Kim Lordier

Award-winning painter and workshop instructor Kim Lordier is Signature Member of Pastel Society of America, the California Art Club, and Laguna Plein Air Painters Association, and is a Distinguished Pastelist of the Pastel Society of the West Coast. Her richly colored landscape and equestrian work examines the natural world and our relationship to it,  and how light transforms the mood of an environment. Lordier’s paintings are in private and public collections throughout the country, and have been exhibited at leading museums and galleries. Her work has been showcased on the cover of Art of the West, PleinAir Magazine, Southwest Art, and The Pastel Journal, and has been featured in Western Art and Architecture and Fine Art Connoisseur. 

Mitchell Albala

Mitchell Albala is an award-winning landscape painter, workshop instructor, and author, and a Signature Member of Pastel Society of America. His light-filled and and atmospheric landscapes have been exhibited nationally and are represented in corporate and private collections. He is the author of two best-selling books on landscape painting: Landscape Painting: Essential Concepts and Techniques for Plein Air and Studio Practice, and The Landscape Painter's Workbook: Essential Studies in Shape, Composition, and Color. 

Matthias Waschek (MetroWest Daily News)

Matthias Waschek, PhD

Matthias has been Director of the Worcester Art Museum since 2011. Originally from Germany, he has a PhD in Art History from Bonn University. Throughout his 30-year international career in the museum world, Waschek has worked to connect the broader public with new thinking about art history and archaeology—as Head of Academic Programs at the Louvre Museum in Paris (1992–2003), as Executive Director of the Pulitzer Arts Foundation St. Louis, Missouri (2003–2011), and now at the Worcester Art Museum. In addition, he has published extensively on French art of the 19th century, as well as on 20th-century and contemporary art. He is very fond of pastel.