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- Firehouse Cultural Center
101 1st Ave NE, Ruskin FL 33570
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Thursday, January 16, 2025
6:00 pm – 9:00 pm
Every Thursday, 6:00 pm – 9:00 pm. Will be at FCC Annex building starting Jan. 16th. 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.
Glass Fusing! Flowers Workshop. You choose your pattern and colors in creating Your colorful glass creation. This 4 x 6 glass art will brighten any room or window. All Skill Levels Welcome, and all Materials Supplied. These classes will be held in the FCC Annex, 305 US 41Hwy (Corner of Shell Point & 41) Yellow Bldg., Dickman Properties. Parking in front, side and back of building.
Saturday, January 18 from 2:00 – 3:30 pm.
Glass Fusing! Flowers Workshop. You choose your pattern and colors in creating Your colorful glass creation. This 4 x 6 glass art will brighten any room or window. All Skill Levels Welcome, and all Materials Supplied. These classes will be held in the FCC Annex, 305 US 41Hwy (Corner of Shell Point & 41) Yellow Bldg., Dickman Properties. Parking in front, side and back of building.
Tuesday, January 21 from 10:00 – 11:30 am.
Thursday, January 23, 2025
6:00 pm – 9:00 pm
Every Thursday, 6:00 pm – 9:00 pm. Will be at FCC Annex building starting Jan. 16th. 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.
Thursday, January 30, 2025
6:00 pm – 9:00 pm
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Every Thursday, 6:00 pm – 9:00 pm. Will be at FCC Annex building starting Jan. 16th. 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.
Saturday, February 1, 2025
3:00 pm – 5:00 pm
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Make a Reservation for this Free Music event. Building Back Better Musical Event: REMEDY TREE BAND
Sat. Feb. 1st at 3:00 pm. FCC is building back better; this is our way of saying Thank you for your patience.
Bring a chair, bring the family or a friend or two to this outdoor fantastic show. Donations accepted, Southern Roots BBQ on hand so you can fill your ears and your tummy.
Firehouse Cultural Center welcomes new Executive Director, Georgia Vahue
/in People /by Elaine SimmonsGeorgia Vahue has been named Executive Director of the Firehouse Cultural Center as preparations are made to open full time to the public. She joins the Firehouse with a great range of experience and enthusiasm—and with roots and interest in this area.
Georgia was most recently Director of Education and Gallery Programs at Great Necks Art Center, Long Island New York. She is a Fulbright Fellow, a Certified Teacher of K – 12 Art and Gifted and Talented Education with 12 years of teaching experience in Florida, London and New York. She was for seven years the Arts Educator here at Wimauma Elementary. She graduated from the University of South Florida, College of Fine Arts and attended the prestigious Skowhegan School of Painting & Sculpture in Maine.
Her many accomplishments comprise: working with numerous curators including internationally known artist James Rosenquist and Ned Rifkin, Under Secretary of Art, Smithsonian Institution and former Director of Atlanta’s High Museum; published arts articles and arts education curricula; and The University of Georgia, Atlanta, recognizes her as a “Southern Scholar on Women.”
In addition to her arts administration, teaching and curatorial experience, Georgia brings to the Firehouse significant experience in gallery and business administration and marketing. She has curated and contributed to numerous art exhibitions from Florida to New York as well as participated as a guest juror, and lecturer at State, National and International venues.