Classes, Workshops, and Exhibitions

Now Booking Workshops for Fall 2023 and Summer. TBA. Please watch this page as courses and lectures are added.

Coming in April 2023 (Sold out – please call the Center to be put on the waiting list):
The Finer Points of Pen and Ink
Ocean City Fine Arts Center (17th and Simpson, Floor 2) ~ (609) 399-7628


Coming in March 2023 – Opening March 22, 2023:
Celebrating Atlantic Cape

I will have two pieces on view at this county-wide exhibition. More exhibitions to come as I get back out there!



Coming in Fall, 2023
Classical Drawing and Painting, Thursdays from 2-5:40, Mays Landing Campus

Looking to improve your painting and drawing? Coming up in the fall semester I will be teaching Classical Painting and Drawing. The prerequisite is Fundamental Drawing, an equivalent, or permission of the instructor. Oil paints and solvents will be supplied for classroom exercises as well as some supports. This class is open to all adult learners and our own Atlantic Cape students but if you did not take Fundamental Drawing please email me at cknowles@atlanticcape.edu and request permission and provide a sampling of your work. The course is 15- weeks (we are closed on Thursday, Thanksgiving) and we dive deep into classical drawing methods of the still-life, landscape, and figure including life drawing and painting. NO BOOK – videos and articles will be provided as previewing assignments before each session. SAGE students are welcome. I recommend you obtain your SAGE (Senior Adults Gaining Enrichment) cards from Atlantic Cape Community College’s SAGE liason before the single day of registration. Please email me if you have any questions.


Watch this page for the Zoom recording of this event from summer 2022.
This presentation and exhibition and all events related were funded through the NJ Council on the Humanities and the Smithsonian Institute!

Hear Ye! Hear Ye! Please spread the word about our next Voices and Votes event: Art and the American Revolution (see attached flyer). In this presentation, Dr. Augustine Nigro will show how both the British and the colonists used art as a propaganda tool during the war for independence. Professor Knowles-Harrigan will speak about the process and techniques used to make the featured works of art and discuss the artists’ role in the Colonial era. My esteemed co-presenter’s biography is below and you can read my bio at this link: https://ckharts.com/artists-bio-and-statement/!  

This event will take place through Zoom Webinar, June 13 at 5:30 PM. All are welcome! If you wish any details about the community exhibition please email me at cknowles@atlantic.edu.

Dr. Augustine Nigro is a professor of history and government at Atlantic Cape Community College.  He has been employed by the college for over fifteen years and has taught a variety of history, government, and philosophy courses. He earned his PhD in American history from West Virginia University and enjoys spending time hiking through the Pine Barrens

Above: Dad and Barclay the Wonder Dog (Sketchbook spread)

Hyperlapse Video Combining Drawing and Painting Materials: Job’s Point Bend (February)