Laura Shabott's Art Lab: Hit Refresh!

Saturday, January 10, and Sunday, January 11, 2026, 10:00 - 3:00 pm.

This course will have two facets: art making and art practice refining and planning.

In the mornings, when we are fresh, you will work from the figure to get back into the groove after the holidays. We will work from 10:00 am to 12:30 pm, with charcoal, paint or collage, break for lunch, and meet for personal visioning sessions and quarterly milestones.

This is far more than to-dos; it is going deep to find out what you need from a practice. Is it recognition, to be a higher authority, to have a community, to make the art you’ve always wanted to make, to have multiple galleries?  What do you need to feel seen and heard as an artist? We will address these questions with a fresh eye and a young spirit. 

We have scholarships! The Cape Cod Museum of Art is committed to making Art accessible to everyone in the Cape Cod Community. The Museum School Scholarship Fund provides tuition assistance to qualified, year-round Cape Cod residents ages 6 and up. Click here to apply.

A selection of the following: supplies in bold are required.

• One 18 x 24” sized white acid-free drawing pad with at least 25 sheets. Strathmore Windpower, XL Sketch are two of many options.

• Vine Charcoal: Grumbacher Soft 3-Sticks or Nitram Soft Fine Art Charcoal for example.

• One Artist's Chamois or purchase chamois at an automotive or hardware store.

• Two Faber-Castell kneadable art erasers

• Scrap papers/canvases (original or found papers or canvases to cut up)

• Painted papers: Painting on cardboard prior to class in different colors

• One acid-free glue stick: Avery, Blick, or 3M are good.

• Scotch Tape (temporary, any kind will do)

• Duct tape/painter’s tape

• White gesso

• Gloss or matte medium or clear gesso 

• Gesso brushes/junk brushes

• Acrylic paint and brushes or oil paint and brushes

• PVA or Elmer’s acid free glue

• Scissors

• Box cutter/X-Acto knife

• Gloss medium or clear gesso

• Gessoed cardboard

• Panels of birch or Masonite

• 140 lb. heavy paper; printmaking paper can handle a lot of medium

• Scrap fabrics

• Cardboard cut in various sizes of interest: 8 x 10 to table size of 30 x 60 or sculpture of various sizes.

• Prepare some of the cardboard with white or clear gesso on both sides.

• Collage materials: cardboard, papers, foils, newspapers, photographs and large areas of color to do cutouts, either construction papers or painted papers (make your own large color surfaces)

• Photographs (original is best).

• Old drawings, paintings to cut up

• Gloves, roll of paper towels, and plastic bags to line your car

• Color wheel

• Snacks, lunch, and drinks

[image credit: Laura Shabott with work in progress, 2025, photo Elizabeth Higgins Steele]

Laura Shabott is a graduate of School of Museum of Fine Arts at TUFTS, Boston, with multiple self-directed Returning Residencies at the Fine Arts Work Center (FAWC), Provincetown. She is known for working directly from life using sweeping gestural forms, vibrant color and bold brushwork. Shabott’s post-college training at FAWC and the Provincetown Art Association and Museum is evident in her process-based approach. A studio artist, she is a gallerist, teacher and lecturer on the history of Provincetown art. From October 9, 2025, to January 25, 2026, Shabott will present her first solo show YOU ONLY GET ONE BODY: Art by Laura Shabott at the Cape Cod Museum of Art.

You Only Get One Body: Art by Laura Shabott

October 9, 2025 - January 25, 2026

Exhibition Title Sponsor

Jeremiah Kaplan Foundation in Memory of Ann Kaplan

Cancellation policy: CCMoA must be notified 1 week prior for refund.