Fine Arts

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.

Artist Reception: Friday, October 4
Lacy McClary is an accomplished Sanibel artist dedicated to our community. She will create a mural and 3D installation specifically for The West Gallery.

Artist Reception: Friday, October 4
The exhibition “Nautical Twilight” explores the quality of time in video and film, expanding it into space.

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.

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.

Artist Reception: Friday, December 20
This theme will inspire each artist to use their particular vision to create a unique interpretation of it!

Artist Reception: Saturday, February 1
There is an almost imperceptible impact in contemplating how rare and unique our environments can be; hence, the information to which we are exposed shapes how we may perceive life and transform it.

Artist Reception: : Saturday, February 1
A master of oil and collage, Mally returns to BIG ARTS with her new, dynamic work. Collage demands refined balance, not only in imagery and form, but also of content and theme.

Artist Reception: : Saturday, March 15
In their collaborative installation, Monika Larsen Dennis and Frida Oliv invite us to wonder and think about obstacles that may be keeping us from loving ourselves and each other more fully, and consider how to bypass those obstacles to expand our capacity for love.

Artist Reception: Friday, May 9
The Annual Artists Collective features BIG ARTS instructors, showcasing an eclectic body of work that includes a wide range of mediums.

Artist Reception: Friday, May 9
The partnership between Hope Healthcare’s Art Therapy Program and Lee Health’s Art in Healthcare Program conveys the vision of healing through art. Expressive arts, in all forms, strive to provide hope and healing through the creative process.

Artist Reception: Saturday, June 15
BIG ARTS and FSW have partnered for years to give serious art students a venue to realize this essential part of the creative process: to exhibit, to share, to examine, and assess.