Workshops

Instructor Ralph Papa

ALL LEVELS – TWO 1/2 DAY WORKSHOPS – OIL/ACRYLIC

This workshop is ideal for improving your ability in sketching and painting outdoors “en plein air”. Included are instructor demonstrations with tips on tools and materials, scene selection, setup, composition, perspective and color selection and mixing followed by a critique and Q&A session. Participants will meet at the Creative Arts School and set up on the grounds of Old School Square. Artists can work in the medium of their choice.

Registration goes live 9/1/18 at 9:00 am
Friday 9:00 am – 12:00 pm | 1/18/19 | Fee: $90

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VISITING ARTIST INSTRUCTOR – Debra Mager

3 DAY WORKSHOP (Limited to 12 participants)

Mosaic Experience helpful; not required

Here is your chance to create your very own mosaic Lady in a fabulous mosaic hat! In this three day workshop, you will create and mosaic your very personal expression of your Lady’s face, dress her in the fashion you choose and top her with a gorgeous hat. Maybe you prefer elegance, maybe flashy, maybe trashy. Maybe you like soft and old fashioned, or a tropical princess. You can make your Lady come alive wearing the hat only you can imagine!

You will learn how to cut glass and china, how to prepare your materials for mounting and how to choose the right adhesive. Debra will also have lots of filler beads and doo-dads for your hats as well as some special treasures for sale.

We begin with a hand-crafted, wood design built for your lady. Debra will teach you how to cut glass and china, how to prepare your materials for mounting and how to choose from a variety of adhesives. Prior to the workshop, Debra will have a phone call with you to help outline your plan, including color palette, materials and a template for your lady’s face (if needed). She will also provide you with measurements, should you wish to prepare some tesserae for trimming beforehand.

What’s Provided:

•Substrate, a hand-crafted wood Lady with the hanging hardware

•Adhesives and grout

•Scrap glass

•Filler baubles and beads

•Mosaic tools to borrow

What to Bring: Your treasures – glass, china, tiles, beads, baubles, and any kind of mosaic tesserae you want to use. Your mosaic tools such as wheeled nippers, running pliers, and scoring tools if you have them.

About the Instructor: Debra Mager

After a successful career as a corporate marketing executive, and a lifetime of collecting art, Debra tried her hand at mosaics. As the demand for her work started to grow from just family friends to commissions from fans across the country, Debra soon realized she had found her second calling.

Eight years later, Debra Mager is now an established and highly regarded self-taught mosaic artist traveling around the country to teach mosaic workshops and to participate in art festivals. She has a penchant for creating dimensional, whimsical and rather unconventional mosaic works, which include her unique mosaic floral arrangements, birds and other creatures, as well her jeweled mirrors and mosaic shoes.

Cinderella Mosaics became her company name because Debra considers the discovery of her dormant artistic talent an unexpected blessing, or “a true Cinderella story.” Making mosaic art affords us the chance to reassemble broken parts and pieces into works of beauty. What could be more healing and rewarding than that?

Friday/Saturday/Sunday 9:30 am – 4:00 pm | 1/18/19 – 1/20/19 | Fee: $495

Instructor: Brenda Zappitell

4 DAY WORKSHOP – ACRYLIC

Free your abstraction in an unconventional space! This workshop offers a premiere opportunity to create an abstract series using our 1925 Fieldhouse (a vintage gym) as your studio! This amazing, inspiring space is perfect for creating work in as large a format as you want, with hands-on intensive assistance. Participants create their own abstract series by learning how to paint three or more paintings a day. We will use acrylic paint and “loosening up” exercises to liberate intuitive creativity. Discussion of color theory, composition and suggestions for creating your own “painting process” will also be provided. There will be daily meditation and demonstrations in the workshops.

Brenda Hope Zappitell (zappitellstudio.com) Born in 1964 in South Florida. Zappitell lives in Delray Beach, FL with her family. She creates abstract expressionist works not only born out of intuition but also serendipitously influenced by nature and life experiences. Her work is in both private and public collections, including MD Anderson Cancer Center in Houston, Texas, The St. Regis Hotel in New York City, The Hard Rock Hotel in Tampa, FL, The University Of North Texas Business Leadership Building and The Boca Raton Museum of Art. She is represented in galleries all over the US and has participated in solo and group exhibitions in NYC, Los Angeles, Santa Fe and New Orleans as well as in other locations. Zappitell has written articles and a blog for Professional Artist Magazine. She has taught many workshops to artists from all over the country. Ms. Zappitell had solo exhibition at the Boca Museum of Art in 2014 and co-curated a group exhibition at the Cornell Museum of Art in the same year. In 2017, she had a residency with Manneken Press in Bloomington Illinois where she produced a large group of monotypes.

Friday/Monday 9:30 am – 4:30 pm | 1/18/19 – 1/21/19 | Fee: $1000

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Instructor: Sid Delmar Leach

ALL LEVELS – 2 DAY PERSPECTIVE WORKSHOP

Every beginning and advanced artist needs to understand that the complete drawing and painting is made up of numerous smaller elements. Learn how to draw solid objects on a two-dimensional surface so as to give the right impression of their height, width, depth, and position in relation to each other when viewed from a particular point. We will examine these in detail and how they combine successfully to create your finished art piece.

Registration goes live 9/1/18 at 9:00 am

Saturday/Sunday 9:30 am – 4:30 pm | 1/19/19 – 1/20/19 | Fee: $315

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Instructor Charles Passarelli

ALL LEVELS – TWO DAY WORKSHOP – OIL/ACRYLIC

Venture into the magic of painting with the modern media of Acrylic Paints. You will learn how and when to use the medium in a glaze or a solid pigment form to create the most desired effect in your painting. This most versatile medium will allow you to explore new approaches to your painting.

Registration goes live 9/1/18 at 9:00 am
Friday/Saturday 9:30 am – 4:30 pm | 3/1/19 – 3/2/19 | Fee: $315

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INSTRUCTOR – Vicki Siegel

ALL LEVELS – 1 DAY WORKSHOP

Learn the techniques, tips and tricks of pouring acrylic paint. In this fun, interactive workshop we’ll use several clear mediums, Fluid acrylics, and High Flow Acrylics as well as mediums to alter and pour the paint. Create vibrant paintings and enjoy the immediate satisfaction of pouring. 

Saturday 9:30 am – 4:30 pm | 3/2/19 | Fee: $165

INSTRUCTOR – Lee Gordon

ALL LEVELS – Seven ½ DAY WORKSHOP

Street photography is an exercise in the art of observation: paying attention to the theater that goes on in every city and town, and capturing moments that tell stories. This course will walk you through the streets of Delray Beach to share insights on the art of candid street photography, from gear choices to shooting techniques. Immerse yourself in the thick of things, overcome your nerves and adjust your camera to respond as quickly as possible. We will spend part of our class time on the streets of Delray and the other part in class discussing and critiquing our images. Topics include: Street photography gear, shooting with a long lens, shooting with a short lens, photographing a crowd, focusing on people, getting permission to photograph someone, shooting people in motion, reviewing images in a classroom setting.

Registration goes live 9/1/18 at 9:00 am

Saturday 10:00 am – 1:00 am | 10/13/18, 11/10/18, 12/8/18, 1/12/19, 2/9/19, 3/9/19, 4/13/19 | Fee: $75

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INSTRUCTOR – Raymond Gehman

BEGINNERS – FOUR 1/2 DAY WORKSHOPS

If you are an iPhone owner who has never considered using your phone for serious photography, now is the time! This class will introduce you to the superb camera in your iPhone which can open a huge visual world of snapshots, spontaneous moments, personal art, and close family moments for you. Time in this class will be divided between hands-on demonstrations, local photo walkabouts, and fun, insightful critiques. You will learn how to use the native camera features as well as how to post-edit. Students will be given a list of apps to download before the first class. iPhone 5, 6, and 7 are preferable if possible. Please see class supply list for app downloads.

Registration goes live 9/1/18 at 9:00 am

Saturday 1:00 pm – 4:00 pm | 10/27/18, 12/8/18, 2/2/19, 4/6/19 | Fee: $90

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INSTRUCTOR – Lee Gordon

ALL LEVELS – Seven ½ DAY WORKSHOP

Street photography is an exercise in the art of observation: paying attention to the theater that goes on in every city and town, and capturing moments that tell stories. This course will walk you through the streets of Delray Beach to share insights on the art of candid street photography, from gear choices to shooting techniques. Immerse yourself in the thick of things, overcome your nerves and adjust your camera to respond as quickly as possible. We will spend part of our class time on the streets of Delray and the other part in class discussing and critiquing our images. Topics include: Street photography gear, shooting with a long lens, shooting with a short lens, photographing a crowd, focusing on people, getting permission to photograph someone, shooting people in motion, reviewing images in a classroom setting.

Registration goes live 9/1/18 at 9:00 am

Saturday 10:00 am – 1:00 am | 10/13/18, 11/10/18, 12/8/18, 1/12/19, 2/9/19, 3/9/19, 4/13/19 | Fee: $75

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INSTRUCTOR: Cheryl Maeder

ALL LEVELS – Two 1 DAY WORKSHOPS

Come on a journey to discover your own Unique Photographic Style that is “Out of the Box”. Cheryl Maeder
will help participants discover their own Self Expression through the Camera. Rather than showing work, that
others think is beautiful, delve deeper and learn to play with the Camera to create work that has not been
seen before! Participants will need to bring camera, laptop, digital photo card.

Registration goes live 9/1/18 at 9:00 am

Saturday 9:30 pm – 4:30 pm | 11/3/18, 3/2/19 | Fee: $350

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INSTRUCTOR – Lee Gordon

ALL LEVELS – Seven ½ DAY WORKSHOP

Street photography is an exercise in the art of observation: paying attention to the theater that goes on in every city and town, and capturing moments that tell stories. This course will walk you through the streets of Delray Beach to share insights on the art of candid street photography, from gear choices to shooting techniques. Immerse yourself in the thick of things, overcome your nerves and adjust your camera to respond as quickly as possible. We will spend part of our class time on the streets of Delray and the other part in class discussing and critiquing our images. Topics include: Street photography gear, shooting with a long lens, shooting with a short lens, photographing a crowd, focusing on people, getting permission to photograph someone, shooting people in motion, reviewing images in a classroom setting.

Registration goes live 9/1/18 at 9:00 am

Saturday 10:00 am – 1:00 am | 10/13/18, 11/10/18, 12/8/18, 1/12/19, 2/9/19, 3/9/19, 4/13/19 | Fee: $75

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INSTRUCTOR – Raymond Gehman

BEGINNERS – FOUR 1/2 DAY WORKSHOPS

If you are an iPhone owner who has never considered using your phone for serious photography, now is the time! This class will introduce you to the superb camera in your iPhone which can open a huge visual world of snapshots, spontaneous moments, personal art, and close family moments for you. Time in this class will be divided between hands-on demonstrations, local photo walkabouts, and fun, insightful critiques. You will learn how to use the native camera features as well as how to post-edit. Students will be given a list of apps to download before the first class. iPhone 5, 6, and 7 are preferable if possible. Please see class supply list for app downloads.

Registration goes live 9/1/18 at 9:00 am

Saturday 1:00 pm – 4:00 pm | 10/27/18, 12/8/18, 2/2/19, 4/6/19 | Fee: $90

PAYMENT AND REFUND POLICIES 

INSTRUCTOR – Lee Gordon

ALL LEVELS – Seven ½ DAY WORKSHOP

Street photography is an exercise in the art of observation: paying attention to the theater that goes on in every city and town, and capturing moments that tell stories. This course will walk you through the streets of Delray Beach to share insights on the art of candid street photography, from gear choices to shooting techniques. Immerse yourself in the thick of things, overcome your nerves and adjust your camera to respond as quickly as possible. We will spend part of our class time on the streets of Delray and the other part in class discussing and critiquing our images. Topics include: Street photography gear, shooting with a long lens, shooting with a short lens, photographing a crowd, focusing on people, getting permission to photograph someone, shooting people in motion, reviewing images in a classroom setting.

Registration goes live 9/1/18 at 9:00 am

Saturday 10:00 am – 1:00 am | 10/13/18, 11/10/18, 12/8/18, 1/12/19, 2/9/19, 3/9/19, 4/13/19 | Fee: $75

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