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 Season is coming to an end, but we’re just getting started! Join us for one of our popular workshops or swing on in and let us jazz up your Friday evening with an intimate concert featuring the Philippe Lemm Trio. Feel like making your own music? Learn how to Compose a Piece in One Month. If pen strokes and keyboards are more your speed, we have Flash Fiction workshops and the popular AI for Dreamers. Scroll further to see all the upcoming offerings for the budding young artists in your life. Summer Camp registration is NOW OPEN! Workshops  Fluid Art: The Dip Wednesday, April 17, 6-8:00 pm • Whether you are a beginner or advanced, these fluid art techniques will be fully explained, demonstrated and you will go home with two completed pieces. Register → View All Classes →  Flash Fiction April 6, 11:00 am-1:00 pm • Join English instructor Cara Coble for a Flash Fiction Challenge workshop to learn about the art of micro-fiction. Flash fiction is a challenging and fun way to approach developing a narrative without overthinking your words. The Flash Fiction challenge encourages writers to create short stories no longer than 1,000 words based on genre, location, and object assignment. Register → View All Classes →  AI for Dreamers April 19, 9:30-11:00 am • If you’re curious about AI, (perhaps also skeptical, worried, exhilarated) and you want an on-ramp that speaks to you, your unique work and purpose, then join Anna for AI for Dreamers. This session will intro- duce you to AI and give you a chance to talk about what its implications could be. Anna will share some great ways to begin using ChatGPT to supercharge your superpowers and add some glow to your dreaming. Register → View All Classes → Continuing Series  Compose a Piece in One Month Five Tuesdays, April 2-30, 2-3:30 pm • Join Dr. Daniel Nistico, celebrated musician and teacher, for this five week course as he guides participants through composing a piece of music from scratch. It works through a process called model composition, where you take a piece you love to play and study how it’s structured. Register → View All Classes →  The CHANGE Program: Beginners Acting Class Six Saturdays, April 6 – May 11, 12:00 – 1:30 pm • In this 6-week beginner’s acting class, you will learn stage movement, voice and diction for the stage, and character development, culminating in a scripted performance for your family and friends. The CHANGE Program (Communities Harnessing the Arts to Nurture and Grow Equity) engages aspiring adult actors of color in theatre education, provides performance opportunities, and a platform to convene dialogue on social issues that challenge our community through creative, artistic expression. Through this Beginner’s acting course, students will explore the fundamentals of acting, character developments, and scene work. The program is supported in part by the Southwest Florida Community Foundation and United Way. Register → View All Classes → The CHANGE Program: Intensive Acting Class Four Saturdays, April 20 – May 11, 1:45 -3:30 pm • In this 4- week intensive acting class, we will focus on character exploration, scene work and staying in the moment. Actors will learn what it means to trust and follow their instincts as a means to find themselves within the character through discussion and practical exercises. Please prepare a short 1 min monologue. Memorization not required. Must have acting experience or have taken a previous acting class Register → View All Classes → Fine Art Acrylics Field Trip- Fun for All!  Marilyn Hedlund’s class took advantage of all that Fort Myers has to offer and hosted the first class in the series at Sydney Berne Davis Art Center for a lesson in art critique and docent led tour. ADULT & TEEN –Compose a Piece in One Month –Instructed Life Drawing with Francesco (18+) –3D Character Development –Beginner Bonsai –Painting Portraits with Terry Lynn –Wearable Art & Wine (21+) –Watercolor Painting (16+) –Flash Fiction Challenge Workshop: Breaking Down Writing Barriers –The CHANGE Program: Beginners Acting Class –Paint Your Favorite Pet with Shirley Hales (16+) –Three-Day Batique Techniques Workshop with Muffy Clark –Zentangle for the Seasons –Continuing Belly Dance –Tribal Belly Dance –Hula Dance (Ages 10+) –Bring Your Own Bonsai Tree Workshop –Fridays with Francesco: Color Studies (18+) –Are You Stuck? –Discovering Soulcollage –Members Only Photography Club –Painting with Terry Lynn AM (16+) –Painting with Terry Lynn PM (16+) –Painting Studio with Terry Lynn –Fluid Art: The Dip –Wiring Your Bonsai –WorkshopAI for Dreamers –Flash Fiction Challenge Workshop: Breaking Down Writing Barriers –The CHANGE Program: Intensive Acting Class –Fine Art Acrylic A –Fine Art Acrylic B –How to Photograph Your Own Work –Ceramics Glazing Workshop Youth, Children and Families  Tweens and Teens Process Art Mondays and Wednesdays, April 1- May 1, 3 – 4:00 pm • In this series, designed specifically for students in grades 5th-9th, Instructor Tiani Rosado will lead students through various process art projects. The beautiful art piece students create will merely be a byproduct of exploration and experimentation. Students will work on pieces with multiple steps and focus on the making of the art as well as learning to use new tools and techniques. Register → View All Classes →  School’s Out Series: Polka Dot Art (Ages 7+) Monday, April 1, 10 – 11:30 am • Get creative on your Day Off from school and come learn about the “Princess of Polka dots,” Japanese artist Yayoi Kusama. Discover her unique way of creating “infinity” in her art work. You’ll take home a piece of art the “Princess” herself would be proud of! Register → View All Classes →  School’s Out Series: Make and Take Mother’s Day GiftsDot Art (Ages 7+) Wednesday, April 24, 1 – 3:00 pm • Use your half day off of school to get creative! Join the Alliance to create a very special gift, for a special person in your life. Whether it’s for mom, grandma, aunts or a close friend, you’re sure to make them smile this Mother’s Day when they unwrap a gift made especially for them, by a child they love. And imagine how proud that child will be giving that gift! All supplies provided Register → View All Classes → MORE YOUTH CLASSES –School’s Out Series: Polka Dot Art –Tweens and Teens Process Art: Sunset Mosaics on Canvas –Tweens and Teens Process Art: Paper Clip Art –Family ArtLab: Special Edition with the Philippe Lemm Trio –Tweens and Teens Process Art: Dali Clocks –Tweens and Teens Process Art: Process Painting –Hula Dance (Ages 3-9) –Tweens and Teens Process Art: Aluminum Foil Art –Tweens and Teens Process Art: Fruit Prints –Family ArtLab: Mother’s Day Project –Tweens and Teens Process Art: Cardboard Pop Art –Make and Take Mother’s Day Gifts –Tweens and Teens Process Art: Hole Punch Art –Tweens and Teens Process Art: Cut-Out Paper Art  Free Family ArtLab: Special Edition featuring the Philippe Lemm Trio Saturday, April 6, 11:00 am – Noon • Join us for this very special Family ArtLab, as we gather for an educational concert by the internationally celebrated Philippe Lemm Trio. The musicians will talk about each of their instruments, show students how they work and the parts that make them up, and share a little about each role in the group. This interactive program will show kids that music is fun, and is something to be enjoyed all the time! Find Out More → View All Classes →  Free Family ArtLab Saturday, April 20, 10:00 am – Noon • Make creativity part of your family routine the 3rd Saturday of each month during Family ArtLab! All ages and abilities are encouraged to participate. This event is $5 per child and requires registration. In honor of the special mothers (aunts, grandparents, and other loved ones) in your life we are inviting you to come to this very special ArtLab where we will be painting pots in variety of colorful designs for you to give to that special person for Mother’s Day. Register → View All Classes → Registration for our Summer Art Camp Open NOW!  Instructor Spotlight  Linda Benson Linda has been teaching watercolors every Saturday at the Alliance since September 2023 and is continuing through spring and fall of 2024. In the last 10 years she taught art on Sanibel, Captiva, Naples, & Punta Gorda. Alliance is closer to her Fort Myers home and offered an opportunity to share her knowledge. Linda comes to us as a City of Fort Myers 2024 Individual Artist Grant recipient. Part of her plan is to share her knowledge with her hands on teaching technique to eager students. The Alliance of the Arts has allowed Linda a great opportunity to share and inspire her students. Her favorite lessons to teach have tropical themes. Palm trees and the Roseate Spoonbill are fun for the students. Textures of palm fronds and details of pink feathers are easy to paint as she includes handouts with every class to follow and take home. She tries to bring out the best in her students as they enjoy their own creative style. She enjoys seeing them learn something new or reinforce their current abilities. Linda states that “It’s always a GREAT day for art.”   Alliance for the Arts • ArtInLee.org 239-939-2787 • 10091 McGregor Blvd, Fort Myers Membership • Donate • Classes • Exhibits • Theatre • Digital Arts Lab  |