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 We’re starting a brand-new year, resolutions and all. Why not make creativity one of your goals for 2024? Delve into a continuing class to explore a new medium such as 3D Animation or Belly Dance! If your time is limited, check out one of our workshops to boost those creative juices! Don’t forget the kiddos in your life! Sign them up for a kid’s class or our Two-Day Winter Break Arts Camp. Whatever you choose, the Alliance is here to help you kick off the year! One Day Workshops  Mind, Body and Soul Mini Retreat: Saturday, January 6, 9:30-12:30 pm • Join us for a 3-hour retreat designed to enhance your creative side, deeply relax and restore contentment, featuring restorative yoga, crystal bowls meditation, and a simple but enlightening art exercise with renowned artist Julie Dean Griffin, Christar Damiano LMT, and Flying Heart Yoga founder, Carla Hyde. Includes an art piece to take home, tea, and snacks, and feelings of extraordinary peace and contentment. Register → View All Classes → More workshops! –Step-by-Step Batik-Sea Turtle –Two-Day Workshop: Pot Person Mosaic –Discovering SoulCollage –Flash Fiction Challenge Workshop –Neurographica –Mind, Body and Soul Mini Retreat –Intro to Creating a Children’s Book Workshop –Fridays with Francesco –AI for Dreamers –Fridays with Francesco –Alcohol Ink: Dynamic Florals –Beginner Bonsai –Wiring your Bonsai Workshop –Wheel Master Class Continuing Series  Back to Basics: Stroke Work (18+) Tuesdays, January 2-February 6, 9:30 am-12:30 pm • Learn the basics of painting as Artist/Instructor Pat Smelkoff guides you through the process of how to undercoat, basecoat, float, double load, dry brush and to paint wet into wet. Register → View All Classes → More continuing classes! –Back to Basics: Stroke Work (Beginner Level) –Beyond Basics: Florida Everglades –Painting with Francesco (18+) –Painting Portraits with Terry Lynn –Hula Dance (10+) –Fashion First Adult & Child Sewing Workshop –Qigong –Grandma’s Club Acrylics –Getting Your Art into Retail Environments Workshop Series –Evening Instructed Life Drawing with Francesco (18+) –Fine Art Acrylics A –Zentangle for the Seasons Fine Art Acrylics B –Instructed Life Drawing –3D Game Art & Animation –Beginning and Intermediate Belly Dance A –Beginning and Intermediate Belly Dance B –Watercolor Painting –Painting with Terry Lynn AM –Painting with Terry Lynn PM –Painting Studio with Terry Lynn Youth Classes  Fashion First Sewing Workshops Beginning January 10• These workshops are for young people that are interested in fashion and design. Student designers will explore and recreate classic silhouettes with Fashion First, led by professional designer and Seamstress, Renee Nesbitt-Baird. Day- time and evening classes available for all ages! Register → View All Classes → More Youth Classes: –Hula Dance (Ages 3-9) –Intro to Animation –Beginner Drawing –Manga Night (Ages 12-18) –Art Seekers K-3rd –The Seven Elements of Art (Ages 8-12) –Art Seekers: 4th-6th –Free Family ArtLab –Art Seekers: PreK –Friend-Swift Bracelets –Make a Holiday Gnome For Children and Families  Free Family ArtLab Saturday, Jan. 20 Drop in for this free, hands-on family activity based on the current gallery show, from 10 a.m. to noon. Find Out More → View All Classes → HURRY!! There’s still time to register for our Two-Day Winter Break Arts Camp!  Instructor Spotlight  Marilyn Hedlund Marilyn Hedlund began teaching Fine Art Acrylics after the previous Instructor, Lucie Macherowski, passed away in April 2016. Initially there were 3 students from Lucie’s class who alternated teaching sessions for a few years; but now Marilyn is the one con- tinuing what Lucie began in the early1990’s at the Alliance. Her favorite class to teach is Acrylics Plein Air abstract landscapes class which was offered on Mondays. Now Marilyn’s Fine Art Acrylics class has grown so much that she is offering it on both Monday and Wednesday, in order to accommodate all of the students who love the class. Fine Arts Acrylics classes follow the same basic instruction with a focus on impressionistic style, but optional plein air is available on Mondays. Marilyn says she has learned much from her students. ” I have learned flexibility, patience, and adaptation to their various painting experiences and styles as I show them how to loosen up and enjoy the painting process. Also, I have had to learn to project my voice and to face the group as I critique their works and do painting demos.” Just like her devoted students, the Alliance is proud to know this talented Instructor and Artist!  38th Annual All Florida Exhibition This annual show is the most anticipated of the year. As the name suggests, this exhibition features pieces created by artists working in a wide variety of media from all over the 65,000 square miles that make up Florida. The juried entries come together for an award-winning and exciting exhibition representing today’s contemporary Florida artists. The exhibition will be on display March 1 – 30, 2024. Open to all artists residing in Florida. Only original artwork will be accepted, no giclee. An entry consists of 1 to 3 artworks. Non-refundable Entry Fee is $25.00 f or one entry and $5 for each additional entry up to 3. Alliance for the Arts members may use coupon code Member10 to receive $10 off the entry fee. Submissions due January 15, 2024. Download the Prospectus → Submit Your Work →    Alliance for the Arts • ArtInLee.org 239-939-2787 • 10091 McGregor Blvd, Fort Myers Membership • Donate • Classes • Exhibits • Theatre • Digital Arts Lab  |