Every summer, BIG ARTS Outreach Programing includes field trips with The Heights Center of Lee County. This collaboration between our Arts Education and Fine Arts departments provides engaging, hands-on art projects where awe, wonder, and youthful energy are evident in each piece of artwork.
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Artist Reception: Friday, October 25
The exhibition “Nautical Twilight” explores the quality of time in video and film, expanding it into space.
Sanibel Island’s Store, an hour-long documentary from WGCU Public Media, explores the power of community and family legacy on a barrier island ever threatened by storms. The film highlights the resiliency of islanders and Bailey’s General Store, established in 1899, as the family business rebuilds for the third time after Hurricane Ian.
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Artist Reception: Saturday, November 9
Inspired by personal experience and shared concerns about the waters of Southwest Florida, the works presented are a collaboration between poet and fourth generation commercial fisher Chanda Jamieson and visual artist Andy Owen.
4-session class. Wednesdays, November 6, 13, 20, 27, 2024 from 9:30 AM to 12:30 PM. This class will combine beginning and advanced students. The procedures and techniques to be taught will include compatibility and testing, basic fusing techniques, annealing, and slumping.
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Artist Reception: Saturday, November 9
Peter Page works with the expansive endeavor of assemblage. After the elements are gathered, composition begins as a series of interactions – of form, content, in two and three dimensions.
Two-day class. Thursday & Friday, November 14 & 15, 2024 from 9:00 AM to 12:00 PM. Join artist Sunny Krchmar to energize your current watercolor skills by learning how to create a watercolor journal. Sketching in watercolor is a great way to keep a fresh approach and fuse your personality into each painting.
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Renowned, critically-acclaimed documentary filmmaker Andrew Rossi will join us from New York City to screen three of his most engaging and entertaining documentaries.
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Annie Baker, 2023, US, PG-13, 113 min
In rural Western Massachusetts, 11-year-old Lacy spends the summer of 1991 at home, enthralled by her own imagination and the attention of her mother, Janet.
Kore-eda Hirokazu, 2023, Japan, PG-13, 127 min
When her young son Minato starts to behave strangely, his mother feels that there is something wrong.
2023, US, R, 117 min
After unapologetic and fiercely loyal Inez kidnaps her son Terry from the foster care system, mother and son set out to reclaim their sense of home, identity, and stability, in a rapidly changing New York City.
3-session class. Wednesdays, December 4, 11, 18, 2024 from 9:30 AM to 12:30 PM. This class will combine beginning and advanced students. The procedures and techniques to be taught will include compatibility and testing, basic fusing techniques, annealing, and slumping.
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