What Is AWS?
The Art Workshop of Western Sonoma County is an organization of working artists. Members may be professional or not, but they must be actively making art. AWS’s purpose is fellowship and a network for Western Sonoma County artists achieved through monthly programs and several workshops a year through which members can broaden and improve their skills. AWS provides venues for its members to show their work to the public as well as within the organization. For two years, AWS joined with the Laguna de Santa Rosa Foundation to present paintings of the Laguna. One year, AWS is presented a month-long members’ show at, and at the invitation of, the Sebastopol Center for the Arts. Other activities are trips to museums and art shows and informal plein air paint outs. In recent years, AWS has sponsored intensive workshops of up to three days. Among presenters are well-known artists Elin Pendleton, Gil Dellinger, Eleanor Dickinson, and Armand Cabrera. Member artists have also given workshops. FOR
