 On 14 October 2010, the Roxby Downs Art and Cultural Forum teamed up with Alex Mendelssohn to host public oil painting workshops.Other earlier workshops, among his many, was one on 17 May 2006 in support of ""The Outback Fringe Festival"".In April 2005, supported by the initiatives of Austrade and the Australian Consulate-General in Vietnam, Alex Mendelssohn was the sole artist to represent Australia in a three-day art exhibition at the Legion hotel Ho Chi Minh City.