2024/2025 Season
Offering a wide variety of fine arts and fine craft programming taught by professional artists.
Including several Master-Artist-led workshops in a variety of mediums.
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, 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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WINE & PAINT MIXER
Acrylic-on-Canvas Beach Scenes
Artist-Instructor: Barbara Ellis
One-day class. Tuesday, November 12, 2024 from 4:00 PM to 6:00 PM. Enjoy sipping on wine while painting with old and new friends. Barbara will begin the class with a demonstration, show examples of finished work, and help students prep their canvases and mix paint.
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SKETCHING IN A WATERCOLOR JOURNAL
Artist-Instructor: Sunny Krchmar
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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GLASS FUSING
Artist-Instructor: Petra Kaiser
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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FESTIVE SEAHORSE TEA TOWELS
Artist-Instructor: Sunny Krchmar
One-day class. Thursday, December 5, 2024 from 9:00 AM to 12:00 PM. In this beginner friendly class students will paint their very own unique tea towel to embellish your home for the Holidays or give as a perfect present for that someone who has everything!
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ISLAND THEME SERVING TRAYS
Artist-Instructor: Sunny Krchmar
One-day class. Friday, December 6 from 9:00 AM to 12:00 PM. Bring a friend or come and make new ones in this one-day beginner friendly class. You will paint a unique decorative tray for your island oasis or make it as a gift for someone special.
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MOSAIC HOLIDAY TREE
Artist-Instructor: Nancy Mayhew
Two-day class. Monday & Wednesday, December 9 & 11, 2024 from 9:30 AM to 12:30 PM. Create your own unique Mosaic ‘Holiday’ Tree in this 2-day workshop using a variety of materials, such as stained glass, beads, stone, wood, and more.
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ZENTANGLE HOLIDAY CARDS
Artist-Instructor: Donna Lee Cole
One-day class. Thursday, December 12, 2024 from 10:00 AM to 2:00 PM. Explore more of what Zentangle-inspired art has to offer, creating your very own unique Thanksgiving, Christmas, and other holiday themed cards to send to family and friends.
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WINE & PAINT MIXER
Artist-Instructor: Tammy DeCaro
One-day class. Tuesday, December 17, 2024 from 4:00 PM -6:00 PM. Join us as we create holiday ornaments with old and new friends! Enjoy creating six ‘one-of-a-kind’ acrylic pour ceramic ornaments. Decorate your home for the holidays or give them as a gift.
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“NATURE WALK”
Artist-Instructor: Gisela Damandl
Two-day workshop. Monday & Tuesday, January 6 & 7 2025 from 9:00 AM – 4:00 PM. If you like using your imagination, this class is for you! You will be able to choose from a large variety of materials to weave your pine needle basket.
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THE FREEDOM OF ACRYLICS
Master Artist-Instructor: Jane Slivka
BIG ARTS Sanibel
900 Dunlop Rd, Sanibel, FL, United States
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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PASTE PAPER SKETCHBOOKS
Artist-Instructor: ZAN LOMBARDO
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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