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November
2008
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Celebrate
Seaweed
Instructor, Heather
Fortner (NPS Member)
10 November 2008 (Monday) 9-3pm
Adult Community Education
Sarasota, FL
This 6-hour workshop introduces the diversity and uses of marine
algae (seaweeds) of the local gulf beaches in a field trip to the
shore followed by a classroom session. Join seaweed aficionado
Heather Fortner who researched and wrote a book on the edible
seaweeds of Hawaii. Expect
to collect, identify, and press at least 10 different varieties from
the shore wash (red drift), learn which ones are edible and sample
them, and then press the delicate ones onto paper to create a
personal herbarium (identification guide) or unique greeting cards.
Register
at Adult Community Education
1086 South Shade Ave
Sarasota, FL 34231
941-361-6590
www.ace-sarasota.com
Class
starts in field and then meets at
Sarasota County Technical Institute
4748
Beneva Rd.
Sarasota, FL 34233
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Gyotaku-
The Art of Fish Printing
Instructor, Heather Fortner
(NPS Member)
17 November 2008 17 (Monday), 10-4pm or
17 January 2009 (Saturday), 10-4pm
Marie
Selby Botanical Gardens
Sarasota, FL
Learn
Gyotaku, using fish to create realistic images on paper with the
details of color, texture, and shading of the original fish. This
intensive 6-hour workshop introduces you to this Japanese art form,
and you can expect to leave with several images of the Florida reef
or sport fish. Materials
list provided.
Register at
Marie Selby Botanical Gardens
811 South Palm Ave
Sarasota, FL 34236
941-366-5731 X 239
www.selby.org
- Gyotaku-
The Art of the Fish Print
Instructor, Heather
Fortner (NPS Member)
22 November 2008 (Saturday), 10-4pm (Intensive 6 hour workshop)
Adult
Community Education, Sarasota School Board
Sarasota, FL.
Learn Gyotaku, using fish to create realistic images on paper with
the details of color, texture, and shading of the original fish.
This intensive 6-hour workshop introduces you to this Japanese art
form, and you can expect to leave with several images of the Florida
reef or sport fish.
Register
at Adult Community Education
1086 South Shade Ave.
Sarasota, FL 34231
941-361-6590
Class
held at
Sarasota County Technical Institute
4748 Beneva Rd.
Sarasota, FL 34233
www.ace-sarasota.com
- Nature
Monoprinting Workshop
Instructor, Heather
Fortner (NPS Member)
20 November 2008 (Thursday), 10-4pm (1 day workshop) or
21 January 2009 (Wednesday), 10-4pm or
Marie
Selby Botanical Gardens
Sarasota, FL
Here’s your chance to visit a nearby artist’s studio.
Students will take nature printing to another level of
printing using a 24-inch etching press. Transfer images of leaves and flowers to paper creating
colorful backgrounds with the printing methods developed by John
Fass, an American printmaker of the 20th century.
Start with simple botanical prints and advance to repetitive
runs through the press to derive different textures, value,
backgrounds and detail in a single inking. Material list provided.
Register at
Marie Selby Botanical Gardens
811 South Palm Ave
Sarasota, FL 34236
941-366-5731 X 239
www.selby.org
Class held in
Heather Fortner’s Orchid Street Studio at
2129 Orchid St.
Sarasota, FL
- Nature
Monoprinting Workshop
Instructor, Heather
Fortner (NPS Member)
Two session evening
workshop 12-13 November 2008 6-9pm
(Wed and Thurs) or
One day workshop 19 November 2008 (Wednesday) 10-4pm
Adult
Community Education, Sarasota County School Board
Sarasota, FL
Students will take nature printing to another level of printing
using a 24-inch etching press in the Orchid Street Studio of Heather
Fortner. Transfer
images of leaves and flowers to paper creating colorful backgrounds
with the printing methods developed by John Fass, an American
printmaker of the 20th century.
Start with simple botanical prints and advance to repetitive
runs through the press to derive different textures, value,
backgrounds and detail in a single inking. Material list provided.
Register
at
Adult Community Education
1086 South Shade Ave.
Sarasota, FL 34231
941-361-6590
Class held in
Heather Fortner’s Orchid Street Studio at
2129 Orchid St.
Sarasota, FL
December
2008
January
2009
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Gyotaku-
The Art of Fish Printing
Instructor, Heather Fortner
(NPS Member)
17 January 2009 (Saturday), 10-4pm
Marie
Selby Botanical Gardens
Sarasota, FL
Learn
Gyotaku, using fish to create realistic images on paper with the
details of color, texture, and shading of the original fish. This
intensive 6-hour workshop introduces you to this Japanese art form,
and you can expect to leave with several images of the Florida reef
or sport fish. Materials
list provided.
Register at
Marie Selby Botanical Gardens
811 South Palm Ave
Sarasota, FL 34236
941-366-5731 X 239
www.selby.org
- Nature
Monoprinting Workshop
Instructor, Heather
Fortner (NPS Member)
21 January 2009 (Wednesday), 10-4pm or
Marie
Selby Botanical Gardens
Sarasota, FL
Here’s your chance to visit a nearby artist’s studio.
Students will take nature printing to another level of
printing using a 24-inch etching press. Transfer images of leaves and flowers to paper creating
colorful backgrounds with the printing methods developed by John
Fass, an American printmaker of the 20th century.
Start with simple botanical prints and advance to repetitive
runs through the press to derive different textures, value,
backgrounds and detail in a single inking. Material list provided.
Register at
Marie Selby Botanical Gardens
811 South Palm Ave
Sarasota, FL 34236
941-366-5731 X 239
www.selby.org
Class held in
Heather Fortner’s Orchid Street Studio at
2129 Orchid St.
Sarasota, FL
- Celebrate
Seaweed
Instructor, Heather
Fortner (NPS Member)
27 January 2009 (Tuesday) 9-3pm
Marie
Selby Botanical Gardens
Sarasota, FL
This
6-hour workshop introduces the diversity and uses of marine algae
(seaweeds) of the local gulf beaches in a field trip to the shore
followed by a classroom session. Join seaweed aficionado Heather
Fortner who researched and wrote a book on the edible seaweeds of
Hawaii. Expect to
collect, identify, and press at least 10 different varieties from
the shore wash (red drift), learn which ones are edible and sample
them, and then press the delicate ones onto paper to create a
personal herbarium (identification guide) or unique greeting cards.
Register
at
Marie Selby Botanical Gardens
811 South Palm Ave
Sarasota, FL 34236
941-366-5731 X 239
www.selby.org
- Gyotaku-
The Art of the Fish Print
Instructor, Heather
Fortner (NPS Member)
31 January 2009 31, (Saturday) 11-4pm or
6 March 2009 (Friday) 11-4pm
Wildchild
Gallery, Matlacha
Pine Island, FL
Intensive
one-day workshop in fish printing, held on the grounds of Wildchild
Gallery in Matlacha, just north of Ft. Meyers, Florida. In this
one-day workshop you will learn the steps to capturing the features,
colors and spirit of a fish on handmade "rice" paper.
Expect to finish the day with several prints of reef or sport fish
from the West coast of Florida. Enjoy your lunch break next door at
the Mullettville Cafe. $85
includes all materials
Register
at
Wildchild Gallery
4625 Pine Island Road NW
Matlacha, FL 33993
239-283-6006
www.wildchildgallery.com
February
2009
March 2009
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Gyotaku-
The Art of the Fish Print
Instructor, Heather
Fortner (NPS Member)
6 March 2009 (Friday) 11-4pm
Wildchild
Gallery, Matlacha
Pine Island, FL
Intensive
one-day workshop in fish printing, held on the grounds of Wildchild
Gallery in Matlacha, just north of Ft. Meyers, Florida. In this
one-day workshop you will learn the steps to capturing the features,
colors and spirit of a fish on handmade "rice" paper.
Expect to finish the day with several prints of reef or sport fish
from the West coast of Florida. Enjoy your lunch break next door at
the Mullettville Cafe. $85
includes all materials
Register
at
Wildchild Gallery
4625 Pine Island Road NW
Matlacha, FL 33993
239-283-6006
www.wildchildgallery.com
- Gyotaku-
The Art of the Fish Print
Instructor, Heather
Fortner (NPS Member)
9 March 2008 (Monday)
Boca
Grande Art Alliance
Boca Grande, FL
This
intensive 6-hour workshop introduces you to the Japanese art of fish
printing, and you can expect to leave with several images of the
Florida reef or sport fish. Material
list provided.
Register
at Boca Grande Art Alliance
236 Banyan St., Boca Grande
POB
979
Boca Grande, FL 33921
941-964-1700
www.bocaaa.org
April 2009
May 2009
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