Painting

Children aged 6-12 can attend Rutherford Community Centre in Arthur Street Rutherford on January 14 and 21 between 10am and 2pm for great school holiday workshops offered by Maitland Regional Art Gallery.

The workshops have been planned around the last two weeks of the school holidays when the Christmas season is over and the gifts are put away.

Art Tuesdays for creative children aged 6-12 will start during Term 1. The Maitland Regional Art Gallery program feartures an eight-week term of fun, and after-school art and entertainment for children.

It will be held every Tuesday from Febrary 3 until March 24, from 4pm-5.30pm at Rutherford Community Centre in Arthur Steet, Rutherford.

Tony Moffit has reopened the Gallery in the Garage with a collection including local landscapes and his new Vermeer paintings. The gallery is at 52 Edward St, Merewether, open Wednesday to Sunday, 2pm-6pm. More info phone Tony on 4963 7162

In order to help celebrate the launch of CultureHunter Kids, the brand new section of CultureHunter dedicated to child-friendly events and activities, CultureHunter invites school children throughout the Hunter Region to design a mascot that will be used to promote CultureHunter Kids.

This store stocks quality brand art supplies and accessories. Best be quick as first in best dressed. Sale runs from 2nd - 24th December 2008.

98 Bridge St, Muswellbrook. Open Tuesday to Friday 9:30 am to 4pm, Saturday 9am to Midday. For more details please call 6542 5915.

This is an annual competition for female artists to exhibit contemporay art works in celebration of International Women’s Day. Work can be two or three dimensional and can be created in any medium. Winners will receive exhibitions at sponsored galleries.

Application fee $10, if accepted, exhibition fee $45.

The exhibitions will run until 8th February.

Opening 6pm. Muswellbrook Regional Arts Centre, Cnr of Bridge and Market Sts, Tuesday to Friday 10am – 5pm, Saturday 10am – 1pm, Sunday 2pm – 5pm, for details please call 6549 3880.

Singelton Campus TAFE is offering this course in 2009 and is inviting anyone interested in the course to go to an information session, 4th December 2008. Enrollments can be made on this day or 5th February 2009.

10am, Block A, Singleton TAFE Campus, York St, Singleton. For more details call Dorothy Wishney on 6578 7133 or 6578 7100.

The Sydney Royal Arts Show brings together a broad range of arts including: painting, pottery, sculpture, silverwork, felting, photography, mosaic etc.

For details on entering visit https://www.rasnsw.com.au/OnlineShowEntries/ArtDefault.aspx , entries online closes 2nd February 2009.

Calling all artists. If you are unrepresented in Melbourne or Brisbane and would like the opportunity to have your work selected by a panel of experts to feature in “Off The Wall”, apply now by logging onto www.artoffthewall.com.au