Painting
January 28 to February 25, 2026
Tiered Tuition
$30-$80 Reserve My Spot
Wednesdays on January 28th, February 4th, 11th, 18th, and 25th at 7pm to 8 pm (Eastern)
This class will focus on the three pillars of starting and maintaining a studio practice: Action Plan, Accountability, and Community. Students will begin with sharing goals and developing two-week action plans in classes one and three, and will then use this effective tool daily during the month. Each class will focus on accountability as students post that week’s work and discuss in class how they used the action plan to enter their practice each day. Lastly, class four will focus on how to create and sustain an artist community, and to engage with local and virtual art communities.
If you’d like to continue your accountability practice after our time together has ended, please consider registering for future versions of this class.
Erica Bodwell is a painter working in oil and watercolor for close to ten years. Working in the example of artists such as Atel Adnan, Zoey Frank and Joan Mitchell, Erica's work engages still life, figuration and abstraction, using color as a primary subject to interrogate the emotional, political, and phenomenal world. She focuses on "the close view" of subjects, including the gazes of girls and women she's known and been throughout her life, and the natural world around her. Her work often places the viewer in its midst, whether at eye-level with squares and squiggles, wildflowers in a meadow, or the subject's gaze. Erica's work asks, Are we present? Are we paying attention now?
Erica studied with Fran O'Neil and Catherine Lepp at the New York Studio School, as well as at the Kimball-Jenkins School of Art, the Currier Art Museum, and the New Hampshire Technical College Fine Arts program and is a member of the juried New Hampshire Art Association. She is also an accomplished poet with two books of poems, Up Liberty Street (Finishing Line 2017), and Crown of Wild (Two Sylvias 2020), which won the 2018 Two Sylvias Press Wilder Prize. The mother of two grown sons, she works as a healthcare attorney and lives with her husband and two dogs in Concord and Tamworth, New Hampshire. Her first solo show was held at the Cook Memorial Library in Tamworth, New Hampshire in February 2024. Her work was included in a group show in March 2025 at the Glimpse Gallery in Concord, New Hampshire, and in a group show at the AVA Gallery in Lebanon, New Hampshire. Her next show is at the Glimpse Gallery in December 2025.
