2025 Season
Offering a wide variety of fine arts and fine craft programming taught by professional artists.
BIG ARTS workshops are grounded in four decades of history. In fact, BIG ARTS was created by a handful of resident artists who gathered to support one another and to contribute to the community’s artistic vibrancy. They believed BIG ARTS should celebrate the artist in all all of us, and that vision remains to this day. What has evolved with time is a rich tapestry of arts and fine craft workshops by seasoned instructors.
GLASS FUSING
Artist-Instructor: Petra Kaiser
4-session class. Wednesdays, March 5, 12, 19 & 26, 2025 from 9:30 AM – 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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GLASS FUSING
Artist-Instructor: Petra Kaiser
4-session class. Thursdays, March 6, 12, 20 & 27 from 9:30 AM – 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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WINE & PAINT MIXER
Artist-Instructor: Sissi Janku
One-day workshop. Wednesday, April 2, 2025 from 4:00 PM – 6:00 PM. Join us for this 2-hour mixer and create your very own “Sweet Island Home” under Sissi’s instruction. Journey into a mix of realism, a hint of childlike joy, and a harmonious play of bright colors with a sneaky dash of warmth and heartfelt simplicity.
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MAXIMIZING CREATIVITY IN WATERCOLOR
Artist-Instructor: Sunny Krchmar
3-session class. Thursdays, April 3, 10 & 17 from 9:00 AM – 12:00 PM. This three-session watercolor course will inspire students to enhance their skills by adding paper, ink, colored pencils, and acrylics to their work. Learning how to embellish your watercolor with mixed media techniques to create texture and intrigue.
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GLASS FUSING
Artist-Instructor: Petra Kaiser
4-session class. Thursdays, April 3, 10, 17 & 24, 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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IMPRESSIONISTIC FLORALS IN ACRYLICS
Artist-Instructor: Kathy Summer
Two-day workshop. Monday & Tuesday, April 7 & 8, 2025 from 9:00 AM – 3:30 PM. This class will focus on shapes, value, and color harmony to create expressive, painterly florals. Students will do notan exercises to express the composition in terms of shapes and patterns and will create thumbnail sketches to identify value (lights, darks, and mid tones).
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FLUID ART - DUTCH POUR
Artist-Instructor: Tammy DeCaro
One-day class. Tuesday, April 8, 2025 from 10:00 AM -4:00 PM. A comprehensive course that will teach three methods of the Dutch Pour that will include the traditional and chaos styles. Students will choose paint, mix colors, and create up to six original artworks from 14”x14” to 12”x20” canvases.
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TAPE IT UP: Mixed Media Sculpting
Artist-Instructor: Jeff Ocasio
One-day class. Wednesday, April 9, 2025 from 10:00 AM – 1:00 PM. This class welcomes artists of all levels, from beginners eager to explore their artistic abilities to experienced artists seeking to embrace a playful and whimsical artistic approach where they will learn the basics of sculpting with masking tape.
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BIG ARTS - OPEN STUDIO
April, 2025
A place for inspiration! Artists generate ideas, but they need space and time to develop these ideas, and for visual artists, it all comes together in the studio. Join in during Open Studio once a month and use this time to work on your individual art projects while interacting with other artists.
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