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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 2013
	January 27 Fletcher's Boathouse Washington, DC	February 24 Easton, MD	March 30 Peirce Mill, Rock Creek Park, DC	April 21 Arts Club of Washington Washington, DC
	April 24 National Arboritum Washington, DC	May 22 Riley's Lock Seneca, MD	May 26 National Arboritum Washington, DC
PLEIN AIR PAINTOUTS 2012
	May 27 Middleburg, VA	July 29 Antietam National Battlefield Park Sharpsburg, MD	August 16 Great Falls, C&O National Historic Park, MD	August 26 Peirce Mill, Rock Creek Park, DC
	September 29 Occuquan, VA	October 28 Fredericksburg, VA	November 15 Boyds, MD	November 25 Old Town Alexandria, VA