Monthly Meetings & Artist Demonstrations
The third Monday morning of each month (Sept – May) the Art League sponsors free Artist Demos for its members and guests. You can watch how artists develop a painting from beginning to end in watercolor, oil, pastel, acrylics – each month a different medium. Meetings are held at 9:30 am in the Parish Hall of Christ Church in St. Michaels. Join a meeting to learn more!
Upcoming SMAL Member Meeting Dates:
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SMAL October Member Meeting
October 19, 2026 @ 9:30 am – 11:30 am
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SMAL November Member Meeting
Novermber 16, 2026 @ 9:30 am – 11:30 am
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SMAL December Member Meeting
ARTY PARTY – details to come
Will Denehy – Presenter for October 19, 2026 Member Meeting
Will Denehy After practicing architecture for way too long, Will retired to The Eastern Shore of Maryland and started learning to paint and write short stories. As an architect, his goal was to create beautiful buildings—believing they were acts of civility that...
Jon Doran – Presenter for September 21, 2026 Member Meeting
"Lithography: Past, Present, and the Printing Process" Born and raised in New York, John (Mickey) Doran graduated from Syracuse University with a BFA in Advertising Design. He went to work in the Peace Corps, (Venezuela) and then did a tour in the Army, (Korea)....
Feedback Festival!- Susan Schauer Johns, Zebra Gallery, April 20, 2026 Member Meeting
April 20th: Members’ Critique Susan Schauer Johns, The Zebra Gallery All members are invited to bring one piece of his/her art to receive feedback from Susan Schauer Johns from The Zebra Gallery in Easton. The piece can be in any medium, finished or incomplete, framed...
Katie Cassidy- Presenter for March 16, 2026 Member Meeting
March 16, 2026 Demo Artist Katie Cassidy Pastels: Light and Color katiecassidyart.com Landscape and people provided Katie with the inspiration for her pastel paintings. Cassidy frequently references the influences of Edouard Manet, Mary Cassatt, and Joachin Sorolla in...
Mike McSorley – Presenter for February 16, 2026 Member Meeting
February 16th Demo Artist Mike McSorley Title of Presentation: Using Everyday Objects as Subject in Oils https://www.mmcsorley.com/ Mike McSorley is a painter who blends traditional methods with modern ideas. His art works depict the paradox of depicting common...
Reinhardt Sahmel – Presenter for January 19, 2026 Member Meeting
January 19th Member Meeting Demo Artist Reinhardt Sahmel Presentation: Double Pour Technique for Displaying Photographic Art Reinhardt Sahmel is a photographer living in Easton, Maryland. His presentation...
Past Guest Artists:
Fred Jackson – Presenter for November 17, 2025 Member Meeting
Fred Jackson is our presenter for the November 17th member meeting Abstracting Shapes from Observation Fred will focus of his presentation on how he abstracts subjects, color relationships and his unique way of applying oil paint.
Nancy Fishel- Presenter for October 20, 2025 Member Meeting
Nancy Fishel is our presenter for the October 20th member meeting Printmaking: Design and Execution Nancy will be demonstrating block printing using water-miscible inks and special printing paper.
Jim Rehak – Presenter for September 15, 2025 Member Meeting
Jim Rehak is our presenter for the September 15th member meeting Delaware oil painter, Jim Rehak, will be presenting “Painting with Color” at our September 15th member meeting. "I wish to share my outdoor experience through my interpretation of the landscape. A sense...
Linda Popp – Presenter for May 19, 2025 Member Meeting
Linda Popp is our presenter for the May 19th member meeting On May 19th, Baltimore artist and educator Linda Popp will present the inspiration behind her found object assemblage sculptures. She uses artifacts and symbolic objects to convey stories about...
Tara Will – Presenter for April 21, 2025 Member Meeting
Tara Will is our presenter for the April 21st member meeting All are welcome at our monthly meetings. Held on the third Monday of the month in the Parish Hall of Christ Church in St. Michaels. Meetings begin at 9:30...but come early for light refreshments and some...
David Lawton – Professor of Art at March 17, 2025 Member Meeting
David Lawton - Professor of Art will provide feedback on your art work Bring in one piece of your work, complete or in-progress, framed or unframed and receive helpful feedback on its successful elements and suggestions for possible improvement. Art work should be at...
Sarah Yeoman- Expressive Watercolors at February 17, 2025 Member Meeting
Sarah will create a painting featuring one of her favorite subject matters, crows and ravens in flight. Come see how she captures the essence of a fleeting moment using the qualities of watercolor while she expounds on the traditional importance of good compositional...
Presentation by Maggii Sarfaty at January 20, 2025 Member Meeting
Have you ever wanted to create artwork that includes a clothed figures but don’t have a model? Oil painter Maggii Sarfaty will be demonstrating how you can depict the sumptuousness of rich fabrics in the form of a figure without using a live person. She’ll be...
Presentation by oil painter Kirk McBride at October 21, 2024 Member Meeting
The October 21 st Saint Michaels Art league meeting will feature a presentation by oil painter Kirk McBride on how he paints boats. In recent years Kirk McBride has traveled the East Coast from Florida to Maine exploring the docks and fishing shacks, the marshes and...
Slide lecture by photographer Dale Hall at September 16, 2024 Member Meeting
The Saint Michaels Art League will be featuring a slide lecture by photographer Dale Hall on September 16th, 9:30 in the parish hall of Christ Church in St. Michaels. Dale lives on Kent Island and is forever photographing the beautiful local scenery with it's...