A playful way to investigate your own creativity. We’re all born creative, but as we grow older many of us forget this about ourselves.
2016/17 season details coming soon!
2016/17 season details coming soon!
A playful way to investigate your own creativity. We’re all born creative, but as we grow older many of us forget this about ourselves.
The Artist’s Way is the seminal book on the subject of creativity. An international bestseller, millions of readers have found it to be an invaluable guide to living the artist’s life. Still as vital today—or perhaps even more so—than it was when it was first published one decade ago, it is a powerfully provocative and inspiring work
As one of Key West’s most well-known artists, Rick Worth captures the daily life on the island on small roof tiles, large murals, and even on over a dozen local cars. Join him in his popular step-by-step painting class with a new scene each week.
Acrylic paint pouring involves a bit of chemistry, as ratios and fluidity have a direct impact on the end result. Let loose and let the paint pour!
Worth captures the daily life on the island on small roof tiles, large murals, and even over a dozen local cars. Learn from a favorite artist in a fun and easy step-by-step process with new scenes each week!
Part chemistry, part artistry. Explore a loose approach to painting.
Reawaken your creative spirit in a no-pressure, non-judgmental environment.
Get creative and meditative! Handcraft your own strand of beautiful mala beads.
Put words on a page and put yourself out there!
What’s old is new again. Breathe life back into your favorite garments.
Students will explore various combinations of mixed media with an emphasis on water-soluble paints and mediums.
Simple and fun approaches to a fundamental skill by a favorite instructor.
Douglas David helps students capture the classic iconography of life in paradise: roosters, dinghies, conch shells and more.
Open-lab concept. Get the feedback you need, whether struggling with Excel or stuck creatively.
One part science, one part art form. Join Keys artist Karen Moore as she introduces participants to the complex but intuitive world of blending essential oils.
Craft your own stamps and stencils, then create designs on rice papers and printed papers.
Discuss how haiku capture brief, but revealing, moments of surprise and revelation.
Explore farce, realistic comedy, and high comedy through scene study.
Take on any song, scene, speech or role you’d like to slip into.
Artist and astronomy buff Larry Halstead takes Studios visitors to the cosmos and back. Meet in the theater for a presentation, then use a powerful telescope on the roof for direct observation the next night.
Transform your imagery with the luminosity of encaustics.
Artists of all disciplines need a broad set of skills in order to succeed.
All of us have Key West stories to tell and this is your opportunity to write it with an award-winning memoirist. Author Janice Gary will lead 2 sessions in developing, writing and shaping your Key West narrative.
An outline of the artistic process. Research, make, edit and present…anything!
Creativity gets a kickstart as Stevens helps you find a starting point to write your story.
Part chemistry, part artistry. Explore a loose approach to painting.
Encourage confidence, release resistance, & embrace process while you put words on the page.
Practical knowledge and straightforward information. Learn to put your best foot forward.
Go from pencil drawing to carved wood relief, telling Key West stories.
Worth captures the daily life on the island on small roof tiles, large murals, and even over a dozen local cars. Learn from a favorite artist in a fun and easy step-by-step process with new scenes each week!
Marks explore how and why artists create through assignments, lectures and critiques of outside work.
Work from a live model for up to two hours. No instruction.
Let the “greats” help perfect your screenplay, or simply steer you toward your beginning.
Koenig teaches the theories, principles and techniques of abstraction.
Students learn classical techniques by working with a live model.
Open-lab concept. Get the feedback you need, whether struggling with Excel or stuck creatively.
Utilize a wide selection of media to create a colorful, multi-textured collage.
Participants work on building a compelling main character using a range of tools—description, dialogue and internal dialogue, settings, and above all back story. Over the course of the workshop, participants define their protagonist and practice various ways of showing that character to the reader.
A creative collective wherein artists of different disciplines create work inspired by others.
Paint, sip, repeat. West leads participants through an evening of creative imbibing.
We can all benefit from a little therapy. Join DiGiulio for a creative session.
Have fun and hone your speaking skills by reading the Bard’s classical romantic verse aloud.
Craft compelling content that will grab an agent’s attention.
Explore the accessible and versatile medium of acrylic painting, with a master in the field.
Paint, sip, repeat. Sandy West leads participants through an evening of creative imbibing.
Worth captures the daily life on the island on small roof tiles, large murals, and even over a dozen local cars. Learn from a favorite artist in a fun and easy step-by-step process with new scenes each week!
Explore the nature of “home” with artist Ross, in conjunction with his exhibition.
Discover embodied creativity through movement, drawing, writing.
Use Gelli plates – gelatinous transfer slabs – to create colorful mono prints.
Rick Worth celebrates Tennessee Williams with a special edition of Painting Boot Camp.
Take a flawed poem and make it sing while learning new approaches to invigorating staled work.
Explore the many qualities that Nature Printing & Zen share in this print making class connecting artists with nature.
Open-lab concept. Get the feedback you need, whether struggling with Excel or stuck creatively.
Students are guided toward choices that lead to satisfying works of art.
Stage Director Armour helps students turn great tales into great storytelling.
Get creative, get wild and do your thing this spring!
Create a collage using hot wax, printed paper and creative ephemera.
Carito introduces street photography and the tools to edit black & white imagery.
Explore why audiences always love an adaptation and how to make yours stand out.
Even still life subjects can be incorporated into the most extraordinary story of your life! German artist Theissen leads students through developing drawings with pencil and ink in her signature sepia graphic novel style.
Worth captures the daily life on the island on small roof tiles, large murals, and even over a dozen local cars. Learn from a favorite artist in a fun and easy step-by-step process with new scenes each week!
Troubadour Harrison walks through the sometimes frustrating, always rewarding songwriting process.
Art takes many forms. Join Koenig for lessons in philosophy, meditation and yoga.
Students ages 6-16 will discover the art of printmaking and fabric dying using everyday vegetables.
Incorporate the subtle art of satire into your drawing practice.
Teaching artist Panzeca leads participants through a series of exercises in writing, drawing, and movement.
Open-lab concept. Get the feedback you need, whether struggling with Excel or stuck creatively.
Try the classic textile art form originating from Indonesia of creating designs with wax and dye on fabric.
West builds upon her popular Paint Pouring series with a special two-day workshop. Pour your aquamarine background on day one and then return to add a sea creature to the finished product.
Try out a new technique – wet-felting – by creating a small fiber vessel. Learn from Vogel’s professional background in weaving and graphic design and the haptic aspects of fiber.
This plein air workshop focuses on the rich historical and biological life of the Kapok Tree utilizing a variety of drawing and painting techniques, to get up close and personal to this majestic Key West icon.
Try out a new technique – wet-felting – by creating a small fiber vessel. Learn from Vogel’s professional background in weaving and graphic design and the haptic aspects of fiber.
Using art, imagination, toys and affirmations Webb coaxes kids age 6-10 into the moment, teaching meditation and mindfulness.
A perennial summer favorite propels students to the next level of plein air work, capturing the sky and sea at sunset with beloved instructor and master watercolor artist Susan Sugar.
A perennial summer favorite propels students to the next level of plein air work, capturing the sky and sea at sunset with beloved instructor and master watercolor artist Susan Sugar.
With one of the tallest buildings – and most spectacular views – in town, the Hugh’s View rooftop terrace serves as The Studios’ creative space in the sky. The terrace sits four stories above street level and offers panoramic views of the island. The Kitwald Stage glows in the golden twilight of our sunset performances.
With original seating from its days as a Masonic temple, the Helmerich Theater has been updated to also include floor seating. As a black box theater, the set up is intimate but professional, and sets the stage for concerts and performances that leave guests feeling like they really got to know the performer.