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The signature of a Francese watercolor is his use of big shapes, color, color and more color!  No matter where a Francese watercolor is displayed, it will radiate a flash of color that literally jumps off the wall, immediately capturing the eye of the casual observer and art critic alike.

Francese brings a new style to the time tested combination of color and interesting shapes. His style employs the use of large brushes and a wet-on-wet method where in much of the color mixing is accomplished on the paper. Frank’s technique often produces brilliant, at other times subtle, and always unique shades of color.  The only limits are the artist’s imagination and willingness to experiment with every combination of color on his palette.

Color provides the stage for the artist’s performance; shapes provide the characters. Detail is only used after the color and big shapes, positive and negative, are in place.  Francese states “One must not over do the detail in any painting.  It should be using it sparingly and with great thought. I have seen many paintings where the artist used too much detail, thinking that is the key to a great painting.” The goal of a Francese workshop is to teach artists of all skill levels to combine color, shape and then detail into a unique work of art.

Workshop Structure

Each day includes two demonstrations, the morning demonstration at 9 am and a second afternoon demonstration at 12:30pm. The demonstration will be 40-60 minutes in length, leaving the student to have ample time to work on their painting using the subject matter of that day’s demonstration.

About the instructor

Frank was born in Arizona, but has lived in Colorado for most of his life.  A professional artist since 1976, he achieved the groundwork for his profession while attending Western State College in Gunnison, Colorado. He has been painting watercolors since 1983. Frank has been published in Watermedia Painting with Stephen Quiller, along with many prominent periodicals including magazine cover stories, articles, and calendars. He has produced two instructional DVDs as well. Frank’s numerous awards include a Best of Show award from the Colorado Watercolor Society in 2009, and was chosen for the NWS national travelling exhibition in 2007, 2008, and 2009. Frank has also served as a national exhibition judge and juror for several watercolor societies. He teaches studio and plein-air workshops nationally and internationally.

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$400

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Salem makes the impossible not only possible but pleasurable! His enthusiasm and encouragement has made him one of the most beloved teachers in the Keys for over 20 years- and he is at TSKW for 4 sessions only! Working indoors with acrylic paint, Salem will provide new engaging demonstrations of various techniques. A fresh arrangement of color, form and light will greet seasoned students and first time painters each session for inspiration in composing and completing a painting in the medium of their choice.

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$100

Call the TSKW Program Office at 305-296-0458 to enroll in individual sessions.

M $60/ NM $75, limit 12

This program will consider poetry’s role in relation to the larger social, cultural, and political issues of our time, demonstrating how to bring the critical methods of researcher, theorist, and interviewer to bear on the disciplined crafts of the creative writer. Doing so, the workshops will demonstrate how poetry can frame or reframe the human condition in all its cultural and environmental poignancies, thereby enabling writers and readers alike to construct a means for both personal and social transformations. Suitable for writers and readers of poetry as well as for anyone interested in art as a tool for committed citizenry or a means of social justice activism.

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$75

MORE ABOUT DIANE RAPTOSH

I am the daughter of a first-generation Sicilian-American mother possessed of countless eccentricities, boundless native intelligence, and an utterly singular way of seeing the world. It is in no small part due to her that I became a poet. She has been a source of strange and magnificent sayings, swatches of wisdom, and offbeat recommendations my whole life. In addition to a host of poets across place and time, she has given me the courage not merely to write poetry but to produce the kind of art that encourages conscience and seeks to transform. To this end, as poet and as simply someone alive, I keep close to me this sentiment from South African poet Dennis Brutus, who, when asked about the role of the poet in the world, said the following: “I believe that the poet—as a poet—has no obligation to be committed. What I’m saying is that I think everybody ought to be committed and the poet is just one of the many ‘everybodies.”

www.mariebergstedtartist.com

Sponsored by Key West Cakes

Arrive with an idea, concern, emotion or notion. Go home with a 2 or 3 dimensional chapter for your visual memoir. If you have memories that need to be explored, political or social comments that need to be expressed, a lively imagination, or just hands that need to make things, join Bergstedt in stirring the pot. Learn how to button up, crochet, sew, paste, or wire your ideas together into a provoking work of art.

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$80

Sponsored by South Pointe Gallery

Free Public Readings: Frank Ortega & Pepe Carretero (Artists in Residence)
May 23, Wednesday, 7 PM

Your kitchen. The Ninth Ward three months after Katrina. The main mosque in Damascus.The raspberry bush near the boathouse. Ortega has traveled around the world and written as witness in response to its marvels and how deeply we are connected in a universal way, despite our various surfaces. Open to all students who are ready to explore the importance of deliberate observation and careful recording, of what can be learned in attempting to recall a place and render it eternal. Suggested text for use during this workshop and in the years to come: The Writing Life by Annie Dillard (Harper & Row, 1989).

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Frank Ortega is a poet, essayist and teacher. Ortega has had work published by The Madison Review, Colorado Review, Ferro-Botanica, Seneca Review, Z Miscellaneous, Downtown, Amicus Journal, Paragraph, and Oberon as well as by Lost Horse Press in I Go to the Ruined Place, an anthology of human rights poetry. He has been awarded writing residencies at the MacDowell Colony, Edward F. Albee Foundation, Karolyi Foundation (France), Dorland Mountain Colony and Millay Colony for the Arts, and a Poetry Fellowship from the New York Foundation for the Arts.  He has read in New York City at the Poetry Society of America, Knitting Factory, New York Public Library, Brecht Forum, CB’s 313, and Barrow Street Poets. He was awarded a working scholarship to attend the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference in Vermont and recently received a performance grant from Poets & Writers, Inc. In March of 2010 he was invited to London as a Commendation Winner in the annual contest sponsored by The Poetry Society of the United Kingdom and in August was awarded a writing residency at the Jentel Foundation in Wyoming.  Ortega lives in Cold Spring.

www.reginajestrow.com

Sponsored by Island Insurance

Meet new friends and pick up fresh techniques! Led by Jestrow, this gender neutral group is for sharing, learning, collaborating and critiquing. Meet on the covered deck of the newly renovated residency cottage, bring some yarn, and either knitting needles or crochet hooks. Beginners will learn some basic stitches to get started. More advanced needleworkers may challenge their skills further. Over the three sessions — with plenty of conversation, laughter, and libations — you could complete a few small projects, while becoming a close knit group.

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To paint is inspiring, frustrating, surprising, exhilarating and in all of its emotions, is purely splendid. Two specially priced, bonus sessions have been scheduled as an exclusive benefit for TSKW members to work with Artist in Residence Dabney, a landscape painter considered outstanding in her field (pun intended). If you have a passion for art, dig out the materials of your choice and join in for the fun and ca- maraderie. The class is about the process of painting and the magic of capturing the essence of what is in front of you. Open to all levels of experience.

If you are not yet a member, but would like to become one as well as register for the session(s), please call the TSKW Program Office at 305-296-0458.

Enroll in April 16 Session

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$50

Enroll in April 23 Session

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$50

April 4-5
Wednesday-Thursday, 9:30-1 PM

M $125/NM $150, supply fee $15; limit 16

Sponsored by Green World Gallery

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Public Presentation & Demonstration: April 2, Monday, 5:30-6:30 PM Members Free/NM $10

Learn to paint with dye on fabric! Discover for yourself the revolutionary method that this artist team has been exploring together for over 30 years. Perfect for those who love fabric, color and painting. Each student will create a small painted work by painting with fiber-reactive dyes on cotton broadcloth, using a water-soluble thickener, without stencils or resists. Gayle Fraas + Duncan Slade have taught workshops at Haystack Mountain School of Crafts, East Bay Heritage Quilters, and the School of Visual Arts, NYC and are thrilled they will be sharing their techniques at TSKW.

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$140

Fee includes required $15 supply fee.

Sponsored by Alexander’s Guest House
Around-the-world tour of basic sculpting techniques and mediums taught by Joris, former instructor at The School of The Art Institute of Chicago. Through demonstrations and lively discussion, students will be led through the exploration and challenges of a new medium each week; from introducing papier mâché during week one, to clay, then cement, and concluding week four with metal welding. Supply fee will vary weekly depending on materials. A new project will be completed during each 3-hour session. Dress for a messy, fun and fast paced creative class.

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$100

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Sponsored by Audubon House Gallery

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Kick your landscape studies up a notch! Students will learn the techniques needed to capture a subject honestly and directly on site. They will experience the difference between direct outdoor and subsequent indoor painting, and then return to the studio and work from their observations to create freshly inspired work. Ireland will lead students through color exercises and individual and group critiques and encourage them to be inventive and take risks in order to convey emotional responses to the landscape – indoors or out.

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$150