Community Arts Classes
The County Arts Lab offers a range of accessible, arts-focused learning and creative opportunities for all ages!
The County Arts Lab offers a range of accessible, arts-focused learning and creative opportunities for all ages!
One spot left for the upcoming Mixed Media Collage workshop with Megan Fitzgerald! This is our final workshop before we wrap up our late spring session in the lab. We will pause paid programming for the summer while our space is used for exhibition starting with Art in the County in June.
Join Megan Fitzgerald in this one-day workshop and create a collage drawing inspired by the local environment. Learn how to utilize design elements to create a successful composition and explore inks, pastels, and graphite while creating a series of hand-painted papers. No prior experience necessary.
Mixed Media Collage Workshop
We invite you to join us for one (or all!) of our summer exhibitions, details coming soon, and join us for our Art in the County Art Symposium on June 22nd featuring our 2025 jurors, Jim Bravo, Nicole Collins, and Michelle LaVallee. Click the image below to sign up!
Connecting the public with leading Canadian artists and art professionals through a series of engaging talks.
Sunday June 22, 2025
2:00 | Time as Material in Art with Nicole Collins
3:00 | Indigenous Ways and Curation in the Institution with Michelle LaVallee
4:15 | From Laneways to Libraries with Jim Bravo in conversation with Stacey Sproule
Classes will resume in September, join the mailing list to find out first when registration launches! And Gift Certificates are available year-round.
And our Artist Instructor call is now open! Courses in all artistic mediums are welcomed, and the application deadline is June 16th, 2025. Click below for more details.
We are seeking course proposals for paid programming at the County Arts Lab for our Fall sessions in 2025! The County Arts Lab hosts multi-week courses for adults, children, and youth,
Call for Artist Instructors
as well as one-off workshops for youth and adults. Courses in all artistic mediums are
welcomed, including but not limited to visual arts, dance, music, writing, and more.
Location – The County Arts Lab is located in unit 2E on the Main Street level of the Picton Armoury Building (206 Main Street, Picton). The most convenient access is through the Main Street entrance, but you can also enter through the back/Mary St. entrance and use the interior stairs to reach the main floor (please note there is no elevator in the Armoury). There is one accessible parking spot at the corner of Main and Ross streets across from The Regent Theatre. The entrance to the building is accessible, and there is an accessible washroom right near the Lab.
Note on the Covid-19 pandemic – The safety of our community is a top priority for County Arts, and we are continually updating our Covid-19 Policy and Protocols based on the state of the pandemic. During classes we run the Blueair Pro L Air Purifier, which captures virus particles down to 0.1 microns at 99.97% effectiveness.
Bursaries for children and youth – To increase community access to our programming, we are providing a limited number of bursaries for children and youth (under 18) who wish to attend our paid programs. Please contact Programs Manager Sarah Burtscher at sarah@countyarts.ca to find out more.
Accessibility – We are committed to providing an accessible environment in which all individuals have equal access to County Arts Lab programming in a way that respects the dignity and independence of people with disabilities. Please let us know of any accommodations that County Arts Lab participants with disabilities may require.
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If an offering you are interested in has already begun, it may still be possible to join (please send an email to sarah@countyarts.ca to inquire).
