2026 June 22-26 10 am-4 pm EST Instructor: Mia Bergeron ONLINE WORKSHOP Please join us for an exciting new Zoom workshop about light- Mia will guide participants to paint images that depict daytime light on the first two days. The second half of the workshop will be dedicated to using the same images and turning them into moon-lit nocturnes. Access to an image library will be provided by Mia before the class, and participants will be responsible for printing images or having access to painting from a monitor. Reference images will mostly focus on landscapes and animals. The workshop will especially focus on controlling values and colors, color temperature, analyzing lighting effects, and working with layers. We will be doing underpainting in black and white acrylics, then building up to oils as a final layer. Mia will demonstrate/give lectures in the morning, then participants will work on their own time each afternoon, and will have the ability to check in, ask questions, and get critiques on Zoom the last few hours of each day. The class will be recorded each day. Class recordings will be available to students for 4 weeks after the workshop. Previous experience in oils is recommended. CLICK HERE for materials list About the Instructor: b. 1980. Mia Bergeron is a classically trained oil painter that uses modern techniques and concepts to create layered imaginative works. Imagery in her work often oscillates between the fictitious and the observed in equal parts. Rooted in her upbringing in New York City with continuous exposure to modern art, her paintings also reveal her choice to study classical painting in Florence, Italy under Charles H. Cecil in her twenties. For Mia, painting is about an experiential cohabitation; we are driving in our car, seeing landscapes, people, stoplights, and trees- but we are also thinking about places far away, imagined outcomes, wild and mysterious fantasies. We are a species that lives in two places at all times- internally and externally. It is this dynamic contrast that is at the center of Mia’s paintings. Mia has been published numerous times in international magazines. In January 2024, her painting was published in The New Yorker Magazine alongside writer Joy Williams’ short story. Her painting “Tranquil Ghosts” was the cover image for the January 2022 issue of American Art Collector Magazine. Her work is part of the Bennett Collection of Women at the Muskegon Museum of Art, and also in the permanent collection of the New Salem Museum of Art. She continues to teach and exhibit her work throughout the United States and Europe. She and her husband, artist John McLeod, live in Chattanooga, Tennessee.
