Laura Shabott's Art Lab: Paint. Collage.

Saturday, November 8, and Sunday, November 9, 10:00 - 3:00 pm.

An art series is a collection of multiple works that are interrelated by technique, subject, and/or palette, for example. You will use the two days to workshop two or three different series ideas based on prompts from the instructor. You will find the common threads in your varied interests as an artist and apply them to creating a cohesive body of work(s).

Each morning, we will have a handout, a discussion, and work from a model beginning with charcoal to loosen up the hand. Then we move to your selected materials while the model poses. Frequent feedback from your colleagues in class will support your process. The aim is to leave with refreshing clarity about what really interests you as an artist and how to make it your own.

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 paper prior to class 18 x 24 or less to make shapes of your own palette. Use a thicker paper or cardboard that can hold the paint.

• 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

• Elmer’s glue

• Scissors

• Box cutter/X-Acto knife

• Gloss medium or clear gesso

• Gessoed cardboard

• Panels of birch or Masonite

• Frederix canvas pads, great for experimentation.

• Stretched canvas

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

• Scrap fabrics

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

• Color wheel

• Snacks, lunch, and drinks

[image credit: Laura Shabott, Beach Day, 2023, (detail) Charcoal Drawings and Paint on Paper, 42 x 73 inches. jpeg courtesy Berta Walker Gallery photo James Zimmerman]

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.