Firehouse Gallery strives to provide monthly Gallery Exhibits alongside the Jefferson Arts Council in our Rouss Memorial Hall. In 2023 we have begun hosting various Artists who wish to provide classes in differing art techniques to members of the community.
Art in Nature Workshop Series
Through the hard work of several members, Firehouse Gallery was recently awarded a grant by The Board of Directors of the Eastern West Virginia Community Foundation (EWVCF) through the Detlev and Mary Ellen Preissler Fund for the Arts, Music, Design, and Nature for the Firehouse Gallery ‘Art in Nature’ Workshop Series.
The Firehouse Gallery will host a minimum of seven instructional workshops for student-age attendees to celebrate the beauty of nature through art. These workshops will include but are not limited to a celebration of horses and equestrianism, photographic enhancement and manipulation of the natural world, botanical sketching and painting, long exposure photography, gold leaf applique and drawing and painting of plants and still life.
-Firehouse Gallery Grant Proposal
DIVERSITY AND SUSTAINABILITY:
The workshops will be open to all students, including those that are home-schooled or are not currently enrolled in a scholastic program. This will ensure that all student-age youths may be inspired to take up art as a pastime or perhaps a lifelong endeavor, regardless of race, gender background or socioeconomic status.
The workshops will also include balancing art with environmental sustainability and the intersection between art and the environment.
We are very grateful for this opportunity to offer a selection of classes this year. Please watch this space for more details regarding these planned classes:
- Graphic Lettering – Suzanne Ravgiala – November 1, 8, 15th (4 – 6pm)
- Applying Gold Leaf to your Artwork – Suzanne Ravgiala
- Botanical sketching and Painting – Cynthia Huesman
- Positively negative! Shape, Space and Intuition in Nature and Art – Kirsten Lee
- Outside, Upside, Down and All around Nature Journaling – Kirsten Lee
- Youth Botanical Collage Workshop – Lucia Valentine
Rouss Memorial Hall Exhibits
October 5 – 29 All Members Exhibit in the Rouss Memorial Hall
November 20 – December 31 Holiday Market
Upcoming Scheduled Art Classes
October 18 1:00-4:00 Illuminated Letters Workshop with Cynthia Huesman