Join us for the NEW event to Meet the 2027 Invited Artists and Ambassadors! Enjoy an evening at this party with art and food held exclusively for our Collectors. REMEMBER - 100% of your purchase of a package goes directly to the purchase of a painting, so it’s a win-win situation! Don’t miss this special evening to kick off the 2027 Forgotten Coast en Plein Air event!

The 2027 Quickdraw will be held in Port St. Joe this year at the park on Hwy 98 near the lighthouse. All completed work will be displayed on site for judging and sales. Enjoy beautiful scenery and plan to watch the artists paint, stay for the judging and select a painting for purchase right off the easel!

Join artists Olena Babak, Brienne Brown, Charles Dickinson, Michelle Held, Jeremy Sams and Steven Walker at the riverfront in Apalachicola as they paint the boats and area along Water Street. Reception immediately following the demonstration at the Apalachicola Yacht Club. Free to the public.

Enjoy gospel music and artists painting a Sunday morning church service outdoors. See featured artists Greg Barnes, Carla Bosch, Gene Costanza, Manon Sander and many more capture a Sunday morning service on the waterfront in Apalachicola. Light refreshments served in the Center for History, Culture and Art across the street afterwards. Free to the public.

Join Tara Will for a Lunch and Learn event, “The Value of Value.” While any color can be used to express an image, having a value structure overrides color choices. Many people struggle to see color outside of value and vice versa. Let’s unpack that!

The Lunch and Learn series is limited seating for lunch at the The Joe Center for the Arts at 201 Reid Avenue in Port St. Joe. It will be held at 12 noon on Monday, March 15th, $20 per person. Premium table seating with lunch is provided for those with required reservations via the website. For those attendees not wanting to order lunch, additional seating is provided behind the lunch seats with no preregistration required.  

If you must cancel and get a refund, there is a $5 refund fee.

Meet artists Suzie Baker, Beth Bathe, Brienne Brown, Richie Vios and Steven Walker as art enthusiasts gather to view their work and converse about the art and the setting. Artists will talk about their paintings and light refreshments served afterwards at the reception. Free to the public.

Join Geoff Allen for a Lunch and Learn event, “Painting an Outdoor Still Life in Watercolor.”The trick is having the watercolor flow through the still life just like the viewer’s eye travel through the painting.

The Lunch and Learn series is limited seating for lunch at the The Joe Center for the Arts at 201 Reid Avenue in Port St. Joe. It will be held at 12 noon on Tuesday, March 16th, $20 per person. Premium table seating with lunch is provided for those with required reservations via the website. For those attendees not wanting to order lunch, additional seating is provided behind the lunch seats with no preregistration required.  

If you must cancel and get a refund, there is a $5 refund fee.

Watch artists Lon Brauer, Gene Costanza, Charles Dickinson, Tim Horn and Vicki Norman paint at the Carrabelle Marine Street Pavilion. Enjoy a reception with the artists and light refreshments afterwards. Free to the public.

Watch local students paint one on one with our invited artists. An exciting day to see learning take place and art made on site!

Come watch artists Olena Babak, Greg Barnes, Michelle Held, Tim Horn, Vicki Norman and Jim Wodark as they capture the beauty that is St. George Island and the St. George Lighthouse. Reception following where the artists will discuss their paintings and light refreshments served. Free to the public.

Join Mary Veiga for a Lunch and Learn entitled “How to Paint a Glowing Sunset en Plein Air .” People often struggle with the rapidly changing colors and light when painting outdoors. Mary will demonstrate the strategy and steps she takes to prepare and execute that moment for the actual setting of the sun.

The Lunch and Learn series is limited lunch seating at Apalachicola National Estuarine Research Reserve in Eastpoint. It will be held at 12 noon on Thursday, March 18th, $20 per person. Premium table seating with lunch is provided for those with required reservations via the website. Once the event is sold out, overflow seating is provided behind the reserved lunch seats for those just attending the presentation with no lunch provided and no preregistration required.

If you must cancel and get a refund, there is a $5 refund fee.

Watch artists Geoff Allen, Suzie Baker, Beth Bathe, Richie Vios and Jim Wodark capture the atmosphere, tradition and lifestyle of the small fishing community and the beauty of the Apalachicola National Estuarine Research Reserve in Eastpoint. At the reception, the artists will present a brief discussion of their paintings. Free to the public.

Mexico Beach Artists Demonstrations, 9:00am-11:00am, 102 Canal Parkway, Mexico Beach, at the Mexico Beach Welcome Center. Join artists Carla Bosch, Lon Brauer, Mary Veiga and Tara Will as they capture the scenes in this beautiful area. Stay afterwards for a presentation by the artists about their paintings and light refreshments. Free to the public.

Note: All of Forgotten Coast en Plein Air events run on Eastern time, so events in Mexico Beach will be one hour earlier than local time. For example, an event starting at 2:00pm Eastern, will actually start at 1:00pm Mexico Beach (Central) time.

Maecenas Evening is for those Collectors who purchase a package of $1000 or higher (which all dollars spent apply to the purchase of a painting 100%). Be the first to see the special Artist Choice paintings the artists will hold back and hang this evening! Come enjoy the evening of great food and great music, talk with the artists, and choose that special masterpiece to purchase for your own collection!

Deadline to purchase these packages is Sunday, March 14th. Don’t miss out on this exclusive evening with all artists!

The Masters Gallery is comprised of studio paintings from the returning invited artists, often in larger formats than are possible en plein air. Join artist Manon Sander as she discusses what make the pieces presented in the Masters Gallery so valuable.

Join us on our final evening of the event for our Collector’s Gala. Visit with the artists and make your purchase of art painted during this year’s event.

Join us for the last day of our ten day event! An Open House and the Small Painting Reveal will happen in the Wet Room at the Armory in Apalachicola that is free to the public. Light refreshments will be served and artists will paint live at their easels. Don’t miss this final chance to purchase a special painting.

Watch the artist that was awarded Artists' Choice for this year. Who is it? We will only know after the reveal on Friday evening so come to the demo to watch this artist and a demonstration of their choice!