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Oil Painting Series: Finding your Creative Voice


Adult / Art -
Adult Summer 2026

This oil painting series is designed for students with some experience who are ready to grow beyond the basics. Through guided projects and personalized feedback, you’ll explore creative approaches, deepen your technical skills and learn to express your unique artistic voice. Supply list provided on the first day of class.

Vanessa Merry

Vanessa Merry moved to Florence, Italy at the age of eighteen to study the methods of the great masters in painting, drawing, and printmaking at Palazzo Spinelli. From here she continued her education and exploration of the human-figure, still-life’s, and landscapes at Atelier de Chimere in France where she enjoyed Plein-Air painting in the French countryside. She moved back to the United States where she attended and graduated from the University of Minnesota in Visual Arts and Art History.

She has been actively involved in the Twin Cities art scene for many years. Vanessa Merry has won several awards for her paintings in local galleries. She has worked with many different galleries and art organizations in the cities.

Vanessa currently enjoys creating works of art in many different styles but finds herself happiest when she is in the classroom teaching others all the skills that she has acquired in her studies.

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  Vanessa Merry


Hopkins Center for the Arts : Rm 203
Tuesdays, Jul 7 - Jul 28
6:00 - 8:00 PM

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Min Age   18 yr.

Price: $ 89 00