Plein Air Painting Adult Workshop

The 3rd annual Hopper’s Nyack WEEK En Plein Air is a local creative experience and destination event taking place throughout Nyack. Come up close to the artistic process Edward Hopper learned and practiced while growing up in the Hudson River village.

This intensive afternoon painting workshop in Nyack offers a rare opportunity to study en plein air under the guidance of THREE distinguished contemporary artists: Susan Chen, Heidi Howard, and Susanna Coffey. You will immerse yourself in contemporary outdoor painting with Edward Hopper House Museum & Study Center in Nyack, NY.

Inspired by Edward Hopper’s lifelong fascination with light, architecture, and the surrounding landscape, this intensive afternoon workshop offers a unique opportunity to study en plein air under the guidance of these distinguished contemporary artists: Susan Chen, Heidi Howard, and Susanna Coffey.

Whether you are looking to refine your outdoor painting technique or energize your studio practice into nature, this workshop provides tailored instruction, dynamic and expressive strategies, and an encouraging setting.

Pre-Registration Deadline: Wednesday, October 7, 2026, 5 pm

Supplies:
Workshop participants bring their own painting supplies; a materials checklist will be sent ahead of time.

Total duration: 4.5 hours
(12:30 PM meetup and 1:00 PM – 5:00 PM Class)

Pre-Registration Deadline: Wednesday, October 7, 2026, 5 pm

Pricing: General Public: $250 / Members: $200

lass capacity: Capped at 20 people

Upon the class capacity being met, a waitlist will be kept.

ITINERARY

12:30 PM

Meet at Edward Hopper House Museum after lunch

1:00 PM - 4:00 PM

Outdoor painting in the garden, or across Nyack with views that Hopper saw himself.

4:00 PM - 5:00 PM

Students share their work with the group (mini critique)
+ drinks and light fare in the Museum Garden

Rain date: Sunday, October 25, 2026 (the following Sunday)

ABOOUT The Instructors

SUSAN CHEN is the featured artist of the Museum's current show, Rooms by the Sea. Living and working in New York City, her painting practice — initially rooted in portraiture and figuration — expanded in recent years to include en plein air landscapes, a body of work that grew out of spending summers with her husband's multigenerational family on Cape Cod. Susan is a 2025 Creative Capital Grant Winner, 2022 Forbes Under 30 North America Honoree, 2022 Artsy Vanguard Artist, and 2020 Hopper Prize Winner. She received her MFA from Columbia University in 2020 and her BA Honors from Brown University in 2015. In 2022, she was an Artist-in-Residence at Silver Art Projects in their Social Justice & Activism program at the World Trade Center. Her work is held in the permanent collections of the Brooklyn Museum, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, the Columbus Museum of Art, the Museum of Chinese in America, Yuz Museum Shanghai, and the Brown University Investment Office, among others.

https://susanmbchen.com/

HEIDI HOWARD s a New York–based painter, exhibiting internationally. Howard’s work spans still lifes, portraits, and en plein air landscapes. Heid Howard has been the subject of numerous solo exhibitions, including at the Leroy Neiman Center for Print Studies at Columbia University (2024, New York), One River School (2020, Englewood, NJ), Gaa Gallery (2019, Provincetown, MA), Nancy Margolis Gallery (2017, 2015, New York) and Con Artist Gallery (2011, New York). In addition, Howard has featured in group exhibitions at the Stedelijk Museum (2025, Amsterdam), Dunkunsthalle (2024, New York), Wave Hill Public Garden and Cultural Center (2023, New York), Simone Subal Gallery (2021, New York), Queens Museum (2018–20, New York). https://www.heidihoward.net

SUSANNA COFFEY is a respected figurative painter, Coffey’s work in self-portraiture, landscape, still life and illustration of classical literature is based in an intense observation of her motif or text. She is an artist known for her ability to create beautifully wrought and expressive imagery from subject matter often deemed ordinary or mundane. Coffey’s work is included in the collections of The Art institute of Chicago, The National Portrait Gallery, National Academy of Design, The Hood Museum, The Honolulu Museum of Art, Minneapolis Museum of Art, The Weatherspoon Art Museum, the Yale University Art Gallery, and others.

https://www.susannacoffey.com