Current / Upcoming CFPAA Activities
2011	Activity	Location
TBA	Painting at various locations, Garden/Home Tours, Exhibits, out of town Paint Outs and excursions.	Various
Mar 26-Sat 9am-4pm	Group display of paintings at the Florida Wildflower Festival, 100-199 W Indiana Ave in downtown DeLand.	Deland FL
Aug 30-Tue	Meeting at Panera Bread in Lake Mary FL at 6pm. Take the Lake Mary Blvd exit off I-4 going West; it is on the corner of International Pkwy & Lake Mary Blvd, on the left, in the strip mall.	Lake Mary FL
Sep 13-Tue	Meeting at Panera Bread in Lake Mary FL at 6pm. Take the Lake Mary Blvd exit off I-4 going West; it is on the corner of International Pkwy & Lake Mary Blvd, on the left, in the strip mall.	Lake Mary FL
Sep 24-Sat	10 Year Anniversary Paintout at Ozello. Hope to have all that were at the first one attend. For details call Elisabeth at 407.232.4109	Ozello FL
Nov 10-16	Members will take part in the Mt.Dora Paint Out. For details call 352-383-0880	Mt.Dora FL
Dec 3-4	Lake Helen Victorian Home Tour. 7 homes and 5 churches all deck out for the Christmas holiday.	Mt.Dora FL
Apr 2012	CFPAA Group Exhibit at Gallery on First.	Sanford FL

CFPAA Painting Sites Painting begins at 9am. Bring a lunch. No Painting as a group, June-July-August.
Dates	Location Details
TBA	Information will be listed on our new Blog currently under construction. Expect a Spring 2011 debut.

 

A Little History and Highlights
Central Florida Plein Air Artists was organized as a not-for-profit group in November of 2003 for the purpose of furthering Plein Air painting in the Central Florida area. A group of artists first met in September 2001 for the first official Florida Paintout in Ozello, Florida. This event spun off Plein Air Florida aka PAF. Many local artists began to form sub-groups in their areas and that is when CFPAA was born.

Our first Invitational exhibit at Harry P. Leu Gardens in March 2004 was a resounding success. With a lot of hard work, some good publicity, and team work, we soon became well established as a "very active" and successful group of plein air artists.

CFPAA has created many venues for artists to learn, sell, and excel. Painting workshops with local, national, and international art teachers, getting a calendar of artists' work published, a website, and keeping the painting sites going created interest for new artists to join, and created public interest in plein air painting. We added some very exciting Open and Invitational Paint Outs and Exhibits and decided to focus on Garden and Home tours for added ways to increase individual sales. Some highlights of the past 6 years are listed below:

2010
Paint Out and Sale at Gardens Around the Parks Tour in Sanford, FL
2009
We Participated in the first Flagler Beach Paint Out presented by the Gallery of Local Art (GOLA). Our members won 3 Honorable mentions, one 2nd place and various other prizes.
Winter Park Garden Tour: April 4th. Paint Out week before.
Sanford Garden Tour, April 25. Paint Out week before.
Christmas Party & Painting Gift Exchange
2008
CFPAA Exhibit at Metro Gallery, Orlando, FL
Paint Out and Eola Heights Garden Tour, Orlando, FL
Photos and events about Plein Air and CFPAA in particular were covered in the Orlando Sentinel on four occasions.
Orlando Leisure magazine, and several newspapers in the Mount Dora and Sanford area put the spotlight on Plein Air painting and CFPAA in particular.
2007
Workshop at Leu Gardens with Morgan Samuel Price
Painting excursion to St. Simon's and Jeckyl Island, GA
College Park Home Tour and the Winter Park Annual Garden Tour
Light Up Mt. Dora Paintout & Exhibit at Mt.Dora Center for the Arts
2006
Juried Exhibit & Paint Out at Mount Dora Center for the Arts, Mt. Dora, FL
Earth Day Paint Out & Exhibit at Lemon Bluff on the St. Johns River
Tour of the "Private Gardens of Eola Heights", Orlando, FL
2004-2005
Invitational Paint Out & Exhibit at Leu Gardens, Orlando, FL
Calendars of 12 artists' paintings for marketing at Disney World and for fund raising
Exhibit & Reception at the Citrus Club, Orlando, FL
Exhibit at Orlando Broadway Theatre
Paint Out & Exhibit/Reception at Mead Garden, Winter Park, FL (International Plein Air Painter's annual)
Paint Out & Exhibit at Merritt Island Visitor's Center,Titusville, FL