ROCKLAND — Here are the upcoming events from The Farnsworth Museum. A variety of art, theater, drawing and painting, watercolors, photography and more. 

Drawing and painting at the Farnsworth with Sam Cady
Beginning March 5, on ten consecutive Saturday’s the Farnsworth Art Museum will host a Drawing and Painting class taught by artist Sam Cady. The program will take place at the Gamble Education Center, at the corner of Union and Grace Streets in Rockland, from 1 to 4 p.m.

Artist Sam Cady has been teaching a drawing and painting class at the Farnsworth for several years. The character of the class has varied from session to session depending on the participants. In one class he had three generations of the same family in the class which created a particularly dynamic and stimulating mix. Some who have participated have studied in well-known schools in Boston and New York. Many have had no art training but love to make art. All learn from the spontaneity and imagination of kids participating and equally from the more experienced artists. Many techniques and mediums are covered. The main emphasis is on a response to the seen world of either still life set ups in class or land/seascapes from the Rockland area.

Cady, who has exhibited widely around the country but especially in New York City, Boston, and Maine, and who taught in the MFA program at the School of Visual Arts in New York, has the class to his studio once a session to share with them his experience. The fee for this program is $360; $300 for Farnsworth members. For more information, or to register for this class please call the Education Department at 207-596-0949 or visit farnsworthmuseum.org.

Floral Watercolor Workshop at the Farnsworth
On Saturday and Sunday, March 5 and 6, the Farnsworth Art Museum will host a floral watercolor workshop at the museum's Gamble Education Center. The program, led by artist and naturalist Susan Van Campen, will take place both days from 9 a.m. — 3 p.m.

This watercolor workshop will include floral still life painting in the studio. Participants will explore the process of setting up and arranging, as well as composing and painting. Color and movement will guide the focus while passion and vision will motivate.

Susan Van Campen is both artist and naturalist, drawing her inspiration from the world out of doors — from the sloping meadows unfolding outside her window, and the shapes and shades of the flowers she herself has tended. She seeks to capture the fleeting beauty she sees in nature through her carefully crafted watercolor still lifes. Through a veil of modernism, she presents bold, vibrant blooms in uncluttered compositions on the white ground in a careful balance of painted subject and negative space. Susan studied at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts. She is represented by Hirschl & Adler Gallery, New York, and Dowling Walsh Gallery, Rockland, Maine. Her work can be found in the Farnsworth Art Museum in Rockland, Maine, the Woodmere Art Museum, Philadelphia, Rutgers University Museum, Bryn Mawr College as well as many corporate and private collections.

Special gallery tour at the Farnsworth - Maine female photographers' perspective
On Thursday, March 10, the Farnsworth Art Museum will offer a special gallery tour by Director of Education Roger Dell. The tour entitled The Distaff View of Life: Maine Female Photographers' Perspective, is in conjunction with the museum's ongoing Picturing Maine exhibition, which is on display through March 27. The tour will take place at 2 p.m. and is free with admission.

This gallery tour with Education Director Roger Dell will examine several works by Maine women photographers from sociological and artistic points of view. Early artists such as Berenice Abbott and contemporary artists such as Joyce Tenneson and Olive Pierce will be considered and discussed from the vantage point of themes, styles, and techniques. Those interested in participating should meet in the museum's main lobby off the Farnsworth's Museum Street parking lot.

The Farnsworth and Everyman Repertory Theatre present a dramatic reading: Nora Ephron's Lucky Guy
On Saturday, March 12, the Farnsworth in partnership with Everyman Repertory Theatre, will present a dramatic reading of Nora Ephron's Lucky Guy. The reading, the last in a series of three dramatic readings entitled The Play's the Thing, will take place in the museum's auditorium at 2 p.m.

Lucky Guy marks a return to Nora Ephron's journalistic roots. The charismatic and controversial tabloid columnist Mike McAlary covered the scandal- and graffiti-ridden New York of the 1980s. From his sensational reporting of New York's major police corruption to the libel suit that nearly ended his career, the play dramatizes the story of McAlary's meteoric rise, fall and rise again, ending with his coverage of the Abner Louima case for which he won the Pulitzer Prize, shortly before his untimely death on Christmas Day, 1998.

Lucky Guy received six Tony Awards nominations in 2013. Courtney B. Vance won the Tony Award for Best Featured Actor in a Play. The Best Lighting Design of a Play award went to Jules Fisher and Peggy Eisenhauer. Tom Hanks received a Theatre World Award for Outstanding Broadway or off-Broadway Debut Performance. Please note that this play contains adult language and themes and may not be suitable for young audiences.

This reading will feature the following large ensemble of actors: John Bielenberg, Robin Jones, Brian Ross, Jim Reitz, Ryan Jackson, Andrea Itkin, Christine West, Mike Rowe, David Greenham, Dean Jorgenson, Ryan Martin and River Lombardi. It is being directed by Paul Hodgson. The fee for this program is $12 for nonmembers and $10 for members. Advance tickets are for sale in the Farnsworth museum store or main lobby admission desk. Will-call tickets may be purchased at farnsworthmuseum.org.

Ukrainian Egg Decorating Workshop with Lesia Socher
On Saturday, March 12, the Farnsworth Art Museum will host a workshop on Ukrainian Egg Decorating, led by Lesia Socher. The class will take place at the Gamble Education Center, at the corner of Union and Grace Streets in Rockland from 10 a.m. to noon.

When decorating eggs in the Ukrainian style, designs are drawn on the egg with melted beeswax, which flows from a tool called a Kystka. The eggs are then dipped in a series of dyes and the final pattern is revealed when the wax is removed. The Pysanka, a decorated egg, was common among Slavic peoples as far back as 5,000 B.C. and became deeply important in spring rituals, symbolizing nature's rebirth. All materials will be provided for this workshop. Space is limited to 25 participants and is recommended for families with children 8 years old and up. Adults without accompanying children are welcome to come as well.

Instructor Lesia Sochor is an artist of direct Ukrainian descent who lives in Brooks. She learned the ancient spring tradition of decorating Pysanka from her mother and has shared this craft in many workshops throughout the state.

The fee for this class, which includes materials, is $20; $15 for members. There is a $10 suggested donation for children. For more information or to register, please call the Education Department at 207-596-0949 or visit farnsworthmuseum.org/education.