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	En Plein Air is French for "in open air" or outdoors. Painting landscapes on location rather than in the studio can be traced to the middle of the 17th century and earlier. The French impressionists called it "le sur motif" or "in front of the subject". American landscape painters started painting landscape studies in oil in the early 19th century and referred to them as "nature studies" or "painting on site" or "on location". It was not until the end of the 20th century that painting in nature became known as "plein air", although the term in modern day France refers to open air parks.
PLEIN AIR PAINTOUTS 2011

	January 31 Fletcher's Boathouse Washington, DC	February 17 Founders Park Alexandria, VA	February 27 Historic Georgetown Washington, DC	March 27 Great Falls, VA
	April 10 Waterford, VA	May 29 National Arboretum Washington, DC	June 26    Manassas Battlefield Park, VA	July 31    Sugarloaf Mountain Dickerson, MD
	August 11 Black Hill Regional Park Boyds, MD	September 25 Jug Bay Wetlands Sanctuary Lothian, MD	October 30    Sky Meadow State Park VA	November 10 National Arboretum Washington, DC
	November 27    Quiet Waters Park Annapolis, MD