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03/17/2025 – 04/21/2025 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, Mar .17 – April 21, 2025, Six (6) week class. Time: 1:30 – 3:30 pm. |
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03/25/2025 – 04/29/2025 9:30 am – 12:00 pm |
 Firehouse Cultural Center, 101 1st Ave NE, Ruskin FL 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 – Noon. Adults. Book Monthly, Mar 2025 – Dec 2025. |
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04/01/2025 – 05/02/2025 9:30 am – 12:00 pm |
Firehouse Cultural Center, 101 1st Ave NE, Ruskin FL 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 – Noon. Adults. Book Monthly, Mar 2025 – Dec 2025. |
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04/03/2025 – 05/04/2025 9:30 am – 12:00 pm |
Firehouse Cultural Center, 101 1st Ave NE, Ruskin FL 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 – Noon. Adults. Book Monthly, Mar 2025 – Dec 2025. |
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04/08/2025 10:00 am – 4:00 pm |
 Firehouse Cultural Center, 101 1st Ave NE, Ruskin FL Using a 6 inch by 12 inch painting surface, using acrylics, these baby birds will be making their debut, created by you! You’ll be mentored step by step through all the techniques needed to bring these chubby babies to life. This is your opportunity, for beginners and those with more advanced painting skills. Instructor is Debbie Goode. Tuesday April 8th, 10:00 am to 4:00 pm with a 30 minute lunch break. |
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04/08/2025 10:00 am – 11:30 am |
 Firehouse Cultural Center, 101 1st Ave NE, Ruskin FL Metal Work and Rivets Workshop: Flowers, Keychains, Pins or Pendants. Use pre shaped metal that you texture, rivet and shape for your design of endless possibilities. No more than 6 per class, $20 per student. Tuesday, April 8 from 10:00 – 11:30 am. |
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12:30 PM - Metalsmithing: Homeschool Texture & Stamp
9:30 AM - Adult Clay & Play - A.M. Tuesdays
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9:00 AM - Mosaic Stepping Stones
9:30 AM - Adult Clay - A.M. Thursdays
11:30 AM - Adult Clay & Play – A.M. Thursdays
9:30 AM - Adult Clay & Play - A.M. Fridays
10:30 AM - Alcohol Ink Expressions
7:30 PM - Comedy — Mike Rivera and Friends!
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11:30 AM - Adult Clay & Play – A.M. Thursdays
6:00 PM - Figure Drawing Group
6:30 PM - Adult Clay & Play - Thursday Evening
9:30 AM - Adult Clay & Play - A.M. Fridays
7:30 PM - TBone Hamilton Band
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11:30 AM - Adult Clay & Play – A.M. Thursdays
6:00 PM - Figure Drawing Group
6:30 PM - Adult Clay & Play - Thursday Evening
9:30 AM - Adult Clay & Play - A.M. Fridays
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11:30 AM - Adult Clay & Play – A.M. Thursdays
2:00 PM - Upstairs/Downstairs: The Tampa Bay Hotel
6:00 PM - Figure Drawing Group
9:30 AM - Adult Clay & Play - A.M. Fridays
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9:30 AM - Adult Clay - A.M. Thursdays
11:30 AM - Adult Clay & Play – A.M. Thursdays
6:00 PM - Figure Drawing Group
9:30 AM - Adult Clay & Play - A.M. Fridays
9:30 AM - Adult Clay & Play - A.M. Fridays
7:30 PM - Center Stage Comedy: Ron Feingold
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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 – 11:30 am Adults. Book Monthly, Jan 2023 - July 2023.
Art Up Your Garden or Walkway. Make a beautiful steppingstone for your garden and learn the basics of mosaics at the same time. This four-session class you will learn how to use tools to cut and shape glass and ceramics to make a garden steppingstone. Bring your old dishes to class with you. Glass, tiles, and ceramics will be provided as well as a 12" x 12" cement base. All Materials Supplied. Thursdays, May 4 - May 25.
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.
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 2023 - June 2023.
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 2023 - June 2023.
For our Remix session, students will create their own kinetic sculptures, inspired by Jacob Hashimoto’s
installation "This Particle of Dust". This Remix explores the visual poetics of light and dark, color and form,
as well as space and architecture. You will learn about the artist, then make art in that style. Monday, May 5, 6-8 pm, Firehouse Cultural Center. Ages 16 and up.
For our Remix session, students will create their own kinetic sculptures, inspired by Jacob Hashimoto’s
installation "This Particle of Dust" at The Tampa Museum of Art. This Remix explores the visual poetics of light and dark, color and form, as well as space and architecture. You will learn about the artist, then make art in that style. Monday, May 8, 6-8 pm, Firehouse Cultural Center. Ages 16 and up.
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 – 11:30 am Adults. Book Monthly, Jan 2023 - July 2023.
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 2023 - June 2023.
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, January 2023 - June 2023.
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 2023 - June 2023.
TBone Hamilton marks nine years at the Firehouse Cultural Center! Currently TBone is focusing on the new version of the TBone Hamilton Band, which will include many different styles of music, jazz, blues, rhythm and blues, funk, rock, NOLA grooves and originals. The Band
: Bass/Vocals: Tom “TBone” Hamilton; Guitar/Vocals: Jon Puhl; Tenor Sax: Eric Mullins; Drums: Eric Elsner. Join us! SATURDAY MAY 13, 7:30 p.m.
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 – 11:30 am Adults. Book Monthly, Jan 2023 - July 2023.
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 2023 - June 2023.
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, January 2023 - June 2023.
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 2023 - June 2023.
For our Remix session, students will be guided through the process of building an armature and creating a sculpture wrapped in masking tape, like Rune Olsen’s "Thick Skinned" on exhibit at the Tampa Museum of Art. You will learn about the artist, then make art in that style. Monday, May 22, 6-8 pm, Firehouse Cultural Center. Ages 16 and up.
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 – 11:30 am Adults. Book Monthly, Jan 2023 - July 2023.
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 2023 - June 2023.
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 2023 - June 2023.
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. May 27, 2023, 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. Tuesdays: 9:30am – 11:30 am Adults. Book Monthly, Jan 2023 - July 2023.
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.
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 2023 - June 2023.
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, July 2023 - Dec 2023.
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 2023 - June 2023.
