Explore a deeper understanding of how movement communicates to an audience through the categories of body, effort, shape and space. Apply aspects of the Laban/Bartenieff Movement as they relate to character development and storytelling for performance.

Transform your stories, memories, photographs and travel journals into engaging travel tales that can entertain and transport readers.

Print multiple copies of your own holiday cards by drawing into sheets of styrofoam with a ballpoint pen to make a printing plate. Learn to print with multiple colors.

Bria Ansara is best known as a musician, performing her one-woman shows all over the island for over 15 years. Bria graduated from Plymouth State University in New Hampshire with a degree in Art Education. She was honored with The Art Educator of the Year award for her tenure as a student teacher in 2006. In addition to studying Art Ed, Bria majored in Printmaking, where she honed her skills in fine line drawing and mastered the art of intaglio and drypoint plate printmaking.

Bria still makes great use of her degree in teaching as the coordinator and lead teacher of Schools at The Studios, a program she developed with The Studios Executive Director Jed Dodds. The program transforms our galleries into living classrooms as elementary and middle school students not only visit the exhibitions, but meet the artists who made them possible! Bria designs custom lesson plans for each visit, meeting with our exhibiting and resident artists, and ending with hands on activities to build skills and deepen their understanding.

In this fun (not-like-school!) creative writing workshop, kids will have the opportunity to unleash their imaginations and get creative with words.

B. Lucy Stevens is an award-winning writer, a teacher, editor and artist. Her fiction and journalism has been published in numerous literary journals, magazines and newspapers. Lucy also paints intuitively and her work is vibrant and expressionistic, daily life imagined in a brilliant cacophony of color and pattern with deeply affecting results.

Learn to use photographs as inspiration and reference for making a finished abstract painting. Using limited color palettes, students would learn to simplify shapes and colors to create an abstracted piece from 1 or more photo references. The aim is not to feel limited by re-creating the photo, but to learn to see beyond what is in the photo and take off from there into their own creative journey.

Hodelin thinks of his work as modern seen through the eyes of a traditionalist. He experiments with classical forms and themes through contemporary abstraction, presented in an honest way to evoke shared experiences.

Witness a spectacular view of the planets and stars after learning enjoyable ways to identify elements of the outer world. Meet in the lab for an informal presentation on day one, then gather for a night of stargazing from Hugh’s View using a quality amateur telescope.

Specific topics include but are not limited to the following:

– How all of these celestial objects relate to each other within the “big picture” of the universe as a whole.
– Where and how to find these objects in the night sky.
– The basics of how to use, what to look for, and what to avoid when considering an amateur telescope.
– Recent areas of interest in the science of astronomy.

Jack McDonald returns for a second season with humor and skill and dedication to art as he teaches how to compose and finish a successful painting by the end of each class. Leave each class with an appreciation for talents you didn’t know you had.

As a visual artist and proud Key West native, the island landscape has always been Jack McDonald’s muse. He’s also had the pleasure of working with some of the local greats like Rick Worth and John Martini. Primarily interested in street art, Jack is influenced by local color as well as art in public places. He is driven to stretch the boundaries of “street art,” with the hope to raise awareness and establish it as a more legitimate art form. (And, of course, while having a bit of fun!) Through the use of whimsical illustrations, brights colors and shapes, his desire is to have a positive influence on the Key West art scene, while adding an element of familiarity, exploration, and discovery.

Jack McDonald returns for a second season with humor and skill and dedication to art as he teaches how to compose and finish a successful painting by the end of each class. Leave each class with an appreciation for talents you didn’t know you had.

As a visual artist and proud Key West native, the island landscape has always been Jack McDonald’s muse. He’s also had the pleasure of working with some of the local greats like Rick Worth and John Martini. Primarily interested in street art, Jack is influenced by local color as well as art in public places. He is driven to stretch the boundaries of “street art,” with the hope to raise awareness and establish it as a more legitimate art form. (And, of course, while having a bit of fun!) Through the use of whimsical illustrations, brights colors and shapes, his desire is to have a positive influence on the Key West art scene, while adding an element of familiarity, exploration, and discovery.

Learn the fundamental principles of linocut printing and discover how to transfer the designs onto fabric.

Kota is an artist based in Milwaukee, WI and currently working as a production ceramists and illustrator. Their work ranges from functional dinnerware, ceramic sculpture, graphic design, to comic illustration. While embracing the moods of different mediums they often reason with the feelings, form, texture, and likely a nostalgic story they’ve made up. BFA Print & Narrative Forms, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee.

Ruley leads participants through the process of painting a likeness of their favorite animal. At the conclusion of the class, everyone will have a piece that captures the unique character that makes your pet who they are.

Maggie Ruley moved to Key West in 1985 after receiving her BFA from the University of Arizona. Her first studio in Key West was on the corner of Thomas and Petronia Streets in the building where Blue Heaven restaurant is now. She has ​ created a body of work that incorporates the tropical motifs and colors found in Key West’s island life style. The exploration of these themes continuously inspires her. She currently works and teaches classes from her studio and gallery space on Fleming Street called Island Inspirations.