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FIGURE DRAWING POP UPS
This upcoming Season, January through March 2025, we're holding pop up figure drawing sessions with a live model on most Wednesdays from 5 - 7 PM.
$20 per session. Bring your own supplies (we have easels).
No instruction, just draw!
Pop Up dates: January 8, 15, & 22; February 5, 12, & 19; and March 5, 12 & 19.
Time: 5-7pm
Location: Key West Art Center, 301 Front Street
NEW THIS SEASON:
FIGURE DRAWING IN THE 19TH CENTURY RUSSIAN SAUCE TECHNIQUE
On the last Wednesday of each month (Jan, Feb and March of 2025), the figure drawing monitor, KWAC member Lothar Speer, MFA, will offer an informative hands-on 2.5 hr long instructed figure drawing workshop in the 19th Century Russian Sauce Technique.
These workshops will culminate in an art show at KWAC in April 2025 of select student work from the figure drawing classes.
Bring your own sketch pads, instructor will provide the special crayons used for this unique technique. Cost for these classes is $95/class for non-members and $85/class for members & associates. A multi- class discount is available: all three classes for $250 for non-members/$225 for members & associates.
Class dates: January 29, Feb 26 & March 26.
Class times: 5 - 7:30pm
For more info please contact The Key West Art Center at 305-294-1241 or keywestartcenter@gmail.com.
Mr Speer is a classically trained artist who studied at Vienna’s National Academy of the Fine Arts, taught anatomy for artists and figure drawing at Chicago’s American Academy of Art, The Pennsylvania Academy of The Fine Arts and is now offering studio workshops at KWAC and TSKW. He exhibited at The Rotunda of The Capitol Building in Washington, was chosen to create a Portrait of President Obama and as South Florida’s National courtroom artist to cover important trials of the region.