ALL CLASSES AND WORKSHOPS

Between Two Palms is a livestream series of intimate conversations between award-winning art-makers from the performing, visual and literary arts and members of The Studios family. Select Wednesdays at 6PM EST join us for an hour as we explore how stage, TV & film performers, designers, writers and visual artists are keeping the creative spirit alive through these turbulent times.

Join our most popular class in a new setting, at a new time. Paint along with Rick Worth and discover why he’s one of the island’s most beloved artists! Have fun, learn essential skills, and walk away with a brand new painting each week. All levels, materials included.

Is it racism that precipitated the tragedy in West Side Story and not just miscommunication as in Shakespeare’s Romeo & Juliet? How does the marginalization of outsiders keep repeating itself in the story of America? How did four gay men: Bernstein, Sondheim, Laurents & Robbins create a musical which captures the universality of the immigrant experience and provide the basis for racial conflict in mid-20th century urban life?

Lisa Morehouse gives participants the tools to collect personal stories. Over three sessions, participants will listen to interviews, craft questions and consider putting interviewees at ease, and share (or problem-solve) with each other.

This workshop guides participants through a practice that unites conversation and group sharing with classic observational 2-D drawing techniques. Participants focus on color, form, and the role of detail in portraiture.

Learn hand building techniques and color composition with polymer clay and found objects.

Learn how to dissemble social norms, structures, and expectations in your fiction.

Join our most popular class in a new setting, at a new time. Paint along with Rick Worth and discover why he’s one of the island’s most beloved artists! Have fun, learn essential skills, and walk away with a brand new painting each week. All levels, materials included.

Get feedback on recent work, or just come for the conversation, with a social and relaxed evening of critique. Moderated (loosely) by Erika Heffernan and Studios staff, with occasional drop-ins by visiting professionals. Join us every week, or just pop in when you have new work brewing.

Basic relief printmaking: carve an image of your design and pull prints.

Join our most popular class in a new setting, at a new time. Paint along with Rick Worth and discover why he’s one of the island’s most beloved artists! Have fun, learn essential skills, and walk away with a brand new painting each week. All levels, materials included.

Get feedback on recent work, or just come for the conversation, with a social and relaxed evening of critique. Moderated (loosely) by Erika Heffernan and Studios staff, with occasional drop-ins by visiting professionals. Join us every week, or just pop in when you have new work brewing.

Paint the sea and sky at dusk, a summer favorite. Two sessions available, students may opt to sign up for both sessions. Meet at Fort Zachary Taylor beach.

A crash course on publishing, geared to anyone who has written (or started writing) any sort of book-length work but has minimal information on where to start getting it published traditionally.

Orlando Garcia discusses the perception of Beethoven’s work during and after his life and imagines what his work would be like if composed in contemporary times.

Paint the sea and sky at dusk, a summer favorite. Two sessions available, students may opt to sign up for both sessions. Meet at Fort Zachary Taylor beach.

Marie Ketsia Theodore-pharel explores the inter-sectionality of the oral and the written word. Participants discuss and practice several techniques and learn how those techniques can help with writer’s block, character, plot, and mood development.

Get feedback on recent work, or just come for the conversation, with a social and relaxed evening of critique. Moderated (loosely) by Erika Heffernan and Studios staff, with occasional drop-ins by visiting professionals. Join us every week, or just pop in when you have new work brewing.

Halim Flowers uses his paintings and poetry to guide a conversation about the root of systemic socio-economic illnesses that harm marginalized people in our nation. This class will be an open dialogue, not a monologue.