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Leesburg Center for the Arts (CFA) fosters the arts ecosystem, enrich our community through the arts and inspire creatives and dabblers to make art. CFA’s functionality provides an unsegregated and safe place for art discovery, exploration, and experimentation, thus creating a creativity process friendly environment for artists, creatives and dabblers of all ages living or visiting in the North Lake County area.
Creating art can be as fun as blowing bubbles!
Art U's students created unique patterns and textures by blowing bubbles in their watercolor paint. Students can join for the day or for the month. October's session starts in 2 weeks but why wait? Join Art U today and don't miss out on any fun projects!
Register today on our website
https://www.leesburgarts.com/kids-classes
The Women Artists Group reception was well-attended, and a critical success! Thanks goes to the artists, Art Center staff and Board, and everyone who attended!
Nothing makes you FEEL more like an artist than painting En Plein Air! Painting "in the open air" or outdoor-painting became widely popular among artists in the 1800s once tubed paints became available. Artists could capture the beautiful changing light in the mornings and evenings, and you can too! Learn the tricks of the trade with Jose Rodriguez Sept 28th, and embrace the morning air.
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(Disclaimer: This photo is not of Jose Rodriguez, but of an anonymous painter in the Met. Museum of Art)
Why is arts education so important? Research shows that students who participate in the arts are more likely to succeed academically and socially. Let’s ensure every person has access to the arts! Check out these 5 reasons to support Arts in edication!
More resources can be found on their website:https://www.americansforthearts.org/events/national-arts-in-education-week
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Jackii Molsick has a 2 day watercolor workshop you don't want to miss! Watercolor Painting on Masa Paper, adds a unique texture creating a batik like effect! Day 1 focuses on creating the paper, maximizing the time for painting on day 2!
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Jackii Molsick
Join us this Friday for the opening reception for the Women Artists Group exhibition "Tapestry of Dreams" from 5:30-7pm!
Womenartistsgroup Wag
It's National Arts in Education Week!
"Access to quality arts education is essential, not just for academic success, but also for addressing the mental health and loneliness concerns prevalent today. Arts education fosters social-emotional learning and creativity—skills that are increasingly sought after by employers across all industries."
It is part of the Leesburg Center for the Arts mission to provide arts education, awareness, and opportunities to inspire and engage our communities and be a place for all to create and collaborate.
The arts transform lives! Visit our website to learn more about how to add art into your life to experience the transformation yourself!
https://www.leesburgarts.com/
or Americans for the Arts website for more resources!
https://bit.ly/ArtsEdWeek2024
Have you noticed the slight change in the early morning air? Fall is coming and so is Plein-air painting! On Sept 28th enjoy the morning at Venetian Gardens with talented Jose-Rodriguez! Sign up now to reserve your spot on our website leesburgarts.com/adult-classes
Cozy up with your favorite fall beverages in your own HANDMADE mug! Build this and much more in Robin Serna's 4 week Ceramics or Wheel Throwing class on Mondays! September and October sessions open for registration, just visit our website at leesburgarts.com/adult-classes
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Sometimes a 4 letter F word gets in the way of our art. FEAR. Gain confidence with your art in our Still-Life Drawing workshop on Sept 12th. This low-pressure environment is a great way to practice your drawing and be proud of your progress!
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Adrienne H. Lee is back! Join us in 2 weeks for an Art History lecture on Jean-Michel Basquiat!
FREE to members - $15 for non-members
See our events schedule at https://www.leesburgarts.com/events
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Squack-tweet-chirp! Make your favorite Florida bird into a whistle and sing back to the neighborly songs! Workshop is this Friday, so migrate down to the art center and whistle while you work!
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Just a few days before our Mountain Dulcimer class begins, and there is still time to sign up! This is a historic American folk instrument dating back to the early 1800's in the Appalachian mountains. The "sweet songs" from the Dulcimer are easy to learn, and perfect for those new to playing instruments or have limited hand-mobility.
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Photo of Loraine Wyman 1917 Vogue Magazine
Bing Futch, "the Jimi Hendrix of the dulcimer", playing his double dulcimer at the Plaza Theater in Orlando 2008
New October classes available!
October classes are now open for registration. Check out our new classes on our website at https://www.leesburgarts.com/
New classes include:
Exploring Watercolor
Watercolor Sticks and Pencils
Jack-O-Lantern
Autumn Artists: AM and PM
Friday 13th, from 5:30-7pm; Mark your calendars for our next exhibitions opening reception! TAPESTRY OF DREAMS: Women Artist Group, will feature artists:
Beatrice Athanas
Eliza Pineau Casler
Marianna Hamilton Ross
Bonnie Shapiro
Beborah B. Smith
Lillian Verkins
Illustration: Evening Repose by Bonnie Shapiro
September's After School Clay Club starts next week. If you're still trying to find a back-to-school rhythm, we can help! Clay is an engaging and educational medium that kids can explore in our mess-friendly environment. Sign your kids up today to be included in September's 4 week session!
Register on our website at https://www.leesburgarts.com/kids-classes
Do you want to try your hand at art, but not sure where to start? Our Watercolor / Pastel Pencil workshop this Saturday is a great way to create something beautiful with Susan Silverman Fink's step by step approach. You can't mess up!
Register today on our website leesburgarts.com/adult-classes
No school on Friday! Don't panic, we've got you covered. There's still time to sign up for our Star Gazers workshop for kids either half day or full day August 30th!
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Meet Jim and Karen, two students in Robin Serna's Intro to Ceramics class! They were wonderful to have in class, and made some great pottery too!
We would love to see you next month in September's session of Intro to Ceramics starting in just 2 weeks! No prior clay experience is necessary to have fun.
Register today on our website leesburgarts.com/adult-classes
Check out this work-in-progress from one of our drawing students, Kathleen! If you're interested in improving your drawing accuracy, values, and forms, consider signing up for our September session beginning in 2 weeks!
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New month, new clay workshops! Introducing September's Whistling Bird workshop. Whistles are an ancient tool, but ceramic whistles date back to around the 17th century often taking the shape of a bird! Create your own whistle Sept 6th or 20th by registering on our website at leesburgarts.com/adult-classes
Pictured 1st, a bird whistle design by Robin Serna with 3 tuning holes
Pictured 2nd, "This yellowware bird whistle, with a Rockingham glaze, is attributed to John Henderson, whose pottery operated between 1847 and 1857. It is exhibited in the Rockingham gallery of the Museum of Ceramics."
NEW Workshop: Still Life Drawing September 14th from 10am - 1pm
Practice makes progress! drawing from real life objects is a fantastic way to practice proportions, perspectives, spatial relationships, lighting, and all those tricky parts of drawing that can be hard to capture without practice. Workshop is open to all ages.
Register today on our website leesburgarts.com/adult-classes
There is still space in Paint-Making with Claire Simpson August 24th! If you are curious about how your art practice can be more sustainable, you want to learn more about colors, or if you find awe in nature, embrace the beauty of earth pigments and try your hand at mulling your own paint.
Register today on our website leesburgarts.com/adult-classes
Labor Day is coming up, are your kids out of school? Sign them up for an art class! half day and full day options available for this holiday themed class on September 2nd!
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Did you know there's no school for kids August 30th!? Lets celebrate with a day of art! Full day and half day classes available, with mixed media painting in the mornings and clay in the afternoons for a full day of fun!
Sign up now before spots fill up! Register on our website leesburgarts.com/kids-classes
Last chance to join our Relief Printmaking workshop with Richard Colvin this Friday! Enjoy the smooth gliding turn of our newly donated printing press!
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Mountain Dulcimer with Jolie Fischer starting September 4th!
If you ever wanted to give playing an instrument a try, the Mountain Dulcimer is for you! This instrument is a great introduction to music. Learn the basic techniques, playing skills, listening, playing with others, and more. Tuning will be DAD. Dulcimer available to rent if you don't already have one.
Register today on our website leesburgarts.com/adult-classes
Digital Photography with Andrew Pieski starting September 4th, from 3 pm - 4:30 pm!
Learn to take better digital photos! If you haven’t picked up your camera in a long time and want to get reenergized and inspired, this course is for you. Our sessions will concentrate on the image, not the instrument used to capture it, perfect for smartphone photographers. Discussion topics will include compositional techniques, photographic styles and plenty of inspiration. There will be several opportunities to apply the course material to your photographs outside of the sessions and present them to the attendees. No high end camera or software required.
Register today on our website leesburgarts.com/adult-classes
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Bummed you didn’t get a pottery spot? One just opened up! Grab the last spot! Tomorrow, Fri. 02/17 4:30-6:30pm Call or text: 321-947-0025 Email: [email protected]
Inkblots - Patterns & Creative Perceptions - part 1 Episode 37 - "Chill Art" Watch on YouTube too, https://youtu.be/qbDZT85jzCA GUEST CONTRIBUTOR: Inklots - Patterns & Creative Perceptions - part 1 PATT GILMORE, C.M.HT., ARTIST, THERAPIST, MEDITATIVE ART INSTRUCTOR https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLudPGFe8IYB1hXYSkPLcNdVhnB5mW4Xd9 From the iconic inkblot test of Hermann Rorschach to the Victorian-age parlor game called “Blotto” this episode delves into the question “What do you see?” Join Patt Gilmore as she walks us through not only a bit of history, but also the child-like joy of creating and naming colorful inkblots. Library of Congress flip book of Gobolinks - Shadow Pictures for Young and Old https://read.gov/books/pageturner/2002juv17793/#page/2/mode/2up link to rorschach.org - https://www.rorschach.org/ To find out more about Patt Gilmore’s workshops visit her websites: https://bebest.com/ and https://getin2nature.com/ Art Supplies: Paper and Watercolors Send your images of this episode’s art project to [email protected] to be included in the galleries under this episode. Chill Art - Creative, Mindful Tools to Help You Calm and Renew. Guest Interviews, Mind-Body Experts, Artful Projects.
FACEBOOK VIDEO PREMIERES AT 7:30 on the CFA page https://www.facebook.com/pg/LeesburgCenterfortheArts Or watch on Youtube NOW - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLudPGFe8IYB1hXYSkPLcNdVhnB5mW4Xd9 Immerse yourself in the healing sounds of nature with Kevin Songer, Biologist, Nature Artist and Sonic Engineer. Following Kevin's presentation we are heading into the woods to make trailside earth mandala. Headphones not necessary but highly recommended. Links to Kevin's artwork and field recordings are below followed by his written story of healing by and with nature. Links: Kevin's website with hours of free nature sounds at: https://www.Natureradio.art Kevin's Soundcloud page - more free nature inspiration. https://soundcloud.com/kevin-shea-898... Kevin's Instagram https://www.instagram.com/kevinsheaso... Kevin's Facebook https://www.facebook.com/kevin.songer... Kevin's Twitter https://twitter.com/kevinsonger More free nature sounds - Geo-tagged! Kevin's FreeSound page https://freesound.org/people/KevinSon... Kevin's Fine Art America page! https://fineartamerica.com/profiles/k... Bio Hi. I'm Kevin, a biologist and nature artist who is sharing sensory and intuitive healing nature experiences found around us yet often existing outside our normal human perceptions. First, I spend as much time as I can out in the Florida wilderness, recording & illustrating, day and night, nature audio, visual and other nature vectors to share, for free, via Soundcloud, FreeSound, Youtube and my websites. Second, I am spreading awareness of experienceable nature just outside our normal sensory limits with hopes of creating symbiotic connections between people and nature; connections that will benefit both plants, wildlife, the cosmos and humans all together. I do believe when people connect with Nature's art, especially through field recordings, audio and nature radio, they can be inspired to go outdoors and experience outdoor life for themselves. I also
Last Friday's Coffee & Convo's topic was "What is True Fun?" CFA member Lois Kamp surprised us with a summer snowball fight. So much delight! Join us this Friday at noon when the topic is "This or That" a fun way to get to know each other better.
In the Studio with Guest Semeion, Mary, and Co-hosts Arrachme and Maria.
Last week we premiered our 34th Episode of "CHILL ART - Creative and Mindful Tools to Help you Calm & Renew." We invite you to check out the public service series on our youtube channel. Many thanks to our Season 4 guest contributors: Megha Tiwari of San Francisco, Ed Anderson of Mt Dora, Olivia Statler of Toronto, Mary Trowbridge and Gary Sligh of Leesburg, and Patt Gilmore our program director and producer. If you would like to be a guest please contact us. Here is the playlist link - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLudPGFe8IYB1hXYSkPLcNdVhnB5mW4Xd9
This is a clip of Gary Sligh relating a story told during the recording of Episode 34 of Chill Art. The full recording is already uploaded to YouTube and will premiere in our Facebook Library on July 11th. Have a look. To view the full episode now click here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DnkD2IFP-DE
We are going to have a ROCKIN' summer art camp with the middle and high schoolers. Jim Denzler is teaching perspective and sketching, Verna Shelden is not only teaching segments of watercolor painting, she is full time assisting for both levels, Kym Wenzel is assisting the middlers, Susan Fink is penciled in for charcoal drawing, Karen VanBeek for mid-day Bucket Brain Breaks (MS), Mary T for acrylic pours (HS) and then there's all the other creative stuff such as Faux Taxidermy, Creative Sparks activities, Improv, story writing and telling and... SO - Having posted that - get those kids psyched up and registered. July is coming FAST.
Ms Patt (teacher for the "olders" summer art camp) begins student's mornings with a quick Creative Sparks activity to get their creative juices flowing. In this video it is Sculptionary with middle schoolers. Teens aren't the only players. Creative Sparks activities for Adults is slotted for August CFA Programming too. Release Your Genius.
Live in the Studio with Arrachme, Maria Stefanovic, Michel Bergeron and special guest Kate Wilson.
Shhhhh - we sneak geometry into our 7th & 8th grade summer art camp sessions with fun 3D projects like this geodesic dome. It is a S.T.E.A.M. project and just big enough to get inside. Summer Camp dates are JULY 11th - 15th from 10am - 3pm. register - https://www.leesburgarts.com/kids-art-camp
Future art directors. (HS Art Camp 2019) Some of our photography exercises are college level. Teens have chosen them as their favorite part of the week. They are not only challenged as to subject but also execution and direction. Some are collaborative and all are fun. 9th & 10th grade art camp is July 18 - 22nd register at our website - https://www.leesburgarts.com/kids-art-camp
EPISODE 33 - Hypnosis & Drawing Line Illusions FACEBOOK VIDEO PREMIERES AT 7:30 on the CFA page https://www.facebook.com/pg/LeesburgCenterfortheArts Or watch on Youtube NOW - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLudPGFe8IYB1hXYSkPLcNdVhnB5mW4Xd9 GUEST CONTRIBUTOR: PATT GILMORE, C.M.Ht, ARTIST, THERAPIST, MEDITATIVE ART INSTRUCTOR Learn what hypnosis is and isn't and how to use it therapeutically while also learning how to draw repetitive simple line illusions. YouTube Channel Playlist for Therapies: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC2zXw6j9dT-pUN90vHzg3Rw/videos To find out more about Patt Gilmore’s workshops visit her websites: https://bebest.com/ and https://getin2nature.com/ ART PROJECT: LINE ILLUSIONS Suggested supplies: Paper and Marker Send the images of your drawings to [email protected] to be included in the galleries under this episode. Chill Art - Creative, Mindful Tools to Help You Calm and Renew. Guest Interviews, Mind-Body Experts, Artful Projects. To see full bios of all our guest contributors, art supply lists, and more visit our webpage https://www.leesburgarts.com/chillart #hypnoticdrawing #hypnotherapy #tranceart #meditativeart #pattgilmore #chillart
CFA Artist Members have dropped off their entries. This show has a little Magic & Mystery. Opening Reception Friday, June 3rd 5:30pm. See you there. #galleryexhibit #magic #mystery #leesburgarts
It all started in 2000, when art enthusiasts, community members and organizations, and city officials identified that Leesburg needed a cultural/arts component to improve the quality of life here in our small city . Voila! The Leesburg Center for the Arts was born.
Leesburg Center for the Arts (CFA) fosters the arts ecosystem, enrich our community through the arts and inspire creatives and dabblers to make art. CFA’s functionality provides an unsegregated and safe place for art discovery, exploration, and experimentation, thus creating a creativity process friendly environment for artists, creatives and dabblers of all ages living or visiting in the North Lake County area.
We are home to several arts clubs:
Central Florida Pastel Society, Orlando Weavers, In Focus Photo Club Riverwind Flute Circle Celebration Dulcimers
Our programs:
Visual Art classes/workshops, Open Studio Kids Art Programs: Art Factory (Summer Camp),Mobile Art Studio, ArtU, StudioTime, ARTDAY
Emerging Artist Program, Mentorships Dance classes/workshops, Music classes/workshops Costuming classes/workshops Concerts, Stand-Up Open Mic, Spoken Word, Performance Art Gallery exhibits, guest lectures, songwriting workshops Special Art Events: Leesburg Night Market, BohoFest, Leesburg Art Festival, Concert Crawl
