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36 Years of Igniting, Educating, and Nurturing
The Artistic Spirit
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Don't miss out on the last of our 2023 Adult Art & Youth Classes and plan your art education into the new year with our
new 2024 Adult & Youth Art Classes below!
There's much to look forward to, from Collage to Printmaking techniques. Be sure to read all about your favorite local teaching artist, and what each class will offer. Use the blue SIGN UP HERE button below each class to register.
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Multi-Media Collage Building
with Terri Bianco
Friday, November 10
11:00 am – 2:00 pm
Location: 1 Commandant's Lane, Benicia
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Join Terri Bianco in this class and learn this layering technique along with tips on themes, colors, values, contrast, and differences. You will start by painting an acrylic background on canvas. Using various tools such as pencils, markers, or crayons, you will lay out your design. Then you will use colored paper, images, and other materials to layer and overlap and create your dynamic collage.
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Terri Bianco is an artist and art coach. She has exhibited her art in numerous galleries throughout California including juried exhibits at Arts Benicia and the 54th National Placerville Arts Association Mother Lode Exhibition. Terri has consistently. participated in the Crocker Art Museum’s Big Names, Small Art exhibitions. Terri has exhibited at Michael Kennedy Gallery, Las Laguna Gallery, Pence Gallery, Rancho Cordova Arts, and at Sacramento Fine Arts. | |
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Still Life Workshop
with Deirdre Shibano
Saturday, November 11 & Sunday, November 12
10:00 am - 2:00 pm each day
Location: Deirdre Shibano's Studio, 991 Tyler St., #206,
Benicia Arsenal District, Benicia
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Join Deirdre Shibano on this painting journey, whether you paint a single “pear”, or a complex composition of a variety of objects. In this class, you can learn how to see the value, how to create and turn the form, how to design a composition, and how to mix colors and note color temperatures, as well as patterns, edges, and brushwork! | |
Deirdre Shibano is an award-winning artist and was named "California Artist of the Year 2018" by Tosca Magazine. She was originally trained at the Art Students League in New York, and she continues to seek knowledge and techniques to improve her work and share it with her students. Ms. Shibano has been teaching art for over 20 years in various venues including art centers, community colleges, private studios, and public schools. | |
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Solarplate Printmaking: Focus on Relief Printing
with Robynn Smith
Sunday, November 19, 2023
10:00 am - 4:00 pm
Location: Arts Benicia Annex, 991 Tyler St, #116, Benicia
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Join Robynn in this exciting printmaking class! Solarplate printmaking is a way to explore photographic, collaged, and/or hand-drawn imagery in printmaking. Each plate may be re-used to yield dozens of prints and may be printed in conjunction with other plates. This session will focus on relief prints while serving as a solid introduction to Solarplate printmaking in general.
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Robynn Smith received her BFA from the Rhode Island School of Design and her MFA from San Jose State University. She is an internationally exhibiting artist and Professor Emerita, at Monterey Peninsula College. As a teacher, Robynn works in both painting and printmaking, combining layers of information that combine to reveal and obscure moments of beauty, familiarity, trauma, submerged memory, and subconscious reality. | |
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Advanced Woodblock Printing Techniques
with Stephen Schumm
Sunday, December 3, 2023
12:00 to 5:00 pm
Location: Arts Benicia Annex, 991 Tyler Street, #116, Benicia
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Join Stephen Schumm in this class in which you will explore more advanced techniques to bring your woodblock printing to a new level. You will learn various methods of transferring design images to the block, several registration methods for multi-color prints, fine tune and enhance the design of the key line block, proper use of each carving tool, multi-color “rainbow roll” inking, blind embossing, targeted multi-color inking, 4-color process printing and more! Previous woodblock experience required. | |
Stephen Schumm is a glass artist and worked exclusively in leaded stained glass for many years. Stephen started working in watercolor a number of years ago. He also works in collage and acrylic painting on canvas based on his photographs. Stephen has studied printmaking at Diablo Valley College with Toru Sugita. He is a member of Gallery 621 in Benicia and exhibits in various galleries and exhibitions in the San Francisco Bay. | |
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Solarplate Printmaking: Focus on Intaglio
with Robynn Smith
Sunday, December 10, 2023
10:00 am - 4:00 pm
Location: Arts Benicia Annex, 991 Tyler St, #116, Benicia
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Join Robynn in this Solarplate printmaking class that focuses on Intaglio. This is an exciting way to explore photographic, collaged, and/or hand-drawn imagery in printmaking. Each plate may be re-used to yield dozens of prints and may be printed in conjunction with other plates. This session will focus on intaglio or etched plates while serving as a solid introduction to Solarplate printmaking in general.
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Robynn Smith received her BFA from the Rhode Island School of Design and her MFA from San Jose State University. She is an internationally exhibiting artist and Professor Emerita, at Monterey Peninsula College. As a teacher, Robynn works in both painting and printmaking, combining layers of information that combine to reveal and obscure moments of beauty, familiarity, trauma, submerged memory, and subconscious reality. | |
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NEW!
Holiday Youth Art Class
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Holiday Workshop
with Lorraine Curtis
Saturday December 9, 2023
Time: 1:00 - 4 pm
Location: 1 Commandant's Lane, Benicia
For Grades: 3rd - 12th
A maker's workshop of DIY holiday candles, jewelry, cards, ornaments, and watercolor sugar cookies! All Materials will be supplied!
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NEW Schedule 2024 Adult & Youth
Art Classes!
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Portrait Painting
with Deirdre Shibano
Six Saturdays: January 20, 27 & February 3, 10, 17, 24, 2024
10:00 am - 2:00 pm each day
Location: Deirdre Shibano's Studio, 991 Tyler St., #206,
Benicia Arsenal District, Benicia
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Join Deirdre in this 6-week Portrait Painting course, where you will learn how to analyze the structure of the head, techniques to locate the features and how to see value. We will learn how to create the various flesh tones, as it relates to the value of the features and facial structure by using a limited palette. | |
Deirdre Shibano is an award-winning artist and was named "California Artist of the Year 2018" by Tosca Magazine. She was originally trained at the Art Students League in New York, and she continues to seek knowledge and techniques to improve her work and share it with her students. Ms. Shibano has been teaching art for over 20 years in various venues including art centers, community colleges, private studios, and public schools. | |
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Gelli Printing for Collage
with Colleen Gianatiempo
Sunday, January 21, 2024
10:00 am – 2:00 pm
Location: Arts Benicia Annex, 991 Tyler Street, #116, Benicia
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| Join Colleen for Gelli Printing for Collage. Explore printing techniques with a variety of mark-making tools in creating custom Gelli prints. This course is designed to inspire and expand the use of your one-of-a-kind prints. | |
Colleen Gianatiempo is a mixed media artist, educator, and designer. Colleen earned an MFA in Non-Figurative abstract painting from the Academy of Art in San Francisco. As her formal art career developed, she has been privileged to be selected for several heart-themed public art projects including Hearts of San Francisco, The Heart of Sonoma, The American Backyard (city of Dublin, CA), Sea Lions of San Francisco, and Small Town with A Big Heart Mural in Martinez. | |
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Contemporary Drypoint
with Toru Sugita
Sunday, February 4, 2024
10:00 am – 4:00 pm
Location: Arts Benicia Annex, 991 Tyler Street, #116, Benicia
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Join Toru for this one-day workshop to introduce Drypoint. Drypoint is a printmaking technique of the intaglio family, in which an image is incised into a plate by scratching the surface with a hard, sharp metal (or diamond) point. | |
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Toru Sugita, who was born and raised in Japan, received an MFA in printmaking from San Francisco State University. He illustrated the award-winning book, “Floating Lanterns and Golden Shrines.” His prints can be found in public collections including the Achenbach Foundation of Graphic Arts in the Fine Art Museum of San Francisco. He is a faculty member at Diablo Valley College, Pleasant Hill, where he is in charge of the printmaking programs.
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Abstracts in Mixed Media with Acrylics
with Pat Moseuk
Saturday & Sunday, February 10 & 11, 2024
10:00 am to 4:00 pm
Location: 1 Commandant's Lane, Benicia
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Have you always wanted to know how to begin an abstract painting in acrylic and mixed media? Join Pat in this workshop and you will experience an instructor’s hands-on demonstration, fundamental compositional layouts, technique, color, value, line, form, collage, and mark-making. Imagine painting with a credit card and found objects around your house. | |
Pat Moseuk studied at the California College of Arts and Crafts in Oakland and then transferred to San Francisco’s Academy of Art University, receiving a B.F.A in Illustration with distinction. Pat works primarily with acrylic, watercolor, mixed media, and collage on paper, panel, and canvas. Pat is a Nationally Award-winning artist, educator, juror, and a Signature Member of several water media societies. | |
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Paste Papers
with Gillian Boal
Sunday, February 11, 2024
1:00 to 5:00 pm
Location: Arts Benicia Annex, 991 Tyler Street, #116, Benicia
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Join Gillian Boal in this Paste Papers class. Bookbinders made their paste papers to use on books. Paste Papers are made of wheat starch paste and acrylic paints. The mixture is spread onto a piece of paper and then manipulated into a design. To do the design you use a variety of tools: brushes, spatulas, forks, combs, and pottery tools! | |
Gillian Boal is a trained bookbinder and a Library Conservator of books. Gillian has been working for more than 50 years in the profession. Gillian taught this class in the Benicia Public Library last year and made booklets using the paper with students. | |
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Abstract Form in Monoprinting
with Tricia O'Brien
Sunday, April 7, 2024
10:00 am – 3:00 pm
Location: Arts Benicia Annex, 991 Tyler Street, #116, Benicia
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| Join Tricia in this class where you will use the idea of experimenting, and using the printing presses to create abstract images using recycled materials. These found materials create all kinds of markings, shapes images, and layering – as they make their way through the press. | |
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Tricia O’Brien completed her BFA at Cal State Hayward (now, Cal State, East Bay) in Drawing, Painting, and Printmaking in 2001. She studied printmaking with Jimin Lee, earning a juried Award for Excellence in the 3-dimensional work of Xerox Photo Transfer for a hand-crafted book chronicling a trip to Death Valley with her family. In addition to creating Print Art, she currently hosts a weekly women’s writing group in Sonoma.
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Beyond Frames: Presenting Prints
with Ronna Leon
Sunday, May 19, 2024
11:00 am - 4:00 pm
Location: Arts Benicia Annex, 991 Tyler Street, #116, Benicia
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Join Ronna and explore some of the ways your prints and paper art can be presented as single-page cut Booklets, Accordion Fold Books, Map Folds, and Simple Mounted Scrolls. Students will go home with sample white paper booklets they make, instruction materials, and a collection of new ideas to further develop. | |
Ronna Leon studied printmaking at UCSB’s College of Creative Studies. She has experience teaching monotype, etching, collographic, and lithographic techniques. She adds to her skills with new developments in printmaking which she shares with workshop participants. Her work has been featured in a variety of small exhibitions within the United States and abroad. For the past twelve years, she has directed the Printmaker’s Workshop for Arts Benicia. | |
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Fundamentals of Drawing
with Tracie Manipis
Thursdays, January 18 - February 15, 2024
Five Sessions
4:00 - 5:00 pm each day
Location: 1 Commandant's Lane, Benicia
For Grades: 4th - 8th
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Art Exploration
with Lorraine Curtis
Fridays, January 19 - February 9, 2024
Four Sessions
1:30 – 3:00 pm each day
Location: 1 Commandant's Lane, Benicia
For Grades: 3rd - 6th
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Figure Drawing Sessions
A no-instructor workshop.
Held every other Wednesday
November dates: 11/8, 11/22
December dates: 12/6, 12/20, 12/27
3:00 pm – 6:00 pm
Location: 1 Commandant’s Lane, Benicia
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