Community Calendar
Browse arts-related events happening across SLO County
Landscape Painting Demonstration
Join Elizabeth "Libby" Tolley Saturday May 30, 1:00-3:00 pm for a free landscape painting demonstration at Art Central in SLO.
Block Printing Basics with Lego
Fun, engaging workshop where you will learn the basics of block printing while creating your own one of a kind artwork! This is a beginner class for ages 8 and up, using brick building blocks to create your unique patterns.
Intro to Bookmaking
Learn the basics of bookmaking and create your own set of hand-bound journals! This 4 hour workshop will introduce you to the fundamentals of bookbinding, as well as simple paper patterning techniques to give you the option of customizing your book covers. Leave with a set of three small notebooks, ready for all your note taking, dream journaling, and ideating needs!
All tools and materials are included, however students may wish to pick up additional papers to work with from the ARTery.
Alice Sandahl
Alice Sandahl is a founding member of La Luz and will be performing solo at Fieldwork Community Art Space in Downtown Atascadero. This is a ticketed event and tickets can be purchased at https://undertowshows.com/products/atascadero-ca-june-4
Art After Dark
Art After Dark (AAD), hosted by SLO County Arts, is a monthly event held on the First Friday of each month. Participating businesses transform into vibrant creative spaces, showcasing local art, music, performances, and more in a free, community-centered walking tour that highlights the artistic heart of San Luis Obispo.
Elements of Art with Carolina Luna
This is a kids series designed to teach the 7 Elements of Art! Join Carolina as she guides your young artists through the fundamentals of art. Each week will focus on a different element. All materials provided.
Creative Kids: Summer Break
Creative Kids is continuing through summer! As always, the class will be exploring a variety of mediums throughout the series. Since there will be regular students coming back, instructor Carolina Luna ha decided to include some favorite mediums in multiple weeks so the group can build our skills! The instructor is also introducing a new medium for this session: CYANOTYPE!
Ocean Art Painting Workshop
Join acclaimed artists Wade Koniakowsky & Colleen Gnos for a 2-day painting workshop set along Morro Bay, CA's stunning Central Coast. This relaxed workshop is designed for beginning to intermediate artists who want to explore the ocean's beauty, movement & atmosphere.
Sign ups end June 4th!
Book Publishing 1-2-3
Grab a pen and join Studios on the Park for this lively program, peppered with ideas and stories to inspire and empower writers of all types. The workshop will start by checking out today’s book business (the good and the bad of traditional, hybrid, and indie publishing), then share valuable resources to help aspiring authors connect with agents and editors.
3rd Tuesday Dining with a Purpose: Arroyo Grande Public Art
Support local business Rooster Creek Tavern and Arroyo Grande Public Art!
A percentage of the sales at Rooster Creek Tavern on Tuesday, June 16th between 5pm and 9pm will benefit Arroyo Grande Public Art, a non-profit organization which is dedicated to enriching Arroyo Grande’s visual appeal with art that reflects the city’s unique culture and rich history, while providing local artists an opportunity to showcase their work.
Arroyo Grande Public Art projects include city-owned utility boxes and the Butterfly/Hand Sculpture at the Regional Center. The organization is currently working on a Foxy tribute sculpture and a mural to be placed on a building in the Village of Arroyo Grande.
Acrylic Painting Workshop
Transform an ordinary landscape image into something extraordinary using big, beautiful, bold color.
Batik Style Watercolor with Linda Cunningham
In this four-hour workshop, Linda will demonstrate one of the many Batik methods to use on watercolor paper. This process includes white tempera paint, India ink, and watercolor paint or Inktense pencils. After the demonstration, you will have the opportunity to practice with a few pre-sketched designs.
Art and Craft Summer Camp for Kids
Join Estero Bay Art and Craft for a fun and engaging summer camp where kids will explore art, self expression, and creative crafts! Their week long, 1/2 day (9:30 -12:30) camps offer a mix of arts and crafts that nurture expression, skills, and creative capacities.
Art After Dark
Art After Dark (AAD), hosted by SLO County Arts, is a monthly event held on the First Friday of each month. Participating businesses transform into vibrant creative spaces, showcasing local art, music, performances, and more in a free, community-centered walking tour that highlights the artistic heart of San Luis Obispo.
Frank Eber: Oil Painting Impressionistic Realism
Learn how to paint lively, expressive paintings with a focus on color accuracy, mark making, and the interconnection of each element. You’ll learn alla prima style techniques which will help you bring your painting skills to the next level!
Frank's classes reach beyond technique, observing the elusive balance of forces that create beauty in painting. This class is great for intermediate or advanced painters.
Mosaic Art Workshop at Passiflora Mosaics
In this 2 day workshop you will learn to make mosaic art for your home and garden. Ideal for all skill levels, you will be guided through the mosaic-making process from start to finish by learning how to use basic tools and proven techniques to successfully complete your mosaic.
DAYO DANCES presents Ro-Sham-Beau
Local dance company DEYO DANCES is offering two free performances showcasing the world premiere of Ro-Sham-Beau, and two earlier works, featuring choreography by company founder and director Lisa Deyo, on Saturday, July 18 (7 p.m.) and Sunday, July 19 (2 p.m.) in Cal Poly’s Spanos Theatre. Both performances will be followed by a Q&A with Lisa Deyo and the dancers. Visit https://DEYODANCES2026.eventbrite.com to reserve free tickets.
DAYO DANCES presents Ro-Sham-Beau
Local dance company DEYO DANCES is offering two free performances showcasing the world premiere of Ro-Sham-Beau, and two earlier works, featuring choreography by company founder and director Lisa Deyo, on Saturday, July 18 (7 p.m.) and Sunday, July 19 (2 p.m.) in Cal Poly’s Spanos Theatre. Both performances will be followed by a Q&A with Lisa Deyo and the dancers. Visit https://DEYODANCES2026.eventbrite.com to reserve free tickets.
Poetry Reading: Caleb Nichols and Anna Zumbahlen
In partnership with Festival Mozaic, the annual SLO Music and Arts Festival, poets Caleb Nichols and Anna Zumbahlen lead this free reading of their original works. Reservations are required!
Poetry Reading: Prageeta Sharma and MT Vallarta
In partnership with Festival Mozaic, the annual SLO Music and Arts Festival, poets Prageeta Sharma and MT Vallarta lead this free reading of their original works. Reservations required!
Art After Dark
Art After Dark (AAD), hosted by SLO County Arts, is a monthly event held on the First Friday of each month. Participating businesses transform into vibrant creative spaces, showcasing local art, music, performances, and more in a free, community-centered walking tour that highlights the artistic heart of San Luis Obispo.
Art After Dark
Art After Dark (AAD), hosted by SLO County Arts, is a monthly event held on the First Friday of each month. Participating businesses transform into vibrant creative spaces, showcasing local art, music, performances, and more in a free, community-centered walking tour that highlights the artistic heart of San Luis Obispo.
Art After Dark
Art After Dark (AAD), hosted by SLO County Arts, is a monthly event held on the First Friday of each month. Participating businesses transform into vibrant creative spaces, showcasing local art, music, performances, and more in a free, community-centered walking tour that highlights the artistic heart of San Luis Obispo.
SLO County Open Studios Art Tour — Weekend 1
2026 marks the 28th Annual Open Studios Art Tour in SLO County! Explore local artist studios to learn more about their craft and view their unique art. More information available at slocountyarts.org/osat.
Sculptural Lamp Stack with Mosaic
From foundation to final, learn to design and build your own unique & beautiful piece of focal garden art. Your sculptural stack may include lamps, ceramic pots, found objects, driftwood, as well as pre-made, ready-to-mosaic polystyrene/concrete forms. If you choose the three day option there will be class time to add mosaic to your forms. Each lamp stack will be completely portable for easy re-assembling at your home or site.
SLO County Open Studios Art Tour — Weekend 2
2026 marks the 28th Annual Open Studios Art Tour in SLO County! Explore local artist studios to learn more about their craft and view their unique art. More information available at slocountyarts.org/osat.
Art After Dark
Art After Dark (AAD), hosted by SLO County Arts, is a monthly event held on the First Friday of each month. Participating businesses transform into vibrant creative spaces, showcasing local art, music, performances, and more in a free, community-centered walking tour that highlights the artistic heart of San Luis Obispo.
Wednesday Figure Drawing
Every Wednesday evening, 6:00-8:30pm, Fieldwork offers an uninstructed figure drawing workshop. This workshop is open to adults of all skill levels, from beginners to experienced artists, and provides an opportunity to practice observational drawing in a supportive, creative environment. Most sessions feature a nude model unless otherwise stated. Walk-ins welcome!
Pen to Paper Open Writing Sessions
Join Fieldwork’s community of writers. Pen to Paper offers a low pressure, supportive environment intended to help you get words down on paper. The group is structured around short sprints that help lower the stakes and get your hand moving across the page. This is NOT a critique session. You do not need to have anything prepared in advance. Bring your current project, your big ideas, even your writer’s block. The goal is just to get pen to paper (or fingers to keyboard as the case may be).
Stone Setting
Learn to set a cabochon stone and make into a ring. You will form, solder and finish this unique-to-you OOAK ring. No experience necessary for this class but the Beginning Ring Stacking Class (or any beginning class) is highly recommended.
All materials provided and you leave with your custom designed ring. You will choose band style, bezel style and cabochon.
ALL SYMBOLS CAST Opening Reception
Created along the fog heavy coastline of Morro Bay, Julia Schwebel’s All Symbols Cast carries the feeling of a practice deeply tied to environment, solitude, and repetition. The exhibition reflects an artist allowing instinct and process to lead, trusting that meaning can emerge through accumulation rather than certainty. What remains are works that feel suspended between dream and document, image and atmosphere, familiarity and something far stranger lingering just underneath it.
Painting an Oregon River with Pastels
In this full day workshop we’ll paint Oregon’s McKenzie River. This class focuses on moving water (including glacial blues and whitewater rapids) and chaotic forests. We’ll start with an alcohol under-painting. This is an instructor-led class with demonstrations each step of the way. All experience levels welcome.
Art in the Park
May 23, 24 & 25 Morro Bay Art in the Park is one of the longest-running outdoor art festivals on the West Coast. Held three times a year with 100+ vendors, Art in the Park remains MBAA'S most significant fundraiser. Proceeds from these events support student scholarships, year-round arts programming and the ongoing vitality of Art Center Morro Bay, the MBAA's gallery and event space. The festival continues to be a platform for artists to show their work and a way to welcome visitors to our community.
Drawing for REAL!
Intro to block-in for accurate drawing. In this workshop you will start to develop your ability to see and draw more accurately and with more structure.
Wednesday Figure Drawing
Every Wednesday evening, 6:00-8:30pm, Fieldwork offers an uninstructed figure drawing workshop. This workshop is open to adults of all skill levels, from beginners to experienced artists, and provides an opportunity to practice observational drawing in a supportive, creative environment. Most sessions feature a nude model unless otherwise stated. Walk-ins welcome!
First n Third Tuesday Art Club
Looking to be among other creative people or have a project gathering dust at home? Join Fieldwork at their First and Third Tuesday Art Club — an evening where creativity and community come together. Bring whatever you’re working on and settle in alongside fellow makers in a welcoming, inspiring space.
Whether you're doodling, knitting, collaging, whittling, or experimenting with something entirely your own, Tuesday evenings at Fieldwork are a chance to step out of your solo routine and share a table with other creatives. No rules, no pressure—just good vibes.
Bridging the Gap: Art for Change
Restorative Partners is hosting an art show fundraiser that will include: art, demonstrations, artist showcases, live portraits, live and silent auctions, arts and craft booths, children’s activities, plus food and live music. Admission to this event is free.
Mike Hernandez Plein Air Workshop
This plein air painting workshop is sponsored by the Paso Robles Art Association and taught by Mike Hernandez, a well-known plein air painter and teacher. The workshop lasts two days, May 16 and 17, and will be held at three locations, starting at the Mission San Miguel.
Registration fee is $450 for PRAA members; $475 for non-members.
More information is available here: https://www.pasoroblesart.org/mhernandez
Monet Davis “Dreamscapes by Night Cloud”
Night Cloud is a solo ambient music project by Monet Davis that layers various combinations of instruments from around the world, including piano, synthesizer, ngoni, handpan, Native American flute, monochord, chimes, and harmonium, to weave together original soundscapes that soothe the nervous system and invite the listener into expanded dream-state consciousness.
Bring your art project to work on while listening to ethereal sounds. Or just bring yourself, ready to lounge, relax, and receive the dreamy vibrations created by Night Cloud.
Tickets are $25 — Get Yours Here
Wednesday Figure Drawing
Every Wednesday evening, 6:00-8:30pm, Fieldwork offers an uninstructed figure drawing workshop. This workshop is open to adults of all skill levels, from beginners to experienced artists, and provides an opportunity to practice observational drawing in a supportive, creative environment. Most sessions feature a nude model unless otherwise stated. Walk-ins welcome!
Love Is For All Of Us: Writing for Tenderness And Resilience
Poetry reading and discussion with award winning poets James Crews and Brad Peacock. Participants will have the opportunity to respond to prompts that the poets provide, although this is totally optional. There is no charge for this event, but registration is required.
To reserve a space contact Shelley Aleshire: 805-801-3318, sloshel@yahoo.com
Whimsical Snail - Painting Workshop
Join McRobbins Studios in this Whimsical Snail painting class. This is perfect for beginners ages 3+. Expect simple step‑by‑step guidance, upbeat music, and a relaxed, creative vibe where you can laugh, play, and bring out your creativity together!
Collaging Morro Rock with Linda Cunningham
Join us for this 4 hour workshop where you will receive step-by-step instructions for creating a beautiful coastal image using a variety of hand printed papers. You’ll create an 11” x 14” canvas board worthy of framing. Beginners are welcome and no experience is necessary!
Text Linda at 805 478-2158 or email Nipomorumbum@att.net
$45 per person
Atascadero Printery Art Walk
The first Printery Art Walk will invite the public to walk through the building, visit artist booths, watch demonstrations, and experience the Printery as it continues to come back to life as a community center and arts space. Admission is free, but attendees can make a donation to support Printery restoration.
Organic Mosaic Assemblage
his style of mosaic is inspired by the timeless works of Antoni Gaudi, Raymond Isidore, Simon Rodia, Ilana Shafir and others. In this ONE-DAY INTENSIVE WORKSHOP, you’ll create a 12” x 16” Organic Mosaic Assemblage for wall display.
Wednesday Figure Drawing
Every Wednesday evening, 6:00-8:30pm, Fieldwork offers an uninstructed figure drawing workshop. This workshop is open to adults of all skill levels, from beginners to experienced artists, and provides an opportunity to practice observational drawing in a supportive, creative environment. Most sessions feature a nude model unless otherwise stated. Walk-ins welcome!
Jan French: Beginning Watercolors
You’ve heard that watercolor is daunting, but it’s still fascinating you. Come to be introduced to the personality and potential of this tricky but dynamic painting medium. Learn the ways watercolor is apt to flow (or not), and how you and those colors can start a tango that will unleash a new relationship with your artistic visions.
Artist Talk: Jim apRoberts
Join The Bunker SLO for an artist talk featuring their May featured artist, Jim apRoberts. The Central Coast painter will discuss his new show, Looking for Light, as well as his process and inspiration.
Short Poems Workshop
Join Poet Laureate Caleb Nichols and SLO County Arts Executive Director Jordan Chestnut for a generative workshop that explores the short poem. We'll talk about what makes effective short poetry, and you'll have the opportunity to respond to prompts on the theme of place and belonging, and to ask questions about the open call for the SLO Poetry Walk.
Still: A Juried Exhibition - Artists Reception
Cambria Center for the Arts is proud to present Still, a Jury Awarded Exhibit. This exhibit allows artists to submit any piece of art, in any medium with the theme and word “Still” in the title. Central Coast’s Watercolor artist and teacher, Jan French, will judge the exhibit with cash prizes awarded.
Paso de la Luz Meet the Artist
Come meet the artist Juan Fuentes on the last day of his show in our area. Powerful, Relevant and Amazing Fine art works in Printmaking!
Indigo Dye Workshop
Dive into the world of indigo and explore traditional resist techniques with Felise Gutierrez. Revered for its striking blue hue, indigo carries a rich global history, with traditions developed across Asia, the Americas, Africa, and Europe.
Each month, we’ll experiment with a different resist technique while learning the history and chemistry of indigo, and how to prepare and maintain a living indigo vat.
Bring 2–3 items made of 100% natural fibers (cotton, linen, rayon, hemp, wool, or silk) to dye. This is a chance to upcycle well-loved garments or thrifted finds while creatively and joyfully “resisting” a culture of consumption.
Ink Works '26
Check out what the Central Coast Printmakers have been up to! In this diverse collection of original prints by local artists you will be wowed by detail, imagination, and skill found in each piece. This exhibit will be up in the Studios central Atrium Gallery starting May 2nd through June 28th. Opening reception will be held on Saturday, May 2nd.
Art After Dark
Art After Dark (AAD), hosted by SLO County Arts, is a monthly event held on the First Friday of each month. Participating businesses transform into vibrant creative spaces, showcasing local art, music, performances, and more in a free, community-centered walking tour that highlights the artistic heart of San Luis Obispo.
Poetry Night at the Los Osos Library
We invite you to join us for another evening of poetry on Thursday, April 30, 2026, 5:30 p.m, at the Los Osos Library. Featured poets will be Roger Carmody and Kevin Drabinski. An open reading will follow a short intermission. The evening’s theme will be “Kindling.” As usual, no one should feel bound by it.
Blackout Poetry Workshop
Hosted by SLO Book Bike, this free poetry workshop is being held at Gala Pride and Diversity Center in San Luis Obispo.
Phoebe Vlassis Loom Music Performance
Phoebe Vlassis invites you to witness the act of weaving as song and story, and to participate in its co-creation. From Greek love songs and industrial protest chants to pulsing electronic beats, the audience will journey through the ancient tale of textiles with humor and heart. With the final revelation of the completed cloth, woven live throughout the performance, you will behold your own role in the weaving. This event is all ages.