Workshop: Travel Sketching with James Richards

Fri, 01 May, 2026 at 05:00 pm UTC-05:00

800 Riverview Dr, Winona, MN, United States, Minnesota 55987 | Winona

Minnesota Marine Art Museum
Publisher/HostMinnesota Marine Art Museum
Workshop: Travel Sketching with James Richards
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Friday, May 1 - Saturday, May 2, 2026 | 9a - 4p daily
Tuition: $250 [MMAM member rate: $240]
Register: https://mmam.org/calendar2/travel-sketching
Join James Richards in this sketching workshop, celebrating the transformational experience of travel, and the added richness, excitement and creative rush that on-location sketching brings to it. You'll learn to use sketching as a way to explore and a key to discovery in beautiful Winona’s vistas. This workshop will equip you with eye-opening lessons, techniques, shortcuts and inspiration from Jim’s own decades of experience that can help you develop your own style, provide sketching breakthroughs and shave years off your learning curve. Our workshop guests often say we've "given them permission" to be themselves and to enjoy the process. You'll depart with a newfound sense of freedom and confidence that's the foundation for a lifetime of enjoyment and continued growth.
About the instructor:
Jim's work crosses many creative boundaries, and drawing has always been a cornerstone of his creative life and work. He is an award-winning artist, author, urban designer and former university professor whose work explores real places and real stories around the globe. Jim is the author of the recently released "Travel Artist: Sketchbook Drawings and True Stories from the Road," and the award-winning Freehand Drawing & Discovery: Urban Sketching and Concept Drawing for Designers, a popular text at design schools across the U.S. and abroad.
He is an instructor and former Board of Directors member for Urban Sketchers, an international non-profit that promotes on-location sketching around the globe. His sketches have been published worldwide, appeared in solo and group exhibitions, seen in the National Geographic film Selah and on NBC Nightly News. His solo exhibition "Hemingway's Cuba" was shown in Hemingway’s estate outside Havana (now a national museum) during the 2015 Havana Art Biennial. Richards is the first American invited to have an exhibition in the Nobel Prize-winning author's home.
Jim is a popular online instructor on Skillshare.com, Craftsy and The Great Courses. He travels globally to teach urban sketching workshops for artists, designers and travelers. He's based in Winona, MN.
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