Port Aransas Art Center

Open Seven Days a Week
Monday - Saturday:  11am - 5pm
Sunday: 12 noon - 4pm

Port Aransas Art Center

Classes / Activities

For over 10 years we have been offering fun and educational classes and workshops, instructed by some of the areas best artists. Classes are weekly and workshops are special 1, 2 or 3 day events. Here are some of our classes:


CLASSES  & WORKSHOPS

WEEKLY CLASSES

FIRST TUESDAY - PORTRAIT DRAWING - Pat Donohue 9:30-12:30
 Cost:$15.00 non-members, $13.50 Members. Come, learn to draw portraits or improve your skills and have a great time! Bring your drawing supplies.
 

Tuesdays~ Drop In and Draw Class ~ Pat Donahue 9:30am—12:30pm
Cost:$15.00 non-members, $13.50 Members. Come, learn to draw or improve your skills. Join us on Tuesdays and have a great time! Supply list is available at front desk.

Thursdays~ Soft Pastels ~  Nancy Thyre ~ 9:30 am -12:30 pm
Cost: $15.00 non-members $13.50 Members. Get your set of Soft  Pastels, (Hobby Lobby has them at 14.95), you can buy the right  paper from the instructor so you are ready to participate in this fun class!

Nancy Thyre Bio
Pastel is my preferred medium but I also work in oil and watercolor. En plein aire is my source of material and inspiration. My paintings are usually completed in the studio.
Whenever possible my husband, Larry, and I travel to different areas of the country to visit friends and family, play golf, paint and take photos of sites that speak to me. Of course our favorite place is right here where we live, on the Texas Coast. This is a photo I took locally at Cove Harbor on a beautiful sunny morning. I watched the egret as it sat there above all the people getting their bait and fishing gear together, readying them-selves to take their boats out so they could return with the catch of the day. But he sat there "Above It All". What peace and tranquility! I wondered ... can I capture that moment on canvas? Can I get others to feel it? This is what I saw and felt ... peace and beauty.

FRIDAYS ~ BEGINNER / INTERMEDIATE WATERCOLOR ~ Judith DeShong Hall ~ 10 am-1 pm
$25 if you just drop in or $80 for 4. Supply List will be available at front desk. Come learn to paint or improve your skills with this very talented instructor.

 Workshops-

GERALD BIENVENU - WATERCOLOR WORKSHOP
TWO Sessions:  June 10, 11 & 12   and   July 15, 16 & 17

Time: 1:00 pm - 4:00 pm
Cost: $200
Limited to 4 Students
Instructor provides all supplies

Learn from one of Texas masters of watercolor. Paint with Gerald Bienvenu for three sessions in three days. Learn what to do...and what not to do, in an exciting, intensive hands-on class where you do all of the painting, and Gerald tells you, and shows you, how he does it.

This class is limited to four students so that each student gets the very best instruction. During this class you will produce YOUR VERY OWN PAINTING...the way Gerald Bienvenu would paint it. Same brush strokes, same colors. But you are doing it! And you do not have to bring any materials. Gerald provides everything you will need, colors, palette, watercolor paper and brushes. All you need to bring is your enthusiasm and the desire to learn how to pain watercolor.

Youth Art Camp Island Style -
Days: Monday to Friday
Session I:  June 17 - 21, 2013
Session II: July 8 - 12, 2013

Time: 1:00 pm - 3:30 pm
Different Artists will Instruct in a different medium each day!
Camp is for children going into 3rd  Grade through coming out of 5th Grade.
Call, email or stop by to save your child’s space in this newly formatted Youth
Art Camp.

BILL HILDEBRAND - HAND BUILT POTTERY WORKSHOP
Check Back for Future Dates, Mondays
Time: 6:30 - 8:30 pm
Cost: $150 includes all supplies, Clay, Glazes and all tools will be provided for your use.
Pre-register & Pre-pay
Come learn how to make pottery of your own, in this fun and informational class.

Tiddle Caylor, Jack Gant, Ken Barnett & Eddy Lee Skipwith Play So Fine in the Art Center’s Classroom - at the First Friday Receptions!


Physical Address:
323 N. Alister
Port Aransas, Texas
361-749-7334
Mailing Address:
P.O. Box 1175
Port Aransas, TX 78373
artcenter@centurytel.net