemite National Park
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​Sensual Havana: Glamour & Artistic Nudes
Chris Baker Photo Tours

On this one-of-a-kind Cuba photo tour, we'll photograph Cuba's most beautiful women and make the most of time-worn Havana--as fantastic a backdrop for glamour, erotic, and sensual artistic nude photography as exists in this world, given its mixture of Spanish colonial and faded baroque architecture, its wealth of 1950s American cars, and its stimulating aura of exoticism. To which add Cuba’s stunningly beautiful top models and ballerinas, and their joyous at-ease delight in being photographed and in expressing their sensuality.
December 14-21, 2022
Havana, Cuba
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​Ten Days In Paris
Todos Santos Writers Workshop

Join us in Paris this summer July 18 - 28 for classes in Fiction (Karen Karbo), Memoir (Jeanne McCulloch) and Strategies in Storytelling (Rex Weiner), featuring individual conferences and craft talks with guest authors. Open to writers at all levels.
10% discount for registration before May 31.
July 18-28, 2022
5 Rue Saint-Nicolas 75012 Paris, France
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Writing on an Island
hosted by WriteLines

Our adventure begins in Portsmouth, New Hampshire, where we board the Thomas Laighton ferry to Star Island in the Isles of Shoals, nine miles off the coast. We meet for 2 hours each morning, 2 hours in the afternoon, and 2 hours in the evening to write to carefully chosen prompts and to share our work. There is time to edit and expand your work, meet individually with the instructor, converse with other writers, and explore the island. You will leave with the beginning of at least 12 new pieces.
September 5-9, 2022
Star Island, Portsmouth, New Hampshire
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Capturing the Magic of Tuscany
with Yuki Hall, TWSA, OWS, WPA

Join me for a magical painting and sketching vacation workshop in Florence & Trequanda, Italy. September 22 ~ 30, 2022, with Yuki Hall, TWSA, OWS, WPA. We will immerse ourselves in Renaissance history, Art, Culture, plenty of sketching & painting, Amazing food & wine and fellowship.
September 22-30, 2022
Florence, Trequenda, Italy
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Figures in the Landscape
The Art Guild
Come learn from Artist Robert Simone, who was recently in American Art Collectors Magazine, May 2022 edition for his plein air painting, Bringing in the Day.
We are offering a 3-day plein air to studio workshop. A day will be spent painting small scale figure sketches and gathering photo references on location. Then we will spend two days in the studio creating a more developed work based on those references. Participants can expect to learn techniques for capturing the gestures and the likeness of small-scale figures. There will be demonstrations and individual instruction at your easel. Emphasis will be placed on coming up with good ideas, solid painting principles and good clean fun!
Friday, May 20 - Sunday, May 22
10am-4pm
The Art Guild of Port Washington/Manhasset
200 Port Washington Blvd
Manhasset, NY
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Landscape Painting Workshops
with David Dunlop


Live Online

2 Tuesdays, May 10 & 31, 11 am EST
2 Saturdays, May 14 & 28, 11 am EST 

Misty Bucolic Landscape Workshop
May 25, 1 pm EST

In Person Landscape Painting Workshop:
Earth, Water and Sky
May 19-22
Huntsville Museum of Art, Huntsville, AL
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A Guatemalan Writing Adventure with Mary Jo McConahay
Re-Kindle Your Creativity during our writing retreat in the picturesque highlands of Guatemala. We’ll journey from the colonial-era town of Antigua to the majestic waters of Lake Atitlán, its shores dotted with traditional Mayan villages. Once nestled into Casa del Mundo in Jaibalito, our work will begin. Perched on a secluded cliff and only assessable by boat, this stunning property is a source of inspiration and a sea of tranquility. The gift of time to write with professional support. That is what we will have together at magical Lake Atitlán.
August 15-22, 2022
Lake Atitlan in Guatemala
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