By Cynthia Grau/WJEZ News

The Pontiac Community Art Center will be holding Plein Air Painting beginning at 8 a.m. Saturday.

Art center member Sue Drummet explained that “plein air” means painting outside, and interested participants will be meeting at the art center for free coffee and donuts before heading out, caravan style, to a local historical location for the day.

“A lot of people out there know about the Amity Township Painters. They were formed in the 1930s and they were formed by a lady out in the Cornell area, inviting friends and people she knew who liked to paint. She invited them to her house and they used her barn as their studio and that’s where they would paint. The barn, fortunately, is still there, but it’s going to be torn down at the end of the year, so we have been given permission to go over with our group of people and everybody can paint or draw pictures of the barn, or take pictures, if they wish,” Drummet said.

The artists will set up their work around the square beginning at 3 that afternoon. Registration is available at the art center or the Pontiac Public Library.