February 2019 "Get Your Art On!" Workshop Series

5 Art Workshops for Beginners

Hibiscus Watercolor Class

February 1 & 15, 7-9pm

$30

Artful 2 hours of step-by-step instruction, an easy breezy introduction to watercolor by award winning artist Lori Loveberry George. Bring your smile and food & drink! Supplies included. Relax, listen to some music, have a blast and take on your creative journey! No art experience necessary. 12 seats only; reserve now!

Fingertip Drawing Class

February 2 and 16, 2-4pm

$30

Artful 2 hours of step-by-step instruction, exciting intro to sensory abstract by award winning artist Lori Loveberry George. Bring your smile and food & drink! Supplies included. Relax, listen to some music, have a blast and take on your creative journey! 12 seats only; reserve now! No art experience necessary!

Batik Art Class: Watercolor and Wax

February 9 and 23, 2-4pm

$30

Artful 2 hours of step-by-step instruction, magical intro to abstract by award winning artist Lori Loveberry George. Bring your smile and food & drink! Supplies included. Relax, listen to some music, have a blast and take on your creative journey! No art experience necessary!

Valentine's Day Fluid Art

February 14, 7-9pm

$35

Better than a romantic dinner! Come together or come alone! Put on your messy clothes and get ready to this unique art process with acrylics paint on canvas. A playful abstract art experience will be guided by Jennifer Pace, very popular teacher at Ringling College of Art & Design Continuing Studies. Bring your smile, food and drink. Supplies included.

No painting experience necessary.

Doodledangle

February 21, 7-9pm

$30

Take time to relax and have fun learning how to express your creative side doodling. If you can hold a pencil, you can doodle and you can turn this fun pastime into creative works of art. This class requires no skill level or artistic ability and is great for beginners or seasoned artists getting in touch with inner freedom. Supplies included. Bring your smile, food and drink. * Pictures shows 4 examples.

Instructor: Jennifer Pace - Very popular at Ringling College of Art & Design Continuing Studies. 

Last Week!

Inaugural Exhibition by Lori Loveberry George and Lucy Barber had a great success! Thank you all for coming to see the exhibition "12X12 Observed".

The awesome artists came to talk with me about their art. Here's the video. If you have not seen it yet, it is opened till April 27!! Open hours is 3-7PM, or call for additional hours: 941-468-4049.

Origami Centerpiece Fever

Welcome to my centerpiece madness!

I was teaching origami to Sarasota Ballet Dance The Next Generation kids. They did so good that the director asked me to make origami centerpiece for their fundraiser with the origami kids folded. Here I come!! Gathering Origami notebooks that kids made page by page. Lisa and David plus a bunch of dedicating volunteers at Sarasota Ballet joined me to put the notebooks together like a bouquet of flowers.

Kids- they are the young 3rd grade and up dancers. Sarasota Ballet has a fantastic program in addition to their regular ballet company classes. It's a college scholarship that if you stick with the ballet classes for 10 years, you'd receive scholarship to go to college. https://www.sarasotaballet.org/DNG

The madness was that making 26 of them!!

At the luncheon, every participant take home one of the handmade notebooks.

The fever started from previous event for different organization, Arts Alliance.

The event was Principal's Luncheon. The Arts Alliance and the school school board annual event to promote arts in schools. Their theme this year was "Arts=Success".

I designed the centerpiece to tell a story. Arts and academics are like the affair of our right and left side brains that made out of diverted ideas and new information like a colorful unit origami. We are the educators to provide the best according to the research done. Students in high arts participation high school rate is 4% 5 times lower than low arts participation students. The comparison shows 4 times success in academic achievement. And it applies to the future of Sarasota. The children of from around the world in Sarasota are here to receive the best of our effort. Here's my creation - and don't let me take all credit. I had passionate Arts Alliance members to fold the Sonobe origami unit! Thanks to Anne Clair, Barbara, Lu and Carol! (23 centerpiece with 36 unit origami each were a lot!!)