Spring 2025 Juror Workshop

The instructor for this workshop will be Canadian artist Jean Pederson, AWS, TWSA, SFCA, CSPWC, ASA. Jean has been painting for more than 20 years and continues actively teaching workshops that engage, inspire and instruct. Be prepared to expand your creative options with mixed media in a fun and engaging environment!

Jean will give a daily demonstration of her process and guide you through composition, design and exploring content within the layering process. She will teach the layering of a variety of media, allowing you to consider a greater range of possibilities in your approach to art. She varies line, texture, and quality of edge within her compositions, and enjoys helping artists to see in new ways

About the Instructor
Jean is the author of Expressive Portraits: Creative Methods for Painting People, and Mixed Media Painting Workshop: Explore Mediums, Techniques and the Personal Artistic Journey. She has served as a contributing editor for The Artist’s Magazine, appeared in several of the Splash Best-of-Watercolor series, Watercolor Artist, Magazin’ Art, and has many instructional DVDs.

Jean has been honored with numerous national and international awards over the years, and has work in the Royal Collection at Windsor Castle, England. She was the first recipient of the Federation of Canadian Artists Early Achievement Award, recognizing her many honors and awards for consistently exceptional painting, and for her international writing to promote art education. Jean was awarded the Queen’s Diamond Jubilee Medal for contribution to the arts. Recently Jean was awarded Best in Show in the ISEA 2022 International Exhibition.

Her work has been exhibited both nationally and internationally in museums and galleries, including Jiangsu China, London, England, Stockholm, Sweden, New York, United Nations, San Francisco, Mexico and across Canada.


Cost of Workshop and Location
The fee for our five-day workshop is $550. The venue for our workshop is Evergreen’s Bear Hotel, which showcases community art projects. It is a working art and storage space for the 187 lifesized Art Bears that make their appearance each summer on the sidewalks of downtown Grants Pass. Many of the bears have been auctioned off to raise money for local nonprofit organizations.

The “Hotel” is located at 2101 NE Spalding Avenue, Grants Pass, OR 97526. Consider bringing your own food for lunch, or drive short distance to local eateries. Your food and beverages can be stored in the kitchen in our workshop room. We’ll have coffee, tea, water and light snacks each day.