Cotton Mill Studios Featured Artist

John Mac Kah has been painting and teaching from his upstairs studio since 1999, and is among the early settlers in the River Arts District.

His studio is one part painting studio, one part workshop space, and one part showroom. With recently expanded gallery space upstairs, the display is expanded into the hallway and open from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m., Monday through Saturday. It is shared with other studio painters upstairs, including regular students.

Kah also teaches regularly at John C. Campbell Folk School (May & Sept 2014), Arrowmont School (July 2014) and Penland School (TBA), all with wonderful residential studios programs.

“My goals are to give students a solid understanding of how to use their materials, and to develop drawing with a brush. I prefer to work on location, immersing myself in landscape, but this is ‘slow’ painting, building and and layering to create and capture atmosphere and depth. It’s about ‘the painter’s craft’ and skill development to create a vocabulary and fluency in painting.

Students can enroll anytime in ongoing classes for all levels. Schedule includes monthly events and workshops, Saturday and weekday classes, both daytime and evening. One new and exciting element: children’s After-School Artists classes taught by Alisa Lumbreras.

For more information call (828) 225-5000, visit www. JohnMacKah.com or stop by the Cotton Mill at 122 Riverside Drive in Asheville.

If You Go: Open house and exhibit of last season’s children’s works on Saturday, January 11, 2014. Call Alisa at (828) 702-5526 for details.