Calendar of Events
All available class sign ups are listed here
Chunky Palette Knife Painting with Erin Alice (Easter Edition)
Erin Alice loves to blur the boundaries between sculpture and painting by innovating new ways to use paint like using palette knives and cake icing piping bags to create an extreme impasto style. Join her as she teaches us how to use palette knives to paint and decorate an Easter Egg or Floral Cross
Sign up here:
https://artsco.as.me/?appointmentType=73057771
Inner Circle Meeting
Join us every Second Tuesday of the month at 6:30 to discuss and plan ARTSCO events.
Second Thursday Poetry Reading
Join us for an evening of poetry.
If want to participate in reading some of your work, please sign up with the link below. We need a minimum of 3 readers to make the event happen. If by the Monday before each reading we don't have at least 3 readers signed up we will have to cancel the event.
SIGN UP HERE:
https://forms.gle/fUGBzGncvmLuPZ6x6
Heavy Texture Succulent Painting with Laura Rush
Explore the style of impasto, an Italian technique that adds depth and texture to your acrylic painting. In this class Laura will guide you through painting a succulent with heavy acrylics and palette knives. April 17th at 6pm. $65. All supplies will be provided.
Sign up here:
https://artsco.as.me/?appointmentType=73058047
Bob Ross Painting with Brad Mullins
Brad Mullins is a certified Bob Ross Instructor and he is offering a 3 part series of landscape oil painting classes. You will learn the techniques in using all brushes and palette knives and the wet on wet method of oil painting that Bob Ross was famous for. Learning how to make mountains and a lot of happy trees and dealing with happy accidents. $75 per class. All supplies are provided. Each class will be a different scene.
Sign up here:
https://artsco.as.me/?appointmentType=73055246
Inner Circle Meeting
Join us every Second Tuesday of the month at 6:30 to discuss and plan ARTSCO events.
Special Poetry Reading at John Browns on the Square
Join us for a special evening of poetry at John Browns on the Square in Marion
Inner Circle Meeting
Join us every Second Tuesday of the month at 6:30 to discuss and plan ARTSCO events.
ART CAMP
Ages 8-12
Dates June 11, 18, 25 & July 2, 9, 16
Details and Sign ups coming in May
Teen Alternative Art Camp
Teens will be given fun alternative art projects such as Polaroid Emulsion Lifts, Screen Printing, Gelli Printing, Rollage and more. Dates are June 12, 19, 26 & July 3, 10 17
Ages 13-18
Sign ups coming in May
ART CAMP JUNIOR
AGES 5-7
Dates June 17, July 1, July 15
Details and Sign Ups coming in May
ART CAMP
Ages 8-12
Dates June 11, 18, 25 & July 2, 9, 16
Details and Sign ups coming in May
Teen Alternative Art Camp
Teens will be given fun alternative art projects such as Polaroid Emulsion Lifts, Screen Printing, Gelli Printing, Rollage and more. Dates are June 12, 19, 26 & July 3, 10 17
Ages 13-18
Sign ups coming in May
ART IN THE GARDEN
Art in the Garden, June 21, 2025, 11am-9pm FREE ENTRY!!
Come join us for a day of arts, crafts, food, music, fun and sun. We will have another amazing group of vendors, artists and musicians lined up for our 3rd annual Art in the Garden.
Art in the Garden is a unique art festival experience made for the Southern Illinois community to connect, create & celebrate the arts and is brought to you by Gallery 111, Art Social, Union Street Arts, Project Human X, Artsco, and Mandala Gardens. This year Art in the Garden takes place on National Let’s Make Music Day as well as The Summer Solstice!!
Our mission is to bring together the Southern Illinois community for a one-of-a-kind celebration of creative synergy! "Art In the Garden" will feature live art, music, and a diverse selection of vendors showcasing & selling their work. Creative activities will be available where kids can take home what they make!
If you are interested in being a vendor, artist, or musician at this event please contact Greg Reid from Mandala Gardens mandala.gardens@gmail.com $25/10x10 space, Vendors may leave at 6:00 if they choose to do so or they may stay for the entire event.
LITTLES ART
Littles Art Camp will be more focused on sensory projects. Basically we’re just making a mess and creating masterpieces! For the 4 and under crowd.
Dates June 24 & July 22
Details and Sign ups coming in May
ART CAMP
Ages 8-12
Dates June 11, 18, 25 & July 2, 9, 16
Details and Sign ups coming in May
Teen Alternative Art Camp
Teens will be given fun alternative art projects such as Polaroid Emulsion Lifts, Screen Printing, Gelli Printing, Rollage and more. Dates are June 12, 19, 26 & July 3, 10 17
Ages 13-18
Sign ups coming in May
ART CAMP JUNIOR
AGES 5-7
Dates June 17, July 1, July 15
Details and Sign Ups coming in May
ART CAMP
Ages 8-12
Dates June 11, 18, 25 & July 2, 9, 16
Details and Sign ups coming in May
Teen Alternative Art Camp
Teens will be given fun alternative art projects such as Polaroid Emulsion Lifts, Screen Printing, Gelli Printing, Rollage and more. Dates are June 12, 19, 26 & July 3, 10 17
Ages 13-18
Sign ups coming in May
Inner Circle Meeting
Join us every Second Tuesday of the month at 6:30 to discuss and plan ARTSCO events.
ART CAMP
Ages 8-12
Dates June 11, 18, 25 & July 2, 9, 16
Details and Sign ups coming in May
Teen Alternative Art Camp
Teens will be given fun alternative art projects such as Polaroid Emulsion Lifts, Screen Printing, Gelli Printing, Rollage and more. Dates are June 12, 19, 26 & July 3, 10 17
Ages 13-18
Sign ups coming in May
ART CAMP JUNIOR
AGES 5-7
Dates June 17, July 1, July 15
Details and Sign Ups coming in May
ART CAMP
Ages 8-12
Dates June 11, 18, 25 & July 2, 9, 16
Details and Sign ups coming in May
Teen Alternative Art Camp
Teens will be given fun alternative art projects such as Polaroid Emulsion Lifts, Screen Printing, Gelli Printing, Rollage and more. Dates are June 12, 19, 26 & July 3, 10 17
Ages 13-18
Sign ups coming in May
LITTLES ART
Littles Art Camp will be more focused on sensory projects. Basically we’re just making a mess and creating masterpieces! For the 4 and under crowd.
Dates June 24 & July 22
Details and Sign ups coming in May
Inner Circle Meeting
Join us every Second Tuesday of the month at 6:30 to discuss and plan ARTSCO events.
Inner Circle Meeting
Join us every Second Tuesday of the month at 6:30 to discuss and plan ARTSCO events.
Inner Circle Meeting
Join us every Second Tuesday of the month at 6:30 to discuss and plan ARTSCO events.
Inner Circle Meeting
Join us every Second Tuesday of the month at 6:30 to discuss and plan ARTSCO events.
Gingerbread Houses with Santa
Join Santa Claus in decorating gingerbread houses!!!
Each child will receive a small gingerbread house and a cookie to decorate. They will get to visit with Santa while working on their creations.
Children under 6 need an adult to stay with them.
This will be a "come and go" style appointment. Each appointment is for around 30 minutes. Appointments are booked every 15 minutes.
Sign ups coming in November
Watercolor Florals with Emily Wallace
Celebrate the first day of spring with a watercolor floral class with Emily Wallace (HHS Art Teacher)
This workshop will teach you how to use watercolor paints to create some lovely little flower paintings. We will learn basic watercolor fundamentals and techniques that can be applied to future projects. By the end of the class you will have some wonderful greeting cards with your artwork to take home.
$45 per ticket. All supplies and light snacks will be provided.
Purchase tickets here:
https://artsco.as.me/?appointmentType=73693876
Bob Ross Painting with Brad Mullins
Brad Mullins is a certified Bob Ross Instructor and he is offering a 3 part series of landscape oil painting classes. You will learn the techniques in using all brushes and palette knives and the wet on wet method of oil painting that Bob Ross was famous for. Learning how to make mountains and a lot of happy trees and dealing with happy accidents. $75 per class. All supplies are provided. Each class will be a different scene.
Sign up here:
https://artsco.as.me/?appointmentType=73055246
Second Thursday Poetry Reading
Join us for an evening of poetry.
If want to participate in reading some of your work, please sign up with the link below. We need a minimum of 3 readers to make the event happen. If by the Monday before each reading we don't have at least 3 readers signed up we will have to cancel the event.
SIGN UP HERE:
https://forms.gle/fUGBzGncvmLuPZ6x6
Inner Circle Meeting
Join us every Second Tuesday of the month at 6:30 to discuss and plan ARTSCO events.
Elf School - With Julie Hathaway
Want to improve your gift wrapping, bow making & basket making skills before this Holiday season?? Join Miss Julie Hathaway for a crash course in professional Elfing!!
Light refreshments will be available.
Tickets here:
https://artsco.as.me/?appointmentType=69663912
Gingerbread House Decorating with Santa
Join Santa Claus in decorating gingerbread houses!!!
Each child will receive a small gingerbread house and a cookie to decorate. They will get to visit with Santa while working on their creations.
Children under 6 need an adult to stay with them. ��Location will be our building at 219 S. Main Street in Harrisburg.
This will be a "come and go" style appointment. Each appointment is for around 30 minutes. Appointments are booked every 15 minutes.
Tickets here:
Chunky Palette Knife Painting with Erin Alice Christmas Edition
Erin Alice loves to blur the boundaries between sculpture and painting by innovating new ways to use paint like using palette knives and cake icing piping bags to create an extreme impasto style. Join her as she teaches us how to use palette knives to paint and decorate a Christmas Tree.
Tickets here:
https://artsco.as.me/?appointmentType=69665040
Holiday Ceramics Gift Giving Class
Need some holiday gift ideas for that hard to buy for person? Join us for a ceramics gift making class!!! This will be a hand building class only (no pottery wheel) You will have the option to make a mug and 4 coasters OR a wax burner and 4 ornaments. The Eldorado art club will be finishing these projects for us and they will be available for pick up before Christmas. $65 covers all of the supplies needed and part of the proceeds will be donated to the Eldorado HS Art Club.
Tickets here:
https://artsco.as.me/?appointmentType=69663717
Holiday Ceramics Gift Giving Class
Need some holiday gift ideas for that hard to buy for person? Join us for a ceramics gift making class!!! This will be a hand building class only (no pottery wheel) You will have the option to make a mug and 4 coasters OR a wax burner and 4 ornaments. The Eldorado art club will be finishing these projects for us and they will be available for pick up before Christmas. $65 covers all of the supplies needed and part of the proceeds will be donated to the Eldorado HS Art Club.
Tickets here:
https://artsco.as.me/?appointmentType=69663717
Pickin' Party
Join us on Tuesday November 19th at 6pm at the ARTSCO building in Harrisburg for a FREE gathering of musicians. Pack up your instruments and coolers for a round robin - song sharing - spirit lifting good old fashioned picking circle. Come to play or just relax and listen. Open to all pickers and genres.
For questions email us at artsalineco@gmail.com
Halloween Poetry Reading
Step into the shadows for a chilling evening of dark verse. With Edgar Allan Poe’s ghostly presence looming, we’ll summon spine-tingling tales and haunting poetry that whisper from the grave. Dare to join us—if you’re not afraid of what lurks in the dark...
We will also binge on leftover halloween candy!! Costumes not required but strongly encouraged!!!
Please bring spooky poetry (or short stories) only. Original or reading someone else's poetry is allowed!!!
Located at the Deer Shed Tap Room. Hosted by Edgar Allan Poe himself!!!
Sasquatch Festival Art Show Reception
Join us for the closing reception for the Sasquatch Festival Art Contest. The art is on display in the City Council Room at Harrisburg City Hall.
Light refreshments will be available.
Artists will be able to take their work with them when they leave.
Art Camp art will also be available for pick up