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02/03/2025 – 03/10/2025 1:30 pm – 3:30 pm |
 Firehouse Cultural Center, 101 1st Ave NE, Ruskin FL Paint it Your Way: Watercolor Or Acrylic. Your Choice! Share the love of painting while enriching your skill set, no matter the medium. Instructor: Helen Solomon. Mondays, Feb 3 – March 10, 2025, Six (6) week class. Time: 1:30 – 3:30 pm. |
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02/15/2025 10:00 am – 11:30 am |
 Firehouse Cultural Center, 101 1st Ave NE, Ruskin FL Bring in the new year with the warmth and healing properties of copper and the strength and good energy from silver and brass. Silversmith Kate Hamilton will show you how to design and handcraft jewelry using metal and rivets. |
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02/15/2025 2:00 pm – 3:30 pm |
 Firehouse Cultural Center, 101 1st Ave NE, Ruskin FL Sea Creatures Glass Fusing Workshop. You choose your pattern and colors in creating your colorful glass sea creation. This 4 x 6 glass art will brighten any room or window. All Skill Levels Welcome, and all Materials Supplied. |
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02/15/2025 – 02/16/2025 3:00 pm – 9:00 pm |
 Firehouse Cultural Center, 101 1st Ave NE, Ruskin FL Auditions being held for the Play “A Few Good Men” on February 15: 6-9 pm and February 16: 3-6 pm. |
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9:30 AM - Adult Clay - A.M. Tuesdays
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6:00 PM - Figure Drawing Group
6:30 PM - Adult Clay - Thursday Evening
10:30 AM - Metalsmithing Jewelry - April 6
12:30 PM - Intro to Wheel Throwing Sat
6:00 PM - A Night in the Big Easy
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9:30 AM - Adult Clay - A.M. Thursdays
6:00 PM - Figure Drawing Group
6:30 PM - Adult Clay - Thursday Evening
9:30 AM - Pottery 101
9:30 AM - Adult Clay - A.M. Fridays
10:30 AM - Metalsmithing Jewelry - May 4
12:30 PM - Intro to Wheel Throwing Sat
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BOOK FOR THE MONTH! Learn the basics of how to form clay through pinching, coil building, and working with slabs. Combine these forming methods together to make some fun shapes! Students should expect to make several pieces using these techniques. With introduction of wheel throwing. Clay, tools, glazing and firing included. Tuesdays: 9:30am – 11:30am Adults. Book Monthly, Jan 2024 - Dec 2024.
BOOK FOR THE MONTH! Learn the basics of how to form clay through pinching, coil building, and working with slabs. Combine these forming methods together to make some fun shapes! Students should expect to make several pieces using these techniques. With introduction of wheel throwing. Clay, tools, glazing and firing included. Thursdays: 9:30am – 11:30am Adults. Book Monthly, January 2024 - December 2024.
Every Thursday, 6:00 pm – 9:00 pm. Strengthen your skills in our monitored figure drawing session with a variety of timed poses. Bring your chalk, paint, charcoal or pencil, you choose the medium. Model varies by session. Please reserve online or by phone, 813-645-7651. Reservations are Limited. Your $15 cash tuition is due at the door.
BOOK FOR THE MONTH! Learn the basics of how to form clay through pinching, coil building, and working with slabs. Combine these forming methods together to make some fun shapes! Students should expect to make several pieces using these techniques. With introduction of wheel throwing. Clay, tools, glazing and firing included. Thursdays: 6:30pm – 8:30pm Adults. Book Monthly, Jan 2024 - Dec 2024.
BOOK FOR THE MONTH! Learn the basics of how to form clay through pinching, coil building, and working with slabs. Combine these forming methods together to make some fun shapes! Students should expect to make several pieces using these techniques. With introduction of wheel throwing. Clay, tools, glazing and firing included. Fridays: 9:30am – 11:30am Adults. Book Monthly, January 2024 - December 2024.
Students learn the basics of wheel throwing by forming and throwing simple shapes on the potter’s wheel. More advanced students will build upon the basics to create larger, more advanced projects. Discover varying throwing techniques, forms and glazing.
Materials & firings included. Age 18 to Adult.
SPECIAL EVENT SAVE THE DATE! A NIGHT IN THE BIG EASY featuring THE JAZZ PHOOLS. Serving up New Orleans, Dixieland and Zydeco Jazz. Saturday, April 6, 2024, 6:00 - 9:00 pm. Benefiting the Firehouse Cultural Center Scholarships and No Fee Programming. Click through to Book Your Tickets, or call 813-645-7651.
Every Thursday, 6:00 pm – 9:00 pm. Strengthen your skills in our monitored figure drawing session with a variety of timed poses. Bring your chalk, paint, charcoal or pencil, you choose the medium. Model varies by session. Please reserve online or by phone, 813-645-7651. Reservations are Limited. Your $15 cash tuition is due at the door.
Students learn the basics of wheel throwing by forming and throwing simple shapes on the potter’s wheel. More advanced students will build upon the basics to create larger, more advanced projects. Discover varying throwing techniques, forms and glazing.
Materials & firings included. Age 18 to Adult.
Teen artists will explore a variety of mediums and work closely with innovative local teaching artists. With mentorship and socialization at the forefront, they’ll learn about different paths in art while developing their skills and experimenting with new techniques. Supplies Included. Ages 12-17 thanks to a Partnership with the Tampa Museum of Art. Tuesday, April 16, 6:00 pm – 8:00 pm. at The Firehouse in Ruskin.
Every Thursday, 6:00 pm – 9:00 pm. Strengthen your skills in our monitored figure drawing session with a variety of timed poses. Bring your chalk, paint, charcoal or pencil, you choose the medium. Model varies by session. Please reserve online or by phone, 813-645-7651. Reservations are Limited. Your $15 cash tuition is due at the door.
Students learn the basics of wheel throwing by forming and throwing simple shapes on the potter’s wheel. More advanced students will build upon the basics to create larger, more advanced projects. Discover varying throwing techniques, forms and glazing.
Materials & firings included. Age 18 to Adult.
An accomplished jazz saxophonist, Jack Wilkins has 7 CD’s out, including the newest release on Chronograph Records titled "The Rundle Sessions." This follows "The Banff Project", a collection of Wilkins compositions with original films by Edwin Dennis and others. Jack is also the Director of the Jazz Studies Program at the University of South Florida. At USF he teaches courses in jazz improvisation, jazz styles and analysis, teaches applied jazz performance and directs the USF Jazztet, an internationally acclaimed student jazz ensemble that has performed at many European jazz festivals. He will be joined by James Suggs and La Lucha. Saturday, April 20 at 7:30 pm.
Every Thursday, 6:00 pm – 9:00 pm. Strengthen your skills in our monitored figure drawing session with a variety of timed poses. Bring your chalk, paint, charcoal or pencil, you choose the medium. Model varies by session. Please reserve online or by phone, 813-645-7651. Reservations are Limited. Your $15 cash tuition is due at the door.
Students learn the basics of wheel throwing by forming and throwing simple shapes on the potter’s wheel. More advanced students will build upon the basics to create larger, more advanced projects. Discover varying throwing techniques, forms and glazing.
Materials & firings included. Age 18 to Adult.
Jimmy Griswold can regularly be found playing guitar at venues of all sizes. Jimmy pays homage to any artist he covers, whether it be the warm tones of T-bone Walker & B.B. King, or the screaming sounds of Roy Buchanan, Jeff Beck and Steve Ray Vaughan, all while staying true to his original style. Sat. April 27, 2024, 7:30 pm, Center Stage at the Firehouse.
BOOK FOR THE MONTH! Learn the basics of how to form clay through pinching, coil building, and working with slabs. Combine these forming methods together to make some fun shapes! Students should expect to make several pieces using these techniques. With introduction of wheel throwing. Clay, tools, glazing and firing included. Thursdays: 9:30am – 11:30am Adults. Book Monthly, January 2024 - December 2024.
Every Thursday, 6:00 pm – 9:00 pm. Strengthen your skills in our monitored figure drawing session with a variety of timed poses. Bring your chalk, paint, charcoal or pencil, you choose the medium. Model varies by session. Please reserve online or by phone, 813-645-7651. Reservations are Limited. Your $15 cash tuition is due at the door.
BOOK FOR THE MONTH! Learn the basics of how to form clay through pinching, coil building, and working with slabs. Combine these forming methods together to make some fun shapes! Students should expect to make several pieces using these techniques. With introduction of wheel throwing. Clay, tools, glazing and firing included. Thursdays: 6:30pm – 8:30pm Adults. Book Monthly, Jan 2024 - Dec 2024.
You will learn the fundamental techniques of Pottery, slip, score, coil, design, carve and glaze. Instructors guide you to transform raw clay into Art. You will progressively enhance your skills over four weeks. Provides the foundation to continue your pottery pathway. Age 18 to adult. Fridays, 9:30 – 11:30 am
BOOK FOR THE MONTH! Learn the basics of how to form clay through pinching, coil building, and working with slabs. Combine these forming methods together to make some fun shapes! Students should expect to make several pieces using these techniques. With introduction of wheel throwing. Clay, tools, glazing and firing included. Fridays: 9:30am – 11:30am Adults. Book Monthly, January 2024 - December 2024.
Mother’s Day Special: Your flower medallions will blossom, made out of brass & copper! Texture and rivet silver accent pieces to personalize your design. Make 2 floral medallions that can be worn as pendants, brooches or made into keychains. All Materials Supplied. Adults & Teens: Saturday, May 4 at 10:30 am – 12:00 pm.
Students learn the basics of wheel throwing by forming and throwing simple shapes on the potter’s wheel. More advanced students will build upon the basics to create larger, more advanced projects. Discover varying throwing techniques, forms and glazing.
Materials & firings included. Age 18 to Adult.
