January 2025

January 6, 2025 @ 9:30 am - January 7, 2025 @ 3:30 pm

THE FREEDOM OF ACRYLICS
Master Artist-Instructor: Jane Slivka

BIG ARTS Sanibel 900 Dunlop Rd, Sanibel, FL, United States

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Master Artist Workshops

Two-day workshop. Monday & Tuesday, January 6 & 7, 2025 from 9:30 AM – 3:30 PM. In this workshop, students will experience the freedom of acrylics. Jane demonstrates how to paint with ease and confidence and how to enjoy acrylic paint to its fullest. She encourages the connection of the artist and their art to flow openly without reservation.

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January 6, 2025 @ 9:30 am - January 10, 2025 @ 1:30 pm

PASTE PAPER SKETCHBOOKS
Artist-Instructor: ZAN LOMBARDO

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January 2025 Workshops

5-day class. Monday, January 6 – Friday, January 10, 2025 from 9:30 AM – 1:30 PM. Students will design, cut, fold, and sew their own hardcover sketchbooks. These handmade sketchbooks are portable studios for artists. Beautiful visual journals!

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January 6, 2025 @ 7:00 pm

Io Capitano

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Film Series

Matteo Garrone, 2023, Italy, 121 min
Together with his cousin Moussa, Seydou, a teenage boy, decides to leave Dakar in Senegal and make his way to Europe.

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January 8, 2025 @ 9:30 am - January 29, 2025 @ 12:30 pm

GLASS FUSING
Artist-Instructor: Petra Kaiser

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January 2025 Workshops

4-session class. Wednesdays, January 8, 15, 22, 29, 2025 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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January 8, 2025 @ 7:30 pm

Akhil Reed Amar
The Words That Made Us - Should the Constitution Be Amended for the 21st Century?

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FORUM

The United States has entered a time when constitutional interpretations seem to be changing. Factors, such as the precedents set by early presidents and Congresses, common practices of modern American citizens, venerable judicial decisions, and sources of inspiration and guidance, are questioned.

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January 9, 2025 @ 9:30 am - January 30, 2025 @ 12:30 pm

GLASS FUSING
Artist-Instructor: Petra Kaiser

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January 2025 Workshops

4-session class. Thursdays, January 9, 16, 23, 30, 2025 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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January 10, 2025 @ 9:30 am - February 14, 2025 @ 12:30 pm

MOSAIC MANIA
Artist-Instructor: Nancy Mayhew

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January 2025 Workshops

6-session class. Fridays, January 10, 17, 24, 31, February 7, 14, 2025 from 9:30 AM to 12:30 PM. Learn how to create beautiful, unique mosaic pieces in this fun workshop. Each participant will make a small mosaic picture.

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January 11, 2025 @ 7:30 pm

Chris Mann Sings the Tony Bennett Songbook:
From Gershwin to Gaga!

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Performing Arts

Join Chris Mann for a phenomenal evening celebrating the best of jazz, pop, parody and Broadway in Bennett: From Gershwin to Gaga.

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January 13, 2025 @ 9:30 am - January 14, 2025 @ 2:30 pm

CAPTURING THE BEAUTY OF NATURE IN WATERCOLOR
Master Artist-Instructor: Christine Reichow

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Master Artist Workshops

Two-day workshop. Monday & Tuesday, January 13 & 14 from 9:30 AM – 2:30 PM. Welcome Intermediate & Advanced Painters. Have you wondered how artists paint vibrant yet translucent watercolor flowers? If so, this is the class for you! Each artist will be given a floral image to transfer to their watercolor paper.

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January 13, 2025 @ 9:30 am - January 14, 2025 @ 3:30 pm

REPRESENTING THE HUMAN FORM -
FIGURE & PORTRAIT
Artist-Instructor: Mary Klunk

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January 2025 Workshops

Two-day class. Monday & Tuesday, January 13 & 14, 2025 from 9:30 AM – 3:30 PM. Beginners, as well as experienced students, are welcome in this 2-day workshop. Students will work with a live model developing techniques to represent the human form in portrait and figure study.

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January 13, 2025 @ 10:00 am - January 14, 2025 @ 2:00 pm

ALCOHOL INK ARTISTRY
Artist-Instructor: June Lanza

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January 2025 Workshops

Two-day class. Monday & Tuesday, January 13 & 14, 2025 from 10:00AM to 2:00PM. Grab a smock and dive into the fun and beginner-friendly world of alcohol-ink mixed-media art, no experience required! During this two-part workshop, you will learn about a popular solvent-based dye called alcohol ink and get a taste of its many exciting functions.

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January 13, 2025 @ 7:00 pm

Full Time

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Film Series

Eric Gravel, 2021, France, 88 min
Full Time follows an ordinary working-class woman as she attempts to keep her head above water in a society that seems set up to ensure she will fail.

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