The Beach Art Center is a non-profit visual arts organization offering studio classes in many art media for adults and youth, exhibitions of the works of area artists and art related special events and receptions.
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Community Arts from Creative Clay
May 7 to June 15, 2012
Creative clay makes the arts accessible for every interested member of the Tampa Bay community and specializes in providing local artists with disabilities and in healthcare settings the opportunity for expressive, educational and vocational arts experiences. Curator Jody Bikoff is providing a tailored show available for the Beach Art Center that will show works of community artists and mentor artists from their highly regarded ArtLink Program offering a poignant view of close relationships between teacher and student. There is no reception scheduled.
Beach Art Center Bluegrass Folk Festival
The Beach Art Center is presenting its Second Annual Beach Art Center Bluegrass Festival on May 19, from 3:00 until 8:00 p.m. Volunteers are needed!
Bands to be featured at the festival will include the Wholetones (Naples), one of Florida’s most popular string bands; Gypsy Wind (Seminole), one of Florida’s best bluegrass/swing bands, led by the beautiful-voiced Kristin Holloway; the Spark Notes (Sarasota), great songwriters with a lot of Florida music and impeccable harmony; and Dawg Peter Pat, one of the state’s top Florida folk music acts. According to Pete Gallagher, well known Florida Folk artist and host of WMNF-FM’s Florida Folk Show, “This is as fine a five hours of acoustic music as anyone could hope for.”
Food vendors include Red Lion, Angry Pepper, Slyce and Kooky Coconut. BAC will sell burgers, franks, beer, soda and water.
The event’s major music sponsor is Plumlee Realty in Indian Rocks Beach. Co-sponsors include Crabby Bills, Tampa Bay Newspapers and the City of Indian Rocks Beach.
See link above for Events/Blugrass for more information.
Kreative Kids Summer Camp
is Now Registering
Beginning June 11, the Beach Art Center will offer seven weeks of half-day art camps in the morning and afternoon tailored for children 5 years up to 18 years (check schedule for weekly availability for each age group). Adventurous art themes, multi-media, paint, creatures and clay await camp participants. The classes are Monday through Friday from 9:00 a.m. to noon and from 1:00 to 4:00 p.m.
Registration is by the week, for morning or afternoon, one week or all seven. The cost is $80 for a week long half-day camp session. Discounts available for registrations made by May 4 and for multiple siblings.
See Youth Classes for more information or Click Here for Summer Camp Schedule.
Enrich Life with a Beach Art Center Art Class
Did you ever want to learn to paint in oil, acrylic or watercolor; or draw, dye fabric, wheel throw or hand build in clay, make jewelry with metals and stones, or more? Perhaps you have experience in art and want to develop your work to a higher state or try something new. The Beach Art Center has classes in a variety of art media for different skill levels available now with much more offered as the Fall season progresses. Programs are available in morning, afternoon and evening for adults and children.
Let art enrich your life. You can find the Beach Art Center schedule online as a PDF on the Center’s website under Adult Classes.