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The Adventure Continues!!!!
May 6-15, 2022



The inaugural Plein Air New Bern in 2021 was a huge success, anyway you look at it. Beautiful paintings were created, displayed and sold....each finding a new owner, eager to have original art hanging in their home to enjoy every day.

And the best part....the adventure continues,
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 Save the Dates
​May 6-15, 2022
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Pre-Events 
May 7- 8 Oriental Paint Out with pop-up gallery and sale. 
May 8 Mother's Day Sponsored Preview Events - Oriental and New Bern

Plein Air New Bern 2022 Competition and Exhibition
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May 9 Featured Artists arrive, check in and Competition begins. 
​May 9-14 Daily activities will include Lunch & Lectures, youth activities, artists to artists panels, scheduled demonstrations
May 13-15   Collectors Event, judging and awards for featured artists
Post Awards Exhibition - Small Works exhibition and sale
May 15 Quick Paint & Exhibitions

Arriving with blank canvases in New Bern on the morning of May 10th 2021, each artist started the race to create a brand-new body of work in just 5 days.

​Wet canvases were displayed and sold daily -fresh off the easel and displayed at the exhibition gallery, opened 9 daily at

 ​New Bern Farmers Market
421 S Front St

then they went home....way too soon. But, you have to leave to return....and return they will!!  May 2022 these artists will be returning to join newly juried artists and the race will begin again.

Like all of us in New Bern, these artists fell in love with this special place and relished painting the beauty and history unique to this area.

Thank you and stay safe until your return.
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Fondly, the citizens of New Bern.
Sign up!!   Be a volunteer....a collector....a donor.....a buddy artist. Planning for this 2022 Plein Air New Bern on steroids starts OCTOBER 2021. Click here  Sign Me Up!!!!
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WHAT IS PLEIN AIR?

Painting the outdoors from life.

​Plein air has a long tradition in art history, dating back to the earliest art of our ancestors painting the animals and world around them. The tradition grew to its height during the French Impressionist movement, and continues strong to this very day.

​The Plein Air New Bern Steering Committee is proud to host a national event highlighting this unique art form in New Bern, North Carolina May 6-15, 2022.
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