The Society of Creative Arts of Newtown (SCAN) will host Newtown resident Roberta Shea presenting an art demonstration entitled “Awakening the Muse in Us All” on Wednesday, July 27, at 1:30 pm, at Newtown Meeting House, 31 Main Street.

The demonstration is open to the public and admission is free.

In this demonstration, Shea aims to share how her artistic spirit was rekindled during the pandemic.

“Painting the seasons endures, regardless of our own human fate. It provides both answers to my Covid winter of discontent as well as reasons to celebrate life as virtually everything around me was taken away,” Shea said.

Shea completed her formal degree in art education at Southern Connecticut State University, then taught art in public high schools, adult education, and after-school programs. After a career in marketing research and raising her two children, she resumed painting full-time.

Currently she is a member of Connecticut Women Artists, SCAN, The Ridgefield Guild of Artists, Washington Arts Association, and a member and active docent at New Britain Museum of American Art, where she leads adult and student tours.

She has participated in group and solo shows in Woodbury, Waterbury, New Haven, Newtown, Danbury, Roxbury, Ridgefield, and Wilton, Conn.; Durham and Dover, N.H.; and Woodstock, N.Y.

Her work is also found in private collections in Connecticut, New York, California, Illinois, Florida, South Carolina, Pennsylvania, and New Hampshire.

Shea has won numerous awards in painting from Washington Arts Association, Ridgefield Guild of Artists Juried Show and the President’s Award at the Connecticut Womens’ Artists in 2020 and First Place in 2021.

As a member of Gallery 25 in New Milford, she conducted a monotype workshop in 2018 and in 2020 at the Paint and Clay Club at Heritage Village in Southbury, and Newtown Arts Festival.

Reservations are not taken for SCAN programs but additional information is often available at SCANart.org.