Artist Scott McCall will be the featured solo artist of the Maple Valley Creative Arts Center’s next rotation and will be on hand at 7 p.m. on March 7 for a meet and greet.

The evening will include a wine tasting and light refreshments. The event is free.

McCall is an academic realist painter. Born in New Mexico and now residing in Seattle, McCall began to show passion for art as a very young man. Formally studying painting, sculpture, and dabbling in the lowbrow art scene he received a bachelor of fine arts in visual communications with double majors in fine art and graphic design from the Northwest College of Art in Poulsbo.

A graphic design project led him to the books “Classical Drawing Atelier” and “Classical Painting Atelier” by Juliette Aristides, which led him into a figure drawing workshop given by Aristides, a cast drawing class with Atelier grad Susan Bari Price, and acceptance into the Aristides Classical Atelier located at Gage Academy of Art in Seattle.