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The Franklin Art Association warmly welcomes the public to it’s next public meeting at 6:30 PM on March 3 2026 at the Franklin Senior Center at 6:30 PM. Our artist demonstrator will be visual artist and urban sketcher, Rachel Diamond Calow. She is known for her expressive travel notebooks and illustrated journals.
Because her recent world cruise moved quickly from port to port, many of her sketchbook pages were created from her own travel photographs; blending on-location experience with her reflective drawings. This hybrid approach forms the foundation of her newly published book, “Port to Port: A sketchbook Journey Around the World”.
Come to hear her discussion about her urban sketching process, using the audience as a springboard for discussing subject selection, composition and color and gesture choices on Wednesday , March 3 from 6:30 to 8:30 pm, Franklin Senior Center. She will bring her small artwortks and printed postcard samples. Calow will also share samples from her travel sketchbooks, paired with her photography, and pages from her current reflective sketchbook project, “My Life in Days”, which combines everyday moments into expressive, non-sequential illustrated spreads.
The Franklin Art Association takes pride in offering a student scholarship yearly to a local art wishing to continue their art career in art instruction after high school graduation.
Donations are welcome. FAA is having an on-going raffle for the scholarship of local artist’s, Peg Munson’s seashore pastel artwork. Please join us at our monthly meetings for art instruction, the camaraderie of art conversation and refreshments at intermission.
Rachel Diamond Calow.
“Namibia Sketch”
Rachel Diamond Calow “Sketchbook Pages”
