Mark Shamlian has a bachelor of fine arts in drawing and painting from the University of Delaware and a Masters degree in Painting from Boston University. He also studied at the University of the Arts and Academy of Fine Arts in Philadelphia. He has taught drawing, painting, and illustration at the University of Delaware, University of the Arts, and various continuing education programs. He also taught environmental design at the former Art Institute of Philadelphia. These days he divides his time between fine arts pursuits, commercial design, illustration, writing, carpentry, and music related activities.
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KidsArt Overview
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Summer is always fun and lively at ArtCenter Manatee! Our Sprouting Artists, ages 4-6, have an opportunity to express their creativity with drawing, painting and collage. In Marvelous Mondays, children ages 6-10 will create using clay in afternoon classes. In Talented Tuesdays, children ages 6-10 will draw, paint, create mixed media collages, and printmaking in afternoon classes. Ages 6-10 can attend one-week KidsArt Camps from 9-3, Monday-Friday and explore drawing, painting, clay and a whole lot more. Emerging Artists, ages 11-15, are challenged in weekly morning camps where they can learn drawing, painting, clay, silversmithing, stained glass, more!
Scholarships are available.
Sprouting Artists Ages 4-6
Wednesdays 1:00-3:00
S1: Jun 7, 14, 21, 28
S2: Jul 12, 19, 26, Aug 2
$97 ACM Members $132 Future Members
Marvelous Mondays Ages 6-10
Mondays 1:00-3:00
Play with Clay!
S1: Jun 5, 12, 19, 26
S2: Jul 10, 17, 24, 31
$97 ACM Members $132 Future Members
Talented Tuesdays Ages 6-10
Tuesdays 1:00-3:00
Creativity at Work
S1: Jun 6, 13, 20, 27
S2: Jul 11, 18, 25, Aug 1
$97 Members $132 Future Members
KidsArt Ages 6-10
Monday-Friday, 9:00-3:00
First session begins May 30-Jun 2
Ten one week sessions
$195 Members $230 Future Members
Emerging Artists, Ages 11-15
Week long half-day camps – 9:00-12:00
Ten one week sessions. First session runs May 30-Jun 2
Monday-Friday, 9:00-12:00
$145 Members $180 Future Members
Session 9 $170 Members $205 Future Members
941-746-2862
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Complete and submit our online information form
The information forms captures needed information such as allergies. It DOES NOT register your child in a camp. To register, go to the appropriate class page, select Member/Non-Member, and Session. Click Add To Cart button.
2023 Scholarship Application
Scholarships cannot be processed without the most recent Federal Income Tax forms showing Total Household Income. Please block out Social Security Numbers.
Please add your child’s name to the “Student Name / Notes” on the checkout page.
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Lakeridge Falls Art League
Fall & Winter 2023-24 Classes & Workshops
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Kris Peterson
Kris Peterson began her career as an Engineering manager at General Motors, but in 1994, tired of the corporate life, she did the improbable and embarked upon a fresh start in Venice, Italy. While there she commenced working as the director for a chain of European galleries and also began experimenting with various ideas and techniques in watercolor.
“I loved the free flow style of watercolor, but needed more precision” said Peterson. “I then discovered that using a variety of different mediums gave me the ability to be unrestrained yet detailed.”
Capital Donors
We are grateful to the following foundations, businesses and individuals that have contributed to our Campaign thus far.
Project Scope
Aerial view of the architect’s rendering of the building and garden.
ArtCenter Manatee, founded in 1937, is the premier visual arts center in Manatee County, with significant reach into Sarasota County as well as Pinellas and Hillsborough Counties. Our visitors come from across the country, Canada and Europe. As our community has grown and changed, so has the ArtCenter, adding classes, exhibits and other programming to meet the diverse needs of the fast growing community. We have a free arts and healing program for adults with dementia and offer scholarships for children in need to our KidsArt summer camps and afterschool programs (30 to 50 a year). Our hours have been expanded to meet diverse student and instructor schedules. Our building is 67 years old and cannot handle our current capacity needs – either for space or systems.
Over the years, we have upgraded the facility but we are at the point where that is no longer possible. A new Center will allow us to meet current and future community needs by adding and expanding classrooms, galleries, the artisan market, storage and office space and providing upgraded systems: plumbing, electrical, HVAC, and audio/visual/Internet, as well as adding a community park and sculpture garden along 9th St W and 3rd Ave – newly named Avenue of the Arts.
The building will go from 10,000 SF to 28.000 SF. The park will add invaluable green space to our downtown area, leading to Riverwalk, a community park on the Manatee River, and making the area more walkable. The sculpture garden will bring art outside our walls and will be open to all. It will be a place where people can sit quietly or gather with friends and other artists. We will be able to add small scale music and performance art as well as healing elements, such as meditation and yoga to the garden.
We are embracing the concept of flinging open the doors and making art truly accessible to everyone. No barriers.
The new Center will be built on the land immediately adjacent to us on the east. Once the new Center is complete, we will raze the current building and create the community park and sculpture garden, creating a beautiful entrance into our community.
Having started life in a series of rented rooms for discussions, classes and exhibits, reaching a limited audience, the new ArtCenter will be a gathering place for artists, the community, and visitors, accessible to all. Classes in new media as well as the traditional arts, exhibits for established artists as well as students, emerging artists and experimental artists. Real storage space for display pedestals, clay and other materials. Systems that work and allow interactivity in the classrooms for audio visual presentations and Internet connectivity. And an outdoor area that respects the environment, and materials that are as earth- and people-friendly as we can make them.
The new Center will be the centerpiece in the new cultural corridor in Bradenton, providing accessibility to all, and a beautiful entrance into our community. It will be located on the newly named Avenue of the Arts (formerly 3rd Ave), or as we like to say, the intersection of arts and culture in our community, with our neighbors, the Bishop Museum of Science and Nature and the Manatee Performing Arts Center by our sides. Downtown Bradenton will be a destination for the arts.
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